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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
On arriving at Clinton, I found an embryo village of some ten or a dozen houses or thereabouts, with two taverns one of them a hewn-log house, and the other a two-story frame one and one or two small stores, and a few scattered small dwelling houses There was then and for some time afterwards no post office there:—letter for settlers there or in the vicinity were returned from Tecumseh in of H. N. Baldwin, who was afterwards appointed first postmaster Clinton.
On going west from Clinton to look at lands in the surveyed town next west, and to see Thos. Nelson, Jr., to whom I had a reference as or of the first five or six to take up lands and settle in that town, I found on the Chicago road about three miles west of Clinton, three men from Massachusetts who had come on in June previous, and were beginning to clear up some land to build houses, and a blacksmith shop, etc. Two of the three, Capt. Ebenezer Davis and Job Graves, still live on the then locations. The other one, David Wells, afterwards bought out the lands of Thos. Nelson, and sold the same in 1835 to the late Deacon Wm Bradley, with some timbered land on an adjacent section, and moved Illinois, where he died some two years ago. I then selected some land east of Mr. Nelson's, on which, and some additions to it, I lived until I became connected with the M. S. R. R., and moved to the village of Tecumseh in 1853, where I have since resided.
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