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This act makes no mention of all the lower part of the county south of the township of Cottrellville as newly laid out, nor did it include within any township the remaining part of St. Clair county, a strip three miles wide, which lay north of Desmond township. As this strip was entirely unsettled at the time it did not make any difference, but it left in an uncertain position those people who lived at the extreme lower end of the county. This omission was rectified and doubts removed at the next meeting of the legislative council by an act approved May 27, 1828.
By this aet the lower tier of sections was taken from Cottrellville and put with the rest of the south end of the county into the township with the new name of Clay, instead of the old name of Plainfield, which was not retained because there was another township of that name. The new name Clay was given in honor of Henry Clay.
For the sake of convenience, all subsequent changes in township lines will be treated under the townships arranged alphabetically.
BERLIN TOWNSHIP
This township was created from the township of Clyde by act of March 22, 1839, and was composed of surveyed townships six, seven and
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eight north in range thirteen east. It was subsequently reduced by the township of Lynn, set off in 1850, and of Mussey in 1855, remaining with its present limits as surveyed township six north, range thirteen east. The origin of the name of the town is unknown. The east half of the township was surveyed in 1817, but the west half, on account of the large area of swamp land, was not surveyed until 1835, and on this account it was often called in the early days the half town.
Belle river heads in the swamps in the western part of this township and the eastern part of Lapeer county, and furnishes drainage through dredging and ditching to the township. A large amount of this work has been done, with the result that Berlin ranks high as a fertile and well cultivated township.
In the years 1835 and 1836, when the fever of land speculation in the state was high, 8,670 acres or more than one-third of the entire town- ship was purchased for speculative purposes. Actual settlers soon fol- lowed, and by 1840 the following pioneers had purchased land and begun life in the new township :
Sec. 10 Bruce and Aldrich, with saw-mill.
Sec. 11 Lewis Smith.
Sec. 12 Cyrus Stoddard, Albert Doty.
Sec. 12-13 Knawkechagame, an Indian.
See. 14 Sylvester Warner.
Sec. 14-15 Elihu Granger.
Sec. 19 Philander Fox.
Sec. 20 Stephen A. McGeorge.
See. 21 Abraham Smith, Curtis Edgerton.
Sec. 26 Edward and Beekman Chamberlain, Samuel Carpenter.
Sec. 28 Edward Chapman.
Sec. 29 Reuben Dodge, David Churchill.
Sec. 30 Townsend Lockwood.
Sec. 31 T. R. Hallock.
Sec. 32 John Butler, Joseph Richardson.
Sec 33 S. S. Gould.
Sec. 34 Ephraim Coddington, Henry Stone.
Sec. 35-36 John A. Warner, Asahel B. Howell.
The township is traversed by the Almont branch of the Pere Mar- quette Railway, and contains three unincorporated villages. Belle River, Berville and Allenton. The first is so named because it is located on the river of that name. The second contains the first syllable of the township name, and the third-formerly known as Smith's Corners- takes its name from a prominent resident of the township, Darius Allen.
Its population since it was set off appears from the national census : 1840, 255; 1850. 533; 1860, 1,030; 1870, 1,231 : 1880. 1.283; 1890, 1,237; 1900, 1,267; 1910, 1,214.
From its organization its supervisors have been: 1839-41, county commissioners ; 1842, Elihu Granger; 1843, Sylvester Warner; 1844-5, Thomas R. Hallock ; 1846, Frederick Locke; 1847. Horton Healy : 1848, Frederick Locke ; 1849-51, Horton Healy ; 1852, Daniel E. Frost ; 1853-4,
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William Hamilton; 1855-6, John Allen; 1857-61, Daniel E. Frost; 1862, John Allen ; 1863-7, Albert Doty; 1868, Charles Hebden ; 1869-70, Albert Doty; 1871, Vernon P. Granger; 1872-5, Albert Doty; 1876, Adam C. Draper; 1877, Albert Doty; 1878-80, William O'Connor; 1881, Adam C. Draper; 1882-4, William O'Connor; 1885-7, Albert P. Wheeler; 1888-9. William O'Connor; 1890-4, Will J. Sweet; 1895-6, John L. Shepherd; 1897-8. David Cochrane; 1899-00, Will J. Sweet ; 1901-5, George B. Berk ; 1907-11, John L. Shepherd.
BROCKWAY
This township was organized by act March 17. 1848, and consisted of that part of Clyde township known as town 7 north, in ranges 14 and 15 east, and of that part of Burtchville known as town S north, in ranges 14 and 15 east. It took its name from Lewis Brockway, a large timber land owner and operator of the time. It was reduced by the creation of Emmet and Kenockee townships in 1850. and of Green- wood in 1855, to its present limits, town 8 north, range 14 east.
The settlers in this township in 1840 were: Section 24. William Lumby ; section 24-25. Lewis Brockway; section 36. H. A. Campfield.
The township is drained by Mill creek, and is traversed by the Saginaw branch of the Marquette railway. It contains the city of Yale and the unincorporated village of Broekway.
Its population statistics are : 1850, 731; 1860, 746; 1870, 1,330; 1880, 1,839 ; 1890, 2,237; 1900, 2,325; 1910, 2,176. Since, and includ- ing 1890, the foregoing figures have included the population of Yale.
Its supervisors have been : 1848, David A. Brockway; 1849-57, John Grinnell; 1858, Clark Washburne; 1859, John Whitman; 1860-3, Samuel Welch ; 1864, John Grinnell ; 1865-70, David D. Brown; 1871-3, John D. Jones; 1874, Jesse A. Morrill; 1875. John D. Jones; 1876-7, Richard Newkirk; 1878-9, John S. Duffie; 1880, William J. Morgan; 1881-9, John D. Jones; 1890-3, William Hodgins; 1894-6, Robert M. Lothian ; 1897, Alex W. Ferguson; 1898-9, Grant Holden; 1900-02, William Hodgins; 1903-5, William Cavanagh; 1907-11, John L. Pat- terson.
BURTCHVILLE
This township was created by act of the legislature approved Feb- ruary 16, 1842, and was composed of surveyed townships eight north in ranges, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventeen east. From this in 1848 the two western townships were taken off, and in 1866 the town- ship of Grant was created, leaving Burtchville, which was named for Jonathan Burtch, its most prominent early settler and first supervisor, with its present limits, which include town eight north, range seventeen east, and the east tier of sections (1, 12, 13, 24, 25, 36), in town eight north, range sixteen east.
Owing to the pine timber originally in this township, and its acces- sibility, settlement began early, and by 1836 over 7,000 acres had been bought from the government, and in 1840 the following settlers were located :
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Section 5-6, Jonathan Burtch ; section 5, A. Hogan, with a tannery ; section 7, Ethan Burteh; section 8, Peter and S. C. DeGroat; section 12, F. Simons and J. B. Robbins; section 24, L. A. Whitford; section 29, P. H. Whiting and Louis Facer.
In 1836, Jonas H. Titus laid out Milwaukie City upon the south part of section 20, at the mouth of the small stream, which he named Milwaukie creek. This city never progressed beyond the paper plat, and afterwards in 1853 the village of Lakeport was laid out by B. C. Farrand, on the same site, and the name given because of its location. although it was a misnomer in that it possesses none of the qualities of a haven or port, being exposed to storms from every direction.
The population of the township, according to the census returns, has been: 1860, 1,800; 1870, 726; 1880, 752; 1890, 572; 1900, 532; 1910, 455.
Supervisors : 1842, Jonathan Burteh; 1843-4, Abram Hogan; 1845- 7, Ilannibal Hollister; 1848-51, Nelson Potter; 1852-5, James Parlin ; 1856, Ebenezer Raymond; 1857, George B. Whitman; 1858-61, James Parlin ; 1862-6, Thomas Dawson; 1867, John Cole; 1868-70, Nelson Gould ; 1871-2, James Stevenson; 1873, Nelson Gould; 1874, J. B. Cad- well; 1875-6, Whipple Wheeler; 1877, James Stevenson : 1878, Whipple Wheeler ; 1879, Samuel Denison; 1880-95, James Stevenson ; 1896-01, Luther N. Huffman ; 1902-4, Henry Mckenzie; 1905-11, Angus Mc- Intyre.
CASCO
This township composed of town 4 north, range 15 east, was set off by act of March 15, 1849, from the township of China. The source and meaning of the name are uncertain, but it probably is derived from the town of Casco in Maine, and may have been suggested by Captain John Clarke of China, who came from Maine.
The settlement of this township was nearly all made after 1840, although a large part was taken up in 1836.
The resident owners upon the assessment roll of 1840 were: Sec- tion 1, William Fenton, John Tappan, Elijah and Cortland Lindsay ; section 2, Orange Fenton, Richard Freeman ; section 5, Dennis Bates ; section 6, James Reynolds; section 10, Hiram A. and Alonzo Allen, Charles Davis; section 11, Phineas Kinyon ; section 24, Claude Duchene; section 25, Francis Phenix; section 35, Moses Duehene.
The St. Clair branch of the Michigan Central Railroad traverses the north end of the township, and it contains the unincorporated vil- lage of Adair, named by the English contractor who constructed the railroad.
The population statisties of the township are: 1850, 134; 1860, 1,084; 1870, 1,992; 1880, 2,212; 1890, 1,811; 1900, 1,722; 1910, 1,413. Supervisors : 1849, William Hart; 1850, Porter Chamberlain : 1851- 2; Horace S. Clark ; 1853, Flavel P. Chapin ; 1854-6, Stephen A. Fenton ; 1857, Horaee S. Clark; 1858-63, Stephen A. Fenton: 1864. John A. Hirt; 1865, Julius Granger ; 1866-7, John A. Hirt; 1868-71, Fred Biel- man ; 1872-6, William Miller: 1877, Edward March : 1878-80 \ 'lliam
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Miller; 1881-3, Jacob L. Kellar; 1884-6, William Miller: 1887. Jacob L. Kellar; 1888, William Miller; 1889-92, Jacob L. Kellar; 1893-03, Joseph M. Winkle; 1904-7, William Koch; 1908, Charles Zentgrebe ; 1909-11, John Rewaldt.
CHINA
This township was created by act of the legislative council, March 17, 1834, and consisted of surveyed townships 4 north, in ranges 15, 16, and 17 east. The name was given at the suggestion of Captain John Clarke, a prominent early resident, who as a boy lived in China town- ship, Kennebec county, Maine. Its limits were reduced in 1849 by the erection of the township of Casco, and in 1859 by the township of East China, leaving it as at present.
In order to avoid doubt as to the location of the north line of the township, it was provided by act of April 12, 1839, that the north line of the township should continue dne east through the private claims to River St. Clair.
On March 17, 1849. the north line was again modified by following the west, north and east lines of private claim No. 306, until the latter reached Pine river, and then by the courses of that river to the south line of George Palmer's land, and along that line to St. Clair river.
By act of April 1, 1850, the act of 1849 was repealed, and all land within the corporation limits of St. Clair village attached to the town- ship of St. Clair.
This entire township, with the exception of less than 500 acres, was taken up in 1836 and prior years. Belle river ran through it in a southeasterly direction nearly bisecting it, and in section 15 gave op- portunity for an excellent water power, which was utilized in 1825, by Samuel Ward and William Gallagher, who erected a dam and a grist mill. Originally this township was covered with a heavy growth of hardwood timber.
Its resident owners in 1840 were:
Sec. 5 Elizabeth Jerome.
Sec. 6 Richard Allington, Stephen Cornwall, James Reynolds, David and Mary Hart, Daniel Leach.
Sec. 7 Silas Hart. John Cornwall.
Sec. 8 Jacob McQueen, James Low, Wm. Toles, S. B. Carll.
Sec. 9 John Stewart.
Sec. 10 Thomas Latham, Henry Hammond, Myron Williams.
Sec. 11 Clark Worden, Jr., Dolphus Smith, Samuel Peter, W. G. and Edmund E. Carleton.
Sec. 12 Wm. Cook, Chris Bartlett, Squire Gillan, Samuel Webster.
Sec. 13 Adolphus Earle, John M. Oakes.
Sec. 14 Porter Chamberlain, Cornelius Sullivan, J. D. and Clark Worden, James Weeks, Thomas Green.
Sec. 15 William Scott, Thomas Fergo, Gallegher Estate, David Robinson, C. W. Phillips, Frederick Douglass, Edward Hextall.
Sec. 16 J. B. Wolverton.
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See. 17 Michael Duchene, Jr., Lonis Chortie, E. Bertrand.
Sec. 19 William Hammond.
Sec. 22 Edward Stevenson, Charles Gardner, Jarvis Chamberlain,
Domenie Mini, Herman Parsons, John Robertson. Francis Duchenc.
See. 23 Wm. A. Parsons, Joseph Engert, John Francis.
Sec. 25 Timothy Halpin.
Sec. 26 Valentine Some, James Lozon, John McQueen, Otto and Godfrey Diem.
Sec. 27 Joseph Noplit.
Sec. 34 James Loomis, E. Blanchard.
Sec. 35 Edward H. Rose.
Belle river runs through the township from the northwest corner to the southeast corner, and the St. Clair branch of the Michigan Central Railroad traverses the north end.
The population statistics are : 1837, 603: 1840, 610; 1850. 1.037; 1860, 1,340; 1870, 1,638; 1880, 1,628; 1890, 1,380; 1900, 1.318; 1910, 1,189.
Supervisors : 1835-6, Peter Carleton; 1837, Thomas Dart; 1838-41, county commissioners : 1842, David Hart; 1843, Samuel Carleton ; 1844, Alfred Weeks; 1845, Lemuel Parmelee; 1846, John M. Oakes; 1847-8. John Clarke; 1849-50. David Hart; 1851, John Clarke; 1852, David Hart; 1853, Cortland Lindsay; 1854, Tubal C. Owen; 1855. Cortland Lindsay ; 1856, Richard Kirk; 1857, William Butler; 1858-60, Cortland Lindsay ; 1861, Edmund E. Carleton ; 1862, John A. Hoffmire; 1863-4, James O. Robinson ; 1865, John A. Hoffmire; 1866-7, Chester Rankin ; 1868, Frederick Lindow; 1869-71, Chester Rankin; 1872, Moses F. Carleton ; 1873, Michael Halpin; 1874, Chester Rankin; 1875-6, James Powrie : 1877, John Chamberlain ; 1878-83, Frederick Lindow; 1884-5, James Powrie ; 1886-9, Frederick Lindow; 1890-6, Henry Diem; 1897- 05, Benton Osborne; 1907-11, August Weisman.
CLAY
As shown before, this township was the original township of Plain- field, with some restriction in area and change of name. By the act of 1828. it contained all of St. Clair county south of the section line between sections 23 and 33, in town 3 north, range 16 east, extending from River St. Clair to Lake St. Clair. The 23 is evidently a elerical mistake for 28.
By act of March 25, 1836, the line between Clay and Cottrellville was changed so as to begin on St. Clair river at northeast corner of Captain Harrow farm, (Private claim No. 188) then N. 69 degrees W. to northwest corner of said farm, thence west to the northeast corner of section 28; thence along the north line of said section to west corner of section 29; thence north to northeast corner of section 18; thenee west to the county line of Macomb county.
The following year the township was reduced by the creation of the township of Ira, which left the north boundary the north line of the Harrow farm, and the north line of section 28; thenee down the west
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line of section 28, to the southwest corner; thence west to Lake St. Clair, along the south line of sections 29. 30 and 25.
By act of March 17. 1849, all that part of the township of Ira east of the Indian reservation line was attached to Clay, but this action was repealed by act of March 28, 1850.
The board of supervisors at a session held January 11, 1859, de- tached sections 29, 30 and 25 from Ira township and attached them to Clay, since which date there has been no change in the limits.
The settlement of this township began many years before the county of St. Clair was set off. There are twelve private claims within the township, indicating nearly that number of occupants before 1796, and practically all the land within the township had been taken up by the end of 1836. The village of Algonac, which seems to have first borne the name Manchester, was laid out in 1836, and by 1840 the township, though small in area. had a population of 387.
In that year its resident tax payers were: Section 2, Jacob Ken- dall, Dan Daniels: section 3, John K. Smith. Jacob Peer, Jr., Silas Miller and Henry Robertson ; section 9. Clark and Benjamin Newhall, Azel Abel: section 27. Peter Hart : section 28, John Swartout, James Webster, Joseph Richardson and Peter McGregor; section 33, James L. Peer; section 34. James H. Hart.
Upon Harsen's Island were William Harsen, Henry Gell, James Harsen, John H. Stewart. Francis Harsen. Harvey Stewart, Aura P. Stewart, Jacob Harsen, Marks and Thrasher. There were living upon the private claims: George and Catherine Harrow. John Harrow. S. B. Grummond, Charles Chortie, L. Butterfield, Isaac Coombs, Flora Stafford, John Cartwright. In addition to the foregoing the following persons were residing in the village: Charles Beers. Horace Beers, James Burt, Isaac Blauvelt. Tucker and Daniels. James House, M. Jackson, Jeremiah Pangborn, Aaron G. Peer, C. Phillips, C. L. Pool, David Senter, Nathan D. Smith, Weaver Stewart. Jacob G. Streit, William Woolworth; and the following in the township: Thomas Fin- ley, William Foot. Benjamin Graves. William Landon, John Rector. The township contains the incorporated village of Algonac, and many summer resorts, both upon the islands, which form part of the township, and upon the mainland. The present uncertainty of title to the lower portion of the flats. so-called, is treated in another chapter. The Rapid Railway follows rather closely the shore line of the township. The population statistics, including Algonac, are : 1830, 240: 1837. 394: 1840. 387; 1850, 822; 1860, 1,037; 1870, 1,475; 1880, 1,523; 1890, 1,681; 1900, 2,462; 1910. 2,183.
Supervisors : 1828-33. Harvey Stewart; 1834, Charles Kimball; 1835. Jacob Kendall; 1836, Charles Kimball; 1837, Jacob Kendall; 1838-41, county commissioners; 1842, Harvey Stewart ; 1843-4, Daniel Daniels; 1845. Isaac Kline; 1846-8, Chester Kimball; 1849, George Jasperson : 1850-1. Chester Kimball; 1852-5, Isaac Kline; 1856, Daniel Daniels; 1857-9, Aura P. Stewart; 1860-1. James D. Butterfield ; 1862, Samuel Russell; 1863, Isaac Kline; 1864-8, Garrett G. Stewart; 1869, Samuel Russell: 1870. James Burt Smith : 1871. Samuel Russell ; 1872, John B. Kendall; 1873-4, Garrett G. Stewart; 1875-6. Samuel Russell;
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1877-8, John M. Robertson; 1879. James P. Harrow; 1880, Daniel G. Jones ; 1881, John M. Robertson; 1882-4, Daniel G. Jones; 1885-98, John M. Robertson ; 1899, John H. Ihnken ; 1900-11, John M. Robertson.
CLYDE
This township was organized by act Mareh 26, 1836, and included surveyed townships 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 north, in ranges 13, 14, 15, 16, east, 20 surveyed townships. It was reduced in 1837 by the town- ship of Lexington, which took towns 8 and 9 north in ranges 13, 14, 15 and 16, and in the same year by the township of Columbus; in 1838, by the townships of Riley and St. Clair; in 1839, by the township of Berlin ; in 1841, by the township of Wales; in 1850, by the townships of Emmet and Kenockee, and in 1855 by the township of Kimball, which left it with the present limits.
The name was the suggestion of Ralph Wadhams, at the time the proprietor of Clyde Mills, a small settlement at the point, later known as Wadhams, in Kimball township. The mill was built in 1825 by Robert Smart of Detroit, a Scotchman, who gave to the establishment the name of the river in Scotland upon which he had lived as a boy. In 1827 he sold to Wadhams, who maintained the mill for many years. In 1835 a post office was established there with the name Clyde Mills, and Mr. Wadhams as postmaster. It is said that Mr. Wadhams was very fond of the name, and greatly disappointed when through the organization of new townships, the name Clyde was finally attached to a township in which neither he, nor his mill or post office was lo- cated.
Owing to Black river running through the center of this township, thus making all the timber available, mueh of this land within the township was taken up at an early date. It was not surveyed until 1823 but some years before that Ignace Morass had built a sawmill upon section 17, near the junction of Mill creek, with Black river, using the timber near from the government land. When the land was put on sale in 1824, Morass bought the west half of the section upon which his mill stood. There was no swamp land in this township and it was largely taken up by 1836.
Excluding section 16, which was reserved as school land, by the end of 1836 more than nine-tenths of the entire township had been purchased from the government. Much of this was by speculators, but settlers eame in with some rapidity as lumbering operations began with Morass and the Smart mill at Wadhams was built in 1825. By 1840 there were the following actual oeeupants in the township :
Section 3, James Gardner, Allen Atkins, Solomon Kingsley ; see- tions 6-7, Ai Beard; section 9, John H. Westbrook; section 12, Harod Kinney, R. B. Kellogg; section 13, John R. Jones, Joel Perkins, Nor- man R. Smith; section 17, James Abbott, mill; section 24, James S. Vineent ; section 25, Augustus Allen, Isaac Puleifer, Richard Bean ; section 34, Arnold Kinney, D. W. Hollister; section 36, William R. Goodwin, A. W. Clark, Joseph House, Aaron Allen.
In addition to the above real estate owners the following persons
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were assessed in the township in 1840 for personal property: Edward Petit (as tavern keeper). Asa Edgecomb, E. W. Harren, John Arm- strong, John and James Beard and St. Clair Lumbering Company.
This township is traversed by the Saginaw and Port Austin branches of the Pere Marquette Railway, and Black river runs through it from north to south, with Mill creek emptying into it from the west. It con- tains two old unincorporated villages, Abbottsford, upon Mill creek, established at the site of the Abbott mill in section 17, and taking its name from the mill owner, and Ruby, upon Black river, laid out by the Beards and named from the steamboat Ruby which was built in 1851 and ran from Port Huron to Detroit.
The population statistics are: 1837, 339; 1840, 340: 1850, 691; 1860, 1,128; 1870, 1.176; 1880, 1,252; 1890, 1,014; 1900, 948; 1910, 791.
Supervisors : 1836-7, Ralph Wadhams; 1838-41. county commis- sioners ; 1842-52, Ralph Wadhams; 1853. John S. Kimball; 1854-6, Ed- ward Vincent; 1857, Oliver Westbrook: 1858, Edward Vincent; 1859, Michael Plant; 1860-2, Edward Vincent; 1863, Michael Plant; 1864- 76, Edward Vincent: 1877-9. Alex McNaughton; 1880-1, Frank Kin- ney ; 1882-9, Edward Vincent; 1890, John W. Gardner; 1891-01, David Atkins; 1902-9, W. Arnold Kinney; 1910-11, Fred A. Beard.
COLUMBUS
This township was organized by act of the legislature, March 11, 1837, with present limits, town 5 north, range 15 east, taken from the township of Clyde, and was named for the discoverer of America.
Over 17,000 acres in this township were taken up before or during 1836, and by 1840 a considerable number of settlers had gone into pos- session. The following persons appear upon the tax roll for that year as resident property owners :
Sec. 4 Peter Kilroy.
Sec. 5 James Malloy, Barney Curley. Charles Malloy.
Sec. 6 W. B. Stewart. James Stewart. A. Moore, Alfred Bailey.
Sec. 8 Jedediah W. Granger.
Sec. 11 Theodore Bathey.
Sec. 13 George Waterloo.
See. 14 George Bathey.
Sec. 17 John Stevenson, Aaron Bemis.
Sec. 18 Pierce G. Wright.
Sec. 19 Charles Baker.
Sec. 21 Andrew Watrous. Brown Holcomb.
See. 20-21 Robert Ramsey. Elias Palmer.
Sec. 22 Thompson McKiel.
Sec. 24 William H .. and John Savage, Edward Fay.
Sec. 28 John S. Parker.
Sec. 29-30 Lyman Granger.
Sec. 30-31 Morton Shearer.
Sec. 31 Benjamin Weeks.
Sec. 32 Erastus S. Cross, David Carlisle, Nathan Cook.
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Sec. 33-34 Edward HI. Rose.
Sec. 35 Robert Wilson.
It is quite probable that the Fort Gratiot turnpike which was cut through this township by the government in 1832, assisted materially in its early settlement. It is also traversed by the Grand Trunk Rail- road.
Its population statistics are: 1837, 85; 1840, 155; 1850, 377; 1860. 1,032; 1870, 1,218; 1880, 1,327; 1890, 1,158; 1900, 1,054; 1910, 964.
Supervisors : 1837, Theodore Bathey; 1838-41, county commis- sioners; 1842, Daniel Weeks; 1843, John S. Parker; 1844, Daniel Weeks; 1845-6, John S. Parker; 1847-8, Morton Shearer; 1849, Charles Baker; 1850, Lester Cross; 1851-2, David Weeks; 1853-4, George S. Granger; 1855, John S. Parker; 1856, James S. Durfee; 1857, George S. Granger; 1858-9, John S. Parker; 1860, Chauncey R. Canfield ; 1861- 7, George S. Granger; 1868-9, John S. Parker, Jr .; 1870, James Quick ; 1871-3, George S. Granger; 1874-5, Henry U. Smith; 1877, John S. Parker; 1878-82, George S. Granger; 1883-7, Henry P. Hunt; 1888, Ephraim Pearce; 1889, Henry P. Hunt; 1890-1, George S. Granger; 1892-3, Fred H. Bathey ; 1894-7, Cornelius J. O'Donnell; 1898-9, Chris C. MeCall; 1900-01, Thomas Dawson; 1902-3, James M. Haviland ; 1904-7, George M. Hall; 1908-11, Robert Pearee.
COTTRELLVILLE
This township was organized as shown above in 1823. Its bound- aries were changed in 1827 and then remained until March 28, 1840, when it was inereased to take in sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20 of town 3 north, range 16 east, from the town of Ira, leaving the present limits except as changes have taken place in the village and city limits of Marine City.
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