Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and biographical, Part 1

Author: Blanchard, Charles, fl. 1882-1900, ed. cn
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago, F. A. Battey & co.
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GENEALOGY COLLECTION


ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00827 8704


GC 977.201 M82B


COUNTIES


OF


MORGAN, MONROE AND BROWN


INDIANA.


HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.


CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.


.


CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.


F. A. BATTEY.


F. W. TEEPLE.


JOHN MORRIS, SUCCESSOR TO


ulver Hoynelde


PRINTERS 18 &120 MONROE ST


CHICAGO


24-58-2


PREFACE.


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T HIS volume goes forth to our patrons the result of months of arduous, unremitting and conscientious labor. None so well know as those who have been associated with us the almost insurmountable difficulties to be met with in the preparation of a work of this character. Since the in - auguration of the enterprise, a large force has been employed in gathering material. During this time, most of the citizens of the three counties have been called upon to contribute from their recollections, carefully preserved Aletters, scraps of manuscript, printed fragments, memoranda, etc. Public y records and semi-official documents have been searched, the newspaper files of the counties have been overhauled, and former citizens, now living out of the counties, have been corresponded with, for the verification of the in- formation by a conference with many. In gathering from these numerous sources, both for the historical and biographical departments, the conflict- ing statements, the discrepancies and the fallible and incomplete nature of public documents, were almost appalling to our historians and biographers, who were expected to weave therefrom with some degree of accuracy, in panoramic review, a record of events. Members of the same families disagree as to the spelling of the family name, contradict each other's statements as to dates of birth, of settlement in the counties, nativity and other matters of fact. In this entangled condition, we have given preference to the preponderance of authority, and while we acknowledge the existence of errors and our inability to furnish a perfect history, we claim to have come up to the standard of our promises, and given as accurate a work as the nature of the surroundings would permit. Whatever may be the verdict of those who do not and will not comprehend the difficulties to be met with. we feel assured that all just and thoughtful people will appre- ciate our efforts, and recognize the importance of the undertaking and the great public benefit that has been accomplished in preserving the valuable historical matter of the counties and biographies of many of their citizens, that perhaps would otherwise have passed into oblivion. To those who have given us their support and encouragement, we acknowledge our gratitude, and can assure them that as years go by the book will grow in value as a repository not only of pleasing reading matter, but of treasured information of the past that will become an enduring monument.


APRIL, 1884.


THE PUBLISHERS.


CONTENTS.


HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.


PAGE.


INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER


11


Act of Formation


14


Fall of Fort Sumter.


52 68


Fall of Richmond ..


Agricultural Society, Second 22


Anti-Slavery Movement ...


32


Fourth of July, 1863.


60 64 63


Associate Judges.


Attorneys, Resident


Auditors ...


Auditor's Report May 31, 1883.


46


Circuit Court, First.


15


Mexican War, The


Circuit Court, Second ..


16


Military Spirit ..


Circuit Court, Third ...


17


Circuit Court, Subsequent Terms of.


17


Militia, The.


38 Opening Scenes of the Great Rebellion. 37 Pensioners, List of.


77


Common Pleas Court, First


19


Presidential and Gubernatorial Campaign of 1864.


Coroners.


County Before Its Creation


15


Roll of Honor.


Troops Furnished, Summary of.


War Meetings 38, 52, 55, 58,


WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP


MARTINSVILLE ..


Banking Enterprises.


Development of the Town.


86 82


Election Returns November, 1872 ..


Election Returns November, 1876


31


Indebtedness, County.


Indian Cession Treaty.


Jails


Justices, County.


27


Justices of the Peace, Early


37


Land Survey.


12 36


Library, County ...


21


Race Track, The Old


Medical Societies, County


01


Religion.


Secret Societies


Organization of the County


15


Paupers, County ..


21


Physical Features


Treasurer's Report, 1883.


BROWN TOWNSHIP


MOORESVILLE


Banking Business.


Bear Stories.


102


Probate Court, First


Business Enterprises. 105


Probate Judges


Business Pursuits, Present. 107 106


Incorporation ...


Industrial Development and Incidents. 100


38 32 Industrial Pursuits 106


Mercantile Trade Pioneers .. 105 99 106


Plat of Village.


Pork Packing. 105


Re igious Development .. 109


Reminiscences. 101 103


Samuel Moore.


107


Treasurer's Report, 1851


23


MILITARY HISTORY


Bounty and Relief.


Calls for Volunteers


Call for Volunteers, Last


67 64 57


Companies for the War


57 68


Incidents of the Chase ..


114


Manufactories


116


Disloyalty During the War


Draft of October, 1862


Draft of September 21, 1864. 66 Poll-Tax Payers, 1842. 112


Enlistments in Winter of 1862-63 63* Religious Classes 118


Enlistments in 1864-Continued. 66


Enlistments, Renewed


60


Agricultural Society, First .... 22


39 36 38


Home Guards.


55


Home Traitors.


Martinsville Rifles


52 56 50 56 50 56 50


Common Pleas Judges.


39 39 14


County Justices, First Session of .. Court Houses.


19


Early Settlers.


Election Returns November. 1844.


Election Returns November, 1856.


Election Returns November, 1860. 29


Election Returns November, 1868


29 30 31


Donations and Sales of Lots.


95


Education


First and Subsequent Buildings. Incorporation


83 89


Land Entries.


Manufacturing Interests.


Officers of the Corporation.


7 Population ..


Pork and Grain Trade.


Present Business


Old Settlers' Association .. 40


Settlement, First.


Town Treasurer's Report, 1863.


Politics, County ..


Population of the County.


39


Press, The County.


33


Railroads


Recorders


Roads, Common and Graveled.


Seminary, County


20


Sheriff's


38 44


Superintendents, County.


39


Surveyors.


38


Temperance Work ..


48


Treasurers. County.


38 41


Schools


Secret Societies.


108 102


JACKSON TOWNSHIP ..


111 115 117


Business Pursuits


115 117


Capt. Scott's Company


Entry of Land


111


Death of Lincoln.


72 62 Mills


115


Reminiscences and Notes 113


66 65 73 73 69 61 80 81 94


Reception of Veterans.


Return of Morgan County Boys.


12 26 28


Election Returns November, 1880.


40 11 20


11 25 32


President Judges of Circuit Court


18 39 33


Statistical Items.


Treasurers' Accounts.


Snake Story.


50 70 73 MORGANTOWN


Calls and Enlistments.


Distilleries


Education


87 90 99 85 88 89 97 92 80 90 92


Militia System, The Old


Clerks


Commissioners, County ..


Fourth of July, 1862.


Gen. Morgan's Raid


PAGE.


99 10% 109


Legal Cases, Important.


vi


CONTENTS.


PAGE.


PAGE.


CLAY TOWNSHIP 119


Barnes Family, The ..


119


Settlement, Early.


150


Brooklyn.


121


GREGG TOWNSHIP 154


Centerton 123


Education


157


Early Settlers.


119


Poll-Tax List of 1842. Religion


156


Modern Brooklyn.


I22


157


Settlement, Later 155


156


White Men, First.


154


MADISON TOWNSHIP


158


Christian Organizations. 129


Churches ..


161


Monrovia, Town of 126


Incidents and Pioneer Customs


159


Pioneers, The


125


Pioneer, The First


158


Poll-Tax Payers of 1842.


126


Schools.


161


Schools of Monroe ...


127


Settlers, Early.


158


Wild Animals.


160


HARRISON TOWNSHIP


131


GREEN TOWNSHIP


162


Churches


136


Farm, The First


132


Delawares, The


166


Incidents


132


Educational Interests


166


Port Royal. 133


Hunting Exploits.


164


Schools .. 136


Milling Interests.


164


Settler, First of the County


131


Mysterious Death


166


Settlers, Additional Early. 133


Poll Tax Payers of 1842


163


Treaty with the Delawares.


Religious Interests.


167 162


Waverly in Late Years.


136


RAY TOWNSHIP


137


Butler Creek Settlement


137


BAKER TOWNSHIP


168


Churches ..


141


Education


169


Incidents and Improvements.


139


Paragon Village


140


Poll Tax Payers of 1842.


139


Schools.


141


ADAMS TOWNSHIP


142


Churches.


144 145


Natural Resources.


142


Schools.


144


Settlement, Early ..


142 146


Brown Township. 217


Hyndsdale Village


149


Lamb's Bottom ..


146


Poll Tax Payers of 1842.


148 149


Schools ...


149


Settlement-Continued


148


ASHLAND TOWNSHIP


150


Madison Township. 352


Martinsville 171


Church Organizations, Early.


153


Monroe Township. 270


Formation and Boundary


150


Mooresville .. 217


Manufactures 152


Morgantown 245


Pioneer Incidents. 151


Ray Township. 283


Washington Township ..


171


HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY.


SETTLEMENT, ORGANIZATION, ETC.


371


Population of County 376


Act of Formation


373


Presidential Electors, 1840. 385


Agricultural Fair, Rules, Judges, etc. 395


Presidential Electors, 1844 386


Agricultural Societies ...


391


Presidential Electors, 1856 386


Agricultural Society's Premium List.


392


Presidential Electors, 1860. 386


Associate Judges. 406


Presidential Electors, 1864 387


Auditors, County.


405


Presidential Electors, 1872. 388


Circuit Court, First


376


Presidential Electors, 1880. 388


Circuit Court Judges 406


Press, County .. 401


Probate Court, First. 377


Commissioners, County 404


Condition of School Lands in 1846. 412


Prosecuting Attorneys 407


Coroners, County 406


Public Buildings


382


County Commissioners' Meetings 374


Recapitulation of Taxes, 1883. 411


County Politics. 3844


Receipts and Expenditures, County 407


County Poor 389


Recorders, County 405


413


Erection of Townships. 378


Free Public School Vote .. 407


372


Seminary, County ...


401


Seminary Trustees 406


405


Library, County ..


400


Survey of Lands, First 372


Surveyors, County. 406


Territory Attached to the County 381


Treasurers, County 405


Old Settlers' Roll of Honor 399


School Enumeration, etc., in 1881 412 School Examiners and Superintendents. 407


Indian C'ession Treaties


Indian Occupancy .. 371


Justices of the Peace, Early. 404


Old Settlers' Meetings 397


Old Settlers' Meeting Minutes. 399


Presidential Electors, 1876. 388


Auditor's Report ..


411


Clerks, County .. 405


153


Jefferson Township 326


Alaska Village


Ashland Township. 334


Baker Township. 363


Clay Township .. 260


Green Township 358


Gregg Township .. 342


Religious Organizations.


Harrison, Township 282


Jackson Township. 245


163


Wounded Deer, The.


165


Evilsizer Family, The. 168


Facilities for Worship. 170


Poll-Tax Payers of 1842 169


Settlers, Permanent .. 169


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


Adams Township 294


Eminence Village ..


129


Bluff's, The 133


Cleveland Village


167


Cope Village ..


168


Preachers. 124


Teachers. 124


Villages.


MONROE TOWNSHIP .. 125


Business Interests of Monrovia 127


Underground Railroad, The


131 Waverly Village .. 135


Settlement, First


Settlement-Continued


Poll Tax Payers 151


Schools and Schoolhouses 152


Entries of Lands, First 372


School Districts in 1882 ..


Sheriff's, County ..


Probate Judges. 406


JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP


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CONTENTS.


PAGE.


MILITARY HISTORY. 413


Adjutant General's Exhibit April 14, 1865. 433


Churches


485


Land Purchasers 483


Organization.


484


Schools 485


" Seminary Township," The .. 482


Soil .. 481


Tax Payers of 1841. 484


Timber.


481 486


BEAN BLOSSOM TOWNSHIP. Anecdotes


488


Churches


491


Geology


486 490


Poll Tax Payers of 1841.


489 493


Settlement 487


Stinesville .. 492


Surface Features.


486 494


RICHLAND TOWNSHIP


Business Industries of Ellettsville


505


Churches ..


506


Earth Structure.


494 503


Geological Tables


495


Infantry, Eighty-second


449


Incidents


500


Infantry, Ninety-third.


449


Incorporation of Ellettsville


504


Narrative of James Parks, Sr


497


Lee's Surrender ... 438


Letter from Murfreesboro. 425


Richland Village ... 503


505


Settlement 496


VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP


507


Miscellaneous Incidents. 434, 437


Off for the War .. 416


Opening Scenes of the Rebellion 415


Introduction 507


Land Entries .. 508


511


Poll-Tax Payers of 1841.


510


Schools


512


Settlement


508


Soil ...


507


Roll of Honor .. 447


Roll of Honor, Miscellaneous .. 450


Summary of Troops Furnished. 434


Timber


507


INDIAN CREEK TOWNSHIP.


514


Churches


518 515


422 Geological Structure.


514


Government Land Entries.


514


Milling Enterprises


515


Poll Tax Payers


516


469 Schools


517


Villages


518


Virginia Iron Works, The.


515


Bloomington Mills. 460


519


Bonded Indebtedness, 1877. 467


526


Geological Formation.


519


Land Holders.


521


Poll Tax Payers of 1841. 522


525 521


Incorporation, Second.


463 466


Incorporation, City


467 477 476


Industries.


458


Land Entries, First


451 Soil.


527


Tax Payers of 1841.


529


Merchants of the Sixties


462 475


Wayport


531


BENTON TOWNSHIP. 531


535


Geology.


531


Poll Tax Payers of 1841.


533


Prices Current for 1858 462 Religious Classes. 534


Residents, Early 451 Schools


533


Resident, First. 452 Soil


Schools of Bloomington 470


Secret Societies 469 Shinplasters. 461


State University, The 478


Townsmen, Early 454 Churches ..


540


Town in 1830-40 458


Friendship Village .. 540


Town in 1840-50 459 Land Entries 537


PAGE.


PERRY TOWNSHIP. 481


Affairs Preceding the Fall of Sumter 414


Army Correspondence. 421


Assassination of Lincoln. 438


Calls for Volunteers, New. 428


Call for Troops, October, 1863. 429


Call of July, 1864. 431


Call for Volunteers, Last


432


Capture of Richmond ..


438


Cavalry, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth


449


Closing Scenes of the Rebellion.


439


Curious Editorial. 427


Draft of October 6, 1862. 424


Draft of October, 1864.


431


Draft Statistics 423


Enlistments. 416, 424


Fourth of July, 1864.


430


Gen Morgan


428


Infantry, Fourteenth. 447


Infantry, Eighteenth .. 447


Infantry, Twenty-second. 418


Infantry, Thirty-first.


448 Infantry, Thirty-eighth 448


Infantry, Fiftieth.


449


Infantry, One Hundred and Forty-fifth 450


Meetings, War and Other. 414, 416, 420, 426 Mexican War, The. 413 413


Militia, County ..


Pension Roll 415 437


Political Campaigns of 1864.


Recruiting. 420


Relief and Bounty


440


Resistance to Military Law. 427


Suspension of Active Work 425


Volunteers, Infantry ... 416, 417


Volunteers, Cavalry 419


Volunteers, New Companies.


451


Anecdotes


457


Artesian Well. 468


Banking ...


Bloomington Factory 460


Bloomington Female College. 475


Business Men, Early. 457


Business Men, Present .. 462


Buyers of Lots. 454


Churches of Bloomington.


479


Corporation Meeting, August, 1858.


465


Incorporation, First ...


463 Villages.


WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. Churches


Description.


Education.


Hindostan Village ..


Land Buyers.


528


Merchants, Early


458 Model School, The ..


Timber


527


Monroe County Female Seminary 472 Municipal Government, The. 464 New Albany Railroad 461 Platting of the Village. 453


Unionville. 535


531


Timber.


531


White Settlement, The. 532


SALT CREEK TOWNSHIP 536


523 527 530 527 530 531


Schools.


Settler, The First.


Incorporation of 1859


Indiana College ..


Indiana State University


Blue Spring Community 513


Growth and Development 509


One Hundred Days' Men 430


Ellettsville.


Poll-Tax Payers of 1841 502


Schools


Morals, Township


Stanford Village 510 Stone .. 507


Families. The First ...


BLOOMINGTON TOWNSHIP AND CITY


CLEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP .. Churches.


Cox Tragedy, The


Town in 1850-60 460 Natural Features 536


Schools


Mt. Tabor


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CONTENTS.


PAGE.


Poll-Tax Payers of 1841.


537


Schools.


547


Public Schools.


538


Salt Works. 536


POLK TOWNSHIP .. 540


Churches


543


Counterfeiters


543


Elections, First.


544


Bloomington Township .. 549


Land Buyers, Early


541 540


Indian Creek Township


653


Residents of 1842


542


Schools


543


Perry Township. 602


MARION TOWNSHIP. 545


Richland Township, 623


Churches. 547


Salt Creek Township 670


Geology 545


Van Buren Township .. 642


Physical Description


545


Washington Township.


665


HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY.


INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER


679


Civil Division. 719


Auditors


697


Hedgesville. 723


Church Statistics


693


Incidents. 722


Circuit Court, First


684


Incorporation of County Seat. 727


726


Common Pleas Court, First.


686


Jacksonburg .. 723


Coroners


699


Land Entries. 720-725


717


('reation of Townships.


682


Nashville.


723


Election, First County ..


681


Election Returns ..


690


Organization.


719


Finances, Statement of. 699


721 Poll Tax Payers of 1848. Salt. 717


730


Items of Interest, Miscellaneous


687


Secret Societies.


729


Judges, Associate. 698


Settlers, Early.


720


Judges, Circuit .. 698


732


Judges, Common Pleas


698


Churches


738


Judges, Probate. 698


Drainage, etc ..


734


Justices and Commissioners. 696


Formation of Township.


734


Library, County ... 691 695


Gold Deposits.


732


Meeting of the County Board, First.


682


Historical Items. 737


738


Needmore ...


738


Poll-Tax Payers of 1848


738


Schools


738


Settlements, The First 735


739


Churches.


744


Entries of Land


741


Incidents


743


School Statistics 692


Seminary, County 691


Sheriff's


698 698 Villages.


741


White Settlement


740


VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP


746


Churches ...


749


Land Entries.


748


Officers


747


Organization.


747


Poll Tax Payers of 1848.


748


Rocks.


746


Schools


749


Settlement by White men


746


Enlistment in 1862 708


Enlistment Tables ..


711


Fall of Fort Sumter. 707 Villages 749


Infantry, Twenty-second 713


Infantry, Eighty-second. 714


714


Infantry, One Hundred and Forty-fifth 714


Mexican War, The .. 703


Militia Organizations. 703


Number of Men Furnished


712


Pension Roll. 715


Political Feeling in 1860-61. 705 Roll of Honor. 713


Volunteers 708


WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP 717


Altitudes, Table of. 718


Banking at Nashville 730


Census of 1872. 727 Van Buren Township .. 795


Churches. 731


Hamblen Township. 785


Jackson Township 773


Johnson Township. 799


Nashville .... 753


Washington Township. 753


751


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


744


Taxes for 1883.


702


Treasurers . 698 Treasurers' Reports.


700 703


MILITARY HISTORY


Bounty, Relief, etc.


712


Calls for Troops


713


County in 1863.


709


County in 1864


710


Draft of October, 1862


709


Drafts of 1864-65. 711


Streams. 746


Timber 746


751


Elkinsville .. 753


751


Incidents and Notes 753


Land Entries ... 752


Poll-Tax Payers of 1848. 752


Surface and Soil


739


Poll-Tax Payers of 1848 Schools


745


Surveyors.


Press, The County 696


Probate Courts, First 685


Recorders . 697


School Commissioners, etc. 698


School Funds, Origin of. 691


Georgetown ..


737


Medical Society, County.


Old Settlers' Association .. 693


Horse Races.


Paupers, County 690


Physicians, List of. 695


Politics, County. 689 Population ... 699


686


Minerals


Oil 717


Indian Cession Treaties 679


Initiatory Legislative Enactments. 679


Schools.


Clerks, County.


697


Industries


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


Chapel Hill Village .. 544


Bean Blossom Township .. 612


Benton Township. 666


Bloomington City 549


Clear Creek Township .. 658


Origin of Name


Marion Township 674


PAGE.


Settlement 545


JOHNSON TOWNSHIP


Era of Settlement.


Infantry, One Hundred and Twentieth


HAMBLEN TOWNSHIP


Industries. 743


Natural Wealth ..


JACKSON TOWNSHIP.


County Buildings.


HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.


BY WESTON A. GOODSPEED.


DESCRIPTION, ORGANIZATION, ETC.


PHYSICAL FEATURES.


THE county of Morgan is in many respects one of the most favora- bly located tracts of country in the State of Indiana. It is within an hour's ride of the State capital, and is bounded on the north by Hen- dricks and Marion Counties. on the east by Johnson, on the south by Brown and Monroe, and on the west by Owen and Putnam. The county contains 450 square miles, or 291,800 acres, and is watered by the West Fork of White River, and by its branches, White Lick Creek, Mud Creek, Big Indian Creek, Stott's Creek, Clear Creek, Burnett's Creek, Rhodes' Creek, Mill Creek, and by other smaller streams. The valleys are extremely fertile, and produce annually large crops of grain. The numerous bluffs along the principal water-courses are suitable for grazing. There is an abundance of timber, consisting of poplar, walnut, white oak, hickory, beech, maple and other varieties. An abundance of excellent building stone is found, and is near the surface and easily obtained. Na- tive gold and copper have been found in small quantities. The sanitary conditions are very favorable, as the porosity of the soil and the rolling character of the surface prevent the development of malaria.


THE INDIAN CESSION TREATY.


The county was formerly the undisputed home of the Miami tribe of Indians. Here they had lived for an indeterminate period of years, unmolested by the whites. The earlier race, known as Mound-Builders, so far as can be learned, left no traces of their presence in the county. The case is different with the Indians. They were here when our fathers came, and mingled freely with the white men. The rapid settlement of the State after the war of 1812-15, and especially after the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, when the power of the Indians was completely crushed, led to numerous treaties, whereby the Indians ceded to the Gov- ernment various tracts of land, and retired toward the setting sun. The Delawares, many years before, had obtained from the Miamis a large tract of land in Central Indiana. In October, 1818, at St. Mary's, Ohio, the Miamis and Delawares ceded to the United States a large tract of land in Central and Southern Indiana, including the present county of Morgan, except a small portion in the southwestern part, which had been relinquished at an earlier date. This was scarcely done before the white settlers began to invade the present county in search of homes, and the survey of the lands was commenced.


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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.


THE LAND SURVEY AND THE EARLY ENTRIES.


Township 11 north, Range 2 west, which had been ceded by the In- dians prior to 1816, was surveyed in that year by William Harris, and was therefore the first land : the county measured by a surveyer's chain and compass. It was re-surveyed by Thomas Brown in 1819. Township 11 north, Range 2 east, was surveyed in 1820, by B. Bentley; Township 12 north, Range 2 east, in 1820, by B. Bentley; Township 13 north, Range 2 east, in 1820, by B. Bentley; Township 14 north, Range 2 east, in 1820, by W. B. Laughlin ; Township 11 north, Range 1 east, in 1819, by Thomas Brown ; Township 12 north, Range 1 east, in 1819, by Thomas. Brown ; Township 13 north, Range 1 east, in 1819, by Thomas Brown ; Township 14 north, Range 1 east, in 1820, by Stephen Collett ; Township 11 north, Range 1 west, in 1819, by Thomas Brown, and in 1848 (the islands) by A. E. Van Ness ; Township 12 north, Range 1 west, in 1819, by Thomas Brown ; Township 13 north, Range 1 west, in 1819, by John Milroy; Township 11 north, Range 2 west, in 1816, by William Harris, and in 1819 by Thomas Brown; Township 12 north, Range 2 west, in 1819, by John Milroy; Township 13 north, Range 2 west, in 1819, by John Milroy. The date of the arrival of the first set- tlers cannot be given, though it was probably 1818. Ten or fifteen fami- lies arrived in 1819, and many more in 1820. All who came prior to September 4, 1820, and, indeed, many who came after that date, were " squatters," not owning the land upon which they lived until they had taken out pre-emption papers under the ordinance of 1787, and later Congressional enactments granting and modifying the right. It is estimated that sixty or seventy families were living in the county on the 1st day of January, 1821. On the 4th of September, '1820, the lands of the county were formally thrown into market for the first time. Those who had come in previously hastened to the land office at Brookville, and entered the claims they had squatted upon or pre-empted, and many others, who had not yet been in the county, came in search of homes. Perhaps two-thirds of the early settlers were from the Southern States, mostly from Kentucky, but largely from Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas. The following persons entered land in the county in the year 1820, after the 4th of September, in the township and range given with each name : Philip Hodges, Township 11 north, Range 1 east ; Joseph Townsend, same; George Mathews, same; Benjamin Freeland, same ; Benjamin Huffman, same; John Case, same; Jacob Cutler, same; Jacob Lafavre, same; John Gray, same ; Joshua Taylor, same ; Joshua Gray, same ; Thomas Jenkins, same ; Chester Holbrook, same ; Jacob Case, same ; John Reed, same ; Nancy Smith, same; Isaac Hollingsworth, same ; Presley Buckner, same. All these located in Township 11 north, Range 1 east. The following persons entered land in 1820, after Sep- tember 4, in Township 12 north, Range 1 east : John Butterfield, David Matlock, Enoch McCarty, Benjamin McCarty, Jonathan Lyon, Martin McCoy, Samuel Elliott, Jonathan Williams, Devalt Koons, John Connor, Andrew Waymore, Larkin Reynolds, Thomas Jenkins, Joel Ferguson, Reuben Most, John Graves. The following entered land at the same time in Township 13 north, Range 1 east: Francis Brock, William Ballard, Thomas Lee, Charles Vertreese, James Hadley, Eli Hadley,


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HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY.


William Rooker, Charles Reynolds, Isaiah Drury and Benjamin Barnes. William Pounds located in Township 14 north, Range 1 east, same time, i. e., from September 4, 1820, to the close of the year. The fol- lowing persons entered land during the same muriod in Township 11 north, Range 1 west : James K. Hamilton, John Burnett, Samuel Newell, Fred Barkhart, Daniel Stout, John Kennedy, Rice Stroud, Isom Stroud, An- thony Vernon, Presley Buckner and Thomas Hodges. The above per- sons, numbering fifty-four, were the only ones who entered land in the county in 1820.


The following persons entered land in the year 1821 : Samuel Scott, James Clark, Jacob Cutler, Thomas Hadley, Henry H. Hobbs, Charles Reynolds, George Mathews, Jonathan Lyon, W. W. Drew, Elisha Hamden, Thomas Irons, James Stott, Jonathan Williams, John Hodges, John Butterfield, James L. Kidds, Edward Irons, David Allen, Jacob Chase, John Marker, Edward Jones, Jacob Case, Joseph Henshaw, Abner Cox, David Matlock, Thomas Dee, Joseph Frazier, William McDowell, Samuel Jones, Thomas Beeler, John Leavell, Jesse McCoy, Christopher Ladd, Joseph Bennett, Samuel Blair, David Price, Joseph Sims, John Hamilton, John Barnes, George H. Beeler, Joseph Beeler, Benjamin Mills, Robert Stafford, William Gregory, Cyrus Whet- zel, Jesse Tull, Henry Rout, John Paul, Thomas Ingles, Joseph Bennett, Thomas Gardner, William Goodwin, James Burch, Ezekiel Slaughter, John McMahon, Jacob B. Reyman, John W. Reyman, Christopher Ha- ger, Thomas Carey, Benjamin Carey, George Moon, Samuel Dodds, Jo- siah Tomlinson, Eli Hadley, Abner Cox, James Curl and John Sells, all of whom located east of the Second Principal Meridian ; and David Fain, Hiram Stroud, Thomas Hodges, Philip Hodges, Wiley Williams, Abner Alexander, Samuel Goss, William Anderson, Joseph Ribble, James Mc- Kinney, Thomas Thompson and Reuben F. Allen, on the west side of the meridian.




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