A story of a button, lost and found, at the Chippewa Nature Center website:
"...an early account by trader, Benjamin O. Williams, that mentions a Lieutenant Poole surveying a road about five miles from the Ponton site [Michigan] in 1834. We now believe that this button once belonged to Lt. Poole!"
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Benjamin O. Williams' account (partial) found in Volume 2 of the Michigan Historical Collections:
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Lt. Poole was assigned to Fort Christmas in Florida; his button was left behind.
Benjamin Poole, of Maine, appointed 1st Lieutenant [3rd Artillery], dated St. Augustine, Florida, 15 June 1837:
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