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1859 .- Supervisor, Horace L. Cook; Town Clerk, William E. Winton; Treasurer, Alva Preston ; Justice of the Peace, Charles Drum; School Inspector, Bradford Cook.
1860 .- Supervisor, Van Rensselaer Durfee; Town Clerk, Michael Thatcher ; Treasurer, Orrin F. Sessions; Justice of the Peace, Robert J. McMillan ; School Inspector, Joel A. Chapman.
1861 .- Supervisor, Van Rensselaer Durfee; Town Clerk, Michael
Thatcher; Treasurer, Orrin F. Sessions; Justice of the Peace, Luther Pratt; School Inspector, Joseph L. Cook. 1862 .- Supervisor, Thomas Goldsmith; Town Clerk, Ezra Fris- bee; Treasurer, Joel A. Chapman; Justice of the Peace, Seaman O. Soule ; School Inspector, Amos Pratt.||
1863 .- Supervisor, Thomas Goldsmith; Town Clerk, Alonzo T. Frisbee; Treasurer, Joel A. Chapman ; Justice of the Peace, Michael Thatcher ; School Inspector, Joseph L. Cook.
1864 .- Supervisor, Thomas Goldsmith; Town Clerk, George E. Houghtaling ; Treasurer, Joel A. Chapman ; Justice of the Peace, Thomas Goldsmith; School Inspector, Wm. C. Randall.
1865 .- Supervisor, Thomas Goldsmith ; Town Clerk, George E. Houghtaling; Treasurer, James A. Preston; Justice of the Peace, Luther Pratt; School Inspector, Schuyler E. Randall.
1866 .- Supervisor, Thomas Goldsmith; Town Clerk, Julius D. Smith ; [ Treasurer, James A. Preston ; Justices of the Peace, Seaman O. Soule (full term), George Cameron (to fill vacancy of Luther Pratt, who resigned March 30th); School Inspector, Luther C. Kanouse.
1867 .- Supervisor, Alonzo T. Frisbee; Town Clerk, Augustus W. Britten; Treasurer, Lyman V. D. Cook; Justice of the Peace, Michael Thatcher; School Inspector, James A. Preston.
1868 .- Supervisor, Alonzo T. Frisbee; Town Clerk, Augustus W. Britten; Treasurer, Lyman V. D. Cook; Justice of the Peace, William McMillan; School Inspector, Albert D. Thompson .**
1869 .- Supervisor, Alonzo T. Frisbee ; Town Clerk, Martin L. Davis; Treasurer, Lyman V. D. Cook; Justices of the Peace, Charles A. Potter (full term), Oliver Sprague (vacancy) ; School Inspector, James A. Preston.
1870 .- Supervisor, Luther C. Kanouse; Town Clerk, Martin L. Davis; Treasurer, Frank Purdy; Justices of the Peace, Richard Wrigglesworth (full term), Isaiah Goodenough (vacancy) ; School Inspector, Oscar T. Keller.
1871 .- Supervisor, Luther C. Kanouse; Town Clerk, Abel S. Austin ; Treasurer, Amos M. Eager ;;; Justices of the Peace, William O. Hendricks (full term), George O. Austin (vacancy) ; Drain Commissioner, Michael Thatcher (appointed May 20th); School Inspector, Winfield Kanouse.
1872 .- Supervisor, Alonzo T. Frisbee; Town Clerk, Abel S. Austin ; Treasurer, George E. Houghtaling; Justice of the Peace, William McMillan; Drain Commissioner, Michael Thatcher; School Inspector, Oscar T. Keller.
1873 .- Supervisor, Roger Sherman; Town Clerk, William Mc- Millan ; Treasurer, Alfred F. V. D. Cook; Justices of the Peace, Warren Chase (full term), Hartwell Lewis (vacancy); Drain Commissioner, Lewis Grant; School Inspector, Winfield Kanouse.
1874 .- Supervisor, Roger Sherman; Town Clerk, William Mc- Millan ; Treasurer, Alfred F. V. D. Cook; Justice of the Peace, Richard Wrigglesworth; Drain Commis- sioner, Lewis Grant; School Inspector, Joseph L. Cook. 1875 .- Supervisor, Roger Sherman ; Town Clerk, William Mc- Millan ; Treasurer, Frank M. Pardee ; Justice of the
* Being disabled by sickness, Jacob Kanouse was appointed, April 24th, to act as supervisor until his recovery. The treasurer, Daniel L. Winton, was also prevented by sickness from attending to the duties of his office, and Jan. 18, 1853, Joseph Brown was appointed in his stead. February 9th he resigned, and Mr. Win- ton was appointed.
¡ Resigned, and April 9th Horace L. Cook was appointed to fill the vacancy.
į Lewis B. Boyd was appointed school inspector, April 16th, in place of J. A. Preston, who did not qualify.
¿ The supervisor being disabled by sickness, Jacob Kanouse was appointed to that office, October 3d. April 18th, William E. Win- ton was appointed to the office of school inspector.
|| Enlisted in the Union army, leaving a vacancy, which was filled, October 2d, by the appointment of Joel A. Chapman.
T Mr. Smith resigned on account of his moving from he town, and December 24th Horace L. Cook was appointed. Mr. Ran- dall died, leaving a vacancy in the office of school inspector, and December 15th Thomas Shelton was appointed.
** Mr. Thompson removed from town and, April 11th, Charles A. Potter was appointed in his stead.
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Peace, Thomas Goldsmith; Drain Commissioner, James McKane; School Superintendent, Joseph L. Cook ; School Inspector, Winfield Kanouse.
1876 .- Supervisor, Joseph Browning; Town Clerk, Martin L. Davis ; Treasurer, Luther C. Kanouse; Justices of the Peace, Michael Thatcher (full term), Cyrus G. Hayner (vacancy); Drain Commissioner, George E. Houghtal- ing ;* School Superintendent, Joseph L. Cook; School Inspector, Fillmore M. Kanouse.
1877 .- Supervisor, Joseph Browning; Town Clerk, Martin L. Davis ; Treasurer, Truman Sprague; Justices of the Peace, William V. D. Cook (full term), Ames Pratt (vacancy) ; Drain Commissioner, Michael Thatcher; School Superintendent, Fillmore M. Kanouse ; School Inspector, John Q. Faulk.
1878 .- Supervisor, Amos M. Eager; Town Clerk, Cyrus G. Hayner; Treasurer, Alva P. Ellis; Justice of the Peace, Richard Wrigglesworth ; Drain Commissioner (for two years), Michael Thatcher; School Superin- tendent (for two years), Fillmore M. Kanouse; School Inspector, John Q. Faulk.
1879 .- Supervisor, Michael Thatcher; Town Clerk, Cyrus G. Hayner; Treasurer, Alva P. Ellis; Justice of the Peace, Amos Pratt; Drain Commissioner, Lyman V. D. Cook ;} School Inspector, William H. Erwin.
An effort was made in the spring of 1868 to have a town-house built. At the town-meeting a committee, consisting of Jacob Kanouse, Lewis B. Boyd, Arthur F. Field, Wm. Haskell, and Amos M. Eager, was appointed and empowered to locate a site, and post up notices containing specifications for the building, and to institute other necessary proceedings. They were to report at the next annual meeting. Their report stated that they had selected a site on land owned by J. N. Teller, near Mrs. Davenport's. At this stage of the pro- ceedings, for some reason, the project was aban- doned, and was not revived until April 10, 1876, when a petition signed by 21 freeholders was pre- sented, praying for a special town-meeting, to vote a tax of $600, for the purpose of building a town- house. The meeting was called and held at Daniel Neely's, on Saturday, April 29, 1876. The prop- osition to raise the tax was voted down, 39 voting for the tax and 96 against it.
The first jury list was prepared by the assessors and town clerk, May 21, 1839, and contained three names,-Anthony Clark, Eliel Stoddard, and Ezra Sanford, Jr.
In 1837, while yet a part of the town of Howell, an assessment roll was prepared, which was the first one of which any trace now exists. The as- sessors by whom it was prepared were David H. Austin and Peter Brewer. The following portion of it contains the names of the resident tax-payers, the non-residents being omitted as of no particular interest in this connection :
* Resigned on the 3d of May, and Ezra Frisbee was appointed to fill the vacancy. He resigned May 22, and, June 20, Michael Thatcher was appointed in his stead.
t In place of Michael Thatcher, who resigned April 7th.
Names.
Sections. Acres. Valuation.
- Baldwin ..
22
80
$240
Anthony Clark ..
28
120
360
Benjamin Crawford
27
320
960
Ephraim Crawford.
23
80
240
Thomas Goldsmith.
26, 27
200
600
Abraham Riker
28
80
240
William Riker
23
240
720
John Sanford.
.3, 21, 27, 34
1046
3138
Ezra Sanford
.2, 22, 27
571
1713
Ziba Stone
22
80
240
William Stroud.
23
80
240
Ira Walker.
22
40
120
Totals.
2937
$8811
Real estate valuation
$65,405.00
Personal property ..
500.00
Total.
$65,905.00
Tax on resident roll
$32.88
Tax on non-resident roll.
206.60
Total
$239.48
The first complete roll of this town was that of '1840, the names and taxes of the resident tax- payers being as follows :
Names.
Sections.
Acres.
Valuation.
Lorenzo Boutell
24
25
$37.50
Lewis B. Boyd
31
80
177
Almira Boyd.
31, 62
407
890
Bond Bigelow
I2
40
80
David Brown
12
40
60
Joseph Brown
.....
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John H. D. Blank
IO
40
160
Horace L. Cook.
...
.....
.....
Samuel Crawford
23
40
120
Isaac V. D. Cook
25, 35, 36
200
376
Benjamin Crawford.
27
240
560
Warren Chase
30, 31
180
415
Jared L. Cook.
32, 52
370
744
Anthony Clark
2
50
124
Peter Cramer
40
128
Ephraim Crawford
I
80
138
Eli Carpenter
35
2
IO
James Chambers
20
120
305
Jacob B. Debar
3
25
92
Nathaniel Davenport
0, 15
240
420
Charles Davenport.
...
...
.....
Daniel Develin
28
120
250
Jesse Davis ..
23
160
300
Michael Fisher
35,
2%
149
279
Adam Fisher.
35
77
208
David Guile, Jr.
IO
40
72
Nathan Grant
.5,
7
240
481
Patrick Gallaghan
14
80
80
Warren Hitchins.
32
160
266
Calvin W. Hart|
24
160
315
Holland Hosley|
36
420
919
Thomas Hynes.
20
40
69
Luther Houghton
I
160
347
John V. & Asa Harmon ..
1, 12
I20
318
Conrad Hayner.
18
160
341
Ira Hotchkiss
80
I44
Alva Jones.
3, IO
180
394
William L. Jones.
3
40
120
Joseph B. Jackson, Jr
7
72
183
Sally Jenks ..
5
40
163
John Jonest.
24, 25
230
282
John Kimball.
80
132
Jacob Kanouse.
288
576
Winchester Merriam
II
80
120
Joseph Neely.
26
159
363
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190
William S. Ellis
14
David Guile .
9
160
320
Thomas Goldsmith. .23, 26, 27, 28
290
705
Francis George.
35
160
200
Samuel Hunt
4
80
156
7
..
3
5
.25, 31, T
80
5
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Names.
Section.
Acres.
Valuation.
Lott Pratt
30
159
$408
William Packard.
23
120
270
Preston & Gay
23
40
600
Isaac Pratt.
1.40
James Rathbun 1.56
B. F. Scofield.
1.48
Thos. Goldsmith, Highway Commissioner 18.25 Calvin W. Hart, 9.00
Alva Preston, Supervisor.
12.10
Abraham Riker.
28
80
156
Eliel Stoddard.
1.34
Nathaniel Smith
.3, 9,
10
320
635
Ezra Sanford.
1,
2
224
41I
David Sanford.
5
40
60
William Stroud.
2
40
60
Enon Shippey.
1, 12
160
362
Daniel Sculley
8
200
345
Ephraim Starr ..
3,9, 10
280
342
E. & H. L. Stoddard
2, 3
I20
250
Benjamin F. Scofield.
23
80
195
Ziba Stone.
21, 22
200
305
James Sanford.
...
.....
.....
John Sanford
.....
Sarah Sanford
22, 27
320
678
Elias Stillson*
36
40
IIO
Nathan A. & J. C. Townsend ... 31, 27, 34
925.87
1718.29
Michael Thatcher.
.. 4, 5
190
309
Chester Townsend.
.31, 32
165
410
John C. Townsend.
Peter Vanderhoof
12
I20
140
Joseph Whitaker.
7
80
180
Total.
10,345.87 $23,429.79
This tax was levied for the following purposes :
For township expenses.
$185.40
For school taxes.
66.44
For highway purposes
123.23
For rejected taxes
9.20
For State and county taxes
313.53
For collector's fees.
13.72
Total
$711.52
Amount of resident tax and fees.
$337.02
Amount of non-resident tax and fees ..
374.50
Total tax
$711.52
Valuation of real estate
$39,679.00
personal estate.
2,125.00
Total valuation
$41,800.00
Total valuation 1879.
$724,520.00
From the foregoing statements we learn that in the eight years intervening between the first two assessments mentioned the proportion of resident to non-resident tax increased thirty-four per cent., while at present the non-resident tax is a compara- tively small amount. The valuation has increased in the forty-two years that have elapsed since the first assessment more than one thousand per cent.
The first year's audit of accounts was as follows, part being audited March 19, 1839, and the rest March 26th :
Mason Phelps, Town Clerk. ..... .......
$1.38
Robert Sowders.
Highway Commissioner. 32.13
Hiram Bennett
4.20
Justus Boyd
3.00
Amos Adams, Surveyor
6.00
Jared L. Cook
4.24
Lott Pratt
5.07
Hiram Rix.
8.24
Ezra Sanford.
4.50
James Sanford.
4.00
J. W. Smith, Town Clerk of Howell. ...
3.00
* Increased by school tax.
+ Town 3 north, range 4 east.
John Farnsworth, Surveyor ...
$4.32
Abram Kanouse, Jr., for ballot-boxes and services
6.28
Alva Preston
. 11, 23, 24
190
51I
John Powell.
9
40
66
Joshua Poyer.
.. 3,
4
175
217.50
Hiram B. Rathburn
5
128
349
Noah Ramsdell
.. 23, 24, 25, 26
585
1112.50
Josiah Ward.
I.IO
David Guile.
1.32
Elisha Goldsmith, for necessaries furnished
for the support of Patrick Donoho and family, town paupers.
10.67
Elisha Goldsmith, Overseer of Poor
5.00
John Sanford, Overseer of Poor. 5.60
Nicholas F. Dunkle.
4.00
Compensation of the Board.
6.00
Total amount. $174.40
The reason for the giving of the name "Tus- cola" to the town is unknown. It was probably chosen by some admirer of the aborigines, in honor of the Indian tribe of that name. On ac- count of there being a Tuscola County in the State, it was thought best to have the name changed, and a petition was presented to the Legislature in the winter of 1856-57 for that purpose. An act was passed, and approved Jan. 29, 1857, which gave the town the name of " Bris- tol." This it retained only a short time, for, Feb. 5, 1867, the Governor signed a bill conferring on it its present name, "Cohoctah," which, it is sup- posed, was the name of a former Indian chief. The reason for this change is "one of those things, you know, that no fellow can find out."
The town-meeting of 1841 evinced its good sense, literary taste, and appreciation of the useful- ness of the press by voting that " the town should defray the expense of a State paper, to be kept at the office of the town clerk."
The following explains itself :
" The Township Board of the Township of Tuscola met agreeable to previous appointment at the office of the Township Clerk for the purpose of providing to obtain Weights, Measures, Scales, and beams for the Township of Tuscola, and to appoint a sealer. The board agreed to procure dry measure of copper, Liquid Measures of Tin, and common scales, weights, and beam-and a Drill and seal similar to those used by counties and Towns of this State. And we hereby appoint John Jones Sealer of said town. The Board agree to raise Fifty Dollars to obtain the above-named Articles and Contingent expenses.
" TUSCOLA, May 7, 1841.
" ALVA PRESTON, Dept. T. C.
" BENJ. CRAWFORD,
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" OREN STODARD, " NOAH RAMSDELL, " Town Board."
On the question of temperance the town has usually been quite evenly divided, though it is now believed that the majority-and a larger majority than ever before-are opposed to the traffic. The only recorded votes on the question are three in
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number: in April, 1845, 36 voted for license, and 33 against it; in 1849 the vote stood 44 for license to 32 against it; and June 24, 1853, the vote for the prohibitory law was 36, while the vote against it was 39.
The following statistics have been gleaned from the census returns of the several years referred to, the latest being from the State census of 1874.
The population in 1850 was but 544, in 1860 it was 856, and in 1870 it had risen to a total of 1176, of whom 1042 were natives, and 1 34 were of foreign birth. In 1874 there was a falling off, the total number reported being only 1144. These were divided as follows: males under five years, 69; from five to ten years, 73; from ten to twenty-one years, 147; from twenty-one to forty-five years, 201 ; from forty-five to seventy-five years, 97 ; from sev- enty-five to ninety years, 2; total, 589. Females under five years, 73; from five to ten years, 75; from ten to eighteen years, 90; from eighteen to forty years, 203; from forty to seventy-five years, III ; from seventy-five upwards, 3; total, 555.
These were classified according to condition in life, as follows: males under twenty-one years, single, 147 ; married, none ; over twenty-one years, single, 53; married, 239; widowers and divorced, 8. Females under eighteen years, single, 90; mar- ried, none; over eighteen years, single, 45; mar- ried, 236; widows and divorced, 36. Total, single, 625 ; married, 475; widowed and divorced, 44.
The taxable lands in 1874 were reported at 23,727 acres, of which 10,946 acres had been improved, two acres were devoted to church and parsonage sites, and one and one-half acres to burying-grounds, and the whole was divided up into 224 farms, aver- aging a little less than 103 acres each. It is be- lieved that the next census will show a considerable increase in. the population, and also in the percent- age of improved lands, as well as in the quantity of crops of all kinds produced.
In 1873 there was harvested in Cohoctah 2527 acres of wheat, the average yield on which was 1470 bushels per acre. This made the town rank as the fifth town of the county in its average for wheat. Of corn, that year saw harvested 812 acres, averaging 291076 bushels to the acre, which gave Cohoctah seventh place for the average yield of corn. On a general averaging the town falls into the fourth place as compared with the other towns of the county. In the quantity of its pro- ducts, in 1873, it ranked as follows : fourth for all grains except wheat and corn; sixth for hay, pork, and cheese; seventh for potatoes; eighth for wheat; ninth for butter; twelfth for wool; and fifteenth for corn. The quantities of its products are as follows: wheat, 35,414 bushels; corn, 24,010
bushels; other grains, 29,466 bushels; potatoes, 8394 bushels; hay, 2302 tons; wool, 21,911 pounds; pork, 66,810 pounds ; cheese, 200 pounds ; butter, 44,940 pounds; dried fruits, 9565 pounds; cider, 282 barrels. From 455 acres of orcharding the product was 10,800 bushels of apples. The year before (1872) the yield was 20,025 bushels.
The number of head of the different kinds of stock kept in 1874 was as follows: horses, 489; working oxen, 80; milch cows, 499; other neat cattle, 628; swine, 649; sheep, 4399.
In political matters the town was at the time of its organization, and for several years thereafter, strongly Whig. Then there was a few years of Democratic rule, until the birth of the grand old party of freedom and equality,-the Republican party,-which at once won the support of the best men of both the old organizations, and placed it in a position to control the town; a position which it has honored and from which it has never been deposed. At the present time the Republican majority is about 50 on a fair vote. In 1860 it gave to the martyred Lincoln a majority of 102 votes, the largest majority ever given to any candi- date in this town.
During the war of the Rebellion, Cohoctah took an active interest in the success of the efforts of the loyal North to crush the wicked conspiracy against the nation's life and integrity. She gave of her wealth to feed and clothe our armies and to carry on the affairs of government. She sent many of her brave and noble sons to uphold the starry banner of freedom, and encouraged them to deeds of valor by her unfaltering devotion to the cause and faith in its final triumph.
Two special town-meetings were held Feb. 13, and Sept. 3, 1864, at which by nearly unanimous votes it was decided to raise money by tax and loan to pay each volunteer or drafted man who should be credited towards filling the town's quota under the several calls for troops the sum of $100 bounty, in addition to all other bounties to which they might become entitled.
In the matter of building railroads, or rather in assisting in their construction, Cohoctah has been thrice called upon to give expression to her senti- ments. The first time was when in the fall of 1865 it was proposed to build a railroad from Detroit to Howell. A meeting was held Dec. 21, 1865, and a proposition submitted to pledge the credit of the town to the amount of 3 per cent. of its assessed valuation to aid in the construction of the road, in accordance with the provisions of act No. 49, of the Sessions laws of 1865. The vote stood 6 in favor of the loan and 82 opposed to it. The same proposition was again submitted to vote on the
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2Ist of April, 1866, when 59 voted for the propo- sition and 93 in opposition to it. Feb. 12, 1868, a petition signed by 16 tax-paying citizens was presented, praying for a special town-meeting to consider the question of raising $16,000 by bonds or tax, to aid the "Chicago and Michigan Grand Trunk Railway" in building a road from Ridgeway to the Indiana line via Lansing and St. Joseph. The vote on the project stood 21 for the aid to 125 against it. This settled the fate of that scheme. Dec. 8, 1869, another petition was presented, signed by 31 freeholders, praying for a special meeting, to vote aid by loan or donation to assist the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad Company to build their road, provided the road should run direct from Byron to Howell, north and south through this town. The vote stood 166 in favor to 19 against loaning the railroad company $16,200. In com- pliance with this action bonds were issued to the proposed amount.
The bonds were placed in the hands of the State Treasurer, who was to turn them over to the com- pany when they presented a certificate from the Governor that the road was completed. The inter- est-coupons then due were to be detached by him and returned to the town. The panic of 1873 was not directly chargeable with the failure of this en- terprise, but the growing stricture in the money market that preceded it no doubt had its effect in choking off the proposed road. At least, the date named found the road unbuilt, and at the town- meeting, April 7, 1873, Joseph L. Cook was "au- thorized and requested" to demand of the State Treasurer the bonds issued, and instructed to turn them over to the town clerk to be canceled and filed in his office. So terminated this town's con- nection with the railroad enterprises of the day, but who can tell how long it will be before the reviv- ing business of the country will again bring these projects into life, and send the iron tramways, with their snorting engines and rumbling cars, across its now quiet and peaceful bosom ?
HIGHWAYS.
Regarding the earliest roads, the records are not as explicit as might be, but from them we learn, what the early settlers state to have been the case, that the first regular highway in Cohoctah was the road running north through the Sanford settle- ment. We learn that this road was first surveyed by Amos Adams, county surveyor, on the 9th of July, 1836, and extended from Howell to the south quarter-post of section 27 in this town,-that is, to John Sanford's residence. In September, 1837, it was extended northward as far as the south quar- ter-post of section 10, and from that point to the
north line of the town on the 12th of June, 1839. The second road was called the Howell and Fisher road, and ran from Howell to the northwest corner of section 36 in this town,-where Chauncey D. Fisher's farm lay. It was surveyed by the same party Dec. 10, 1836, and Sept. 11, 1837, was contin- ued north a quarter of a mile, till it reached the ter- minus of a road surveyed east from the Sanford set- tlement some time that summer. A road running north two miles from the southwest corner of the town was surveyed Sept. 11, 1837, by A. S. Adams, acting for the county surveyor. Henry P. Adams surveyed, April 27, 1838, the " Calvin Hart road," running westward across sections 24, 23, and 22 till it joined the Sanford road at the south quarter- post of the last-named section. It connected the Sanford and Boutell settlements, and passed by the site of the Boutell burying-ground. During the years 1838-39 there were seventeen other roads surveyed through different parts of the town by A. S. Adams, acting for the regular county surveyor.
A bridge was built across the Shiawassee near Preston and Gay's saw-mill in 1841, $100 being voted at the annual town-meeting to partially de- fray the expense.
The first division of the town into road districts was made by the highway commissioner, April 1I, 1838, and was as follows: District No. I consisted of sections 21, 22, 27, 34, and the west half of sec- tion 35, with Mason Phelps as overseer; District No. 2 was made up of sections 7, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29, and 33, Abraham Riker, overseer; District No. 3, sections 19, 30, 31, and 32, Lott Pratt, over- seer; District No. 4, sections 2, 11, 14, 23, 26, and the east half of section 35, Nicholas F. Dunkle, overseer; District No. 5, sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 15, Michael Thatcher, overseer; District No. 6, sections 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, and 36, Calvin W. Hart, overseer.
In 1840 a more uniform division was made. The sections in the districts and the overseers of each were as follows: No. I, sections 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, and 14, Isaac Pratt; No. 2, sections 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, and 16, Oren Stoddard; No. 3, sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, and 18, Paul Coffin ; No. 4, sections 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32, Chester Townsend; No. 5, sections 21, 22, 27, 28, 33, and 34, Benjamin Craw- ford; No. 6, sections 23 and 24, and the north half of sections 25 and 26, Alva Preston ; No. 7, sec- tions 35 and 36, and the south half of sections 25 and 26, Adam Fisher.
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