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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
On the back of the contract are endorsed a receipt fora the above mentioned subscriptions at the date of the contract, and one for the first $125, as paid August 2,1825. The other $125 was paid on the completion of the work and its acceptance.
The mill, it will be seen, was on a small scale, but with regard milling as well as many other matters, it was the day of small thing but adapted to the wants of an infant settlement, and towards which almost every one in the community gladly contributed. After the ere tion of other and larger mills, it was known as the " old pocket mill. The second grist mill of the county was the red mill of Comstock & Dean at the village of Adrian, built in 1829.
The surveyed towns nearest to the villages of Adrian and Tecumseh were naturally the first to attract immigration and to become settled The town now called Madison, and of which a portion near the north east corner was included in the village, and is now part of the city of
Adrian,
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