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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The balance of the government land in both halves of the town were taken up from time to time, in 1825 to 1836, in which latter year the last vacant government lands in the six miles square were entered. Although Mr. Tyrrel entered the lands intended for the village of Clinton, in the fall of 1825, yet he did not come on as a permanent settler until January, 1830, and was preceded, as a settler, by Col. Hixon and Capt. Kies, who had both built houses on their lands the year previous.
But it is time perhaps to proceed to glance at the first settlements in other parts of the,county; and at the outset I would remark that the three early settlers, at whose houses the first three town meetings were held in 1827, will always be remembered as three of the most prominent and leading pioneers of the county. 'Hervey Bliss, after whom the town ship of Blissfield was named, was a native of Massachusetts, born in 1790. he moved to Ohio in 1814, and in 1816 to Monroe, then a hamlet of a few families; in the year following settling on land about thirteen miles up the river Raisin, and in 1824 came to Lenawee county, settling where the village of Blissfield is now located, cutting his way through heavy timber from Petersburg, in Monroe county, a distance of ten or more miles.
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