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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
lthough I have already spun out my narrative to a somewhat greatest length than I had anticipated, and longer perhaps than I ought to have done, notwithstanding my endeavors to avoid as far as possible all repetition of facts known to be in possession of the state society or readily accessible to them, yet I hope to be pardoned for adding a few items my own personal experience as a pioneer. When I left the borough Wilkesbarre, in Wyoming valley, Pa., in the fall of 1831, to come Michigan, my expectation rather was that I should go to the county St. Joseph, or of Cass, towards which the tide of emigration seemed then to be most strongly tending; but after my arrival at Detroit I was advised to look around in the vicinity of Tecumseh or Clinton, as northern part of Lenawee county was then being rapidly settled. I cordingly took passage byr stage only so far as Clinton; but I had neve before in all my travels in Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania New York, seen such staging and stage roads as we had until we car near to Ypsilanti, which place it took us all day to reach. Next mor ing we found better roads and a comfortable post-coach driven Samuel Evans, a son of the postmaster and first settler of Tecumseh, and nephew of J. W. Brown, the principal mail contractor west of Detroit' way of the Chicago road.
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