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Our teamsters were quietly requested to return and abandon their pur- pose, expostulated with, and even threatened with subsequent punishment if they persisted in and accomplished their designs, but all to no purpose; go they would, and as yet they had done nothing more than declare their intention, it was deemed sufficient to administer to them but light speci- mens of retributive justice.
Accordingly, some half-dozen began quite a pleasant conversation with our patrons of the liquor-dealer at the front end of the wagon, while the linder wheels, through the quiet efforts of some half-dozen more, were undergoing the process of losing their linch-pins.
This being accomplished, they were permitted to proceed in the even tenor of their way.
Nature seems, and wisely too, to have constituted all men differently, and, allowing the "claim-jumpers" to have been "tenants in common" and alike partakers in the contents of the jug, the effect produced upon them fully justified that, even in this case, there was no exception to the rule- the one being in his opinion innch more intelligent, wealthy, generous and capable than the other, and in consequence of thus being the tighter, as a matter of course insisting in his ability, took command of the team, and they thus proceeded on their "winding way" anxiously watched by a num- ber of urchins and "big boys" to witness their discomfiture.
Now it so chanced that when they had driven about a mile the horses- seemed inclined to take a right-hand road which diverged from the right one, slightly at first, but finally led off and was lost in the bottom timber, such as is very common in that region, and which more than once betrayed me, ere I knew it, into a settlement sf stumps.
They proceeded on their wood-road out of sight without any disaster, much to the chagrin of many of the watchers, and after a short walk I re- turned to the hotel.
About sunset my attention was arrested by a shout of boys, and, stepping to the door, I discovered, in the same direction it had come in the after- noon, the wagon-minus, however, both hinder wheels, by reason of which the axles were doing ample justice in the moist earth.
The wagon being again surrounded, the soberer inmate recognized a face. among the crowd.
" Hallo, Young," said lie, " is that you?"
"Aye, aye," replied Young.
" How long have you been here?"
" Do you mean since I came here?"
"Thunder! yes. "
" About three years. "
" Thunder, Yonng! you needn't think I am drunk. Didn't I see you in Cambridge to-day ? "
"You did. I think you must have made a quick trip to Fairfield."
"To Fairfield! Why, Young, you must be drunk. Ain't we in Fair- field ?"
" Fairfield! No, sir; you are in Cambridge."
" Cambridge-the devil! Why, Young, you know there's no hillside: like this in Cambridge-no siree! I'm not that drunk yet, Young."
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" Indeed, sir," said Young, "your hind wheels are gone; you are on the level ground-it's only your wagon-bed."
"Oh, Young, don't be trying to fool a feller this way? That cnss didn't get you to come here to keep us from entering that land!"
"Just stick your head ontside your wagon-cover and satisfy yourself where you are," replied Mr. Young.
Crawling up to the end-gate and taking a view, he began to realize the truth, drunk as he was, that they had only been winding about through the timber, and were no further advanced now than in the middle of the after- noon.
Turning to his companion, "Patrick!" shouted he, " we've played the devil! Here we are in Cambridge yet, and the hind-wheels gone-stir up here!"
Patrick, however, who had some time before released the reins, was close bordering on dreamland, and only muttered out to "dhrive on, and don't be a-jawin' thravelers."
Patrick's companion, finding himself called upon to exercise some judg- ment to extricate themselves, signified his intention to return on the track of his axles in search of his wheels.
Sundry remarks from the crowd that they, the men of the two-wheeled wagon, were puppies, dogs, cowards, etc., had the effect of bringing Pat- rick's companion on terra firma, and there, divesting himself of coat and hat, very unsolemnly made oath that he could whip any man who said such things of them, and thereupon elevating both feet from the ground at the same time, made an effort to smack his feet together.
Finding that no one would brave the danger of making any of the charges to his face, he gathered his apparel and started in search of his wheels.
Tracing in the dust, and by the aid of a friendly moon till he could no longer observe the marks, he set about a search for the wheels, and after a fruitless search of an hour or more returned to town to find his wagon up- set, and Patrick still in it and occupying the bows for a pillow; he seemed, however, to be slightly opposed to the inverse plan of bedding, for on the reappearance of his companion with a "Hallo, Patrick," he only stammered ont something about a " long trip " and "rongh roads."
The truth is that when some of the boys found that the wheels were to be looked for they made a forced march, found the wheels and hid them away in the grass so that a sober man, in day time, would have been ex- cused for not finding them.
To cut short the facts of the incident, for facts they are, the two team- sters were taken to a convenient branch and there threatened with imme- diate immersion if they did not renounce their intentions, which they un- hesitatingly did. Patrick, however, was scarcely responsible for his promise on the occasion, even taking the duress out of the question, for on going to the branch, on which he required a "right and left scene supporter," he complained that there was "a divilish crowd wanten land."
Having, however, obtained their solemn promise not to meddle with the " claim " they were conducted to my hotel and provided with comfortable quarters.
Next morning they were duly sober, wagon top undermost, two wheels gone, horses missing and jug broken.
The same men who but yesterday had helped to do all this now assisted to restore everything that could be done by them, and the horses having
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strayed home the real owner of the claim who had been "about " all the time, actually lent them his horse and procured another from mine host, who, by the way, took no small part in effecting a reconciliation of the parties. They rigged again their team, and claim owner and claim-jumpers, side by side, started to their several homes.
Of course the naines introduced in the sketch are fictitious, the name Cambridge being substituted for a town the correct name of which is well known to the reader.
SURVEYS AND LAND SALES.
The reader is doubtless aware that the original subdivision of land into townships and sections was made under the direction of the general govern- ment, and was entirely independent of county organization. The subdi- vision of territory into counties was done by the direction and authority of the Territorial or State Legislature; the subdivision of connties into voting precints or civil townships was by the direction and authority of the board of county commissioners or supervisors, but the subdivision of land into congressional townships and sections was entirely independent of all State .or county authority, done by depnty surveyors appointed by the Surveyor- General and generally completed before the county was organized.
The system of land surveys provides for the division of the country into small, square portions of uniform size, varying from that shape only when large rivers, lakes or sea borders make it necessary. To begin such a divison of land there must of necessity be some fixed points to measure from. The first lines starting from such points are of two kinds: Princi- pal Meridians, running north and south, and Base Lines, running east and west. The surveys, of course, began in the eastern part of the United States where the country was first settled, and the first line established was called the First Principal Meridian. As the surveys extended further west other Principal Meridians were established. The land surveys of Washington county are rekconed from the Fifth Principal Meridian. The point which fixes the location of this line is the mouth of the Arkansas river; it runs due north through Missonri and the eastern part of Iowa and ends at the bank of the Mississippi river at the boundary line between Clayton and Dubuque counties. At a distance of six miles west of this line extends another line parallel to the principal meridian, and all the land lying between these two parallel lines is called Range One, West. At a distance of six miles from this second line extends another parallel linc, and all the land lying between these two lines is called Range Two, West, and so on till we come to Washington county; the eastern boundary of which is the fifth line drawn parallel to the principal meridian; six miles west of that extends another line, and all the land lying between the two is called Range Six, West. Consequently, in describing land, any portion lying in Crawford, Oregon, or Highland townships being between these two lines, is termed Range Six, West.
The point which fixes the location of the Base Line is the mouth of the St. Francis river, in Arkansas. This line runs east and west and six miles north of it extends another line parallel to it; all the land lying between these two lines is called Township One, North. North of this second line extends a third parallel line and the land included between them is called Township Two, North, and so on till we come to the line forming the
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southern boundary of Washington county which is the seventy-third line, numbering from the Base Line. Six miles north of this line extends the seventy-fourth parallel line, and Crawford, Marion, and Brighton townships lying between these two lines are in township Seventy-four North. Crawford township being in the southeastern part of the county and its boundaries corresponding with the boundaries of tlie congressional township is described on the tax books and books of the real estate dealer as Town- ship Seventy-four, North, Range Six, West. Iowa township all lies in township seventy-seven, but part of it is in range six and part in range seven, hence in describing a parcel of land it would not do to say seetion thirty-six, Iowa township, because there are two sections numbered thirty- six in Iowa township, and it could not be made to appear from the description which one was meant. Again, the names of the civil townships as well as their boundaries are liable to be elianged at any time by order of the board of supervisors, but the name and boundaries of Township Seventy-four, North, Range Six, West cannot be changed by any action of county or State officials, and land designated by that description can be identified in all time to come; those numbers are not subject to the vicissitudes of mu- nicipal affairs, henee their employment in all real estate transactions.
In surveying lands it is customary and necessary to first run the town- ship lines. Upon investigation we find that the township lines of seventy- four and seventy-five, north, in Washington county were run prior to May, 1837. At that time Gen. Ewing had taken the contract to run the section lines in these townships, and Mr. J. L. L. Terry, at present a citizen of Washington, joined the surveying party which was about to engage in the work. He says the party crossed the Mississippi river from Illinois, at New Boston, on May 14, 1837. They encamped the first night at the north end of Virginia Grove, near the house of a squatter named Higbee, and the next day commenced work at the southeast corner of township seventy-four north, range five west, which was afterward the south-eastern township of Slaughter county. The party consisted of seven persons: Joseph Paddock in charge of the party, 2 chain bearers, 1 stake driver, 1 flagman, 1 wag- oner, and 1 cook. They worked every day regardless of the state of the weather, and slept at night in a tent with which they were provided. This tent was usually pitched near the centre of the township and here also were the provisions and cooking utensils. They took two meals each day, one early in the morning before beginning work, and the other late in the even- ing after returning to eamp.
Beside the dangers and hardships which were common to such parties in those days, they met with some unusual and unexpected adventures. On one occasion, while at work between the West Fork and main branch of Crooked ereek, there was a heavy rain, which raised the water in the streams so that they could not eross, and the provisions becoming exhausted they were compelled to work for a number of days with nothing to eat ex- cept honey, coffee, and a single wild duek. In crossing the west fork of Crooked creek to commence work on the next township they lost all their provisions, spare elothing, and barely escaped being drowned. Mr. Terry gives the following account of some adventures with the Indians while carrying on the surveys:
"On the 12th of September the surveyors started up Crooked creek on the north side and came to the cabin from which the Indians had previ- ously driven Richard Moore. In this cabin they remained about one week
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awaiting supplies, for which they had previously dispatched an ox team; the day after their misfortune on Crooked creek, while there we visited the Indian village, situated near Crooked creek, on the farm now owned by the heirs of the late Wm. G. Stewart, about one mile south west of Washington on the road leading to Brighton. The chief, Poweshiek, was away at Washington City with other chiefs, whither they had gone to adjust a boundary difficulty. The management of the affairs of the village was under the dircetion of a subaltern chief by the name of Hard-Fish. It was this chief who started the difficulty with the settlers, which resulted in forced evacuation of the Baker and Moore families. The Indians did not disturb ns, though upon one aceasion I called alone at the wigwam of Hard- Fish, and after declining to go in upon the invitation of that dignitary, he very peremptorily ordered me to puck-a-chee (go away), which order I promptly obeyed. The same day with the balance of my company I called again. On this occasion he aroused our American blood by exhibiting a . full suit of clothing, such as was worn by our soldiers, and which had evi- dently been taken from the body of some soldier whom he had killed. While holding this suit up before us he exhibited that fiendish pleasure that none but a savage like himself eould manifest. At that time there was not a single white person living in what is now Washington township. While we were surveying the southern tier of townships, surveys were being carried forward in the north part of the county and before we finished. our part of the work we were transferred to Wapello county, where we finished a contract which had been begun and our work in the southern part of Washington was finished by others."
The deputies who supervised the work in the various townships of the county with the dates at which the work was completed cannot be deter- mined from the field notes, as they are in part imperfectly certified, and the dates omitted in many cases. It is found, however, that the survey of township 74, range 6, was completed September 10, 1837; township 74, range 7, completed September 25, 1837; township 75, range 6, completed October 21, 1837; township 76, range 6, completed November 14, 1837. It is probable that all the land in the county was surveyed prior to the summer of 1839, with the exception, probably, of township 77, range 9, a small part of which did not come into possession of the General Govern- ment till 1842.
The lands being surveyed there was a disposition on the part of the Gov- ernment officials to put them on the market, and some few settlers had the means and disposition to buy. However, a large majority of the settlers had no money with which to enter the lands which they had pre-empted and through the influence which they brought to bear upon the authorities, the sales were postponed till March, 1840., By common consent, however, a few parcels were entered in 1839; they were as follows:
E. hf. of ne. gr. sec. 33, and w.} of sw. qr. sec. 34, township 74, range 6, by Matthew Moorhead; e. hf. of nw. qr. and c.hf. of sw. qr. sec. 28, township 75, range 6, by David Goble, Sr .; sw. qr. of sec. 17, township 75, range 7, by Simon Teeple and Richard Moore, commissioners of Washington county. This last described parcel of land had been selected as the location of the county-seat, and of course it was necessary to enter it before any public improvements were made.
The first general sale of lands for this county was held at Burlington in March, 1840. Not only lands in Washington county, but in various other
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counties, were offered at this time. Quite a multitude of settlers were present on that occasion, and they are represented by Mr. Terry, who was present in the capacity of bidder from Oregon township, as covering the whole face of the country along the bluffs of the Mississippi in the vicinity of Burlington. But notwithstanding the immense crowd there was very little money, and from the books of original entry we find that but a few pieces of land in this county was entered at that time, and they by such men as Milo Holcomb, who had means of accumulating money other than wresting it from the soil of the virgin prairie.
Many persons from other counties took measures at this sale to secure their homesteads by availing themselves of the proffered aid of Eastern capitalists, who then as now generously tendered aid for a good round nsurious interest. The terms were as follows: a quarter section of land usually sold at the uniform rate of $1.25 per acre or $200.00. The capitalist entered the land paying the money for the same, and then gave the claim- owner a bond for a deed at the expiration of three years, on the latter giv- ing his note for $400 with seven per cent interest from date. Notwith- standing these hard conditions, many settlers availed themselves of them as the only means to secure their homes. One of these capitalists from Pitts- burg, Pa., after entering a parcel of land ascertained that it was very valu- able, and refused to give the claim-owner a bond on the usnal conditions. The fact becoming public during the day, occasioned great excitement, and the following night a large crowd of indignant settlers surrounded his hotel and compelled him to deliver the bond on penalty of being thrown into the river.
In October and December following lands were again offered for sale and at those times were entered quite a large amount of the choicest lands in the southeast and central portions of the county. The following named men entered the parcels indicated at that time:
CRAWFORD TOWNSHIP.
John and William Marsden, n. hf. of nw. gr. sec. 1; Milton Green Mize, ne. qr. sec. 2; John Hendee, n. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 3; David A. Hervey, s. hf. of ne. qr., and n. hf. of se. gr. sec. 4; Richard Hudson, e. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 7; Anthony Smith, e. hf. of nw. gr. sec. 15; William Burris Sexton, nw. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 19; John Neal, e. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 22; Anthony Smith, w. hf. se. qr., e. hf. of se. qr., sw. qr. of nw. qr. sec. 22; Robert Neal, se. qr. of ne. qr. and sw. qr. of ne. qr. sec. 22; John Lyen, s. hf. sec. 23; William C. Kinnear, w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 24; Robert Jamison, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 24; William Huston, e. hf. nw. gr. sec. 25; William Wooley, w. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 25; James Wooley, sw. gr. sec. 25; William R. Wal- lace, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 26; William Wooley, n. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 26; William R. Wallace, sw. qr. of se. gr. sec. 26; John Neal, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 27; Robert Jamison, e. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 27; William C. Kinnear, w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 27; James G. P. McElroy, e. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 27; Mar- garet Denholm, sw. qr. of nw. qr. sec. 27; James Woodworth, se. gr. of se. qr. sec. 27; John Lyen, sw. qr. of se. gr. sec. 27; David Hanes, w. hf. of nw. gr. sec. 28; Jesse Bothkin, sw. gr. sec. 28; James McCully, w. hf. se. qr. sec. 28; John Crawford, e. hf. se. qr. sec. 28; John Crawford, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 29; James Colwell, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 29; George Gearheart, e. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 29; Rebecca P. and Mary Gearheart, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 29;
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John Bryson
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Catherine Gearheart, w. hf. of se. gr. sec. 29; William B. Sexton, w. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 30; James T. Plymate, w. hf. of se. gr. sec. 30; William B. Sexton, nw. hf. sw. qr. sec. 30; Jesse Botkin, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 32; James Colwell, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 32; David Hames, nw. qr. sec. 32; Matthew Moorhead, e. hf. of ne. gr. sec. 33; James McCulley, w. hf. of ne. gr. and w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 33; Jesse Botkin, w. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 33; Solomon McCully, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 33; William McCulley, w. hf. of se. qr. sec. 33; Matthew Moorhead, e. hf. of se. gr. sec. 33; Matthew Moorhead, w. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 34 and w. hf. of sw. gr. of same; James McCulley, e. hf. of sec. 34; William H. Knott, w. hf. of se. gr. sec. 35; Samuel Pence, e. hf. of se. qr. sec. 35; William Huston, sw. qr. of ne. gr. sec. 35; Isaac Waldriss, nw. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 35; Benjamin Zickafoose, ne. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 35; Samuel Pence, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 36; James Wooley, w. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 36.
OREGON.
John Hendee, e. hf. of se. gr. sec. 17; John Hendel, w. hf. of ne. gr. sec. 20; R. W. Burton, e. hf. of sw. qr. and w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 21; Isaac Mills, nw. gr. of ne. gr. sec. 21; William Stronoch, sw. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 25; Abraham Hulick, sw. qr. of se. qr. sec. 26; Samnel Stephen, e. hf. of ne. qr. and e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 26; Milton Green Mize, w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 26; Anthony Smith, sw. qr. of ne. qr. sec. 27; David Goble, ne. gr. of nw. qr. sec. 27; John Dyer Welch, ne. qr. of se. qr. and sw. qr. of se. gr. sec. 27; David Goble, e. hf. of nw. qr. and e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 28; Anthony Smith, w. hf. of se. gr. sec. 28; John Hendel, w. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 28; John Hulick, se. qr. of se. qr. sec. 29; John Hendee, e. hf. sec. 34; John Hendee, w. hf. of ne. qr., w. hf. of se. qr., w. hf. of sw. qr. and w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 35; Samuel Stephen, e. hf. of se. qr. sec. 35; Lewis Hulick, se. qr. of sw. gr. sec. 35; Hiram Peabody, ne. qr. 36; Wm. Marsden, w. hf. sec. 36; George W. Ferguson, ne. qr. of se. qr. sec. 36.
MARION.
Thomas Evans, e. hf. of se. qr. sec. 1; Benjamin Tucker, s. hf. of nw. qr. and w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 1; Baalam Anderson, n. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 2; Samuel Hamby, w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 2; Michael Senff, ne. qr. sec. 3; Lambreth, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 3; Baalam Anderson, w. hf. of se. qr. sec. 3; John H. Randolph, e. hf. of se. gr. sec. 3; Jaines Dawson, n. hf. of nw. qr. and se. qr. of nw. qr. sec. 3; John Armstrong, w. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 4; James Dawson, w. ht. of se. gr. sec 4; James S. Dill, ne. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 4; Adam Ritchey, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 5; Henry Williams, sw. qr., w. hf. of ne. qr. and e. hf. of nw. gr. sec. 5; John Graham, w. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 5; George Dill, w. hf. of se. qr. sec 5; John Graham, se. qr. sec. 6; John Graham, se. gr. of ne. qr. sec. 6; Henry Williams, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 8; Jeremiah Heath, e. hf. of nw. gr. sec. 10; James Moore, w. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 10; Henry Williams, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 10; John H. Randolph, e. hf. of se. qr. sec. 10; Isaac M. Whitsol, w. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 11; Alvin Saunders, e. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 11; Robert Clemens, e. hf. of se. gr. sec. 11; Wm. Van Hudson, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 11; Richard Hudson, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 12; John H. Randolph, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 12; Joseph Buf- fington, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 13; Thaddeus Moore, sw. qr. of ne. qr. sec. 13;
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Noah Parrish, w. hf. of se. gr. sec. 13; Allen Phillips, e. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 13; Joseph Buffington, e. hf. of sw. qr. sec. 14; Wm. Van Hudson, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 14; Richard Hudson, w. hf. of ne. gr. sec. 14; Baalam An- derson, ne. qr. of nw. qr. sec. 14; Ezekiel Cooper, e. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 15; Jacob Westfall, e. hf. of se. qr. sec 15; Ezekiel Cooper, e. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 15; Aaron Conger, w. hf. of ne. qr. sec. 15; Wm. L. Essley, se. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 17; Lyman Whitcomb, sw. qr. of nw. qr. and sw. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 17; Wm. L. Essley, w. lif. of ne. qr. sec. 18; . Claudius T. Hendrix, w. hf. of sw. gr. sec. 18; Wesley Rumble, se. gr. of sw. qr. sec. 22; Milo Hol- comb, e. hf. sw. qr. sec. 29; John Graham, n. hf. sec. 30; Cyrus McMillen, nw. qr. of sw. qr. sec. 30; Milo Holcomb, ne. qr. sec. 31, and w. hf. of sw.qr. sec. 31; Lee O. Plunket, nw. qr. of nw. qr. sec. 34; William I. Springston, e. hf. of nw. qr. sec. 35; Milton Benson, nw. qr. of se. qr. sec. 34.
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