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Howard (1907), Vol. 2, p. 1070, and Chapman (1880), pp. 679–680 — read whole in Pass IV-2 and carried here at the strength there established; the whole course stands in the before-the-city fragment
The section's farm course opens with a family that did not own the ground it farmed. Jacob Eaton's parents came to Clay Township in 1831 and "first located on the present site of St. Mary's Academy, on sections 25 and 26, living there with people who had a lease on the property" (Howard); five years later they removed to sections 16 and 17, where Isaac Eaton entered eighty acres of their own. The farm the Eatons worked on this section was therefore a leasehold at the section's river-side end, held by landlords no carrier names, and the family's own entry — the eighty acres on section 17 — is the only named land entry tied to this section's story in any carrier read (the section's own first entries stand unrecovered, gap G-FR-3, its settler chain in the before-the-city fragment). What crops the leasehold carried, what stock it kept, and what the farm looked like, no carrier says: the farm prints at the record's size, a settler household farming leased ground for five years at the start of the township's settlement, and then the section goes quiet.