. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . demands of a large and increasing family had preventedthe accumulation of much means, and the little that hadbeen treasured up was invested in business, and being eon-verted into money was found to be of questionable suffi-ciency to prepare for and make the journey with his family(wife and six children) ; but the removal being decidedupon it was not in his nature to look back, and the journeywas undertaken, Mr. French agreeing to supfily any de-ficiency necessary to make the journey as far as GrandRiver. At Detroit, his money being exhausted,
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . demands of a large and increasing family had preventedthe accumulation of much means, and the little that hadbeen treasured up was invested in business, and being eon-verted into money was found to be of questionable suffi-ciency to prepare for and make the journey with his family(wife and six children) ; but the removal being decidedupon it was not in his nature to look back, and the journeywas undertaken, Mr. French agreeing to supfily any de-ficiency necessary to make the journey as far as GrandRiver. At Detroit, his money being exhausted, the sumof fifty dollars was borrowed of Mr. French, and the jour-ney continued by rail to Ypsilanti, then the western termi-nus of the Michigan Central Railroad, and from thence byteams employed for the purpose, and much of the way byroads cut through the forests. May 7, 1838, the partyarrived upon the Montgomery Plains, where the landsof Mr. French were located. Here we find Mr. and Mrs-Huntington, with six dependent children, none of sufiicient.
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