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John Jackson.
Aloah Payne.
William Depew.
John Briggs. Zebina and Zelotas Hervey.
William Harris.
1823.
Newman D. Palmer.
William Thompson.
Hiram Smith. Levi Johnson.
Simon Johnson. Samuel C. Thompson. William Christey. William Stevens.
Mrs. Susan Brasher, relict of Henry Brasher, died in Peoria, Ill., at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. R. B. Pooler, December 9, 1877, aged sixty-nine years. She was a native of Ohio, near Cincin- nati, born August 30, 1808, and came to Vigo in 1818. She has been the mother of twelve children. Her husband, Henry Brasher, died in 1852.
In 1818 there was a strong colony came to what is now Sugar Creek township. Of these were James Bennett, John Sheets, John Ray, Henry Kuykendall, John Reese, Reuben Newton, James Hick- lin, Joseph Malcom, Micajah Goodman, Henry Hearn, Henry Mid- deton and John Cruse.
A son of Micajah was John B. Goodman, long one of the promi- nent farmers in that township, and another son who grew to manhood was William Goodman.
William Harris and William and Samuel John Ray, in company with Caleb Trublood, came in 1818, and settled in what is now Riley township. These people were so much troubled by the Indians yet numerous in that part of the county, that they were compelled to go away and wait for more favorable times before returning. They lit- erally slept on their arms, and ready dressed at all times, to flee or fight as circumstances required. The Ray family made a kind of stockade of their place. One night William Ray came very near shooting his father, mistaking him for an intruding Indian. He had his gun pointed and his finger on the trigger, in the act of giving it the fatal pressure, when he discovered it to be his father. One of the Ray boys was John, who became a leading farmer.
In 1818 John and Samuel Adams came and settled just west of
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where is Fountain Station, in Nevins township. John was a black- smith, the man of first importance to do everything in iron work so nec- essary to the pioneers. The same year Starling Lambert came and made his improvement in Raccoon bottom, and also John Hoffman, who located on Section 29, Range 7. He was from Pennsylvania, and when seven years old he had sat on the lap of Washington. He had emigrated to Ohio in 1812, was a soldier in the war of that year, under Gen. Hull, and was an eye-witness of the surrender of his army. John Hoffman was the eldest of twenty-two children-nine- teen boys and three girls.
CHAPTER XVI.
LAND ENTRIES.
H ARRISON'S PURCHASE was opened for sale in September, 1816. This was the signal for the wild mad rush for land- lands that extended their fame for richness and beauty throughout all the older settlements from northern Maine to Florida. As a specimen of the reports the soldiers carried back to their friends we give the report of one of the surveyors who surveyed out the lines. M. D. Buck was so impressed with the country that he wrote and published an account in Brown's Gazetteer in 1817, and to this surveyor's accounts were added interesting notes by Samuel R. Brown, who had visited the Wabash country. From the two is condensed the following in reference to this particular portion of the country :
"The bottoms bordering the Wabash are rich; wells have been sunk in them that showed a vegetable soil twenty-two feet deep, though the ordinary depth is from two to five feet. All the streams have spacious and fertile bottoms. The prairies in the vicinity of Fort Harrison exceed for beauty and richness anything I ever be- held. The land sells very high near Fort Harrison, for it is the most delightful situation for a town on the Wabash. The Indians camp in the woods convenient to water, where they build wigwams. While surveying in the wilderness they appeared very friendly, and offered us honey and venison. The woods abound with bear, deer, and wild turkeys. About three-eighths of the land we surveyed is excellent for most kinds of produce; the remainder is good for grazing, but either too hilly or flat and wet for grain. [How ex-
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perience has reversed this early decision about the low wet lands. Everywhere the lowest are now the best, and the soil as it does not wash is the most durable. Great crops are now every year grow- ing where once water stood all the season and was often deep enough to swim a horse .- Ed. ] Wheat grows rank, but the grain is not as plump as in New York. The difficulty is the land is too rich until improved. Apple trees bear every year. Wheat is 75 cents a bushel; flour, $3 a hundred-$4 if delivered at Fort Harri- son; pork, $4; beef, the same; butter and cheese, from 122 cents to 25 cents; honey, 50 cents a gallon; maple sugar, 25 cents. European goods exorbitantly high. Ginseng grows in the bottoms to a size and perfection I never before witnessed.
"The lands in Harrison's purchase when first opened for sale at Jefferson sold very high, and numerous tracts brought from $4 to $30 per acre. A section on the Wabash below Fort Harrison [Terre Haute ] sold at $32.18 per acre. The best proof of the ex- cellence of these lands is the fact of their being the scene of a numerous Indian population. * * Serpents are not very nu- merous. Deer are mortal enemies of the rattlesnake, and often kill them by jumping on them. It is also reported ["reported" was well put in-Ed. ] that the turkey buzzard has the power of killing the rattlesnake by its intolerable stench, which it most powerfully emits by a violent fluttering in the air a little above the snake's head."
In this case how would it have been if the buzzard attacked a prairie polecat ?
This gives us a faint idea of the impression of the spot where is now Terre Haute made upon those who first beheld it. Is it any wonder men started on a race from North Carolina and from our northeast shore to the newly opened land office with their land war- rants or Canadian rights to carry off the pick of such a favored locality ? Those who had the means rode like "John Gilpin" for the land office-sometimes killing their horses. It was the high timber lands and the inviting points along the streams as well as the natural mill-sites that were the points these men were racing to get.
These rushing, panting land buyers were a source of astonish- ment to the natives as well as many of the nomadic whites without fixed habitations, and who had mixed with Indians or angled in the streams in lazy content, and lodged in their wigwams with no con- cern more than to catch the fish and game and eat and be merry, ready to follow the game when civilization would first begin to drive it from its haunts.
The very exuberance of the natural richness of this beautiful land was one of the impeding difficulties to the pioneer that was
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now coming. On the most fertile spots on the bottoms the peavine grew in tangled masses, cropped by the half wild cattle that grew fat on this nutritious food. The spicewood choked the glades and the thick paw-paw groves filled in the heavy timber bottoms until the tangled woods were often difficult of passage. Frequently a caravan would be all day cutting its way through five miles of these obstructions. The little " clearin'" about the new cabin often was involved in no slight labor. But when that labor was performed and the virgin soil that had been the slow accumulation of the ages was turned to the sun and the winds, then came therefrom the in- visible waves that literally savored of death. The moldering vege- tation and earth damp were the open Pandora's box to the busy pioneers. The stream when deprived of these leafy shades and the hot sun drank their sluggish waters became open sewers run- ning with malaria.
Whole families were prostrated with the fever until there was not one to wait upon another. This " sickly " climax was reached in the next four or five years after the real beginning of clearing the land and making farms. During these years in the fall season, travelers tell of riding ten or fifteen miles along in the settlements near a stream where all were prostrated. In a few years there was an improvement in this respect, but the fever and ague were more or less in the new country for a generation. When it first came to those poor people, a besom of destruction surely, how could they live on and hope? How could they believe this would ever change ? They knew little concerning it, why should it not grow worse in- stead of better, as long as there was human life left for this mon- ster to feed upon? It was not enough for these poor pioneer women to be thus banished to the lonely solitudes from their dear old homes and friends, but they must live and dread and suffer, and see their blessed prattlers panting and burning in the hot fever that was so ruthlessly undermining their lives.
If there ever was true courage in this world it was all surely required by these people that moved on, and without complaint, with- out despair, fought out this unequaled fight.
So far we have been dealing with the memories and authentic traditions of these brave and hardy men and women who were among the first to come to this particular part of the Wabash country. The lands in what is Vigo county were in the market to purchasers September, 1816, and time has invested these old and yellow records with the greatest interest. The hour of the open- ing of the land offices is that of the division line between the "squatter " and the land buyer. To-day all are squatters, when a new comer could get no other title to his land than that of posses- sion and his little improvement made thereon, and then depend up-
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on keeping watch and guard over it until it would come into market and be the first to buy it of the government, and to-morrow the bars are thrown down and the land buyer is rushing to the land offices.
The government would notify the people that on a certain day it would open its land office doors and certain lands would be for sale, and "firstcome, first served." In the swarms of home buyers were to be found the keen-eyed land speculator. Some of these were ever ready to "enter out " the settler, basing his judgment upon that of the man who had pick and choice of all of it, and at times there were in this way grievous wrongs perpetrated.
The settlers, however, soon allowed these cases of wrong to formulate among them a strong unwritten law that the smart specu- lator should not ruthlessly rob honest men of their toil, and when a case of this kind would occur they would say to him: "Pay the man for his improvement or else take your money back and give him the land," and this was enforced impartially and there were few cases that in the end satisfactory justice was not reached. Thus, without any written organization, these pioneers became knit together in the strongest bands of self-interest and brotherhood, and in their social lives they were all as one. And when another family arrived every cabin door was open to them and no one waited for the new arrivals to call for assistance, but the people would go and help them in every way, pointing out to them the choicest spots where was good land and springs, or living water, and after they had looked about and made their selections every man for miles would meet and generally in a day put up the log cabin, and not only help the family move in, but bring them of their food, and their women folk and, if possible, the one-eyed fiddler, and a jolly house-warming would take place in the evening. The new arrivals, although now in their own house, were the neighbors' guests, and the genuine hearty welcome was, beyond doubt, often a blessed balm to many a poor, heavy-hearted woman who could hardly realize that all was not a dream.
This hearty, unaffected friendship and substantial good will, this frank and cordial aid and well wishing, gave tone and color to the lives of the pioneers that has marked the generations as a type of people expressed in the phrase "western," and impressed some- thing of itself on the descendants of those noble people that may be distinctly noticed to this time. Hearty and rugged, generous and sympathetic, and to hide this as much as possible beneath a rough exterior is nearly a universal western trait. These hearty men generally carry great contempt for what the Indians so expressively called "squaw men," and yet for the weak and helpless, if they could do so by stealth, they were as tender hearted and as kind as the gentlest woman. These people were without guile. They had
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but precious little of this modern mad fever for great wealth. They wanted, like Scotia's bard, "just enough and not too much." And therefore they made small material for the mad house or the peniten- tiary. In the showy side of life they would now be esteemed at fault, but, after all, in these sterling qualities that are the real " man for a' that and a' that," their lives may be studied with infinite profit by the most favored pets of fortune in these enervating times. They had no conceptions of how "to smile and smile and still a villain," but rather chose to hide their gentlest nature beneath the roughest exterior. Whatever of this world's goods the average pio- neer had he had earned it, and whether that was much or little, if his pioneer neighbor in his distress needed it, it was his without the asking. They had no lunatic asylums, penal institutions or poor houses-they did not need them. One of our modern "tramps" would then have been nearly as extraordinary as an elephant.
But these people were not angels with budding wings, they were not the perfect, polished men and women, and it is not the intention at all to so represent them here. But in those cardinal qualities of manhood, and all that is strong and real, in all those broad and generous things that are the inner life of which the exterior is but the husk that covers the kernel, wherein is there ought of which their descendants need blush when they compare them in the mental balance with even the best of modern everyday life ?
With some of them their amusements and pastimes were so coarse that they bordered on the brutal. Some of these strong men would drink deeply of their strong drink, and cock fight, gamble, race horses, and in their cups would fight much like infuriated animals. And the rule of the present is to refer to the rough pio- neers and judge them all by these exceptions, and hence the average young of to-day are warped and all wrong in their information about those people. Suppose in a century from now the young of that time should form their estimate of all of us by reading of our "prize fighters," sluggers, bullies, bruisers, sand baggers, train robbers, bank defaulters, sneak thieves, and the whole lot that are crowded to overflowing in our many and vast penal institutions, our asylums and our poorhouses, and even our overburdened feeble- minded institutions. Would not such judgments be a little bit absurd, if not stupid? You must think of a people always in their averages and not the exceptions. This is the only intelligent cri- terion by which you can be guided. Some understanding of the law of averages is the very essence of true history-the exceptions are perpetuated simply as interesting phenomena.
But to return to the subject of the first land buyers-the first recorded official action of the people in the year 1816. These do not give all the transactions in that line, only the most of them.
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"The Canadian land rights" may or may not be reported, and so of entries, they may not be on record until the patent is issued, years after the entry. The date given is generally that of filing as found on the voluminous records in which they are scattered over many pages. There are other facts recorded, such as bonds, power of attorney, assignment of title, bonds for deeds, etc. The description of the real estate is given in order in most of the cases to denote where the different ones settled or made their homes. These have been carefully culled from the county records, transcribed from the Vincennes records when this was Knox county, and then, as they were brought in for record, to our county clerk. Suffice it to state that for each year the records had to be gone carefully over each separate time.
It will be noticed the first entry on the record is by a man named Abraham Tourttlot to Eliakim Crosby. I hunted in vain for any one who had ever heard of this first name, could find no trace of him. A closer examination showed that the land was not now in Vigo county, but it was put down in the list because it was made to Crosby, who was a citizen of what is now Vigo. These lists run through the years from 1816 to 1830, and in the matter of original land titles will be of easy reference to all interested in land titles :
1816 .- Abraham Tourttlot to Eliakim Crosby, December 2, Section 12, Township 14, Range 9; Carey Marcellus to Thomas H. Clarke (no numbers), December 5; C. and T. Bullitt, Jonathan Lind- ley, Abraham Markle and Hyacinth Lasalle to John Owens ( no numbers), September 19; same to Phineas M. Cooper, October 30; Proprietors Terre Haute to John M. Coleman, Lot 95, October 31; United States to Caleb Crawford, southwest quarter of Section 27, Township 12, Range 9, November 2; same to Robert Graham north- east quarter of Section 35, Township 13, Range 9, October 28; same to James Cunningham, southeast quarter of Section 5, Town- ship 14, Range 8, December 5; James Cunningham to William S. McCarter, southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 14, Range 8, December 11; Joseph Kitchell, agent to John M. Coleman, Lot 95, October 21; land office to William White, northwest quarter of Section 34, Township 15, Range 9, October 30; same to same, north- east quarter of Section 33, Township 15, Range 19, October 30; United States patent to Jacob Lane, northeast and northwest quarters of Section 25, Township 12, Range 9, October 26; United States to Alexander Chamberlin, northwest quarter of Section 11, Township 11, Range 9, October 26; same to Cary Marcellus, southwest quarter of Section 23, Township 12, Range 9, October 26; Cary Marcellus to Thomas H. Clarke, southwest quarter of Section 23, Township 12, Range 9, December 5.
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1817 .- John Richardson to Samuel Pierce, northeast quarter of Section 21, Township 14, Range 7, September 27; James Taylor and John Barr to Thomas Barr, northeast quarter of Section 6, Township 12, Range 9, June 13; Vanranselear Crosby to Moses Hoggatt south half of Section 4, Township 14, Range 9, October 17; Eliakim Crosby and wife to Moses Hoggatt north half of Sec- tion 24, Township 11, Range 10, October 17; John G. Camp to George Clem, north half of Section 18, Township 11, Range 9, Oc- tober 17; Eliakim Crosby to John M. Coleman, forty acres in south- east quarter of Section 15, Township 12, Range 9; William Markle to Joseph Walker, northeast quarter of Section 36, Township 14, Range 9, September 20; Eliakim Crosby to Joseph Walker, south- west quarter of Section 35, Township 14; Range 9, April 4; same to Thomas H. Clarke, southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 12, Range 9, October 11; Caleb Crawford to Enoch Honeywell, south- west quarter of Section 29, Township 12, Range 9, July 20; Jonas Seeley and wife to Robert Hopkins, northeast quarter of Section 13 and 40 acres of southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 14, Range 9, June 7; John Halloway to Ebenezer Wilson and Salem Pocock (assignment), April 16; United States to John Johnson, northwest quarter of Section 14, and southwest quarter of Section 11, Town- ship 14, Range 10, February 17; same to John Price, southeast quarter of Section 7, Township 11, Range 8, October 11; Bailey Johnson, sheriff, Sullivan county to Samuel Colman, 39 acres south- east quarter of Section 4, Township 10, Range 10, October 29; same and same date to James Wasson, 39 acres northwest quarter of Section 19, Township 11, Range 9; same to James Sayer and George A. Wasson, 19 acres, northwest quarter of Section 19, Town- ship 11, Range 9; same to Wasson and Sayer, 39 acres of the south- west quarter of Section 30, Township 11, Range 9; John Long to Ebenezer Wilson, one-twentieth of Terre Haute purchase, May 23; Eleazar Daggett and wife to William Walker, northeast quarter of Section 8, Township 11, Range 9, June 28; Eliakim Crosby to Ezra Jones, northwest quarter of Section 10, Township 10, Range 10, April 4; Eliakim Crosby to William Harlow, assignment one six- teenth interest of Sections 28, 29, 12, 9, and other lands in thirteen tracts, October 31.
1818 .- C. and T. Bullitt, Jonathan Lindley, Abraham Markle and Hyacinth Lasalle, Terre Haute Company, agreement with Mars- ton G. Clark, E. Stone and John Allen, commissioners, to fix county seat, March 21; Truman Blackman, sheriff's bond, March 21; Alex- ander Barns, commissioner's bond, March 21; Eliakim Crosby, power of attorney to Daniel W. Douglas, March 13; Eliakim Cros- by and wife to Isaac Barns, deed, April 18; Truman Blackman to John Dickson, southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 11,
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Range 9, assignment, April 28; Orris Crosby to Daniel W. Doug- las, power of attorney, March 13; same to John C. Packard, deed, south half of Section 2, Township 11, Range 9, April 18; Eliakim Crosby and wife to William Newson, northwest quarter and south- east quarter of Section 12, Township, 14, Range 9, May 5; John Hamilton and Isaac Lambert, note to John Owens, March 20; Will- iam Wilson and wife to Samuel Miles, southeast quarter of Section 36, Township 11, Range 4, May 23; Peter Garber and wife to Ichabod G. Scranton, southeast quarter of Section 14, Township 12, Range 9, June 3; L. H. Scott, agent, to John Hamilton, Isaac Lambert and Ezra Jones, county commissioners, receipt, June 1; John O'Neal to Pierre Laplante, northwest quarter of Section 2, Township 5, Range 7, June 2; Truman Blackman, sheriff, to L. H. Scott, power of attorney, April 3; Joel Dickson to Isaac Lambert and John Dickson, northwest quarter of Section 36, Township 14, Range 9, March 13; Aaron Reemon to Robert W. Stoddard, northeast quarter of Section 15, Township 10, Range 10, April 30; Thomas H. Clark to George W. Harris, southeast quarter of Section 35, Township 8, Range 2, May 30; George W. Harris to Robert McFarline, southeast quarter of Section 36, Township 14, Range 9, June 17; same and Thomas H. Clarke to Ezekiel Kilgore, northeast quarter of Section 25, Township 14, Range 9, June 17; William Ryons to Soussariet Dubois, southwest quar- ter of Section 36, Township 11, Range 4, June 19; John Beard to John Durkee, west fraction of Section 21, Township 13, Range 9, March 16; Fredrick Lupt to John Durkee, northwest quarter of Section 20, Township 13, Range 9, May 7; Thomas Barr to Joseph Curtis, northeast quarter of Section 6, Township 12, Range 9, June 29; John T. Chunn to Isaac Lambert and John Dickson, power of attorney, May 23; Isaac Coleman to Ezra Jones, northeast quarter of Section 35, Township 12, Range 9, May 27; Ezra H. Moore to Eliakim Crosby, south half of Section 1, Township 13, Range 9, June 24; Curtis Gilbert and Andrew Brooks, agreement, Septem- ber 9; Eleazer Aspinwall to Abraham Markle, southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 12, Range 9, October 3; John M. Colman to Samuel Jacobs, Lot 9, Terre Haute, August 11; Lucius H. Scott, sheriff's bond, September 23; Caleb Crawford, commissioner's bond, October 14; Eleazer Daggett to William Mollyneuix, northwest quarter of Section 8, Township 11, Range 9, June 5; Daniel W. Douglas and Henry W. Haller to Thomas Bound, south half of Section 1, Township 13, Range 9, November 11; county commis- sioners to L. H. Scott, assignment of certain lots in Terre Haute, May 21; Bailey Johnson, sheriff of Sullivan county, to Daniel W. Douglas, land in Section 7 and 13, Township 13, Range 8, November 14; John Goff to Eliakim Crosby, 120 acres northeast quarter of Sec-
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tion 12, Township 12, Range 9, November 19; Silas Hopkins to Will- iam Merritt, mortgage, February 7; Caleb Arnold and William Win- ter, town plat at mouth of Honey Creek (Smyrna), October 24; Elia- kim Crosby to Chauncy Rose and Moses Robins, 120 acres north- east quarter of Section 12, Township 12, Range 9, November 23; James Pettingill to Abraham Markle, south half of Section 35, Township 12, Range 9, November 21; Robert Taylor to Solomon Lusk, northeast quarter of Section 13, Township 12, Range 1 (in Illinois ), December 19; Robert Hopkins and wife to James Hagar, northeast quarter and 40 acres in southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 14, Range 9, December 29; John Cook to John Durkee, southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 13, Range 9, November 28; Silvia Winter, Mary Winter, James Hall, Mahala Hall, John Winter, Ariel Harman to Elisha U. Brown, fractions of Sections 35 and 20, Township 11, Range 10, October 29; Daniel Darrock to Dun- can Darrock, southeast quarter of Section 19, Township 11, Range 9, November 2; United States to Paul Cool, west half of Section 3, Township 15, Range 10, January 5; William Harlow to Jesse Embree, west half of northeast quarter of Section 22, Township 12, Range 9, August 25; Peter Allen and wife to Abraham Mar- kle, northwest quarter of Section 22, Township 12, Range 9, Feb- ruary 16; Oliver Grace to Christopher C. Hiddle and Mahlon Laneson, and John W. Mesler, southeast quarter of Section 15 and northeast quarter of Section 10, Township 15, Range 10, June 9; Mary Stephenson to Bates Cook, northeast quarter of Section 33, Township 13, Range 8, September 13; John Owens to C. and T. Bullitt, one-half share in Terre Haute, October 15; Henry Speed to C. and T. Bullitt, one-third share in Terre Haute, July 3; Fred- rick Lupt to John Durkee, northwest quarter of Section 20, Town- ship 13, Range 9, May 7; John Cook to John Durkee, southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 13, Range 9, November 22; John Durkee to Daniel Barbour, southeast quarter of Section 7, Town- ship 13, Range 9, July 3; John Beard to John Durkee, west frac- tion of Section 21, Township 13, Range 9, March 14; Daniel Bar- bour to John Durkee, southwest quarter of Section 1, Township 13, Range 10, July 3; United States to Isaac Pointer, north half of the southwest quarter of Section 30, Township, 11, Range 8, June 11; Abraham Markle and wife to Peter Allen, 120 acres of the southwest quarter of Section 15, Township 12, Range 9, February 16; Daniel W. Douglas to Jonathan Lindley, northeast quarter of Section 13, Township 13, Range 9, December 12; Willis Newson and wife to Jonathan Lindley, northwest quarter and southwest quarter and southeast quarter of Section 12, Township 14, Range 9, December 22; Robert W. Stoddard to Daniel Rodney, south- west quarter of Section 21, Township 15, Range 9, October
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