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EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SOUTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN BY A. B. COPLEY.
June 7, 1882.
DANIEL B. HARRINGTON.
Daniel Brown Harrington, capitalist and real estate operator, was born at Sodus, Ontario county, New York, April 23d, 1807, son of Jeremiah Harrington and Mercy Baker, both descended from the old Puritan stock of Massachusetts.
The name of Harrington was borne upon the muster rolls of the old revolutionary army of 1776. "
Jeremiah was a farmer by occupation, and fond of a new country and the excitement incident to out-door sports, hunting, fishing, etc., and up to the time of his coming of age (1795) resided in the state of Rhode Island.
He then made a visit to an older brother who resided at Butternuts, Otsego county, New York, which section of country being at that early date wild and unsettled, afforded him ample indulgence for his passion, the forests abounding in deer, beaver, and other game.
Here Jeremiah met and married Mercy Baker, and soon after removed to Sodus Point, purchasing a tract of farm land half-way between that place and Lyons. A year or two later Capt. Helm, of Virginia, arrived there, bringing with him 47 negroes, and entered a large tract of land near Sodus Point. His overseer was not accustomed to clearing land, and Jeremiah was engaged to oversee the clearing and the erection of log cabins for these negro slaves. The scheme proved a failure, it not being a good corn country, and the negroes were taken back to Virginia.
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