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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
In a letter dated 8th mo., 8th, 1824, Mr. Evans, after stating that it was a great pity and a great error that they had not made arrangements to secure more lands for themselves, says:
There is a man here by the name of Dexter from Boston, who is buying for speculation, and I think will buy on the river above us. He has been up this morning and is pleased with the land. It is the very place where we ought to have had our timbered. land, because it can come to the mill by water.
And I find from the tract-book that the west half of the northeast; quarter and east half of northwest quarter, section twenty-eight, and the! entire south half of section twenty-one, and west half of southwest quar ter, section twenty-two, were entered August 11,1824, by Samuel W. Dexter, of Greene county, N. Y., being the Dexter spoken of by Evans, and who afterward settled in Washtenaw county, and had the township and village of Dexter named after him. These speculators do not seem to have been liked much better in those early days by actual settlers, than they have been ever since.
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