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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Soon after their arrival at the new proposed settlement a large body of lands was taken up—some additional lots by Mr. Wing for the firm of Wing, Evans & Brown, who laid out the original plat of the village of Tecumseh, in June, and had the seat of justice for the county there established. In the surveyed town in which the village was located, all of sections twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirty-four were taken up in 1824, nearly all in May and June; also all of section thirty-three except two eighty-acre lots, which were entered early in the following year. The southeast quarter of section thirty-four was taken "up on May 22, 1825 by Ezra F. Blood, being the land where he now lives, and has lived ever since he came to the territory. The southwest quarter of the said section was entered in June following by Peter Lowe, and is now the farm of Hon. P. Bills, to whom I am indebted for the use of a transcript of the sales book of the United States land-office for the old six-miles square town of Tecumseh, drawn off for him by T. M. Cooley, whilst Mr. C. was commencing the practice of law in Adrian.
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