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until the completion of the canal did we have a home market for our produce, except what was used while constructing it Until that time we were under the necessity of hauling our strain, pork, etc., on wagons to Chicago, and many timea under great difficulties. About the year 1838, severalfamilies aettled at Blackstone’e Grove on the eastern border of Yankee Settlement and coming from Hadlev,Massachusetts,and among them wereDr. Moses Porter and John C. Williams. It was here that Judge E. S. Williams, of the Cook countv Circuit court, received his early training. A postoffice was established here called the Hadley, and Reuben Beech was appointed postmaster.Standing as the writer now doe* at the close of the year 1876, am looking over the northern portioi of the 8tate,and thinking of the grea change that has been wrought, w
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Joliet Weekly Sun
Joliet, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 01, 1877
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