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Mr. and Mrs. Chapman still live in Jackson, and have the esteem and respect of all who know them. They are truly regarded as land marks in the lapse of time in reckoning up the early history of the city of Jackson. Miss Sarah Chapman, now Mrs. Albert T. Putnam, still lives, honored and respected, as well for her own worth as for having been the first child born in Jackson. She is a worthy member of the Jackson County Pioneer Society, and is entitled to that place, not only as being one of the earliest who breasted the comforts and discomforts of pioneer life, but as having been the pioneer child, the first of that long train of arrivals which have done and are doing so much to increase the population and importance of our city.
HIGHWAYS.
The necessities of our settlers in having to go to Dexter, Plymouth or Detroit for supplies, and their interest in smoothing the path of the tide of immigration setting in from the east, induced our pioneers to pay some attention to the roads in that direction ; accordingly, in the fall of 1830 and the followtng winter, volunteer parties started out at different times and bridged some of the streams on the territorial road leading to Ann Arbor.
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