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SOURCE: 
Centennial Edition of the Lapeer County Press and Lapeer County Clarion
dated Wednesday, August 19, 1931
Commemorating 100 Years of History and Progress
Lapeer  1831 - 1931

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the U.S. Data Repository  http://www.us-data.org/

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                       FIRST FAMILIES IN HUNTERS CREEK

J. B. Morse was one of the earliest residents of Lapeer, having been in the
County as early as 1833. In the fall of that year he located upon section 6
in what is now the township of Metamora, and the following spring made a
clearing and erected and enclosed a frame for a dwelling.  Early in May,
1934, Mr. John Lock, who had just arrived with his family from western New
York, moved into this skeleton of a house, Mrs. Lock not seeing the face of
a white woman for several weeks after their arrival till the first of July
following, when Messrs. Morse and H. M. Lock moved there, the three families
occupying the one house till the Messrs. Lock could put up houses of their
own.  For a year the three families lived there alone, in what was later
known as Farmers Creek, shut in on all sides by the wilderness with its
threat of Indians and wolves.