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EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SOUTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN BY A. B. COPLEY.
June 7, 1882.
In 1824 Daniel went with his father in charge of a raft of timber to Detroit, and thence to Delaware, Ohio, bringing back with him his younger brother, E. B., making the trip from Sandusky to Detroit in the steamer Superior (the second one running on the lakes), and by sail-boat thence to Black river.
*E. B. H. remained two years, when, becoming dissatisfied with the country, he ran away in company with another boy, bringing up at Jamestown, N. Y., where he found a home with a cabinet-maker and learned the trade.
During the winter of 1826-27 Daniel attended school at Cottrellville, having for his schoolmates the late Capt. E. B. Ward and his sister, so familiarly known as "Aunt Emily. "
In the fall of 1828 Daniel was employed as clerk in the store of Messrs. Bunce and Duryea at Fort Gratiot; the fort being then garrisoned by two companies of troops commanded by Maj. Thompson and Capt. Beal, Dr. Zina Pitcher being the surgeon of the Post. Twelve dollars per month and board were the wages Daniel received for these services. In the spring of 1829 he returned home to assist his father and take charge of his rafts.
These raft trips to Detroit consumed about a month going and coming.
•Ebenezer Burke Harrington was afterwards a prominent lawyer in Detroit, where he died in 1844. C. M. B.
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