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EARLY RECOLLECTIONS BY WM. C. HOYT
June 7th, 1873
Rochester, Auburn, Stony Creek, and surroundings were of interest, and bid fair to become places of importance at some future day. Names were given to the villages, but the buildings were wanting.
Went to Mr. Perrin's, I think, in the town of Salem. He directed me to Plymouth, where I met with several friends who formerly resided in Fairport, New York, among whom was Mr. Holbrook, a merchant. His store was of small dimensions, and occupied a corner lot in the mud. From Plymouth, I followed an Indian trail to Ypsilanti. A saw-mill and grist-mill were being finished; a log grocery near the end of the mill-dam, a log tavern, and a few other buildings constituted the whole place.
On my way to Clinton, I met several persons jaded and worn, and homesick. They had been clear out to the White Pigeon, and it was the "cussedest
country they had ever seen. " When at Clinton, I called at the only log house then completed, and it was used for a store, tavern, and dwelling. The body of a log house was up, on the opposite corner. I partook of some bread and milk with the family, paid my bill (six cents), enquired, the distance to Tecumseh, "four and a half miles, " was the answer. It was a rainy day, but I traveled on, regardless of the rain and mist, in order to reach my sister's somewhere near Adrian; but instead of turning the corner, as I should have done,
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