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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The first settlement of Hudson and Rollin, and of what was known in early days as the Bean creek country, was not really commence until 1833, although one man from Seneca county, N. Y., had entered in June, 1831, an eighty-acre lot in what is now the township of Rollin, and Addison J. Comstock, of Adrian, in May, 1832, had entered another eighty acre lot in the same town. But neither of these locations had been tied on until other lands had been entered in Hudson and Rollin, and some actual settlements commenced. The first house built in the Bean creek valley was in the Ames-Kidder settlement, in October, 1833, a log house, sixteen by twenty-two feet, which accommodated twenty-six p sons, by their sleeping on the floor in two rows. Hiram Kidder, one the first settlers of Hudson, had previously, in 1831, been a settler in Raisin, and helped to pioneer the first settlers to the Bean creek country Soon after the building of the first log house the settlers began to get out of provisions, and had to dispatch two of their number to Adrian for supplied, a distance of sixteen to eighteen miles, which journey there and back they-accomplished in five days, sleeping at nights under their wagon, and. cutting their way in places through the woods, as they went by a different route from that by which they moved in.
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