History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

CHAPTER VI

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AND "DAUGHTERS"
COUNTY'S FIRST SETTLER, A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER-THE GRAHAM
FAMILY-NATHANIEL BALDWIN-GEORGE HORTON-STEPHEN MACK
-COLONEL,MACK'S FAMILY-JOSEPH TODD AND PARTY-ITHAMAR
SMITH-WILLIAM NATHAN TERRY —JOSHUA CHAMBERLIN AND
ENOCH HOTCHKISS —ELIJAH DRAKE-EZRA PARKER —JEREMIAH
CLARKE-BENJAMIN GRACE-CALEB BARKER MERRELL-LEVI GREEN
-JOEL PHELPS-ELIAS CADY-SAMUEL NILES-SILAS SPRAGUEESBON GREGORY —ZADOCK WELLMAN-CALEB CARR —HOOPER BISHOP
-DERRICK HULICK- CALEB PRATT —SOLOMON JONES —LYDIA
BARNES POTTER-JAMES HARRINGTON AND JACOB PETTY-JOHN
BLANCHARD-ALTRAMONT DONALDSON-JOSEPH VAN NETTERBENJAMIN BULSON-NATHAN LANDON-GENERAL RICHARDSON
CHAPTER, D. A. R.-THE REVOLUTIONARY GRAVES MARKED-MEMBERSHIP OF THE DAUGHTERS
By Lillian (Drake) Avery
There is, perhaps, no section of the state of Michigan where so great
a number of the soldiers of the Revolution settled as in Oakland county;
certainly in no other county of Michigan has so many of them been
found and their names and burial places noted.
General Richardson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has succeeded in reviving the memory of these men; has placed
markers on the graves of nineteen, and will continue the work until all
whose last resting places can be found shall be honored with their
official insignia. In some instances, where there were no headstones,
they have applied for and placed, government markers.
COUNTY'S FIRST SETTLER, A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
James Graham, the first permanent white settler to plant his home in
old Oakland, was a Revolutionary soldier, whose father, a Scotch-Irish
gentleman, came to Pennsylvania several years previous to the Revolution. His Dutch neighbors called him "Grimes" and his enlistment is
recorded under that name.
James Graham, born in I749, was one of a large family, and there
is a tradition that when he emigrated to America he sold himself, as
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