{"id":13076,"count":4,"description":"DeWitt is a city in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,507 at the 2010 census.\nDeWitt was named after DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York during the 1830s. It was first settled by Captain David Scott, who moved there from Ann Arbor in 1833, and platted the land. The State Legislature formally created DeWitt Township on March 23, 1836. The first township meeting was held at the house of Captain Scott on April 8, 1836. A gentleman by the name of Welcome J. Partelo was named the township\u2019s first Supervisor at that meeting.\nIt did not take long for the State to divide DeWitt Township into the many townships that we recognize today. In 1837, the township was split in half by a North\/South line with the western half becoming Watertown Township. Two years later, the township was again split in half by an East\/West line with the northern half becoming Bingham Township. One day later, the Governor approved an act, which split the remaining township area in half...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/dewitt\/","name":"Dewitt","slug":"dewitt","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/13076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}