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                                    About this period,  ROBERT IRWIN  appointed the  first
                                  Justice of  the Peace  and the  first Clerk  of  the  Court,  under
                                  Michigan  authority  west  of  Lake  Michigan;  and  near  the
                                  same time,  in  1821 or '22,  he was  appointed the  first  Post-
                                  master in what is now  Wisconsin.  The mail was then carried
                                  from  Green 13ay  to Detroit and  back in the winter  season by
                                  the soldiers;  if  we received the mail twice in the course of  six
                                  months  we thought it  a great treat.  In the  summer the mail
                                  was transmitted  by schooner to  and from Detroit some four or
                                  five  times durlng the period  of  navigation.
                                    ROBERT  IRWIN was the  first member  elected  from the west
                                  side of  Lake Michigan to the Michigan Territorial legislature,
                                  and, I think,  served  two sessions.  He  was  subsequently ap-
                                  pointed Indian  Agent  for the Winnebagoes,  and stationed  at
                                  Fort Winnebago,  after its  erection in  1828,  and died  there;
                                  his remains were brought  to Green Bay for interment.  There
                                  mas quite  a  large  family  of  the  IRWINS, who  came early to
                                  Green  E~~-ROBERT IRWIN and  lady;  their  sons  ROBERT,
                                  ALEXANDER  J.  and  SAMUEL, and  three  daughters.  They
                                  have  all passed  away except  two  daughters,  who are married
                                  and reside  in  Green  Bay-Mrs.   J.  V.  SUYDA~I, and  Mrs.
                                  FOLLETT. ROBERT IRWIN ~narried a  lady  at  Erie, Pennsyl-
                                  vania, and brought  her to  Green  Bay,  and their eldest daugh-
                                  ter, now  Mrs.  MARY C.  MITCUELL, of  Green Bay,  was the
                                  first A~nerican child born in what is now  Wisconsin.
                                    Old Judge CHARLES REAUME lived about two  years after I
                                  settled  in the  country.  He  was  a Inan  of  great  iniportance
                                  when  I first came to the Bay, and  for a long  time  previously.
                                  He had been appointed a sort  of  Justice,  I think by  General
                                  HARRISON, when  he  was  Governor  of  Indiana  Territory.
                                  When REAUME held  his courts, he would  tlress in  his British   I
                                  uniform red coat, and cocked hat, and put on an air of  pompous
                                  dignity.  There  was  a  noted  case  brought  before  him  by a
                                  young  lady  for  seduction  and  breach  of  marriage  promise.
                                  After  hearing  the  testimony,  the  honorable  court  rendered
                                  judgment  in this wisc-the  seducer mas sentenced to  purchase
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