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No inci dent is too trivial or too unimportant to narrate, if it in any manner illustrates the ways, manners or mode of living of those who first made their homes in the wilderness, for such at that time was almost the entire of the interior of Michigan.
The first quarterly meeting held in Jacksonburgh by the Episcopal Methodist church was on the 14th and 15th of April, 1832, and met in the new log house of Bennett and Thompson, the second house built in the place. At this pioneer meeting there was made a pioneer convert who made a confession of faith and was received into the bosom of the church.
Soon after the conference adjourned the Rev. Joseph H. Smith, of the same church, came here from Canada and established a Sabbath school. and Bible class, but in 1832 both were discontinued, owing, as some said, to the Black Hawk war, and others to the sickness in the settlement.
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