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St. Joseph County By Judge William H. Cross
Is it possible that all this has been accomplished in the space of one man's lifetime, not including his childhood at life's beginning or ending?
In the spring and summer of i827 settlements began west of us along the line of the Chicago trail at White Pigeon, Allen's Prairie, Pokagon, and Young's Prairie, and spread out on the prairies of southwestern Michigan and northern Indiana. The settlements in Michigan being then in the legal jurisdiction of the town of Tecumseh, and the county of Monroe, until the town of St. Joseph was set off, composing that portion of the territory of Michigan ceded to the United States by the Indians at the treaty of Chicago.
In 1829 I took a trip to White Pigeon and Mottsville to haul a load of goods to Mr. Taylor, an Indian trader, located at the Chicago trail and the St. Joseph river, and then I first saw a western prairie, but while the trip was a rough and tedious one, the country so pleased me that my brother and I sold our farms the next year, and in the autumn of 1830 we bought land, and removed to Coldwater, in Branch county, only returning to Tecumseh in 1832 to take to my new home the girl who had agreed to share life with me in the pioneer's cabin.
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