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The property was taken possession of by the Bank of Hamilton and rented to John & Gurden B. Gilmore for a broker's office and residence. In December, 1824, a writ of ejeetment, issued from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Ohio, in favor of the heirs of Israel Ludlow, deceased, was served on the ten- ant of the Bank of Hamilton for the recovery of the house conveyed to him by the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank on the ground that the lot had been illegally sold by the administrators of Israel Ludlow after his death. At the January term of the Circuit Court in 1827 a judgment was rendered in favor of the heirs of Ludlow against the Bank of Hamilton, which the Bank of Ham- ilton. took up on a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington. When the cause came on for hearing at Washington the judgment of the court below was affirmed, which rendered the title of the Bank of Hamilton void.
The property conveyed by the Farmers' and Mechan- ies' Bank being thus lost to the Bank of Hamilton, and the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank unable to make good their warranty, the whole appeared in a manner lost. However, on examination, it was found that the prop- erty had been conveyed to the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank by John McIntyre, by deed of general warranty dated the 31st of May, 1815. John McIntyre lived in Madison, Indiana, and was perfectly solvent. The agent of the bank accordingly called on him on the 29th of October, 1829, when John McIntyre agreed to pay to the Bank of Hamilton the sum of $2,000, which was ac- cepted, and Mr. MeIntyre released from his warranty on the payment of the money, and the agreement was after- wards complied with.
The bank was crippled severely, and its transactions . were virtually wound up. From 1824 till 1835 the stockhoklers did nothing more than to elect directors to keep the bank alive. In the latter year 850,000 addi- tional shares were subscribed, and it again went into op- eration. After a few years, however, the pressure of the times compelled them to close, and they finally shut their doors on the 9th of February, 1842, when an assignment was made.
STORE DEALINGS,
The following is n bill of goods sold by John Sather- land, probably not far from 1810. The luxurics were appreciated and indulged in even at that early day
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WILLIAM ALYEAR TO JOHN SUTHERLAND.
For 1 quart of whisky,
£ S. D. 0 1 10
Half-pound of tobacco, .
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1 6
63 yards of Irish linen, at 6s per yard, 1 19
0
Half-yard of cambric, . . 0
4
2 yards of white flannel,
9
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1 pack of playing cards,
3 0
3 yards of hair ribbon, .
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4 6
1 pack of playing cards,
0 2 6
Total, 3 5 6
By making a suit of clothes,
1
2
6
Remainder,
2 3 0
- Whisky was worth at the above figures 25 cents per quart in our currency ; tobacco, forty eents per pound ; playing cards, seventy-five cents per pack ; hair ribbon, sixty eents; white flannel, $1.20; Irish linen, $5.75; good prices for a pioneer to pay with corn selling at ten cents the bushel.
JOSIIUA DELAPLANE.
Joshua Delaplane is one of the oldest and best known citizens of Butler County. He has been a resident since June, 1819, and his course sinee that time has commanded the respeet and confidence of the community. His par- ents were Daniel and Catherine Delaplane, natives of Maryland, in which State Joshua was born, in Frederick County, on the 24th of June, 1807. His father served in the war of 1812, and afterwards moved out to this region. The boy followed farming until he was twenty-one years of age, when he learned the cabinet and undertaking trade, and followed that business for forty-five years. Part of the time he was in partnership with other per- sons, and their furniture was sent down to the Ohio River, and thenee by boat to all its various tributaries, taking months to a journey. He has been married three times, all of his wives being dead. His children are Nancy Jane, Catherine D., Frederick, Mary, Georgie, and Ke- beeca. Of these, Frederick, Mary, and Rebecca are dead. A short time since he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
About the year 1805 a small society of Presbyterians in Hamilton and the vicinity formed themselves into a congregation, and had preaching occasionally by the Rev. Matthew Green Wallace, who the lived on a farm on the north Jine of Hamilton County, about eight miles from the town of Hamilton. He had preached occasion- ally from 1801. For several years afterwards he came to Hamilton, generally every other Sabbath, and preached in an old frame building theu occupied as a court room, one of the remuants of the fort. In the year 1810 he removed to the town of Hamilton to reside, and contiu- ued to preach to the people half of his time, that is, every Sabbath, until the year 1821, when a misnuder- standing occurred between him and some of the influen- tial members of his congregation, and he was superseded by the Rev. Francis Moufort, who then became the pas-
tor of the congregation. Mr. Wallace had also preached! at Seven-Mile and Diek's Creek.
Mr. Wallace was a man who had received a liberal education, but was rather indolent in his studies in after life. His manner of preaching was not of the first order of eloquence, nor was his discourse always arranged in the most systematic order.
But when he addressed the throne of grace in prayer few men were more able and impressive. He had a nat- ural vein of wit and satire, which at times he was in the habit of indulging too freely in conversation, and which frequently made him enemies, when it might otherwise have been avoided. He died in 1853.
In the year 1817 the Presbyterian congregation be- longing to the General Assembly and the Associate Re- formed congregation of Hamilton united in the erection of a building for a place of publie worship. According to the agreement between them, cach of the congrega- tions were to have the privilege of occupying the house half of the time. For the purpose of carrying this agree- ment into effect, they purchased from David K. Este the south half of inlot No. 103, at the west end of where the Basin afterwards was constructed, and which is now covered with warehouses and stores, for the price of one hundred and fifty dollars. On this, in the year 1818, they erected a brick building for a church, fifty feet long by forty feet wide, which eost three thou- sand and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-eight and a half cents. The prices of material were at that time very high, and the work was not conducted with the most rigid regard to economy, so that the building eost a much larger sum than it ought to have done. The interior of the building, however, was never entirely completed. On the location and construction of the Hamilton Basin in 1828, the congregations deeming the site of their build- ing not a suitable place of publie worship, sold out the lot and building for the sum of six hundred dollars to Silas Smith, who converted the building into a store and commission warehouse. Part of the wall is still standing. and forms a part of Jacob's Hall, on Third Street, be- tween Basin aud High.
A deed of conveyance not having been executed by Mr. Este to the congregations, one was made by him di- rectly to Silas Smith. The deed bears date the 22d of May, 1828. The two congregations divided the pro- ceeds of the sale between them, intending each to pur- chase a lot and build for themselves.
On the List of January, 1829, John Reily made a deed of conveyance to James Boal, George R. Big- ham, James B. Thomas and Caleb DeCamp, trustees of the First Congregation of Hamilton aud Rossville, of inlot No. 22, in the south part of Hamilton, for the use of the Church.
On this lot the congregation erected a brick building for a church, fifty feet long by forty-two feet wide, and eighteen feet in height to the caves of the roof. The
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entrance was on Front Street, by two doors in the west ! Old School parties, which then began to agitate the cud of the building. The pulpit was on the west, be- tween the two doors, and the interior was divided into seventy-two pews and two aisles, capable of seating con- fortably five hundred persons. The cost of erecting this church was about one thousand six hundred dollars.
In January, 1837, the Presbyterian congregation sold this lot and building to the German Lutheran congrega- tion for the sum of seven hundred dollars, and purchased from the Bank of the United States inlot No. 253, on the west side of the Public Square, in Hamilton, for the sum of five hundred dollars, as appears by a deel dated the 21st of April, 1835, made to George R. Bigham.
They also purchased twenty feet from the north side of lot No. 251, adjoining from Charles K. Smith, for the sum of three hundred dollars, as appears by a dee.l made by Charles K. Smith to George R. Bigham on the 23d of March, 1835, for the use of the "First Presby- terian Church, of Hamilton." But when the fifth house of worship was erected in 1854, Mr. Smith conveyed the lot in fee simple.
The Presbyterian Church was afterwards incorporated by ap act passed by the Legislature of the State of Ohio. The deed -for lot No. 253 having been made to George R. Bigham in his individual capacity, on the first day of July, 1843, he made a deed to James Fisher. William Bighain, William Hunter, L. Cooper, and Lazarus Me- "Neil, trustees of the Church, for the use of the congre- gation.
In the year 1833 the congregation erceted a church on the ground which they had purchased. The building was of brick, sixty-six feet long by forty-two feet wide, with a basement story under the whole, divided into a school-room and apartments for other purposes. The part above occupied as the church had entrances by two doors on the east facing the Public Square on Front Street. The pulpit was on the west end of the building opposite the doors, and the body of the church was di- vided into two aisles running east and west from the two doors the whole length of the building. It had sixty pews, capable of scating comfortably four hundred and fifty persons.
There was also a gallery on the east cud of the church capable of seating one hundred and fifty persons more. The interior arrangement of the church was neat and convenient. It had a plain roof without cupola or steeple, and standing back from the street, with other buildings crowded around it, was not seen to advantage; noue of it being exposed to view but the end next to Front Street. The whole cost of erecting and completing the church was abont five thousand dollars.
The Rev. Francis Monfort, who came to Hamilton and became the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in No- vember, 1821, continued to officiate thus until the year 1831, when a schism occurring in the Church, in part originating from the doctrines of the New School and
Church, Mr. Monfort adhered to the Old School. He was ejected from the charge of the congregation. How- ever, a portion of the congregation still adhered to him. They built a new brick church on lot No. 58, in Ross- ville, where Mr. Monfort continued to officiate as their pastor until the year 1837, when he relinquished his charge and removed to Mount Carmel, in the State of Indiana.
On Thursday, the second day of February, 1832. " The First Presbyterian Church of Hamilton and Ross- ville" was organized by order of the Cincinnati Presby- tery, the Rev. Andrew S. Morrison and Rev. John Thompson acting on the committee of presbytery. The Church was then composed of thirty-five persons, thirteen males and twenty-two females. Hugh Wilson, David Bigham, and Thomas Mitchell were elected elders.
On the 4th of June, 1832, after a sermon preached by the Rev. Henry Little, the Church unanimously invited the Rev. Augustus Pomeroy, who belonged to the New School party, to preach in the congregation as a stated supply for one year; the invitation was accepted, and Mr. Pomeroy entered on his duties on the 24th of June, 1832. On the 24th of November following, Cornelius W. Hall was chosen an additional elder. On the 1st of March, 1833, James Boal, George R. Bigham, James Bigham, and Hugh B. Wilson were elected deacons. On the 12th of the same month the Rev. Mr. Pomeroy received a call to be pastor of the Church. He accepted the invitation, and was installed on the 21st of the same month.
Mr. Pomeroy continued pastor of the Church until the year 1836, when his pastoral relations were dissolved. He was succeeded in June in the same year by the Rev. Mr. Jones, an Episcopalian, who aeted as a supply to the congregation for a few months only. He removed in Sep- tember, 1836.
The Church remained destitute until some time in the year 1837, when the Rev. Charles Packard, an adherent to the New School, was invited as a stated supply. He discharged the duties of pastor for two years, until the 1st of May, 1839, when he gave in his resignation.
On the 19th of July, 1840, the Rev. Thomas Eben- ezer Thomas was called to the pastorship of the Church. He accepted the call and forthwith entered upon the duties of his office. Henry J. Curtis, William Cook, and William Wilson were elected elders to supply the vacan- cies occasioned by the removal of two of the former session. They were afterwards duly ordained by the pastor. At the time Mr. Thomas took charge of the Church at Hamilton he was reputed to belong to the New School party. He afterwards acted as a mediator ho- tween the two parties, and latterly attached himself to the Old School Presbytery. He was a violent abolition- ist. He continued the pastor of the Church. The con- gregation paid Mr. Thomas for his labors about $500 per
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annum, which was raised by subscription from the mem- bers of the Church. The number of members in connec- tion with the Church in 1842 was 102.
On the 5th of February, 1847, a meeting of the mem- -bership of both Presbyterian Churches was held. A plan of union was adopted, and the two Churches hereafter worshiped together. Mr. Thomas continued as stated supply until the last of October, 1849, a period of ten years and a half. He was succeeded by the Rev. George Darling for three years, and the Rev. Charles Sturde- vant two years and a half. During his stay it was re- solved in April, 1854, to rebuild, and during the prog- ress of the work they held their meetings generally ia Beckett's Hall.
The Rev. Levi Christian was called in April, 1855; but after arrangements had been made for his installa- tion declined, and went to Philadelphia. Hugh Ustic was called in April, 1857, but died the next Fall.
In January, 1858, the Rev. Mr. MacMillan was in- vited to labor here, and remained until 1864, laboring with much success. After him the pastors have been C. B. Martin, E. J. Hamilton, Nathaniel West, S. McC. Anderson, and E. W. Abbey.
In the beginning the affairs of the Church were man- aged by trustees. In 1822 these were G. R. Bigham, James Wilson, and Jonathan Barret. At the division, James Boal, G. R. Bigham, James Thomas, and Caleb DeCamp were trustees in the new Church; but in March, 1832, James Boal, G. R. Bigham, James Wilson, and Hugh B. Wilson were elected deacons in this branch. The old branch had no deacons until December, 1840, when S. E. Giffen and James Garver were elected.
After the union the Church elected William Hunter, Abraham Hueston, Robert Kennedy, Jacob L. Garver, S. E. Giffen, and James R. Garrison. In 1854 John R. Lewis and John Kecn were elected. Afterwards there were chosen Jacob Shaffer, P. C. Conklin, David J. T. Smyers, Samuel Shaffer, Alpheus Stewart, James 'T. Imlay, Jacob Miller.
The list of elders is as follows:
David Beaty, William Bigham, Johu L. Wallace, David Bigham, Doctor Benjamin B. Hughes, Hugh Wilson, Jeremiah Porter, Abraham P. Andrews, Isaac Davis, Robert Irwin, Thomas Mitchell, Daniel Delaplane, Benjamin R. Symmes, John MeKean, James M. Chap- man, Jenas Ball, William N. Humer, Cornelius W. Hall, Henry J. Curtis, William Wilson, William Biglam. Doetor Cyrus Falconer, S. E. Gifen, Noah C. MeFar- land, James R. Garrison, Josiah Scott. Isaac Robertson, Doctor J. S. McNeeley, J. W. Harris, R. C. Stewart, William Anderson, J. Calvin Skinner.
The Church has had nineteen pastors, as pastor or stated supply, nineteen deacons, and thirty-two regularly installed elders. In 1876 the roils contained 1, 459 names, but it is probable a number of persons are omitted, and there are some omitted from the official roll.
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REGISTER OF THE FIRST ADULT MEMBERS.
William Bigham, Sr., Phoebe Barr,
David Beaty, George Snider.
Jobn L. Wallace, Sarah Watkins,
David Bigham, Nancy Andrew,
Benj. B. Hews, Jonathan Barrett,
Mary Bigham, Abraham P'. Andrew,
George R. Bigham, Mary Lewis,
Margaret Bigham, Dorothy Wiley,
Margaret Beaty, Ann McClelland,
Mary McClelland, Lucinda Symmes,
Hugh Wilson,
Daniel T. Symmes,
Sarah Wilson,
Charles Smith,
Phoebe Symmes,
Reberca Ball, Sr.,
Jackson Ayres,
Cornelia J. Sempelaar.
Elizabeth Ayres,
Wm. J. Snoddy.
Mary. Wallace.
D. Sampson (colored),
Rebecca Wallace,
D. Morgan (colored),
Hannah Ewert,
Martha Bigham,
Abner Torbert,
David Buck,
Jane Torbert,
Mary Giffen, Jane Giffen,
Frances Mitchel,
Margaret Giffen,
Esther Thomas,
Martin Rinehart,
Elizabeth Rhea.
Mary Gault,
Elizabeth Shroads,
Mary DeCamp,
Isaac Anderson,
Mary Wilson,
Enphemia Anderson,
Johnson Snoddy,
Harriet Smith,
Anu Snoddy, Jane McGilvery,
Naucy Reily, Mary Haynes,
Elizabeth C. Monfort,
Eleanor Keyt,
William N. Hunter,
Isabella Benham,
Esther W. Hanter,
Mary D. Rews,
Celadon Symmes,
Zebulon Wallace,
Mary Wilson,
Moses Proudfit,
Mary Crane, Susan Bell,
William Bighain, Jr.,
. Deborah Galloway,
Hannah MeBride,
Phoebe Long, Isaac B. Perrine,
Betsey V. Hawley,
William Murray,
John Gault,
Debby Murray,
Samnel W. Giffen,
Matilda Pierson,
Charlotte Dufield,
Margery MeMechan,
Sarah Randolph,
Samuel Barnett,
Susannah Schooler,
Mary Barnett, John Smith,
Dinah Mays (colored), John Wilson, Catharine Bigham,
Richard Malone,
Thomas Burns,
Mary Malone,
Jeannette Barns, Cecilia Higgins,
Jeremiah Porter,
Matilda Smith,
Nancy Moore,
John MeKeen,
Susan Snyder,
Margaret McKeen,
Maria McClelland,
Hezekiah T. Crane,
Jane Delaplane,
James M. Chapman,
Rebecca Wallace, Jr.,
Rebecca Daniels,
Susan Boal.
Isaac Davis, Mrs. ----- Davis. Hannah Davis.
John IT. Thomas,
John Jones,
James Boal,
Margaret Wilson,
Margaret Proadtil,
Jane Back, Elizabeth Anderson,
Ezekiel McConnell,
Margaret McConnell,
Jemima Rewan,
Joseph Wilson, Sarah Wilson,
Jonas Ball, Margaret Watkins,
Ann Wilson,
Henry Rowan,
Mary Wilson,
Robert Irwin. Jr.,
Sophia C. Monfort,
Mary Ann Irwin,
Madelina Vinnage,
Charles Bvcler (colored.)
John MeKinney, Nancy Steward, Joan Millikin, Kozia Jones (colored).
David figgins, Rachel Barrett, Matthew Suodly,
Sammel Brek, Sarah Buck, Frances Boal, Susan Bigham, Eliza Ann A Cowan,
Mrs. - -- Snoddy, Sarak Hathaway,
Mark S. Gaskell, James S. Mcclelland,
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James Bigham,
Jane Bigham, Clarissa Crane, Martha Back,
Benj. F. Randolph,
Mary B. Snoddy, Jane Wallace.
Catharine Sinith,
Jane Wilson,
Thomas Mitchel,
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Joseph Harper, - Elias Gabriel,
Stephen Schooley,
Isaac Watkins,
Uriah W. Stimson,
Lneinda Buckley,
Hugh B. Wilson,
Katy Maria Melline, Susan Jane Melline, Joseph P. Wilson, Julia Ann Wilson, George Atkins, Polly Gilman, Martha A. MeClelland,
Eliza Gilliland, John Bridge, George Vananstrin, Isaac Gaskell, Charity Keiser,
Clarinda Duney,
Sarah Wilson,
Stephen Hawn,
Mary Widener, James Anderson,
William Wilson,
Julietta Cohy,
. Eliza Wilson,
. Rosanna Murphy, Elizabeth Gault, Frances 1. Bardsley, Elizabeth Green, Christian Shepherd,
Margaret C. Bighamn,
Martha F. Cook,
Pirebe Hendrickson,
Mary Baker,
Evelina Baker,
Esther Chapman,
James Galbraith,
Agnes Galbraith,
Isaac Ayres,
Nicholas Shepherd,
Margaret McRae,
Damaris Campbell,
Margaret Neal,
Elizabeth Hinckle,
Margaret Click,
Mary Ann Morgan,
John Coppage, Catharine Hunston,
Eliza Jefferson,
Mary Ann Cornelius,
Susannah Lewis,
Elizabeth Murphy,
Mary Cummins,
Thomas VanHorne,
Margaret MeClamers,
Joseph Wallace,
Elizabeth Mills,
Jane Paulev
Joseph G. Monfort,
Mary Ritchie,
Samuel S. Gardner,
Ispar D. Watson,
Pamela Alexander,
Deborah Watson,
Nariah Davis,
John B. Cornell,
Jane Murray.
Joseph Piner,
Daniel Delaplane,
Antoinette Piner,
Catharine Delaplane.
Jane Sampson (colored),
METHODIST CHURCH.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in this eounty did not have as early an origin as some others. Services were held at the Spring Meeting-house in Liberty Town- ship and at Oxford long before they were held here. Hamilton existed for fifteen years before any Church or- ganization at all was attempted. Among these the Meth- ulists were third in order. There were very few ordained ministers to labor in the field.
The minutes of the Ohio Conference give as the bounds of the Miami District in 1813, Cincinnati, Mad River, Xenia, Scioto, and Deer Creek. Solomon Lay- den was presiding elder. The appointments were Cin- ciunati, Little Miami, Lawrenceburg, White Water, and Oxford.
In: 1817 Miami District extended to Piqua. David Sharp was the presiding elder.
The Rev. Samuel West was appointed to travel on da. Miami Circuit in the Fall of the year 1818, continu- ing for one year. When he came to that cireuit there was no Methodist preaching in Hamilton, nor was there any organized society of that denomination in the place.
But as he traveled around the circuit he passed through Hamilton occasionally, and having been previously ae. quainted with Thomas Sinnard, who then lived in Ham- ilton, Mr. Sinnard invited Mr. West to make an ap- pointment and preach in that town, which he did in the brick house then standing on lot No. 140, at the inter- section of Third and Dayton Streets, and continued to preach regularly as he passed around his circuit. Towards the close of the year Mr. West formed a society consisting of the following persons: Thomas Sinnard and his wife, Aaron Jewell and his wife, Mrs. John Cald- well, and -Miss Lydia Jones-six in number. These were all at the time he formed the society. At the close of Mr. West's year on the circuit, in the Fall of the year 1819, Hamilton and Rossville were made a station, and Mr. West appointed to it. During that year he preached in the brick school-house above mentioned, and in Delorae's warehouse in Rossville, and occasionally at Schooley's.
It was in that same year that the first Methodist meeting-honse was built. It was commenced about six months after Mr. West began his stated labors, and was finished under his superintendence before the year closcd, and left ready for his successor to enter with a society of over sixty members. Jacob Riekart was the carpenter and Samvel Messick the bricklayer.
This building was erected on the cast half of inlot. No. 58, on Ludlow Street, between Second and Third Streets. It was of brick, forty-two feet long by thirty- two feet wide, and cost about thirteen hundred dollars. The land was a gift from John Woods, although the deed stands in the name of John MeCleary and wife. Its date is February 11, 1820, and it was made to Sam- uel Messick, Jolin Blackall, John Moorehead, George J. White, Aaron Jewell, Jacob Rickart, and James O'Con- ner, trustees.
Among the first members of the Church were John Blackall and wife, later Hannah Clark, from Albany, New York; Eli Green and wife, Thomas Sinnard and wife, Samuel Wing and wife, Aaron Jewell and wife and mother, Daniel Thompson, Elizabeth Caldwell, John Messick, Julia Van Hook, Susan Stephens, Catherine Mansfield, Joseph Hough and Jane his wife, Fanny Vandegriff, Charles Beeler, formerly of the Presbyterian Church, and Helen his wife, colored; Mary Leach, Wil- liam Leach, John Leach, Jacob Rickart, Samuel Mes- sick, Jolm W. Moorchead, George J. White, James O'Conner and wife, Daniel Thompson and wife, David Clark and wife, Charity Lynch, Rev. Dr. Lynch, Mrs. John Woods, Mr. Lynch and a sister, George P. Bell and wife, Mrs. J. Watkins. Jacol. Gangus, Mary Hough, afterwards Mrs. John M. Millikin ; Robert Smith and wife, I. Seebring, and Jolm Thomas and wife. These had been gathered in up to the year 1821; in that year the Church had 65 members.
In 1814 the Miami District included Cincinnati, Law-
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James Smith, Jno. W. Hill, Sarah Pierson, Sarah Runnels,
Harriet Pocock, Susanna Harper, Deborah Buck,
John T. Allison,
Rebecca Allison,
Leonard Garver,
Rheda DeCamp, John McRae,
Catharine Symmes,
Willian Cook,
Leon Pierson,
Benjamin C. Brown,
Mrs. Catharine Garver,
Dorothy Bardsley, Mary Corner;
Rebecca Wilson,
Julia Ann Hill,
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renceburg, White Water, Mad River, Xenia, Piqua, and Oxford. The appointments nearest to Hamilton were in
1814-Cincinnati and Miami, Joseph Oglesby and John Waterman ; John Sale, Presiding Elder.
1815-Miami Circuit, Alexander Cummins and Russel Bigelow.
1816-Miami Circuit, Abbott Goddard and William P. Finley ; Moses Crume, Presiding Elder.
1817-Benjamin Lawrence ; Moses Crume, Presiding El- der.
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