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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTS. 22 my claim to and ownership of the following described The portion of land and country known as Sanpete county, together with all material and timber on the same, valued f 155,000; ten horses, valued |500; four cows, $120; one bull, $40; farming tools valued at $10; in all $155,765, together with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or appertaining. I also covenant and agree that I am the lawful claimant and owner of said property, and will warrant and forever defend the same unto the said trustee in trust, his successors in office and assigns, etc. all property, to-wit: HIS "SIEGXEROUCH (ARROPINE.) X MARK. "Witness: George Snow, R. Wilson Glenn, John Patten." THE FIRST COLONIES. In the spring of 1852 a company consisting of about under the command of James Allred, removed from Salt Lake City and began a settlement at Spring City. 'The colony was small and suffered many hardships from Indians and other disadvantages of an isolated community. But, the brave colonists held out against all misfortunes and built a fort for protection. The following spring a company from Manti, under the direction of Madison D. Hamilton, began a colony at Pleasant Creek, now Mount Pleasant, given in some of the archives as "a pleasant spot twenty-four miles north of Manti." The Indians forced them to take refuge in the fort at Spring City in July, and in August that settlement was abandoned. The Indians burned the fort in January, 1854, and no further efforts were made to refifteen families, build for five years. Early in the spring of 1854 a number of families left |
