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SOURCE: History of Lapeer County, Michigan
        with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
        of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
        H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884
        

         Page 43
         
              
              MARK BRAIDWOOD was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1804.
         He was for many years employed as a Brussels carpet weaver in
         Kilmarnock until 1842, when he came to Almont and settled on
         his present farm, east half of southeast quarter of northeast
         quarter of section 35, 100 acres.  He has added to this the
         southwest quarter of northeast quarter of the same section,
         making 140 acres.  He was married in 1840 to MARY BLAINE, of
         Newton upon Ayr, Scotland.  The names of their children are:
         GEORGE, farmer, living in Metamora; JOHN, farmer, living in
         Dryden; MARK, farmer, living in Dryden; THOMAS, died August
         8, 1846, in infancy; THOMAS, farmer, living in Otter Lake;
         JANE, wife of DAVID BORLAND, of Almont; WILLIAM, ALEXANDER
         H., and GABRIEL living with their parents.
         
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