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Michigan Jackson Mi.
Of the township officers the most onerous duties fell upon the road commissioners, as the territorial road was the only laid out and surveyed road in the township. All the work heretofore done had been voluntary and generally only such as to prevent the worst places from becoming impassable.
Mr. John T. Durand surveyed a road which was laid out leading from Jackson to Spring Arbor, and this was the first road established by the township authorities. The services of Mr. Durand, who was a practical surveyor, were now in frequent requisition, and under his supervision the following roads were laid out and established: Blackman's, Russ, Durand, Austin, Woodworth, Vallentine's, Washtenaw, and ten miles 52.40 chains of the Jacksonburgh and Clinton road.
In 1831 W. R. Thompson and I. W. Bennett divided their real estate, Bennett taking the east and Thompson part of the village property. This
gave Bennett the saw-mill and water power, one-half of which he sold to Jeremiah Marvin in February, 1832, and soon after the other half was i sold to Rodney House.
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