Industry began to flourish in this community, which needed a name. Leech built the first two stories of the Exchange Hotel. The late 1820s saw the coming of sawmills and distilleries, and in 1831, Payne K. Early settlers helped themselves to mail stacked in a hollow tree near Canal and River roads until 1824 when William Smith, proving to be a better postmaster then picket-maker, established the settlement's first post office. Johnson founded the five-member Methodist Church Society in 1823, gathering to pray in homes and barns.Īs the region grew, so did the need for goods and services. There is no record of what caused his death. Thomas died soon after his family settled in the new community. During the winter months, the men carried wooden pickets that William "Pickett" Smith planned to float down the Clinton River for sale in Detroit. Nathaniel and Thomas found summer jobs harvesting near Mount Clemens, taking their pay in wheat, which they had ground into flour at the Trombley Mill near Frederick. By the time their daughter was born in July, the Squires had settled into their small, cob-roofed log cabin on the southeast corner of today's Cass and Auburn roads. Today those paths are Cass and Auburn roads.Īs Jemima was soon to give birth, they built a shelter and cleared some land, planting corn, potatoes and buckwheat. Repacking their cart, Nathaniel, Jemima, and their sons Hiram and Thomas headed west through the woods until May of 1817, when they came upon the crossing of two Indian trails near the Clinton River. When the Harrington's returned from Detroit after the War of 1812, the Squires moved on. The Squires took refuge in an abandoned house near Frederick, present-day Mount Clemens, from which Elisha Harrington and his family had fled, fearing Chippewa attack. Traveling by raft and canoe, they docked near Mount Clemens, transferred their goods to an oxcart, and continued their journey through a forest path. The family began its trek from the Vermont hills, stopping for a time in Canada, before reaching Michigan.
His daughter Joclamy was the first white child born in the settlement. Nathaniel Squires' family came to what is now Utica in 1817.
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