Memoirs of Lenawee County, Michigan: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Lenawee County, Volume 1Richard Illenden Bonner Western Historical Association, 1909 - Cities and towns |
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acres of land Adrian township afterward appointed April bank Bean Creek became Blissfield born building built Charles church circuit city of Adrian Clinton commenced commissioners Company Comstock court death Detroit district early east elected engaged erected farm George Governor held Hillsdale Hillsdale county Hudson Indian James John Joseph judge July June Lake land on section legislature Lenawee county lieutenant lived located log house Macon township Madison township March Medina Medina township Methodist miles mill Monroe Monroe county Morenci Ohio organized Orleans county Palmyra paper pastor pioneer practice present purchased quarter of section railroad Raisin Raisin township regiment removed Republican resided river River Raisin road Rollin Rollin township Seneca Seneca township settled settlement settlers sold spring Tecumseh territory Territory of Michigan tion Toledo took town township village Wayne county William winter York
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Page 108 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Page 645 - States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.
Page 34 - Port, Place, and Harbour within the same; leaving in all Fortifications the American Artillery that may be therein: And shall also order and cause all Archives, Records, Deeds and Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens...
Page 110 - Pennsylvania line aforesaid ; provided, always, and it is hereby fully understood and declared by this convention, that if the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan should extend so far south that a line drawn due east from it should not intersect Lake Erie, or if it should intersect...
Page 47 - Be it ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that the estates, both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said Territory, dying intestate, shall descend to, and be distributed among, their children, and the descendants of a deceased child, in equal parts...
Page 116 - Miami river of the lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay...
Page 110 - Lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this state shall be established by and extended to a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay, after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the Great Miami river as aforesaid, thence northeast to the territorial line, and by the said territorial line to the Pennsylvania line.
Page 71 - Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan...
Page 39 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 49 - Sinclair; thence running north east the course, that may be found, will lead in a direct line, to White Rock, in lake Huron, thence due east, until it intersects the boundary line between the United States and Upper Canada, in said lake...