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Michigan Select Michigan Counties
CLARENDON
Was organized in 1838. For four years prior thereto it constituted an important part of the township of Homer. The following persons located lands in this town, as follows:
March 5th, 1832, John Kennedy, 146.65 acres.
April 2d, 1832, Anthony Doolittle, 160 acres.
May 17th, 1832, Barnes Kennedy, 160 acres.
June 21st, 1832, T. J. Rosoman, 67.25 acres.
July, 1832, Enos and Keep, 160 acres each.
The fertile lands of this town attracted the attention of farmers on the look out for homesteads, and the most desirable selections were made
within five years from the organization of the town, and made by men vho settled upon the lands they bought, and which, to a great extent, is now owned by themselves or their descendants. The eccentric Bartletts came in 1834, and brought with them a threshing machine which was a great convenience to the few farmers who had any grain to thresh. They ... also erected a saw-mill. One of the Bartlett brothers had received a good education, and was a reading man, and while he was very far from being below par mentally, he was quite deficient in good common sense. The Blashfields, who came in 1835, were of that large and always respectable class of men who thrive and make themselves highly respected, because "they have good common sense, and don't make fools of themselves by the vain attempt to pass themselves off for what they are not, either by nature or education. The Keeps, Enos, Hurmstons, Kennedy and Keith, were all of this type of noble men.
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