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Reminscences of early Michigan History 1800's
The most that he saved from the general ruin was his residence, on the corner of JefEerson avenue and Bates street, running back to Larned street, in front of Ste. Anne's Church, and twenty acres in the then called Bush, on Woodward avenue, somwhere about Winder street, all of which he sold when he bought his farm in Oakland county.
In the fall of 1815 he moved his family from Concord, Mass., to Detroit. Mother and eight children, myself the oldest, then about thirteen (born February 7,1802), traveled with spring carriages, and their goods (what were necessary) in double covered wagons, to Buffalo, stopping at the Cold Spring Hotel, near Buffalo, kept by one Col. Miller, Buffalo, we found in ruins, it having been burned by the British
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