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EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SOUTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN BY A. B. COPLEY.
June 7, 1882.
After a voyage of three weeks they arrived at Fremont, Ohio, with their cargo of furs, but, owing to the depreciation of values caused by the reaction of the war, their trip was not a success financially.
In the fall of the same year (1820) Mr. Jeremiah Harrington, accompanied by Mrs. H. (his third wife) and Daniel, started with a company of five others' on a second trip to Saginaw Bay. This trip was made in an open boat which they had constructed for the voyage at Sandusky, a much larger one than the "Saginaw Hunter, " and named the "Speed, " Nothing of special interest occurred on this voyage until after leaving Bunce's dock to proceed north, when sickness prevailed to such an extent among the crew that they were compelled to break up after returning to Fort Gratiot, from which place, on recruiting their health all the party except the Harrington family went back to Ohio, one of the party dying on the voyage.
Fort Gratiot then contained a garrison of twenty men in command of Lieut. J. Watson Webb, who was afterward editor of The Courier and Enquirer, New York, and subsequently United States minister to Brazil. He provided quarters for the Harrington family in the barracks, where they remained a month.
In the spring of 1822 Jeremiah removed to a farm five miles from the mouth of the Black river, where he continued to reside until, his death, which occurred March 30, 1853.
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