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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Whilst talking of military matters, I may as well finish here my military history, as it is very short, and not much more of it. In the fall of 1835 I took part in the famous Toledo war, as a second lieutenant in the Wolverine militia, who made the Ohio midnight judges retreat within their own acknowledged boundaries,—they well knowing that Uncle Sam or Old Hickory would be after them if they undertook to take possession of, or exercise jurisdiction over, any of the territory of Michigan, until so authorized by congress. Having thus become as it were a hero of two wars, I was promoted by being commissioned as division paymaster of the fifth division of Michigan militia, in which capacity I never either received or disbursed any funds—not even my own pay. But for services in the Black Hawk war I afterwards received, like all my fellow soldiers, a bounty land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land.
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