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LAND ENTRIES.
At the close of the year 1833, but 1200 acres of land had been entered in what is now Wheatland, and this was divided among the following persons, viz .: Silas Moore, Richard M. Lewis, Mahlon Brown, Edwin Brown, Lydia Kaniff, Thomas Sewin, Stephen Russell. Up to the 27th of April, 1838, the following entries had been made :
Section 1 .- Silas Moore, Anson Jackson, Hiram Het- field, Jesse Ellsworth, David Steer, O. C. McLouth.
Section 2 .- E. Gay, Jesse Ellsworth, J. H. Converse,
Average number of acres in farms.
Number of acres of wheat sowed in 1874
2,499
188
1,398
Number of acres of taxable land ...
22,662
land owned by individuals and companies.
22,680
14,798.50
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improved land .. land exempt from taxation 18
Value of same, including improvements
$22,250
9.50 Number of acres in school-house sites
4 church and parsonage sites. burying-grounds 4.50
208
" farms in township.
17,427
Number of acres in farms
83.78
66
of potatoes raised in 1873.
butter “
88,037
16
26,142
"
1872
35,415
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Population (692 males, 706 females)
. Persons employed in samne.
Value of products
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NELSON R. ROWLEY.
MRS. NELSON R ROWLEY
RESIDENCE OF NELSON R.ROWLEY, WHEATLAND, MICH .
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Laton Hoxsie, Mary Holmes, W. Holmes, Anson Jack- son.
Section 3 .- R. M. Lewis, Thomas Farmer, Stephen Vail, J. A. Moore, H. Graham, S. R. Giddings, L. Bilby.
Section 4 .- John Jackson, J. H. Jackson, B. Gregory, A. Van Alstine, Willis Kelley, L. Pease, D. Strong, M. Holmes, C. Van Alstine, S. Thompson.
Section 5 .- Burton Lamphere, J. Talmadge, James West- cott, Lyman Pease, Charles Osgood, F. H. Richardson.
Section 6 .- Edward B. Brown, Abraham Veile, F. Van Patten, Charles Osgood, George D. Bradford.
Section 7 .- Myron McGee, Simon Jacobus, Anthony Beekman, H. Walker, A. Ten Eyck, A. West, Isaac P. Christiancy.
Section 8 .- Z. Williams, John Cronkhite, Levi W. Har- rington, L. Pease, Griffin Sweet, J. R. Brisco, A. Allen, L. W. Battelle.
Section 9 .- Jesse Hill, Eli Eastman, E. Trumbull, Jr., Z. Williams, J. Ferguson, W. Kelley, H. Ferguson, L. Pease, A. Allen, D. Alverson.
Section 10 .- A. Eastman, Francis Hill, H. Frost, E. Noyes, C. Carmichael, Jesse Patterson, L. Strong.
Section 11 .- R. M. Lewis, M. Holmes, G. W. Brearly, J. Perrington, O. Latourette, John Bryant, Clarinda Cook, Charles Mitchell.
Section 12 .- M. Brown, Jacob Brown, John Howell, H. H. G. Lossing, Jesse Jackson, E. Wood, E. Cole, R. Colony.
Section 13 .- Ama Brown, J. Perrington, O. Latourette, W. Bigalow, Mary Ann Brown, D. Baker, E. M. Worth- ington, J. R. Willis.
Section 14 .- E. W. Brown, M. Brown, J. Brown, Cla- rinda Cook, Samuel Brown, D. Steer, Calvin Carr, J. R. Grosvenor.
Section 15 .- M. Alvord, J. Alvord, John O'Brien, R. August, Jr., Z. Williams, Samuel Brown, G. Nokes, H. Ferguson.
Section 17 .- Amos Hare, Robert Cox, George Nokes, John Penoyer, L. P. Gillett, Edward Lumley, J. A. Bissell. Section 18 .- James McGee, L. P. Gillett, D. Currier, C. H. Tucker, N. Fratts, I. P. Christiancy.
Section 19 .- A. N. Martin, John Humphrey, Martin Crator, N. Fratts, Harriet Fisk, Philo C. Fuller.
Section 20 .- John Perrington, H. McGee, Isaac Lamb, E. Witherill, Isaiah Straw, H. Carmichael, A. D. Smith, Jared Comstock, Aaron Clement, Isaac French.
Section 21 .- John Perrington, James Halleck, H. Mc- Gee, Zebulon Williams, John Bailey.
Section 22 .- L. Church, Z. Williams, D. Douglass, John Bailey, Joseph Paddelford, B. Carmichael, S. Car- michael, S. S. Douglass, W. H. Boyd, S. Staunton, Seba Murphy.
Section 23 .- J. McKnight, Calvin Carr, J. W. and A. Haynes, Stiles Staunton, J. R. Willis.
Section 24 .- N. P. Colwell, Nathan Whitney, A. Lull, G. T. Burbank, G. Shew, D. Baker, J. R. Willis.
Section 25 .- J. W. Ashley, Lydia Jennif, Thomas Ser- vin, Stephen Russell, N. B. Kidder, Nelson R. Rowley.
Section 26 .- Lyman Pease, A. Gustin, G. Dailey, T. N. Bailey, Almon Goff, J. W. Ashley, A. S. Bailey, George Miller, George Whitney.
Section 27 .- Lorenzo Church, G. Dailey, I. Barr, S. Culver, D. Douglass, Z. Paddelford, E. Gillett, Jr., S. S. Douglass.
Section 28 .- James Halleck, W. A. Codding, J. Arnold, J. Bradish, S. Van Fleet, G. T. Burbank.
Section 29 .- Stephen Hoag, John Bradish, J. Robins, E. Witherill, Isaiah Starr, S. Clement, G. T. Burbank, Aaron Clement.
Section 30 .- J. Robins, V. Conover, E. W. J. and Seth Hastings, P. Kinney, E. L. Way, R. McClelland, J. Humphrey.
Section 31 .- J. L. Edmonds, Jr., J. Robbins, Lucy Durfee, E. W. J. and Seth Hastings, E. L. Way, Calvin Carr.
Section 32 .- W. Culver, J. L. Edmonds, Jr., Stephen S. Gage, J. Robins, L. Crothers, S. Clement, J. L. Ed- monds, Seba Murphy.
Section 33 .- W. Culver, J. C. Burdick, S. L. Gage, H. S. McQuig, E. Gillett, Jr., A. Vreedenburgh, S. Com- stock.
Section 34 .- George Crane, Anson Fowler, John Barr, Jesse Vose, Aaron Clement.
Section 35 .- B. S. Northrop, John Gustin, Stephen Wilcox, G. G. Tabor, Samuel Van Gorden, T. N. Bailey, B. Bump, B. Johnson.
Section 36 .- B. S. Northrop, Thomas Dood, D. Rogers, J. L. Taylor, O. Crittenden, J. L. Johnson, J. W. Ashley, A. S. White, T. Teare.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
The first white settler in what is now the township of Wheatland is supposed to have been Burris Brown, who located early in 1834 on land now owned by Auretas Beecher, on the southeast quarter of section 11. He only lived in the township a year He and Richard M. Lewis entered considerable land in town, the latter owning, beside other tracts, the farm on the southeast quarter of section 3, now the property of George McGee and George Trumble.
Eli Eastinan, formerly from Vermont, and afterwards a resident of Wayne and Chautauqua Cos., N. Y., came from the latter to Michigan late in the year 1834, and on the 8th day of January, 1835, settled in Wheatland, on the farm now occupied by his family. Here he died in Novem- ber, 1878, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Mr. East- man was a prominent citizen of the township from the time of his arrival in it. While yet the forest was comparatively unbroken, and before the families of settlers were numer- ous in the township, Mr. Eastman's house was the resort of those looking for land, and many stayed with him several days or, even weeks while preparing buildings for them- selves, and he may, therefore, be said to have kept the first public-house in town,-although for accommodation only, and not for the financial benefit he might have de- rived from it. The only regular tavern in this township was kept at one time on the north road, by Bartlett Far- mer. It has long been out of existence, and the town cannot boast of such an institution at present. A very re- markable fact is that a license for the sale of liquor has never been granted in Wheatland. One of Eli Eastman's daughters is now the wife of William Timms, residing a
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short distance west of Church's Corners, in the south part of the township.
When Eli Eastman came with his family to this town- ship, in January, 1835, they stayed a short time with Mar- shall Farmer, who lived half a mile north of Wheatland Centre. He and Burris Brown and a Mr. Jackson (the latter in northeast part) were the only settlers then residing in the township.
Henry Cook, whose wife was Mr. Eastman's sister, came with him to this town, and settled a mile east of him. Mrs. Cook died in April, 1836, and left an infant son a few months old, who was the first white child born in the township. It survived but a short time after its mother's death. Mrs. Cook was the first white person who died in the township, and the second was Elihu Gillet,* who was buried on his place, two miles west of Mr. Eastman's. Mrs. Cook was originally buried on the Cook farm, and afterwards removed to the cemetery, a mile east of Wheat- land Centre.
In the month of May, 1835, Charles Carmichael, a na- tive of New Jersey, and, at the time of his removal, a resi- dent of Wayne County, N. Y., came, with his wife and three children, from the latter county to Michigan, and located first five miles from Adrian, Lenawee Co., where he pur- chased a farm and nearly completed a house. An attempt to reach water for a well was found futile after digging 40 feet, and he concluded to seek a home elsewhere. In com- pany with his brother, Bradford Carmichael, he came to Wheatland prospecting, and located the 80-acre tract on which he now lives (east half of northwest quarter, section 10), also a lot each for his brother and their father, Silas Carmichael, the latter then living in Lenawee County.
The last lot was near what is now called Church's Corners, and is at present owned by Samuel Oakes. The elder Carmichael moved upon his place in the latter part of November, 1835, coming as far as he could via the turnpike, and thence transporting his goods through the forest to his future home.
Charles and Bradford Carmichael, when they came to begin their improvements (October, 1835), built a pole shanty on their father's lot, and covered it with dirt and leaves. In this they made their home until they had erected the log house into which their father moved after- wards. Charles Carmichael, after his father had been comfortably settled, proceeded to build a house for himself. He boarded with Eli Eastman while he prepared the logs and put the body of a first-class log house,-the best then in the township. In order to secure help sufficient to raise it, Mr. Carmichael says he walked over two townships in search of the necessary persons. After his house was in order, he went back to Lenawee County for his family, which had remained there, and returned and moved into it early in January, 1836. Upon starting from his former residence in Lenawee County, he procured provisions suffi- cient to last until the following March, placed his family in a sleigh, and started, with his oxen sharp shod. For the first few miles sleighing was poor, and only ten miles were traversed the first day. That night he stayed over-
night with a family who kindly allowed him to furnish his own provisions and horse feed, cut wood and bring water for the use of both families, and sleep on the floor, and for this he was charged fifty cents the next morning! Mr. Carmichael was somewhat anxious thereafter as to the suc- cess he should have during the remainder of his journey, if he should be charged in proportion every night as he had been thus far. The second night he was most hospi- tably entertained by a man named Green (still living), and expected to pay a round price, but was most agreeably sur- prised when the host told him he was welcome to all he had received. Near a log school-house on the route, in Lenawee County, one of his oxen stepped on a board at the brow of the hill, and slid gracefully to the bottom with- out accident! After other adventures, they finally arrived at their destination. For a short time they stopped with Eli Eastman before moving into their own house. The food offered by Mr. Eastman when Carmichael boarded with him was of the kind easiest procured and prepared, and consisted principally of "johnny-cake" (baked in an old-fashioned bake-kettle) and "jerked venison," which was cut up in small pieces, laid in brine a few days, and then hung up on pegs in the house ready for use.
Mr. Carmichael cleared nine acres on his place the first winter he occupied it, and the land subsequently produced 40 bushels of wheat per acre, which sold for 40 to 50 cents a bushel at Adrian. Mr. Carmichael was the second set- tler on the "North Road" in this township, Ebenezer Trumble, the first one, having located three-fourths of a mile west of him, in March previous. He is since deceased. The old farm now belongs to the estate of Ichabod Town.
Late in 1836, Silas Carmichael gave his consent to the marriage of his daughter Nancy to Henry B. Smith, of Logan, Lenawee Co., and a license was duly issued by the town clerk of Wheatland.
In Hogaboam's history of the Bean Creek Valley, it is stated that the first frame barn in the township was raised by Stephen Knapp, and that it stood several years without doors. He also sowed wheat in 1835, buying the seed of Charles Ames. This history also states that the Nokes school-house was built in 1836, but our information is to the contrary. See "Schools."
Harvey McGee settled in the township of Wheatland late in 1835, and Lyman Pease in February, 1836 ; the latter had lived a few years previously west of Adrian, in Lenawee Co. Edson Witherell, who had located his land in 1835, moved upon it in July, 1836, with his family, coming from Adrian via Rollin, and being three days on the journey. Their place was at the end of the road.
The first settler in Wheatland, Edmund B. Brown, or Burrows Brown, as he was familiarly called, sold his prop- erty in this township, and moved to St. Joseph County, where he located on the shore of Sand Lake. While grinding apples for cider in the fall of 1852, he was severely bitten in the arm by a horse. He refused to have the injured member amputated, and died from the effects of the wound.
In 1836, Lyman Pease, Willis Kelly, Hiram Hatfield, and a man named Jackson settled on the same road, the first two west, and the others east of Mr. Carmichael.
* It is possible Mr. Gillet died first.
ZEBULON WILLIAMS.
Among the early settlers of Wheatland there was no one whose influence was more widely felt, or whose energy, perseverance, and industry did more to advance the best in- terests of the township, than Zebulon Williams, Sr., the sub- ject of this sketch. He was born in Haverstraw, Rockland Co., N. Y., Jan. 24, 1795. At an early age he located in the town of Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., where he was married to Miss Eliza Lewis, in 1820, who was born in Maryland, Dec. 25, 1799.
He worked at his trade, that of a carpenter, until about the year 1825, when he purchased a small farm in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y., on which he resided until 1834, when he sold, and with his wife and six children came to Michigan, stopping near Adrian, where they resided about four years. During this time he had been looking for a suitable place to locate. Attracted by the rich soil and general appearance of the township of Wheatland, he determined to make it his home, and in 1836 bought of the government about a section of land, on which he moved in 1838. It was all new, not a stick had been cut, and there was no road to it; but, with his accustomed energy, he at once commenced to clear and improve, and with the aid of his three sons, who inherited their father's energy and in- dustry, the forest disappeared as if by magic, and soon a well- improved and well-appointed farm appeared where but so short a time before the wolves, deer, and other animals had roamed at their own sweet will. On this farm Mr. Williams passed the remainder of his days, living to the ripe age of seventy- seven years.
Mr. Williams was an ardent Republican, and always took an active part in political matters. It is said of him, "that he would work all day on his farm, and then walk about the town half the night urging the voters of his party to come out and vote." At different times he held most of the offices in the township, having been clerk, treasurer, and supervisor. In the fall of 1847 he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature, which position he filled to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. In many respects, Mr. Wil- liams was a remarkable man. As a politician he was of the most ultra kind, it never being a question as to how he stood
or to which party he belonged. He was strong in his likes and dislikes, a warm, true friend, and a bitter enemy. The following incident is related of him by an old neighbor, as indicative of his endurance, energy, and friendship. "One of his neighbors wanted to buy a piece of land which joined his farm, and which was to be sold at auction. Said Mr. Williams, ' Why don't you buy it ?' ' I have not money enough, and the cash must be paid down,' was the reply. No more was said ; but Mr. Williams went home, and late in the after- noon set out on foot for Adrian, a distance of twenty-five miles, and before daylight next morning was at his friend's house with the money needed to buy the land, and before noon of that day the land belonged to his friend." Many like in- stances are related of him, which want of space excludes from this brief sketch. He was never known to miss voting, and only five days before his death was carried to the polls to cast his last vote. He departed this life Nov. 10, 1872, mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
To Mr. and Mrs. Williams were born the following children : Louisa M., born May 12, 1820; Julius, born April 19, 1822 ; Zebulon, born June 13, 1824; John L., born Aug. 22, 1825; Richard W., born Jan. 28, 1830; and Sally M., born Dec. 22, 1831.
John L. Williams was born in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y., and came to Michigan with his father, as above stated, and did his share to clear up and improve the land purchased by his father, about two hundred acres of which he now owns, and on which he has built a beautiful home. Like his father, he is a strong Republican, and takes an active interest in political matters. He was elected town clerk in 1860, which office he held ten years. He is not a member of any church, but takes an active part in advancing church interests, and is now one of the trustees of the Congregational Church of Wheatland.
On the 20th day of May, 1855, he was married to Miss Jane E. Powell, daughter of Jonathan L. and Sophronia (Glover) Powell, who was born in Wayne Co., N. Y., Oct. 31, 1832. Their union has been blessed with two children,-Lewis P., born March 5, 1856, and Maria E., born July 13, 1861; died May 12, 1863.
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Jackson stayed in this town but a short time, finally re- moving to Indiana. .
Silas Carmichael, the father of Charles, died in 1840, at the age of sixty-six, and his widow lived with the son until her death. The other sons, Bradford and Henry, were neither of age when the family came to the township, but each owned a farm here afterwards. Henry is now residing south of Hudson, Lenawee Co., and has accumulated a handsome property. His possessions when he came to this region were an Indian pony, a saddle, and a bridle.
When Charles and Bradford Carmichael built their pole shanty-October, 1835-they were somewhat fearful of sleeping in it, as the wolves howled around them in such chorus that Charles Carmichael says " it seemed as if there were a thousand of them." His brother was much fright- ened, but the elder told him to take the rifle and shoot among them and disperse them, while he lay snugly in his place, pretending not to be alarmed. These animals were of the large, gray variety, known as "timber wolves," and abounded in great numbers throughout the then Western wilds. Bears were also plenty enough, and were extremely unscrupulous about making off with stray pigs, sheep, or calves. An old sow belonging to Charles Carmichael un- fortunately came in the way of a huge black bear one morning, soon after sunrise, and Bruin coolly captured her and carried her off. Mr. Carmichael was milking at the time, and when the porcine victim squealed forth her signal of distress he told his little son to go and see what was the matter, for he was afraid a bear had got after her. This frightened the boy so he dared not go, and the bear was therefore allowed to feast sumptuously on pork which could illy be spared.
Anson Jackson, one of the first settlers in the township, lived on section 1, and Silas Moore, who preceded him a short time, lived a little farther south. Mr. Jackson, whose death has but recently occurred, has a son-Andrew Jack- son-living in Hillsdale.
Abram A. Van Alstine settled in Wheatland, probably in the spring of 1835, near what is now the line between Wheatland and Somerset townships, and the following year (1836) removed to section 21, in the latter.
James Westcott, from Hartland, Niagara Co., N. Y., set- tled on section 5, in Wheatland, with his family, as early as 1835-36. He died in August, 1878. Three of his sons are now living in the county,-Andrew, in Somerset ; Wil- liam, owning the old farm in Wheatland ; and James, also residing in Wheatland.
G. S. Wells, originally from Caledonia Co., Vt., emigrated to Michigan from Orleans Co., N. Y., in the fall of 1837, and located temporarily in the town of Rome, Lenawee Co. He purchased his present place in Wheatland- west half of northwest quarter of section 15-Jan. 1, 1838. In April of the same year he came to the place, did some clearing and put in crops, moving his family in the follow- ing August. While he lived in Rome he worked at his trade (that of a carpenter and joiner), and purchased his farm of Marshall Alvord, who had cleared a couple of acres and built a log house. The latter was burned down before Mr. Wells occupied the place, and he was obliged to begin anew. This has been his home since he first moved here.
Zebulon Williams, from Monroe Co., N. Y. (a native of Rockland County, on the Hudson), moved with his wife and six children to Adrian, Lenawee Co., Mich., in 1834, reach- ing that place July 3. He subsequently purchased 600 acres of land in Wheatland from the government, and 80 acres of school land from Messrs. William Timms and Ira Barnes. The latter had improved 35 acres and the former about 20; Mr. Barnes had a log house upon his place. Mr. Williams built a log house in April, 1836, and when in April, 1838, he moved his family to this town he had some 40 acres improved. The elder Williams died in No- vember, 1872, after a residence of thirty-four and a half years in the township. Five of his children are living,- all in Wheatland. Richard W. occupies the old homestead, and John and Zebulon are near by. The daughters are now Mrs. Charles Fowler and Mrs. C. A. Pease.
Ephraim Nokes was among the early settlers in this town, and was living in Mr. Williams' log house when the latter moved in with his family. Nokes "squatted" in several localities-always on government land-and never owned any himself. The Williams' began building him a shanty on section 16, opposite their log house, the day after they came.
William Patrick, who settled in the fall of 1838, took up 40 acres opposite the present residence of John L. Williams, and built the log house now standing. He finally sold his place to Charles C. Fowler, and is now living in Montcalm Co., Mich.
Ira and Lorenzo Barnes and George and Munson Bar- ron (the former the one from whom Zebulon Williams had previously purchased land) settled about 1841-42. None of them are at this time residents of the county.
Daniel Livermore, from Canandaigua, Ontario Co., N. Y., settled in this township in the fall of 1840, on the south- west quarter of section 16, where he still resides. He brought a family of three children with him. A daughter, born on the old place in April, 1841, is now the wife of Richard W. Williams.
Isaac Lamb was one of the pioneers of the township, coming in 1835, or early in 1836.
Stephen Knapp, of Monroe Co., N. Y., married a sister of Zebulon Williams, and emigrated to Michigan in 1835. He left his family with that of Mr. Williams, south of Adrian, while he came to his place in Wheatland and built a log house thereupon, into which he moved the family the same season. His sons, James and Perry Knapp, are yet living in the township, the latter on the old home- stead. The remaining children were small when their parents located .*
The first wheat in the township was raised by Anson Jackson, whose residence on section 1 has been mentioned.
The first frame barns were built, in the summer of 1838, by Stephen Knapp and Harvey McGee, that owned by the latter having been erected probably a short time before Mr. Knapp's. In 1839 one was built by Zebulon Williams.
Among the early frame houses in the township were those of Lyman Pease and Zebulon Williams ; the latter
# Information by R. W. Williams. In Pioneer Society Records, Perry Knapp states that he settled in November, 1834. He was for eighteen years a mechanic, and has since followed farming.
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was built in 1844, and the former probably the same year. It is not now known that any others had been previously erected in the township.
George Pennoyer, who settled half a mile east of the present location of the Wheatland town-house, was here as early as 1836 or 1837. He was a carpenter by trade, and was the one employed to build Harvey McGee's frame barn. He received for his work 40 acres of land, valued at $50.
The first orchards in the township of Wheatland were set out by Robert Cox, Harvey McGee, and Lyman Pease. Mr. McGee possibly brought some of his trees from New York with him. Zebulon Williams, Sr., also set an orchard early, and from apples raised in it was manufactured the first cider made from fruit produced in this town. The apples were taken to a press three miles south of Adrian. The next year a press was put in operation in the town of Pittsford, by Hunter Smith, and Mr. Williams and Robert Cox both took apples to it and had cider made.
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