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George W. Rathburn, Jackson Co., Mich., July, 1853. John Ennis, Jackson Co., Mich., July, 1853. Joshoa W. Waterman, Detroit, Mich., Angust, 1853.
SECTION 5.
Amos Daniels, Steuben Co., N. Y., Sept. 29, 1836. Sanford Vandusen, Ionia Co., Mich., September, 1851. Thomas Jennings, Rochester, N. Y., September, 1851. Thomas French, Rochester, N. Y, October, 1851. Abram Terwilliger, Clinton Co., Mich., August, 1853. Albert Daniels, Lenawee Co., Mich., December, 1853.
SECTION 6.
George W. Dickinson, lonia Co., Mich., Nov. 8, 1836. Edward Petteys, Washtenaw Co., Mich., Dee. 12, 1836. Milo Benham, Ontario Co., N. Y., Jan. 30, 1837. John B. Contine, Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept. 12, 1551.
SECTION 7.
Androw T. MeReynolds, Wayno Co., Mich., September, 1836. Amos Boughton, Ontario Co., N. Y., February, 1837. John Minich, Clinton Co., Mich., August, 1851. Lyman Daniels, fonia Co., Mich., October, 1852.
SECTION S.
Chester Ingalls, Washtenaw Co., Mich., Feb. 13, 1837. William W. Ainsley, Clinton Co., Mich., January, 1849. Reuben Ferris, Clinton Co., Mich., February, 1851.
George E. Gifford, July, 1851.
Thomas Satterlee, Welshfield, Ohio, August, 1851. Royal Bradish, Fonia Co., Mich., November, 1851. William W. Edminster, tonia Co., Mich., March, 1851.
# By John S. Schenck.
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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
SECTION 9.
Jarvis Iloag, Chittenden Co., Vt., Nov. 8, 1836. Andrew T. MeReynolds, Wayno Co., Mich., Novombor, 1836. Sylvanns Hopkins, September, 1851. John Stoddard, October, 1851.
Robert W. Davis, September, 1852.
SECTION 10.
Richard P. Hfart and George M. Mills, Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 2, 1836.
Robert S. Parks and Lawson S. Warner, Fonia Co., Mich., September, 1836.
John Booth, Oakland Co., Mich., Jan. 13, 1837.
R. S. Parks and L. S. Warner, Ionia Co., Mich., January, 1837.
Charles A. Trowbridge, Detroit, Mich., Jannary, 1837.
SECTION 11.
Hart & Mills, Grand Rapids, Mich., February, 1836.
Michael Sinead, Genesee Co., N. Y., January, 1837.
Horace Hallock, Wayne Co., Mich., February, 1837. Leland Green, Oakland Co., Mich., February, 1837. Norman P. Green, Clinton Co., Mich., June, 1853. Henry A. Jennison, Clinton Co., Mich., October, 1854.
SECTION 12.
Hart & Mills, Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 2, 1836. Eliza Moore, lonia Co., Mich., January, 1837.
Baptiste Mak-i-to-quet, Clinton Co., Mich., Jan. 31, 1837.
Pe-aw-mo, Tan-wa-so-me, and Ka-wy-aw-so-me, Clinton Co., Mich., Jan. 31, 1837.
Hiram Nestell, Clinton Co., Mich., September, 1851. Nathaniel R. Catlin, Clinton Co., Mich., October, 1852.
SECTION 13.
Oliver Johnson, April 25, 1836. Marshall Smead, Genesee Co., N. Y., January, 1837.
Thomas O. Hill, Wayne Co., Mich., May 5, 1837.
Isaac Reynolds, Ionia Co., Mich., June, 1852.
SECTION 14.
Parce Barber, May 21, 1836. Elias Daniels, May 24, 1836.
Andrew T. MeReynolds, Wayne Co., Mich., Nov. 8, 1836.
Baptiste Makitoqnet and Etienno Lemorandiere, Clintou Co., Mich., Jan. 10, 1837. Win-ta-go-wish, Clinton Co., Mich., Jan. 11, 1837. Francis Bailley, Ionia Co., Mich., Jan. 31, 1837. Frederick Gire, May, 1852.
Philemore Reynolds, Clinton Co., Mich., November, 1852.
Henry and Franklin Vrelenburg, Clinton Co., Mich., March, 1854.
SECTION 15.
Lawson S. Warner, Ionia Co., Mich., July 22, 1836. Henry V. Libhart, Ionia Co., Mich., February, 1837.
Edward Y. Morton and John B. Guiteau, louis, Mich., February, 1837. Clemens Gibbs, Clinton Co., Mich., November, 1854.
School lands.
SECTION 16. .
SECTION 17.
Parce Barber, May 21, 1836. Abner Spencer, Jackson Co., Mich., Sept. 26, 1836.
R. S. Parks and L. S. Warner, Fonia Co., Mich., Feb. 13, 1837. John and John B. Brownell, Oakland Co., Mich., Feb. 16, 1837. Thomas Blackmer and P. S. Stoddard, Livingston Co., N. Y., April, 1837.
SECTION 18.
David Irish, Fonia Co., Mich. (west half), Sept. 26, 1836. James W. Tabor, louia Co., Mich. (east half), Sept. 26, 1836.
SECTION 19.
Parce Barber, May 21, 1836. Alexander II. Edwards, July 12, 1836.
William A. Burgess, Ionia Co., Mich., September, 1836. Robert McClelland, Monroe Co., Mich., September, 1836. Levi A. Mills, city of New York, December, 1836.
SECTION 20.
Daniel Barker, Dec. 26, 1836. Robert S. Parks and Elias Daniels, April 29, 1836.
Horace Butler, May 17, 1836.
William Mann, Ionia Co., Mich., Sept. 23, 1836.
Levi A. Mills, city of New York, Dec. 17, 1836. Phineas Van Ness, Clintou Co., Mich., October, 1854.
SECTION 21.
William Mann, Ionia Co., Mich., Sopt. 23, 1836. Ledra Phillips, Clinton Co., Mich., April 27, 1836. William L. Drake, November, 1852. Hiram Segar, Lenawee Co., Mich., July, 1853.
SECTION 22.
Iliram Benedict, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1836. Henry J. Pearsall, Oakland Co., Mich., February, 1837. Ledra Phillips, Clinton Co., Mich., April, 1837. William Faragher, Clinton Co., Mich., April, 1837. Charles Sessions, Ionia Co., Mich., Nov. 14, 1837. Nathaniel Sessions, Ionia Co., Mich., Nov. 14, 1837. Charles Sessions, Clinton Co., Mich., October, 1852.
SECTION 23.
Horace Butler, May 17, 1836. Elias Daniels, May 24, 1836.
Allen A. Robinson, Monroe Co., Mich., Nov. 4, 1836. Charles Osgood, Monroe Co., Mich., Dec. 12, 1836. Michael Pearsall, Oakland Co., Mich., Feb. 15, 1837.
SECTION 24.
Horace Butler, entire section, May 17, 1836
SECTION 25.
Benjamin Pierson, Wayne Co., Mich., Feb. 15, 1837. William J. Wells, Wayne Co., Mich., Feb. 15, 1837. Isaac W. Averell, Wayne Co., Mich., April 8, 1837. Benjamin F. Larned, Wayne Co., Mich., April 12, 1837. Caroline Sprague, Oakland Co., Mich., Feb. 15, 1838. Harriet Sprague, Ionia Co., Mich., April 8, 1839.
SECTION 26.
Charles Osgood, Monroe Co., Mich., Dec. 12, 1836. Horace Hallock, Wayne Co., Mich., April 12, 1837. Seth B. Pearsall, Oakland Co., Mich., Oct. 17, 1837. Louis S. Lovell, Ionia Co., Mich., Nov. 14, 1853.
SECTION 27.
Harlow Benedict, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1836. Perry Billings, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1836. Ilorace Hallock, Wayne Co., Mich., Feb. 15, 1837. Robert S. Parker, Fonia Co., Mich., April 8, 1837.
SECTION 28.
Horace Butler, May 17, 1836. Perry Billings, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1836.
SECTION 29.
Horace Butler, May 17, 1836. William Mann, Ionia Co., Mich., Sept. 29, 1836
SECTION 30.
Dauiel Barker, May 2, 1834. James B. Murray, Aug. 8, 1835. Daniel Slawson, Jr., Sept. 9, 1835. Sebastian Beckwith, Ionia Co., Mich., Dec. 24, 1835. William Mann, Ionia Co., Mich., September, 1836.
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SECTION 31.
Daniel Barker, May 2, 1834. Daniel Slawson, Jr., Sept. 9, 1835. Sebastian Beckwith, Ionia Co., Mich., Dec. 24, 1835.
Lucius Warner, Geneva, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1836.
SECTION 32.
William Mann, Ionia Co., Mich., Sept. 23, 1836.
Sherman Goodwin and George Ilenderson, Wayne Co., Mich., Sept. 24, 1836.
SECTION 33.
John Norvell, Wayne Co., Mich. (whole section), Feb. 15, 1837.
SECTION 34.
Ifomer Loomis, Ontario Co., N. Y., .Jan. 27, 1837.
Henry II. Loomis, Geneva, N. Y., May 21, 1853.
Anson C. Loomis, Ontario Co., N. Y., Oct. 18, 1853.
SECTION 35.
Joseph Penniman, Wayne Co., Mich., Feb. 15, 1837. Jesso Jolly, Washtenaw Co., Mich., Sept. 12, 1853. Anson C. Loomis, Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1853.
John N. Fowler, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1853.
SECTION 36.
Alanson Aldrich, Wayne Co., Mich., February, 1837. Samnel Boughton, Oakland Co., Mich., February, 1837. Edwin II. Jones, Wayne Co., Mich., February, 1837. George W. Perry, Wayne Co., Mich., April 12, 1837. Anson C. Loomis, Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1853. John N. Fowler, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1853.
FIRST AND OTHER EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
Upon sections 30 and 31 began the first settlements and improvements in the present township of Lebanon. Daniel Barker, a native of one of the New England States, was an carly settler in Washtenaw County. On the 2d of May, 1834, he became the first individual owner of land in township 8 north, of range No. 4 west, by the purchase of the west half of the southeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of section 30; also the north- west quarter of the northeast quarter of section 31. ITis location was a desirable and well-chosen one, being situated near the northeastern limit of the beautiful tract known at an carly day as the East Plains,-lands which in a state of nature produced only will grass, willows, and scattered oaks, and readily yielded to cultivation.
Some time during the summer or fall of 1834, accom- panied by his wife and two or three small children, Mr. Barker took up his abode on the west half of the south- east quarter of section 30, building his cabin about sixty rods in rear of Hon. John Vance's present residence. Ile was a young man about thirty years of age, and in the course of two or three years had placed under cultivation about twenty-five acres of land. On the 26th of December, 1836, he increased his landed estate by the purchase of the west half of the southwest quarter of section 20. An event of unusual occurrence (even in thickly-settled com- munities ) took place in his family June 1, 1837, and in time his neighbors were made aware of the fact that he was the proud father of twin daughters.
Bnt Mr. Barker was destined not to remain long con- spienous as a pioneer and first settler of the now populous township of Lebanon. Returning from Ionia on the 6th of November, 1837, whither he had been to obtain flour
and other supplies for his family, he met his death by drowning in attempting to cross Maple River. Thus in Mr. Barker's family occurred the first births and death in the township. His widow and children removed from this vicinity the year following his decease.
The town of Starkey, Yates Co., N. Y., furnished the next settlers, in the persons of the brothers John, William, and Andrew Vance, who arrived here May 16, 1837. The former had resided in Livingston Co., N. Y., three years prior to his coming to Michigan, and was accompanied by his wife, Cornelia A., and two children, Emmet and Ursula. His brothers were unmarried. Ilaving purchased from Daniel Slawson, Jr., the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 31, John Vanee erected his dwelling thereon, and as a Michigan farmer began a career which has been remarkably successful. Beginning with forty acres, the purchase of which took all his available cash, his estate has been increased until he now owns eight hundred and ninety-four acres, besides having given his sons three hundred acres. He was present at the organization of Wandaugon township, and, as will be seen by reference to the lists of township officers, has been prominently identi- fied with the civil history of Lebanon. He has served as supervisor eleven terms, besides in various other capacities. His brothers, also, have proved themselves most worthy citizens.
John A. Millard, a brother-in-law of John Vance, also came from Starkey, Yates Co., N. Y., and settled where he now resides in July, 1837. His name occupies a conspicu- ous place in the annals of Lebanon, and he has ever been accounted one of its most prominent and trustworthy in- habitants.
In December, 1835, Sebastian Beckwith, of Ionia County, purchased quite extensively of lands situated on both sides of the county-line, ineluding in this township the greater portion of the west half of section 31 and the fraction of section 30 lying north of Maple River. He was a bachelor, and for a short time resided in Lyons township, Tonia County. He died about the spring of 1838, when his brothers, Dr. Norton II. and Miner Y. Beckwith, came in and occupied that portion of his estate lying in Leb- anon. The Beckwiths were from Geneva, N. Y., and first located in Washtenaw County. They were active, energetic men, and at an early day took the lead in farming and making improvements. Norton 11. Beckwith built a framed barn and a plank house on the northwest fractional quar- ter of section 31 in 1840, which, except those built by the salt company, are believed to have been the first framed buildings erected in the township. Miner Y. Beckwith was an early justice of the peace.
Alonzo D. Brewster, prominent as one of the first resi- dents of the township, and who served as its supervisor in 1840 and '41, was also here in 1838, perhaps earlier.
As yet settlements all tended towards the southwest corner of the township, or that locality known as the East Plains. In December, 1838, Charles Sessions began the first improvements in the central part. He was born in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., N. Y., and with his father's family (he being the eldest of seventeen children) emi- grated to North Plains, Ionia Co., in the spring of 1837.
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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
In November of the same year he purchased one hun- dred and twenty acres situated upon section 22, where, as before stated, he began " clearing" one year later.
His location was in the midst of a wilderness ten miles wide from east to west, and his nearest neighbors were one-half that distance away, viz., to the southeast on the East Plains, and to the northeast on Benedict's Plains. Ile built a small cabin, which stood near the site of his present dwelling, and with his axe and twenty dollars in money began hewing out a farm. Ten aeres were cleared the first winter. With plenty of Indians and wild ani- mals around him, he lived alone until 1840, when he married his first wife, Miss Miriam McCooley, of Ionia County. Ionia, twenty miles distant, was his nearest post- office. Those settlers who preceded him here, according to his recollections, have already been mentioned. llis first team grew up under his eare from ealves. Mr. Sessions has always been one of the most prominent men in his township. Ile has served in nearly every position in the gilt of his townsmen, is now the owner of eleven hundred and seventy-one aeres, and still resides where he settled forty-two years ago. John Vanee, James W. Tabor, John A. Millard, and himself all set out apple-trees soon after their settlement. Mr. Millard brought some cherry-trees from New York State when he came here in July, 1837.
James W. Tabor was another prominent early settler of Lebanon. On the 26th of September, 1836, he bought of the government the east half of fractional section IS. He settled upon the same in 1838 or 1839, and prior to June, 1840, owned the entire section. lle served several terms as supervisor, also as township elerk and justice of the peace.
Among other early settlers who came in at about the same time as those last mentioned were Harvey Waterman, Russell Smith, Martin Yetter, one of the first parties mar- ried here, and A. Warner.
Lebanon in 1838 was the scene of a series of wild spee- ulations, so rife in the State of Michigan at that time, and perhaps no historieal paper relating to the township would be considered at all complete which did not allude even briefly to them. The pioneers yet living relate the oft- repeated story of excessive prices of wild or nneultivated lands, and of lots in prospective villages and cities which now have nothing but the recorded plat in the office of the register of deeds to indicate their location. This specula- tion no doubt was largely owing to the great amount of paper money then afloat in the State. The men engaged in these enterprises were full of energy and activity, pos- sessed of first-class business attainments, and, perhaps it was claimed for them, of sterling worth, who, although living in a region but yet sparsely settled, were anxious to become wealthy at once. In the attempt to compass their objects, however, the most unserupnlous means were not unfre- quently employed, and when occasion offered they did not hesitate to dupe men of their own State, although it was generally elaimed that their victims were more particularly sought for on the east side of Lake Erie.
It seems that during the years 1836 and '37, Robert S. Parks, Lawson S. Warner, and others of Ionia County purchased lands situated upon sections 10, 15, 17, and 20.
Soon after settlements had began to thrive in this and ad- joining townships it was rumored that salt springs of value existed on that part of section 15 lying north of Maple River. Whether salt springs or brackish water existed there then or now it is not our province to determine, for some old residents have asserted that " Parks sunk a barrel of salt in a hole on the bottoms of Maple River for purposes of speculation," while others of this county, also of Shia- wassee, assert that to their personal knowledge the Indians boiled salt in the present township of Lebanon, hence the origin of its original name Wandaugon, meaning " salt springs." However, during the legislative session of 1838 an act was passed (approved April 3d of that year), of which the following is an extraet, duly incorporating the Clinton Salt-Works Company :
" Robert S. Parks, Lawson S. Warner, Thomas B. An- drews, Charles llubbell, Calvin C. Parks, and such other persons as shall hereafter associate with them and their sue- eessors, shall be and they are hereby created a body eorpo- rate and politie by the name of the 'Clinton Salt-Works Company.' The said corporation is hereby required to im- prove the real estate belonging to said company, situate at Clinton Salt-Works, in the county of Clinton and State of Michigan, known as all that part of the village of Clinton Salt. Works described as the 'reserve' on the map of said village, duly executed and recorded, the which is situated on section No. 15, in township No. S north, of range No. 4 west, in the Grand River land district, and is held and owned by the said Robert S. Parks and others for the pur- pose of manufacturing salt, by erecting the necessary build- ings and vats, by boring the earth and sinking proper tubes and pumps to procure a sufficient quantity of water ; and also shall have power to construet or purchase such and all other apparatus and machinery necessary for the carrying on of said salt manufacturing establishment to such an ex- tent as shall be deemed necessary to advance the interest of said company and to transaet the business of the same."
The foregoing aet was to remain in force twenty years. The company ereeted several frame buildings in 1838, and doubtless brilliant prospectuses accompanied the engraved copies of their village plat which circulated in the Eastern country. The finding of salt-brine, at least in paying quantities, proved an utter failure. But before its collapse the ruling spirits of the company found time, and the op- portunity under the general banking law of 1837, to estab- lish the " Clinton County Salt-Works Bank." The general provisions of this law were fairly drawn, except that in the two important features that eoneern most the publie-se- eurity to the bill-holders and a bona fide eapital to seeure the depositors-they were inadequate. The capital must not be less than fifty thousand dollars, or more than one hundred thousand dollars. The issne could be two and one- half times the capital paid in. The interest should not exceed seven per cent. on discounts, and the banks were required to make semi-annual dividends, assuming always the banks' ability to do this. The security for the payment of the banks' obligations were to be bonds and mortgages on real estate, to be held by the bank commissioner, and the specie in the vaults of the corporation. Few banks had this specie, though the law required thirty per cent. of
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the capital to be paid in " in legal money of the United States." These specie deposits furnished little reliable se- eurity. The fact was, the bank commissioner, whose duty it was to examine these banks once in three months, was often deceived, as one bank would inform another when the commissioner was coming, and the banks would borrow money to exhibit to the commissioner and return it when he went away. In this manner the same specie would often serve for the use of several banks.
We are credibly informed that a pailful of silver coin, owned by Moses Dean, of Maple township, Ionia Co., furnished the "legal money of the United States" on which was based and established, " according to law," the Clinton County Salt-Works Bank, and the only evidence its managers ever could have produced in their assumption of having specie in the vaults of the corporation arose from the fact that the coin was brought to the dwelling of John Vance* by Mr. Dean. It was there counted in the pres- ence of the said bank officials, after which, without any transfer having been made, Mr. Deau returned with it to his home. This was the system of banking inaugurated in the early days of Michigan, the overthrow of which pro- duced such a financial shock in the State that many years elapsed before a recovery from its effects was experienced.
Messrs. Parks, Warner & Co. went forward and issued their elaborately engraved notes of the Clinton County Salt- Works Bank, but their circulating power proved to be of but short duration, however, and this bank, with other like institutions, suspended payment on the decision of the Supreme Court relieving the stockholders from any lia- bility touching the redemption of the bills of the bank. Thus ended the manufacture of salt and wildcat banking on the wilderness bottom-lands of Maple River.
RESIDENTS IN THE TOWNSHIP IN 1840.
The resident tax-payers of Lebanon in 1840, and the lands upon which taxes were assessed, were as follows :
Acres.
Morton 11. Beckwith, sections 30, 31. 206
John Vance, sections 30, 31. 253
James W. Tubor, entire section 18 585
Daniel Barker's heirs, sections 20, 30, 31. 280
Charles Sessions, section 22 120
John A. Millard, section 31 160
Russell Smith, section 11
Harvey Waterman Personal
Alonzo D. Brewster and Miller. Personal
Those named in addition, in 1841, were :
Acres.
Miner Y. Beckwith, section 31 51
Martin Yetter, section 31
80
A. Warner, sections 20, 30, 31 .. 280
In 1844 there were as additional residents :
Palmer D. Bancroft, sections 10, 22.
Elijah Ford, section 32.
Isane Sherman, section 32.
Avery Delong, section 29.
Daniel Fifield, Jr , section 6.
Walter Halstead, section 32.
Ezekiel Halstead, section 32.
Ledra Phillips, sections 21, 22.
Charles Millard, section 22.
The total tax levied on real and personal estate (inelud-
+ Mr. Vance was not interested in these speculations.
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ing present township of Dallas) was one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty cents.
The holding of a large portion of the township as non- resident lands by speculators proved to be here, as else- where in the State, a great detriment to its material wealth and increase of population, and as late as 1850 there were but thirty meut mentioned as resident tax-payers, viz. :
Acres.
John Vance, sections 30, 31
352
John A. Millard, section 31
160
James W. Tabor, section 18. 585
Lucius 11. Peet, section 36. 110
William Vanderhoof, section 17.
80
Dennis Merwin, sections 26, 36.
130
Ledra Phillips, section 22 160
40)
William Daniels, section 5.
150
Lyman Daniels, section 5. 411
40
Reuben Ferris, section 5
Ezekiel Halstead, section 32
31
Avery Delong, section 29.
169
Miner Y. Beckwith, section 31.
53
Elijah Ford, section 32
Charles Sessions, section 22
160
Hezekiah Austin, section 22,
10
Isaac Fifield, section 6
80
Thomas Bellows, section 32.
10
Nelson P. Johnson, section I
69
William Mather, section 1
64
John Sturgess, section 32.
160
Paris Corey, sections 30, 31
232
Chester Wood, section 32. 70
Cornelius Valeau, sections 30, 31. 100
Albert G. Russell. Personal
William MeAllister, section 32. 40
R. M. Cone, section 10,
David Fifield, section 6,
During the succeeding decade a marked increase in popu- lation took place, and the residents assessed for taxes in 1860 were as follows :
Sec.
Sec.
J. C. Caldwell 1
11. K. Baynes ...
Albert G. Russell
1
David P. Wecks ..
I 1
M. N. Wude ..... 1,
2
T. J. Terwilliger.
Paul De Witt .. 11
1 Robert Frank
L. S. Scott.
2 William Vredeoburg
C. Il. Townsend.
M. L. Weatherwax
Jacob lancher Personal
J. 1'. Casler
19
L. S. Aldrich
3 11. Jaques ..
Robert Winfield
3 Broderick Winfield
Il. A. Jennison.
5 J. F. Owen.
Ilenry White.
13 13
Lyman Daniels William Daniels
5 Michael Frear
Herman Sprague.
14
David Fifield
6
Henry Geer.
Henry S. Barker.
Peter Winans
15 15 15
Sanford Vandusen.
G J. Wright ...
15
Harrison Colby.
llenry Colby.
Chester Warner
C. C. Stoddard.
P. 11. Babcock.
S John Leary
R. D. Tabor
8 A. N. Fuller.
17 17 17 17
Mason W. Stoddard.
Oscar Rogers,
9 L. Dexter.
12
E. C. Churchill
9 Justus Perry. 17
William Reynolds
9
Henry Dextor. Personal
C. G. Sherwood. 10, 15
Esther Tabor
A. Miles.
10
J. A. Tabor
Oliver Cunningham 10
E. M. Tabor
J. W. Crawford 10
M. N. Tabor
t Possibly mistakes in the spelling of names will be found in this and the succeeding long list. If so, the fault must be attributed to those who made out the assessinent-rolls.
13
Reuben Ferris 5, 8
5
A. Terwilliger.
5
Isaac Reynolds
5.8
Volney Newland
6 C. Gibbs.
Pliny Moore ..
Marcus Smith.
7 Charles Sessions .. 15, 16, 20, 22 23 16 7 L. 1. Wamsley 16
Henry Manga
Charles Rosecrans.
G. A. Geluf
John G. Roberts
S Rufus B
11. L. Stoddard.
1
Jonathan Terwilliger.
C. II. Newcomb
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