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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
He then took it to Tecumseh, traveling through an almost unbroken wilderness with only marked trees and old Indian paths for his guides. The distance to Monroe and back, and then to Tecumseh arid back, was about one hundred miles.
It may not be out of place here to give some idea of the then grist mill at Tecumseh, to which Mr. Kedzie had to go, and which was the first one in the county, and the only one for more than three years after it was built. Although the time of its erection, and the ingenious device by which the place of a pair of regular burr mill-stones was supplied by
the manufacture of an upper and a nether mill-stone out of a large granite boulder, has been told by A. L. Millard, Esq.. of Adrian, in a paper furnished to your society, and being published among its proceedings, yet having before me the original contract between Wing, Evans & Brown, of the one part, and Turner Stetson of the other part, for the building of the mill, dated July 16, 1825,
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