A census was taken in that portion of the Territory of Michigan lying east of Lake Michigan, showing population sufficient to entitle it to admission as a state.

The evidence

• “In 1834 a census was taken in that portion of the Territory of Michigan lying east of Lake Michigan and it was found that the population was more than was required to entitle it to admission as a state.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/05-historic-evolution.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 128 / book p. 114

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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