BlockSalem Township (part 3 of 3)
Part 3 of 3 of the account of this township in History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, published 1880. 126 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Parts
3 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
The chapter
126 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, published 1880. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Although this small portion of the public domain was soon after placed in market, it was not until Jan. 9, 1835, that the first individual purchase of land was made in the present township of Wayland.
On the date last mentioned Col. Isaac Barnes, who had become the first settler of Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., in 1830, purchased a portion of section 9. Three other tracts only were purchased during the remainder of the year 1835, to wit : part of section 29, Azor Forsyth and Alanson Reals, Washtenaw Co., Mich., Sept. 10, 1835 ; part of section 6, Isaac and George W^. Barnes, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., Dec. 25, 1835 ; part of section 10, Isaac and George W. Barnes, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., Dec. 25, 1835.
Provenance
Text from History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, published 1880, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.