free-holdings

Updated: June 21, 2025

Six months later Jim Shirley had come to the settlement with a like company who extended the free-holdings until it was seven miles by the winding of the river from Aydelot's claim on the northwest down the river to Shirley's claim on the southeast. Eighteen months later only two men were left in the Grass River valley, Aydelot and Shirley.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Winning the Wilderness