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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
He then took up quite a tract of land in what he denominated "Pleasant Valley," and which has been know as "the valley" ever since. He did not bring on his family for some time; he returned to Niagara county, N. Y., and remained there until early in 1826. In the meantime he had made arrangements with Gen. Brown to build him a log house, forty-five by twenty-six feet, with a space partitioned off at one end to be made into two bed-rooms. This was located near a spring, below where he afterwards built his two-story frame house. At the time he first entered the land, there were no settlers nearer than Tecumseh or its immediate vicinity—the village of Adrian having then no existence—not being settled or platted until after his and his son's return to the territory in 1826. In a letter from General Brown to his mother, dated February 26, 1826, after describing his own frame house in the village of Tecumseh, and mentioning what he was engaged in,—amongst other things in building a house for Darius Comstock, he says, in a subsequent part of the letter The D. Comstock that I mentioned is a Friend, of a large fortune, and much of a gentleman; he has been living with me for several weeks this winter.
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