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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00827 8704
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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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