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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
He was also acting as postmaster at Chaumont, in Jefferson county, in 1823, when he came to Michigan with a view to engage in the survey of the public lands then being made in the territory, or to look •out a location where to found a settlement. At Detroit or Monroe he met Austin E. Wing, then a resident of the latter place, and who was connected with Mr. Evans and the Brown family by marriage, and was advised by him as to where he could find the best water power in southern Michigan. This led him to explore the country along the upper waters of the River Raisin, and to select lands embracing the mill sites now occupied by the Brownville and the Globe mills at Tecumseh. After this selection, he and Mr. Wing found the necessity of looking round for some active out-door business manager to embark with them in the ¦enterprise of building up a village, and erecting saw mills and grist mills,' and making other improvements needed for the accommodation of anew settlement in the wilderness.
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