"Among the early land lookers of Michigan was John Hunt of Vermont who first visited the township of Antwerp in 1835 and was so well pleased with the outlook that he entered a tract of 100 acres on Sec. 1. He returned to Vermont after making his entry and did not become a settler until 1838. Mr. Hunt and his family proceeded to Buffalo by canal, and finding that they could not easily embark at that place, he engaged a man and team to carry his family and goods to Silver Creek, 36 miles distant, where he was told he would find a steamer for Detroit. The roads were knee-deep in mud, and the driver of the team was drunk, and finally abandoned them in the woods when about halfway to their objective point. Finally after three days they reached Silver Creek and found the steamer. They disembarked at Toledo and eventually after a journey of three weeks' duration reached Kalamazoo.
"'When I left Vermont,' said Mr. Hunt, I had eight hundred dollars in money, a pretty stiff price to pay for a journey that can now be made in 36 hours.' As an evidence of the cost of the necessities of life in those 'good old days,' Mr. Hunt paid $55 for a second-hand ceostove in Kalamazoo. 'And,' said he, "it was about as big as a warming-pan.' Mr. Hunt spent the remaining years of his life on his Antwerp farm, dying some years ago at a ripe old age."

-- from History of Van Buren County, Michigan (1912)
    by Capt. O. F. Revland
    p. 406

Note:John Hunt's family at the time he moved to Michigan consisted of his wife,
Eliza (King) Hunt, aged 30, Laurentio, aged 6, Sally aged 4, Harty 2, and
Nathaniel K. (later known as "King") aged a few months. Five children
were born to them in Michigan. John Hunt died in October, 1887 and
Eliza in October, 1900.