FEB. 1 ISSUE ANSWERS: This photo is an abstract showing the 1823 deed from the United States Government to Job Hoxie. Job bought the land in 1823 and sold it in 1825. The Macomb County History writes that “the Hoxie family came to Romeo eleven months after the Baileys.” In a second part of the book can be found a history by Dr. Hollister. Dr. Hollister states, that the pioneer of this settlement was old Mr. Hoxie, who died in 1827, and was buried beside the road in the Big Field, on the way to Capt. Sterling’s. The traces of his grave have long since been obliterated. His son, Job Hoxie, remained on the homestead but a short time and then settled near Utica in the south part of the county. Not a few were the marvels recited of this old man. To us who gazed upon his features in life, there never was a wish by one of us that he should reappear, especially when we were passing by his resting place after night. Hoxie must have settled here sometime between 1818 and 1822. Two young men visited him here in 1823. They were Samuel Chamberlin, of Lima, N. Y., and Edward Brewster, of Riga, N. Y. They came West by way of the lakes, landed at Detroit, came to Mount Clemens, procured ponies and came on to Hoxie’s, returning to Detroit through the present town of Troy. When Farmer issued his sectional map of Michigan, in 1828, he marked the present