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Road number twenty-one, laid out September 20, 1836, by commissioners Cronk and Gilman, was the south three miles of Center road, in Burton, running from Maple Grove road north to Mill road.
Road number twenty-two, laid out September 20, 1836, by the same commissioners, was the one mile of the Lennon road between sections 19 and 30, township of Flint.
Road number twenty-three, same date as number twenty-two, ran from the southeast corner of section 33, township of Flushing, north five and a half miles on the section line. This road as it now exists conforms to the descrip- tion above only in two places.
Road number twenty-four, of the same date as number twenty-two, is the road running north from the village of Flushing to the Stanley road and a half mile east of Stanley road.
Road number twenty-five, of the same date as above, is three and a half miles of Elm road between Mt. Morris and Flushing from the north line of those townships.
Road number twenty-six, of the same date, is the Stanley road from road number twenty-four east seven and a half miles, to the "Sagana" turnpike.
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Road number twenty-seven, of the same date, is the section of the Bris- tol road running from the Shiawassee county line east eight miles through Clayton into Flint township, to Otterburn.
Road number twenty-eight, of the same date, is the Lennon foad from! the Shiawassee line nine miles east through Clayton to the middle of Flint township.
Road number twenty-nine, of the same date, is the Nichols road across Clayton from Gains to Flushing.
Road number thirty, same date, is the river road on west side of thee Flint river from the southwest corner of Mt. Morris to the north line of Flushing.
Road number thirty-one, of the same date, is the Linden road from north line of Mt. Morris to the south line of same, and south by the set-off, half a mile into township of Flint.
Road number thirty-two, same date, was the Corunna road from Shia- wassee county to Smith's reservation. This was afterward's included in the northern state road of 1838.
Road number thirty-three, same date, was the Calkins road! east from Clayton two and a half miles to Smith's reservation.
Road number thirty-four, of same date, was the Webber road' across Mt. Morris, from Francis road to the Potter road.
Road number thirty-five, same date, was a section of the Pierson road four and a half miles west from section 25 in Mt. Morris.
Road number thirty-six, same date, is the Jennings road across Mt. Morris, from the Frances road to the Potter road.
On October 10, 1836, Commissioners Cronk and Gilman laid out roads; thirty-seven to forty, inclusive.
Road number thirty-seven is the Morrish road from Swartz: Creek,. six miles north.
Road number thirty-eight was a road from southeast corner of section 34, Clayton, north six miles on the section line. The south mile of this; road is now part of the Seymour road, and the north, two miles part of. the Marshall road; the other three miles do not seem to have been opened.
Road number thirty-nine was to run from the southwest corner of section 34, township of Clayton, north on the section line six miles .. The' south three miles of this road is now part of the Van Vleet road; the other" three were not opened.
Road number forty is the Mt. Morris road west from the center of the village of Mt. Morris, eight miles.
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On October 29, 1836, Commissioners Cronk and Gilman laid out the Dodge road across Thetford as road number forty-one.
Road number forty-two, of November 8, 1836, was a road of the early day from the "Sagina" turnpike, eastward to a point near the first of Smith's reservations; its exact location is now difficult to define.
Road number forty-three, of March 20, 1837, laid out by Commis- sioners Cronk and Gilman, included a section of the Potter road, also of the Richfield road and Western road.
Road number forty-four, same date as forty-three, is the road running north and south through the middle of section 3, township of Burton, to the Ritchfield road in township of Genesse.
Road number forty-five, laid out March 28, 1837, was the first road laid out by the commissioners with reference to the plat village of Grand Traverse; it commences in center of Detroit street, where North street inter- sects it, and runs north thirty-four degrees east to section I, etc.
Road number forty-six was laid out December 19, 1836, by James W. Cronk and R. J. Gilman as road commissioners of the township of Flint, and Daniel B. Blakefield and C. D. W. Gibson as road commissioners of the township of Grand Blanc. It was eighteen miles long, and followed the three township lines between the township of Flint and Grand Blanc as then constituted. This road was divided into two parts of nine miles each ; the township of Flint assumed the maintenance of the eastern part, and Grand Blanc, of the western. The portion of Flint was erected into road districts No. I of Flint, and Grand Blanc's portion into road district No. 3 of Grand Blanc.
Road number forty-seven, laid out by Commissioners Cronk and Gil- man, March 29, 1837, was a road in the vicinity of Farrandville and Clio, from the "Sagina" road.
Road number forty-eight was the road from Clio north to the Saginaw line.
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On April 20, 1837, road commissioners, Cronk and Gilman, divided the township of Flint into seventeen road districts. On March 29, 1837, they altered the road running easterly from Kearsley street in the village of Flint to the southeast corner of section 5 (the Richfield road) and, as defined, it became road number forty-nine. The record of this road is attested by Addison Stewart, town clerk.
Road number fifty was declared such after a jury of twelve had declared the necessity of opening it, on the 29th day of March, 1837. It was in the heart of the present city of Flint.
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Road number fifty-one was an alteration of the river road north of the river, in the vicinity of Flushing, made on May 1, 1837; it was attested by Orrin Safford, town clerk.
Road number fifty-two, opened May 15, 1837, by James W. Cronk, John L. Gage and A. H. Hart, road commissioners, was three miles of the present Atherton road in Burton, between the Center road and Vassar road.
Road number fifty-three, laid out June 24, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, was the street between the Stewart plat and Maplewood plat in the north end of Flint.
Road number fifty-four, laid out July 1, 1837, was a definition of the highway to connect with the easterly end of Fifteenth street as laid out on the map of Flint village.
Road number fifty-five was the alteration of a pre-existing road in ยท the southern part of Burton, but the road as so altered appears to have been discontinued.
Road number fifty-six was laid out on July 1, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, from the present city of Flint to the southwest corner of section 35, township of Flint; part of it is now the Torrey road.
Road number fifty-seven, laid out July 1, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is the two miles of the VanSlyke road in the township of Flint, between the Atherton road and Maple avenue.
Road number fifty-eight, laid out September 5, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, was a highway across section 34, township of Clayton; but it appears to have been discontinued.
Road number fifty-nine, laid out September 5, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, is now the Miller road from Flint to Otterburn.
Road number sixty, altered and laid out September 5, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, defines the river road down the river on south side and alters the earlier surveys of the same.
Road number sixty-one, laid out June 8, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, was a road on section 25, township of Burton, which seems to have been discontinued.
Road number sixty-two, laid out September 26, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, is the south half mile of the Lewis road north of the city.
Road number sixty-three, laid out August 20, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is a small section of the Potter road from the Clayton- Flushing line to the river road.
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Road number sixty-three, laid out August 20, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is a small section of the Potter road from the Clayton- Flushing line to the river road.
Road number sixty-four, laid out November 7, 1837, is obsolete.
Road number sixty-five, laid out November 18, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, opened a mile of highway, now the Dye road between Beecher and Calkins roads.
Road number sixty-six, laid out November 10, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the Bray road from Frances road to Stanley.
Road number sixty-seven, laid out December 13, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the half mile of the Lewis road running south from the Carpenter road.
Road number sixty-eight, laid out December 22, 1837, by Commis- sioners Cronk and Gage, is now the Atherton road from the Fenton road to the Van Slyke road.
Road number sixty-nine, laid out December 22, 1837, by Commission- ers Cronk and Gage, was designed to change the course of the Mckinley road three miles north of Flushing to curve eastward around the bend of the river.
Road number seventy, laid out December 22, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the mile of the Need road between Frances and Mt. Morris roads.
Road number seventy-one, laid out January 17, 1838, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, defines a portion of the river road to Flushing through section 5 and adjoining sections, town of Flint.
Road number seventy-two, laid out January 24, 1838, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, and road number seventy-three, laid out at the same time, described roads entering the site of our city; but they were evidently not of permanent use. The later highways of the city and the building of the roads outside on section lines seem to have supplanted these mean- dering roads.
Road number seventy-four, laid out January 24, 1838, by Commis- sioners Cronk and Gage, is now the Linden road from the Potter road south to the river road.
Road number seventy-five, laid out March 26, 1838, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, appeared to have been straightened to conform to the section line and is now part of the Atherton road, immediately east of the Grand Blanc road.
Road number seventy-six, laid out March 26, 1838, by John L. Gage
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and A. H. Hart, commissioners, is now the Belsay road from East Court road south three miles to the Bristol road, in Burton.
Road number seventy-seven, laid out at same time as number seventy- six, across section 13, Burton, is supplanted by the Northern state road.
Road number seventy-eight, laid out at same time as number seventy- six, is now the Davison road to Davison township, which then was the county line.
Road number seventy-nine, laid out March 27, 1838, by Commissioners James W. Cronk, A. H. Hart and John L. Gage, now the Genesee road, north from Kearsley road in Burton to the corner of sections 34 and 35 in Genesee.
Road number eighty, laid out March 28, 1838, by Commissioners Gage and Cronk, includes the Clark road in Genessee, from Vassar road west.
The town of Flint having been cut down in its territory by the forma- tion of the town of Vienna by Act 31, of Laws of 1837, comprising town- ship 9, of ranges 5, 6 and 7 (now Montrose, Vienna and Thetford), a re-districting of the town was made by Commissioners of Highway James W. Cronk and John L. Gage, March 27, 1838, dividing the town into eight road districts.
Atlas, including the present Davison township, had also been formed into a township of Lapeer county, and by joint action of T. R. Cummings, Ira D. Wright and Parus Atherton, commissioners elected in the spring of 1838 for the township of Flint, and Charles Vantine and Asa Farrar, com- missioners for the new township of Atlas, a new road, numbered eighty-one, was laid out along the then county line, now forming three miles of the Vassar road from Maple Avenue road north. This new road was to be maintained, as to the south half, by the township of Flint, and as to the north half, by Atlas.
On June 18, 1836, Ira D. Wright and Parus Atherton, commissioners, laid out road number eighty-two, which is now that mile of the Genesee road from Bristol road to Maple avenue road in Burton; and on the same day they laid out road number eighty-three, being the two miles of the Belsay road between the Atherton road and Maple avenue road, in Burton town- ship.
T. R. Cummings and Ira D. Wright, commissioners, on March 28, 1839, laid out road number eighty-four, running across section 13 of Bur- ton, now part of the Lapeer road. This road was surveyed by C. G. Curtis, surveyor.
On same day these commissioners laid out road number eighty-five,
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to commence in "the old road on the north side of Flint river where William Blackington's west line crosses it," running thence by courses to connect with Third street, in the village of Grand Traverse.
The same day the commissioners redistricted the town of Flint, divid- ing it into fifteen road districts.
At the spring election of 1839 Ira D. Wright, Ovid Hemphill and Willard Eddy were elected commissioners of highways of Flint, and on April 10, 1839, Wright and Hemphill, commissioners, laid out road number eighty-six, which commenced at the quarter stake in the east side of section 29, Burton, and run west half a mile to the center of the section. This appears to have been the first act of Commissioner Hemphill and the road is appropriately called the Hemphill road.
Road number eighty-seven, laid out July 15, 1809, by Commissioners Eddy and Wright, was an extension of Twelfth street, village of Flint, and was attested in 1844.
On November 1, 1839, Commissioners Wright and Eddy laid out, as road number eighty-eight, a mile of road across the middle of section 36, Burton, from east to west. Only the west end of this is at present a highway.
On December 12, 1839, the same commissioners laid out what is now the Atherton road, from the Fenton road east to the Grand Blanc road, as road number eighty-nine.
Road number ninety, laid out December 30, 1839, by the joint action of Ira D. Wright and Willard Eddy as highway commissioners of the town- ship of Flint, and William Blades and John P. Fritz, commissioners of the township of Grand Blanc, commenced at the southeast corner of the town- ship of Flint, on the county line between Genesee and Lapeer counties, and ran west on the township line between Flint and Grand Blanc four miles and sixty-one chains to Saginaw turnpike. This is now part of the Maple Avenue road.
Road number ninety-one, laid out March 13, 1840, by Commissioners Wright and Eddy, is now the Davison ( formerly the Lyon) road from the curve in section I, Burton, west to the "reservation."
Road number ninety-two, laid out March 13, 1840, by Commissioners Wright and Eddy, is Fifth avenue from Detroit street to the west line of Smith's reservation.
On April 6, 1840, the commissioners again divided the town of Flint into sixteen road districts.
John L. Gage, Asa Torrey and Henry Schram were elected commis- sioners of highways for Flint at the spring election, 1840.
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Gage and Torrey, July 4, 1840, laid out more accurately the portion. of the Torrey road in section 26, township of Flint, as road number ninety- three.
On January 1, 1841, the three commissioners, Gage, Torrey and Schram, opened as a highway the mile of the present Belsay road between the Bristol and Atherton roads in Burton. This road was not designated by number.
In March, 1841, the commissioners again re-districted the town of Flint into seventeen road districts.
At the election of 1841 William Blackington, Benjamin Boomer and Daniel Andrews, were elected highway commissioners and E. O. Leach, town clerk.
On July 12, 1841, Commissioners Blackington and Andrews laid out road number ninety-four, in section 25, Burton. This does not appear to be a highway now.
On June 14, 1841, the same commissioners laid out road number ninety-five, which is now part of the Vassar road.
Road number ninety-six, laid out March 31, 1842, by Commissioners D. Andrews and William Blackington, was a road within the present city of Flint and had its terminus at "railroad"; it is now superseded by city streets.
Road number ninety-seven, laid out March 29, 1842, by Commissioners Andrews and Blackington, began at the end of River road on the town line between Flint and Flushing running southeasterly to the road across Black- ington's land.
Road number ninety-eight, laid out March 29, 1842, by Commissioners Andrews and Blackington, is the present Western road in Burton from the Maple avenue road north to the Atherton road.
Road number ninety-nine, laid out March 12, 1842, by D. Andrews and Benjamin Boomer, commissioners of highways, was a meandering road run- ning up the river from E. S. Walker's land to the village of Flint, to con- nect with road running northerly from Hazleton's Mills.
Road number one hundred, laid out March 29, 1842, ran north from the village of Grand Traverse; it began at the southeast corner of block 36, Grand Traverse (corner of Third avenue and Henderson street), and ran northeasterly by courses to the Genesee line. A part of this is now St. Johns street.
On April 23, 1842, William H. Lyon, Ada Torrey and Emery Church, newly elected highway commissioners of the township of Flint, laid out road number one hundred and one, now the east half-mile of the Hemphill road, Burton.
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Road number one hundred two was laid out, June 4, 1842, by Com- missioners Lyon and Church, from Court street south along the railroad.
Road number one hundred three, laid out September 17, 1842, by Com- missioners Lyon and Torrey, is the mile of the center road between the Atherton road and Lapeer road, Burton.
On June 6, 1842, William H. Lyon, Emery Church and Asa Torrey, Commissioners of highway of the township of Flint, and S. M. Smith, George Crocker and Andrew Hyslop, commissioners of highways of the township of Flushing, laid out road number one hundred four, running from the southeast corner of section 33, township 7 north, range 6 east, north to the Crocker (now Miller) road.
It is to be noted that the Legislature had set the west half of the present township of Flint into the township of Flushing, and by survey made January 21, 1843, Isaiah Merriman, county surveyor, defined the line by distances and courses.
Road number one hundred six was laid out by Commissioners Lyon, Torrey and Church, January 28, 1843. It is now. that part of the Mill road in Burton, between Western road and Genesee road.
The changes made in the boundary of the township of Flint neces- sitated the re-districting of the same, which was done April 23, 1843, by Commissioners Torrey and Church, dividing the township into twenty road districts.
Road number one hundred seven, laid out April 23, 1843, by the new commissioners of highway, C. B. Petrie, John Hiller and Horace Bristol, is now a small portion of Center road from Mill road north, in Burton.
Road number one hundred eight, laid out at the same time by the same commissioners, connected the "river road" with the "division road," now in city of Flint.
Under head of road number one hundred nine, on May 10, 1843, the commissioners above named discontinued road number sixty-one, in sec- tion 25, Burton.
Road number one hundred ten was located the same day by the com- missioners along the south line of section 25, to take the place of the dis- continued road.
On June 3, 1843, Commissioners Petrie and Bristol, of Flint, acting with Highway Commissioners Richard Johnson and Hanly Miles, of Genesee, aitered a road between their township, as road number one hundred eleven. As this road commences at the Saginaw turnpike, at a certain distance from
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a white oak tree, it is rather uncertain to locate. It was somewhere in the north end of Flint.
Road number one hundred thirteen was laid out by order of the court, Associate Judge Jeremiah R. Smith and Probate Judge Samuel Rice, and ran from quarter stake in south line of section 27, Burton, north to the former boundary of "town of Kearsley" three miles. Of this, only the mile between the alteration road and Mill road, and the part between Lapeer road and Court road, appears to be opened at this date.
Under head of road number one hundred fourteen, is discontinuance order by the court in confirmation of the determination of the commis- sioners, under road one hundred nine.
Under heading, road number one hundred fifteen, we have discontinu- ance of a road from the intersection of Kearsley street with Saginaw turn- pike, dated March 6, 1844. It appears that this road was discontinued on verdict of a jury composed of Adonijah Atherton, Perus Atherton, Joseph Chambers, John F. Schram, James Ingalls, Tunice Cole, Henry Schram, Ira Chase, H. Clark, P. A. Skinner, Truman Echram and William Chambers. The record is attested by Henry C. Walker, town clerk. John Hiller, Willard Eddy and Ira D. Wright were commissioners of highways of Flint in 1844. Pratt R. Skinner, deputy surveyor, did the survey work.
In 1845, Ira D. Wright, Charles W. Grant and Daniel McKercher became highway commissioners of Flint and George R. Sprague, town clerk.
In 1846, the highway commissioners of Flint were Gilbert Conklin, James Carter and T. J. Gates. These commissioners caused to be recorded certain surveys of roads. Of these, road number one hundred eighteen, laid out November 5, 1833, by J. Dayton and Edward Perry with John Todd, the first commissioners of highways of Grand Blanc, and the first in the present county of Genesee, surveyed by H. Park, surveyor. The record is as follows :
"Minutes of a road near Steevens' Grist Mill. Commencing at an Elm tree four- teen inches in diameter, standing on the line of the U. S. Road south thirty-eight degrees west, twenty-four chains and ninety-five links from the N. E. corner of section nineteen township seven north of range seven east, thence south forty-five degrees west eighty-six chains and twenty-eight links to a post standing on the west side of said section. Thence on said line south one degree and thirty minutes east, four chains and sixty-eight links to the southwest corner of said section. Variation 2:30" east Nov. 5th, 1833. H. Park, Surveyor.
J. Dayton ) Coms. of
Edward Perry ) Highways.
Recorded at Flint the 5th day of May, A. D. 1846.
Attest Geo. R. Sprague town clerk."
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The grist-mill referred to was on Thread lake and, at the time the road was laid out, in the township of Grand Blanc.
Road number one hundred nineteen was also laid out by Jonathan Dayton and Edward Perry, commissioners of highways of Grand Blanc township, August 29, 1833, also surveyed by H. Park, surveyor, com- mencing at a post on west side of lot I, and running by courses and with reference to certain posts and trees now gone. This road was recorded in Flint township May 5, 1846, attested by George R. Sprague, town clerk.
Road number one hundred twenty, a road from Steevens grist-mill. was also laid out by J. Dayton and E. Perry, commissioners of Grand Blanc, February 28, 1834, and it opened what is now four miles of the Fenton road south of Flint. This was recorded in Flint township, May 5, 1846. It was surveyed by Paul G. Davidson, surveyor.
Road number one hundred twenty-one, laid out February 24, 1834, by John Todd and Edward Perry, commissioners, was "a road north of Flint river," and began in the middle of the United States road at southwest corner of section 30, of Genesee, and ran east to river, being the present Pierson road to river. This road was surveyed by James McCormick, sur- veyor, and was recorded in Flint township records, May 5, 1846.
The activities of the commissioners of highways of Flint in 1846 were mostly in the line of correcting the surveys of existing roads, and espe- cially in making their roads conform to the road laid through the county by the state officials as the Northern State road.
On February 16, 1847, they laid out, on the survey of Julian Bishop, county surveyor, the road now the Dye road north of the Calkins road in Flint township. And on March 2, 1847, they laid out the present Atherton road from the United States road east about two hundred rods.
The commissioners of highways for Flint, elected in 1847, were Charles W. Grant, George Crocker and Jacob Eldridge, and A. Bump was clerk. In 1848 the commissioners were Elias J. Bump, George Crocker and Charles W. Grant. On December 16, 1848, they recorded the survey of the State Road Commissioners J. P. Bloss, P. Miller and S. P. Stedman, of the State road from Flint to the town of Clayton. They also laid out certain roads within the present city of Flint.
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