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Held its first township meeting at the house of James Lane, April 3d 1837, and elected Elisha Brace, supervisor; Thomas S. Vangenson, town clerk; Ashael Hawkins, Ira H. Ellsworth, assessors; Elisha Brace, Ashael Hawkins, S. D. Barden, justices of the peace; Levi Rowley, constable and collector. Resolved to pay $5 bounty for each scalp of a wolf killed in the town this year. Five school districts were organized. There is in town one post office, one tavern, two saw-mills, one church edifice, one organized church.
The Peninsular Railroad crosses the northwest corner of the town. Surface rolling, in some locations rather hilly. Chief productions wheat,
pork wool and fruit. Marshall is the market town. Pioneers are Ashael Hawkins Elisha Brace, James Lane, John King, Joseph Bentley. All these persons, except Elisha Brace, are now highly respected residents of the county, and all in easy circumstances. There is no record of lands entered in this town in 1830-1-2.
Ashael Hawkins and family were residents of the town before its organization, and were, in virtue of their intelligence and thrift, a lead-ing family For 30 years or more Mr. Hawkins held important town offices He was postmaster until the office was removed. A daughter and son of Mr. Hawkins are supposed to be the first white children born-in the town. One of the sons, who was a lawyer by profession and practice, died some years since in Iowa. Mr. Hawkins resides upon the old
homestead.
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