Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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PIONEER HISTORY OF INGITAM COUNTY

without regard to section lines, crossing swamps or marshes at
places where it would require the least causeway. This made
much trouble in after years in getting them changed to where
they should have been laid out in the first place.
The first road regularly laid out according to law was on May
30-31, 1839, by Anson Jackson, who was then county surevyor.
BUNKERHILL ANECDOTE.
G. W. HOLLAND.
Once on a time a son of the Emerald Isle crossed the Atlantic
and settled, like many others of his race, in Bunkerhill. He
bought a nice piece of land and started out to build a home; tie
was successful and soon had abundant crops. While he was
plowing for summer fallow one of his oxen got into the clover and
ate so much that he died. Learning that a neighbor had a good
mate for his remaining ox, he went to see if he could buy it and
pay when he sold his wheat, the neighbor to take his note. The
bargain was made, the note made out and signed, and then Pat
took it and put it into his own pocket. "Oh, I want the note,"
said his neighbor. "Oh, no," said Pat, "I can't pay unless I
have the note to tell when it is due." He kept the note, but the
day it was due he was on hand with the money and promptly
paid it.
Hon. S. R. Fitch once let a man have some wheat to sow, and
it was to be paid back when the man threshed in the fall, in time
for Mr. Fitch to use it for seed. When threshing time came there
was no machine came into the neighborhood, so this man loaded
up his wagon and took it to a machine eight miles away and had
enough wheat threshed to pay Mr. Fitch as he had agreed.
G. W. Holland, of White Oak, who has lived in Ingham county
for sixty-six years, has written a very interesting letter to the secretary of the Ingham County Pioneer and Historical Society, giving
some data that cannot fail to be of interest to the descendents of
the pioneers of the county. Mr. Holland's early life was spent in
the townships of Leroy, Wheatfield, White Oak and Ingham. In