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four mettons and a half of Greensher . Heury township, enbraving and
barn except four section and a lot of the south side, and the three southern to rol sectors of Home townlap, was the third vid town- ship created Prairie townships and Rom certain mendes like truth within its boundaries, sin mest och the restware, and end rend all of Blue River. Stany Creen. l'autre, Je ww and Fall Creek townships and the the northern tion of aretions of IL. prisen townstop. It was onh red that these new ral chvisions of t'y counts, "after the first Saturday of Jale, enjoy all the rights, per . gs and partitions which to separate and and pointout towant to do propy a to long or apport an." Portions to select clusters of the Peace for the oresustage we're ordered to be fal on July ti, at the house of Dance, Pani in Datles Toursimp. Joseph Watts in Wayne, Sinel Balon in Henry na Ab. omn Harvey in Pramme, The colonists who first settled along our sins of New England brought with them the pien that where low was win nistered there it should be made As a corollary of this benef arose the box of local self government and at this first meeting of the Board ot Co Bat-spomp r- the local self-government of the county was faith manger ifv 4
The Board met agun in frig, when bielin shortridge presented his certificate of election as a member The only mot of the Board was to appant Ezekiel Leavell agent of the sunnity, to sell the jo's, pintted out of the donations of land acces for met for the county seat The Phone continued to ment at the residence of tr at public sprite I citizen, Joseph Hobson. and convened agam in Angust when the hrst Ingbway in Henry remonty was made a matter of record and a romil establishel, beginning at New Castle and " running theme the nearest and best way to Sluxok's Mill in Wayne county, " full usaparably connected with the varie history of the Whitewater Valles For years afterwards to records provided that roads should be land mit los . the newest and best was.' These early roads were made by cutting out a few tous and blazing others to mark the route to he traveled, and ran through wants togardless of section lines. traversing the high grounds and sharing the food of the hills. Most of these early guards lose then add permed, but the road from New Castle to Spireland and from New Castle to the northern hunts of the Horses settle- ment renau as illustrations of lughway- by " the tetrest ainl best way."
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twelve and om-had waals, as, por gaden, of ren, sis and one health wants It is not nulikely that the bars of the se early taverns furnished ! Is
their fastidias patients i greder variety than theu tables afforded At this meeting various a losandes were na ple and ordered to be part mitad
joint, SIN and onos hanth cents. pep l brands, person indigent tools out
tw an annual in case face of four dollars was immune mpman tavern-hope A attlement was made with the treasurer of the county, who piorherd voucher for various amounts paid from sam. I to November 13. 1-2. winomuting to $14255, while the receipts from juill taxes and the lernst fees from tavern- amounted to but Siete The revenues for the support of the state government were demivel almost wholly from tavs unused upon lands, and there were a bissel as first rate, second tate and third rite fands. For the veir 12Lind for two years afterward the rates of tivatodi in each one lamadre acre- were on het rite land, Sino. on sereal sate land. $1 25: on tard rate bowl, Treats Thirteen wars elapsed before the system of taxing land according to its value was alopted Flor revenues tor county purposes was obtained from taxes agent lands and lots, from beenso fres of moss hauts and tavern keepers and from the imprese upon certain articles of personal ; unparts Horses were faxed and such articles of tvary as rarnuages watches and clock- With changed rotations the methods of taxation chitter but are perhaps no better settled now than three quarters of n century ago
By the treaty at St Mary's the fmlinux were obliged to leave their ancient hunting grounds within three years. The Indians in Fleury counts, whose primipal village was about two nules northwest of A w t'astie, were of the Delaware tribe, and had never been mimerons as it Delaware anna Madison mounto - where there were este move villages along White River The eathost settlers load found the in pe meuble and well disposed. The parents year nul witnessed the meshing up of tiwin villages on White Hover, and in September the last of the Indus touch their departure on their new nomes Imyond the Miss wippt, many of Them going along the trails to Von eines, transporting their gaards au quick horses, while others went is noes down the river. The remuant of dahan- yet within Henry county jornal their brethren in this exodus. There was a feeling of security in the new community, and the mubalatants metering pearls pursued with goal the avecations of visthat life, and hore umont- planningly the toils and privations inveulent to their int.
F. L. (ottoti, Co Sapt Schods
This, N. White, Representative ( . 4. Heruly. Clerk Nathan Nichtol -ott, Commissionet
H. B. Bock. Recorder
D. W. saint, Assessor
Richmond Wehart, Auditor
Ell Brook shire, Commissioner
Juha Whitworth, Commissininer
O. E. Mine Inger. Surveyor
Dan Harvey, Supt Intrmirv
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FIRST TERMS OF COURT IN FIRST GRAND JURy In PAREnIST PROVE BUSINESS PROVIDINGS OF THE CHERIS THE FIRST PARTNERS NOW COURT HOUSE AND IWILL
prestders asmente alg s Plery ear ' ag dle new thinty pe suleid thal con i s idthi be le ed the dee a she ph the sh The first court eomened hes m Sogents r. ied, and adjourned to theet on Monday, September at. it the house of thel s donison, who was the earliest invern-keeter in the new county seat The associate judges ttuss presetteed their onanissits signed at Viaye ar Is auth m dcann_ -. governor, nut ctors | sth thein ad s of olae. munding the with against duetling fle : cord of the cost r call preserved, and the first recont entry of its prov edings Bastill ofs w Ast nes at thisdes dess H Hinles. Bag. Short of Hours county, returned tate Court the Wret of Venice thomas, he retefor ssmed out of this Court, with the follow mz yanel to serve as Grand furor- the present Term, feesit Danel Henton, whom the Court ajquants as Faremin. L sophi Watts, Ezekiel Leavell. Alkalom Harvey. William Bell, David Bailey, John Baker. her tos, Simul Dill. John Dasherty J ah Pal aest, Calend Parsons. Willion Rolen, Ornfrey Reese. Dant Thon geon gul atal lowtul tion and lhouseholders of the County of Hetay, who faing swotn, and by the Court charged retired to their Room to de Jagatt The next ontis of record shows that . Lost Bloomfield, having produce of his her me tran Mil - " Egghsion and Day Figd, two of te cnett aders of the state. 17 admitted to practive as ch amornes and conteellor at law " On the same Any this gentleman was apt ated Prsentinz Attorney The fladi entry of the court's proceeding pattes that "Jums Volite. Jones Karsten. Abraham Elliott and L.mes Gorbuore, Home -. are alnitted to pirachee As attorneys atal conne ller- ant iaw during the present term of this court and took the necessary maths" The first two were got parents of the counts. while Abraham Linott wos acitizen of A.w Castle and James Cumulent Wayne township Ie is an ilustrations of the home - that James Ned to, then a seunter of tha Imtel Sedes should Gain toen his lom in thinkan county. a distance of ne ils one hindinel nubes, along the desinus Indian trails, to attend a court Just me but two des- But it was ley with means that men in early time - won the appreciation of their follow citizens and achieved renown. Fifte en voits later. d. mes Parolea was a Re presentative in Congress fo on the distant of who & Henry county when part Is only other proce ings of the first diy . store l ot inourd was a inigment whereim Andres Smstem "is fimol ly the roart ta dollars tor -wearing two profane mitis m tte - senee of the court and the clerk is ordered to inshe an execution for the same "
On the second das of the term a seal, which have ationen to have the seat of the court for nearly threequarters of a century, was avolte Why the circuit court, in an order providing "red de pe aument d for Henry County shall be engraved 'n brass with a vignette of an eagle mal -har- equal to the number of states in the Union, the surface of the seul t . he abont the size of a doftar. and around the margin of the seal the words Henry Ciremit Court, Ir han " The grand jury returmel for inhetments, all of which were for ass mit and battery The asamate podzes alhoved themselves four dollars rech, and the Pense aring Attorney five dollars. and the court mljourin d on Pnesday evene outl court imironse The distinguished sonntag no future roger - at dive required to their distant homes, or continued their money to other countries withon the mirent. while the grand jurers witnesses and others tu nitemlane returned to their several homes And thus began and omlet the first term of the Henry Ciremit Court
The associate judge - of the argonit won't in addition to their restde. tion tn civil and trim ood cames. asa tal pireduction of the est ans of de adents and of persons ander gman agan 'st nofwalist.and in_ tte fort that the coal and erinmail hasmess of ites ly counts was not great and the judicial babors Jud hardenan , far las t ovided that tle piedate history of the countres s could be stooss of atother tions if the regular tonnes of the content The proxyog & the won't to all primte multers rep rot . l in sep raw a zd and fus tus' ats
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Ple nest terum of the cirant court beyan of lle Mammom Tocom New fetle, Msh 1. 12. The _vimd junas ba the brawo Wdivan Mi kimmnn s. for ners, Sdamom Barkett. Mat t am. he ads IPustt Motors l'un h. Good Hood s Datedhaim J.dak Not Abullat'S ! Meeting. William Monts, Phomas Rin mol Asahel Woods and The woord shows that the grand pay "having taken the necessary withs. Jos rebred with a sgen athet toensest of their indu the ris imad present mont-" The first intal In piry in the rirent count was at this form Solomon turkett. n member of the grand my had been nottost at the tuesious term far assanh out laltay, and was Joew tnol ly w ppury of the county compse boof Withan Shannan. Nathan featson Junes Roall Samal Batson, Chestaples Bounds. Minor Fin. Sarah Riches, Hugh MeDantel. William Ross. John Blank, sheath (Jason and Lanh White s love returned a souchet of regnettal. The the same day John Anderson. no ahen and afterwarids an asamate judze of the counts, appened mart mul remonnerd his allegune to - Grange the Fourth. King of lagland and Feeland " The first end ense m the cremt court w is sh arthch entitled Call ( moins & Japon F Sudis fr. In this cause a rule was entered against the defendant in file Ins plen within itnety days. Thus early the laws shlas whe qquent. Seven inthetiments wle returund. one of which was aganist Charles Jamin. at wlhene tavern the court mer, for selling spiroues loquees without hoens, while Alan Shore herd mal Elihn Shortridge, members of the Boarded Comme-summers, wer each inflicted for extortion These indictments were evidently for albert. in some questionable fee, and wort tiever alferwards proseented. The court mdjourned atter berg li sesston three days.
The comt met in April. ISEt, to hear and dispose of probate matters. The following entry made at this term appwurs of record: "James John- sm, admim-fi ator of all amed smeminar, the goals and s thattels ershts al effeets of Evel Hank n. dis cused, now fprialued in court an inventory atsl aquasement of the go ds and doto t- of the saul tured, anus ding m first appointment of a gmp an m the consts wis mole pt tles form the reronel lagny as follows . Fat Harder i oppointed guarni for Fram Anden and hns Hidden. orphan boys, winso the age of fourteen veirs, of Ewel Hardten, HorrorA su arm E the wiregite mirt was also belbl in April and the next ingnlhr ferm from Angast Il 19gh The members of the grand pary for this fern were Jolie borech forman. Levi Butler, Ebenezer Holde Thomas Leonard. Thomas Watkins, Lda Blant, George Holman James Mchommes. Robert Smith, Men Hiant Jesse Cox. John Marshall Not an tosis and Josh More Chanies fest mul Martin M Bay. look of whom thewords attuned distinction on the - n very percephbk merense in the Imsitu ss oof the court
of the county was Mewhly inherening Setth iments, i missed ot ion yrAnts from the older states with an wensed person of foreign larth. were farming in every part of the Pennts. yet the jojmilation wis s!urp and the net_ laalmanls geperally remote from each other At the August terim Hingh Carroll renneed s ilk amee to "George y. King of Grent Britain and Ireland The grant ort renan on imanerons indut. ments, two of which were for fo longes, conre bung tor rollers and the ather for jerjury A frontier pqmifios is rotely entire ty tree from jerons of criminal temlongues, yet Henry county from its em best settlement to the present time has been thankuly fo mom lisissuess (On Ofour li tu re was a special session of the prohate court when "the fet ium ujul- five will and te stament of Dugel J'ck-on was how geoduced in court ant lars, witnesses the roto, and ordered to de teres led avat the widow .ne thet oof Donot darksong comes toofast. to modemmister on ntof estate
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lulug ' vrt nuter ol . 1 .. the palais I ta. the saathar business ot the vomity w . impedly ne reast 2. and the povod of this 1 rm time to (3. 1 th V. wirf = = 12 hul bert Inst t . George Barnatt int at this term an apler fus >25 for the of this important sten fire. A . p. construction of the Dancing wiestelt . Benen Cadwallader. The jul was not treenel, but long bu . according to street but ou a alber- Pa.n Nwt ste Mach tor 's buhlna; of the san jail A seulement was made with Lesml be well agent of the county, and it was shown that the proceeds of the
Elle. it was appointed supervise of the streets of New Casti, and the
el vang of t's table _ ounds in tal town ' It was made of that " the Nechal supervisors beatetare appointed wall base power trenton al hands Lestiling nearest their respe se wants to open and keep them in
The new nurt have where the circuit court hul met in the city part of April and the B cl of C man -t acts m the bilans ihnes ist Mas. There was no chan- this to the hni. l.n. nrdeki libr fort . cant.
me January presolana wondering the one ofr man-stoner, and making the postche dar . vier wald. Bari. . Com -marr With the rhin. ot the August term of tas von. Cishi Stafridge and Wolinm She a lud down the ras of an ... after the pinsieties of the nsnd bu- of requinting real where for vawere found what is. Before their head a bantam at Lokal La d. we by virtue of moti .. as zent of the wanty dere'sel to find out of a e minist vier of pride
langes and two firepla - w. ved red this Is , "the for plan de the lower story to be at least tirer 6 Cin wiltu at the Qua. tha graphie . i
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THE First CHROIDES EVEN WHENIs THE STONE CARE HOSI ANIE VE THE FIRST NEWSPAPERS IN
POLITICAL PARTIES AND ITTIR LAANDERS
+ T was in im gart at wat when on Septs mer 6 121 the m wfy choofood The Baal wis eomyread of danes doitsion, whe was cketed taess. dent. Wiltimum Sh Chon, Jian- i'mors, Saniel Bilson Sammatel Louthan, Robert Thompson, Firms Wadkins and Mushm th non acted no further hasta> > and adjourned natal November The ein mit court bow convendi twire a year. in AMoraland th todet, but muquorum of judes appearing in toet der the smart ah aresl umld e ant im course, At the April term. 15-5. a law prouding phlee m the per-on oof Betlhn l F. Moons took the beach. The early im defints were quink to tesent imjuries. real or fatutual, amt the reend of this form shews innerons udietments for affrivs and for assault ami buttery Abraham Echott. who already hell the p otion of shjervisor of the sitets of Now Casth , Was Appointed Master in Chancerv. The term lasted three days and each dav's pricrilities were st_ mad ly the new jnika
The county was now divided into five civil township. It hand a court bonne jail and stray pron Its marts were regularis organized and it hal its full umplement oof ofia Justes of the ir four. wistabhs and overeers of the poor witr cleetesd of ampointool in every townslip. Road supervisors and fore viewere heal verttheates of their ap; ointment. Immigrants amred authenty andits html- win living gradually taken up Two villages. New C'esth and West Lite ris, had started on an + qual race John Quan's Adams was Frombest of the L'inter States The county. for legislativ@ purposes. was part of thispintorial distru tromp ~ of Rosh. H. ury. Maria, Mandami Sop Thy. Destur and Johnsen vamties, and for the election of a repres stative formed part of a distant composant of Rush. Heury. Dieter and Shelly Kunath - Jun - dirigiry was the first relator and Wasan Hendricks afterwards governed, the first repre- seutative. The Imdina foss lte er . semited the populift a of the sonnty. in 1625, at twenty-five hundred. At the elverum for governor and other officers. held this year, the total votes cast in the county was at The political affiliations of the earliest cofre of the county were largrey with the Whis party. aml . t the list gubernat r.l . lection after the organiza- tion of the county, June- B Rus. Whiz received 30 votes, and John Blackford. Deimerin i: The best eleet on for gmentor way i 152. when in a total vite of St Riy, the Whh_ cundad ow erskol kother. Conly, the Demarita canlibre Bis, and Moore, a third party cundalate. 7. This disparity in the vote of the political parties was not, looseser. lobe maintimel
The early settlers land a due veneration for the subject of religion. but there were amu ing them as im every tr atur population, s ane tersions whhAr lives wall not have fore the el sest ferntiny Prof itnity wis not uncommon. and ereof anenz the timkers the use of intervienting Injuors well-ungh nniversal. yot a inch roganl fon tooth mul trist norons of honor in bostury transacttoh prevailsl; the hleh sting was alhy iys ont, aol the laws of hospitality nibest -sepaly addressed And while courts were being organized. pubhe buil-lings are tod and the civil government of the e auty established. the fouling of hope bes med school was not overbooked The errait-rider and premher- of diferent don omhatems hod rome into the county almost us eriy a- 19e first milmilnit ents ail in the stillurss of the Sabbaths relygous s rvre sere colplueted im the ne msting home - and al many humble homes. The Quakers from Candina, « king a land of freedom. the Methodists Fer menter- in the empire of the funis, the Bagpists, wit! th in stf d g futh anl se cre ples of noahty, and the (ierman Bjdst- or Duns oods, im pliness of dress and spach and mh thor temperate lives fort n t mir tadbri nighbors, were earliest among the Christin Fanofns . d, as the e uats.
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enelk as 1527 or si's but the Spe clausl metide wis not or_ mizisl until lay In Min. 125 the L. bon Bapist church in Priorn towis psis its inust zealous and aidle ygoachers In Isst idos church ors to d its ust house of warhp Elder Fajah Martialde of the Unishan thinh. preached at the home of Mis Bn k memdenot the Clhist anchain h. living frequently of Baptists and members of that branch of the thrisim . huich sometimes ersmu only called New Lights, who came to hor hm prer h A Baptist church wasestablished at Knight-town is THIS IS DES Ile records of the recorder's office contant the cor end of the chation of trust .... for the Church of Christ a Symon s C's k. hell on September Lt, s_'s This report shows that William Hendricks, Joseph ( Comp rand Abyjah Hammer were elisen hasters In sid or 15.2 a separation in ilh Friends meeting at Greensboro took place the followers of the destrine. uf Elims Hicks witlalimwing from the estabhshd meeting isearly no 132 the Prishyterians org anizad n chmech at West Lalerty, which was woon afterward- removed to Kightstown
New Castle and West Liberty were the principal villages to the county, yet Kightstown was platted as early as DET by Waited MI Ciny Oglen, originally called Mallietown, be Hiram Crom, i .E. b ... Town, in 1929 big boobs Koontz, al Louisville, by Low Frezian sen James B Harris, in Devember of the smoosear There was aise a little cluster of rainus an Duck Creek. where Queensbarn was afterwards Und at. as early as 1824. Those village - were mere hamb to where the carly .etal- rended, yet New Castle, by reason of to bring the county spat, was a pha. I considerable importante. For there years the Board of Instresuineteller uslimnistrative att ir- of the rosty. when the bregtslature rest reg the Board of Commissaqu is im Angust. l 5 bunes Fort. El-in Sbotto loml Ahmaham Henton were the members of the new Board, and this appa fr it body of offers has ever sier been mamtuned Tww seat. lite - ty legislature create the other . f probate judge, with exclusive jurisdaten of the probate affairs of the county, and in 12 desse H Headey wie wi the hot sheritf. was elected to this new judicial position, asduties .of which hail heretofore breu performul by the assorintr judges at the cureint court.
The census of Is30th and the population of the rounds to be 6 8' The valuation of the seal and pers al property of tfe county hood 2 .. it's thereiserd The big cwart house hool become tousam dt for the transaction of the business oof the carount and commisstoarts' e arts and all snpoorfood the dignity of the growing county The B and of Commiss aufs if f maing the puldir goed, in the latter part of It & the timesary sto pe for the erection of a new court house to be built of back, ated awarded the contract to Nithun U'r wford for $1.315 Th. contriet provided that the interior work should Ir rompetol on or before dopunry 1. Psal mal the entire bmbhng hetor Johuary 1. thisis The heading why de signed by Robert Murphy amd was forte fort square and two stories high, and sur- mainted by a cupola, tagad in form, re fondanter mel twenty tand high. "The building - tool a little apt od where the present colla bottse shuls The cutranee was on the wist sale, through large fiddenz door The bawag stary vont oned the count rowen, and look ret war th entrance was the girl's stand. much elevated above the Power while a partition of binster- separ'ed the har frien the start ters. for siem hencies ising me ab se atther wi re proud d The Emping emis id to have Toph en efedl according to the spate nous, for the amount paid for its monstration was yhod fo sfat) Tifyut ing commmmd n
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HISTORY OF HENRY COUNTY
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