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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
After the organization of the township of Franklin, which embraced all directly west of the present town of Tecumseh, Mr. Pennington and Dr. Howell, and others, circulated a petition for the organization of a new township on the east of Tecumseh, which was acted upon by the Legislative Council in the spring of 1834, and the township of Macon was then organized, including the surveyed town east of Tecumseh, and also the town south of that. Dr. Howell was one of the eight delegates from Lenawee county in 1835, to the convention to form the first state constitution. He and the writer of this sketch, also then a delegate to that convention, are still living and residents of the county. Another delegate from the county to the same convention, Joseph H. Patterson, of Raisin, is, or was until lately, also still alive, but had become a resident of St. Joseph county.
As already noted, the present township of Ridgeway, including a portion afterwards set off as part of Deerfield, was until 1841 included in the town of Macon.
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