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FOURTH WARD PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING BELLAIRE BELMONT CO. O.
HISTORY
OF
BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES.
OHIO,
AND
INCIDENTALLY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PERTAINING TO
BORDER WARFARE AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
OF THE
ADJACENT PORTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY.
BY J. A. CALDWELL.
Gc 977.101 BHIN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
[ASSISTANT, A. G. SPRANKLE. ASSISTANT, G. G. NICHOLS.]
MANAGING EDITOR, J. H. NEWTON.
WHEELING, W. VA. PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1880.
PREFACE.
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IN the preparation of this work we have deemcd it necessary to devote considerable space to outline history and events which eontrolled the destiny of the Ohio valley. The early set- tlement of this portion of the Ohio valley is of itself a volumi- nous subject. Twenty years of border warfare-from 1774 to 1794-existed with but few and short interruptions, in which the frequent bloody scenes which made up the terrors of the frontier were enacted within the limits of Belmont and Jeffer- son counties. In consequence of the large space that seemed necessary to devote to this subjeet, we find the pages of this volume much more numerous than we at first contemplated, yet we feel assured that our work, as a book of reference, re- eeives an added value that will more than compensate us for the inereased labor and expense.
Had we the space we would with pleasure make acknowledg- ment by name to each of the many persons who have rendered us material aid in our historieal researches, also to the many published sources of the information compiled and presented to the publie in this volume; but it would cover pages and add bulk to an already voluminous work, and, in consideration thereof, we trust all will accept this general acknowledgment. We are under many obligations to the ministry and the press generally, the publie officers, and members of the bar and med- ieal profession, who have all aided in the preparation of this volume. We have garnered from cvery available source (in many cases a mere sentenee only), confining ourselves so far as possible to original material, depending largely upon archives, documents, records, the memory of old settlers, and those whose lives and associations have made them familiar with the sub- jeets portrayed.
We have also endeavored to make the history of cach town- ship and village after its organization up to present date eom- plete in itself, without too much recapitulation; to avoid this
entirely were impossible, though we trust that to no considera- ble extent does it appear.
Some ineidents and anecdotes have been related more with the design to illustrate the past than to amuse the reader, for we have aimed only to show and trace the method of the change, in a coneise, unpretentious way : how and by whom the wil- derness has been changed to the garden, the log cabin to the mansion, the traek through the forest and the lone postal rider to the iron rail, fast mail, and eleetrie wire with its lightning messenger-the wild lands of the red man to the homes and industries of the white. Honor and eredit are certainly due to some. We have named many-and the means, privations, and toil required-but not all-only a few of the leading spirits, whom to associate with was to be one of. Too much honor cannot be rendered them.
Instructions to our historians were, " Write truthfully and impartially of every one and on every subjeet." Their in- structions have been as faithfully exeeuted as was possible, and while some may have been omitted who should have had a place in these pages, yet especial pains have been taken to make it otherwise.
We expect eritieism. All we ask is that it be done in char- ity, after weighing all contingencies, obstaeles, and hindrances that may have been involved ; for if our patrons will take into account all the difficulties we have had to overcome-the im- possibility of harmonizing inharmonious memories, of reeon- eiling perverse figures and stubborn facts, of remembering all the fathers and grandfathers where there are so many to remen- ber, and, finally, the uncertainty of all human caleulations and the shortcomings of even the most perfect-we shall be content with their verdict.
THE PUBLISHERS.
WHEELING, W. VA., February, 1880.
INDEX.
OUTLINES OF HISTORY.
America, discovered by Northimen, 9; by Colum- bus 12; other discoverers, 13.
Advance of civilzation westward, 16. Aborigines, normal, 22, 23.
Account of the rise of the Indian war of 1774- affidavit of Gen. Richard Butler, 68, 69.
Account of the murder of Logan's family, by Gen. George Rogers Clark, 84, 85.
Arrival of Crawford and Dunmore at Wheeling, 86, 87, 88.
Arrest of Connolly at Fort Pitt, 94.
Acts of Virginia Assembly for protection of fron- tier, 95.
American Independence, 95.
Appendix-Attack on Wheeling fort in 1777, 114, 115.
Appendix to siege of Fort Henry in 1782, 127 to 131.
Account from the Caldwells on the siege of Fort Henry, 128.
Account of siege of Fort Henry from the Scioto Gazette of 1802, 128.
Account of siege of Fort Henry from the Brooke Republican of 1833, 114, 115.
Accounts of siege of Fort Henry from Withers, 128, 129.
. Accounts of siege of Fort Henry from McKernan, 102, 103, 104, 129.
Burial of leaden plates by French in 1749, 36 to 41 ; at mouth of Wheeling creek, 40.
Braddock's defeat, 47.
Bouquet, Colonel, expedition against the Ohio In- dians, 49; his treaty, 50; surrender to of pris- oners by Indians, 50.
Bald Eagle, Indian Chief, 63.
Butler, Gen. Richard, 68, 69.
Breaking out of the Revolution, 21, 94, 95.
Building of Fort Fincastle, 93.
British influence with the northwestern Indians, 100, 101.
Border tories, 105.
Brodhead, Gen., in command of western depart- ment, 106 ; expedition up the Allegheny, 106; letters, 107, 108 ; requisition on Ohio county for. troops, 108 ; expedition against Indians at Cosh- octon, 109 ; report of, 109; warns Wheeling, 110; superseded by General Irvine in command of western department, 111.
British intrigue in the Moravian massacre, 111, 113. Ballad of Crawford's defeat, 123.
Brave women of the frontier, 128, 131.
" Big Foot," story of, 144, (see Poe.) Brady, Capt. Samuel, 145, 146.
Columbus, Christopher, 9, 12, 13.
Chartered rights of Virginia, 15. Colony of Virginia, 15, 16.
Cornstalk, Indian chief, 26, 27, 87. 92, 100, 101.
Croghan, Col. George, 43; journal.of exploration down the Ohio in 1765, 50 to 54; 86.
Cresap, first settlement on the Monongahela, 60; Capt. Michael 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 72, 73, 75 to 85; 93.
Captina, 61, see Indians, 84. Also Belmont county. Crawford, William, 63, 64, 71, 86, 87, 93, 94, 99; expedition against Sandusky, 115 to 123.
Crawford, Valentine, 63, 64, 71, 86, 93, 94. Connolly, Dr. John, 64, 66, 67, 68, 93, 94.
Clark, Gen. George Rogers. 61, 84, 85, 93, 106. Council of war at Fort Pitt, 99. Coshocton campaign, 109.
Crawford's expedition against Sandusky 115 to 123; expedition planned, 116 ; objects of, 116, 117 ; as- sembles at Mingo Bottom, 116, 117; march from to Sandusky, 117 ; Indian and British forces, 119; battle of Sandusky, 119; Crawford's retreat, 120; capture and death of Col. Crawford, 122; escape of Dr. Knight, 122; escape of John Slover, 122; ballad of Crawford's deleat, 123.
Caldwells, account from on siege of Fort Henry, 128. Cruger, Mrs. Lydia, 128, 129, 130, 131.
Discoverers of America, 9 to 14.
Delawares, Indians, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22.
De Celoron's expedition to the Ohio in 1749, 36 to 42.
Dunmore war, 61, 62, 68, 69 ; 85 to 92; 93, 94. Dunmore, Lord, 86, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 95. Documents on Indian outrages, 64 to 69.
" Logan and Cresap, 75 to 85.
Death of Logan, 74. Death of Cornstalk, 92.
Doddridge's account of Indian outrages, 68; ac- count of Crawford's expedition cited and criticis- ed, 116, 117, 118.
Documents pertaining to siege of Fort Henry, 125, 127.
English efforts to explore and settle the Ohio valley, 33, 34.
Emigration of first settlers on the Ohio, 59 to 61.
Early accounts of outrages upon the Indians at Yellow creek, &c., 64 to 69.
Expedition against Pluggy's Town, 97, 98.
Expedition against the Muskingum town, 107.
Expedition against Coshocton, 109.
Expedition of Col. Lochry down the Ohio, 110.
Expedition, Crawford's, against Sandusky, 115 to 123,
Events of border warfare, 131 to 152.
Edgington Thomas, prisoner with the Indians, 144. Five nations, Indians, (Iroquois), 17, 18, 19.
French-Early explorations and settlements, 30, 31, 32, 33; movements on the Lakes and the Ohio, 33; Virginia jealousy of, 33; French de- signs, 35; De Celoron's expedition to the Ohio valley, 42 to 48: French forts, 43, 44; approach of French and Indian war, 44; French move- ments, 45; the French and Indian war, 45 to 48; defeat of French, 47, 48.
French and Indian war, 44 to 48.
First settlements on the Ohio and Wheeling creek, 59, 60, 61 ; first settlement by the Zanes and oth- ers, 60, 61.
Forts-French, 43, 44; Fincastle, 86, 87.
Fort Fincastle, 93, 95.
Flight of Lord Dunmore, 95.
Frontier, protection of, 95; condition of in 1782, 115 ; exposure of, 124.
Fort Fincastle, changed to Fort Henry, 95.
Fort Henry, 95, 100, 101, (siege of in 1777) 102 to 104; 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115, 124, 125; (siege of 1782) 125 to 131.
Foreman massacre, near Grave creek, 104, 105.
Growth of the colonies and advance of civilization westward, 16.
Gist, Christopher, 34; journey with Washington, 45 ; sketch of, 47.
Greathouse, Daniel, 61.
Gospel first preached on Wheeling creek, 61.
Gibson, Col. John, 73,77, 78, 87.
Growth of the settlement at Wheeling, 61.
Grave creek, 100, massacre of Foreman and his men, 104, 105.
Garrison at Fort Henry, 111.
Guadenhutten, massacre at, 111, 112, 113.
Girty, Simon, 102, 113, 114, 119, 120, 122, 123, 125, sketch of life of 147 to 150.
Girty, George, 102, 126, 150.
Girty, Thomas, 150
Girty, James, 150.
Gobbler Indian, 137, 138.
Heckwelder, Rev. John, 81, 82, 111, 113, 116, 117, 118.
Hurons, Indians, see Wyandots.
Hand, General, conimander of western department, 99; relieved by Gen, McIntosh, 105.
Hamilton, Governor at Detroit, attempts to entice the frontier settlers, 105; complicity with Indian massacres, 105 ; offers reward for scalps of set- tłers, 105; captured, 106.
Indians, nations, 17; Iroquois supremacy, 18 ; de cline of the tribes in Virginia, 19; nations identi- fied with the Ohio valley, 19, 20, 21, see Iroquois, (Mingoes) Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandots, Mia- mis, Ottawas, etc. Summary of nations, 22; In- dian character and peculiarity. 22; normal abor- igines contrasted with present hordes ou the fron- tier, 22, 23; food and cookery, 23; dress and ornaments, 23; courting, 23; marriages, 24; treatment of wives, 24; warfare, hunting and oratory, 24, 25, 26; legend of Cornstalk, 26; le- gend of slaughter at Seneca capital, Tuscarawas county, 27; respect for aged, 27, 28; adoption of children, 28; reverence for the dead, 29; super- stition, 29, 30.
Iroquois, Indians, (Mingoes), Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Mohawks, Tuscaroras, 18, 19, 20.
Indian outbreak of 1763, 48 ; treaty with Col. Bou- quet, 50.
Indians killed near Wheeling and Pike creek, or Captina, 62, 63 ; massacre of at Baker's bottom, opposite Yellow creek, 62 to 69; Retaliation up- on the whites, 70, 71, 72, 73 ; see Dunmore war, Logan, &c.
Indians, status of tribesat beginning of the Revo- lution, 96 ; murders and raids on the border, 97; expedition against Pluggy's Town, 97. 98 ; appre- hension of Indian war 99; incursions and depre- dations by, 99, 100; murder at Wheeling, 99; Indian hostilities 99 to 131; confederation under British influence, 100, 101 ; mission of Cornstalk and his murder 100, 101 ; impending hostilities, 101; attack on Fort Henry, 1777, 102 to 104; in- vasion against projected in 1778, 105; Indian in- cursion below Wheeling and at Raccoon creek, 106, 107; campaign against at Coshocton, 109; the Moravians captured and carried to Sandusky, 110; raid on Wheeling in 1781, 110, 111; mas- sacre of the Moravians at Gnadenhutten, 111, 112, 113 ; retaliation for 114; expediton against Sandusky, 115 to 123; pursuit of fugitives from Crawfords expedition, 123, 124; incursion on the border in 1782, 124; council at Chillicothe, 125; Attack on Fort Heury in 1782, 125 to 131,
Indignation meeting at Pittsburgh, 67.
Imprisonment of Pennsylvania magistrates at Wheeling, 94.
Incipient stages of the revolution, 94, 95.
Irvine, General Wm., command of the western de- partment, 111, 115, 116, 117, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128.
Indian springs, Belmont county, adventure at, 136, 137.
Jones, Rev. David, first preacher on Wheeling creek, 61.
Jefferson's notes on Virginia, cxtracts from, 76 to 83. Journal of Col. George Croghan, 50 to 54.
16 of George Washington, tour to the Ohio in 1770, 54 to 59.
Knight, Dr. John, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123. Kenton, Simon, 73, 142. Lenni Lenape, Indians, (Delawares), 17, 18.
Loups, Indians, ( Munceys-Delawares), 17.
Leaden plates, buried by the French in 1749, 36 to 41; at month of Wheeling creek, 40.
Logan, Mingo chief, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, (sketch of) 69 to 75; (speech) 73; (death), 74; documents pertaining to speech and Cresap. 75 to 85.
" Long Knives," origin of, 87. Little Eagle, Indian chief, 87.
Letters-From Philadelphia on the killing of the Indians at Wheeling and Yellow creek, 64. Judge Jolley on the Yellow creek massacre, 65. From Redstone on the causes of the Dunmore war, 65.
Devereaux Smith to Wm. Smith, on same sub- ject, 66, 67.
Wm. Crawford to Geo, Washington, 71.
INDEX.
Letters-On Logan and Cresap, from Jefferson's notes on Virginia, 75 to 83.
Valentine Crawford to George Washington, 71, 87, 93
Patrick Henry to Cols. Geo. Morgan and John Nevill, 97, 98.
Cols George Morgan and John Nevill to Patrick Henry, 98, 99.
Capt. Samuel Meason to Gen. Hand, 100. Morgan Jones, from Grave creek, to his parents, 100.
Col. Wm. Crawford to President of Congress, 99.
Col. Brodhead to Col. John Evans, 107, 108.
Col. Brodhead to General Washington, 108.
Col. Brodhead to Benj. Biggs, 108.
Col. Brodhead to Lient. Morrison, 108.
Col. Brodhead to Capt. John Clarke, 109.
Col. Brodhead to David Shepherd, 109.
Col. Brodhead to Commander of Fort Henry, 110. Ebenezer Zane to Gen. Irvine, 125.
· Ebenezer Zane to Gen. Irvine, 127.
James Marshall to Gen. Irvine, 127. Lochry, Col. Archibald, 110.
Mengwes, Indians, (Mingoes) 17, 18.
Mingoes, Indians, (Iroquois) 18, 19, 20.
Miamis, Indians, (Twightwees) 20.
Munceys, Indians, (Delawares) 17.
Massacre of Indians at Baker's bottom, opposite Yellow creek, 62 to 69.
Murder of Logan's family, 62 to 69; 84, 85.
McDonald, Maj. Angus, 86, 87 and 93. Murder of Cornstalk, 92.
Measures for defence against the Indians, 92, 93. Meeting of the continental congress, 94, 95.
Military organization, 95.
McColloch, Maj Samnel, 101. 102, 103, 104, 116, 124, sketch of, 134, 135. McColloch, Col. John, 95, 135. McColloch family, 134, 135.
Meason, Captain Samnel, 100, 102, 103, 104, in command at Fort Henry, 100.
McIntosh, Gen., takes command of western depart- ment, 105, 106; superseded by Gen. Brodhead, 106.
Moravian Indians, captured and carried to San- dusky, 110, 111.
Moravian massacre at Gnadenhintten. 111, 112, 113, 114.
McKiernan, accounts of siege of Fort Henry, 102, 103, 104, 128, statement by, 129.
Mills, Thomas, killed by Indians, 136, 137.
Mingo Bottom, 112, 116, 117, 118, 121. Norsemen, 9, 10, 11, 12,
Normal aborigines contrasted with the present hordes on the frontier, 22, 24.
Noted characters of the frontier, 131 to 152.
NORTH-WEST TERRITORY .- Organization of Illi-
nois county, 153; trading post-, 153; Moravian Missions, 153 ; forts, 153; cession by Virginia, 158; Indian titles relingnished, 153 ; first white births in Ohio, 154; Absalom Ross, first white child born in Jefferson county, 154 ; premature attempts at settlement in Ohio, 155 ; attempted settlement prevented in 1785-86, 155; report of Ensign Armstrong, 155; journal of General Richard Butler, 156 ; squatters compelled to obey the government, 157 ; names of settlers in 1785, 157; survey of the public landa, 157 to 160; journal of Major Erkuries Beatty, 157, 158; journal of Jolin Mathews, one of the surveyors of the first seven ranges, 158 to 160; first land sales, 160; Indian wars, 160, 161; defeats of Harmar and St. Clair, 160, 161; Wayne's vic. tory, 161; civil government of the north-west territory, 161 to 163 ; first officers of the northi- west territory-Arthnr St. Clair, first governor, 162; territorial legislation, 162; first courts of the territory, 162; organization of territorial counties, 162; early territorial villages and towns, 162, 163; organization of the State of Ohio-constitutional convention, 163.
Original people, 17. Sce Indians. Ottawa, Indians, 20.
Ohio, origin of name, 38. Ohio Company, 34, 35 ; explorations by, 43,
Ogle, Capt. 96, 102, 103, 104, 117, 120, 123.
Object of expedition against Indian towns at San- dusky, 116, 117. Pontiac's conspiracy, 48.
Precursory events of Dunmore war, 61, 62.
Point Pleasant, battle of, 87; Capt. Stewart's narra- tive of, 89 to 92.
Personal recollections of Yellow creek massacre, 65 Pennsylvania magistrates imprisoned at Wheeling, 94.
Pluggy's Town, expedition against, 97, 98.
Powder exploit at siege of Fort Henry, 126, 127, ~128.
Moundrew und Adan), 142 to 145.'
Mount 1sir Walter, 14, 15.
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Retaliation of Indians, 70, 71, 72.
Revolutionary war, 91, 92; incipent stages and breaking out of, 94, 95.
Raid on Wheeling in 1781, 110, 111.
Requisition of Col. Zane on Gen. Irvine for pow- der, 125.
Report of Col. Zane to Gen. Irvine on siege of Fort Henry in 1782, 127.
Six Nations, Indians, (Iroquois, or Mingoes), 17, 18, 19, 20. Shawanese, Indians, 20, 21.
Senecas, Indians (Iroquois-Mingoes), '18, 19, 20, 27.
Speech of Logan, 69.
Stewart, Captain John, narrative, 89 to 92.
Speech of Cornstalk, 87.
Status of the Indian tribes at the beginning of the revolution, 96.
Shepherd, Col. David, 95, 96, 97, 98, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 114, 115, 160, 171.
Siege of Fort Henry in 1777, 102, 103, 101.
Siege of Fort Henry in 1782, 121 to 131.
"Squaw " campaign, 105.
Sherrard, Robert A , 117.
Slover, John, 117, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124.
Sherrard, John, 118, 120, 121.
Scott, Molly, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131.
Statement of J. F. Scott on the " Powder exploit," 130.
Statement of Peter Yost on the "Powder exploit," 130.
Statement of Ebenezer Clark on the "Powder ex- ploit," 130.
Story of Poe and " Big Foot," 144.
Tah-gah jute, Logan, 69.
Treachery of Lord Dunmore, 88, 91.
Tory conspiracy, 105.
Virginia, first colony and chartered rights of, 15; jealousy of French designs on the Ohio, 33; alarm at French movements, 45: prompt action on the approaching French and Indian war, 45 ; takes a prominent part in the struggle, 45 to 48. Wyandots, Indians, 19, 20.
Wheeling creek, bnrial of lenden plate at mouth of by French in 1749, 40 ; original Indian name, 40. Washington, George, sent on mission to French posts, 44, 45 ; journey with Gist on foot, 45 ; first campaign of, 46, 47 ; at Braddock's defeat, 47 ; participation in the French and Indian war to its close, 48 ; journal of tour to the Ohio in 1770, 55 to 59; letters to from Crawfords. 62, 63, 71 ; appointed commander-in-chief, 95.
Washington's tour to the Ohio in 1770, 54.
Wakatomica campaign, 86, 87, 93, 94.
Wheeling, growth of first settlement at, 61.
Williamson, Col. David, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 120, 121, 123.
Wetzel, Lewis, 123, 124, sketch of life 135 to 140. Withers, account of siege of Fort Henry, 128, 129. Wetzel, family, 135 to 142.
Wetzel, John, 140, 141.
Wetzel, Martin, 141, 142.
Wetzel, Jacoh, 142.
Williams, Isaac, 150, 151, 152.
Yellow creek, 61 ; massacre at, 62 to 69. See In- dians, Logan, etc.
Zane, Colonel Ebenezer, first settlement on the Ohio, 59 to 61; 62, 63, 78, 93, 102, 103, 104, 105, 115 ; (requisition on General Irvine for pow- (ler) 125, 126, 127 ; (report to General Irvine of siege of 1782), 127, 128, 129, 130; sketch of life, 131, 132, 133.
Zane, Silas, 60, 61, 96, 104, 125, 126, 129, 133.
Zane, Jonathan, 60, 66, 87, 106, 117, 119, 120, 123; sketch of, 133.
Znane, Isaac, 96, 104, 133, 134.
Zeisberger, David, 111, 113, 116, 117, 118.
Zane, Elizabeth, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, Zane, Andrew, 133.
BELMONT COUNTY.
Attorneys and doctors, list of, in 1828, 182, 193.
Agricultural statistics, 184.
Agricultural society, 185, 186.
Appleseed, Johnny, 191, 192.
Alexander, Hon. James, 239.
Boundary of Belmont county, 163.
Boundary of Guernsey county, organized January 31, 1810, 163.
Boundary of Monroe county, organized January 29, 1813, 163.
Battle of Captina, 165.
Belmont county agricultural society, 185, 186.
Bellaire, 257 to 279; old original town, 257 ; chol- era fright of 1832, 257; number of honses and business in 1832, 257; postal matters and first postmaster, 258; Joseph Gorby's ledger, 258 ; Bel Air changed to Bellaire, 258; enlargement, 258; early physicians, 258; first steam engine, 258 ; cholera excitement of 1849, 258 ; incorpor- ated, 258, 259; city officers, 259 ; street direc- tory, 259, 260 ; memorable blow, 260 ; Stephen A. Douglas' first war speech, 260 ; sinking of the steamboat " Star," 260 ; Bellaire's most angmen- tive years, 260; banking, 260, 261; Bellaire market, 261; market house, city hall wards, water works, Bellaire gas light an . coke compa- ny, Bellaire street railroad, 261; mannfacturing interests, 261 to 263 ; history of Central Ohio R. R., 263, 264 ; bridge over the Ohio, 264; Bellaire. and Southwestern R. R., 264. 265; schools, 265 ; churches-Presbyterian, 266; Trinity Episcopal Chapel, 266; Disciples of Christ, 266 to 268 ; St. John's Catholic church, 268, 269; German Evangelical church, 269; First African M. E. church, 269; Second Methodist church, 269; societies, 269 to 271; early burial place, 271; Greenwood cemetery, 271; German cemetery, 271; journalism, 271, 272 ; county seat question, 272 ; population, 272; summary of Bellaire, 272; Patron's record of Bellaire, 272 to 279.
Biographical sketches of Bellaire, 272 to 279.
Bridgeport, 283 to 289; improvements, 283; in
1807, 283; in 1810, 283; in 1820, 283, 284 ; in- corporated limits, 284; toll bridge, 284; first bridge across Wheeling creek, 284; National road, 284 ; first postmaster, 284; railroada, 285; summary in 1858, 285; schools, 285 ; journalism, 285, 286; on tax duplicate, 286; Union ceme- tery 286; first National bank, 286; mannfac- tories, 286 to 288; ecclesiastical history-First Presbyterian church, of Kirkwood, 288; Kirk- wood M. E. church, 288; West End M E. chruch, 288; First Colored Baptist church, 288 ; secret societies, 288, 289; summary for 1879, 289.
Biographical sketches of Martin's Ferry, Bridge- port and Pease township, 301, 30%.
Barnesville, 308 to 335; James Barnes founder of Barnesville, 308, 309; old Pultney road. 309; first tavern, 309, 310; ginseng gatherers, 310; old town well, 310; measures taken to form a new connty, with the seat of justice at Barnes- ville, 310; the petition, 310, 311; first burial, 311; old log church, 311; old brick church, 311; lit- erary institutions, 311 ; lawyers, 311, 812 ; liter- ature, 312; Tom Young Guards, 312; Friend- ship Lodge, F. and A. Masons, 312, 313 ; tobac- co trade, 313, 314; temperance societies, 314 ; church history, 314 to 916 ; notable men of Barnesville, 316 to 318; M. E. Sunday school, 318, 319; Green Mount cemetery association, 319; South cemetery, 319; education, 319 ; col- ored schools, 319 320; postoffice and officers, 320; fair association, 320; fires and accidents, 320 to 322; gas works, 322; fonndry, Buckeye burial manufactory, nail factory, drug stores, 322 ; municipal organization, 323 ; societies, 323,
324, First National bank, 324; city hall, 324; business notes, 324, 325 ; Barnesville at present, 325; biographical sketches, 325 to 335.
Belmont county elections for 1879, 422.
Changes affecting the original limits of Belmont county, 163.
Conrts, first, 172 to 174.
Constables appointed, 172.
Connty officers, 175.
Court house bell, 182.
Cowen, Judge Daniel D. T., 241.
Chambers, Hon. Robert E., 241.
Charlesworth, Col. James F., 243.
Colerain township, 386 to 390; tirst voting place, 386; township expenses for 1818, 386, 387; ex- penditures for 1878-9, 387 ; first house, 387 ; ear- ly incident-killed by Indians, 387; improve- ments, 387 ; Gambletown, 387; Farmington, 387; Pleasant Grove, 347 ; church organization, 387 ; education, 387, 388; literary societies, 388 ; anti-slavery society. 388 ; biographical sketches, 388 to 390
Delegates to the first constitutional convention, 16G. Division of Kirkwood-change of election places, 173.
Doctors and attorneys, list of, in 1828, 182, 183.
Dauford, Hon. Lorenzo, 240. 241.
Erection of Belmont county, name and description .d, 165, 166.
Early seat of justice, 166.
Early marriages, 171, 172. -
Early judiciary, 172 to 174.
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