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St. Joseph County By Judge William H. Cross
This line being approved by the department gave us the crossing and the village of Clinton in Lenawe " county.
In the winter of 1828 Hugh Hillick, Timothy Mitchel and myself went through from Tecumseh to Dexter, which was the west settlement! on the Huron river, and I think we were the first in either settlement' that ever went through on nearly a direct line.
Judge Dexter had some very fine timbered land just above the Browneville saw-mill, and there was when he bought it a large number of white wood trees on it; but the nearness of the mill and the pressing need the settlers for a little soft lumber was lessening the whitewood pretty fast and the Judge felt that he ought, in justice to himself, have an agent on the ground to protect it from waste, so he appointed Mr. Hillick to act as such, which he did. Not withstanding his care and close watching, the whitewood trees would get off from the land to the mill, until, as S. Stetson told the Judge when inquired of whether any one was stealing logs, from his land, his reply was, "Judge Dexter, I do not believe any one stealing logs from your land, but I think you are getting the stumpiest piece of land there is in the township of Tecumseh."
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