Road number forty-seven, laid out by Commissioners Cronk and Gilman, march 29, 1837, was a road in the vicinity of the Farrandville and Clio, from the "Sagina" road.

Road number forty-eight was the road from Clio north to the Saginaw line.

On April 20, 1837, road commissioners, Cronk and Gilman, divided the township of Flint into seventeen road districts. On march 29, 1837, they altered the road running easterly from Kearsely street in the village of Flint to the southeast corner of section 5 (the Richfield road) and, as defined, it became road number forty-nine. The record of this road is attested by Addison Stewart, town clerk.

Road number fifty was declared such after a jury of twelve had declared the necessity of opening it, on the 29^th day of march, 1837. It was in the heart of the present city of Flint.

Road number fifty-one was an alteration of the river road north of the river, in the vicinity of Flushing, made on May 1, 1837; it was attested by Orrin Safford, town clerk.

Road number fifty-two, opened May 15, 1837, by James W. Cronk, John L. Gage and A. H. Hart, road commissioners, was three miles of the present Atherton toad in Burton, between the Center road then Vassar road.

Road number fifty-three, laid out June 24, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, was the street between the Stewart plat and Maplewood plat in the north end of Flint.

Road number fifty-four, laid out July 1, 11837, was a definition of the highway to connect with the easterly end of fifteenth street as laid out the map of Flint village.

Road number fifty-five was the alteration of a pre-existing road in the southern part of Burton, but the road as so altered appears to have been discontinued.

Road number fifty-six was laid out on July 1, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, from the present city of Flint tot he southwest corner of section 35, township of Flint; part of it is now the Torrey road.

Road number fifty-seven, laid out July 1, 1837, by commissioners Cronk and Gage, is the two miles of the VanSlyke road in the township of Flint, between the Atherton road and Maple avenue.

Road number fifty-eight, laid out September 5, 1837, by commissioners Cronk and Gage, was a highway across section 34, township of Clayton; but it appears to have been discontinued.

Road number fifty-nine, laid out September 5, 1837, by Cronk and gage, commissioners, is now the Miller road from Flint to Otterburn.

Road number sixty, altered and laid out September 5, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, defines the river road down the river on south side and alters the earlier surveys of the same.

Road number sixty-one, laid out June 8, 1837, by commissioners Cronk and Gage, was a road on section 25, township of Burton, which seems to have been discontinued.

Road number sixty-two, laid out September 26, 1837, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, is the south half mile of the Lewis road north of the city.

Road number sixty-three, laid out August 20, 1837, by commissioners Cronk and gage, is a small section of the Potter road from the Clayton-Flushing line to the rover road.

Road number sixty-four, laid out November 7, 1837, is obsolete.

Road number sixty-five, laid out November 18, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, opened a mile of highway, now the Dye road between Beecher and Calkins roads.

Road number sixty-six, laid out November 10, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the Bray road from Frances road to Stanley.

Road number sixty-seven, laid out December 13, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the half mile of the Lewis road running south from the Carpenter road.

Road number sixty-eight, laid out December 22, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the Atherton road from the Fenton road to the Van Slyke road.

Road number sixty-nine, laid out December 22, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, was designed to change the course of the McKinley road three miles north of Flushing to curve eastward around the bend of the river.

Road number seventy, laid out December 22, 1837, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the mile of the Need road between Frances and Mt. Morris road.

Road number seventy-one, laid out January 17, 1838, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, defines a portion of the river road to Flushing through section 5 and adjoining sections, town of Flint.

Road number seventy-two, laid out January 24, 1838, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, and road number seventy-three, laid out at the same time, described roads entering the site of our city; but they were evidently not of permanent use. The later highways of the city and the building of the roads outside on section lines seem to have supplanted these meandering roads.

Road number seventy-four, laid out January 24, 1838, by Commissioners Cronk and Gage, is now the Linden road from the Potter road south to the river road.

Road number seventy-five, laid out March 26, 1838, by Cronk and Gage, commissioners, appeared to have been straightened to conform to the section line and is not part of the Atherton road, immediately east of the Grand Blanc road.

Road number seventy-six, laid out March 26, 1838, by John L Gage and A. H. Hart, commissioners, is now the Belsay road from East Court road south three miles to the Bristol road, in Burton.

Road number seventy-seven, laid out at the same time as number seventy-six, across section 13, Burton, is supplanted by the Northern state road.

Road number seventy-eight, laid out at the same time as number seventy-six, is now the Davison road to Davison township, which then was the county line.

Road number seventy-nine, laid out March 27, 1838, by commissioners James w. Cronk, A. H. Hart and John L. Gage, now the Genesee road, north from Kearsley road in Burton to the corner of sections 34 and 35 in Genesee.

Road number eight, laid out March 28, 1838, by commissioners Gage and Cronk, includes the Clark road in Genesee from Vassar road west.

The town of Flint having been cut down in its territory by the formation of the town of Vienna by Act 31, of laws of 1837, comprising township 9, of ranges 5,6 and 7, (now Montrose, Vienna and Thetford), a re-districting of the town was made by Commissioners of highway James W. Cronk and John L. Gage, March 27, 1838, dividing the town into eight road districts.

Atlas, including the present Davison township, had also been formed into a township of Lapeer county, and by joint action of T. R. Cummings, Ira d. Wright and Parus Atherton, commissioners elected in the spring of 1838 for the township of Flint, and Charles Vantine and Asa Farrar, commissioners for the new township of Atlas, a new road, numbered eighty-one, was laid out along the then county line, now forming three miles of the Vassar road from Maple Avenue road north. This new road was to be maintained, as to the south half, by the township of Flint, and as to the north half, by Atlas.

On June 18, 1836, Ira d. Wright and Parus Atherton, commissioners, laid our road number eighty-two, which is now that mile of the Genesee road from Bristol road to Maple road in Burton; and one the same day they laid out number eighty-three, being two miles off the Belsay road between the Atherton road and Maple avenue road, in Burton township.

T. R. Cummings and Ira D. Wright, commissioners, on march 28, 1839, laid out road number eighty-four, running across section 13 of Burton, now part of the Lapeer road. This road was surveyed by C. G. Curtis, surveyor.

On the same day these commissioners laid out road number eighty-five, to commence in "the old road on the north side of Flint river where William Blackington's west line crosses it," running thence by courses to connect with Third street, in the village of Grand Traverse.

The same day the commissioners redistricted the town of Flint, dividing it into fifteen road districts.

At the spring election of 1839 Ira d. Wright, Ovid Hemphill and Willard Eddy were elected commissioners of highways of Flint, and on April 10, 1839, Wright and Hemphill, commissioners, laid out road number eighty-six, which commenced at the quarter stake in the east side of section 29, Burton, and run west half a mile to the center of the section. This appears to have been the first act of Commission Hemphill and the road is appropriately called the Hemphill road.

Road number eighty-seven, laid out July 15, 1809, by Commissioners Eddy and Wright, was an extension of Twelfth street, village of Flint, and was attested in 1844.

On November, 1 1839 Commissioners Wright and Eddy laid out, as road number eighty-eight, a mile of toad across the middle of section 36, Burton, from east to west. Only the west end of this is at present a highway.

On December 12, 1839, the same commissioners laid out what is now the Atherton road, from the Fenton road east to the Grand Blanc road, as road number eighty-nine.

Road number ninety, laid out December 30, 1839, by the joint action of Ira D. Wright and Willard Eddy, as highway commissioners of the township of Flint, and William Blades and John P. Fritz, commissioners of the township of Grand Blanc, commenced at the southeast corner of the township of Flint, on the county line between Genesee and Lapeer counties, and ran west on the township line between Flint and Grand Blanc four miles and sixty-one chains to Saginaw turnpike. This is now part of the Maple Avenue road.

Road number ninety-one, laid out march 13, 1840, by commissioners Wright and Eddy, is now the Davison (formerly the Lyon) road from the curve in section 1, Burton, west to the "reservation."

Road number ninety-two, laid out March 13, 1840, by commissioners Wright and Eddy, is fifth avenue from Detroit street to the west line of Smith's reservation.

On April 6,. 1840, the commissioners again divided the town of Flint into sixteen road districts.

John L. Gage, Asa Torry and Henry Schram were elected commissioners of highways for Flint at the spring election, 1840.

Gage and Torry, July 4, 1840, laid out more accurately the portion of the Torrey road in section 26, township of Flint, as road number ninety-three.

On January 1, 1841, the three commissioners, Gage, Torrey and Schram, opened as a highway the mile of the present Belsay road between the Bristol and Atherton roads in Burton. This road was not designated by number.

In March, 1841, the commissioners again re-districted the town of Flint into seventeen road districts.

At the election of 1841 William Blackington, Benjamin Boomer and Daniel Andrews were elected highway commissioners and E. O. Leach, town clerk.

On July 12, 1841, commissioners Blackington and Andrews paid out road number ninety-four, in section 25, Burton. This does not appear to be a highway now.

On June 14, 1841, the same commissioners laid out road number ninety-five, which is now part of the Vassar road.

Road number ninety-six, laid out March 31, 1842, by commissioners D. Andrews and William Blackington, was a road into the present city of Flint and had its terminus at "railroad"; it is now superseded by city streets.

Road number ninety-seven, laid out march 29, 1842, by commissioners Andrews and Blackinton, began at the end of River road on the town line between Flint and Flushing running southeasterly to the road across Blackington's land.

Road number ninety-eight, laid out March 29, 1842, by Commissioners Andrews and Blackington, is the present Western road in Burton from the Maple avenue road north to the Atherton road.

Road number ninety-nine, laid out March 12, 1842, by D. Andrews and Benjamin Boomer, commissioners of highways, was a meandering road running up the river from E. S. Walker's land tot he village of Flint, to connect with road running northerly from Hazleton's Mills.

Road number one hundred, laid out March 29, 1842, ran north from the village of Grand Traverse; it began at the southeast corner of block 36, Grand Traverse (corner of third avenue and Henderson street), and ran northeasterly by courses to the Genesee line. A part of this is not St. Johns street.

On April 23, 1842, William H. Lyon, Ada Torrey and Emery Church, newly elected highway commissioners of the township of Flint, laid out road number one hundred and one, now the east half-mile of the Hemphill road, Burton.

Road number one hundred and two was laid out, June 4, 1842, by Commissioners Lyon and Church, from Court street south along the railroad.

Road number one hundred three, laid out September 17, 1842, by Commissioners Lyon and Torrey, is the mile of the center road between the Atherton road and Lapeer road, Burton.

On June 6, 1842, William H. Lyon, Emery Church and Asa Torrey, commissioners of highway of the township of Flint, and S. M. Smith, George Crocker and Andrew Hyslop, commissioners of highways of the township of Flushing, laid out number one hundred four, running from the southeast corner of section 33, township 7 north, range 6 east, north to the Crocker (now Miller) road.

It is to be noted that the Legislature had set the west half of the present township of Flint into the township of flushing, and by survey made January 21, 1843, Isaiah Merriman, county surveyor, defined the line by distances and courses.

Road number one hundred six was laid out by commissioners Lyon, Torrey and Church, January 28, 1843. It is now part of the Mill road in Burton, between Western road and Genesee road.

The changes made in the boundary of the township of Flint necessitated the re-districting of the same, which was done April 23, 1843, by commissioners Torrey and Church, dividing the township into twenty road districts.

Road number one hundred seven, laid out April 23, 1843, by the new commissioners of highway, C. B. Petrie, John Hiller and Horace Bristol is now a small portion of Center road from Mill road north, In Burton.

Road number one hundred eight, laid out at the same time by the same commissioners, connected the "river road" with the "division road," now in city of Flint.

Under head of road number one hundred nine, on May 10, 1843, the commissioners above named discontinued road number sixty-one, in section 25, Burton.

Road number one hundred ten was located the same day by the commissioners along the south line of section 25, to take the place of the discontinued road.

On June 3, 1843, Commissioners Petrie and Bristol, of Flint, acting with Highway Commissioners Richard Johnson and Hanly Miles, of Genesee, altered a road between their township, as road number one hundred eleven. As this road commences at the Saginaw turnpike, at a certain distance from a white oak tree, it is rather uncertain to locate. It was somewhere in the north end of Flint.

Road number one hundred thirteen was laid out by order of the court, Associate Judge Jeremiah R. Smith and Probate Judge Samuel Rice, and ran from quarter stake in south line of section 27, Burton, north to the former boundary of "town of Kearsley" three miles, Of this, only the mile between the alteration road and Mill road, and the part between Lapeer road and Court road, appears to be opened at this date.

Under head of road number one hundred fourteen, is discontinuance order by the court in conformation of the determination of the commissioners, under road one hundred nine.

Under heading, road number one hundred fifteen, we have discontinuance of a road from the intersection of Kearsley street with Saginaw turnpike, dated March 6, 1844. It appears that this road was discontinued on verdict of a jury composed of Adonijah Atherton, Perus Atherton, Joseph Chambers, John F. Schram, James Ingalls, Tunice Cole, Henry Schram, Ira Chase, H. Clark, P. A. Skinner, Truman Echram and William Chambers. The record is attested by Henry C. Walker, town clerk. John Hiller, Willard Eddy and Ira d. Wright were commissioners of highways of Flint in 1844. Pratt R. Skinner, deputy surveyor, did the survey work.

In 1845, Ira D. Wright, Charles W. Grant and Daniel McKercher became highway commissioners of Flint and George R. Sprague, town clerk.

In 1846, the highway commissioners of Flint were Gilbert Conklin, James Carter and T. J. Gates. These commissioners caused to be recorded certain surveys of roads. Of these, road number one hundred eighteen, paid out November 5, 1833, by J. Dayton and Edward Perry with John Todd, the first commissioners of highways of Grand Blanc, and the first in the present county of Genesee, surveyed by H. Park, surveyor. The record is as follows:

"Minutes of a road near Stevens' Grist Mill. Commencing at an Elm tree fourteen inches in diameter, standing on the line of the U. S. Road south thirty-eight degrees west, twenty-four chains and ninety-five links from the N. e. corner of section nineteen township seven north of range seven east, thence south forty-five degrees west eighty-six chains and twenty-eight links to a post standing on the west side of said section. Thence on said line south one degree and thirty minutes east, four chains and sixty-eight links to the southwest corner of said section. Variations 2:30" east Nov. 5^th, 1833. H. park, Surveyor.

The gristmill referred to was on the Thread lake, and, at the time the road was laid out, in the township of Grand Blanc.

Road number one hundred nineteen was also laid out by Jonathan Dayton and Edward Perry, commissioners of highways of Grand Blanc township, August 29, 1833, also surveyed by H. park, surveyor, commencing at a post on west side of lot 1, and running by courses and with reference to certain posts and trees now gone. This road was recorded in Flint township May 5, 1846, attested by George R. Sprague, town clerk.

Road number one hundred twenty, a road from Stevens grist-mill, was also paid out by J. Dayton and E. Perry, commissioners of Grand Blanc, February 28, 1834, and it opened what is now four miles of the Fenton road south of Flint. This was recorded in Flint township, May 5, 1846. It was surveyed by Paul C. Davidson, surveyor.

Road number one hundred twenty-one, laid out February 24, 1834, by John T. Todd and Edward Perry, commissioners, was "a road north of Flint river," and began in the middle of the United States road at southwest corner of section 30, of Genesee, and ran east to river,, being the present Pierson road to river. this road was surveyed by James McCormick, surveyor, and was recorded in Flint township records, May 5, 1846.

The activities of the commissioners of highway of Flint in 1846 were mostly in the line of correcting the surveys of existing roads, and especially in making their roads conform to the road laid through the county by the state officials as the Northern state road.

On February 16, 1847, they laid out, on the survey of Julian Bishop, county surveyor, the road now the Dye road north of the Calkins road in Flint township. And on March 2, 1847, they laid out the present Atherton road from the United States road east about two hundred rods.

The commissioners of highways for Flint, elected in 1847, were Charles W., Grant, George Crocker and Jacob Eldridge, and A. Bump was clerk.

In 1848 the commissioners were Elias J. Bump, George Crocker and Charles W. Grant. On December 16, 1848, they recorded the survey of the State Road Commissioners J. P. Bloss, P. Miller and S. P. Stedman, of the State road from Flint to the town of Clayton. They also laid out certain roads within the present city of Flint.

The changes of township lines by erection of new townships, and alteration of old township lines caused by the growth of new settlements, necessitated the recording by transcript of roads laid out in other jurisdictions, and we find on page 177 of the Book of Road Records of Flint township the transcript of a road opened on the 15^th day of May, 1838, by Gilbert Caswell, Benjamin Bower and peter Miller, commissioners of flushing township. This was a part of the present Beecher road and the river to Flushing west of the river.

The next transcript is of an alteration of the road which would seem to have been the original Torrey road, made by Commissioners Gilbert, Caswell and Bower of Flushing, on May 23, 1834.

The next transcript is of a road laid out along section line between sections 5 and 6 of Flint, to the river bank, and appears not to be used as such at the present time.

The portion of the Dye road running one mile south from the Corunna road was laid out by Andrew Hyslop and Isaac Lyons, Jr., commissioners for Flushing, November 10, 1840, and recorded by transcript in Flint township.

The next recorded transcript from the Flushing records was a road laid out March 24, 1842, by Anson Gilbert and William Lyon, commissioners of flushing, from the quarter stake in south line of section 4, township 7, range 6, and running south thirty-seven degrees and fifty-five minutes east to the river road.

Next we find a mile of the present Dye road between the Lennon road and the Bristol road, laid out by Simon M. Smith and Andrew Hyslop, commissioners, for Flushing, July 25, 1842.

On the 25^th of June, 1842, these two commissioners, with William Smith and M. L. Barret, commissioners of highways for the township of Mundy, laid out part of the present Calkins road running east from the present town line between Clayton and Flint, this road when so paid out being on the township line of Mundy and Flushing.

Commissioners George Crocker, S. M. Smith and Andrew Hyslop, laid out, on May 25, 1845, the present Linden road from Maple avenue three miles north.

On March 18, 1884, George Crocker and S. M. Smith, as such commissioners, laid out the mile of the Bristol road immediately east from the Linden road.

On December 7, 1845, Commissioners of Highways e. G. Langdon and Jacob H. Coddington, of Flint township, laid out one and a half miles of the Lennon road east from the Dye road.

On march 12, 1849, E. Walkley, surveyor, laid out a part of the road, now the Potter road, between Flint and Mt. Morris, and it was adopted and declared a highway by action of Ira D. Wright and William Bendle, for Flint, and C. B. Seeley and Joseph W. Metcalf, for Genesee township.

On August 11, 1849, H. S. Penoyer, surveyor, laid out the road afterwards known as the Murray road, now a street in the newer part of the second war of Flint, and his survey was made a record and the road declared such by action of commissioners Ira D. Wright and Elias J. Bump, for Flint, the same day.

The present Judd road from the Western road to the Saginaw road was declared a highway by the action of Commissioners William Bendle and Ovid Hemphill, November 6, 1849.