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Michigan Jackson Mi.
The festivities of the day closed with a dinner, prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Terrey, who then kept the Bennett tavern, and was served in a bower built for that purpose south of the tavern. Tradition has failed to hand down to us the " bill of fare" of the good things with which the table was loaded on that occasion; neither have the toasts given, nor the responses made thereto, been handed down to us, but we are assured that a happier set of people, or a "jollier lot of fellows" never met at the festive board. Over eighty persons, all that could at one time be accommodated, sat down at the first table, and there was in attendance at this celebration every white person at that time within the limits of the county, and a large proportion of the Indians. The latter joined most heartily in the celebration, although they did not understand exactly why they did so, or what it was for.
Jackson
Section 1
Page 32
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