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The Michigan Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by MICHIGAN Pioneers. This series is inspired by and is a continuation of the Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by SixDogTeam. In just over four years, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over seven hundred caches and the hiders have grown to fifty cacher teams in 5 states and one province, most of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 1,000 cachers have logged over 20,000 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
"The First In Ransom""
On March 8,1836 the first white settler Rowland Bird arrived in the area. He brought along his wife and seven children and a workman named Leander Candee, On January 28, 1840 the Township was named "Roland" in honor of its first settler. The first School was taught by Lucinda Bird in the summer of 1838, three families sent their children to this school, whch was held in a basic shanty. The first actual School House was a log building erected in 1840 The first marriage in the Township was that of Mr. Bird's handyman Leander Candee to his daughter Lorinda Bird in March 1840, The marriage was considered, "payment" to Mr. Candee for his years of devoted service to the family. The first death in the Township was that of Allen Bird, the 16 year old son of Rowland Bird, on March 8, 1839. The funeral sermon was delivered by The Reverend Jacob Ambler of Osseo, and such was the very first sermon delivered in in the town Orasmus Doty was a contributor to early Ransom's population. In 1838 he and his brother came to what is now Ransom. The township 8 and fractional 9 South was named Rowland on January 28, 1840, in honor of Rowland Bird, a native of Massachusetts. He was the first settler there. Several years later an act was passed through the influence of certain parties living in what is now Amboy, and on March 9, 1848 was changed to Ransom. The inhabitants weren't satisfied thinking the name of the pioneer should be honored and so they changed the name to Bird. The strife not ended, on March 29, 1850 it was changed to Ransom, which it has since remained Congrats to skrip on the First To Find! FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE
MSQ caches are brought to you by the following fellows of GEOMSQ: SixDogTeam (Earthdog Patrick, Lead Dog, Wheel Dog), Wolverine Warriors, The Outcaches, SafariBob & Tweety, PairOMedicChick, Cyclops, Son of Cyclops, The Herd, Menstown1, Ali Kat, Geo's Loulog, MI Chickenlegs, Jagman714 and TeamMina. If you are interested in spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email Wolverine Warriors. *Grand Exalted Order of the Michigan Spirit Quest*
*Grand Exalted Order of the Michigan Spirit Quest*
** THIS IS A GENUINE MICHIGAN SPIRIT QUEST CACHE**
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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M ------------------------- N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below, and vice versa)
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