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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Such mistakes as those above noted, having occurred in elaborately prepared addresses, and many others of a like or worse kind which I have heard made in casual conversations, led me to the conclusion that in a sketch of the early history of the county the best way, and the most reliable, would be to have recourse, as far as practicable, to the published laws and official documents of the time. And I have accordingly done so, more especially as respects the territorial legislation.
As I have been led to turn critic or reviewer of other addresses, as well as sketch-writer of one of my own, I beg leave to allude to another slip, to which my attention was called by General Brown. In Mr. Mil lard's centennial address, in speaking of the split granite rock, or boul der, out of which the mill-stones for the first grist-mill at Tecumseh were made, he says, "the smaller fragment serving as the upper stone, and the larger as the lower;" whereas, the fact was just the reverse, the larger piece being used for the upper stone, as any practical mill-wright would have told him that it should be.
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