This township, known on the government surveys as town 5 north, range 8 east, was organized in 1835 from a part of Pontiac township, and until 1838 included also what is now Holly township.
The surface of Groveland is generally hilly. In the northern and southern portions it is comparatively level^ while throughout the balance the land is much higher and considerably broken. A high ridge stretches across the centre of the township from east to west, broken by occasional valleys, and the highest point is probably the hill west of the residence of D. C. Narrin, near the corner of sections 14, 15, 22, and 23. The view from this elevation is extensive, and the eye beholds from its summit a broad and fertile country, dotted with field and forest, lake and stream, while the green of the prevailing foliage is occasionally contrasted with the darker hue of various clumps of evergreens. The white cottages of the "dwellers in the land," are seen peeping from among surrounding orchards, and away to the northeast the village of Ortonville appears costly nestled among the hills.
The soil is in general sandy. On the central ridge vast quantities of loose stone boulders and "cobble stone" abound, and the greatest work of the farmer is that of clearing his fields from these rocky fragments. The stones are utilized for building fences, rendering the farms more valuable, and the use of timber almost unnecessary in that particular.

The following paragraph is quoted from an address by the late Hon. Thomas J. Drake, delivered to the pioneers of Oakland County at the courthouse in Pontiac, February 22, 1860:

"In town 5 north, range 8 east, now called Groveland, on the 3d day of September, 1829, William Egberts, then of the county. of Oakland, made the first purchase. On the 29th of May, 1830, John Underbill, E. W. Fairchild, and Masten W. Richards purchased. In 1830, Henry W. Horton purchased at a point then known as "Pleasant Valley." In 1831, Franklin Herrick, Alexander Galloway, and Constant Southworth purchased. Mr. Southworth settled on a famous spot on the old Saginaw trail, known in those days as the 'big springs.' Those who have taken the trouble to descend from the road side to the spring of water will bear testimony to its great beauty. It was ever held in great veneration by the Indians, and they seldom passed it without refreshing themselves. ' Those who have looked into that crystal fountain and beheld the sparkling water as it came bubbling up from the secret chambers of the earth, will not wonder that the red man saw in the aqueous mirror the Chemanito or Great Spirit"
Judge Drake held many positions of prominence, yet amid all his public duties never forgot old associations in the county of his choice, and in the above paragraph pays a fitting tribute to the locality which he mentions. The first actual settlers in the township were William Roberts and Masten W. Richards, who built cabins on the old trail, near the site of the present Hadley cemetery.
Henry W. Horton, a native of what is now Tompkins county, New York, came to Michigan in March, 1830, and located land on section 7. In the fall of the same year, after having returned to New York, he emigrated with his family, settled on section 7, and has lived at the same place until the present. He is the only one of the earlier pioneers now living in the township.
Ezra Herrick, with a family consisting of his wife and five children, four sons and one daughter, came from Huron county, Ohio, and arrived at the farm on section 28, near where his son, Lyman Herrick, now lives, on the 8th day of February, 1837. The snow at the time was over two feet deep. The family moved into a small log cabin, which was owned by a man named Simeon M. Smith, a resident of the State of New York. They built a log house on section 28, and lived in it for three years. One son, Cyrus Herrick, now living in Hardin county, Ohio, was born after the family settled. In 1 840, Mr. Herrick built a small frame house on section 33, and moved into it from the log house. They came through from their home in Ohio with a wagon and a team of horses, making the trip in six days. After reaching Pontiac they found the snow very deep.
Mr. Herrick died in the fall of 1874, at the age of eighty-one or eighty-two years. His wife had preceded him to the “unknown beyond" thirty years before,—her death occurring January 12, 1844, when she was thirty-eight years of age. One son, Alanson, lives in Flint, Genesee county, and Lyman on section 33, in Groveland, Oakland County. These two, with their brother Cyrus, of Ohio, are the only ones of the children now living.
Mr. Herrick purchased three eighty-acre lots from second hands, paying for the land the sum of four hundred dollars. The property is high and rolling, and from Lyman Herrick's house an extensive view may be had of the surrounding country.
Sidney Smith came from the town of Newfane, Niagara county. New York, in the fall of 1839, leaving his old home October 3 of that year. He was accompanied by his wife and two sons. They lived in the township of Novi until the month of April, 1841, when they removed to Groveland and located on the place on section 26 where they now live. Mr. Smith here purchased forty acres of Thomas Terwilligar, for which he paid one hundred dollars. In the fall of 1840 he went back to New York on business, and while passing through Detroit at- tended a "log cabin" campaign meeting, where the old songs of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and other campaign ditties were loudly sung, and eloquent orators proclaimed the ability of their favorite candidates.
Mr. Smith is the father of seven children, of whom six are now living, four sons and two daughters. He was born August 11, 1810, in the town of Wantage, Sussex county. New Jersey. His parents removed to Niagara county, New York, just after the war of 1812, his father having been out the summer before the war, cleared land, and sowed wheat. The settlers in that part of the State were few at the time. Sidney Smith came on a visit to Michigan in 1836, looking the country over for land.
Thomas H. Terwilligar came from the city of New York in 1836 or '37, and settled on the southwest quarter of section 26. He afterwards kept the hotel at Austin Corners, and died July 4, 1871, aged fifty-six years.
Archibald Cogshall came from Saratoga county. New York, in 1840, and settled near the site of Mount Bethel Methodist Episcopal church, in Groveland. He was a native of Connecticut, and had removed to New York State in 1811. He was by profession a Methodist minister. When he came to Michigan he was accompanied by his wife, one son, and two daughters. He died August 31, 1850, aged sixty years. His wife died in February, 1876, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Cogshall's son, Bela Cogshall, now of Holly village, came to Michigan in August, 1836, and settled on section 34, in the same neighborhood where his father afterwards located. He was married a little more than a week before he left New York, and was accompanied west by his wife.
Another son, Henry Cogshall, came in the spring of 1839 with his wife and two children. None of the Cogshalls are now living in the neighborhood. Bela Cogshall is a prominent attorney at Holly, and is connected with various public institutions.
Henry Hunt came in company with his son-in-law, Bela Cogshall, in 1836. His daughter was Mr. Cogshall's first wife. His wife and two sons also accompanied him. He lived in the neighborhood most of the time until his death, which occurred in November, 1874, when he was eighty-five years of age. One of his sons, Perry Hunt, lives on the old place, on section 35, and is the only one of the children now living. Mr. Hunt originally settled the west half of the north- west quarter of section 35, eighty acres.
Henry Covert came from Seneca county, New York, and in 1837 settled in Michigan, locating on the farm now owned by his son, George Danforth Covert, section 22. His wife, three sons, and two daughters came with him. He purchased eighty acres of Thomas Belone (or Belona), who had entered the land. Mr. Covert made the first improvements upon it, built a log shanty, with a "shake" roof, etc. Of his children four are now living, three sons and one daughter. Mr. Cogshall died December 23, 1866, aged seventy years, and his wife March 29, 1865, also aged seventy.
Mr. Covert's children first attended school in the Bird district, three and a half miles distant. Mr. Covert was a very hardy man, strong and athletic, and able to perform a great amount of manual labor. On one occasion he carried a beetle, an axe, and two iron wedges to the southeast corner of Holly township, split five hundred rails, and returned the same evening, carrying his tools and the additional weight of seventy pounds of flour. The farm upon which He settled is equal in fertility to any in the neighborhood.
Alexander Downey came from County Down, Ireland, in 1833, with his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Hamilton, a native of the parish, of Killinchy, County Down. They settled in the town of Elba, Genesee county, New York, in July, 1833, and lived there until the fall of 1835, when they sold their place, and with a span of horses and a yoke of oxen, each team hitched to a wagon, they removed with their goods to Michigan. They came through Canada to Detroit, and thence along the new Saginaw turnpike to Groveland. When they arrived their means were nearly exhausted, but they went bravely at work in the wilderness, and ere long were as comfortably situated as any of the pioneers around them. A log house had been previously built on the place by John Phipps, from whom Mr. Downey purchased. In 1838, Mr. Downey and his wife became members of the first Methodist class formed in the township, of which very few of the original members are now living. Mrs. Downey died April 4, 1875, aged sixty-eight years. She had lived with her husband over forty-six years, and was the mother of twelve children, of whom nine are now living, four sons and five daughters. One daughter, Eliza, is now the wife of Captain Allen Campbell, living on section 16, Groveland township.
Captain Allen Campbell came from near Aberdeen, Scotland, with his parents, in 1827, and located at Paterson, New Jersey. In 1829 he went to Columbia county, New York, and lived for some time with his uncle on a farm. In 1835 he left there and went on a whaling voyage on board a vessel from New Bedford, Massachusetts. He sailed until 1847, and during the Mexican war commanded the United States transport schooner "Heroine,"" a light draft vessel, as were all used in those seas. At the close of the war, in 1847, the cholera and yellow fever both broke out and raged along the coast of the gulf, and Captain Campbell came north to escape them. He came to Groveland and purchased school land on section 16, locating one hundred and twenty acres, which he still owns. He was married in 1847 to Mary Campbell, daughter of Allen Campbell, who had settled in the township in 1836. She lived but a few years, and after her death the captain spent another year sailing, principally on the Gulf of Mexico. Hig present wife is Eliza, a daughter of Alexander Downey, to whom he was married in 1854. He is the father of four children, one by his first and three by his second wife. The latter one son and two daughters are all living. His son, Alexander J. Campbell, is the present township clerk
In 1875, Captain Campbell represented the first district of Oakland County in the State legislature. While sailing, he says he was “almost everywhere," and after wearying of a seafaring life came away out to Michigan to find a permanent home. He came to Groveland because his uncle had settled here. His first wife was his own cousin. He has a fine farm, well improved.
Abram D. Perry came from the town of Ontario, Wayne county, New York, in the spring of 1836, and settled in Oakland County, Michigan, living through that summer in the township of Royal Oak, and removing to the farm where J. W. Perry now lives, on section 17, Groveland, in the fall of the same year. He was accompanied from New York by his wife and two sons, the latter both small, and another son was born at Royal Oak, in the summer of 1836, while Mr. Perry and his family were stopping there. A daughter was born after they came to Groveland. An older daughter was married in New York, and came with her husband, John S. Narrin (who now lives east of J. W. Perry's residence, on section 20), at the same time with the rest of the family. J. W. Perry is the only one of the children now living. One son, Abram D. Perry, Jr., was wounded at a battle near Cold Harbor, Virginia, early in June, 1864, and died afterwards at Washington, D. C, from the effects of his wound. He had first enlisted in the Eighth Michigan Infantry, and was wounded at James Island, near Charleston, South Carolina, discharged, and afterwards re-enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry, to which organization he belonged at the time of his death. Abram D. Perry, Sr., died January 2, 1851, aged fifty-six, and his wife in August, 1873, aged seventy-five.
De Witt C, Narrin came from the town of Walworth, Wayne county, New York, and arrived in Michigan in October, 1837, landing in Detroit with his wife on the second day of that month. Coming on to Groveland township, he located on section 21, and stayed there one season. In 1838 he traded for the place which he now owns on section 23, and removed to it the same year. The farm he is living on was taken up by his brother, John S. Narrin, the two exchanging properties in 1838. When D, C. Narrin came from his first location on section 21 to build a house on his present place, the grass was so tall that he was obliged to haul an old tree top through it and through the woods with a yoke of oxen, in order to make a path, so he might not get lost on his way back. In the immediate neighborhood the timber was quite heavy. The old log house he built in 1838 is still standing near the frame dwelling he now occupies. Mr. Narrin is the father of seven children, of whom five are now living, one son and four daughters.
Narrin lake derives its name from the Narrin settlement, and lies in sections 13, 14, 23, and 24. The land in the vicinity is very hilly and broken. Peter Narrin, the father of D. C. and J. S. Narrin, came to Michigan in 1838, and located on section 23, next east of D. C. Narrin. He died in April, 1851, aged seventy-four years. His wife died the next April (1852), at the age of sixty-four.
William L. Narrin, another brother of D. C. and J. S. Narrin, came to the township in 1838, and took up the south half of section 14. He brought his wife and two sons with him; is now living in Ortonville, Brandon township. Daniel, Timothy, and Jesse Jones came from Orwell, Rutland county, Vermont. Jesse was born in Essex county, New York, between Lake George and Lake Champlain.
Timothy Jones came to Michigan in 1836, and settled in Springfield township, Oakland County, as did also Daniel, who came in 1837. Timothy stopped awhile in Ohio before coming to Michigan.
Jesse came in 1838, and stayed one season in Springfield township, and in 1839 located on section 13, in Groveland, where he has resided ever since. Daniel Jones had one son with him when he came to Michigan, having lost his wife before moving west.
The father of these men, Solomon Jones, came to the State in the fall of 1843, and first stopped in Springfield, where his wife died. He lived five years afterwards with his son Jesse in Groveland, and then went back to New York, where he stayed some time, and finally returned to Michigan and lived with Jesse until June, 1865, when he died, at the extreme old age of one hundred and five years. He had served in the Revolutionary war, although but fifteen years old when first called upon to bear arms. Of the sons, Jesse and Timothy are now living, the latter in Texas.
Captain Isaac Case and William Richmond came to the township in 1836, in company with others, who settled the same year. Captain Case is now living in Ortonville, Brandon township, and Mr. Richmond lives on his old farm. Captain Case was bom in Roxbury, Hartford county, Connecticut, and served in the artillery arm of the service during the war of 1812, enlisting in New York city. He came to Detroit in 1817, and was quartered at Fort Shelby, He came up on the steamer "Walk-in-the-Water," the first steamer on Lake Erie. In February, 1826, he was married in St. Clair to Jane Hoyt, who died in 1834. In May, 1836, he came with his three children to Groveland township, and settled on the northeast quarter of section 26, which he still owns. He served the entire duration of the war of 1812, and now draws a pension for his services. He was born in February, 1796, and is consequently in his eighty-second year.
David Irish and family settled in the fall of 1837. Mr. Irish purchased eighty acres each for his eight sons, and forty acres each for his two daughters. One of his sons, Norman, who brought a wife and three children with him to Michigan, was killed a number of years afterwards by the kick of a horse. Two of David Irish's sons Damon and George are now living in the neighborhood.
Stephen Woodruff came from New Jersey, and located at Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan, about 1832, While living at that place he was married to Angeline MacGoon, whose father, Joseph MacGoon, had come from Cayuga county. New York, in 1832, the same year Mr. Woodruff" came from New Jersey.
In 1837. Mr. WoodruiF and his wife, with two children, came to Groveland, and settled that spring on the farm where Mrs. Woodruff and family now reside. They built a log shanty, twelve by fourteen feet, and lived in it until they could erect a more suitable and comfortable structure. Mr. Woodruff at first entered forty acres of government land on section 11, where his family still lives.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff were the parents of eleven children, seven of whom are now living, four sons and three daughters. Mr. Woodruff died June 18, 1875, aged nearly sixty-seven years
Abraham Bicksler was born in Pennsylvania, and when young removed with his parents to Erie county. New York. On the breaking out of the war of 1812, he went back to Pennsylvania on a visit, and while there was drafted for three months and entered the United States service. He was married in Erie county, New York, and in the fall of 1847 came with his wife, one son, and one daughter to Michigan, and settled where his son, Jacob Bicksler, now lives, on section 2, in Groveland township. Jacob is the only one of his children now living. Mr. Bicksler died June 24, 1876, aged eighty-four years and eight months. His wife is yet living, at the age of seventy-eight.
The farm was settled in 1841 by a man named Sawyer, who built a log house and made other improvements, and lived on the place some two years, finally selling to Alexander Jenkins, who, after occupying it four years, sold to Mr. Bicksler. The farm originally contained the same as now, one hundred and twenty acres.
Thomas Van Tine came from Niagara county. New York, in 1836, and settled on section 33, Atlas township, Genesee county, Michigan, close to the line between Genesee and Oakland counties. He was accompanied by his wife, one son, and one daughter. Two other children stayed in New York for some time, and came afterwards to Michigan. Two of his children, sons John T. and Peter, are now living, the former in Groveland, and the latter near Goodrichville, Atlas township, Genesee county.
Thomas Van Tine was born June 19, 1786, and is now living with his son, John T. Van Tine, in Groveland. Although not a settler of Oakland County, he is one of the first who located in Genesee, there being but two other families in the neighborhood when he came.
Owing to convulsive fits, he was exempted from all military duty during the war of 1812, although he was twenty-six years of age when war was declared. His father was a native of Holland, and came with his two brothers to America at an early date. Their ancestors were very wealthy citizens of Holland, and owned seventeen acres in the heart of the Hague, one of its principal cities.
Carrh D. Barron settled in the township with his wife, in 1840. He was from Cayuga county. New York, eight miles south of the city of Auburn. He came on horseback to Michigan, in 1835, and located two hundred and eighty acres of land in Groveland, on sections 9 and 10. He then went back to New York, and returned for a permanent settlement in 1840.
Darius Thayer came from what was originally Pembroke (now Darien) township, Genesee county, New York, and in the spring of 1831 located eighty acres of land in West Bloomfield township, Oakland County, Michigan. In the fall of the same year he went back to New York, and returned to Michigan in the spring of 1832. He finally sold his land in West Bloomfield, and located one hundred and twenty acres of government land on section 4, in Groveland, where he now lives. He had been back to New York and stayed two years previous to this, and came to Groveland in April, 1835. He was then accompanied by his wife and two sons. Four other children were born in Michigan, and of the six there are four now living. Mr. Thayer and his wife are both living, and reside on the old farm on section 4.

Allen Campbell came from Perthshire, Scotland. In 1822 he left Aberdeen and came to New York. He was a machinist by trade. He brought his wife and six children, four sons and two daughters, with him, and had but a shilling when he arrived in New York, and that he spent for a loaf of bread. He worked at his trade in New Jersey until 1832, when he came with his family to Michigan, and located finally on section 8, in Groveland township, Oakland County. None of the family had the first idea of farming, and had everything to learn. One son, John, now living in the township, was married in 1841 by Henry W. Horton, Esq., to Ann Laubly, and paid all the money he had two dollars to Mr. Horton for performing the ceremony. His wife's father, Joseph Laubly, was a native of the canton of Berne, Switzerland, and had long served under Napoleon Bonaparte. He settled, when he came to the United States, first in New York, and in 1832 came with his wife and two daughters and located on the southeast quarter of section 5, Groveland township, and afterwards on section 8, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1841, when he was nearly fifty-eight years of age. When Mr. Campbell first came to the township he located on section 5, where Henry S. Husted now lives, but in 1835 sold this to Mr. Husted and removed to the place on section 8, where his son John now resides. Two children were born after the family settled, Solomon and Elizabeth, the latter now the wife of Chester S. Wilkins. They had thirteen children altogether, of whom John, James, George, William, Allen, Elizabeth, and Grace, the latter now Mrs. Solomon, Tobey, are living. James was the first lieutenant of Company D, Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry, during the rebellion, and was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864. Solomon enlisted in the Thirty-seventh Ohio, while on a visit to that State, and was mortally wounded by rebel guerrillas, near Nashville, Tennessee, in March, 1863, and died a few days afterwards. He had been sick for some time, and after becoming convalescent started with a body of a thousand or twelve hundred others, all unarmed, to join their regiments in the field. While on their way they were attacked by guerrillas, and many killed and wounded, Solomon being among the latter.
Allen Campbell moved to Detroit in 1854, to work at his trade, and on the 4th of July of that year both he and his wife died of the cholera. It has been mentioned that when Mr. Campbell and his family came to Groveland they were perfectly ignorant as to the modus operandi of carrying on a farm. As an example of their extreme innocence and an incident of pioneer life, the following is related: Mr. Campbell had a lot of corn, which he had ground up, making sixteen bushels of meal! Of course it molded and spoiled, and nearly the whole lot was lost. Then the oldest son, John, worked out and earned some money, buying ten bushels of wheat with a part of it, and having a balance of three dollars left. With that he started for Pontiac, twenty-six miles away, and arriving there purchased twenty-four pounds of pork, placed it in a sack, and walked home the same day, carrying the pork on his back, and making fifty-two miles on his trip. It may be imagined that the family looked on the pork as their salvation, and prized it more highly than they would the visit of an old friend. The pork lasted them some time, and this bit of experience undoubtedly taught them a lesson which was never forgotten.
Daniel F. Johnson came to the township, in 1834, from Genesee county, New York, and located the northeast quarter of section 6, afterwards purchasing additional land on 5 and 7. His father, Joseph Johnson, came in the fall of 1835. Daniel F. Johnson is still living on the old place.
John Algoe came originally from Scotland, and settled in New Brunswick. In 1836 he left New Brunswick, with his wife and eight children, and came to Groveland, where he settled on the farm where his family now lives, on section 6. He located eighty acres of government land. Mr. Algoe died in 1845, aged sixty-two. His wife is now living on the old place, at the age of eighty-seven. Of his children, one stayed in New Brunswick, and of the nine there are eight now living.
Henry S. Husted came from the town of Elba, Genesee county, New York, and in September, 1836, settled where he now lives, on section 5, Groveland township. He first purchased two eighty-acre lots, on section 5, of Allen Campbell, who had settled the land, and afterwards bought an additional forty on section 4. He was accompanied from New York by his wife and six children. Two children were afterwards born to him in Michigan, and four of the eight are now living, all sons.
Campbell bad built a small log house on the place, and cleared and broken about three acres on the west side of the Thread river, which flows through it, being here a small but rapid and never failing stream. The house stood just west of the spot where Mr. Husted's barn now stands
Mr. Husted lived in the old log house about two years, and then built a second log house close to the site now occupied by his frame dwelling. The house built by Mr. Campbell was roofed with boards, and was a mere shell.
Mr. Husted's father, Benjamin Husted, came to Michigan with his wife in 1835, and for two or three years lived in the northeast part of Holly township, near the Saginaw turnpike. His son Alfred, who came with Henry S., purchased a piece of land in Groveland township, east of Henry W. Horton's, and old Mr. Husted moved upon it and lived there until his death, which occurred September 3, 1855, when he was eighty-one years of age. His wife died about three years afterwards, at nearly the same age.
Henry S. Husted has two sisters living in Oakland County, and two brothers in Genesee. One brother, William, settled in 1831 on section 18, Groveland township, where Ira H. Marsh now lives. William Husted is now residing in Vienna, Genesee county. He married a daughter of Lot Tobey's wife, who was a widow when she married Mr. Tobey, the name of her first husband having been Earle. Mr. Tobey settled in the fall of 1830, and while he lived was a prominent man in the township.
Henry S. Husted has an almanac for each year, from 1836 to 1877 inclusive. The one for 1836 he purchased just before leaving his home in Genesee county, New York. His father removed from Cortland county to Genesee in 1811, and was out a short time, in 1812, during the "last war" with Great Britain. He was injured at Black Rock by being knocked down with the butt of a British musket. He returned to Batavia and enlisted for nine months, but the war was virtually over, and he saw but little hard service.
H. S. Husted is now living with his second wife. His first wife was a native of Vermont, born in the town of Walden, Caledonia county. Her father's old Bible, purchased July 29, 1815, is now in possession of Mr. Husted. It was printed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1813.
Mr. Husted's present wife is a daughter of Seth Brannock, who died in the State of New York. His wife (second) came west with her son-in-law, Hiram Husted, in 1838-39, and located in Genesee county, Michigan. Hiram Husted now resides in Goodrich, same county.
Henry S. Husted, now seventy-nine years of age (born September 13, 1798), is a man of strict temperance principles, and although he has performed a great amount of hard labor during his life, he is remarkably well preserved, and bids fair to live " lo! these many years."
Thomas Phipps came, with his wife, from London, England, in 1834, and settled on section 17. He took up eighty acres of government land, and he and his wife began life as pioneers. It was new work to them, and for a long time was uphill business, both being novices at farming. They were both members of the Episcopal church. A daughter, Ellen, was married to William Campbell. Mr, Phipps died in 1870, and Mrs. Phipps, April 8, 1875. Mrs. P. was nearly eighty-three years of age.
John Hadley came from Northumberland, England, with a wife and a large family of children, and located in the State of New York (Seneca county). In 1835 he came to Michigan, and settled on section 19, Groveland township, Oakland County, where he purchased two hundred and forty acres of land. He afterwards made an additional purchase, on section 18, and removed to it. The members of his family have become wealthy and influential citizens of the county, and have fine properties in various parts of it.
John Phipps came from London, England, and in 1833 located on section 8, Groveland township, where he purchased forty acres of government land. He stayed on that place from the fall of 1833 till the spring of 1835, when he removed to section 31, where he purchased eighty acres, also government land. His son, H. C. Phipps, lives on the old place, on section 31. Mr. Phipps brought his wife and four children with him from London, H. C. Phipps being the youngest. All are now living, one in Washington, D. C, and the others in Michigan. John Phipps died in August, 1864, aged sixty-three years. His wife died several years previously, at the age of forty-seven.
Simeon Marsh came from Otsego county, New York, and settled in the fall of 1836 in Holly township, where his grandsons, Lewis and George Marsh, now live. His family was principally grown. He came alone and located his land, and stayed upon it, his wife and three children, two sons and one daughter, coming in the spring of 1837. The sons were Ira H. and Jacob, and the latter died the same fall (1837). The daughter was named Martha, and died in 1838. Ira H. Marsh is now living upon the place where his brother Elisha settled in 1839. It was originally settled by William P. Husted.
Ira H. Marsh is the present postmaster at Groveland post-office, which is located at his house. He was postmaster once before for two years.
Simeon Marsh died December 14, 1842, aged fifty-six years, and his wife April 14, 1855, aged sixty-seven. Four of the sons are now living, Ira H., in Groveland ; Joseph, in Holly ; Elisha, in Kansas ; and Ely T., in New York. The latter never came west to settle.
Linus Lamb came to Washington, Macomb county, Michigan, in 1824, from the town of Covington, Genesee county, New York. Old Mr. Lamb was the first postmaster at Washington, Macomb county. Linus Lamb removed to Oakland County in 1836, and settled on section 27. He was married January 24, 1839, to Hannah Eastman, whose father, James H. Eastman, lived near Groveland cottage. Mr. Lamb afterwards sold his place on section 27, upon which he had made the first improvements, and moved to Austin post-office, where he now lives. His purchase on section 27 included ninety acres, which he procured from second hands. No improvements had been made upon it.
Among the later arrivals in the township are John and I. S. Bird, who located in the eastern part in 1844.

Born in the township was Joseph Lee Horton, a son of Henry W. Horton, whose birth occurred November 27, 1832. The first death was that of a man named William Proctor, who was accidentally killed on the farm of D. F. Johnson, in 1834, while deer hunting. He was out in company with James Hadley (now deceased) and a man named Ellsworth. They started a deer near a low spot of ground, and Proctor raised his gun to fire, but it snapped. Proctor had previously wounded the deer. When his gun missed fire Ellsworth raised his rifle and fired, and Proctor, who was between him and the deer, fell, shot through the head; dying almost instantly. He was buried near where Ira H. Marsh now lives, but was subsequently removed to the Hadley cemetery. It was thought by some that the shooting of Proctor was not as accidental as it appeared to be.
The first marriage license which appears on the township records was issued to Thomas Husted and Lenora Proctor, July 2, 1835. There were also issued licenses to James Murfee and Harriet Steward, January 29, 1837, and David W. Lawrence and Ann M. Jackson, December 25, 1836.
Henry W. Horton, Esq., informs us that the first marriage in Groveland, after the town was organized, was that of Solomon Tobey and Grace Campbell, the ceremony being performed by Mr. Horton, in 1835.
The first petit jurors were chosen May 11, 1839, the following being their names: D. F. Johnson, A. D. Perry. Harris Stilson, Constant Southworth.

was held at the house of Calvin Herrick, April 6, 1835, agreeably to the act of the legislative council, passed March 17, 1835, creating the township of Groveland. At this meeting Philip H. McOmber was present as justice of the peace for said township, having been previously appointed. William Gage was chosen moderator, and Constant Southworth clerk. Thirteen votes were cast, the deciding ballot being given by Peter Fagan, now of Holly township, which was at that time included in Groveland. The following were the officers elected, viz.: Supervisor, Nathan Herrick; Town Clerk, Henry W. Horton; Assessors, Constant Southworth, William Gage, Joseph Jennings, Jr. ; Commissioners of Highways, Lot Tobey, William P. Husted, Vincent Runyon ; Directors of the Poor, H. W. Hurton, John Tobey ; Commissioners of Common Schools, Constant Southworth, P. H. McOmber, Henry W. Horton ; Constable and Collector, Calvin Herrick ; Inspectors of Common Schools (elected by yeas and nays), Alexander Galloway, Henry W. Horton, Calvin Herrick, Constant Southworth, P. H. McOmber, Overseers of Highways ,District No. 4, Constant Southworth ; District No. 5, Jehiel Gardner.
The road commissioners held a meeting April 30, 1835, and established five road districts ; and at a special town meeting, held at the house of Calvin Herrick, May 15, 1835, William Gage was elected. overseer of road district No. 1, Alexander Galloway of No. 2, and John Tobey of No. 3, those for 4 and 5 having been elected at the previous town meeting.
At a meeting held October 6, 1835, the following vote was cast for the three county officers, register of deeds, treasurer, and coroner: for register of deeds, Francis Darrow, sixteen votes; for treasurer, James A. Weeks, fourteen, S. Sherwood, two; for coroner, Pierce Patrick, fourteen, W. Hunter, two.
From 1836 to 1877 inclusive, the supervisors of Groveland have been as follows: 1836, Daniel F. Johnson; 1837-38, Elbridge G. Knowlton ; 1839, Abram D. Perry; 1840, Asahel Fuller; .1841, E. G. Knowlton; 1842-43, Henry W. Horton; 1844-45, Amos Orton ; 1846, Henry W. Horton; 1847, James Wilkins; 1848, William H. Putnam; 1849, John Campbell; 1850, William H. Putnam; 1851, Daniel F. Johnson; 1852, Amos Orton; 1853-58, Horatio Wright; 1859, John Campbell; 1860, Horatio Wright; 1861, John Campbell; 1862-65, Chester S. Wilkins; 1866-67, John Campbell; 1868-72, Chester S. Wilkins; 1873, John Campbell; 1874-75, Horatio Wright; 1876-77, Allen Campbell (3d).
Township Clerks.—1836-39, Henry W. Horton ; 1840, Alexander Downey ; 1841, Alexander Ter Bush ; 1842, William L. Narrin ; 1843-45, Alexander Downey; 1846, Constant Southworth; 1847-48, John Campbell; 1849, Gabriel S. Ogden; 1850, Chester S. Wilkins; 1851, Allen Campbell, Jr.; 1852-60, Chester S. Wilkins; 1861-65, Allen Campbell; 1866, C. S. Wilkins; 1867-68, Allen Campbell; 1869, David Hadley; 1870, Allen Campbell; 1871, William H. Ritchie: 1872, Oliver H. Perry; 1873-75, Allen Campbell (3d); 1876, Chester S. Wilkins; 1877, Alexander J. Campbell.
Justices of the Peace. 1836, Constant Southworth, Philip H. McOmber, Daniel F. Johnson, William Gage; 1837, D. F. Johnson, Henry Hunt; 1838, Simeon M. Smith, Ezra Herrick; 1839, Henry W. Horton; 1840, Joseph Jennings, Harris Stilson; 1841, Henry Hunt, William H. Putnam; 1842, Samuel C. Munson; 1843, Henry W. Horton; 1844, Thomas H. Terwilligar, Matthias T. Robinson; 1845, William H. Putnam, Elbridge G. Knowlton; 1846, William L. Narrin; 1847, Alexander Downey; 1848, Harvey Mudge; 1849, William H. Putnam; 1850, William L. Narrin; 1851, Henry W. Horton, Daniel Merritt; 1852, Horatio Wright, Alexander Wheeler, Lewis H. Husted; 1853, Lewis H. Husted; 1854, James Wilkins; 1855, Henry W. Horton; 1856, Horatio Wright; 1857, Lewis H. Husted; 1858, James Wilkins; 1859, Henry Wm Horton; 1860, Horatio Wright; 1861, James Campbell; 1862, William L. Narrin; 1863, Alexander Downey; 1864, Horatio Wright; 1865, Thomas Phipps, Jr.; 1866, William L. Narrin, John H. Thomas; 1867, Alexander Downey; 1868, Horatio Wright; 1869, Benjamin F. Miller; 1870, William L. Narrin; 1871, John Campbell; 1872, Horatio Wright; 1873, Benjamin F. Miller; 1874, John Bird; 1875, Moses Carr; 1876, Robert Potter, Worthington Thompson ; 1877, James Algoe, John H. Thomas.

Recorded on the township books was laid out June 2, 1835. It started at the line between sections 1 and 12, where it is crossed by the United States road, and continued west and southwest about four miles to the centre of a highway leading into Genesee county.
Previous to this time the Detroit and Saginaw turnpike had been laid out, and finished in 1834 to a point six miles north of Flint, Genesee county. This was long the great thoroughfare of the township, and for a number of years presented a busy scene. During the days of immigration and stagecoach travel the white tops of the pioneers' wagons, the crack of the stage-driver's lash, and the merry notes of his horn were heard " all along the line," but those were accompaniments of " long ago."

Groveland township was divided into eight school districts in the spring of 1838. The districts were afterwards changed, more or less, and at present the township contains eight districts besides those which are fractional.
The first school house in the township was a small log building which stood immediately on the line between Groveland and Holly. It was built about 1832-33. The school was quite popular, and was attended by many of the older children of the settlers, those who had reached a more mature age than that of pinafores and jackets. The first teacher was an Irishman named Hugh Dougherty, called by some of the Galloways, out of mischief, "Dogharty." The Hadleys, Hortons, and others attended the school. The building was burned down several years afterwards, having been abandoned for school purposes. This school- house was used for various purposes; occasionally "preaching" was held in it, and meetings of different kinds were here convened. Nothing is left to mark the spot where it stood.
The first school in the township was taught in Henry W. Horton's house, for the benefit of his own children, in the winter of 1832. The teacher was Miss Sallie Parshall. These two schools were indeed primitive affairs, yet were all sufficient in their time and place.
In district No. 5 a frame school house was built as early as 1840, and is still standing, though at present unused. Among the early teachers Lewis Husted figured prominently. The present frame school house was built some twenty years ago, and stands on the northwest corner of section 22.
In district No. 2 a log school house was built about 1838, and was used for a number of years. It stood on the spot now occupied by the "cobble-stone" school house, on the southeast corner of section 4. The first teacher was Mary Ann Johnson, who lived in the western part of the township. The present stone building has been standing four or five years.

The present was built in 1876, at a cost of four hundred dollars. It is a neat, substantial frame building, standing on section 22.

In Groveland township was held in 1834, at the house of William Husted, on the Saginaw turnpike. The settlers sent to Flint, or Grand Blanc, Genesee county, for a fiddler named Cronk, but failed to secure his services, as he was not at home. Accordingly, as music must be had of some kind, a couple of the women volunteered to sing dancing tunes for them ! Their repertoire of tunes was exceedingly limited, there being but two on their schedule, and those were " Miss McCloud's Reel" and one other. However, they made the most of circumstances, and "tripped the light fantastic toe" to the repeated strains of hose old fashioned pieces. What they would have done for waltz or polka music, had they wished it, is left to the reader to surmise; but happily those were days when the reel, hornpipe, and other dances of a like character were greater sources of enjoyment than the fancy dances of the present would have been, and the Terpsichorean art was unembellished in the cabin of the backwoods settler, and devoid of the touches given it by association with city ball rooms and professional dancing masters.

The first preacher who ever held forth within the limits of Groveland township was a minister of the Baptist persuasion, who was familiarly known as "Old Elder Gamble." He lived in Grand Blanc, Genesee county, and used to come and preach occasionally in the old town line school house and the log dwellings of Lot Tobey and Henry W. Horton. He was a very eccentric man, and is well remembered by those who are living and heard him preach.

In the winter of 1837-38 a Methodist class was organized in the southeast part of the township, with seven members, by Rev. Smith, who was at the time preaching in this section of the country, it being as far west as the society had at the time ventured. Smith was here under an appointment from the presiding elder of the Ohio conference, and stayed about six months. In 1839 the class was increased to the number of nine by the addition of Henry Cogshall and wife. Meetings were at first held in the school house. In the fall of 1840 the cemetery on section 34 was staked out, and a church, twenty-two by thirty-two feet in dimensions, built of hewed logs. The church was not entirely finished until the spring of 1841, and was considered quite a fine structure for that day. It was used until 1872, when the present frame church was built. This building is a neat and commodious structure, surmounted by a spire, and will seat about three hundred people. The present pastor is Rev. Mr. Hedger, now on his second year at the place. A Sabbath school was organized several years after the first church was built, when the children had become large enough to attend. The first superintendent was Bela Cogshall, now of Holly village.

Was organized about 1839-40, and was the second church organized in the township. It started on a firm basis, having originally some forty or fifty members. Some of those who united with it were originally Presbyterians, but as there was no church of that denomination nearer than Grand Blanc, Genesee county, they assisted in establishing a Methodist class, a revival being held at the school house, at which forty-four persons joined. Besides these, there were ten or twelve persons in the neighborhood who were "old Methodists." They at first held meetings in private houses and school houses, and some ten years after the organization erected a frame church, which is still standing, on section 7. When the class was organized it was on a mission, but finally a circuit was established which embraced a large territory, including Groveland. The first pastor was Rev. William Mothersill. Local preachers held meetings the greater part of the time. Before the class had any regular appointment they hired Elder Jones, of Rose township, to come and minister to them. They were old church members, and had become, as Alexander Downey says, "hungry for preaching." When Mr. Mothersill came he was accompanied by Rev. William Bigelow, now a presiding elder. Soon after Mr. Mothersill's advent the members subscribed means and erected a log parsonage, in which Mr. Mothersill lived during his two appointments. It was built on land owned by Henry W. Horton, as was also the church. The latter will seat about two hundred persons. Alexander Downey was on the church building committee, and has been a trustee from the organization. The present membership of the society is seventy or eighty. A Sabbath school has been kept up nearly every year. The appointment is now on the Goodrich circuit. A revival was held during the winter of 1876-77, and the congregation increased by thirty-five or forty members. The present pastor is Rev. Nelson Lyon, of Goodrich, Genesee county.

This is the latest church organization in the township, a class having been made up about 1842-44, with some fifteen members. A local preacher named Jacob Van Steenberg, who was the first at the place, organized the society, and named it from the locality he was from in Ulster county, New York, where he had been a presiding elder.
In 1857 the present frame church was built, when the membership was about fifty. The building is thirty by forty feet in dimensions, surmounted by a spire, and will seat about two hundred persons. It stands on section 31. A cemetery is located opposite. For about seven years the church has not been used for meetings, most of the members having changed to Holly. Before the church was built the congregation formed a part of the one at "Groveland." A Sabbath school was always sustained until the congregation broke up, and for many years was the largest in this part of the county. When the church building was erected Rev. Thomas Wakelin was preacher in charge of Groveland circuit.

The largest cemetery in the township is known as the "Hadley Cemetery," and is located on sections 18 and 19, west of the Detroit and Saginaw turnpike. The first burial in it was that of Lot Tobey, who died September 7, 1836, at the age of fifty-four years. His wife died September 21, 1854, aged eighty-one. The cemetery contains the remains of many of the pioneers of the neighborhood, principally those of Groveland and Holly townships. Among them are the following: Merret Hall, native of MA, died Dec 8, 1841, aged 64; Henry R. Montgomery, a native of Ireland, died Jul 6, 1852, age 43; Lovina, his wife, a native of Chautauqua Co., NY, died Feb 23, 1851, age 35; William Becket, died May 26, 1849, age 70; Lydia, wife of Henry S. Husted, died Oct 12, 1855, age 55; George Wiggins, died Feb 8, 1854, age 67; John Tobey, died Dec 6, 1854, age 42; Solomon Tobey, died Sep 18, 1856, age 42; Adah, wife of Henry W. Horton, died Jan 20, 1856, age 56; Jane, wife of Alexander Downey, died Apr 4, 1875, age 67; Abram D. Perry, died Jan 3, 1851, age 56; Martha, his wife, died Aug 8, 1870, age 72; John Richie, died Aug 21, 1872, age 72; Benjamin Husted, died Sep 3, 1855, age 81; Thomas Petherbridge, died Apr 12, 1861, age 69; Terrance Fagan, native of Oreland, died Jan 20, 1852, age 85; Bridget, his wife, died Dec 10, 1857, age 82; Jacob Deeter, died Feb 21, 1858, age 62; Julia Ann, his wife, died Jan 19, 1851, age 54; Henry W. Peck, died Dec 25, 1864, age 66; Ellen, wife of Samuel Gilmore, native of County Down, Ireland, died Mar 24, 1863, age 65; Thomas McWhinney, died Jul 7, 1875, age 84; Rosey Ann, his wife, died Aug 15, 1861, age 82; Robert Algoe, died Jan 2, 1872, age 62; Peter Ingersoll, died Apr 22, 1868, age 78; Catherine, his wife, died Jun 6, 1858, age 71; Henry Covert, died Dec 20, 1866, age 71; Ann, his wife, died May 29, 1865, age 70; Matthew Walker, died Jan 17, 1872, age 103; Sarah, his wife, died Dec 4, 1861, age 78; Mercy, his wife, died Apr 15, 1846, age 20; Hugh McQueenen, a native of parish Bahamlish, County Slingo, Ireland, died Nov 9, 1852, age 60; Esther A., wife of John Husted, died Dec 14, 1865, age 64; Ephraim Husted, died Mar 6, 1846, age 72; Elcy Husted, died Mar 15, 1848, age 64 ; John Hadley, native of Northumberland, England, died Sep 1, 1873, age 84; Margery, his wife, native of Northumberland, England, died Jul 28, 1854, age 64; Jonathan T. Alklen, died Nov 26, 1865, age 85; Mary c., his first wife, died Jan 18, 1820, age 29; Rebecca, his wife, died Aug 18, 1835, age 33; John Burns, from County Down, Ireland, died Sep 25, 1862, age 47; The cemetery is on a side-hill, and has a very pleasant location. Many tasty headstones and monuments are seen, and the ground is kept in good order. It is a credit to the citizens of the township who have here provided a last resting place for those who settled and lived in the neighborhood so long. Green be the turf above them!
The neighborhood in which the cemetery is located was the first settled in the township, and the improvements are here of a high order. Within a short distance are the fine farms of David Hadley, Ira H. Marsh, Henry W. Horton, and others names well known among the early pioneers, and men who have gained for themselves a wide reputation and become prominent in the township and county.

was surveyed about 1868-69, and it was supposed that the road would certainly be built. But through certain parties lending their aid to the building of the Detroit and Bay City Railway the Midland fell through, and nothing has since been done. No stock had been subscribed, consequently no loss was sustained. Groveland Grange, No. 443, Patrons of Husbandry, was organized at the house of J. W. Perry, May 20, 1874, with thirty-four members. The first officers were; Master, J. W. Perry ; Overseer, John Campbell ; Lecturer, Oscar Horton ; Steward, William Morehouse ; Assistant Steward, Lewis H. Marsh ; Treasurer, William Campbell ; Chaplain, David Hadley ; Secretary, Byron S. Foskett ; Ceres, Mrs. Mary J. Hadley ; Pomona, Mrs. Lewis H. Marsh; Flora, Mrs. Sarah Perry; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. William E. Morehouse.
In the summer of 1876 a fine hall was built for the use of the grange, at a cost of about sixteen hundred dollars. It is a neat frame building, and stands on the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 17. It contains five rooms, besides a good cellar and an attic, or store room. One room contains a small stock of groceries, for the use of those living in the vicinity. The dining room and kitchen have stove, tables, benches, etc., and the main hall is fitted up conveniently for all purposes required of it. A ladies' room occupies the southwest corner, furnished with the various articles used in such a place. The hall proper is twenty-four by forty-four feet. The building has the shape of an " L," and is fifty-four feet front on the west and south each. The two small rooms are ten by twelve feet, and the dining-room and kitchen (one room) twenty by twenty-four feet. The store is ten by twenty-four feet, and occupies the southeast corner. The hall proper occupies the greater part of the main building. The en- trance is on the south front. Sheds are built in the rear for the accommodation of forty horses. The land was donated for grange purposes by J. W. Perry. The membership May 2, 1877, was seventy-six. A porch extends twenty-five feet north and east from the southwest corner.
At what is know as Groveland Cottage.

There was at one time a considerable settlement, including two hotels, a store, several blacksmith shops, etc. This was during the days of stage coach travel, the place being located on the old turnpike. It was then a place of considerable importance, and was well known by all who traveled over the Saginaw turnpike. Groveland post office was originally established here, probably about 1837, with Elbridge G. Knowlton as first postmaster. The building known as "Groveland Cottage" was a large log house, built by Philip H. McOmber, the first settler on the site. He sold to Knowlton. The original post-office had the same name as at present, viz., "Groveland Post office."

Was established about 1845-46, during Polk's administration, through the efforts of David A. and Horatio Wright. It derives its name from David Austin Wright. At the time it was established a stage-line had been running since about 1837 ; E. X. Pettee had opened a hotel at the "corners," and teams were changed here on the stages. Pettee was one of the proprietors of the line between Pontiac and Flint, and built the hotel purposely for a changing station. He lived at the place but a short time. The first postmaster at Austin was David A. Wright. Previous to the establishment of this office the nearest place to get mail was several miles away, at Springfield post office, in Springfield township, Mr. Wright kept the office a number of years, and was succeeded by Thomas H. Terwilligar, during whose stay the name was changed to Taylorsvi!le, but finally changed back again. Terwilligar was postmaster but a short time, and the office was again settled on Mr. Wright, this during the early part of Lincoln's administration, and he continued in the capacity of postmaster until the present occupant, Robert Potter, came in. Mr. Wright had at one time a foundry and a blacksmith-shop nt the corners. In the foundry he manufactured castings for plows and other articles us they were ordered.
When the post office was first established it was kept in Mr. Wright's house, he being at the time a resident at the place. It was afterwards located in a store owned by John Snyder, who now lives on a farm in Flushing, Genesee county. Mr. Wright afterwards kept it at his house, half a mile down the turnpike, in Springfield township, on a farm to which he had moved. It was finally taken back to the corners, where it has since remained. Mr, Potter, the present occupant, also has a wagon shop, and does a considerable business in that besides the necessary labor of attending to the office.
A portion of the hotel building now standing was built by Thomas H. Terwilligar, who kept the house some twelve years, and amassed a considerable fortune during the time, the custom being very heavy.
Austin Lodge. Xo. 48, F. & A. M., was organized in 1850, with eight members, as follows: Bela Cogshall, John B. Hamilton, James Webster, James and Samuel Wilkins, S. S. Lord, Daniel R. Lord, and John Bowman. The officers were; W, M., Bela Cogshall ; S. W., J. B. Hamilton ; J. W., John Bowman ; S. D., James Wilkins; J. D., D. R. Lord. Mr. Cogshall held the office of W. M. for four successive years. David A. Wright and Edgar C. Bartlett held the office next, one year each, after which Mr. Cogshall filled out the time until 1867. The present officers (May, 1877; are; W. M., Horatio Wright ; S. W., John D. Ogden ; J. W., Porter Wright. Membership about ninety. This lodge was the third one of the kind in Oakland County.
Austin Chapter No. 44, R. A. M., was organized in 1863 or 1864. Horatio and David A. Wright, natives of Granville, Washington county. New York, removed with their parents, in 1824, to Oneida county. They afterwards went to Genesee county, and in 1843 they all came to Michigan, arriving in Springfield township August 15 of that year. They purchased land in the north part of Springfield, close to the Groveland line, and near Austin Corners. In the spring of 1847 Horatio Wright removed to his present location, on section 34 in Groveland township, just east of Austin. David A. Wright died January 19, 1877.

On the 22d day of February, 1864, a special town-meeting was held for the purpose of voting pro and con on the subject of raising money on the taxable property of the township to pay bounties to persons enlisting from it. The said township had a quota to fill on the call made by the president, January 20, 1864. The question was also to be decided whether bonds should be issued sufficient to pay one hundred dollars to each volunteer or drafted man accepted and credited to quota of said township, to fill the call made by the president, February 1, 1864. One hundred and fifty-two votes were cast at this meeting, as follows: For raising entire tax required by both calls, one hundred and twenty-one ; for raising bounty for last call, seven ; for raising no tax, twenty-four.
The following persons advanced money to the township to pay bounty to volunteers to fill quota of township on the call made by President Lincoln, January 20, 1864: John B. Auton, $14 ; Jerome Austin, $23 ; Ransom E. Burgess, $20 ; Benwell Brosius, $10 ; Seth Arnold, $14 ; Albert Austin, $20 ; John Brannack, $16; Wm. Brosius, $5 ; Peter Brosius, $5 ; Jonas Bowman, $5 ; Joseph Bird, $3 ; E. C. Bartlett, $10; John Boughtenfellow, $5; Thomas S. Bird, $20; T. S. Bird, Jr.. $5; Israel S. Bird,, $20; John Backell, $10; Walter Buckell, $5 ; John Bird, $20 ; George Campbell, $16 ; Charles Buzzard, $19 ; George Brockenshaw, $14 ; Wm. Campbell, $14 ; Allen Campbell, Jr., $14 ; Allen Campbell, $5 ; Henry Cogshall, $5 ; Leander Clark, $5 ; Wm. H. Case, $7 ; Isaac Case, $18 ; Carlton Cornell, $2 ; Bela Cogshall, $20 ; Alexander Downey, $3 ; N. F. Decker, $10 ; Otis Donpier, $5 ; Thomas J. Ewell, $41 ; John Daly, $10 ; Charles Dixie, $2 ; Luther Felton, $10 ; John Frick, Jr., $20 ; George Fall, $8 ; Daniel Fuller, $3 ; Hiram Greene, $15 ; James Algoe, $20 ; Wm. Gotwalt, $5 ; Edmund Husted, $8 ; Alva Husted, $8 ; Plenry S. Husted, $11 ; Lewis H. Husted, $3 ; Austin B. Hathaway, $14 ; Charles Henry, $1 ; Thomas Halsted, $14 ; Alfred B. Husted, $25; Charles Halsted, $18; Henry Horter, $14; Sydney Hovey, $8; Alvord I. Holmes, $5 ; James M. Houghton, $14; Perry Hunt, $10 ; Andrew J. Hill, $14 ; Wm. Hollister, $5 ; Archelaus Hibbler, $2 ; Lyman Herrick, $11 ; Seth L. Herriman, $4; Isaac Halsted, $3; David Hadley, $20; Damon Irish, $14; Daniel Johnson, $20; George Irish, $10; Jesse Jones, $5; D. F. Johnson, $3; Fred Long, $5; Alexander N. Jones, $4; Joseph Lepard, $10; Dennis Lamb, $11 ; George S. Leland, $10 ; Bernard Lennon, $3 ; Wm. Lacey, $5 ; James Lawrence, $14 ; Lafayette Mitchell, $5 ; B. F. Miller, $21 ; James M. Merwin, $4 ; Robert Martin, $8 ; Truman Moore, $5 ; Jeremiah Miller, $2; Emery Moore, $21 ; John M. McGinnis, $10 ; Daniel Merritt, $5 ; Jacob Moore, $4 ; Samuel Malby, S14 ; Wm. Yan Steenberg, $7 ; Oscar Mudge, $14 ; Sarah Miner, $0.25 ; Charles Mosher, $20 ; Andrew B. Marquette, $1 ; Hiram Malby, $14 ; Charles McGinnis, $6 ; Michael McCabe, $5 ; Salem Marsh, $3 ; John S. Narrin, $5; Norman Mills, $10; Wm. L. Narrin, $10; Wm. A. Narrin, $5 ; Harvey Phelps, $20 ; Sarah E. Ogden, $1 ; Derbin Ogden, $1 ; Joseph Perritt, $10 ; Henry Quick, $10 ; John Peck, $13 ; Henry C. Phipps, $25 ; John Ritchie, $3 ; Benjamin T. Richmond, $15 ; Wm. H. Ritchie, $5 ; Fitch J. Richmond, $14 ; John Ritchie (2d), $14 ; O. C. Swift, $15 ; James E. Smith, $14 ; Lafayette Stranahan, $10 ; Irving G. Smith, $14; Sidney Smith, $25.25 ; Joel Snyder, $7 ; Abram V. Shepard, $3 ; Peter C. Sargent, $2 ; Albert Shepard, $14 ; Seth D. Thayer, $14 ; Elstin J. Tobey, $14 ; George J. Thomas, $14 ; W. B. Thompson, $10; Stephen Woodruff, $5; Wm. Wolf, $5; Charles C. Walton, $14; Nelson Wilkins, $5 ; Alexander Downey, Jr., $14 ; Oliver C. Miller, $27. Total, $1401.50.
On this call the following persons enlisted, were accredited to the quota of the township, and received their bounties of one hundred dollars each: Oliver C. Miller, Charles J. Whartman, Robert W. Ironshaw, Abram De Graff", Peter Shein, John Dibler, Jerome Ferguson, Daniel Rohum, Francis Smith, Thomas McWhinney, James E. Richmond, Barney Leonard, Henry Harter, and Joseph Halsted, a total of fourteen.
Those who enlisted to fill the call made February 1, 1864, were as follows, each receiving a bounty of one hundred dollars: February 29, 1864, Luman G. Husted, Wellington V. Husted, George W. Horton, Wm. T. Phillips, four; March 7, 1864, Wm. H. Moore, Abraham Frick, Campbell P. Miller, Wray Mitchell, Edwin C. Peck, Harmon Brant, six.
Succeeding the call of July, 1864, the following persons enlisted and were paid bounties of one hundred dollars each : August 25, 1864, Daniel Parkhurst, Wm. Phipps, Frankhn W. Thayer, Thomas J. Ewell (enlisting officer), Henry Hanert, Wm, A. Narrin, Francis A. Peck, Norman P. Leland, George L. Wheeler, John N. Perritt, Michael Lennon. Total, eleven.
Bonds were delivered to the following persons (one hundred dollars each) in the spring of 1865 : James L. Horton, Charles R. Fuller, Cassius M. Burt, Allen Campbell (2d), James Campbell, Robert Martin, George Gotwalt, Wm. H. Bigelow, James Danser, Wm. Hollister, Wm. Brokenshaw, Nelson Bowman, James L. Johnson, thirteen in all. The total number of bonds issued was therefore forty-eight, amounting to the sum of four thousand eight hundred dollars.

The following is a list of persons to whom we are indebted for valuable information, furnished us while making researches into the eventful history of the township: Henry W. Horton, Alexander Downey, Daniel F. Johnson, John Campbell, Mrs. Algoe, Thomas Van Tine, Carrh D. Barron, Darius Thayer, Jacob Bicksler, Mrs. Woodruff", Jesse Jones, D. C. Narrin, Sidney Smith, J. W. Perry, Lyman Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Wright, G. Danforth Covert, and many others. It will thus be seen that our historical items have been gleaned from every source calculated to impart information, and are virtually made a history by the people as well as of them and for them. Many interesting anecdotes of the early days have been brought to light, and here preserved in a lasting shape; and although it is impossible to write a full history of every one, or to give complete reminiscences of all persons who settled in the township, yet the minds of the people who came early to the vicinity have been cleared of the cobwebs which were woven around their memories and recollection has been revived, with the result found in this sketch of the now prosperous township of Groveland. To one and all who have aided us in our researches are returned many thanks for their trouble.