{"1": {"fulltext": "pipipiiiiiipipii^^^^^^^^", "height": "3444", "width": "2265", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "4 XV\\ny 6", "height": "3381", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "jP-n,\\nI* i\\n-vP9-\\n.-life- x./ ,-i i \\\\y\\nc\u00c2\u00b0^;^^. /.c;^.*\\nV Ay\\n\\\\1^-\\nO Jk\\n.0^\\no\\nj c\\n^0*\\no.", "height": "3381", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "7\\nmSTOR-lt\\n-OF THE-\\nipAwwciljirp HP\\nMill^rlale Ooiinty\\nM:iCHIGA_ISr.\\nJ-uly 4rtli, ID., 1876.\\n-BY-\\nSAMUEL B. BROWN.\\nHILLSDALE:\\nStandard Steam Prinliii c Mouse,\\nISTC.\\niv^.", "height": "3381", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3386", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF RANSOM.\\nIts Formation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlement\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlers-\\nPopulation- Statistics, C, (j-C.\\nlu compliance with the act of Congress, requesting that a historical ora-\\ntion of each township be delivered in each township July 4th, 1876, and by\\nrequest of the GovernQi-, the following historical sketch of the township of\\nRansom was compiled and delivered at the celebration at Eansom, July 4th,\\nby Samuel B. Brown, of that township:\\nPERIOD FIRST,\\nExtended from the creation of the\\nworld to the discovery of America by\\nColumbus, A. D., 1492.\\nIn the beginning, God created the\\nHeavens and the Earth-\\nGeologists and Moses may settle the\\ntime, included in this period of our his-\\ntory. Our object is accomplished when\\nwe record the fact that Ransom was a\\nportion of this earth.\\nPERIOD SECOND,\\nExtends from the discovery of America\\nby Columbus unto the settlement of\\nthis country by the Pilgrims, at Plim-\\nmouth, Massachusetts, A. D., 1620.\\nDuring the time included in this\\nsecond period of our history, various\\nand numerous expeditions for the ex-\\nploration and settlement of the con-\\ntinent of North America, sailed from\\ndifferent countries of Europe. The ex-\\npedition that sailed in the May Flower,\\nand landed on Plymouth rock, became\\na success, and North America was set-\\ntled by the race of men that now inhab-\\nit it, in Latitude 4i 50 north and in\\nLongitude 7 30 west from Washing-\\nton, and you will be in Ransom, thus\\nshowing Ransom to be included in and\\nforming a part of North America.\\nPERIOD THIRD,\\nExtends from the settlement of the\\ncountry, A. D., 1620, until the Declara-\\ntion of the Independence of the United\\nof America July 4, A. D. 1776.\\nThe success attending the settlement\\nin Massachusetts, stimulated settle-\\nments in other portions of the country,\\nand by other countries. England,\\nFrance and Germany, vied with each\\nother in their efforts to get possession\\nof the couutiy and effect settlements,\\nthe English occupied New England and\\nthe Atlantic coast generally as far\\nsouth as Georgia. The Dutch discov-\\nered the Hudson river, and effected\\nsettlement at New York, and as far up\\nthe river as Albany. The French dis-\\ncovered the St. Lawrence river and ef-\\nfected settlement at various points and\\non the upper lakes, and established a\\nline of trading posts from Lake Erie to\\nthe Ohio river and the Mississippi riv-\\ner to New Orleans, and were in posses-\\nsion of the country in the region of the\\nlakes and the valleys of the Ohio and\\nMississippi rivers, as early as the fore\\npart of the eighteenth century. Pre-\\nvious to July 4,1776, England by treaty\\nstipulations and wars, had got posses-\\nsion, and exercised jurisdiction over\\nthe St. Lawrence and the great lakes.", "height": "3386", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and\\nthe lands adjoining the same. The\\nvarious colonies of Great Britain that\\ntook part in the Declaration of Inde-\\npend^^uce, claimed as their territory all\\nthe country south and west of the St.\\nLawrence and the great lakes thus\\nRansom was included in the Declara-\\ntion of Independence.\\nPERIOD FOURTH,\\nExtends from the Declaration of Inde-\\npendence in 1776, unto the admission\\nof Michigan as a State into the Union,\\nin January 1837.\\nDuring the first ten years following\\nthe Declaration of Independence, no\\nmention is made of our immediate io-\\neality, but on the 13th day of July 17^7,\\nan ordinance for the government of the\\nteri itory of the United States north-\\nwest of the river Ohio, was passed in\\nCongress. In Congress, Aug. 7, 1789,\\nan act was passed regulating the inter-\\ncourse between the territorial officers\\nand the general government. In Con-\\ngress, May 8, 1792, an act conferring\\nadditional powers upon territorial offi-\\ncers was passed In Congress, Jan. 11,\\n1805, an act to divide the Indian ter-\\nritory into two separate governments\\nwas passed, this act set ofi from the\\nother Indian territory, the land north\\nof the southern extremity of lake Mich-\\nigan, and lying between lake Michigan\\nand lake Erie, and extending north to\\nthe northern bouudary.of the United\\nStates into a separate territory and\\ncalled it Michigan, with the seat of\\ngovernment at Detroii,. Settlements\\nof the territory of Michigan progressed\\nslowly for many years; an unfavorable\\nimpression that the country was\\nswampy and unfit for cultivation pre-\\nvailed to a large extent. At the date\\nof the admission of Michigan to the\\nUnion as a State, the population did\\nnot^xceed, according theU. S. census,\\n40,000, and among them was Rowland\\nBird and family of Ransom, the first\\nand only white inhabitant of this town.\\nPERIOD FIFTH,\\nExtends from January 1837, the date\\nof the admission of Michigan into the\\nUnion until July 4, A. D. 1876.\\nWith the present period of our his-\\ntory commenced active operation in the\\nsettement of Ransom. Rowland Bird,\\na native of Massachusetts, who had\\npreviously lived in Wayne county New\\nYork; in the year 1832, in October,,\\nmoved into Michigan, and located in the\\ntown of Syl/ania, now in the State of\\nOhio, From Sylvania he came to Ran-\\nsom, where he arrived March 8, 1836.\\nWith him came his wife and seven\\nchildren, four daughters and three\\nsons; also a young man, by the name\\nof Leander Candee, as a man* of all\\na)l work; what his wages were, or for\\nwhat he served, the only record we\\nhave is, that four years after, to- wit.,\\nMarch 1840, he took to wife Lorinda\\nBird, and no doubt considered himself\\namply repaid for all the privations and\\nhardships he had endured.\\nFor one or two years Mr. Birds fam-\\nilys only neighbors were the wild ani-\\nmals, witii which the forests abounded,\\nand an occasional traveler in search of\\nt a location to settle. The next family\\nin town was Orrin Cobb s, on the west\\nI town line; he was soon followed by a\\nnumlier of families, and in the spring\\nof 1840 the inhabitants of the town\\nnumbered about one hundred, and\\nmeasures were taken to organize the\\ntown. On the sixth day of April 1840,\\nan election of township officers was\\nheld at the house of Alexander Palmer,\\non section four in town eiglat south of\\nrange two west, and the town was\\nnamed Rowland, and included town\\neight and fraction nine, running south\\nto the State line.\\nThe townshii? record furnish the fol-\\nlowing particulars.\\nInspectors of election Rowland\\nBird. Orin Cobb, Rufus Rathburn, and\\nJoseph Howe.\\nClerk Thomas Burt.\\nNumber of votes polled was eighteen.\\nFor Supervisor, Leander Candee re-\\nceived 18. For Town Clerk, Israel S,\\nHodges received 18. For Treasurer,\\nRowland Bird received 18. For As-\\nAssessor, Matthew Armstrong. Row-\\nland Bird and Orin Cobb receiv-\\ned each 18. For Collector, Alex-\\nander Palmer received 18. For School\\nInspectors, Matthew Armstrong, Israel\\nS. Hodges and James H. Babcock re-\\nceived 18. For Directors of the Poor,\\nJoseph Howe and William Phillips i-e-\\nceived each 18 votes. For Commis-\\nsioners of Highways, James H. Bab-\\ncock, Alexander Palmer, and Henry\\nCornell received 18. For Justice of\\nthe Peace, Rowland Bird, James H.", "height": "3386", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "5\\nBabcock, Mattliew Armsti f np; and\\nHeury Cornell receivt-d each 18. For\\nCoustables, Alexander Palmer, Joseph\\nPhillips, Amos S. Drake and Altxau-\\nder Findiey receiv-ed IS votes.\\nThere were twenty-eight officers and\\neighteen voters, there being more otK-\\ncers than voters; but one ticket was\\nput in the field. In 1841 there being\\nmore voters than officers, two tickets\\nwere run, and the parties were very\\nevenly divided; for Supervisor Nelson\\nDoty received 17 votes, and Leander\\nCandee i-eceived 1(5 votes; the candi-\\ndates for Clerk received 16 votes each.\\nIn 1848, the record reads the town-\\nship of Ransom, formei-ly Rowland,\\nJune 4, 1849, recorded as Bird, form-\\nerly Ransom. April 13, 1850, the re-\\ncortl reads township of Bird. April\\n26, 1850 it reads\u00e2\u0080\u0094 township of Ransom.\\nWe have seen maps of AFichigan in\\nwhich this town is called Fenton, but\\nit appears nowhere on the records of\\nthe town. The name of Ransom has\\ncontinued iminterupted since 1850, and\\nDOW holds the town by riglit of pos-\\nsession. The fir.st town meeting voted\\nto raise $25 to be used as a bounty for\\nkilling wolvts, and the same sum as\\nbounty money for killing bears. ,$125\\nwas voted for township expenses. Of\\nthe twenty-eight names mentioned in\\nconnection with the first township\\nmeeting but two are living in town at\\npresent, viz., Thomas Burt and Alex-\\nander Palmer. The first framed build-\\ning in town was a barn built by Row-\\nland Bird, in 1838, men coming as far\\nas from Jouesville to the raising. The\\nfirst school taught in town was by Lu-\\ncinda Bii-d, in a shant}^ on the north\\nwest quarter of section eight, on the\\nland now owned by Geo. W. Boothe,\\nin the summer of 1838; three families\\nsent to school, Mr. Cobb, Mr. Hodges\\nand Mr. Bird. The first school house\\nwas built in district No. 2, near the\\nsight of the present house, in 1839 or\\n1840. The first frame school house\\nwas built in 1844, in district No. 7, on\\nthe site now occupied by the brick one\\nin said district. There are eight school\\nhouses in town at present, three brick\\nand five frame buildings. The first\\nbirth that occurred in this town was a\\nchild of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bib-\\ncock, in 1839. The first death was Al-\\nlen Bird, March 8, 1839, just three\\nyears from the day Mr. Bird arrived in\\ntown; his age was sixteen. The first\\nsermon ])reached was at the funeral of\\nAHt*!) Bird, and was preached bv the\\nRev. Mr. Ambler, of Osseo. The first\\nmarriage was Jane Drake, daughter of\\nDeacon Drake, in the south part of\\nthe town (now Amboy) in 1839.\\nThe organization of Ransom in com-\\nparison of other towns in the county,\\nit was one of the last, the first town or-\\nganizatif n affecting this town was Mos-\\nco in 1835; it included towns 5, 6, 7, 8,\\nand fraction 9, south of range 2 west.\\nIn 1837 Jefferscm was organized as\\nFlorida, and for three years Florida\\nexercised a fatherly care over this\\ntown, laying out roads, collecting taxes\\netc. Woodbridge was organized the\\nsame year this town was, and in 1841\\nCambria was oiganized; Wright, in\\n1838 was organized as Canaan, and the\\nfirst settlers in Ransom lived not far\\nfrom the land of Canaan. In 1850 Am-\\nboy was organized as a town made up\\nof one tier of sections from town 8,\\nsouth 2 west, and one tier from 8 south\\n3 west, and fractionals 9 south 2 west,\\nand 9 south 3 west, which leaves Ran-\\nsom a fractional town with 30 sections\\ninstead of 36.\\nIn 1839, we have already mentioned\\nthat one son of Mr.Bird s died. In April\\n1840; within two months of the time\\nshe was married, Mrs. Candee, his\\neldest daughter, died April 9th, the\\nsame day Eunice Bird, his youngest\\ndaughter, died, both of scarlet fever.\\nSeptember 18, 1840, Mr. Bird s young-\\nest son died, aged six years. Septem-\\nber 22, four days after the death of his\\nson, Rowland Bird died, aged 47 years.\\nOf the remainder of the family two are\\nnow living, Mrs. Nelson Doty, of Ran-\\nsom, and her sister in Sylvania, Ohio.\\nThe spiritual wants of the inhabi-\\ntants of Ransom have not wholly been\\nneglected; churches have been organ-\\nized, meeting houses built, and the\\ngospel bx ought within the reach of all\\nthe inhabitants. There are five meet-\\ning houses in town, the First Congre-\\ngational, erected in 1855; the next the\\nMethodist Episcopal; the Seventh Day\\nAdvents have a house, and the United\\nBrethren have two houses in town,\\nwith arrangements made for building\\na third. There is no place in town\\nwhere intoxicating liquors are sold as\\na beverage, and never has been, except\\nit was sold clandestinely. The first", "height": "3386", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6\\nchurch organization was the Congrega-\\ntional church, orgauizetl May 19, 18i8.\\nIn this history it will be impossible\\nto specify year by year the improve-\\nments made, or the increase of popula-\\ntion; but by a comparison of the pres-\\nent with forty years ago, we shall arrive\\nat the facts in the case. In 1838, forty\\nyears ago. Ransom was an unbroken\\nforest, not one acre of cleared land, but\\nall heavy timber. Of the 19,185 acres\\nof land in Ransom, 12,071 acres are im-\\nproved, 2,111 acres are included in the\\nhighways and partial improvements,\\nand 5,099 acres are wood. The im-\\nprovements including highways aver-\\nage nine acres to every inhabitaut of\\nthe town. Forty years ago people\\ntraveling in Rmsom with a team had\\nto cut and clear a road, to-day there\\nare in Ransom seventy miles of high-\\nway, occupying .569 acres of land. The\\ninhabitants of Ransom have invested\\nin their highways a capital of 870,400,\\nand are expending annually .$2,009 in\\nrepairing. their highways. (It is no\\npart of this history to state whether\\nthe roads are as good as the investment\\nought to furnish.) Forty years ago\\nthere was not a rod of fence in Ran-\\nsom; to-day there are 429 miles of\\nfence, at 50 cents a rod is .$169 a mile,\\nmaking .$57,299, the cost of fences, not\\nincluding any repairs. Forty years\\nago there was one dwelling house in\\nRansom, to-day there are 341; then\\nthere was one family, to-day there are\\n346; then there were ten inhabitants in\\ntown latest statistics give us 1,.539.\\nThe census of 1874 furnish us with\\nitems of interest, some of which we\\nwill record. In 1873 1,982 acres of\\nwheat were harvestedin Ransom, yield-\\ning 24,871 bushels, 13 bushels per acre;\\n1,852 acres of corn were harvested,\\nyealding 99,660 bushels of ears, 51\\nbushels au acre. In 1874 there were\\n522 acres of apple orchards in Ran-\\nsom; sheep 1,848; hogs 1,138; horses\\n577; mules 5; oxen 46: cows 886; wool\\nsheared in 1873, 16,079 lbs; pork sold\\n183,504 lbs; cheese made 49,882 lbs;\\nbutter made 89,580 lbs. In comparing\\nthe productions of Ransom in 1873\\nwith the productions of Hillsdale coun-\\nty in 1840, we have the following re-\\nsults in 1840: Hillsdale county produc-\\ned 80,250 bushels of wheat; Ransom in\\n1873 produced 24,871 bushels cf wheat;\\nin 1840 the county produced 82,757\\nbushels of corn; Ransom in 1873 pro-\\nduced 99,669 bushels of corn. Tlie\\ndairv protluct of Hillsdale County in\\n1840 was worth $5,628; the dairy pro-\\nduct of Ransom iu 1873 was .$21,152,75.\\nThe earlier settlers were all on an\\nequal footing, all lived iu log houses,\\nall choped and cleared laud; all shot\\nwild animals; all had their axe and\\ngun, the strife among them was who\\nshould make the litrgest clearing. It\\nis said that history repeats itself, and I\\nshall state the situation correctly if I\\nquote from Sacred History: A man\\nwas famous according as he had lifted\\nup his axe against the thick trees.\\nRansom abounded in men of fame. It\\nis within the recollection of the grown\\nup boys and girls to-day, who had the\\nfirst carpet on their floor; who had the\\nfirst framed house; who had the first\\nbuggy; who had the first mowing ma-\\nchine; the first s-wing machine, or the\\nfirst melodeon. But not one of them\\ncan tell how many of these articles\\nthere are in town to-day, for they have\\nceased numbering them. Those early\\ndays were not without their recreations.\\nRaisings, logings, huskings, and quilt-\\nings were recreations, and the fiddle\\nthe only musical instrument, iu town\\nwas available in every house as occa-\\nsion required. When they got married\\nsome paid the justice in money, some\\nin work, some got trusted, and some\\npaid a broom.\\nThe geuious of our people was al-\\nways equal to all emergencies, many a\\nfamily has wintered in a house without\\na dooi% or window, or lower fioor; the\\nway they managed, they put the stove\\nand bed iu the chambei and lived up\\nthere. Tha bear and wolf were kept\\nfrom the door in the day time with the\\nriflle; and from the bed side in the\\nnight by drawing the ladder into the\\nchamber. When one of our first set-\\ntlei s wanted sash for the windows of\\nhis new log house he got up iu the\\nmorning and started for Jonesville, fol-\\nlowing Indian trails, and blazed trees,\\narrived at his destination he\u00c2\u00bbbought\\nhis sash for five windows, paid for\\nthem every cent of money he had,\\nstrung them on his arms and turned\\nhis steps homeward where he arrived\\nlate in the evening, not having eaten a\\nmouthful since he left home in the\\nmorning. Another man wanting some\\noats for seed took with him his boy", "height": "3386", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "thirteen years old nnrl stnrteci; he got\\nhis oats two or three rniles this side of\\nHudson; he took two Imshtls liis boy\\none, putting them on their slionlders\\nthey started for lionie; between, two\\nand three o ch-;ck they came ih sight of\\nthe house, and that boy laid his bag on\\nthe ground and laid down on it the\\ntiredest he ever was. When those oats\\nwere sown they were not Avild oats.\\nThese incidents show how the first set-\\ntlers lived. Some of the first settlers\\nbought their land of the government,\\nbut most of them bought second hand.\\nOnly three or four now living in town\\nreceived their deeds from the govern-\\nment, iwo are Gilbert Rowland, and\\nThomas Burt.\\nThis town has had sixteen different\\nsupervisors, nine served one year each,\\nfour served two years each, two served\\nfive years, and one served ten years.\\nThere has been levied upon the town\\nfor incidental expenses an average of\\nS190.00 a year since its organization;\\nthe largest sum was .$300., the smallest\\nwas S25. The town of Ransom is\\nsquare with the world owing no one,\\nand no one owing them. At the organ-\\nization of the town, 23 officers served\\nthe town, now 16 officers fill the bill.\\nThe duties formerly performed by six\\nofficers are now executed by the super-\\nvisor, and one man does the duties of\\nCommissioner of Highways.\\nThe first resident Physician in Kan-\\nBom, was Dr. Lee. The first store in\\nRansom, was kept by Dr. Lee, in 1851.\\nThe first store in Ransom village,\\nwas kept by Ichabod Stedman, in 1855.\\nA Post Office was first established in\\nRansom in 1847; A. T. Kimball was\\nPost master, residence on Section 9;\\nmail once a week. The first sawmill in\\ntown was built by Mr. Gay, in south\\npart of town, now in Amboy. Grist\\nmills, the town has never had but a\\nshort time, not long enough to get used\\nto it. The inhabitants of this town go\\nto Amboy, Pioneer, Cambria, Jeffer-\\nson, Wright or Hillsdale to mill. The\\nfirst settlers used to go to Tecumseh\\nwith their grists.\\nRansom has had her share of fires.\\nSome ten or twelve families have lost\\ntheir dwellings, and all or part of their\\nhousehold goods and provisions. C.\\nB. Shepard met with the first loss of\\nthis kind in the fall of 1841 in Oct.;\\nwith the lumber he had drawn from\\nKeene, north of Hudson, for floors and\\ndoors to his house. He had built a\\nshanty in which he slept, cooked his\\nmeat and potatoes, and stored las ef-\\nfects. He left Saturday afternoon for\\nAdams, to spend the Sabbath, and on\\nJiis return to bring a load of goods.\\nOn Monday when he returned his lum-\\nber for his UfcW house was gone, and he\\nmistrusted it was burned; from what\\nhe could discover he suspected the\\npowder he left in the bottom of the\\nboiler, that was full of tin pans and\\ncooking utensils, had exploded for the\\nwoods about there was lull of tin twist-\\ned and torn in all manner of shapes.\\n.And his suspicions were confirmed by\\nfolks living within five or six miles\\nhaving heard an explosion in that di-\\nrection about sundown Saturday. He\\nnever sees a piece of crooked tin but\\nhe thinks of the powder he lost. He\\nkept on in the even tenor of his way as\\nbest he could after what had happened,\\nand on the 14th day of December, 1841\\nmoved his family into his new house,\\nand for the want of lower floor, doors\\nand windows, he lived up stairs the\\nfirst winter.\\nDeath by accident has occxirred iu\\na number of instances. In 1851 Mr.\\nFeatherly was killed by a falling limb,\\nwhile in the woods east of Danforth\\nBugbees Corners. In 1860 Mr. Joles\\nwas killed by lightening; not far from\\nthat time old Mr. Siddle was killed\\nwhile falling a tree, in the southwest\\npart of the town. A young man b\\\\\\nthe name of Ward was killed by falling\\nonto a pitch fork, in the south part of\\nthe town. The explosion of a steam\\nboiler in a saw mill on the farm of\\nCharles Burt, in the southeast part of\\nthe town in 1872 killed four and injur-\\ned a number of others. In the north-\\neast part of the town, violent death by\\npremeditated violence, occurred Feb.\\n6th, 1876; Horace A. Burnett was the\\nvictim, Jacob Stevick the criminal.\\nThe great event, the one that most\\neffected Ransom of any that ever oc-\\ncurred, was the rebellion. Ransom\\nwith a population in I860 of 1,159, and\\nwith possibly 300 liable to military du-\\nty, furnished for the army during the\\nwar, for the preservation of the union,\\none hundred and forty-three (143.)\\nThese one hundred and forty-three\\nmen, in the language of Jeptha, put\\ntheir lives in their hands and passed", "height": "3386", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "historyoftownshi00brow_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nover a gainst the enemy. Forty of\\nthis uuuiber hiiJ down their lives for\\ntheir country. Mauy of theiu hiy in\\nfar off and uuknowu gi-aves. lu the\\nFourth Michigan lufautry, the first\\nregiment that went from this vicinity,\\nenlisted as three months men, and\\nwhich took part in the first Bull Run,\\nfive went from this town; their names\\nwere James Tarsney, Riley Aiusworth,\\nHiram Hartson,Ira Williams and Avery\\nRandall. April 15, 1861, the day the\\ncall was made for 75,000 men, James\\nTarsney was in Hillsdale, from Ran-\\nsom, and enlisted. A^jril 16 Riley\\nAinsworth, Hiram L, Hartsou, Ira\\nWilliams and Avery Raudell, enlisted^\\nbeing the first from Ransom. Of this\\nnumber Hiram Hartson only came back,\\nthe others died in the service of the\\ncountry. Eleven years have passed\\naway, tha great oijenings made by the\\nwar are closed up, and we have almost\\nforgotten that there Avas a war, but for\\nthe record kept by our war supervisor,\\nthe late Warren McCutcheon,we should\\nhave had no account of many of Ran-\\nsoms citizens who went into the war.\\nWe have no data from whicli we can\\nascertain the number of births or\\ndeaths that have occurred in Ransom\\nsince the settlement of the town, but\\nfrom statistics taken of late years we\\nlearn that one birth occurs to every\\nthirty-one inhabitants; and that one\\ndeath occurs to every seventy inhabi-\\ntants annually.\\nHow many trees were planted on the\\nfifteenth of April last, in response to\\nthe proclamation of Governor Bagley,\\nI am not able to state, but that many\\ntrees were planted on that day is a part\\nof this history.\\nOn this one hundredth anniversai-y\\nof our Nations existence, while Uncle\\nSamuel with representatives of all the\\nfamilies of this nation and witb invited\\nguests from every nation on tlie earth,\\nis holding a Cc lebration at tiie old\\nhomested in Philadelphia, in the very\\nroom where his existence began, or in\\nthe language of another, where he is\\nholding his second (lohlen Wedding at\\nthe old homested, we in Ransom are\\ncelebrating the Fortieth Anniversary\\nsince the settlement of Ransom, and\\nthe Fortieth Anniversary since ti.e ad-\\nmission of Michigan into the Union, or\\nin other words are clebratiug our Wool-\\nen Wedding.\\nWhen I sball have recorded the pro-\\ngramme of the proceedings of this day\\nmy work as historian will be finished.\\nCELEBRATION IN RANSOM JULY 4, 1876.\\nPresident of the Day Napoleon\\nClark.\\nVice Presidents William H. H. Pet-\\ntit, of Ransom; C. D Luce, of Jeffer-\\nson; Edward Carroll, of Pittsford;\\nGeorge Likely and Leonidus Hubbard,\\nof Wright; William Drake, of Amboy;\\nPeter Hewitt, of Woodbridge.\\nField Marshal Richard Hart.\\nGround Marshal\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. 0. Baker.\\nChajjlain Rev. Mr. Stout.\\nReader of the Declaration Alfred\\nHart.\\nOrator\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. D. A. Ide.\\nHistorian Samuel B. Brown,\\njMusic by Marshal Band from Pio-\\nneer.\\nProcession to form and mai ch to the\\ngrove at ten o clock a. m., after litera-\\nry exercises refreshments, the after-\\nnoon to be devoted to various sports;\\nin the evening grand torch-light pro-\\ncession and fire works. 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