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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The eastern part of the town did not begin to be settled until 1830. In the spring of that year Robert Boyd and some three or four others started from Tecumseh, with Gen. Brown as a guide, to explore that part of the town, and Mr. Boyd soon after located the land where he now lives, and another young man of the party took up some land adjoining him. The nearest settlement to them on the south was at the village of Blissfield, distant about ten or twelve miles, through heavy timbered land. In 1831 quite a tide of immigration had set into this part of the township, mostly families of the Congregational or Presbyterian persuasion, being thus distinguished from the older, or west part of the town, which was mainly settled by members of the Society of
Friends.
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