Freeman Carol Willits (3 results)
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Published by Privately printed, Dexter, MI, 1987
- Softcover
Seller: A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG- beige wrappers. Local history booklet on the Village of Dixboro Michigan, just northeast of Ann Arbor. 8vo. 153 pp. Maps; illus.; photos; notes. Ships fast with tracking. P1-AB.
Published by Thomson-Shore, Dexter, Michigan, 1979
- Softcover
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.Lowry's Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. tight binding; signed by previous owner first page; slight discoloring due to age Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Language: English
Published by Privately Printed, 1980
- Softcover
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine unread condition photographic softcover wraps. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A one inch separation of the lower front cover spine edge from front cover. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly t…ight and square unread condition (see photographs). Signed by the author, Carol Willits Freeman, with blue pen on the lower section of the copyright page. "Books written about the early settlement of Michigan give us basic information about John Dix, the founder of Dixboro. He was born in Littleton, Massachusetts in 1796 and went to sea at sixteen. He bore the title of captain, served on a privateer in the War of 1812, and was shipwrcked off New Zealand. We can only speculate why he chose to emigrate to the Territory of Michigan in 1824. Apparently, after years at sea, he had returned home, met and courted a girl from a "good Massachusetts family." Consequently he must have determined to make a name for himself and prepare to support a wife in the style to which she was accustomed. Explorers and land prospectors had returned from Michigan with stories of land to be taken up from the government for $1.25 an acre. Enthusiastic men had come back for their families after buying property. Letters arrived from those who had gone describing the fertile territory to be settled and urging friends to come west to the "promised land." - short excerpt from beginning chapter entitled "The Western Wilds". Signed by Author(s).
