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Ladies and gentlemen came from all parts of the country to witness its operation, and sometimes four or five visitors would ride around the field on the wonderful invention. It did its multiform work thoroughly, cutting, thrashing, cleaning, and delivering the grain in bags to the team which followed in the rear.
Isaac Smith has not only converted wild lands into an excellent farm, but has erected costly and substantial build- ings, and made every improvement necessary to constitute it one of the best homesteads in the township of Charles- ton.
In the spring of 1836, Orrin N. Giddings, from Dutchess Co., N. Y., and John L. Cock, from Cayuga Co., N. Y., came in with a stock of dry-goods, groceries, etc., and im- mediately began the erection of a two-story frame store at the place afterwards known as "Cock's Corners." Jesse Turner, who still survives, was the builder. The building was completed early in the fall of the same year, and Mr. Giddings then returned to New York with his wife. He occupied the upper portion of the building as his place of residence, Mr. Cock boarding with him. The business was continued at the Corners until about 1842, when, in conse- quence of the growth of Augusta, and the better facilities there afforded for trade, the store at the Corners was dis- continued. Mr. Cock still resides in Augusta.
Mr. Giddings, now a resident of Kalamazoo village, was the first justice of the peace, in 1838, and became the second supervisor, in 1839.
His recollections of those who preceded him here as settlers, and not already mentioned, include the following list :
William Earl, who built the early tavern afterwards known as the Fields House, Henry Clinton, Lewis Kniffin, Charles Whitcomb, an early builder, Potter and William Eldred, Ezra Mansfield, John P. West, Titus Moss, Hiram Moss, Ezra Rice, Martin Cole, Aaron Watts, and Alpha Tubbs.
James M. Simonds, one of the earliest settlers on Goguac
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Prairie, in Calhoun County,* purchased lands and settled where he at present resides in April, 1836.
Other settlers of the same year were Frederick P. Haw- ver, Warren Spaulding, George Ralph, Miles Palmer, Braddock Bailey, and Edmund Lane.
During the years 1836 and 1837 thirty or forty addi- tional families settled in the township, and, at this late day, it is impossible, where so many names are mentioned, to precisely locate the years of their settlement. The follow- ing list, therefore, comprises the names of many others who were here in the spring of 1838, the year of the township organization, viz. :
Lemuel Long, Worden Wells, Ebenezer G. Flanders, Margaret Dean, David Beach, A. H. Dean, Naoma Harris, William O. Cary, Thomas W. Durkee, Job N. Lampkins, Nathan B. Lampkins, George Davis, Nathan Burnett, Asa Thorndike, Asa Eldred, James Fuller, Pixley Judson, Elias Billington, Dr. Elihu Smith, Andrew J. Eldred, Thomas, Ansel, and Orville Shailer, John D. Smith, Henry Dickey, Isaac Smith, David Smith, Henry Schrambling, William Webber, Charles T. Clark, Joseph Heath, Seth Fletcher, H. P. Fletcher, David Gibbs, John B. Allen, David Allen, William S. Myers, William Jordan, R. Adams, A. V. C. Hallock, Hiram Moore, Martin Nichols, Hale Whiting, Wesley Sherman, Russell Wells, Samuel White, Ambrose S. Eldred, Philander Bishop, Charles Burdick, Fay Aldrich, Moses and Samuel Mcclellan, Samuel Shoemaker, Luke Rugg, John Flint, William Smith, Henry Rogers, Joseph Corey, Peter Fulton, Levi Vedder, Andrew D. Cock, Am- brose Cock, Reuben S. Jones, Henry Hopkins, Henry F. Cock, Edward B. Cock, William E. Cock, Charles W. Cock, George F. Cock, Asa Perkins, Thomas Mead, John White, Isaac Whitman, Ard Campfield, and David Myers.
Hiram Moore, the inventor of " Moore's Harvester," was the possessor of one of the greatest inventive minds this country ever produced. He came to Comstock in 1830, and was there joined by his brothers Lovell and John in 1831. For several years Hiram was not perma- nently settled at any place. He married Mrs. Harriet W. Fogg in 1834, and while he was perfecting his harvester he lived at the Creek, Schoolcraft, and finally upon his farm, situated on sections 35 and 36, in this township.
The harvester first began operations upon Prairie Ronde in 1841, but was not perfected with the cleaning and ele- vating attachment until 1842. It was used at Prairie Ronde four years, and on Climax Prairie three. In its con- struction and management he was ably assisted by A. J. Van Buren, Luther Olds, and Isaac Smith.
The following article, from the pen of his old friend, E. Lakin Brown, as also an editorial comment from the columns of the Kalamazoo Telegraph, are here reproduced :
" Hiram Moore, whose death on the 5th instant, at Brandon, Wis., is noticed in yesterday's Telegraph, was a most remarkable man. His harvester,' which for the eight or ten years preceding 1850 harvested so many of the great wheat-fields of Prairie Ronde, was undoubtedly the earliest, as it was by far the most perfect in the work it performed, of all the brood of reapers and harvesters that inventive skill has brought to the aid of the farmer.
"Many of our old citizens will remember the huge harvester, drawn by sixteen horses, moving majestically around the field of ripe wheat, cutting a swath fourteen feet wide, clean and even, carrying the grain into the cylinder by means of an endless apron, the wheat coming out thrashed and winnowed, and filling the bags as fast as they could be tied and exchanged at the delivery-spout.
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" And all this for years before a reaper of any kind was ever seen or heard of on the prairie. But the simple reaper, every way inferior as an invention, has for various reasons superseded the great har- vester, and its inventor, like so many others, was fated to see inferior men, with one-fourth his ability, take the fame and fortune which his invention only served to indicate to them.
" Moore was a man most genial and social in his habits and feel- ings, fond of society, positive in his opinions, and fond of defending them. His political opinions were the most ultra-Democratic. Gen. Jackson was his ideal statesman, and the Democratic party never, in his opinion, varied a hair from Jackson Democracy.
" During most of the years 1846 and 1847, Moore was a resident of Schoolcraft, engaged in building and perfecting his machines. The writer of this had his most intimate acquaintance and friendship, and although he has been absent from the State more than twenty years, the news of his death thrills a chord that so vibrates but seldom in one's life.
"E. L. B.
"SCHOOLCRAFT, May 12, 1875."
" Hiram Moore, one of the earliest pioneers of this county, and for years one of our most prominent men, died at Brandon, Wis., May 5, 1875, after a lingering illness.
" Hiram Moore was seventy-five years old, and came to Michigan, we believe, in 1830. He was a native of New Hampshire. He came here and made selections of land in 1830 in this county on Climax Prairie, Toland's Prairie, and at the village of Comstock. In com- pany with his brother, Lovell Moore, he erected a mill for sawing lumber, at Comstock, in 1831. Subsequently he commenced the im- provement of a large farm on Climax. Mr. Moore was a man of great energy, and took a very active interest in the development of the new Territory. He was a man of much literary taste and culture, and of marked ability ; a prominent Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, thoroughly versed in all the essential doctrines of the party. He was chosen to the Michigan Legislature, and was also delegate to the State Constitutional Convention. He was largely endowed with inventive genius. He was the inventor of the first harvesting-machine,-the same that was used on Prairie Ronde so successfully for many years,- and spent a large fortune in trying to perfect it. He claimed that the McCormick improvement was an infringement upon his invention, and contested his claim at Washington for some seven or eight years with McCormick. He claimed that MeCormick succeeded by the in- fluence of money. The contest was mainly over a renewal of. the patent.
" Mr. Moore went to Wisconsin some twenty years ago, and entered a large tract of excellent land, and began farming on a large scale. He had 600 acres of wheat, with horses, stock, etc. He was all the time studying and bringing out new inventions,-windmills for pumps, seeding-machines, corn-planters, hay-rakes, and many other useful articles.
" Hon. Lovell Moore, of Grand Rapids, who is his brother, came into the State at the same time. He is still hale and vigorous at the ripe age of nearly eighty."
The first lawsuit occurred in 1838, the parties being Castleman vs. Castleman. Case, assault and battery. Messrs. Cock & Giddings' store- afforded space for the court, and Orrin N. Giddings, Esq., presided behind the counter. Court called case; the parties responded. Court advised a settlement ; the parties discussed the mat- ter, grew belligerent, and a terrible uproar ensued. The court commanded peace, but, there being no constable pres- ent, the turmoil continued, until the court threw off its coat, leaped the counter, and seizing the parties by the collar, administered muscular power sufficiently to bring matters to an adjustment.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in the southeast part
* Mr. Simonds plowed the first furrow in Calhoun County in the autumn of 1830. He also drew the logs for the first house in the county.
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of the town was organized about 1840, and the elder Hart- well's distillery on the Kalamazoo River was established at about the same period.
In 1842 the post-office, or "stage exchange," was re- moved to Orra Bush's residence, and his place was consid- ered township headquarters until the completion of the Michigan Central Railroad to Kalamazoo.
This house, so prominent in all matters connected with the history of Charleston, is worthy of a passing notice. It stood on the west half of the northeast quarter of section 16, fronting the Territorial road, and was the usual place of holding township meetings and elections ; was the news depot, etc.
Mr. Bush purchased the premises of the State in 1841, but previously it had been occupied as a tavern by H. P. Fletcher and Peter Fulton, the former of whom erected a frame house and two log stables in 1836. Soon after Mr. Bush became the occupant of the premises he built a frame barn 35 by 45 feet, and in 1851 erected the first brick house in Charleston.
RESIDENTS, 1844.
The following list, arranged alphabetically, comprises the names of all who were assessed as resident tax-payers in the year 1844, and shows also the sections upon which their lands were situated :
Sec.
Sec.
Aldrich, Joel 24, 25
Eldred, Nelson. 34 Adams, John. 25 Fletcher, Seth. .26, 29
Adams, P 25 Flanders, Joseph. 19
Allen, David. Personal
Aldrich, Fay 18
Aldrich, Widow 18
Flint, John
Giddings, O. N.
16
Alphadelphia Association .. 8, 9, 4 Gunn, Asa 10,15 Blass, Jacob. 25 Hallock, Aug. V. C. 35, 36
Blass, Peter. 25 Harrison, William 36
Bailey, Braddock 32 Bailey, Joel. Personal
Hawver, F. P 21 Beath, David 32
Billington, Elias 32
Bradley, Arman .. 26
Harris, Champlin 8 Burnham, Hiram O 23 Brown, Joseph W. 18
Bacon, Ira P 18 Henry, Hopkins .. 11 Burnett, Nathan 17 Hults, John 12
Beckwith, Berthier 4,16
16
Johnson, James
23
Burdick, Harlow 2 Judson, Pixley
Burdick, Lewis. 2
21 Kniffin, Lewis. 19 Burdick, Charles. 3, 4 Burdick, Alvin. 3, 4
Burdick, Lanckford ... 9, 10, 15, 16
Capron, Elisha, & Son ...... 34, 35 Chichester, J. D 36 Lawson, John S 32 Clark, Charles T. 26 Long, Lemuel 6 Campbell, Hiram. 28 Lewis, Miner. 5
Cary, William C. 29
Moore & Mason 35, 36 Cole, Martin L. 3, 34
Mason, Isaac. Personal Moore, Hiram Personal Myers, William S 36
Mead, James P 29
Mills, Willard. 18 Mack, Isaac B. 18 McClary, James 17
McClary, Samuel. Personal
McClary, William. 17 McClellan, Samuel 5,32
Clark, James. 11, 14 Carroll, Joseph. 35 McClellan, Moses 7,8 Durfee, 25
Merrill, Samuel 5
Merrill, George. 4
Dickey, Henry. 23
Mansfield, Ezra 10, 15 Dean, Josiah A 20
Miller, Orville 1, 2
Mead, Thomas 1 Davis, George .17, 20
Douglass, Richard. Personal
Nichols, George 10 Eldred, Chester W .. 24, 25
Eldred, Potter 34
Perkins, Asa 12 Eldred, Porter 31
Palmer, Miles 21,22
Sec.
Sec.
Potts, Peter 35
Smith, Amos T. 4, 32
Spaulding, Daniel. 31
Sherman, Wesley. 32, 33 Robbins, Loenus 22
Smith, Isaac .. 23, 27 Ralph, George 20
Ralph, Henry. Personal
Rogers, Jabez .. 18
Rogers, David R. 18
8
Williams, Otis B 36
Wells, Worden. 29,32
Whiting, Hale 29,32
Smith, William
4
White, Samuel. Personal Wells, Russell 32, 33
White, John. Personal
Wightman, Isaac. 13
Wightman, John 13
Whitford, Robert. 9,10
Whitford, Joseph. 9,10
Simons, N. P
West, John P 11, 14
Watts, Aaron 10, 15
Spaulding, Warren 29 Woolcott, Jesse 10
During the same year taxes were levied to the amount of $523.46, for the following purposes : county and State, $337.65 ; township, $78.00; highways, $43.92; fox fund, $26.00 ; library, $30.01; schools, $7.88.
ORIGINAL LAND ENTRIES.
The following embraces the names of those who pur- chased, from the general government, lands situated in this township :
SECTION 1.
Thomas Mead, Washtenaw Co., Mich., September, 1835.
David B. Treat, Oneida Co., N. Y., January, 1836.
James M. Simons, Calhoun Co., Mich., April, 1836.
Charles Burdick, Onondaga Co., N. Y., April, 1836.
Ambrose Cock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July, 1836.
Asa Perkins, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
SECTION 2.
Abraham Smock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., September, 1833.
Amos Underwood, Cayuga Co., N. Y., September, 1833.
George Casey, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835.
Titus Moss, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836.
Charles Burdick, Onondaga Co., N. Y., March, 1836.
Alvin Burdick, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836.
Ambrose Cock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July, 1836.
SECTION 3.
Robert Burdick, Otsego Co., N. Y., May, 1833.
Ambrose Cock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1833. Salmon King, Oxford Co., N. C., June, 1834.
SECTION 4.
Robert Burdick, Otsego Co., N. Y., May, 1833.
Stephen Fuller, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1833. Samuel Canute, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1834.
Isaac Morrill, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1834.
Horace H. Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835.
William McClary, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1835.
Powell Howland and Edward K. Howland, Saratoga Co., N. Y., November, 1835.
SECTION 5.
George Hughes, Niagara Co., N. Y., December, 1832.
Asa H. Turner, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834.
Isaac Morrill, Jr., Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1835.
Luke Rugg, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1835.
Samuel H. Mcclellan, Erie Co., N. Y., September, 1835.
Samuel Shoemaker, Niagara Co., N. Y., October, 1835.
Luke Rugg, Niagara Co., N. Y., October, 1835.
P. and E. K. Howland, Saratoga Co., N. Y., November, 1835.
SECTION 6.
John Flint, Erie Co., N. Y., October, 1834.
Lemuel Long, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1835. Edward K. Howland, Saratoga Co., N. Y., November, 1835. Francis Fitts, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Chauncey Merrill, Monroe Co., Mich., July, 1836.
Edward K. Howland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1836. William Glover, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836. Nathaniel Cothran, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
Smith, Sanford 27 Tubbs, Alpha. 28
Thayer, Stephen B 35
Turner, Asa H. 8
Rowley, Alexander 12
Swartout, Bernardus 11
1
Simons, George. 18
Smith, Ziba
19
Shailer, Ansel 21
Smith, John D 23
Schramling, Henry 23
.Personal
Stevens, Robert. 32
Shailer, Thomas. 28
Rogers, Henry.
Simons, James M.
Ferris, H., & Co. 19
Foster, Alonzo. Personal
6
Harris, Naoma .. 32
Heath, Joseph. 26
Hartwell, Benjamin 19
Hill, Adam 20,2 1
Personal Harris, James
Izener, William 17, 20
Lovell, Enos. 31
Lampkins, Albert 29
Lampkins, Job N. 31 Lampkins, Nathan 30
Clinton, Henry. 19,20
Clapp, Edwin M 19,20 Cory, Joseph ... 18 Clapp, E. M. (agent) 17
Campfield, Ard 14
Cock, Ambrose 3, 10,14 Cock, Edward. Personal Cock, Andrew. 1,36
Durkce, Thomas W. 31, 36 Dean, Hamilton 32 Merrill, Isaac .. 4
Munger, John 25
Nichols, Chas. M. (agt.) 2, 11, 15 Eldred, William 35 Odell, Isaac 5 Eldred, Andrew J. 27
Rice, Ezra. 33, 34
Bush, O. & H.
Austin, Hannah .. 8
,
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TOWNSHIP OF CHARLESTON.
SECTION 7.
Jabez Rogers, Niagara Co., N. Y., July, 1832. Rebecca Scovill, Monroe Co., N. Y., August, 1833. Moses McClallan, Jr., Niagara Co., N. Y., September, 1833. Thomas Worden, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Manasseh Bixby, Windham Co., Vt., October, 1835. William Smith, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. Theodore P. Sheldon, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Ambrose Cock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., December, 1836.
SECTION 8.
Ezra Rice, Yates Co., N. Y., July, 1833. Henry Rogers, Niagara Co., N. Y., July, 1833. Moses McClallan, Jr., Niagara Co., N. Y., October, 1833. Stephen Fuller, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1833. Jeremiah Austin, Niagara Co., N. Y., May, 1834. Asa H. Turner, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. James Harris, Kalamazoo Co, Mich., July, 1835.
SECTION 9.
Lanckford Burdick, Otsego Co., N. Y., May, 1833. Joseph Whitford, Otsego Co., N. Y., May, 1833. Stephen Fuller, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. Lydia Cummings, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1835. James Harris, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836.
SECTION 10.
Charles M. Nichols, Wayne Co., Mich., June, 1833. Joseph Whitford, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1833. Robert Burdick, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. Charles M. Nichols, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1834. Ezra Mansfield, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1834. Asa Gunn, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1835. Lanckford Burdick, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1835. Aaron Watts, Calhoun Co., Mich., November, 1835. Gideon Pease, Calhoun Co., Mich., July, 1836.
SECTION 11.
John C. Dixon, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Nathan Thomas, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1835. John P. West, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1835. Titus Moss, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1835. Sard Bennett, Wayne Co., N. Y., June, 1835. George Casey, Cayuga Co., N. Y., August, 1835. John P. West, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., August, 1835. Ira Moss, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Peter Schneider, Macomb Co., Mich., January, 1836. Orlando Miller, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Henry G. Holmes, Washtenaw Co., Mich., May, 1836.
SECTION 12.
Nathan Thomas, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1835. John Burns, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835. John C. Dixon, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835. William A. Tomlinson and William A. Booth, New York City, December, 1835.
David B. Treat, Oneida Co., N. Y., January, 1836. Peter Schneider, Macomb Co., Mich., January, 1836. Samuel Tompkins, Niagara Co., N. Y., December, 1836. Asa Perkins, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836. Gideon Pease, Calhoun Co., Mich., July, 1836.
SECTION 13.
Nathan Thomas, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1835. Ephraim Barney, Steuben Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Isaac Wightman, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., August, 1835. W. A. Tomlinson and W. A. Booth, New York City, April, 1836. John Beach, Orleans Co., N. Y., April, 1836. George Howland, Bristol Co., Mass., July, 1836.
SECTION 14.
John P. West, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., August, 1835. Ira Moss, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Titus Moss, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Asa Camfield, Wayne Co., Mich., March, 1836. David Blakely, Jr., Otsego Co., N. Y., July, 1836. Ambrose Cock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July, 1836.
SECTION 15.
Asa Gunn and Benjamin Grenville, Washtenaw Co., Mich., June, 1831.
Ezra Mansfield, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1834. George Casey, Cayuga Co., N. Y., August, 1835. Lanckford Burdick, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835. Ezra Mansfield, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. Aaron Watts, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. George Howland, Bristol Co., Mass., July, 1836.
SECTION 16.
School section.
SECTION 17.
Horace H. Comstock, Otsego Co., N. Y., June, 1831. William Earl, Niagara Co., N. Y., September, 1831. Benjamin Burnett, Niagara Co., N. Y., June, 1832. Edwin M. Clapp, Niagara Co., N. Y., July, 1832. George Townsend, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1833. Joseph Wiseman, Niagara Co., N. Y., November, 1833. Franklin Howard, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1834.
SECTION 18.
Alonzo Van Duzer, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., September, 1830. Edwin H. Lothrop, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Horace H. Comstock, Otsego Co , N. Y., June, 1831. Jabez Rogers, Niagara Co., N. Y., July, 1832. Robert Hall, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1833. Abraham Aldrich, Allegany Co., N. Y., September, 1833. Eurotas P. Hastings, Wayne Co., Mich., November, 1833.
SECTION 19.
Horace H. Comstock, Otsego Co., N. Y., June, 1831. H. Moore and Caleb Eldred, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Edwin M. Clapp, Niagara Co., N. Y., July, 1832. Lyman Tubbs, Yates Co., N. Y., April, 1833. Joseph Flanders, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1833. Henry Clinton, Niagara Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Joseph Flanders, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835.
SECTION 20.
William Carl, Niagara Co., N. Y., September, 1831. Lanckford Burdick, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. Henry Clinton, Niagara Co., N. Y., June, 1835. George Ralph, Cayuga Co .. N. Y., June, 1835. William Rogers, Tolland Co., Conn., January, 1836. Charles Whitcomb, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836. George Howland, Bristol Co., Mass., July, 1836.
SECTION 21.
Barnes Kennedy, Madison Co., N. Y., June, 1834. Frederick P. Hawver, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Pixley Judson, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Miles Palmer, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July, 1835. Ansel Shailer, Niagara Co., N. Y., April, 1836. Miles P. Lampson, Genesee Co., N. Y., July, 1836.
SECTION 22.
Miles Palmer, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July, 1835. Franklin Clark, Monroe Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Reville Shailer, Niagara Co., N. Y., April, 1836. Daniel Merrill, Hancock Co., Me., July, 1836.
SECTION 23.
David Blakely, Jr., Otsego Co., N. Y., July, 1836. Thomas W. Webber, Niagara Co., N. Y., April, 1836. James Wakelee, Otsego Co., N. Y., July, 1836. Isaac Smith, Otsego County, N. Y., July, 1836. Ambrose Cock, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July, 1836.
SECTION 24.
+ Charles Walker, Otsego Co., N. Y., April, 1836. John Simons, Jr., Calhoun Co., Mich., April, 1836. Thomas Shailer, Niagara Co., N. Y., April, 1836. Gustavus P. Hosmer, Ontario Co., N. Y., July, 1836. Ira Davenport, Steuben Co., N. Y., July, 1836. George Howland, Bristol Co., Mass., July, 1836.
SECTION 25.
John Munger, Clark Co, Ohio, September, 1832. Robert Adams, Calhoun Co., Mich., August, 1835.
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Joseph Harrison, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Aaron Soule, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Robert Adams, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. Charles Walker, Otsego Co., N. Y., April, 1836. Thomas Shailer, Niagara Co., N. Y., April, 1836.
SECTION 26.
Charles Andrews, Onondaga Co., N. Y., September, 1831. William Price, 2d, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1833. Montgomery Schuyler, Seneca Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Charles T. Clark, Monroe Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Morgan and A. O'Brien, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1837.
SECTION 27.
Frederick P. Hawver, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Joseph D. Beers and Samuel Sherwood, New York City, August, 1835.
Ambrose S. Eldred, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. Miles P. Lampson, Genesee Co., N. Y., July, 1836.
SECTION 28.
William Price, 2d, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1833. Alpha Tubbs, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1834. Braddock Bailey, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., August, 1835. William Price, Calhoun Co., Mich., October, 1835. Lewis H. Sanford, Onondaga Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Elias Billington, Yates Co., N. Y., February, 1836. Reville Shailer, Niagara Co., N. Y., April, 1836.
SECTION 29.
Lyman Tubbs, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1834. Luke Keith, Genesee Co., N. Y., May, 1834. Warren Spaulding, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June, 1834. Alpha Tubbs, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1834. Worden Wells, Otsego Co., N. Y., October, 1834. Ira Eldred, Erie Co., N. Y., November, 1834. James White, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1836. George Howland, Bristol Co., Mass., July, 1836.
SECTION 30.
Alvah Earl, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Edwin M. Clapp, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Nathan B. Lamkin, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. George Howland, Bristol Co., Mass., July, 1836. Jesse Earl, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836. Stacy Treadway, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
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Alpha Tubbs, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Henry Hopkins, Steuben Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Ezariah Pierce, Cortland Co., N. Y., October, 1835. John Kniffin, Yates Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Job N. Lampkin, Niagara Co., N. Y., May, 1835. Daniel Spaulding, Yates Co., N. Y., July, 1836. Jacob Spaulding, Calhoun Co., Mich., July, 1836. Thomas W. Durkee, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836. William Eldred, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
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Harvey Keith, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1834. Luke Keith, Genesee Co., N. Y., May, 1834. Andrew J. Eldred, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. Daniel Eldred, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, October, 1834. Cornelius De Yoe, Niagara Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Daniel Eldred, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Worden Wells, Otsego Co., N. Y., October, 1835. David Beach, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Andrew Harris, Washtenaw Co., Mich., July, 1836.
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