Excerpt from The Settlement of Ionia, Mich: A History of the Sessions Family of the Branch of Alonzo Sessions and Celia Dexter Sessions
Ionia, Michigan: - The little city of Ionia, nestling close to the foot of the hills on the north side of Grand River, climbing up their sides, and spreading over the level country at their top - charming in name, location and environments, will on Wednesday, May 28, arrive at the eightieth anniversary of the coming of its first white settlers, the colony from New York led by Samuel Dexter, and Ionians feel that they have much to be proud of, not only in the high character of its colonists, but of the interesting Indian lore attached to this region, for much as this locality was loved by the whites, even as much was it loved by the race that preceded them, who hunted in the forests, fished in the streams and built their wigwams by the banks of the river that was their broad highway, flowing through - as they considered it - their Indian paradise.
Michigan was inhabited by three tribes of the great Algonquin nation which inhabited all the land south of Hudson Bay, east of the Mississippi and north of the present state of Tennessee, except the state of New York which was the possession of the five confederated tribes of the fierce and war loving Iroquois. The Pottawatomies lived in the south part of the state, the Chippewas in the north part and northern peninsula, and for many years the Sauks occupied the country around Grand river, but were finally overcome by the Ottawas, whose home it became for many generations. All of these tribes though so widely scattered, often warring desparately among themselves, belonged to one great stock, and spoke various dialects of one language.
As nearly as can be ascertained at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Pottawatomies numbered about 800 warriors, the Ottawas about 1,200 and the Chippewas, with whom these tribes were linked in a very close confederacy, numbered more than both of them.
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