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" WILLIAM G. RUSSELL, " For the Colony."
According to the information in the closing portions of the letter, Russell and Sever went over to the Maple with Calvin G. Hill, the surveyor, who platted the colony lots. The plat, including the territory already mentioned, was received for record Oct. 27, 1837, from " E. R. Everest, acting agent for the Rochester Colony." The plat of the village received for record on the same day contains the following : " On the 27th day of October, 1837, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, Edward R. Ev- erest, now acting agent for the Rochester Colony, in the county of Clinton and State of Michigan, known to me to be the person who executed this plat, and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed, and furthermore that this plat was made by Benjamin H. Brown.
" JOSIAHI PEARCE, J.P."
June 15, 1836, Russell and Sever returned to Rochester and reported the results of their labors. On the 29th instant the members of the colony met at the office of Edward R. Everest and drew each his share by lot. At a meeting held the 30th instant it was voted to dispose of the Maple River water-power on section 29 at auction. The power was estimated as capable of running two saws and three run of stones, and, precedent to the contract of sale, it was stipulated that the purchaser should bind himself in the sum of three thousand dollars to have one saw in operation within a year, and that within two years he should have erected a grist-mill with at least one run of stone. The mill-privilege was sold under the named conditions to Willis Thempshall for one thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars.
The first movement towards an actual settlement upon the Colony lands was made early in July, 1836, by John Ferdon, Samuel Barker, and Oliver Bebee, who, with their families and Ellen Lowe, then set out for the West to take possession of the colony lots that had fallen to their shares. In the company were sixteen persons, of whom ten were children. They journeyed by water to Detroit, and thence by ox-teams to the place of proposed settlement. They fol- lowed the Grand River trail to a point some miles east of where Laingsburg now stands, and struck through the trackless forest northward. The distance to their destina- tion was full twenty miles, and over the entire route they were compelled to cut a road. So tedious was the progress that, although they persevered diligently, they were nine days making the trip of twenty miles.
However long their road it had a turn, and so on the 28th of July, 1836, they came to the end of their weari- some travels. Their first night upon the Colony land was spent upon Bebee's place, and on the day following they moved to Ferdon's lot, where it was proposed to put up a cabin. The shanty, built of logs with bark roof and bark floor, was finished within a day or two, but stood just over the town-line, in what is now the town of Greenbush, Ferdon's lot bordering upon the west line of town 8. Barker's cabin was next put up, and occupied a place on the north line of town 7 (now known as Ovid), in section 6. It will have been seen therefore that the first improve- ment in the colony was made in town 7 by Barker, Ferdon's but not being upon Colony land. It will be further seen
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that Ferdon and Barker built respectively the first houses in Greenbush and Ovid. The third Colony house, and the first in town S, was Bebee's cabin, built directly after the completion of Barker's. It stood upon the south line of town 8, in section 31, directly opposite Barker's.
Illustrative of the peculiar inflictious of the densely- wooded country into which these hardy pioneers had pene- trated, it may be mentioned that the multitudes of mosqui- toes they encountered made life well-nigh a burden. So thick were the pests that while two of the men labored at cabin building the third found his time and energies fully occupied in driving off mosquitoes. Veils were absolutely necessary as face coverings, and, at best, for some time the troubles that arose from the insect source were sorely distressing.
Of the sixteen persons who came as the Colony pioneer advance-guard six still live,-Mrs. Henry S. Harrison (then Mrs. Barker), Mrs. Oliver Bebee (then Ellen Lowe), Thomas Bebee, Mrs. Z. H. Harrison (daughter of Mrs. Bebee), Lorenzo Ferdon, and Henry P. Barker. Mrs. Harrison lives in Elsie, and Mrs. Bebee upon the farm Mr. Bebee occupied in July, 1836.
Barker, Bebee, and Ferdon were uot joined by others of the Colony until September, although it was confidently ex- pected that they would be followed almost immediately by several families. As it was, the next to come were Joseph Sever and Francis Faxon,-only the former, however, bring- ing a family. Faxon put up a cabin and made a clearing, and returning eastward for his family brought them out in September, 1837. Until theu (except David Watsou, a blacksmith) there had been no fresh accessions to the Colouy settlement, which progressed, indeed, at first very slowly. Charles Baldwin came with his family Nov. 15, 1837, and after that the settlement began to slowly but surely receive numerical strength. In December, 1836, Barker vacated his house in town 7, and passed over into town S, where he had made a new location. He had but three miles to go, yet the journey consumed an entire day. In fording the hiver his wagon came apart, and being covered with ice re- sisted for a long time the efforts of himself and wife to put it together. They conquered the emergency, however, by mightfall and pushed on.
PASSING INCIDENTS.
Getting to market or to mill was to the first comers a task of considerable magnitude, since either involved a journey to Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, or Pontiac, and some- times even to Detroit, while to obtain access to a post-office required a trip to Laingsburg or Owosso. After a little while Joseph Sever, Edward R. Everest, and Willis Themp- shall built a grist- and saw-mill at the colony. Everest opened a store and caused a post-office to be established there, so that existence began to flow in smoother channels.
The first birth in the settlement was that of William IIenry, son of Sterry Lyon, whose birth occurred in 1838. Ile died in 1839. Fidelia Carpenter, the ten-year-old daughter of Benjamin Carpenter, was the first person to die. She died in 1838, and was the first to be buried in the Colony cemetery laid out some time before and ever sinee continued in its original use. The funeral sermon
was preached by Mr. Whiting, a member of the Colony, and a Methodist exhorter. The first marriage was that of Oliver Bebee and Ellen Lowe. They were married at Be- bee's house, by John Ferdon, then a justice of the peace, in July, 1837. The only wedding-guests were Mr. and Mrs. Barker and Mr. and Mrs. Ferdon. Mrs. Bebee still lives on the old Bebee place at the Colony.
The first blacksmith was David Watson, who opened a shop on section 31, in the summer of 1837. Whiting, the exhorter, was also a blacksmith, but he did not set up his shop until 1843. Oliver Bebee was the first carpenter and Charles Stevens the second. Samuel L. Brass was the first shoemaker, and afterwards kept a store at an early date.
At the meeting held June 29, 1836, the result of the drawing for lots was as follows:
Farm Lots.
Village Lots.
Edward R. Everest.
4
12
William G. Russell
5
Joseph Sever.
7
John Ferdon
2
7
William Chynoworth
2
Benjamin Carpenter.
3
13
Samuel Graves
3
10
Oliver Bebee.
2
5
Samuel Barker
2
1
M. T. Croade.
2
8
Jacob Martin
1
John Boardman.
1
3
Electus Boardman
1
Edwin W. Collins
1
1
Rufus Collier, Jr.
1
1
Van Rensselaer Cook
1
1
Joseph Atwood.
I
1
1
1
George S. Sbelmire.
1
1
llenry N. Sever.
1
1
Samuel Brass
1
3
Sunanous Britton
1
Martha Osborne ...
1
P. A. Ford and E. Bliss
1
Rowley & Britton
1
Eleazar Rowley
1
3
Calvin Brainard
1
5
Francis Faxen ..
2
5
Sylvester Bliss.
5
The drawing disposed of forty-five Colony lots. There were reserved to the Colony eighty acres in lots 11, 12, and 13, lying off the Maple River, besides four large and forty- four small village lots, as well as a lot for a burial-place and farm lots 9 and 42.
RESIDENT TAX-PAYERS IN TOWN 8 NORTH, RANGE I WEST, IN 1839.
Acres.
B. Hicks, section 11
40
Thomas Craven, Sr., section 1.1. 200
R. E. Craven, sections 11, 14 ... 360
Sydney t. Smith, sections 22, 23. 240
Charles Stephens, section 27 80
Nathan Lowe, section 34 160
IN THE COLONY PURCITASE.
E. R. Everest. 4SQ
Francis Faxon 160
Oliver Bebce. 160
Joseph Sever. 160
John Copeland 320
Samuel Barker. 160
RESIDENT TAX-PAYERS IN SENA IN 1840.
Acres.
John Burnett, Culony lots 1 and 2.
160
Sterry Lyue, Colony lot 3.
80
sectiun 11
10
Abram Becker, Colony lot 21 .. 80
Francis Faxon, Colony luts 16 und 34 and south- west quarter of soction 21. 320
Oliver Bebee, lots 32 and 33. 160
54
W. P. & 11. Stanton
32
235
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Acres.
Joseph Sever, lots 8 and 14. 160
Samuel Barker, lot 19.
SO
Grove Cooper, lots 31 and 32
160
11. M. Sever, lot 18
80
Oliver Everest, lot 17.
80
Jobn Ferdon, Iot 29
SO
Benjamin Carpenter, lot 28.
80
David Watson, fraction of lot 26
20
Samuel Brass, lot 25.
40
Tempsball & Sever, mill-lot ..
Nathan Lowe, section 34
160
Charles Stevens, seetion 27
80
Sidney L. Smith, sections 27 and 23
240
R. E. Craven, sections 11, 22, 23, 10
400
Thomas Craven, Sr., section 14
160
Thomas Craven, Jr., seetion 14 80
Liberty Carter, seetion 24
160
Patrick Galligan, section 12.
80
William B. Watson, sections 2 and 21. 160
Chandler Coy, section 35,
80
Benjamin Hicks, section 11.
40
Soon after the coming to the town of the advanee-guard of the Colony there came also other settlers, and they drift- ing to various portions of the township generally populated it at a comparatively early day. Nathan R. Lowe, a New Yorker, settled in 1838 on section 34, to which he had to cut his road from the Colony. Chandler Coy settled on section 35. Dexter Cooper was one of the earliest comers to the vicinity of the Colony, and in 1840 E. J. Stone made a home upon a farm in section 33, for which he ex- changed a farm in Calhoun County, whither he migrated from the East as early as 1835. Later comers to that neighborhood were Edward Paine, F. L. Hall, Robert Coy, George Wilcox, Benjamin Wilcox, Richard Tompkins, Henry Spencer, and John Spencer.
About 1840 the northeastern and eastern portions of the town began to receive settlers, of whom several had located their lands in 1836. On the west side of the river the prevalence of lowlands repelled the pioneer, and in that quarter settlements were meagre nntil a late date. Liberty Carter entered land in section 24 in the fall of 1836, but did not oceupy it until the spring of 1841, when he came with his father, and brother Sylvester, having meanwhile worked at the Colony on the places of Ferdon and Bebce. The only man north of Carter was Patrick Galligan, on section 12, where he had in the spring of 1841 just made a eommeneement. In that portion of the town Galligan and the Carters were the pioneers. Franklin, Baker, and H. B. Gleason came into the Carter neighborhood in 1841, and in 1844 E. W. Cobb, with his brother, Lyman, and father, Joshua, made settlements upon seetion 12. H. P. Cobb was on section 13, where he had been about two years ; the Cravens were in section 10, on the Maple, where they soon built a mill; Charles Baldwin was near there, and afterwards kept a boarding-house for the mill hands, and on section 12 was Patrick Galligan. That portion of the town was heavily timbered, and had in 1844 scareely a semblance of a road, except one the Cravens had ent out between their place and the Colony. In 1845, Levi IIieks settled in Livingston County, and when in 1854 he made a new home upon section 1 in Duplain the only other resi- dents upon that section were Abram Hobbs and A. J. Lin- man. '4. A. Ford came to the scetion in 1855, the Ben- netts to section 12 in 1855, and J. B. Moore to section 2 in 1855. Among the settlers in the cast were also W. Wooll, E. N. Wait, Charles Sexton, E. Nethaway, Mr.
Hickox, William Tillottson, and James Shaw, the latter in 1845 to the place now occupied by A. B. Jeffrey.
Upon the west side of the river the earliest settlements were made by C. Stafford, Thomas Leet, and Daniel Letts, who penetrated that quarter upon sections 9 and 15 in 1850. After that C. Ranney located on section 3, J. W. Garrett on seetion 9, C. B. Dodge on section 10, and Israel Mead on section 16.
VILLAGE OF MAPLETON.
As already remarked, the village of Mapleton was platted by Edward R. Everest, as the Colony's agent, Oct. 27, 1837. The erection of the saw-mill and grist-mill in 1840, and the opening of a store by Edward R. Everest, soon afterwards contributed something of a vigorous start to the little ham- let, and directly afterwards a post-office was added to the conveniences, William B. Watson, a physician, having pre- viously located in 1830. Previous to Everest's time, some time in 1838 or 1839, John Ferdon had a small quantity of goods in his house, having taken them in Rochester, N. Y., on a debt, and these he doled out to whoever would buy, but the first regularly-equipped store was Everest's. The second store was set up by William Shepard, in 1844, and in connection with his store Mr. Shepard opened a tavern. In 1849, Shepard was still keeping store, and in 1850, O. M. Pearl became a Colony trader. Paine & Kipp opened a store in 1852, and in 1853, Faxon & Pearl suc- eeeded O. M. Pearl. Among succeeding merchants at Ma- pleton were Henry l'aine and Samuel L. Brass.
A post-office was established at Mapleton about 1840, and given the name of Colony, but this being found to confliet with another office of a similar name in the State, a change was made to Duplain. Mail was at first delivered to Du- plain over the route between Owosso and Lyons once a week. Edward Everest, the first postmaster, continued in the office until 1847, when he was succeeded by James Tucker. Tucker stepped out in 1852, in favor of J. W. Paine, who gave way in 1853 to William Shepard, and he to William II. Faxon, whose term of service endured only a few months. Samuel L. Brass, the next incumbent, held the place from 1855 to 1861. R. Dewstoe served from 1861 to 1866, James Tueker (second term) from 1866 to 1869, and William Smead (who came to Mapleton in 1850) from 1869 to the present time.
In 1839 the village received its pioneer physician, Dr. William B. Watson, who, when he first set up in practice in the Colony, boarded with Francis Faxon, and married one of Mr. Faxon's daughters. Dr. Watson lived in and near the Colony from 1839 until his death in 1875, and continued his professional pursuits to within a few years of his demise. For fifteen years Dr. Watson was the sole physician the Colony had. In 1854 came Dr. M. L. Leach, who practiced thereabout, with more or less regularity, until his removal to Elsie in 1878. Dr. H. H. House opened an office in 1858, and remained continuonsly to 1876 a village doetor there, except for a space of six years spent in Indiana. Dr. E. S. Lconard practiced one year, from 1857 to 1858, and Dr. A. C. Joslyn, five years, from 1860 to 1865. Dr. D. W. Emerson, now the only physician at the colony, has been located there sinee 1864.
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RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.
The pioneer sermon in the Colony was preached at John Ferdon's house, in the fall of 1836, by Rev. Mr. Kanouse, a Presbyterian minister of Lodi, Mich., who, while on a land-looking tour, tarried at Ferdon's house. Mr. Kanouse preached from the thirty-second chapter aud eleventh verse of Deuteronomy,-" As an eagle stirreth up her nest, flut- tereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings. taketh them and beareth them on her wings." The choir was composed of Mrs. Samuel Barker and John Ferdon, and besides them there were in the congregation Mr. and Mrs. Bebee and four children, Mrs. Ferdon and three children, Mr. Barker and three children, and Mr. Ferdon's hired man, William. One Sunday in the summer of 1837 there came to Mr. Barker's house two meu, who represented that they were laborers on the mill at Owosso, and that having heard there were occasional prayer-meetings at the Colony they were determined to come out; " for," added the spokesman, "we were so hungry for prayer and a prayer-meeting that we would have walked twice the dis- tance." The Barkers were of course glad to see them, and in the prayer-meeting that followed there was one Hicks, a land-looker, besides the Barkers and the two men from Owosso. Hieks was a powerfully-voiced singer, and Mrs. Harrison thinks his voice, when pitched to its highest, could have been heard well-nigh a mile. After prayers an excellent dinner followed, and the two pilgrims from Owosso departed on their return journey happy and refreshed. They walked thirty-two miles to participate in that prayer- meeting, but the satisfaction they derived was presumably more than enough to afford compensation for what weari- ness the walk may have occasioned.
DUPLAIN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CLASS
In November, 1837, Revs. Washington Jackson and Isaac Bennett, sent out by the Michigan Methodist Epis- copal Conference, organized at the house of Joseph Sever the Duplain class. The members numbered ten, and in- cluded Francis Faxon and Betsey his wife, Joseph Sever, Jane his wife, and his two daughters, Sarah and Bathsheba, Charles and Sophronia Baldwin, Frederick Cranson, and Mrs. Cusick, Charles Baldwin being elass-leader. The circuit embraced a tour of three hundred miles, and as there were but the two preachers on the work, the Du- plain class was not enabled to have publie worship oftener thau once in four weeks. In the December following a Sunday-school was organized in Francis Faxon's house with nine scholars, Charles Baldwin being chosen superin- tendent. Church and school have maintained from the first a continuous active existence, and are to-day flourish- ing organizations. The class is now on the Duplain Cir- euit, in charge of Rev. C. A. Jacokes; has a membership of eighty and has worship every Sunday.
A church edifice was built in 1855, and still continues in use. The present class-leader is Albert MeEwen, who is also local preacher. The church trustees are J. II. Love, Lewis McKnight, J. H. Faxon, R. Chapman, and E. J. Stone. Albert MeEwen is superintendent of the Sunday- school, which has one hundred and ten scholars on the roll.
FIRST DISCIPLE CHURCH OF DUPLAIN.
The First Disciple Church was organized in the Colony school-house in 1870 by Elder Brooks, with about thirty members. A house of worship was begun the same year and completed in 1871. Elder Brooks preached a year, and was succeeded in regular order by Revs. Fraut, John A. Mafferty, La Grange, Cook, Ilurd, and Sweatman. Rev. S. K. Sweatman is the present pastor, and preaches once a week. The membership is seventy-five; the trustees and elders are Peter Moore, Looman Wilcox, and Clinton Shaw ; the deacons, T. C. Avery and P. Foss. The Sab- bath-school, organized in 1876, has au average attendance of six teachers and fifty scholars. The superintendent is Peter Moore.
TOWN ROADS.
The first road laid in town 8 north, range 1 west, while it was yet a portion of Bingham, was surveyed by Charles R. Spicer, and recorded Aug. 7, 1839, Samuel Barker and Charles Stevens being highway commissioners. The survey, made July 15th, commeneed at the quarter post on the east side of section 31, thence running north two and a half de- grees, west twelve and a half chains to angle ; thence north forty-five degrees, west five chains and forty-five links to a becch-tree ; thence north twenty-nine degrees, west one chain and eighty-seven links to a post ; thenee north twelve degrees, east three chains and twenty-five links to a post ; thence north seventy-one degrees, east five chains and twelve links to a post; thence north eighteen degrees, west six chains to the east line of said section 31, eleven chains and sixty links south of the northeast corner of said section.
Survey No. 2 commenced at the quarter post on the north line of section 34, thence running south two and one half degrees, east twenty-four chains to angle ; thence south forty-seven and one-half degrees, east nineteen and one-half chains to a beech-tree ; thence south sixty-two degrees, east forty chains ; thence south seventy-three degrees, east six chains to post ; thenee south forty-seven and a half degrees, east twenty-five chains and eleven links to a beech-tree ; thence south twenty degrees, east eleven chains aud sixty-nine links ; thence south thirty-eight degrees, east forty chains to post ; thence south forty-seven and a half degrees, east sixty chains ; thence south twenty-four degrees, east twenty-two chains and seventy links to a basswood-tree; thence south sixty-two degrees, east twenty chains and seventy-five links to a maple-tree ; thence south fifty-one degrees, cast four- teen chains to post ; thence south nine degrees, east four chains and eighty-seven links; thence south fifty chains, east thirty and a half chains to the meridian line, three chains sixty-five links north of the southeast corner of sec- tion 12, town 7 north, range 1 west.
Survey No. 3 commenced at a stake twenty chains twenty links east on the section-line from the southwest corner of section 29 ; thence north two and a half degrees, west forty chains to a point twenty chains twenty links east, two and a half' degrees north of the quarter stake on the west line of section 29.
Survey No. 4 commenced seventy-nine rods north on the section-line of the southeast corner of' section 21, running thence forty-four and a half degrees, east four chains seventy-
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three links; thence north forty degrees, east forty-eight chains fifty links to the centre of the highway ; thence west and south to interseet road No. 3.
The following road districts in Sena were set off and recorded March 30, 1840, by Charles Stevens and John Jessnp, highway commissioners :
District No. 1, bounded as follows, to wit : commencing at the quarter post on the meridian of the 25th seetion, thence running west on the quarter line through sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, and ineluding all the land north of said line in the town.
District No. 2, bounded as follows : commencing at the quarter post on the east line of section 25, thence running west, on the quarter line, through seetions 25, 26, and 27 ; thence on the seetion-line to the southwest corner of sec- tion 34 ; thence east on the town line to the meridian line ; thence north on the meridian to the place of beginning.
Distriet No. 3 comprised the remainder of the town not contained within the limits of districts Nos. 1 and 2.
At a publie meeting held Dec. 12, 1840, for the purpose of letting contraets for improvements upon the roads of Sena, contracts were awarded as follows, the work to be completed March 1, 1841 :
Contract No. 1 .- To build eight rods of causeway on the road leading from the mill to Dr. Watson's, near Austin's. Let to Silvester Carter at 97 cents per rod, said causeway to be laid on stringers or poles, and to be made in the best nanner twelve feet wide. $8.73
No. 2 .- To build six rods of causeway on the south line of see- tion 21. Let to Silvester Carter at $1 per rod. 6.00
No. 3 .- To build twenty rods of causeway on south line of sec- tion 21. Let to Ifenry M. Sever at $1 per rod, subse- quently taken by Abraham Becker and S. Carter at same rate ..
20.00
No. 4 .- To build twelve rods of causeway on south line of sec- tion 21. Let to Liberty Carter at $1.17 per rod ...
14.04
No. 5 .- To chop and clear one mile of the road from Barker's to Jessop's, two rods wide, of all timber under six inches in diameter, and otherwise to make the road passable. Let to Liberty Carter at
9.87 No. 6 .- To build eight rods of causeway on the south line of section 29, and digging up a largo pine-stump at the end of the same. Let to Oliver Bebee at ..
8.76
No. 7 .- To build seven rods of causeway on the south line of section 31. Let to Oliver Bebec at $1 per rod .. 7.00
No. 8 .- To log out and clear three acres of the Owosso road three rods wide. Let to Oliver Bebee at. 8.75 No. 9 .- To build four rods of causeway over a brook on sec- tion 21. Let to R. E. Craven at 94 cents per rod. 3.76
No. 10 .- To chop and clear one acre of the road leading to Owosso four rods wide. Let to Henry Faxon and Itenry M. Sever at $10 per acre, all of the above jobs to be fio- ished according to specifications in contract No. 1 .. 10.00
No. 11 .- To remove three stumps out of the way of the six- rod causeway on the south line of section 21. Let to L. Carter 1.50
No. 12 .- To build a bridge over a ravine on section 22. Let to Robert E. Craven at $75, to be finished by the 1st of April 75.00
No. 13 .- Allowed to Abraham Becker for clearing out the road from the school-house west thirty rods ..
1.50
No. 14 .- To chop ono acre on the Owosso road four rods wide. Let to Francis Faxon at.
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