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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Such is the story of the first naming of the village as told by the Doctor, and as undoubtedly told to him by some of the parties concerned, as he well knew them all—being the first physician who came to settle-permanently in the north part of the county, as Dr. Ormsby, who had previously come to Tecumseh, removed to Adrian in 1827; and Dr. Patterson was long the leading physician in Tecumseh and vicinity having continued there the practice of his profession for nearly fifty years and until about a year prior to his decease in April last.
In the address there is much of interest well and eloquently told, and many passages that I had intended to copy or condense, had time and
space permitted—particularly his vivid, picture-like sketch of the pursuit and capture by the Tecumseh posse, under deputy sheriff Wm McNair, of some of the Ohio commissioners and surveyors who were running, in the spring of 1835, the line as claimed by that state along the south part of Lenawee county, and which the Doctor called the first scene in the drama of the Toledo war. But I must forbear; and I do so with the less regret because I have ascertained, since I came into possession of this manuscript, that the address was read before the R. V. Historical Society in June, 1868, and was published in one or both of the Tecumseh papers
at the time.
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