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Pioneer Ministers of Washtenaw Co.
" In the spring of 1829 he was licensed by the association of Andover to preach the gospel. ***** After much deliberation, inclination, as well as a sense of duty, led him to choose the west as his field of labor. ***** In May1830, he was married to Miss Caroline N. Dutton, of Hillsborough, N. H., and came immediately to Ypsilanti, arriving early in June. At that time, the few members of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, thirteen in number, who had entered into covenant the previous fall, were living widely apart in the settlements surrounding the new village—two, four and six miles, sometimes more.
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