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Plat Description of the Village of Lisbon with Original signers.

"Be it remembered that the foregoing page is a plat of land describe as follows: starts at the quarter post on east side of Section 25 in township 9, north of range 13 west in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan and running thence west 33 feet, then north 269 ½ feet, thence west 132 ft, thence north 561 feet, thence west 1155 feet, thence north 495 feet, thence east 660 feet, thence westerly 187.52 feet, angling south from a direct west course 13 feet and 10 ½ inches, thence north 200 feet, west 342 feet, north 132 feet, west 98 feet, north 33 feet to the south line of section 24 in said township, north 165 feet, east 396 feet, north 33 feet, east 231 feet, north 142.22/25 feet, thence east 33 feet to west line of section 19 in township numbered 9, north range, 12 est., east 214 feet, south 93 feet, east 352 feet, south 214 feet, east 547 feet, south 33 feet to north line section 30 in said township, south 385 feet, west 387 ¾ feet, south 173 feet, west 528 feet, south 82 ½ feet, west 165 feet, south 351 feet, east 481 feet, south 346 feet, west 679 feet to the place of beginning – to be known as the Village of Lisbon.

 

The parcels and pieces of land set apart for public highways on said plat are described as follows, that describe on said plat as State Street being 66 feet wide and 2,991 feet long. That described on said plat as Ottawa Street being 66 feet wide and 1,773 feet long. That described on said plat as Church Street being 49 feet wide and 1,080 feet long. That described on said plat as Kent Street being 49 feet wide and 302 feet long. That described on said plat as Frost Street being 49 feet wide and 302 feet long.

 

The above described streets are all intended and are hereby set apart as Public Highways (Streets). The blocks are progressively numbered by words placed near the center thereof from one to eight – inclusive. The lots are numbered on each of said Blocks by figures placed near the center thereof. The figures at the ends and sides of said lots designate the length and breadth thereof in feet and fractional parts of a foot. The center point at intersection of Sate and Ottawa Streets is same point as the northeast corner of Section 25 in Township numbered 9, north of Range 13 West in Ottawa County, State of Michigan.

 

In witness whereof we the undersigned proprietors of said above described lands so platted and Christopher C. Hinman, Surveyor of said plats have hereunto set out hands and seals this Eighteenth day of July, 1876.

 

Alexander B. Frost,  Mrs. Marie E. Irish,  Charles C. Eddy

Nancy M. Frost, Hamilton B. Irish, J. J. Smith

John P. Smith, Mary T. Keeler, Curtis Pintler

Charles A. Gronburg, Ethalinda Allen, B. Rosenberg

Sophia Gronburg, Malinda Eddy, Anna Maria Rosenberg

Friederich Kirchner, Sophia Decker, Matilda F. Purdy

Friederiecke Kirchner, John P. Atkins, Conrad Kritzer

Richard Hawkins, Dell E. Atkins, Christine Kritzer

Charles C. Eddy, Nancy A. Thurston, H. S. Thurston

C. Jannett Eddy, Daniel Thurston, Charles E. Koon

Joseph Brooks, John Thurston, Elizabeth Koon

Olive M. Brooks, E. E. Tallman, George M. Miller

Catharine Roberts, George S. Chubb, Allen Meeker

Jacob Th. Mann, S. Delia Chubb, Electa Meeker

Sherman J. Koon, Sarah Shuck/Sherck, Nettie Stuart

M. Maria Koon, Eliza A. Stringham, Brayton Chester

Mary M. Chester

 

Signed by Christopher C. Hinman (Surveyor)

Amherst B. Cheney, Justice of the Peace, Kent County, Michigan” *

 

*Transcribed by Evelyn Sawyer, 1998

Chester Township
Ottawa County
Michigan, USA