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John Allen.
James Fresh.
William McElwee. James Rankin.
James L. Allen.
Daniel Griffith.
Samuel Allen.
James Griffith. Matthew M. Runkle.
Hugh M. Anderson.
William H. Holmes.
Merritt Shipp.
Jabez Barnes.
Lloyd W. Knott.
Oliver Sebree.
John Barr. Hamilton H. Lowen.
George Sebre.
Claiborne Chandler.
Preston Mullins.
William Thompson.
Absalom R. Downing.
Samuel Manning.
John Watts.
William Downing.
Osborn McCracken.
Hiram Williams.
The judges of this election were Osborn McCracken, James Fresh and James Griffith; the clerks, William H. Holmes and Matthew M. Runkle. [For particulars of the election see Lewis County. ] Samuel Allen and L. W. Knott were elected justices of the peace, and James Allen constable, for Allen Township.
At a special election, held at the store of R. Cochran & Co., at Newark, in August, 1837, to choose an assessor for Lewis County, only twenty votes were cast ( all for R. G. Fresh), but among the voters were the following, whose names do not appear on the poll books for 1836:
William Armstrong. B. L. Hayth.
Clinton F. Northcraft.
A. Bulkley. D. B. Hughes.
William Snell.
R. H. Cochran,
William M. Kaylor. C. L. Summers.
R. G. Fresh. German L. C. Kaylor. H. B. Thomas.
William Glover.
The judges were William Glover, Jabez Barnes, James Griffith; the clerks, D. C. Hankins and William H. Fresh. The clerks did not vote.
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October 28, 1839, at a special election at Newark, to choose a member of Congress to fill vacancy caused by the death of A. G. Harrison, the vote in Allen Township resulted as follows: John G. Jameson, Democrat, 21; Thornton Grimsley, Whig, 24.
October 28, 1839, a special election was held in Missouri to choose a member of Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Albert G. Harrison, of Callaway. The election for Allen Township was held in or near Newark, at the house of William H. Fresh. The judges were William Holmes, William Kendrick, George Seeber and the clerks, William P. Glover and Joel McCafferty. The vote resulted: For Thornton Grimsley, of St. Louis, Whig, twenty-four; for John G. Jamison, of Callaway, Democrat, twenty-one. Following is a list of the voters, of whom not more than six lived outside of the present boundaries of Knox County :
Kemp P. Anderson
Daniel Griffith.
William Northcraft.
B. F. Robb.
Philip C. Sublett.
Jabez Barnes.
William H. Holmes.
William Snell.
John Barr.
Benjamin Jones.
John Smith.
George Brown.
John Kaylor.
Jackson Smallwood.
John D. Clagett.
William Kendrick.
Robert Sharkley.
John M. Cooper.
William M. Kaylor.
George Seeber.
Jesse Cox.
Lloyd W. Knott.
H. N. Teacle.
Absalom R. Downing.
D. A. Million.
Harvey B. Thomas.
George T. Dunn.
Cornelius Malone.
Josephus Terrill.
James Edmonson.
William Malone.
Tilman Todd.
John Eve.
Samuel Manning.
James W. West.
John Glover.
Joel McCafferty.
John Watts.
William P. Glover.
James F. Northcraft.
Perry Watters.
The first election in Central Township, Lewis County, was held at the schoolhouse, in Edina, on the first Monday in August, 1840, and was for governor, two congressmen, State senator, , representative, sheriff, coroner, assessor, three justices of the peace and one constable. The result in the township was as fol- lows, Democratic candidates first named:
Congressmen-John Miller and John C. Edwards, 31; Will- iam Samuel and George C. Sibley, 16.
Governor-Thomas Reynolds, 31; John B. Clark, 16.
Lieutenant-governor-M. M. Marmaduke, 33; Joseph Bogy, 14. State senator-William McDaniel, 25; John Glover, 23.
Robert H. Anderson.
D. B. Hughes.
John Allen.
George Haines.
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Representative-A. Reese, 35; William Ellis, 14.
There was practically no opposition to the other Democratic candidates. The justices of the peace elected were Messrs. Tay- lor, Smith and Jesse Johns; constable, - Taylor. The judges of the election were Martin Baker, Valentine Kenoyer, David Smallwood; clerks, Martin Baker, Jr., and William Miller. The voters were :
Robert O. Allen.
Joseph Dobson.
Benjamin F. Robb.
James Adams.
John Glover.
James A. Reed.
John Allred.
John Haines.
George Snell.
Willis Baker.
George Haines, Sr.
William Snell.
Joshua W. Baker.
George Haines, Jr.
Reuben E. Smith.
James W. Baker.
Simpson Haines.
John L. Smith.
Martin Baker, Sr.
Henry Haines.
William J. Smallwood.
Martin Baker, Jr.
George Hollinsworth.
David Smallwood.
John Black.
Jesse Johns.
Joseph Stanfield.
Edward Bryant.
John Kiggins.
Andrew Shannon.
Henry Callaway.
Thomas Kiggins.
Jacob Shufflett.
Richard V. Cook.
Valentine Kenoyer.
Thomas Taylor.
Andrew Chilson.
William Muns.
Alexander Taylor.
James Davis.
Rice McFadden.
George Taylor.
Andrew Davis.
. Charles A. Newland.
Horatio M. Teacle.
William L. Davis.
David Davis.
Dixon Oliver. Nathan Roseberry.
David Williams .- 50.
The first election held in Knox County after its organization was a special election held for the purpose of electing delegates to the constitutional convention of November, 1845. The election was held June 30, 1845, in Fabius Township; the polls were opened at the house of William M. King and Allen W. Hawkins; Michael Hickman and John Fulton were the judges. In Salt River the house "formerly occupied by John Lewis Faber" was selected as the voting place, and Thomas E. Jamison, William Saling and Medley Shelton were the judges. In Benton the votes were cast at the house of Preston Parent, the judges being Hugh Henry, Redding Roberts and John L. Dunn. In Centre the voting was at the schoolhouse in Edina, and William Miller, Martin Baker, Jr., and John L. Smith were the judges. The delegates chosen at this election from this district were James S. Green and James L. Jones.
The general election, held the first Monday in August, 1846, was the next in order. The voting places in Fabius, Center and Salt River Townships, were the same as at the election the pre-
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ceding year. In Fabius the judges were George G. Hawkins, Willis Anderson and David Nelson; in Salt River, Andrew Fisher, Sr., Thomas Garrison and Joseph Morris; in Centre, Edwin A. Bryant, Lewis Fox and John L. Smith. In Benton Township, the polls were opened at the schoolhouse in Milford, and Richard Von Carnip, Harvey H. Beach and Thomas J. Conduit were the judges.
At the congressional election, held October 31, 1846, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Sterling Price, the result was as follows: For William McDaniel (Democrat), 62 votes; for William M. Kincaid (Whig), 72 votes.
The presidential election of 1848 was held in Fabius Town- ship, at the house of Isaac B. Thompkins; the judges were Will- iam B. Moore, John Fulton and Clement Todd. In Center Town- ship at the schoolhouse in Edina, William Miller, Martin Baker and Peter Earley were the judges. In Benton Township, at the schoolhouse in Milford, William Salee, William P. Douglas and Harvey Beach were the judges. In Salt River the election was held at the house of William Pope; the judges were Thomas Garrison, William Pope and William Saling. The vote stood: Cass and Butler, 197; Taylor and Fillmore, 196; Democratic majority 1.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS.
It has come to be pretty generally accepted as a fact that the first actual settler in Knox County was Stephen Cooper, who is reported in the atlas map sketch and in Campbell's gazetteer to have located in the northern or northeastern part of the county in the fall of 1832, and built a cabin a mile and a half north- east of Millport. A thorough investigation of the subject dem- onstrates the incorrectness of this assertion. Stephen Cooper settled in Lewis County, a mile west of La Grange, in 1829. Here he resided until in the fall of 1833, when he sold his land to Judge William Hagood, who still lives on the tract, and who states that Cooper did not leave Lewis County for some months after he had sold out.
Cooper did not come to what is now Knox County until some- time in the fall of 1833. He located in the northeastern part of this, or the southeastern part of Scotland County, and was the
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founder of what came to be known as Cooper's settlement, which included lands in both counties. In March, 1834, he was joined by James and Willis Hicks, who located in what is now Scotland. Willis Hicks states that Cooper and John B. Cannon came to Knox County in the fall of 1833, and that Cannon set- tled in the northeastern corner of Benton Township (southwest quarter of Section 1, Township 63, Range 11), on what is now known as the Elijah Longfellow place, and that Cooper's location was on a tract adjoining. In a few years, say in about 1839, , Cooper and Redding Roberts began the erection of a mill at Mill- port which was completed the same year.
Stephen Cooper was probably a native of Kentucky. He was a son of Capt. Sarshel Cooper, who, with Col. Benjamin Cooper and others, came to Howard County, Mo., prior to the war of 1812, and was killed in 1815 by the Indians. Stephen Cooper was unrelenting in his hatred of the redskins. He assisted in running the Iowa boundary line, and while engaged on the Des Moines River he met some Sac Indians whom he had fought in Howard County during the war. Cooper and the Indians were crossing the river in a canoe, and Cooper related an incident of the war on the Missouri River in which he had figured as the slayer of an Indian brave. When he informed the savages that he had shot the warrior, and had explained the circumstances, they jumped out of the canoe into the water and waded ashore, with many " ughs " and "wahs " and other ejacu- lations of surprise and alarm. They had been in the fight and had witnessed the shooting described by Cooper. A careful examination of the records shows that Cooper never entered any land in Knox County. He lived in the vicinity of Millport for ten years or more, and finally removed to California, where he was living a few years since. It is said that during the civil war he held an office under the Government. Neither John B. Cannon nor Redding Roberts entered land in this county prior to 1840, although both lived here at different periods. Roberts was a bachelor, and brought to the county with him about $4,000 in gold. He lost the greater portion of this amount in mill- building and other investments. He married a Miss Tate, a sis- ter of Chilton Tate, the old sheriff of Lewis County, and died by suicide in this county a few years since.
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Perhaps the first bona fide settler in the territory now in- cluded within the metes and bounds of Knox County was James Fresh. It is quite certain that he entered land a mile west of Newark (Section 22, Township 60, Range 10) in October, 1833, and that a few days later he took up other lands in the same neigh- borhood. It is reported by certain old settlers that Fresh began the improvement of his first claim even before he had entered it. He had come from Maryland to Missouri, and made a temporary location in Marion County until he could secure for himself a per- manent home to his liking. Having made his selection on the land before described in the fall of 1833, he set his sons and some negroes at work upon it, clearing and building a cabin, and returned to Marion for his family, and to make his entry. It is claimed that he did not bring his family here until in the spring of 1834, and this is quite probable.
The records of Lewis County show that in June, 1834, James Fresh had begun the erection of a mill on the South Fabius (northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 22, Town- ship 60, Range 10), a mile west of Newark, and it appears that this mill was completed during the same summer. Old settlers state that Fresh's mill was first built upon the north bank of the stream, but that the dam failed to furnish suf- ficient power or "head " of water, and that Mr. Fresh was compelled to dig a "race " and to remove the mill down the stream a quarter of a mile or more. The institution was never very successful, and in time was abandoned, but subse- quently revived by other parties. A distillery was established subsequently, and operated for some years.
The facts that Mr. Fresh entered his land in the fall of 1833, that he built a mill in the early spring of 1834, and that the exact date of the location of Stephen Cooper can not be determined, indicate, if they do not prove, that Fresh's set- tlement in the county antedated Cooper's. It may be that the two pioneers came about the same time, each in the fall of 1833, but it is proper to call attention to the recorded facts. John Watts and Robert A. Davis entered their lands (on Section 24, Township 60, Range 10) a mile northeast of Newark, in October, 1833, but it can not be stated here when
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their settlements were made. It would seem that there were a number of settlers in the southeastern part of the county in the spring of 1834, else the enterprise exhibited in the erec- tion of a mill in the wilderness can not be commended.
In 1834 a few families came to Cooper's settlement. Joseph and Josiah McReynolds settled in the southeast corner of Colony Township. Perhaps other settlers came the same year, but their names can not be given with precision.
In the spring of 1835 Isaac F. Randolph, a wealthy Mary- , lander (a former Louisiana planter ), and his son, Thomas, located in the northwestern part of what is now Fabius Township (Sec- tion 6), five miles north west of Newark, and opened farms on the east side of the Fabius. With Thomas Randolph came his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ann M. Anderson. Mr. Randolph, Sr., and Mrs. Anderson brought to the country a number of slaves. The former built a story-and-a-half cabin near a large spring, which is still flowing; and his son's cabin and claim were nearly half a mile farther up the creek, the cabin a few hundred yards from the stream, and his claim running back into the prairie. The Randolphs made some improvements, and raised a crop, but the following year Hon. William Blakey, a speculator and a noted Democratic politician at Palmyra, quietly entered their lands, and inforned them that unless they paid him $5 per acre for their claims he would evict them. Disgusted with a country which tolerated such underhand proceedings, and the presence of land- sharks, the senior Randolph left the State, taking his slaves with him, and his son retired to Marion County.
Mr. Thomas Randolph and his good wife, Elizabeth, who now reside in Edina, state that when they came to Knox County their cabin was the farthest west or northwest of which they have any recollection, except that there was a solitary settler somewhere in what is now Bee Ridge Township. The Freshes, Osburn McCracken and a few others, were in the vicinity of Newark. Also, in the year 1835, Thomas Price, Abner Johnson, Reuben Cornelius, Thomas McMurray, John Vannoy, Hugh Henry, Richard Von Carnip and one or two others, made locations in Colony Townhsip. The Youngs came to the northern part, and George Hawkins to the southern part of Jeddo. Robert Mc-
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Reynolds located either this year or in 1834, in the northeast corner of Myrtle. Of Richard Von Carnip, it may be said, that he was the first German resident of Knox County. He was a Prussian by nativity, and it is said that he was a member of a noble family. He came to Missouri a few years after the admis- sion of the State into the Union. In 1826 he was a resident of Marion County, and wrote his name Richard De Carnip.
In 1836 scores of families came in, locating chiefly in Fabius, Jeddo, Myrtle and Colony. In 1837 there were many more. In 1838 they came in hundreds, filling up Bee Ridge, Bourbon, the country west of Edina, the eastern portion of Shelton, and fairly swarming down into Salt River. A considerable colony of Nor- wegians came into Salt River this year.
In the winter of 1838 the Baker brothers, James W. and Joshua W., and their father, Martin Baker, Sr., came up from Lewis County, took up claims, and built cabins on Rock Creek, a mile and a half west of Edina, then returned and brought back their families. The following year Martin Baker, Jr., came up. Mr. Joshua Baker states that when he and his father and brother first came, Nathan Roseberry and James Williams were living farther up on Rock Creek, and had made considereble improve- ment. George Haines, Sr., was a mile north of Edina, and his son-in-law, George Hollingsworth, lived near him; both had been in the country a year or more. Andrew Davis and David Small- wood, Sr., were four miles east of Edina, on the head of Trou- blesome Creek. John Black came about 1838 to three miles northwest of Edina. George Taylor, Sr., located in 1837 on Taylor's branch, now called "Democrat" branch, northwest of the Baker cabins; and Rice McFaden had a claim near Blacks, which he sold, and went to the eastern part of the county.
The land in the Rock Creek settlement, west of Edina, was not open to Government entry, until 1840, but the settlers had an entry system of their own. They formed an association, with a written constitution and by-laws, and with a record book. Every settler had the metes and bounds of his claim duly recorded in the record book, of which John Black was the custodian. The claimants or "squatters " were pledged to protect one another in the enjoyment and occupation of their lands until the same
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should come regularly into the market, when they were to be entered according to law. It would have gone hard with the speculator or "land-shark" who should have attempted to "jump " a single claim had he come upon the premises. No instance is remembered of a single attempt at claim-jumping, or trespassing in this quarter. The "tomahawk claims," as they were so called sometimes, from the fact that their boundaries were often blazed on the trees with axes or tomahawks, were considered as valid as any other claims.
In the year 1840 the population of what is now Knox County was perhaps 1,500 or 1,800. The exact figures can not now be determined, since the territory was then included in Lewis, and its census included in that county. It is quite certain that by this time nearly every quarter of the present county had been ex- plored, and that the squatters' and settlers' cabins were in all parts, except in the middle of the wide prairies. Newark and Edina had been laid out, Cooper & Roberts' mill, at Millport, and Fresh's, near Newark, were in operation, and one or two dis- tilleries were running. Roads had been laid out between the important points, and the foundations for a thorough civilization were fairly laid.
Succeeding the year 1840, came the Irish settlement, which is described elsewhere. Clearings were now made in the tim- bered regions of Greensburg, Bee Ridge and Bourbon, and farms were opened in the prairies. Year by year additions were made to the population, and by the year 1845 the county had advanced to the extent that its complete organization was warranted.
The first settlers in the county came originally from Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, and from other counties in Missouri. Some of the best families were from Maryland. There were, however, a few representatives from each of the States of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The few Norwegians on the headwaters of Black Creek, the German, Von Carnip, and the progenitors of the Irish colony comprised the foreign pioneers.
FIRST LAND ENTRIES BY ACTUAL SETTLERS.
The land office for the district in which the first settlers of Knox County made their locations was at Palmyra. In the
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southern and eastern portions the land came into market in 1830. Subjoined is an abstract of the land entries, made prior to the year 1840, in what is now Knox County, by those who were at the time or soon afterward became actual residents and citizens. Speculators and non-residents' entries have been omitted. In nearly every instance the actual settlement was made within a month or so of the date of the entry, and on the tract described. . In a few cases, however, the settlers were on the lands a year or more before entering, and in a very few others they entered their lands first, and settled on them afterward. Only the first entries made by the parties are given, for here were their first homes; many of them made subsequent entries in various por- tions of the county, which have not been taken into account.
In Congressional Township 60, Range 10, now Fabins Township.
John Glover, n } and se ¿ sec. 1, November 23, 1835. Hervey B. Thomas, sw ¿ sec. 1, December 17, 1835. James Cochran, ne ¿ sec. 2, September 4, 1835. William H. Holmes, se ¿ sec. 3, December 12, 1835. Mark McCracken, w } sw ¿ sec. 3, November 4, 1839. James W. Barr, sw ¿ sec. 4, and s ¿ sec. 5, April 2, 1836. William T. Barr, w } nw } sec. 4, July 1, 1833. John Barr, w & lot 1 ne ¿ sec. 5, July 1, 1836. Gurden Bulkley, e ¿ se + sec. 6, September 12, 1836. Aristarchus Bulkley, w ¿ se ¿ sec. 6, September 12, 1836. John Zee Towson, se ł se ¿ sec. 8, April 26, 1836. George S. Smith, w & se ¿ sec. 9, July 14, 1836. Henry T. Mason, w ¿ nw ¿ sec. 10, September 23, 1839.
Perry Waters, swą nw ¿ sec. 11, August 1, 1838. Samuel C. Sloan, e { se } and e { ne ¿ sec. 12, July 29, 1835. Osburn McCracken, w } se ¿ and et sw ≥ sec. 14, December 7, 1835.
William Armstrong, sw ¿ nw ¿ sec. 14, March 7, 1836. Sidney P. Haines, e ¿ se }, etc. sec. 14, April 7, 1836. Mark Phillips, se & ne ¿ sec. 15, August 24, 1836. Edward M. Legrand, e } se ¿ sec. 17, April 19, 1837. Francis Lowen, se ± sec. 19, August 1, 1835.
Elijah Anderson, w ¿ sec. 19, December 21, 1835. Isaac B. Tompkins, e } nw ¿ sec. 21, March 25, 1839. Robert Nelson, e ¿ se ¿ sec. 21, April 24, 1839.
Benjamin H. Taylor, w ± ne ¿ sec. 22, October 20, 1837. David Nelson, e { se ¿ and ne { nw ¿ sec. 22, April 24, 1839. .James Fresh, e { ne } sec. 22, October 30, 1833.
James Fresh, nw } and w } ne + sec 23, November, 1833. Samuel Manning, s ¿ se ¿ sec. 23 and ne ¿ sec. 26, May 15, 1834. William Lamine, ne ¿ se ł sec. 23, November 19, 1835.
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Robert A. Davis, w } ne { and nw ¿ se 2 sec. 24, October, 1833.
John Watts, nw ¿ sec. 24, October, 1833.
Jeremiah Moore, ne ¿ se ¿ sec. 24, November 26, 1835. James Griffith, ne ¿ sw ≥ and sw ¿ se } sec. 24, January 9, 1836. Robert G. Fresh, e { ne ¿ sec. 24 and e { ne } sec. 25, Nov. 4, 1833. William Fresh, e { se } sec. 25, November 2, 1835.
Daniel Griffith, ne ¿ nw ¿ sec. 25, January 9, 1836.
Robert Slaughter, se { nw } and e { sw } sec. 25, and nw } sec. 36, May 2. 1836.
Mason Hamilton, w ¿ se ¿ and w } ne } sec. 25, October 4, 1839.
John Dye and James A. Felps, n } nw } and w } sw ≥ sec. 26, January 8, 1836.
Benjamin L. Hayth, w ¿ se { and e } sw } sec. 26, April 11, 1837.
Alexander L. Leflet, nw ¿ sec 27, December 11, 1835.
Petroville Hardesty, ne ¿ ne } sec. 28, January 26, 1836.
Harrison Parks, e ± sw ¿ sec. 29, April 5, 1839.
Robert Hamilton, w & sw } sec. 29, July 17, 1839.
Richard N. Hansbrough, nw ¿ se } sec. 30, December 21, 1835.
Martin L. Eads, e ¿ se ¿ sec. 30, November 25, 1839. Enoch Johnson, w { sec. 31, May 18, 1837.
James H. Toadvine, w } se } sec. 30, and w } ne } sec. 31, September 28, 1839 .. Samuel G. Holmes, e { se } sec. 31. October 29, 1839. Andrew V. Holmes, sw ± sec. 32, September 28, 1839. Mary Ann Day, w } ne 4 sec. 32, December 23, 1839.
Tilman Felps, e { ne } sec. 34, February 3, 1836. '
Stephen Dodd, sw } sec. 34, June 1, 1836.
William Kaylor, w ¿ ne } sec. 35, October 19, 1839.
William Dines, se ¿ sec. 35, October 4, 1839.
In Congressional Township 61, Range 10, now Jeddo Town- ship:
John R. Young, se { and e { ne } sec. 1, December 29, 1835. James C. Young, ne } sec. 2, December 29, 1835. Obadiah Meeker, s } sec. 2 and s } sec. 4, April 19, 1836.
Franklin Sherrill, w } se } and e } sw } sec. 4, April 19, 1836.
John Johnson, w } sw ≥ sec. 4, April 19, 1836.
Joseph Scott, sec. 6, April 19, 1836. Daniel Price, sec. 7, April 19, 1836.
William Rankin, sec. 10, April 19, 1836. Isaac Ward, sec. 11, April 19, 1836. James Black, sec. 12, April 19, 1836. John W. Poinier, sec. 13, April 19, 1836. Robert and William Clark, e } sec. 14. e { sec. 23 and sec. 25, April 19, 1836. Sayres O. Nichols, nw ¿ sec. 14, April 19, 1836. Jacob H. Burnett, sw ≥ sec. 14,"April 19, 1836.
Micajah Walters, w ¿ sw ¿ sec. 17, February 1, 1836.
Decius Humphreys, w ¿ nw } and w } sw } sec. 21, April 6, 1836. Luzerne Ray, e { nw } and e } sw } sec. 21, April 6, 1836. Edmund B. Kellogg, w ¿ ne } sec. 21, April 6, 1836. Daniel W. Kellogg, e { ne } sec. 21, April 6, 1836.
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Jarvis G. Kellogg, w ¿ nw } sec. 22, April 6, 1836. Benjamin W. Green, w } sw ¿ sec. 22, April 6, 1836. Laura Burnett, e & sec. 22, April 19, 1836. Edson Park, nw ¿ sec. 23, April 19, 1836. Abner W. Parkhurst, sw ¿ sec. 23, April 19, 1836.
Cotton Ely, sw ¿ sec. 24, June 2, 1836. Demas Cotton, Jr., sec. 27, April 19, 1836.
George Baldwin, sec. 28, April 19, 1836. Caleb Baldwin, sec. 29, April,19, 1836. Samuel C. Ely, nw ¿ sec. 34, April 20, 1836.
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