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Henry N. and E. K. Wilcox, from the northwestern part of Vermont, settled in Adams in the spring of 1836, and both are yet residing in the township.
Abijah Smith came to Adams from Saratoga Co., N. Y., in the spring of 1836, and settled on the east half of the northeast quarter of section 3, where William Morehouse now lives. He moved his family to the township in the fall of the same year. He is at present residing a short distance west of the village of North Adams.
Joseph Woolston, from Monroe Co., N. Y., came with his wife to Michigan, in September, 1838, and settled in the township of Wheatland, on the farm of which Emery Ferguson now owns a part. There he cleared eighty acres, and about fourteen years after his settlement sold his prop- erty and removed to his present location, on the northeast quarter of section 1, in Adams, upon which he has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Woolston are the parents of nine children.
Salmon Sharp, the first settler, was the owner of a large rope, and with that and his team rendered efficient service at the raising of the various log houses and barns built in the neighborhood ; in fact, his aid was deemed almost in- dispensable, for the walls of a dwelling or other building
could be rolled up with the help of the team and rope in a very short space of time.
Rev. Milton Foote and family came from Villa Nova, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., to Adrian, Mich., in the fall of 1830, and located at the latter place. In September, 1835, his sons, John and James M. Foote, came to Adams town- ship (then Moscow), located land, built a shanty upon it, and lived in it that winter. Their father removed to the place in the spring of 1836. The portion of the farm which was taken by the latter is now owned by John Cutler and Eli Collins (lying east of North Adams village), and the part owned by John M. Foote-eighty acres-is now the property of Joseph Wright. John M. Foote was mar- ried and his brother single when they came to the town- ship. Their cousin, Frederick E. Fairchild, who came with them, yet owns land in Adams, but his present resi- dence is in Rollin, Lenawee Co.
When the Footes moved in they came as far as Moscow, on the Chicago road, and thence via the Sharp place to their own land. Sharp had his cabin built at the time, and William Cutler had settled at what is now North Adams, about June of the same year. The Footes cut their own road through from the openings on the north. While on their trip through from New York to Michigan, in 1830, the families were transported in a wagon drawn by a team of horses, their household goods having been sent by water. They brought three cows with them, which the sons drove in turn, having to walk when thus engaged. Milton Foote was a Methodist Episcopal minister, and at his house in Adams preached the first sermon in the township,-and it is said in the county also .*
Mr. Foote's son, James Foote, now living a mile south of North Adams, for some years occupied land which he " took up" on the Adrian road. His wife was a daughter of David Bagley, and died in 1873. Their son, James Foote, whose birth occurred in October, 1838, was one of the first white male children born in the township. George Dibble, living on the west line of Adams, is, perhaps, a little older than Mr. Foote's son.
The first marriage in the township was probably that of Wallace Jackson and Lucy Wilcox, which occurred some time in 1837. James Foote and Harriet M. Bagley were married on the 16th day of November of the same year, and theirs was the second marriage in town. Griffin Fuller and Lois Fairchild were married soon after, and Norman S. Sharp and Juliet Twogood were married in November, 1839.
Probably the first death in town was that of a child of Nelson Dawley, who, in the fall of 1836, fell into a barrel of water (the barrel was set in the ground to serve as a cistern) and was drowned. The child was the first person buried in the cemetery in the eastern part of the township.
The first adult person who died was possibly Mrs. Griffin Fuller, who died in childbirth within a year after her mar- riage.
The first white child born in the township was Hannah, a daughter of Stephen Burchell, who lived just west of the
# This cannot be, as there was preaching at Jonesville before that time.
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present village site. She is now Mrs. Charles E. Fullerton, residing half a mile west of the village.
John Cutler, son of William Cutler, was among the first white male children born in the township, his birth occurring in 1840.
David Bagley, from the town of Mentz, Cayuga Co., N. Y., removed with his wife and eight children (the oldest son remaining in New York) to Michigan in June, 1836, and settled in Adams, on the farm now partly owned by Saxton S. Bagley. The latter has removed the old log dwelling of his father from its former location to his share of the farm, and still occupies it. This building was raised in June and July, 1836, and stands south of its original site. Another son, Joseph L. Bagley, lives near the centre of the township.
When the Bagleys moved into town, Rev. Milton Foote was living a short distance east of Cutler's Corners, where he had settled as described. Rev. Roswell Parker, also a Methodist minister, had purchased land in the township but had not yet moved upon it, and settled in the summer of the same year (1836).
Joseph B. Dawley lived a mile south and one and a quarter miles east from North Adams in 1836, and probably had settled in 1835. William Fowler occupied a place at the west line of the township, on what is now the Hillsdale road.
Seth Kempton, who was the first township clerk of Adams, was by profession a Thompsonian physician, and married a daughter of Judge Lyman Blackmar, of Moscow. He was the first physician who settled in Adams township, and was a very capable man.
Norman S. Sharp relates the following incident as illus- trative of the straits to which the good housewives of early days were sometimes reduced : He had gone to Tecumseh on one occasion to procure grists for four families. He was gone so much longer than usual that the families used up what little flour they had left, and then took some bran, sifted the " middlings" out of it and used that, and still the flour came not. Towards evening of one day three preachers came to Mrs. Sharp's,-Elders Parker, Bene- dict, and Batchelor,-and were given supper and lodging. Mrs. Sharp (N. S. Sharp's mother) told them she had given them the last food she had in the house, and unless her son came that night they would have to go without breakfast in the morning. The son arrived with his grist within two miles of home that evening, unhitched the oxen and turned them out, walked home and went to bed, and early in the morning walked back, hitched up again, and drew the load home in time to have some of it to prepare for breakfast. The dispensers of the Word consequently did not suffer from hunger.
LIST OF TOWNSHIP OFFICERS, ETC.
According to direction of act creating the township of Adams the first town-meeting was held April 4, 1836, at the southeast corner of section 16, centre of the township. A large log answered the purposes of table, desks, and seats. Salmon Sharp was moderator of the meeting and Nicholas Worthington clerk. The following were the offi- cers chosen, viz. : Supervisor, Salmon Sharp ; Town Clerk,
Seth Kempton, Jr .; Assessors, Benjamin Moore, William Cutler, William W. Jackson ; Commissioners of Schools, William W. Jackson, Nicholas Worthington, Easton Wil- ber ;* Commissioners of Highways, John M. Foote, Joseph W. Atard, Stephen Birdsall ; Directors of the Poor, Joseph B. Dawley, Julius O. Swift; Collector, Easton Wilber ; Constables, Easton Wilber, William Jackson ; Magistrates, William Cutler, Nicholas Worthington, Horatio Hadley, Salmon Sharp ; School Inspectors, Easton Wilber, William Jackson, Nicholas Worthington, Seth Kempton, Jr., A. Z. Hayward.
At this election it was " Voted, That the town of Adams be divided into five road districts, the first containing the northeast quarter of township 6 south, of range 3 west, including the south dividing line to section 16; the second the northwest quarter, including the south dividing line to the east corner of 16; the third the southwest quarter ; the fourth the southeast quarter; and the fifth all that part of Adams south of township 6."
Pathmasters chosen .-- John M. Foote, E. M. Curtis, Julius O. Swift, Joseph W. Atard, A. Z. Hayward, these for districts one to five respectively. The last-named per- son refused to serve, and Horatio Hadley was appointed in his place. It was voted that the pathmasters serve as fence-viewers, and the meeting adjourned to the first Mon- day in April, 1837, at the house of - Arnold.
At a special election, Sept. 12, 1836, to choose a delegate to State convention, which was to assemble at Ann Arbor the same month, Zachariah Van Duzar received fourteen votes and Heman Pratt two.
In 1837 it was " Voted, That the town pay a bounty of $5 on every woolf over six months of age, and $2.50 on all under that age, caught and killed in the town by any inhabitant of the same (and none other), and presented to the town board with satisfactory proof that they were taken within the limits of the same.
" Voted, The supervisor be authorized to raise $50 for the purpose of paying a bounty on woolves."
In 1839 it was " Voted, That the town take a deed of Jabez S. Northrop of a piece of ground as a burying-ground selected by D. Bagley, S. Kempton, and Milton Foote." This burying-ground was a part of the present one north of the village of North Adams.
The following is a list of the principal officers of the township from 1837 to 1877, inclusive :
SUPERVISORS.
1837-40. Salmon Sharp.
1841. David Bagley.
1856. William Cutler.
1842. Ethel Judd. 1857. Nelson Nethaway.
1843-44. Peter Gates.
1858. Andrew Wade.
1845. David Bagley.
1859. Nicholas G. Vreeland.
1846. Nelson Nethaway.
1847. Norman S. Sharp.
1860-61. James H. Fowler. 1862-63. Nelson Nethaway. 1864-68. Ethel Judd.
1848. Easton Wilbur.
1849. Andrew Wade. 1869. John Phillips.
1850. Asa G. Edwards.
1870-74. James Foote.
1851. Nelson Nethaway.
1875. Albert Kenyon.
1852. John M. Foote.
1876. Saxton S. Bagley.
1853. Asa G. Edwards.
1877. George Kinney.
1854. Peter Gates.
1855. Nelson Nethaway.
* Spelled also Wilbur.
RESIDENCE OF LEVI VANAKEN, ADAMS. HILLSDALE CO., MICH.
RESIDENCE .OF GEO. & WILLIAM GRAY, ADAMS, HILLSDALE CO., MICH.
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TOWN CLERKS.
1837-39. Seth Kempton, Jr. 1840. Nicholas Worthington.
1841-43. William D. Moore.
1857-61. Saxton S. Bagley.
1862-64. Henry H. Wade.
1844-45. Nelson Nethaway.
1846. Norman S. Sharp. 1847. Nelson Nethaway. 1848. Nicholas Worthington.
1849. David M. Bagley.
1850. Warner Spooner.
1851. David C. Fuller.
1852. James H. Fowler.
1853. Nicholas G. Vreeland.
1854. Gilbert Travis. 1855-56. Allen Kenney.
1837. John M. Foote. J. O. Swift.
1850. Alonzo S. Carter.
Joseph B. Dawley.
1851. John M. Foote.
1838. John M. Foote.
Henry Burgess.
Julius O. Swift.
1853. Gilbert Travis. 1854. Henry Huff. George Gregory.
1839. Henry Burgess. Ethel Judd. Delonzo Turner.
1855. Cyrus H. Jackson.
1856. Charles D. Wyman.
1840. Julius O. Swift.
Delonzo Turner.
Samuel Stevens.
1841. David B. Kempton.
Robert Hill. Peter Gates.
1862. Charles D. Wyman.
1842. Peter Gates. 1863. Davis Barker.
Samuel Niblack.
1864. Eli B. Rogers.
1840. William Cutler.
1862. Furman Huff.
1841. Easton Wilbur.
1842. William W. Jackson. Peter Gates.
1864. Orson Herrington. Wilson W. Curtice.
1865. W. W. Curtice.
1866. Furman Huff.
Norman S. Sharp.
Wm. C. Swift.
1869. John H. Bearss.
1846. William B. Foote.
1847. Asa G. Edwards.
Robert Hill.
1848. Silas Sears.
1849. Ira Hill.
1869. Lucius E. Russ.
1870. Furman Huff.
1850. Nicholas G. Vreeland.
1871. Nelson Nethaway.
1872. James Barker.
Stephen N. Betts.
1873. L. E. Russ.
1874. Furman Huff.
1875. Robert Hill.
1856. D. B. Kempton.
1876. S. N. Betts.
Robert Hill.
James Barker.
1857. Allen Kenney.
1858. Martin H. Langdon.
ASSESSORS.
1837. William W. Jackson.
David Bagley.
1843. Abijah Smith.
Henry Fowler.
Horace P. Hitchcock.
1838. W. W. Jackson. William Cutler.
1844. Asa G. Edwards. Abijah Smith.
Peter Gates.
1845. Horace P. Hitchcock. Gershom Noyes.
1839. Milton Foote.
Easton Wilbur.
David B. Kempton.
1840. Easton Wilbur.
William W. Jackson.
Vining Barker.
1848. Same as previous year.
1841. Salmon Sharp.
1849. William Kirby. David C. Myers.
Easton Wilbur. Solomon A. Clark.
1850. William Tater.
1842. Milton Foote.
Henry Lyons.
COLLECTORS.
1837. James Foote.
1840. Reuben J. Fuller.
1841. Reuben J. Fuller.
TREASURERS.
1853. A. B. Noyes. 1854. Wm. C. Walmsley. 1855. Saxton S. Bagley. 1856. Horace P. Hitchcock. 1857-58. Heman Swift. 1859-66. James Foote. 1867-69. Saxton S. Bagley.
1870-72. Charles D. Wyman. 1873-75. Charles J. Hickox. 1876-77. Willard J. Wyman.
COMMISSIONERS OF HIGHWAYS.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1837. Easton Wilbur.
1838. William W. Jackson.
1860. David B. Kempton.
1839. Nicholas Worthington.
1861. David C. Fuller.
Samuel Stephens.
1865. Allen Keney.
1866. Nelson J. Webb. Alonzo Cole.
1867. Lemuel Roberts. D. H. Jackson.
1844. William Cutler.
1845. Easton Wilbur.
C. H. Jackson.
1867. A. F. De Pue.
D. B. Kempton.
Wm. C. Swift.
1871. James F. Burnett.
Andrew Wade.
1872. Elisha Swift.
Elliott W. Church.
1846. Peter Gates. Philip Clark. Amos B. Noyes.
1873. Charles W. Bross.
1874. Thomas J. Nethaway.
1847. Erastus Wilcox.
1875. C. W. Bross.
Amos B. Noyes. John S. Older.
1876. David M. Foote.
1877. Charles W. Bross.
1848. John M. Foote.
The officers for 1878 are as follows: Supervisor, George Kinney ; Town Clerk, Saxton S. Bagley ; Treasurer, W. J. Wyman ; Justice of the Peace, Furman Huff; Commis- sioner of Highways, Abram Williams ; Township Superin- tendent of Schools, George E. Wilson ; School Inspector, Thomas J. Nethaway ; Drain Commissioner, Richard S. Hicks ; Constables, Ezra L. Tiffany, James Crisp, C. Leslie Benson, Adelbert C. Gregory.
Reuben J. Fuller, whose name appears frequently in the foregoing list, came from Sullivan, Madison Co., N. Y., with his family, and settled on section 10 in Adams on the 2d of February, 1837. His location is immediately east of the village of North Adams. He purchased the south 40 of his 80 in 1835, and has resided upon his place since his settlement in 1837.
Ethel Judd, whose name also appears conspicuously, is a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y., and was later a resident of Chautauqua County, from which he came to Adams with his family in 1837, arriving July 7, and settled on the west half of the northeast quarter of section 14,-the old farm now owned by his son-in-law, Charles H. Smith. Mr. Judd is at present resident of North Adams. He is by trade a carpenter and joiner, and, besides attending to his farm duties, he has built many of the houses and barns in this township,-among them seven dwellings in North Adams. Before leaving the State of New York he was employed upon the Erie Canal.
SCHOOLS.
The first school-house in the present township of Adams was a log building, which was erected a short distance south
1839-41. David Bagley. 1842. Easton Wilbur. 1843. Wm. C. Swift. 1844. James Foote. 1845. Asa G. Edwards. 1846-47. Wm. C. Swift. 1848. Ira Hill.
1849. Stillman C. Post.
1850. Jared H. Huyck. 1851. Amos B. Noyes. 1852. Wm. C. Swift.
1865. Lewis J. Thompson. 1866. Saxton S. Bagley. 1867-68. John B. Kemp. 1869. David M. Foote. 1870-72. Thomas J. Nethaway.
1873-76. George Kinney.
1877. Saxton S. Bagley.
1857. Daniel McKercher. 1858. Alonzo S. Carter.
1859. Charles D. Wyman.
1860. Daniel McKercher.
1861. Alonzo S. Carter.
1843. Stephen Birdsall. Samuel Niblack. Jehiel Rush.
1844. S. Birdsall.
1868. Alonzo Cole.
1845. N. S. Sharp.
1870. Charles W. Bross.
1851. Robert Hill.
1852. David B. Kempton.
1853. Israel Post.
1854. Nicholas G. Vreeland.
1855. Robert Hill.
1868. James Barker. A. F. De Pue.
Samuel Stephens.
1863. Azariah F. De Pue.
1843. Robert Hill.
1859. Lucius M. French.
1877. Benjamin D. Ackmoody.
1842. H. P. Hitchcock.
1846. A. G. Edwards. Abijah Smith.
1847. Abijah Smith. Peter Gates.
1838. Reuben J. Fuller. 1839. James Foote.
1849. John H. Smith.
1852. Cyrus H. Jackson.
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of North Adams. Oliver Streeter was an early teacher. The first school was taught in this building in the summer of 1839, by Miss Juliet Twogood,* now the wife of Nor- man S. Sharp. She was then but seventeen years of age, and had previously attended at a school which was kept in a log school-house across the line in Moscow, and about a quarter of a mile west of Mr. Sharp's present residence. Mr. Sharp's sister, Melissa, now the wife of Jonathan Benson, of Moscow, taught the first school in the latter building as early as 1837.
Among the children who attended the first school at North Adams were those from the families of the Fullers, Bagleys, Parkers, and others.
The present substantial and elegant two-story brick union school building at North Adams was erected in 1877, at a cost of about $7000. The union district was organized in the fall of 1874, and its present Trustees are Ethel Judd, Moderator ; George Cutler, Director ; Henry Gray, Assessor; William Wilbur, Joseph A. Wright, Leslie Benson. The school has three departments, and an attendance averaging about 150. The teachers for the school year of 1878-79 are F. B. McClellan, Principal ; Miss Ella A. Teed, Inter- mediate ; Miss Mary E. Hosmer, Primary.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NORTH ADAMS.
Revs. Milton Foote and Roswell Parker were the first ministers who settled in what is now Adams township. The latter has been given the credit of preaching the first sermon in the township; but this is an error, as Mr. Foote arrived first, and held meetings at his house before Mr. Parker came. The latter probably preached the first funeral sermon, and also discoursed at Mr. Foote's house, and at meetings held in his barn. The Methodist Church was organized in that barn in 1836 or 1837. One of the first members was Miss Melissa Sharp, now Mrs. Jonathan Ben- son, of Moscow. Messrs. Foote and Parker were efficient in organizing the church. The first circuit preacher was Rev. Mr. Sabin, who lived in Allen; this was as early as 1837. Meetings were for a long time held in the school- house, and afterwards in each of the churches at the vil- lage. The present brick church is the first house of wor- ship owned by the society, and was built in 1870, during the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Brockway. Its cost, including furniture, etc., was about $6000.
The leader of the first Methodist class was Wallace Jack- son. The present pastor is Rev. W. M. Paddock, and the membership in the neighborhood of 200.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NORTH ADAMS.
Rev. Roswell Parker, originally a Methodist, afterwards became a Congregationalist, and organized and became the first pastor of the church of that.denomination at North Adams, about 1848. It is known as the First Congrega- tional Church of Adams. Mr. Parker remained in charge six or eight years, and the pastors since have been Revs. Nichols, Shaw, M. E. Lewis (now in Kansas), J. L. Crane,
- - Stevenson, J. S. Noyes, and the present incumbent, Rev. George E. Wilson. Others preached for short periods. The present membership is about 60. A Sunday-school is sustained, with Levi Reckord as superintendent.
The society built a frame church not long after organ- izing, and afterwards sold it to the school district, the trustees of which fitted it up for a school-house.
The Wesleyan Methodists had organized and built a church about 1840-42, but they finally disbanded, and donated their church to the Congregationalists, which so- ciety most of them united with, the balance going to the Methodist Episcopal Church. The building is a frame structure, standing in the eastern part of the village.
BAPTIST CHURCH, NORTH ADAMS.
This is also quite an old organization, and occupies a frame church which stands near that owned by the Con- gregational Society. The membership Dec. 17, 1878, was 62. The present pastor is Rev. H. P. Eldridge, who also has a charge at Church's Corners, in Wheatland. A flourishing Sabbath-school is kept up, with Daniel Barber as superintendent.
Rev. Roswell Parker was from Plainfield, Windham Co., Conn., and settled in Adams, July 5, 1836. His daughter was the second white child born in the township. Two of his sons are now ministers in Kansas, where their father died at a recent date.
James Holcomb, from England, settled in this town in 1841. His wife, Mrs. Sarah A. Holcomb, settled with her parents quite early in Lenawee County, and in 1837 re- moved with them to this county. On one occasion, when she had been gathering black walnuts, she was followed home by two wolves, and thoroughly frightened by her ad- venture. Baw Beese, the noted chief, often came to her father's house, with his wife and children, for food, and always conducted himself with great dignity and decorum.
William B. Eldred, from Otsego Co., N. Y., emigrated to Michigan in 1836, and located at Adrian, Lenawee Co. In February, 1844, he removed to a farm in Adams.
Easton Wilbur, whose name appears conspicuously in the early records of the township, came also from Otsego Co., N. Y., and settled here in January, 1836.
Lemuel Roberts, of Seneca Co., N. Y., removed to this township in 1841, settling upon a farm therein, a half-mile west of North Adams, on the 1st of November of that year. His son Lemuel, who came with him, and was at the time only twenty years old, now lives on section 7.
Nelson Nethaway came in November, 1842, from the State of New York, and located in Adams in January, 1843.
James Whittaker, also a farmer, came from Lancashire, England, and settled in Adams, Oct. 8, 1840.
Simeon Lyon came from Dedham, Mass., and located in this town in 1843.
Julius O. Swift, from Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y., settled in this township in November, 1835. John C. Swift, who came at the same time, is still a resident of the town.
Robert Hill, from the Lake Champlain region, came to Adams and settled March 2, 1839; and Albert G. Wells, from Chautauqua Co., N. Y., removed here and took up his abode in the wilderness in February, 1838.
* Other authority says Emily Ferguson taught the first school in the township in 1837.
GEORGE STEVENS.
MRS. GEORGE STEVENS
PHOTOS, BY CARSON & CRAHAM.
RESIDENCE OF GEORGE STEVENS, ADAMS , MICHIGAN .
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Vining Barker, from Herkimer Co., N. Y., emigrated to Michigan in 1839, and on the 24th of February, 1839, settled in what is now the township of Adams.
Horace P. Hitchcock left his home in Lowville, Lewis Co., N. Y., in October, 1833, with his wife and one child, and moved to Mayville, Chautauqua Co. From there, in the month of January, 1834, Mr. Hitchcock started on foot for Michigan, leaving his family, and walked through Pennsylvania and Ohio to the land of lakes, hills, and dales, and entered 80 acres of government land on section 25, Pittsford township, Hillsdale Co. He then set out on his return,-afoot as before,-and in due time reached May- ville. He purchased an ox-team, and with his family drove through to their new home in the forest wilds of Michigan, the trip occupying twenty-two days. Upon arriving in Pittsford he had but $22 left, and no house wherein to find shelter. The latter difficulty was finally overcome, and a rude log dwelling appeared in the midst of a small clear- ing. The cooking utensils of the family consisted of a skillet, or " spider," a dish, kettle, and an iron tea-kettle. Some time in the summer of 1835, Mr. H. sold his place in Pittsford for $1000, and moved to his present home, on section 26 in Adams, in February, 1836. Here he pur- chased from second hands ; he owns at present 160 acres. When coming from his place in Pittsford to the one in Adams, he trimmed out the underbrush for a mile and a half, in order to clear a passage-way. In 1837 or 1838 a road was constructed six miles long, east and west, to enable the settlers to reach Hillsdale conveniently. This was through the instrumentality of Mr. Hitchcock also.
Israel Post, residing on the southwest quarter of section 22, settled in 1846; and Samuel Stevens, now deceased, was also one of the pioneers of the township.
Michael Donovan, who had served in the rank of lieu- tenant during the war of 1812, removed from Jordan vil- lage, in the State of New York, to Toledo, Ohio, in 1839, and two years later (1841) settled near North Adams. His death occurred March 29, 1873.
VILLAGE OF NORTH ADAMS.
The first settlers on the site of this village were William Cutler and Stephen Birdsall, who came from Niagara Co., N. Y., about the month of June, 1835. Mr. Cutler located 120 acres of land where North Adams now stands, and Birdsall settled immediately east of him, afterwards moving west of the village. Mr. Cutler was accompanied by his wife and one child, and a second son, John, now living east of North Adams, was born in 1840. Mrs. Cutler died about the winter of 1840-41, and her husband married again in August, 1841. His oldest child, Byron, who came with him to the State, is a resident of Clinton County at this time. Five children were born to Mr. Cutler by his second wife,-two sons and three daughters, -and of these the only one now living in the township is George Cutler, of North Adams.
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