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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
They had some discussion as to what it should be named, and finally agreed upon calling it "Sand lake." They were about (as was the habit then) to christen it by that name, in some tonic they had taken along as medicine, but by some mishap their tonic-bottle had all leaked out, and that part of the ceremony was omitted. They there took the Chicago trail, on or near the present line of the Chicago road, intending to follow it to the Cary mission. None of the land west of Lenawe county was then in market, nor was the country even laid off into ties for more than three years,afterwards. They crossed the upper part of the St. Joseph river about where the village of Jonesville now is. After| leaving Tecumseh they found no settlers or white persons until they came to White Pigeon prairie, where they found a man by the name of Hale, located there as a "squatter," there being no land there to be pur chased at that time. The first land offered for sale in what is now counties of Hillsdale, Branch and St. Joseph being in October, 1828, in Cass and Berrien in June, 1829, and in 1831.
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