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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
When they came to the passage between the two lakes, as they thought that their horses would not wander off very far, they all took off their saddles and bridles, so as to rest their horses better. In the morning they found them all gone, but getting on their tracks, they found them about a mile off. As soon as possible they got under way, and put for home by the most direct and quickest route they could find.
As a conclusion to this account of his exploration trip in 1826, before there were any white settlers west of Tecumseh, and as a contrast therewith, the General tells of a short trip made by him in September last, from Tecumseh to Hudson, by way of Cambridge. A county pioneer meeting was to be held at Hudson on Tuesday, September 25th, 1877, and Gen. B. was invited on the Monday previous, by F. A. Dewey, president of the Lenawee County Pioneer Society, to go home with him to his residence in Cambridge, to stay over night, and to ride with him across the country to Hudson the next day, which invitation Gen. B. gladly accepted,
as it would afford him an opportunity of contrasting the present situation of the northwestern part of Lenawee county with what it was fifty-one years ago in its then wilderness state.
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