Wayne County i Michigan i USA

Arkiv: Wayne County, Michigan Genealogy
Länk: Wayne County, Michigan

The county was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815. Wayne County was the sixth county in the Northwest Territory, formed August 15, 1796 from portions of territorial Hamilton County, territorial Knox County and unorganized territory.

On January 14, 1803, the Governor of Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, issued a similar proclamation defining the boundaries as beginning at a point where an east and west line passing through the southernmost extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect a north and south line, passing through the westernmost extreme of the lake, then north to the territorial boundary, then along said boundary line to a point where an east and west line passing through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect the same, then along this last mentioned line to the place of beginning. This boundary would include Chicago, Illinois and a sizable strip of Wisconsin along Lake Michigan.[7]

These boundaries would be adjusted as Indiana and Illinois became states and as other counties were formed within Michigan Territory.

It is one of several U.S. counties named after Revolutionary War-era U.S. general ”Mad Anthony” Wayne.

Henry Ford föddes i Wayne County 1863.