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FORTY YEARS AGO (1833) BY REV. ELIJAH H. PILCHER
Yet these were so; and there are a few persons still living who can attest the truth of what I say.
A JACKSON COUNTY ANECDOTE.
It was but a little after the period of which I write that the county of Jackson was organized, and a certain doctor, whom I know well, was elected one of the county judges. In the absence of the circuit judge he held the court. Complaint having been made, the grand jury wished to find a bill against certain parties for selling whisky to the Indians, and not being able to draft the bill, they appealed to the judge for instructions. Judge R— took a pen and wrote: "John Doe, to the County of Jackson, Dr., for selling
liquor to the Indians, $------, " and remarked that was good a enough bill
for him.
AN INCIDENT.
While speaking of Jackson, I may as well relate a little incident which took place whilst I was stationed there, from, 1846 to 1848. In the original plat of the village, the proprietors set apart lots for the different churches. One had been assigned for the Methodist church. Subsequently the proprietor sold his whole interest, describing the land according to the United States survey, reserving the lots he had sold, and took a mortgage. He did not except this church lot. This mortgage was foreclosed; the parties who claimed under the mortgage, stood ready to claim this lot of the church, and another was purchased, but I was directed by the trustees to keep a care over this donated lot. Accordingly I made some ostensible improvements on it, to show we intended to retain it. But after a while I found some men at work, digging post holes for a fence. They were warned away, and the work ceased for a few weeks, till they supposed the matter was quiet. I had thought nothing about it for some time, till one Sabbath as I came out of our chapel, I happened to cast my eye in that direction, and saw there was a fence about half way around it.
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