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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 44
         
                PETER COUTTS was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
            February 15, 1805.  His occupation there was farming and
            trading in cattle, traveling extensively in England, Scot-
            land and the Orkney Islands.  He left Scotland in 1862
            (May 17), and went to Canada where he resided until 1864,
            when he came to Almont, and bought the west one-half of
            southeast quarter of section 11, eighty-seven acres, on
            which he has since lived.  He was married in 1836, August
            14, to JANE WEBSTER, of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  They
            have five children living, two have died.  JAMES died in
            1881, in Canada; MARY died in 1861, in Scotland; JANE,
            widow fo MOSES GARDINER, lives at Vassar; ANNIE, wife of
            MICHAEL REILLY, in Chicago; PETER, in Dakota; THOMAS, at
            home carrying on the farm; and ELIZABETH, now at West
            Branch.
            
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