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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
I got along, I believe, so as to give general satisfaction to those sending children to school, as well as the boys and girls themselves, except to one of the sons of Pontius Hooper, at whose hotel I boarded, who was rather inclined to be a ringleader in all violations of the rules, and who, on account of a punishment I was once obliged to inflict on him, threatened that he was going to thrash me when he got to be a man. As that was forty-six years ago, he has probably got to be a man before this time, but still I have not got that thrashing yet. The last I have heard of him is that he was in Illinois somewhere, following his father's occupation—that of keeping hotel, in which I wish him every success.
In May, 1832, when the alarm of the breaking out of the Black Hawk war first came through the territory, I was, like all the other male settlers, notified to be and appear armed and equipped, etc., as the law directs, and I volunteered like almost all the rest, and was mustered in at Clinton as a private, in Capt. Hixon's company, and marched forthwith, May 22d, I think, for Niles, or the seat of war.
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