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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Not included in the table, there were in Adrian village, one cabinet factory, one pottery, one tannery, and one iron foundry.
And in Tecumseh, two carding machines, one cloth dressing shop, and one distillery, and an iron foundry in Clinton.
By consulting the history of Jefferson count}1, N. Y., the county from which Musgrove Evans, J. W. Brown, and so many others of the first settlers of Lenawee county came, I find that Musgrove Evans had been employed in 1811 or earlier, as a surveyor, by a Mr. LeRay, a French nobleman, who owned a large tract of land in Jefferson county, and that in 1818 Mr. Evans was also acting as land agent for Mons. LeRay, and was the means of bringing on quite a number of Quaker families from Philadelphia or vicinity. He also acted as one of the three commissioners appointed by the legislature of New York, under an act authorizing " James LeRay de Chaumont to build a turnpike from Cape Vincent to Perch river, at or near where the state road crossed the same, in the town of Brownville."
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