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Brown County
Bounty. $29,700
Relief. $1,596
Washington Township.
200
350
Hamblen Township.
2,200
300
Jackson Township.
3,475
275
Van Buren Township.
2,100
275
Johnson Township
180
Totals
$37,675
$2,976
NUMBER OF MEN FURNISHED.
Of course it is impossible to give the exact number of men furnished by the county to crush the rebellion. In September, 1862, the county was
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officially credited with having furnished 502 men. In 1863, the county sent out about seventy-five more. The quotas under the calls of Febru- ary 1, March 14 and July 18, 1864, were respectively 132, 53 and 119. The number furnished under these calls by January 1, 1865, was 284; and the number furnished from that date to the end of the war was 135. The sum total of these numbers will give to within a close figure the men furnished by the county during the war ; 502 and 75 and 284 and 135 equal 996-or say 1,000 men, a full regiment. Kind and affectionate reader, how is that for a county which in 1860 polled for Governor 1040 votes, and in 1864 polled for Governor 1190 votes? Where is the county in the State that did proportionately better ? Just ponder on that show- ing when you are led to accuse Brown County of disloyalty. "Facts speak louder than words." In the above estimate each man has been counted as often as he enlisted.
CALLS FOR TROOPS DURING THE WAR.
1. April 15, 1861, 75,000 men for three months.
2. May 3, 1861, 42,034 men for three years (regular army).
(During the summer or early autumn of 1861, six regiments of State troops were put into the field by the energy of Gov. Morton, but when their term of service had expired they were mustered into the service of the United States. These regiments were from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth inclusive. It was also during the same time, that the three months' regi- ments, from the Sixth to the Eleventh inclusive, re-organized and entered the three years' service. Regiments from the Eighteenth to the Sixty- third were also sent out prior to the call of July, 1862).
3. July 2, 1862, 300,000 men for nine months.
4. August 4, 1862, 300,000 men for nine months.
5. June 15, 1863, 100,000 men for six months.
6. October 17, 1863, 300,000 men for three years.
7. February 1, 1864, 200,000 men for three years.
8. March 14, 1864, 200,000 men for three years.
9. April 23, 1864, 85,000 men (about for 100 days).
10. July 18, 1864, 500,000 men for one, two and three years.
11. December 19, 1864, 300,000 men for three years.
BROWN COUNTY'S ROLL OF HONOR .*
Twenty second Regiment, three years' service .- Thomas J. Adams, died of wounds received at Pea Ridge; John B. Alexander, died December, 1861, at Syracuse, Mo .; Henry D. Bruner, veteran, killed at Atlanta, August, 1864; John Campbell, died at Georgetown, Mo., October, 1861; William G. Chitwood, died at St. Louis, Mo., September, 1861; John A. Coffman, killed near Glasgow, Mo., September, 1861 ; Henry M. Daggy, died May, 1864, of wounds received at Rome, Ga .; William B. Dalsbury, died at Jefferson City, Mo., October, 1861; Treat S. Dubois, killed at Kenesaw, June, 1864; William Gee, died at Boonville, Mo., October, 1861 ; William Hobbs, died January, 1864, of wounds received at Mis- sion Ridge; John Jackson, died in Andersonville Prison June, 1864;
*This " Roll of Honor " is made out from the Adjutant General's reports, and though incomplete, owing to the fact that many of the boys could not be traced, is the best that can be given.
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HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY.
Robert C. Kelso, died at Syracuse, Mo., January, 1862; John P. Maguire, died at Jefferson City, Mo., October, 1861; George Parmelee, died at Jefferson City, October, 1861; Thomas Raridon, died at Otter- ville, January, 1862; Jefferson Reynolds, killed at Pea Ridge, March, 1862; James Snyder, died at Otterville, December, 1861; George W. Spaulding, died at Georgetown, Mo., October, 1861 ; Pleasant D. Weddel, killed at Perryville, October, 1862; David A. Whitehorn, veteran, killed at Kenesaw, June, 1864; Robert Worley, veteran, died April 1865; Frank Kennedy, died December, 1864 ; Elijah Lyons, killed at Rome, Ga., May, 1864.
Eighty-second Regiment, three years' service .- Capt. Jackson Woods, died of disease at Macon, Ga., May 27, 1864; Capt. Joseph Fraker, died of disease September 30, 1864; Sergt. Joseph Mead, died at home . February, 1863; William Fleener, died at Nashville, Tenn., December, 1862; Barton Holly, died at Gallatin, Tenn., January, 1863; James McCoy, died of wounds at Chattanooga, November, 1863; Edwin Parks, died at Gallatin, November, 1862; John Pender, died at Bowling Green, Ky., November, 1862; Frederick Richardson, died at Danville, Ky., October, 1862; James Richardson, died at Chattanooga, November, 1863 ; James M. Sipes, died at Beaufort, S. C., April, 1865 ; John Truex, died at Murfreesboro, April, 1863; Jacob C. Walker, died at home, February, 1863; James P. Weaver, died at Louisville, December, 1863; Tilghman H. Watson, died of wounds near Broad River, S. C., February, 1865; James M. Wilson, died of wounds near Atlanta, July, 1864 ; Henry Henderson, died at Savannah, Ga., February, 1865; Oddy Sattethwait, died in Andersonville Prison, June, 1864; George W. Dubois, died at Gallatin, November, 1862; George W. Coffin, killed at Chickamauga, September, 1863; John Weddle, died at Louisville, Octo- ber, 1862; Joseph A. McIlvain, killed at Atlanta, August, 1864; Wil- son Price, died at Murfreesboro, March, 1863; Henry Hinsley, died at Atlanta, November, 1864 ; Martin Ault, killed at Chickamauga, Septem- ber, 1863; Alexander Bailes, died at Louisville, December, 1862 ; Jack- son W. Bradley, died at Louisville, January, 1863 ; Francis M. Bradley, died at Bowling Green, Ky., November, 1863 ; William R. Breedlove, died at Murfreesboro, March, 1863; Robert Honeycut, died at Bowling Green, December, 1862; Hugh James, died at Bowling Green, December, 1862; Benjamin Kelley, died of disease ; Henry Lucas (Berry), died at Murfreesboro, April, 1863; Washington Mosier, shot by his comrade at Irwin, Tenn., May, 1863; Elza W. Weaver, died at Nashville, December, 1863 ; John W. Wilson died of disease ; Jackson Woods, died of disease ; William Woods, died at Atlanta, August, 1864 ; Michael Waddle, died at Murfreesboro, February, 1863.
One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, three years' service .- Flem- ing R. Followill, died at home, January, 1865; Isaac Harding, died at Louisville, April, 1864; William N. Hoover, died at Decatur, September, 1864; Jacob Honeycut, died of wounds at Raleigh, N. C., October, 1865 ; Jacob Robertson, died at Rasaca, October, 1864; Edward N. Smith, died at Nashville, Tenn., May, 1864.
One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, one year's service .- Daniel D. Bradley, died at Dalton, Ga., March, 1865; Henry W. Brown died at
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Dalton, Ga., March, 1865; John Gosser, died at Chattanooga, February, 1865 ; Conrad King, died at Dalton, March, 1865 ; Thomas (John) Mob- ley, died at Dalton, April, 1865 ; Samuel Peake, died at Jeffersonville, Ind., July, 1865; John H. Porter, died at Dalton, April, 1865; John W. Rich, died at home, February, 1865; Francis M. Smith, died at Nash- ville, Tenn., March, 1865 ; Philip S. Smith, died at Nashville, Tenn., March, 1865; Aaron H. Wheeler, died at Nashville, Tenn., July, 1865; Richard Elkins (Thirty-first Regiment), killed at Fort Donelson, February, 1862; Sylvanus Greenlee, died at Oak Ridge, Miss., October, 1863.
The following is the list of pensioners, as it stood on the first of Jan- uary, 1883 :
Roundebaugh, Henry, thigh. $ 2 00
Reeves, James A., minor
10 00
Waltman, William H., minor. 10 00
Garlock. David, eyes. 6 00
Brand, Peter, hip and back
10 00
Greathouse, Peter, spine
8 00
Zimmerman, Martha J., widow
8 00
Taylor, Orpha A., widow
25 00
Beck, Margaret S., widow
8 00
Hedrick, Shelby, leg.
6 00
Arwine, James N., rheumatism
6 00
Wendland, John, arm.
12 00
Young, Andrew, knee.
12 00
Franklin, Calvin, diarrhoea
6 00
West, Michael, typhoid fever
18 00
Davis, John, lungs
6 00
Davis, Mary E .. widow.
16 00
Wright. John C., lungs.
8 00
Mc Carty, William H., var. veins
8 00
Quinn, Margaret, mother. 8 00
King, Conrad, minor 10 00
18 00
Smith, John R., diarrhoea.
4 00
Skinner, Joseph M., rheumatism
8 00
Sherrell, Levi, hand. 18 00
4 00
Hampton, Willis, abdomen.
7 00
Griffin, William, thorax
8 00
Kent, Thomas, arm.
6 00
Shipley, Jesse, dropsy
18 00
Scrozum, James, knee ..
10 00
Wood, Leander, rheumatism.
12 00
Percifield, William J., eye and face
8 00
Palmer, Robert, thigh.
6 00
Parks, George W., arm
4 00
Bond, James, face
2 00
Condon, Alexander, rheumatism.
24 00
Mullis. Thomas, eye. 10 00
McGrail, Michael, face 24 00
8 00
Kelley, Benjamin R., rheumatism.
7 50
Meloy, James A., kidney and heart.
8 00
Hatchell, Bardell, lungs
2 00
Day, William, shoulder,
2 00
Calvin, Timothy D., diarrhœa
4 00
Baker, John, side.
6 00
Breedlove, Thomas, abdomen.
4 00
Reddick, Nancy, widow 1812.
8 00
Moser, Delila, widow
8 00
Bradley, Linia, widow 8 00
Price, Mary E., widow
8 00
45
Myers, James, hand.
Taggart, Capt. T., arm
Hampton, James, abdomen.
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Pearsoll, Rachel, widow.
8 00
Shipley, Sylvania A., widow 24 00
Floyd, Louisa, mother 8 00
Tullos, Susan, mother. 8 00
Hunt, Jailey, mother.
8 00
Jackson, Minerva, mother. 8 00
Polley, James W., minor of ..
10 00
Winkler, John D., rheumatism.
4 00
Gant, Henry B., loss fingers ..
18 00
Fleener, Joseph N., rheumatism 8 00
Fleener, William, minor of.
10 00
Leal, William, scurvy,
6 00
Ping, Silas, disease of abdomen.
4 00
Hancher, Alexander, hip and thigh.
8 00
Moore, Emanuel H., deaf one ear.
1 00
Truex, Catharine, widow
8 00
Greenlee, Matilda, widow.
8 00
Noblett, Lucinde, widow
8 00
Sprague, Catharine, widow
8 00
Powell, Richard, disease of kidney.
8 00
Nickerson, Henry W., heart disease.
18 00
Enes, Frederick, rheumatism ..
4 00
Hurley, Cornelius, ankle.
4 00
McClare, Anna, widow 1812.
8 00
Powell, Elizabeth, mother.
8 00
Young, Joseph M., disease of heart.
8 00
Wheeler, Elihu, finger.
3 00
Wise, Rachel, widow 1812.
8 00
McDonald, James D., abdomen
4 00
Zimmerman, Jacob, face and neck
2 00
Parmerlee, Marcus B., loss of three toes
10 00
Wheaton, Fielding, injury to sternum.
2 00
Shoup, Abraham, paralysis of arm
18 00
Wilsone, Catharine A., widow
8 00
Batton, Almeda, widow ..
8 00
Browning, Nathan, diarrhoea.
4 00
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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
MINERALS, OIL, SALT, ETC.
T THE township of Washington was created in August, 1836, and at first comprised a strip four miles wide and sixteen miles long entirely across the county from east to west. Afterward two tiers of sec- tions from the northern part of Johnson were added, thus giving the township a total of eighty sections, eight more than two full Congressional townships. The area of this township is almost or wholly drained by the North Fork of Salt Creek. Its branches on the north are Jackson's Lick, Owl, Greasy, Clay Lick, and on the south Schooner, Hampton and on the east Henderson's. The township except the eastern part is a valley bounded south, north and east by high hills. Salt Creek enters the township from the northeast coming from Hamblen Township. The geology of the county teaches that North Salt Creek is not as old as Bean Blossom. At the time of the glacial epoch, the ice masses could get no farther south, except in comparatively small quantities, at the ridge bordering Bean Blossom on the south. On the northern side of that ridge the ice melted and the water was forced westward, soon eroding the valley of Bean Blossom. It must be understood that at the beginning of the glacial epoch the surface of the county was almost level and was at the elevation of the highest lands. The streams, or rather their valleys, have all been cut down through the subsequent years to their present de- pression. The hills have not been raised ; the valleys have been cut out by the action of the water. As the ice melted on the northern slope of Bean Blossom ridge (when the valley of that stream was almost as high as the ridge, and when Salt Creek Valley had not been commenced), large quantities of water, with some ice and some drift of soil from Canada were forced over the ridge, thus forming sluggish rivulets which slowly forced their way southward covering all the county and gradually wearing small depressions which have since been formed into North Salt Creek and its northern branches. The ice which passed over Bean Blossom ridge was stopped by the higher elevation of the central ridge (the one just south of North Salt Creek) and forced southwestward in the general direction of Salt Creek where an outlet could be had. The only portion of the coun- ty that seems not to have been under water during the glacial epoch is Weed Patch Knob and perhaps a few others of the highest elevations on the ridges. Around their sides the ice water has deposited slight terraces containing minute pebbles and some imported material as if to record the highest flood upon this meter of the great glacial river, while white and bare these storm-scarred summits looked out over the wintry wild and saw that rigid river of ice menace their base or turn to right or left into the two White River Valleys and float by in a stream of molten silver. A table of altitudes is here given :
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Nashville above the ocean. 652 feet.
Nashville above mouth of Wabash. 355 feet.
Nashville above Columbus 35 feet.
Nashville above Wabash at Terre Haute. 167 feet.
Nashville below Georgetown. 42 feet.
Nashville below Spearsville
285 feet.
Nashville below Bloomington
132 feet.
Nashville below Indianapolis.
46 feet.
Nashville below Weed Patch Kuob.
495 feet.
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At the Hester Quarry, half a mile west of Nashville, the following is the formation :
Soil on first terrace, containing a few small quartz, pebbles and minute grains of black sand from the glacial drift. 10 feet.
Soft friable reddish sandstone. 43 feet.
Shaly sandstone with ferruginous bands. 25 feet.
Sandy shale with ferruginous plates and concretions. 65 feet.
Sandstone (Quarry)
12 feet.
Total. 155 feet.
In the western part of the township, notably on Section 31, Township 9 north, Range 2 east, and Section 12, Township 8 north, Range 2 east, are salt springs which were famous "licks " in early times, when deer in large numbers wandered browsing through the glades and forests and came there to get their salt. These springs, known of course to the Indians before the whites came, gave name to the creek along which they are found. On Section 31, above mentioned, Mr. Jackson, as early as 1823, bored a well about 300 feet deep, securing a good flow of brine, which was boiled down in eight or ten large iron kettles and sold to the early settlers, many of whom came forty or fifty miles for it. He manufactured thus about 2,500 bushels of superior salt per annum after the well had been fully secured, and gave employment to some six or eight hands, who watched the fires and water. At first the salt sold as high as $8 per bushel, but within a few years it went down, and after about 1836 did not pay, and the manufacture was abandoned. On Section 12, above mentioned, a company from Bloomington, at the head of whom were the Howes, sunk a well in the twenties and also manufactured a considerable quantity of excellent salt. This was called Howe's Salt Lick and the other Jackson's Salt Lick. Several other wells were sunk for salt, one being about three miles northeast of Nashville. During the great oil fever many years ago, an oil well was sunk at the old Howe's Lick by a company, of which Dr. Arwine of Nashville was a member. The well was on the Story farm. and the strata passed through were as follows :
Surface clay 10 feet.
Sandstone with partings.
110 feet.
Shale, white and blue.
220 feet.
Shale, reddish 48 feet.
Slate, black, with a carbonaceous parting of six inches. 110 feet.
Huron shale containing sulphur
1 foot.
White sandstone or limestone 45 feet.
Clay 15 feet.
White sandstone or limestone.
4 feet.
Total. 560 feet. In the black slate, all the way through it, a small quantity of crude petroleum was found, which formed bubbles on the " pumpings " of
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water, and when a lighted match was applied to the bubbles the gas therein took fire and burned as quick as powder. This gas was carbureted hydrogen very similar to ordinary coal gas manufactured for lighting cities. The oil brought up had a plainly perceptible odor, which was unpleasant. It was found only in small quantity. Brine was struck near the base of the slate in sufficient quantity and strength, it was estimated, to make one barrel of salt per day. The well northeast of Nashville was sunk to about the same depth, about the same formation being found; the slate was not so thick. Gas, oil and salt were also found. It is estimated that $1,000 worth of gold has been found on Salt Creek (North Fork), principally near its head. Traces are found in places along its course.
CIVIL DIVISION AND ORGANIZATION.
Before the creation of Brown County in 1836, the western portion of Washington Township formed a part of Monroe County and the eastern of Bartholomew County. The dividing line, or the " old county line," as it is yet called, was a short distance east of Nashville. As soon as the township was created in August, 1836, John S. Williams was appointed Assessor, and upon the completion of his work was paid $3 in full in county orders. He was also paid 50 cents for making return of the September election in the township. Levin Tull was the first Con- stable. James McIntire assessed the township in 1837. In 1838, J. S. Williams was Inspector of Elections ; Robert Henderson and William Jackson, Overseers o the Poor: John Hoover and Levin Tull, Fence Viewers ; Stephen Parks and Littleton Matthews, Constables. Joseph Stilson was Assessor in 1840, and James Taggart, Jr., in 1841. The old Sparks Ferry road extended north and south across the county, passing through the little village of Hedgesville, about three miles and a half east of Nashville. This road was divided into five districts: 1st. From the Jackson County line to Section 14, Van Buren Township ; 2d. Thence to Hedgesville; 3d. Thence to Owen Simpson's about Sec- tion 1, southern Hamblen ; 4th. Thence to Section 14, Hamblen ; 5th. Thence to the county line of Johnson. Alfred Weddel, in July, 1836, was appointed Superintendent of District No. 3, with the following hands : Hiram C. Weddel, John Harris, William Matthews, Matthew Matthews, Martin Matthews, Isaac Matthews, Henry Sipes. Jeremiah King, George King, Jonathan Fox, Joseph Fox. Alfred Young was appointed Superintendent of District No. 2, and was given the following hands : John Hampton, Edward Ayres, Henry Ayres, Samuel Ayres, Enoch Hampton, Ephraim Hatton, James Williamson, Asa Hatton, Alfred Young, William Rippey, John Rippey, William Kenworthy and Thomas Polly. At this time also (July, 1836) the Columbus & Bloom- ington road east of the old county line was divided into two districts : 1st. From the line to Hedgesville ; 2d. From Hedgesville to the Bar- tholomew County lines. Andrew Marshall was appointed Superintendent of District No. 1, his hands being John Floyd, John Ping, Edward David, John Whittington, James Matthews, M. Hedges, Lemuel M. Hedges, David Randolph, Thomas Hampson and Gamaliel Millsap. Robert Henderson was appointed Superintendent of District No. 2, with
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HISTORY OF RROWN COUNTY.
the following hands : Henry Whittington, James Mullis, Henry New- kirk, Merrick Graham, Job Ping, Walker Ping, Lewis F. Raper, Am- brose Cobb, William Crouch and David Crouch. These names include many of the earliest residents of Washington Township.
THE EARLY SETTLERS.
It is probable that old man Schoonover, who located on Schooner* Creek in Washington Township, as early, certainly, as 1820, was the first permanent white settler within the county limits. He was a Ger- man and was semi-barbarous, preferring to live in the wilderness than in the settled localities. Some state that his location in the township, on Schooner Creek, was as carly as 1817 or 1818, and there is postitive and undoubted evidence that he was living on the creek in 1820. Others also state that, for a time, at the period of his earliest settlement, he owned a small stock of trinkets, ammunition, etc., which he kept to trade with the Indians for their furs. This is purely traditionary, and could not have continued longer than three or four years at the farthest, as the great bulk of the natives was removed early in the twenties. What finally became of the family cannot be stated. It is likely that the second set- tlement was at the old Jackson salt works, about the year 1821. The presence of salt there became known to hunters and others in Monroe County several years before, and finally families moved there to open the industry of manufacturing salt. A well was sunk, and a fair article of brine was secured and boiled down in iron kettles until a hard cake of salt was the residue, which was pulverized and rendered fit for market. In after years large quantities were prepared. Several familes located there and in a few years a little settlement sprang up around them. Edward David located in the eastern part of the township as early as 1822, though it is stated that he was not the first there. A man named Henderson, and perhaps others, settled on a creek of that name about the same time, and perhaps earlier. The early entries of land will show the early settlement in a fairly correct light.
LAND ENTRIES.
The early entries on Township 8 north, Range 1 east, were as fol- lows: Section 1-Finney Coatney, 1844; Joshua O. Howe, 1826 ; John W. Lee, October 21, 1824 ; the east half of the southwest quarter ; Henry Wampler, August 17, 1824, the west half of the southwest quar- ter. Section 12-Dawson Debord, 1836 ; J. O. Howe, 1826; Moses Williams, November 26, 1821, the west half of the northwest quarter, and in June, 1824, the east half of the northwest quarter. Township 8 north, Range 1 east. Section 1-Samuel Dunn, 1831 ; Fred Fleener, 1844 ; Michael Fleener, 1836; Elizabeth Fleener, 1837. Section 12- Nathan Pruett, 1839, Township 8 north, Range 2 east. Section 3- George Henry, 1839; William Followell, 1836. Section 4-George Cox, 1839. Section 6-John B. Williams, 1844; Elam Carter, 1839; Jacob Stephens, 1836; James B. Chandler, 1839. Section 7- Robert Robertson, 1843 ; William Johnson, 1831; Peter Sink, 1839. Town-
*The creek was named in honor of the old man. It will be observed that the name has been con- tracted.
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ship 9 north, Range 2 east. Section 14-David D. Weddel, 1837. Sec- tion 18-Gilbert Percifield, 1839; Henry Jackson, 1839. Section 19- Gilbert Percifield, 1836. Section 23-Polly Kannatser, 1836; James Taggart, 1836; James Taggart, Jr., 1837. Section 24-Bezaleel Mc Aully, 1833; William Jackson, 1836; Henry Jackson, 1839; James Taggart, Jr., 1837; Jesse L. Hubbard, 1839. Section 26-Stephen Parks, 1836; George Followell. 1836; William Wise, 1836 ; John Followell, 1844. Section 27-Thomas J. Breedlove, 1836; William Followell, 1839; William King, 1836 ; Rachel Coulson, 1837 ; John Hoover, 1836-37-40-47. Sec- tion 28-Rachel Coulson, 1837 ; John Hoover, 1839. Section 29-Finney Coatney, 1838. Section 31-was reserved by the Government for the Saline Fund. Township 9 north, Range 3 east, Section 14-Jonathan Fox, 1831; John Brown, 1836; Jacob Davis, 1835; Cornelius W. Tucker, 1835. Section 18-Pierson Brummet, 1837; Ira Davar, 1844 ; Alexander Baker, 1828; Sylvanus Manville, 1844. Section 19-(see in advance a few pages). Section 20-Matthew Matthews, 1836; Reuben Matthews, 1836; John Huff, 1836; James McIntire, 1836; J. B. Chandler, 1844 ; John S. Williams, 1836; Isaac Matthews, 1836; Levin Tull, 1836 ; Henry Sipes, 1836. Section 21-Thomas Coulson, 1837. Section 22-Jesse Brown, 1840; Thomas Coulson, 1837; James D. Robertson, 1840. Section 24-John Flinn, 1830. Section 25- Jerry King, 1832; James Taggart, March 22, 1828 ; Robert Henderson, 1835; Henry Newkirk, 1836; James Sullivan, 1832. Section 26- Henry Whittington, 1834; Hiram C. Weddel, 1839. Section 27- John King, 1833; William Snyder, 1832; John Alcorn,. 1832; Fran- cis Whittington, 1837 ; John Fox, 1839. Section 28-John Alcorn, 1832; Edward David, Jr., 1833 ; Aquilla Rogers, 1836; Edward David, March 6, 1828 ; Benjamin Rogers, 1836; John Matthews, 1844; James D. Robertson, 1840; John Fox, 1839. Township 9 north, Range 4 east. Section 4-John King, 1836; William Taylor, Sr., 1836. Section 5-William King, 1832; John King, 1839; Section 6 -P. J. Weddel, 1839. Section 9-Alfred King, 1843. Section 19- James Rude, 1839 ; Henry Whittington, 1839; Joseph White, 1833; John Harris, 1836. Section 30-Matthew Matthews, 1837. Section 33 -Abe Marlett, 1839; Isaac Nickerson, 1839. This list includes all who entered land in Washington Township, or nearly all, before 1850. The list includes many of the very first settlers, though unfortunately, owing to the destruction in 1873 of the county records, the names of all the early residents cannot be given. As a means of preserving as many of the names of the early residents as possible, the following list is given :
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