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Michigan Jackson
Accordingly, with his wife and two children (Mrs Geo. Wilcox and J. F. Sammons, of this city) he set out as an emigrant, landing in Detroit November 3d, 1832. Detroit was then a nourishing village of 2,500 inhabitants, one of which said inhabitants agreed to take his family and goods to Ann Arbor for fifteen dollars, but before he would unload them at their destination demanded and was paid sixteen dollars and fifty cents for the job. Mr. S. was also obliged to pay a dock tax in Detroit of three dollars, before he was allowed to load his goods. It being late in the season, the roads were in a fearful condition. At on& place they came upon an emigrant whose wagon was in a mud hole up to the hubs, and his team unable to pull it through. After a good deal of tall swearing he unhitched his team, drove them around and hitched them to the rear end of the wagon, when, by a liberal application of blue beech, interspersed with a fine display of oratory, he succeeded in hauling. his wagon back and out of the mud, when he at once started back, say- ing he had enough of this God-forsaken country, and was going back to York state. This did not discourage Mr. Sammons; he unloaded his wife and children, and ordered the driver to proceed, who drove in and through the mud, when he whipped up his team, and the family were obliged to walk four miles through the mud before he would allow them to come up with him again. After journeying three days they arrived in Ann Arbor, moved into a log house—which the children called a wood pile—and took a rest after their weary journeying.
Jackson
Section 4
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