A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 25

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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Daniel Deming, appears on a list of names of members of Colonel Robert Van Rensselaer's Regiment of New York Militia. He served one month from January 1, 1778, in a Company from Massachusetts, from May, 1779 for four months in Capt. Noble's Company, Col. Vrooman, from New York. From October, 1779 for three months in Capt. Cady's Company, Col. Waterman from New York. In June, 1780, he served three weeks in Capt. Gilbert's Company, colonel not stated from New York. At his first enlistment he resided at Sandisfield, Mass., at his second at New Lebanon, New York. He applied for a pension October 21, 1832, at which time he resided at Stockton, N.Y. He was born March 28, 1762, at Worthington, Conn. He was granted a pension. He is a grandfather of George W. Rhodes, and Mrs. James A. Maxwell, of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Ebenezer Dean, was a private in the 7th Massachusetts Regiment com- manded by Col. Ichabold Allen, Revolutionary War. He enlisted February 8, 1777, to serve three years and was killed in battle Oct. 7, 1777. He was of the same family of the Deans who formerly resided in the vicinity of Wheelersburg.

There was another Ebenezer Dean, who was a Lieutenant Colonel in William Heath's regiment, at Cambridge, Mass., in 1775. He was also in the 36th Continental Regiment of foot, commanded by Joel John Greaton.

The first named Ebenezer Dean, was an ancestor of Judge Frank Powers of Grayson, Ky., and of Frank B. Enslow, of Huntington, W. Va.

Jacob Drake, Member of Committee of Observation, Morris County, New Jersey, January 23, 1775; Delegate for said County to raise men, money and arms for the common defense, May 1, 1775; Deputy in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, held at New Brunswick, January 31, 1776; Deputy in the Convention of New Jersey, begun at Burlington, June 10, 1776; Colonel "Western Battalion," New Jersey Militia, 1776; Member State Council of Safety, 1778. He is the great-grandfather of George Drake Scudder of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Peter Dickerson, Member of the Committee of Correspondence, Morris County, New Jersey, January 23, 1775; Deputy from Morris County in the Prov- incial Congress of New Jersey, May 23, 1775; Captain, Third Battalion, First Establishment, February 7, 1776; Captain, Third Battalion, Second Establishment November 29, 1776, New Jersey line; retired September 26, 1780. He is the great- great-grandfather of George Drake Scudder, of Portsmouth, Ohio.

CAPT. JAMES SKELTON. [PAGE 1137.]

ROBERT N. SPRY. [PAGE 301.]

DR. J. P. BING. |PAGE 555.1

JOHN R. T. BARNES. [PAGE 254.]

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Richard Douglas, served as Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain- Lieutenant and Captain of a Compary of the First Connecticut Regiment He was commissioned Second Lieutenart, January 1, 1777; First Lieutenant, July 1. 1780; Captain, August 22, 1780. He was transferred as follows :- January, 1781, to the Fifth Connecticut Regiment, and in May or June, 1783, to the Fifth Company of Col. Swift's Connecticut Regiment. He was the great-grand- father of Hon. Albert Douglas and Judge J. C. Douglas, of Chillicothe, Ohio.

Edward Evans was a private in Capt. Samuel Dawson's company, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Richard Humpton. He was in the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777, Paoli, September 20, 1777, and Germantown, October 4, 1777. He was near the battle of Monmouth on that memorable hot Sunday, June 28, 1778. He was on the sick list, but wanted to go into the fight. His Captain refused him permission, and detailed him as a guard to the wagon train. He was one of a detail of twelve who threw the de- bris off the bridge under the British musketry fire and the Continentals im- mediately charged over it. After the Revolutionary War he located in Brown County, Ohio, where he died November 3. 1843, and was buried in the public cemetery at Russellville, Brown Countly, O. He was the great-grandfather of the Editor of this work.

Hugh Evans, served as a private in Captain Nathaniel Vansandt's Com- pany, 5th Pennslyvania Battalion, Continental forces, commanded by Colonel Robert Magan. He enlisted January 26, 1776, and served two months and 6 days. He was a school teacher and taught school in Chester County, Pennsylvania and while there "Mad Anthony Wayne." who was twelve years of age, was one of his pupils and was the worst boy in school for pranks and mischief. Hugh Evans was the great-great-grandfather of the Editor of this work.

John Elmore was a Corporal in Captain Charles West's Company, 3rd Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas Marshall, the father of the Chief Justice Marshall. He enlisted Dec. 1, 1776, to serve three years, was pro- moted to Sergeant in December, 1777, and his name appears on the role for November, 1779.

There was another John Elmore who enlisted in the Revolutionary War in 1776, for two years service, as a private in Charles West's Company and in Col. Weedon's Regiment, from the State of Virginia. He engaged in the battles at Harden, Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton and Monmouth. At the time of his enlistment, he resided in Loudon Co., Virginia. He made an application for pension Sept. 4, 1818 and his pension was allowed. He is an ancestor of Captain Mahlon Urton of Adams County, also of the Elmores who formerly re- sided on the west side of the Scioto near Dry Run.

Major Joseph L. Finley, was born February 20, 1753, near Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Princeton College in the class of 1775. He entered the Revolutionary War on the first day of April, 1776, as a Second Lieutenant in Captain Moorehead's Company. of Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, organized under a resolution of Congress on July 15, 1776. He was made Captain on the twentieth day of October. 1777, and his regiment was designated as the 13th Pennsylvania. He was transferred to the 8th Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778, and was made a Major July 20. 1780. He served until November, 1783, more than two years after the surrender of Corn- wallis, and he was seven years and seven months in service in defense of his country. He was in the battle of Long Island on the twenty-seventh of Aug- ust, 1776, and that of White Plains, the September following. He was at the battle of Brandywine in September, 1777; at Germantown, in October of the same year, and he was in the battle of Monmouth on that memorable hot Sun- day, June 28, 1778 After that, he was sent with Gen. Broadhead to the western part of Pennsylvania in his expedition against the Indians He subsequently saw much hard fighting. He lost his eye in the service and was otherwise much disabled.

He emigrated to Adams County in 1815 and settled, first on Gift Ridge, and afterwards moved to the foot of the hill west of West Union, and died there. His wife was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair. a noted Presbyterian minister in the early part of the history of that church in this country. She was a wo- man of much beauty of person and nobility of character, and their daughters were likewise well educated and handsome. She was an aunt of Francis P.

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Blair, the famous editor of the Globe, of Washington, D. C. She was a spright- ly woman, full of energy, and while small was considered very handsome. She had the blackest of black eyes; she wrote poetry for the newspapers, and wrote several touching tributes to the memory of deceased friends. She has been particularly described to me and if I were to choose one of her descendants who resembled her as a young woman, I would choose Mrs. Dudley B. Hutchins, ot Portsmouth, Ohio, her great-granddaughter. Major Finley and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church of West Union. He was a man of small stature, and in his old age his hair was silvery white. When he and his wife attended church at West Union, during the sermon he always sat on the pulpit steps, as he was somewhat deaf.

He had three daughters and two sons. His daughter, Hannah Finley, was the second wife of Col. John Lodwick, and the mother of a numerous family. Among her sons were Captain John P., Joseph, Pressley and Lyle Lodwick, and among her daughters were Mrs. Nancy McCabe, Mrs. Eli Kinney and Mrs. J. Scott Peebles. She died in 1827, twelve years before her father. He is an an- cestor of Mrs. Dudley B. Hutchins, Mrs. Jennie Corson of Portsmouth and Mr. C. Ross Lodwick, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Adam Fisher, enlisted near Hagarstown, Maryland, and fought in the Revolutionary War, eighteen months, about 1775, 1776 or 1777. He was the an- cestor of C. C. Brown of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Job Foster, was residing, November, 1819, in Scioto County, Ohio, at which date he applied for pension. His age was stated in July, 1824, as sixty- four years; in May, 1827, as seventy-one years; and in September, 1832, as seventy-six years, then living in Scioto County. About the 1st of October, 1780, he enlisted for eighteen months under Captain Simeon Morgan in the 9th Vir- ginia Regiment, commanded by Col. Richard Campbell. The regiment assembled and passed the winter at Winchester, Frederick County, Va. In March, 1781, it proceeded to Fredericksburg, Spottylvania County, Va .; thence to Petersburg, Chesterfield, C. H. and to Guilford, Guilford County, N. C. He joined the army commanded by General Greene, two days after the battle, (March 15th, 1781,) and was in pursuit of the enemy under Lord Cornwallis as far as Deep River, from thence going to Camden, S. C, at which place he was in the battle (April 15, 1781) and was driven back twelve miles. The British, however, evacuated Camden (May 10th, 1781) and he was ordered to the high hills of the Santee in South Carolina, where he remained three months; then he went to Fort Thomp- son for a short time, from thence going to the Fort "96" in South Carolina. where he became engaged in a number of skirmishes and was discharged at Salisbury, North Carolina in January, 1782. He is an ancestor of Mrs. Agnes Roe, of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Nathaniel Foster enlisted July or August, 1776 for one month as a pri- vate in Captain Ten Brook's Company, Colonel not stated, from New Jersey. In 1777 he enlisted for two months as a private in Captain Duloan's Company, Colonel Moore from Pennsylvania. April, 1781, he enlisted for two months in Captain Thomas Anderson's Company, Colonel not stated, from Virginia. The same year he served two months in Captain McCarly's Company, Col. not stated, from Virginia. The same year he served two months in Captain Isaac Parson's Company, Col. not stated, from Virginia. He was not in any battles. He re- sided at his enlistment, in Hudson County, New Jersey, Buchs County, Pen- nsylvania and Hampshire County, Virginia. He applied for a pension Oct. 25, 1832, while a resident of Adams County, at 72 years of age. He was born in Morris County, New Jersey, Feb. 9, 1760, removed to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1776 and to Hampshire County, Virginia in 1780. He is an ancestor of Dr. Ezekiel M. Foster, of Portsmouth, who has a sketch herein.

Martin Funk enlisted June, 1776, for two months as a private in Captain Williams' Company, Colonel not stated, Pennsylvania regiment. He enlisted September 1776, as a private for two months in Captain Alexander Barr's Com- pany, Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel not stated. In December, 1776, he en- listed as a private for four months in Captain John Pomeroy's Company, Colo- nel Loughry, Pennsylvania Regiment. In September, 1777, he enlisted for one year as a private in Captain John Hopkins' Company, Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel not stated. Battles engaged in, skirmishes with the Indians near Pitts- burg, Pa. Residence at enlistment, Westmoreland County, Pa. He received a pension. He was the ancestor of Mrs. Frank Hills (nee Mary Timmonds) of Mt.

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Vernon, New York, of Eugene Melvin Funk and Doctor William Dever Mick- lethwait of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Charles Glidden was born in Maine May 29, 1744, and died in New Hamp- shire August 11, 1811. He was a sergeant in Captain Jeremiah Clough's Com- pany. Col. Enoch Poor's regiment. He enlisted May 27, 1775, and served two months and eleven days. His wife was Alice Mills and they had a daughter, Betsy, who married Jeremiah Smith. They had a son, Joseph Smith. He mar- ried Charlotte Maria Hurd and their children were: Joseph Warren, Mrs. Mary H. Bannon and Mrs. Josephine Murfin, widow of James O. Murfin.

Samuel Gould, was in the Lexington Alarm Infantry of Captain Reuben Butterfield's Company, Col. David Green's Middlesex Regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19th, 1775, from Dunstable to Cambridge. Length of service seven days. He appears with grade of private in Captain Zaccheus Wright's Company, Col. Brook's Regiment dated "Camp at White Plains," Oc- tober 31, 1776, residence Dunstable, reported as having lost articles in battle. He is an ancestor of the late Orin B. Gould of Scioto County.

Thomas Grosvenor enlisted May 3, 1775, 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Connecticut. wounded at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775; Captain 20th Continental Infantry, Jan- uary 1, 1776; Major 3rd Connecticut, January 1, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel, March 13, 1778; transferred to 1st Connecticut, January 1, 1781; Lieutenant-Colonet Commandant, May 29, 1882; retired 1st of January, 1783. Mrs. Louise Grosven- or Leete, wife ot Phelps Chapman Leete, of Portsmouth, is a descendant ot this soldier.

Samuel Goddard served as a Sergeant in a Light Infantry Company in Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment from May 21, 1777 to May 22, 1780, from the town of Boston, Captain Gawen Brown's Company. He also was in Lieutenant Thomas Turner's Company and Captain William Scott's Company of the same regiment. It is recorded that he discharged his duties as became a soldier and had not been absent without permission. He was promoted to Sergeant July 10, 1777. His age is given as 29 years on July 8, 1780; stature 5 feet 6 inches complexion light. He had a son, Samuel Goddard. Junior, who was born in Sut- ton, Massachusetts, about 1774 and died at Norwich, Vermont, in 1844. The latter left a son, Henry Goddard, born in Concord, Vermont, in 1812 and died at Norwich, Vermont, in 1890. The . last named is the father of Charles A. Goddard of Franklin Furnace, Ohio.

George Hammitt enlisted in the summer of July or August, 1775, for one year as a private in Captain William McClanahan's Company, Col. Stevens from Virginia. Abraham Bluford was also Captain of this Company for a time. He enlisted again in 1777, for three months in Captain McClanahan's Company, Col. not stated, in the Virginia Militia. He enlisted in 1781 for two months in Capt. Reuben Slaughter's Company, Col. Alcock of Virginia. He was engaged in the bat- tle of Great Bridge. He resided at Culpeper, Virginia, at the time of his en- listment. He applied for a pension November 20, 1834, at which time he was a resident of Scioto County, Ohio. He was born January 13, 1756, in Fauquier County, Pennsylvania. He was the owner of 160 acres of land on Lovers Lane in Clay Township on which he died in 1886. He is an ancestor of Wm. Burt and Mrs. Mary A. Barton, of Portsmouth. O.

Hallam Hempstead, the son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Booth) Hemp- stead, was born at New London, Connecticut, June 1. 1763. He served in the 1st Company, 3rd Regiment, Connecticut Militia. The Company was organized May 1777. The officers of the Company were: Captain John Hempstead, Lieutenant. Even Douglas, Ensign Jophet Mason. He was married to Polly Barron and emigrated to Marietta, Ohio. with his brother Giles, in August, 1802. His wife died at Marietta, November 15, 1806. He then removed to Maysville, Kentucky, where he resided for a short time, then removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, with his four surviving children, one son and three daughters, of a family of eleven. His son. Hallam, became a resident ot Pike County, his eldest daughter Clarissa. married Nathan K. Clough. Maria married William Oldfield and Jane married James Lodwick and many of their descendants are still living in Scioto County. Hallam Hempstead died July 25. 1833, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and is buried in Greenlawn, Portsmouth. Ohio. He was the great grandfather of Mrs. Mary Clough Dunham Pursell, Mrs. Marinette Gharky Rice and of Mrs. Jounie Hemp- stead Corson.

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Josiah Hoskinson enlisted June, 1778, for one year and was Sergeant Major in Captain Beal's Company, Col. Rawlings from the State of Maryland. He resided at Fort Frederick, Maryland, at the time of his enlistment. He ap- plied for a pension June 27, 1818, and was then a resident of Washington Town- ship, Scioto County, Ohio. He was 63 years of age when he applied for a pen- sion and his wife's name was Margaret. He was an ancestor of Judge Robert A. Calvert and Thomas Calvert.

Robert Hunter served as Ensign and 2nd Lieutenant in Colonel Wil- liam Malcolm's Continental Regiment, Revolutionary War. He was appointed Ensign November 1, 1777, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, March 15, 1778. His command was at White Plains, March 3, 1779, and he retired from the army April 22, 1779. He was the grandfather of the late Robert Bell and of Miss Emma Bell of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Wiliam Huston, of Pennsylvania, was an ensign of Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment, May, 1777. He was Second Lieutenant and Adjutant on the 2nd of June, 1778. The regiment was designated the 11th Pennsylvania on the 16th of December, 1778. He was First Lieutenant February 24, 1780, and was transferred to the Sixth Pennsylvania January 17, 1781, transferred to the Second Pennsylvania January 1, 1783, and served in this until June 3, 1783. Time of service six years. He was the father of William Huston one of the first settlers of Portsmouth and the grandfather of Samuel J. Huston and the great-grandfather of Miss Irene Huston of Portsmouth and the great-grand- father of Mrs. Frank L. Brown of Youngstown, Ohio, J. Huston Varner and Mrs. Anna Varner Sanford of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Salma Keyes served as a private in Captain Adam Bailey's Company, Sec- ond Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Sproat, Rev- olutionary War. He enlisted January 23, 1781, to serve three years, and his name last appears on the roll for December, 1781, dated at West Point, January 1. 1782, with remark, "Coaling." This soldier is the ancestor of Col. Thomas Sikes of Huntington, W. Va., Frank L. Sikes and Milford Keyes of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Jeremiah Kendall, the father of Gen. Wm. Kendall, served as a private in Captain William Washington's Company, 3rd Virginia Regiment, Revolution- ary war, commanded by Colonel Thomas .Marshall, father of the Chief Justice. He enlisted February 23, 1776. to serve two years, was transferred in August 1777, to Captain G. B. Wallace's Company, same regiment; was wounded in Sep- tember. 1777, and was discharged in January, 1778. Charles Kendall, Frank Kendall, Mrs. Lavina Adair, Mrs. John W. Overturf are his living representa- tives. Col. Thomas Marshall, his colonel, is buried three miles back of Mays- ville, Ky .. near the town of Washington. The Editor has visited his grave.

Peter Kinney, the father of Aaron Kinney, one of the early settlers of Scioto County, served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Van Swearingen's Company, 8th Pennsylvania regiment. He enlisted June 24, 1779, and served out the war. He never came to Scioto County but died in the state of Pennsylvania.

Thomas I awson served as a member of Capt. John William's Company, 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, Revolutionary War. The rolls show he served from November 1 1777, to the last of March. 1779, and the sum due him for November 1777, 21b 10s, December, 1777, 11b 13s 4d, and March, 1779, 41b 3s 4d. It does not appcar that he ever drew this money and was absent, sick or a pri- soner these months. He was the father of William Lawson, the first settler of Portsmouth. Among his descendants are Mrs. Will Gates and the late Wil- liam Lawson, of Portsmouth, Ohio, Mrs. George N. Biggs of Huntington, W. Va., Mrs. Mary Timmonds Hills of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Mrs. Charles E. Molster, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Catherine C. Witherow, wife of William S. Witherow, of Greenup County, Kentucky.

Christopher Lauman was Ist Lieutenant in December, 1776, Third Bat- talion of Association of York County Pennsylvania. He served during the War of the Revolution in the capacity of Ensign, 2nd Lieutenant, and 1st Lieu- tenant of the Pennsylvania Militia, 1775-6-7, and was at Trenton and Princeton. He commanded the Fourth Company of the Third Battalion, Colonel David Jamison, his commission bearing date of April 5. 1778, and was in actual service in the neighborhood of Philadelphia that year. He is an ancestor of Frank Gor- don Lauman, of Bear Creek, Scioto County, Ohio.

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Elias Langham was a Revolutionary soldier.He enlisted February 19, 1777, under Lieutenant Richard C. Waters, 1st regiment of Artillery, Colonel Charles Harrison. He was a private and matross. He went into Captain Drury Rag- dales' Company and served part of his time with the Northern Army, under Captain Anthony Singleton of the 2nd regiment, and for a part of the time under Captain John Danridge. He served at different stations of which he was proud. He was a Bombardier, Sergeant, Quarter Master Sergeant, and Conductor of Military Stores, of all of which he states he was proud. He was appointed 1st Lieutenant of the 1st Artillery by General Nathaniel Green, by a letter which he filed in his application for pension. These statements are all taken from his own application for pension. He says that he last served in Captain Ambrose Bo- hannon's Company of said regiment, but never recieved his commission. After the war, he received five years full pay in lieu of 1-2 pay for life. He received a diploma in the Society of the Cincinnati, signed by his illustrious chief, George Washington. That he is unwilling to admit his own poverty, but acknowledges that the amount allowed by law of March 18, 1818, will be useful and convenient to him. He states that from his enlistment to November 23, 1783, he was in continuous service, and at that date the army was completely discharged by proclamation. He made oath for his pension before L. Baskerville Associate Judge of Union County, April 30, 1818. He gave his inventory as 1 horse, saddle and bridle, $25.00, all other property $10.00, making a total of $35.00. He stated that his occupation was surveyor, but that he was unable to follow it. He states that he had six children, but none were living with him. He made oath to the latter statement May 11, 1821. He was the surveyor who made the plat of the town of Alexandria and is supposed to have made the town plat for Portsmouth or assisted in it. He was a member of the Second Legislature from Ross County. December 5, 1803 to February 17, 1804, and was Speaker of the House. He was a member of the Fourth Legislature, December 2, 1805 to January 27, 1806, from Ross and Franklin Counties. He was a member of the Sixth Legislature, De- cember 7, 1807 to February 27, 1808, from Franklin, Ross and Highland Counties and had one vote for Speaker. He was frequently in the vicinity of the City of Portsmouth from 1779 to 1803, but whether he was a prominent citizen or not, is not known but it is known that he did much surveying in the vicinity of what is now Portsmouth. It is believed he was a resident of Union, County, Ohio, at the time of his death.

Parsons Lummis, served as a private in Captain Richard Howell's com- pany, 2nd New Jersey Regiment, Revolutionary War. He enlisted November 7. 1775, and his name appears on the rolls of that organization to January 17, 1776. He is a great-grandfather of Shadrack C Lummis and Jacob W. Lummis, who have sketches herein, and a grandfather of John W. Lummis, deceased. who has a sketch herein. -

William Lucas was a private in Captain Nathaniel Welch's Company known also as Captain Philip Taliaferro's Company and as Captain Thomas Minor's Company. 2nd Virginia Regiment, commanded at different times by Colonel William Brent and Colonel Gregory Smith, Revolutionary War. He eniisted February 13, 1777 for three years and his name last appears on the roll November 1779, without remark.He died July, 1814, in the 72nd year of his age, and he was interred, with military honors, in the Lucasville Cemetery. His grave is marked and his tombstone will be found in the oldest part of that Cemetery. He was a native of Virginia. He had five sons and three daughters. His sons were Judge Joseph Lucas, Gov. Lobert Lucas, John Lucas, the hotel keeper, at Lucasville, William and Samuel Lucas. C. E. Brown of East Third street, and Harry D. Hibbs, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Hon. Samuel L. Patterson, of Waverly are among his descendants.

Samuel Marshall, senior. was a private in Captain David Marshall's 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Cumberland County Associates. Lieutenant Mitchell, 1780. This is taken from the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, Volume 23, page 714. He and his wife and four children were the first to make a settle- ment permanently in Scioto County. They left Pittsburg in the summer of 1795, and went to Manchester where they remained until after Wayne's Treaty. He then took the same boat in which he came down the river and went up the river and settled opposite the mouth of Tygart, Kentucky, west of Lawson's run. There he built a log cabin, the first in the County. His family consisted of

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 25

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612