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We conclude this synopsis of the county finances by the following statement of assessment and tax levies for 1882 :
Personal property .
$519,462
Lands. .
1,316,217
Lots . .
104,776
Railroad property.
246,218
Total
$2,186,703
TAX LEVIES.
State taxes
$8,186.69
County "
14,264 37
Town
2,184.96
Road and bridge
7,342.93
School
18,567.94
Corporation
1,290.86
All other taxes
1,198.57
$53,826.32
This tax is to be paid by a population of 13,600 ; about $4 00 per capita.
A few statistical remarks may follow here: 351 chil- dren were born in 1882; 163 couples were married, and 91 persons buried. Of the improved lands of the county, 40,413 acres are in wheat, 36,046 in corn, 5,903 in oats, 10,596 in meadows, 2,443 in other field products, 24,076 in inclosed pastures and 2,516 in orchards; 61,533 acres are reported as woodland. The cities and towns in the county contain 2,037 building lots, of which 1,008 are improved.
CONCLUSION.
The county of Lawrence was represented in the various Constitutional Conventions as follows :
1847, by Hon. J. Mieure. 1862, by Hon. Harmon Alexander. 1870, by Hon. James M. Sharp.
Lawrence county as represented in the General Assembly of Illinois :
1822 to 1824 .- William Kinkead, Senator for Wayne and Lawrence. Abraham Cain, Representative from Lawrence.
1824 to 1826 .- James Bird, Senator for Wayne and Lawrence. Asa Norton, Representative.
1826 to 1828 .- James Bird, Senator for Wayne and Lawrence. Samuel H. Clubb, Representative.
1828 to 1830 .- Wickliffe Kichell,* Senator for Law- rence and Crawford. Henry M. Gillham, Representa- tive.
1830 to 1832 .- Wickliffe Kitchell, Senator for Law- rence and Crawford. James M. McLean, Representa- tive.
1832 to 1834 .- David McGahey, Senator for Lawrence and Crawford. Abner Greer, Representative.
1834 to 1836 .- David McGahey, Senator for Lawrence and Crawford. Jesse K. Dubois,+ Representative.
1836 to 1838 .- John C. Reilly, Senator for Lawrence Crawford and Jasper. Jesse K. Dubois and Edward J. O'Neille, Representatives.
1838 to 1840-Abner Greer, Senator for Lawrence, Crawford and Jasper. Jesse K. Dubois, Representative.
1840 to 1842 .- John Houston, Senator for Lawrence, Crawford and Jasper. Samuel Dunlap and James McLean, Representatives.
1842 to 1844 -John Houston, Senator for Lawrence, Crawford and Jasper. Wm. G. Anderson and Jesse K. Dubois, Representatives.
1844 to 1846 .- Samuel Dunlap, Senator for Lawrence,
Crawford, Jasper and Richland. Wm. G. Anderson and J. H. Reed, Representatives.
* Wickliffe Kitchell was Attorney General of Illinois from March 5th, 1839 to Nov. 19th, 1840, when he resigned.
+ Jesse K. Dubois was Auditor of State from 1857 to 1865.
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1846 to 1818 -Samuel Dunlap, Senator for Lawrence, Crawford and Jasper. Michael McLean, and Josiah R. Wynne, Representatives for Lawrence and Richland.
1848 to 1850 .- Alfred H. Grass, Senator 8th Senato- rial district .* Ebenezer Z. Ryan, Representative 9th district.
1850 to 1852 .- Alfred H. Grass, Senator, 8th Senato- rial district. Aaron Shaw,; Representative.
1852 to 1854 .- Mortimer O'Kean of Jasper, Senator 8th Senatorial district. William J. Christy, Represen- tative.
1854 to 1856 .- Mortimer O'Kean, of Jasper, Senator 19th district. Rudolph Heath, of Crawford, Represen- tive 17th district.
1856 to 1858 .- Mortimer O'Kean, of Jasper, Senator- 19th district. Isaac Wilkins, of Crawford, Representa- tive 17th district.
1858 to 1860 .- Mortimer O'Kean, of Jasper, Senator 19th district. H. C. McCleave, of Crawford, Represen- tative 17th district.
1850 to 1862 .- Presley Funkhouser, of Effingham, Senator 19th district. Aaron Shaw, of Crawford, Re- presentative 17th district.
1862 to 1864 .- Hugh Gregg, Senator for 2nd Sena- torial district. James W. Sharp, of Wabash, Represen- tative 4th Representative district.
1864 to 1866 .- John W. Westcott, of Clay, Senator, as above. D. H. Morgan, of Lawrence, Representative. 1866 to 1868 .- John W. Westcott, of Clay, Senator as above. James M. Sharp, of Wabash, Representative.
1868 to 1870 .- J. J. R. Turney of Wayne, Senator as above. D. H. Morgan, of Lawrence, Representative.
1870 to 1872 .- John Jackson, of Lawrence and John Landrigan, of Edwards, Senators 2nd Senatorial district. John D. Sage, of Lawrence, Representative 21st dia- trict.
1872 to 1874 .- W. J. Crews, of Lawrence, Senator. Representatives-J. L. Flanders, of Lawrence, Thos. J. Golden, of Clark, Herman Alexander of Crawford.
1874 to 1876 .- O. V. Smith, of Lawrence, Senator. Representatives-Ethelbert Callahan of Crawford, John H. Halley, of Jasper, John W. Briscoe, of Clark.
" The Constitution of 1848 provided that the Senate shonid consist of twenty-five, and the House of seventy-five members, until the popula- tion of the State amounted to one million of eouia, when five membere might be added to the House, and five additional members for every 500,000 inhabitants thereafter, etc., etc. The first apportionment under said Con- etitution made Edwards, Lawrence, Wabash, Effingham, Jasper, Clay and Richland to form the 8th Senatorial district, and Lawrence and Richland to form the 9th Representative district. The Act of February 27th, 1854, put Lawrence county, together with Cierk, Fayette, Effingham, Jasper and Crawford into the 19th Senatorial district, and with Crawford into the 17th Representative district. By Act of January 31st, 1861, Lawrence, Hamilton, Wabash, Edwarda, Wayne, Clay, Richland And White formed the 2nd Senatorial, and Lawrence and Wabash the 4th Representative dis- trict. The apportionment of 1870 left Lawrence in the ssme Senatorial dia- triet, but made the county a Representative district by itself-the 2lat. The apportionment of 1872 formed the 45th Senatorisi district of the connties of Lawrence, Clark, Crawford and Jasper, entltiing the district to one Sen. ator and three Representatives. By the reapportionment of 1882 the coun- tiea or Lawrence, Wabash, White and Hamilton form the 46th Senatoriai district.
+ Aaron Shaw represented the 7th Congressional district of fiiinoia from 1857 to 1859.
1876 to 1878 .- O. V. Smith, of Lawrence, Senator. Representatives-William Lindsey, of Clark, John H. Halley, of Jasper, Andrew J. Reavill, of Crawford.
1878 to 1880 .- W. C. Wilson. of Crawford, Senator. Representatives-Jesse R. Johnson, of West Liberty, James W. Graham, of Clark, Andrew J. Reavill, of Crawford.
1880 to 1882 .- W. C. Wilson, Senator. Representa- tives-Jacob C. Olwin, James C. Bryan, W. H. H. Mieure.
1882 to 1884 .- John C. Edwards, Senator 46th dis- trict. * Representatives-F. W. Cox, Lowery Hay, W. J. Johnson.
COUNTY OFFICERS-1849 to 1883.
County Courts, 1849 to 1853 .- E. Z. Ryan, Judge, resigned November, 1852, James Nabb, Judge, elected to fill vacancy, 1852.
Associate Justices-William Tanquary, Randolph Heath, resigned November, 1862. James Irish, elected to fill vacancy.
1853 to 1857 .- Jesse K. Dubois, Judge. Associate Justices-J. M. Travis, James Irish.
1857 to 1861 .- The county having adopted township organization, the county Judges attended to probate business only.
Isaac Potts, three terms, 1857 to 1869; W. J. Crews, 1869 to 1872, when he was elected State Senator.
T. B. Hoffman, appointed to fill vacancy, Feb. 6, 1873; Isaac Potts, two terms, 1873 to 1882; P. W. Barnes, since 1882.
FIRST BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 1857.
W. D. Adams, Chairman ; James Banner, Daniel Grass, D. L. Gold, Robert Dollohan, Andrew Pinkstaff, Henry Schrader and Wiley Edmundson. The balance of the Supervisors will be found in the respective town- ships.
COUNTY CLERKS SINCE 1849.
W. H Hennessy, re-elected in 1849, resigned January 19, 1853. John Seed, officiated under appointment, to March, 1853, when Thomas F. Watts was elected for the balance of Hennessey's term. J. C. Reily, elected Nov. 1853, resigned December 21, 1855, and Lunenburg Abernathy, officiated until March, 1856, as appointed, when I. B. Watts was elected. He was re- elected for four successive terms, but resigned April 15, 1872. Thornton E. Adams was appointed clerk on the same day, and officiated until August 5, 1872, when Clinton Abernathy, elected at a special election, took charge of the office until 1877. James K. Dickerson, from 1877 to 1882, and J. W. Calvert, since 1882.
COUNTY TREASURERS SINCE 1849.
William Neal, 1849 to April 6, 1851, when he resigned. W. B. Buchanan, served balance of term until Novem-
* The 46th district is composed of the counties of Lawrence Wabash, White, and Hamilton.
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ber, 1851; Caius M. Eaton, 1851 to 1853; Isaac Potts, 1853 to 1855; R. W. McLean, 1855, resigned June, 1857; E. Z. Ryan, served during remainder of term ; Edward Thorn, 1857 to 1863-three full terms ; Samuel Laird, 1863 to 1869-three full terms; J. W. McCleave, 1869; G. W. Stoltz, 1873; W. M. Lewis, 1875; J. W. Whittaker, 1877, who died before the expiration of his 2nd term, in 1881, and was succeeded by the present Treasurer, J. W. McCleave, since May 2ad, 1881.
Circuit Clerks since 1848 .- Fred. A. Thomas, 1849; Jacob Young, 1851; J. C. Reiley, 1852; E. Z. Ryan, 1856; S. J. Stiles, 1857; Lafayette McLean, 1863; Ed- ward Thorn, Jr., 1863; G. F. Nigh, 1864; Alfred J. Judy, 1868; B. L. Cunningham, 1872, two terms; and Lafayette Barnes, since 1880.
Circuit and County Attorneys since 1825 .- J. M. Robinson, E B. Webb, Aaron Shaw, Alfred Kitchell, John Scholfields, F. D. Preston, E. T. Wilson, D. L. Brewer, H. A. Briscoe, died in office 1872; T. B. Huff- man, 1873, two terms ; and K. P. Snyder, since 1880.
Sheriff's since 1819. - Jacob Young, Isaac Potts, Joel Johnson, James Corrie, J. W. Watts, G. W. Whattaker, G. F. Nigh, W. C. Gilbert, E. Ryan, W. C. Gilbert, William Blackburn, 1870, two terms ; James H. Alli- son, 1874; John P. Scott, 1876, two terms; and Edmond Ryan, since 1880.
Coroners since 1863 .- E. G. Canover, 1868 ; J. B. Musgrave, 2870, two terms; Gabriel Graffham, 1874, two terms; Daniel Leach, 1880, and H. V. Lewis, since 1882.
Surveyors since 1849 .- Peter Smith, 1849; Walter Buchanan, 1859 ; T. P. Lowry, 1863, and Jesse B. Ben- nefield, since 1865.
School Superintendents .- Algernon S. Badollet, from 1843 to 1857; L. Abernathy, from 1857 to 1861, died during term ; J. B. Saye, 1861 to 1865; T. B. Lowery, 1865 to 1869; O. V. Smith, 1869 to 1873; F. W. Cox, from 1873 to 1882, two terms, and C. H. Martin, since 1882.
ROSTER OF COUNTY OFFICERS IN 1883.
Circuit Court .- Second Circuit .- Chancery S. Canger, Thomas S. Casey and William C. Jones .- Judges.
K. P. Snyder-Attorney.
Edmond Ryan-Sheriff. Lafayette Barnes-Clerk. '
P. W. Barnes-County Judge.
J. W. Calvert .- County Clerk.
J. W. McCleave-Treasurer.
Jesse B. Bennefield .- Surveyor.
C. H. Martin-School Superintendent.
H. V. Lewis-Coroner.
WABASH COUNTY.
The political history of this county, as a body politic, commences with the county organization had in pursu- ance of an act of the Legislature, approved December
27, 1824. The history of the territory, of which the present county of Wabash is partly composed, is much older, and the reader is respectfully referred to the ter- ritorial sketch contained in this volume.
The organization of Wabash county reduced the area of Edwards, the mother county, to such limits that a further sub-division of them was, and could not be, thought of. The east part of the county of Edwards contained the old pioneer settlements. It was here where the sturdy emigrants, from old Virginia, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, etc., had joined the French adventurers, who had preceded them half a century and longer. It was here where old Edwards county had had its time- honored seat of justice at Palmyra. Unfortunately this Palmyra situated in, or near, the marshes on the banks of the great Wabash, could, in reference to health of climate and beauties of surroundings, not be compared to the proud and ancient city after which it was named. Yes, lovely Palmyra, and lovely the oasis where it stood !
In the western part of the county, beyond the waters of the meandering river De Bon Pas, (now called Bou- pas for short) another city, Albion, had been reared a rival to Palmyra. Numerous immigrants from the British Isles had sought and found homes in the old county of Edwards. The separation of Lawrence county from the former had given numerical strength to the English settlements, and at an election held for that purpose, a majority decided to locate the county seat at the new town of Albion. (The reader is referred to preceding pages under the head of Edwards county.)
Mt: Carmel was defeated in this election, and her people, as well as the American settlements along the Wabash, felt outraged that Albion, then an out-of-the- way place, should bear off the price. The agitation be- came violent; men that understood the signs of the time, could see "blood " in the moon. The militia, four companies, were out drilling day after day, and actually went into camp at Ball Hill Prairie, with the avowed purpose of taking possession of the court archives to remove them from the town of Albion. A delegation of Albionians, uuder a flag of truce, came into camp to negotiate for terms of peace. Major Utter promised to bring about a peacable arrangement by a division of the county, making the Bonpas the line.
Major Utter, a member of the House of Representa- tives from Edwards county, in the 4th General Assembly, 1824 to 1826, was as good as his promise. The division took place. The feeling was, however, by no means, a very friendly one, and the Legislature took the precau- tion to entrust the selection of a county seat for the new county to non-residents of either county.
The county debt of Edwards county was to be shared in equal parts, and Samuel Munday, of Wabash, and John Cove, of Edwards, were appointed commissioners to ascertain that debt. We introduce next a copy of the act, creating the new county, to wit :
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An Act forming a separate county out of the county of Edwards.
Approved December 27, 1824.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly. That all that tract of country within the following boundaries to wit: Beginning at the mouth of De Bon Pas creek, thence running up the main branch of said creek to the line of Lawrence county ; thence running east with said line to the Wabash river. and thence down the same to the place of beginning, shall constitute a new county, to be called Wabash ; and for the purpose of fixing a per- manent seat of justice in said county, William Kinkade, John H. Morris, Cornelius De Long and Thomas Mason of Lawrence county, and George W. Farris of Wayne county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, which said commissioners or a majority of them, being duly sworn before some judge or justice of the peace of their State, to faithfully take into view the convenience of the people, and the situation of the settlements, with an eye to future population and the eligibility of the place, shall meet on the first Monday in May, or within six days thereafter, at the house of Gervaise Hazleton in said county and proceed to examine and determine upon the place of the permanent seat of justice and designate the same.
Provided :- That the proprietors of the land shall give to the county a quantity of land not less than twenty acres for the purpose of erecting county build- ings, to be laid out in lots and sold for that purpose; or should the proprietor or proprietors refuse or neglect to make the donation aforesaid, then it shall be the duty of said commissioners to fix upon some other place for the seat of justice, as convenient as may be to the inhabi- tants of said county, which place so fixed and determined upon, the said commissioners shall certify, under their hands and seals and return the same to the next county commissioners' court in said county ; which court shall cause an entry to be made in their books of record; which place, so designated, shall be the permanent seat of justice of said county ; and until the public buildings shall be erected, the courts shall be held at such place, in said county as the county commissioners of said county shall appoint.
Section 2. Be it further enacted-That said county shall bear an even share of the debts which are now out- standing against Edwards county, excepting all such as have arisen from the erection of public buildings at Al- bion ; and for the purpose of ascertaining and adjusting the same, Samuel Munday of said county and John Cove, junior, of Edwards county, be, and they are here- by appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to meet at the court house in Albion on the first Monday in June next, and to examine into the state of the treasury, of the present Edwards county, and the debts due from said county, and to divide the amount of debts which shall remain unpaid, excepting such as have arisen from the erection of the public buildings at Albion,
between the two counties in equal proportion, and cer- tify, under their hands and seals, to the next county commissioners' court of each county, the amount to be paid by each ; and for the purpose of executing their commission, the said commissioners are hereby author- ized to send for witnesses and examine them upon oath.
§ 3. And be it further enacted, That each of the commissioners appointed to locate the seat of justice in said county, shall receive a compensation of two dollars for each and every day they may be necessarily em- ployed in fixing the aforesaid seat of justice, to be paid out of the county treasury, by an order from the county commissioners ; and that the commissioners appointed by the second section of this act, shall receive the like sum per day, for every day necessarily employed in ex- ecuting their commission, to be paid out of the treasuries of their respective counties, upon the order of their re- spective county commissioners' courts.
§ 4. Be it further enacted, That on the first Monday of April next, an election shall be held at the house of Henry Utter in said county for one sheriff, one coroner and three county commissioners, which election shall be conducted in all respects agreeably to the provisions of the law regulating elections ; Provided, that any three justices of the peace in said county may act as judges of election, taking to themselves two qualified voters as clerks, and it shall be the duty of the circuit clerk of said county to give public notice agreeably to law, at least ten days previous to such elections. And in case there should be no clerk in said county, it shall be the duty of the recorder to give such notice.
§ 5. Be it further enacted, That the citizens of said county are hereby declared to be entitled to the same rights and privileges as are allowed in general to other counties in this state.
§ 6. Be it further enacted, That the said county shall vote in conjunction with Edwards county for representa- tives and senator of the General Assembly.
In pursuance of the provisions of section 1, of the above act, John E. Morris, Thomas Mason and Cornelius De Long, reported to the county commissioners that they located the county seat at the site of the present town of Centerville. The commissioners appointed under sec- tion 2 of this act reported on the 4th of December 1827, that Wahash's proportionate share of the old Edwards county amounted to $ 748. 20}.
The election provided for in § 4, came off on the first Monday of April, 1825, at the house of Henry Utter, and resulted in the election of Levi Compton, Tarlton Boren and Moses Bedell, county commissioners and of Abner Armstrong, sheriff.
Owning to the fact, that the court-house at Mt. Carmel and all its contents were destroyed by fire April 5th 1857, this sketch, based on documentary evidence, will be somewhat deficient in dates and names. A part of the public records happened to be outside of the court- house at the time of the conflagration .- They were care-
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fully collected and re-recorded as will be seen from the following entry :
" The following is a copy of the proceedings of the county commissioners' court of Wabash county, It was found by Hiram Bell, Esq, at his residence after the burning of the court-house of the county, April 5th, 1857, and after being about the county clerk's office for years, I have been ordered to copy and preserve it as far as possible in this record. Hiram Bell was clerk of the county and circuit courts of Wabash county for a period of about 32 years, and all that remains of his labor for nearly all that period is what is copied in this book. There is one other volume that was preserved by my having it at my home on the night of the burning of said court-house. Everything else of value, in the way of records or papers was destroyed.
(no date).
JAMES S. JOHNSTON, late Co. Clerk.
From the contents of the thus preserved public records, we have ascertained the following facts of the early county government.
The first (?) meeting of the county commissioners, Levi Compton, Tarlton Boren and Moses Bedell, was held at the house of Gervaise Hazleton on the 6th day of June 1825, when the reportof the commissioners on the county, seat questions was received and approved.
Before reciting the acts of the officers, usually called the servants of the people, we shall introduce here the names of the bona fide land owners of the county as far as we were able to ascertain them.
Township 1 N., R. 12 W .- Levi Compton, Hugh Calhoun, P. Munday, James Thompson, Asa Smith, F. Ayres, Cornelius Vanderhuff, Asa Hammond, Jeremiah Wilson, George Field, Joseph Gardener, W. Smith, George Antis, B. S. E Goff, Joseph Wright, George Oman, Coles Besley, E. Higgins, William Pool, Jarvis Dale, John Stillwell, Samuel Stillwell, Stephen Gardner, Peter Keen, Charles Garner, J. M. Armstrong, Joseph Wood, John McIntosh, Sarah Arnold, Samuel Marshal, Thomas Pulliam, John Snider, David Beauchamp, William Higgins, Enoch Greathouse, John Shadle, Henry McGregor, Nathaniel Claypoole, and Gervaise Hazleton ; these parties owned then 9558 acres of land.
Township 2 N., R 12 W .- John Smith, Jr., Adam Carrie, Moses Decker, William Tougas, John Bu- chanan, and Thomas West, owned 1590 acres.
Township 1 N., R. 13 W .- Hezekiah Clark, Ebenezer Couch, Jeremiah Ballard. Isaac Harness, John Higgins, Henry Cusick, William Jordan, John Harrison, Henry I. Mills, John Pugh, Tarlton Boren, Benjamin Reynolds, Richard Maxwell, A. J. Mills, William Brown, Ralph Little, W. Vanwick, John White, Reuben Blackford, Robert McNair, Josiah Higgins, F. Winter, Ephraim Reed, Benjamin Taylor, Ransom Higgins, Thomas Pool, Jeremiah Slanghter, Beauchamp Harvey, G. M. Tettinger, Arthur Vandever, John Waggoner, Henry D. Palmer, Samuel Harris, Philip Hull, Seth Gard, Joseph Preston, Cyrus Danforth, William Barney, James Andrews, Guy W. Smith, Phil. Ingram, John
Cantrecht, S. Madison, Fred. Munday, James Fordyce, Elijah Harris, J. Brown, I. C. Griffin, Stephen Jessup, John Hart, and William Lismond, owned 12,230 acres.
Township 2 N., R. 13 W .- Havilah Guun, Andrew Knight, James McMullen, Nathaniel Osgood, Adam Carrie, and Hezekiah Clark, owned 1440 acres.
Township 1 N., R. 14 W .- James Black, I. C. Griffin, John Moore, and F. Ayres, owned 880 acres.
Township 1 S. R. 12 W .- Cornelius McCollum, John Ingersole, William Simonds, Adam Carrie, Enoch Greathouse, John Tiltron, Sr., Henry Shrader, John Shadle, Elijah Harris, John Marshall, Thomas Hinde, and Joshua Beall, owned 2986 acres.
Township 1 S., R. 13 W. - Scoby Stewart, Euoch Greathouse, James Majors, Daniel Greathouse, Henry Alter, James English, E. Putman, Jacob Claypole, John Stillwell, A. Smook, Manlove Beauchamp, Janes Dun- lap, James Miller, Thomas McLean, William Deputy, Charles Bigg, John Collins, Joshua Beall, Samuel Bigg, Cornelius McCullon, William Tanguary, Robert Bigg, Andrew Dyer, William Beauchamp, John White, Jr., and George Bell, owned 7180 acres.
Township 2 S., R. 13 W .- Thomas T. Hinde, A. F. Dyer, John Nestler, A. Tougas, dit Lavialet, Daniel Keen, Samuel Marshall, John Ruth, Elijah Compton, Jean B. Langlois, John Marshall, William Jones, John Stewart, Thomas Baird, John McClary, and John Greason.
Townships 1, 2, 3, S., R. 14 W .- George Flower Samuel Brown, J. & J. Dunlap, Samuel Brown, William Wilson, Asa Durley, Ephraim Farr, Elias Jordan Joseph Wright, James Gray, Lanford Violet, John Painter, Samuel Campbell, Francis Jordon, Neil Camp- bell, and James Campbell, owned 4572 acres.
French locations were owned in Township 1 N , R. 11 W., by widow of Le Denoyon, Alexander Valle, François Bazinet, Jacques La Lemoille, Ambrois Degenet, Jean C. Thiriot, Gabriel Bonlon, Jr. and Pierre Levrie, aggre- gating 1600 acres. Christopher Wyatt owned 400 acres, location right in T. 1 N., R. 12 W., and Nicholas Varner, Pierre Gamelin, Etienne St. Marie, and François St. Marie, 1190 acres of similar rights in Township 1 S., R. 12 W.
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