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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
About the same time that the papers referred to were issued, there were
proceedings commenced to settle another estate which had some peculiarities about it that may prove interesting reading at the present day, which I will relate. On the 10th day of September, 1822, the county of Saginaw, containing thirty-two townships, was set off by proclamation of Gov. Cass, and attached to Oakland county for judicial purposes, and the township of Saginaw, embracing all the territory within the limits of Saginaw county, was organized by the legislative council in 1831. Subsequently the county of Midland was set off, taking four townships about the forks of the Tittabawassee. Afterwards, in February, 1835, Saginaw county was organized with boundaries as then existed with the four townships referred to in Midland county, but still in the township of Saginaw presenting the anomaly of a town in two counties.
In 1833 a young English sailor named Charles Cater came to Saginaw and purchased land near the forks of the Tittabawassee and returned to his business of sailing on the ocean. In 1834 Abram Cater, a brother of Charles, came to Saginaw to make a permanent residence and was married there in 1835 (I remember the date, for it was the first marriage ceremony I ever performed), soon after which he heard that his brother Charles had been cast away and perished at sea. Abram Cater was sickly and lived at Pine River on the bay with his wife and her relatives, but he was anxious to settle his brother's estate, being the sole heir.
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