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A portion of a map of Watertown Township from 1896. This snippet shows the southern most portion of Watertown Township including the northern most part of the village of Delta Mills and a nearby community known as Ingersoll (also referred to as…

The Saw Mill was located on the south bank of the Grand River just east of what is now Webster Road."[Erastus Ingersoll,] Having established himself at his new home on Grand River, the first work was to erect a dam preparatory to building a saw-mill.…

Article by the Lansing State Journal, "This is the second in a series of stories on 100-year-old farms in the Lansing area." Additional images from Ken Wilson, great-great-great grandson of Erastus Ingersoll.

The Wilson home is located on…

Erastus Ingersoll was born on November 9, 1782 in Lee, Massachusetts to Deacon and Sarah (Parsons) Ingersoll. He married Sally Smith in March 1806 in Victor, New York. He was the first settler of Delta Township, MI in the summer of 1836. Erastus…