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Michigan Jackson Mi.
The first actual settlement was made in the spring of 1830, by Isaiah W. Bennett, William R. Thompson, Benjamin H. Packard, Elijah W. Morgan, Chauncey C. Lewis, and others, of the Ann Arbor party.
Mr. Bennett and Mr. Thompson, who had bought the quarter section on Grand river, immediately above the land of Mr. Blackman, determined to establish a right to the water-power before the return of Mr. Horace Blackman, who they knew would soon arrive from the east with his family and friends, and who would claim it for his location. They accordingly made arrangements at once for help, which they brought from Ann Arbor, and proceeded to build a dam, race and saw-mill on their lands on the river, next above the land of Mr. Blackman. The dam was some distance above the present one, the race was on the west side of the river, and the saw-mill was near the present site of the water
works.
Jackson
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