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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
At the time of the Sauk war, in 1832, when Gen. Brown went west he found the same Mr. Hale on Door prairie, Indiana, having a well cul tivated farm and good buildings, and was invited to stay over night wit1 him, which he did.
Further on in their trip they found a Mr. Beardsley, on what the called Beardsley's prairie; he had come up from Indiana with cattle horses, sheep, etc. Whilst the party were there they saw a flock of sheep running for home with some wolves chasing them. Mr. Beardsley and his boys set their dogs after the wolves, and they kept them off from the sheep, and then went off after the wolves and had not returned when Gen. B. and the party went on. Here they turned aside a little from the direct Chicago trail, in order to call upon an Indian trader named Cou tieau, a Frenchman, living near or a little south of where the village of Bertrand is now, and who had been at Tecumseh on an Indian trading expedition, and had there met Gen. B. and some of the others. They took dinner with Mons. Coutieau and his wife, both French Catholics and friendly and polite people.
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