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Michigan Towns Select Towns
MARENGO,
From its immediate proximity to Marshall, may be said to have had a simultaneous growth with it. In 1831,3,621.45 acres of land were entered in this town. On the 16th of June of that year, the following persons entered lands, to wit: Elijah Crane, 135.28 acres; Seeley Neale, 400 acres; Ashael Warner, 80 acres; Horace P. Wisner, 87.34 acres; Augustus Dus-tain, 49.40 acres. The only prior entries were as follows: June 7, 1831, Solomon M. Allen, 40 acres ; Erastus Kimball, 80 acres.
Nathan Pierce, by his purchase of 843 acres, made him the owner of the greatest amount of land in this town in this year. Thomas Chisholm entered this year the lands upon which he now resides.
The following persons purchased lands and became honored residents of the town this year: Col. John Amsley, Dea. Elijah A. Bigelow, Erastus Kimball, Francis Phillips, Reuben Abbott.
The first town meeting was held at the house of Joseph Ames on the first Monday of April, 1833, and the election resulted as follows, to wit: Seeley Neale, supervisor; Harmon Neale, town clerk; Alfred Killham, Reuben Abbott, Seeley Neale, assessors; Joseph Ames, Seeley Neale, Benj. Wright, commissioners of highways.
" Resolved, that a bounty of $3 be paid for every wolf killed in this town by any inhabitant thereof the coming year."
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