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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The first town meeting which I attended in Michigan was that held in Brownville, for the township of Tecumseh, on the first Monday of April) 1832. That township then included all the five northern surveyed towns' of the county, and the north half of the tier of towns next south, making a township of nine miles by thirty. All settlers living then within'thc northern nine miles of the county, who wished to attend town meeting had to go there to vote. I recollect that I rode part of the way home with Cornelius Millspaw, then keeping tavern on the Chicago road about eighteen miles west of Clinton, in what is now the township of Woodstock.
The second annual town meeting which I attended was that in which the township of Franklin was organized, in April, 1833, which town then, and until April, 1836, included not only the present town of Franklin, but also what are now the towns of Cambridge and Woodstock. At that meeting, I think, or soon after, I found that a Mr. Joseph Slater,
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