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| There is a John Baptiste Mexico listed in the Wayne County Michigan (Outside Detroit) 1830 Census. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikent/census/1830/wayne.html PATENT_L_N PATENT_F_N PATENT_M_I SECTION_NR TOWNSHIP RANGE TOTAL_ACRE L_O_CODE DOCUMENT_NR SIGN_DATE REMARKS MASICOTT JOHN B 27 5 S 10 E 80.0000 10 6518 1837/03/20 Believed to have migrated from Quebec to Detroit and then to FrenchTown Township Monroe Michigan. Frenchtown eventually split into other townships. Ash Township is where the land is mentioned, which eventually split into Ash and Berlin Townships. The land was then located in Berlin Township. French missionaries came to this territory as early as 1634. The river that flows through the center of Monroe was named the River Aux Raisin because of the many grapes growing in the locality. A trading post and fort were established here in 1778. Francois Navarre was the first white settler in 1780. The first settlement was called Frenchtown when about 100 French families came here from Detroit and Canada. The American flag was first raised in Michigan in Monroe in 1796. In 1817 Frenchtown was renamed Monroe by Governor Lewis Cass in honor of President James Monroe. Commercially, Monroe grew from an agricultural and fur trading center into a paper industry town by 1920. In recent years, many of the locally funded firms have been acquired by holding companies while the urban industrial expansion of Detroit and Toledo has spilled into the county. these changes have made the county a substantially diversified economic unit with no single industry dominant. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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