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July 14, 1815, the Council met and resolved to manage the school and school lands; and at this time, Council also resolved to build a Market House. July 28, 1815, at 9 o'clock in the morning the Council met at the house of Henry Sheeley, but adjourned until the 5th day of August at 2 P. M., with- out doing any business. Leases were ordered made of the school lots in or- der to raise money to build the school house. John Brown and Nathan K. Clough were appointed a committee to lease school lands. The contract was made with John Brown for the Market House.
August 11, 1815, they met at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, but it does not appear what they did.
On Monday, September 11, 1815, a committee was appointed to bring in a bill in regard to keeping dogs, also a bill respecting fires. The tax question seemed very important at that time, for on the 10th of November, 1815, the committee on the keeping of dogs, asked for more time and for another member of the committee, making three, which request was granted.
December 29, 1815, John Young was elected in place of Nathan Glover, who had removed, and several bills were introduced, read and passed the next meeting.
January 5, 1816, an ordinance to prevent the keeping of dogs was pass- ed also the ordinances in respect to the streets, to prevent making fires in the streets, in regard to issuing bills. The Council then adjourned until the 19th of January, 1816, to the house of John Brown. It does not appear what was done at this meeting.
February 16, 1816, it was resolved to push the building of the Market House. Josiah Shackford and John Young were appointed a committee to bring in a bill regulating the public well.
March 1, 1816, David Jones was allowed $35.00 balance, for building the Market House. This was the lower Market House.
March 15, 1816, Thomas Waller, John R. Turner, William Lodwick, came in as the new Councilmen. Thomas Waller was elected President; John Thornton, Supervisor; and Jacob Moore, Marshal. An ordinance was passed to drain the slough. This was Third street from Chillicothe to the west end of the street.
May 1, 1816, Council met at the house of John Brown, William Hus- ton's seat was declared vacant because he failed to attend, and Philip Moore was elected in his place. On the same date, Thomas Waller was appointed Town Surveyor, the first one. This was the beginning of the office of City Civil Engineer. A bill for the surveying of lumber was ordered to be brought in by a committee appointed for that purpose, also a bill to regulate Markets.
May 10, 1816, Ezra Osborn was allowed $4.00 for assessing the property in Portsmouth. An ordinance for the measuring of lumber was made a law, and the Town bought a plow and scraper. Usually a special committee was ap- pointed to bring in each bill and all were introduced as reports. An ordi- nance was passed to prevent the improper use of water from the public wells, and also creating a Town Supervisor. John Young was appointed Surveyor of lumber. Samuel Wilson was allowed $63.00 in balance for building the market house.
June 10, 1816, a bill regulating the Market was read and passed. This bill provided for a Clerk of the Market, and Jacob Moore was elected to that office. William Kendall was allowed $9.00 for printing the corporation bills. John R Turner, William Kendall and N. K. Clough were appointed a com- mitee to report regulations as to wagoners putting their wagons on streets and alleys.
September 27, 1816, William Kendall and David Gharky were ordered to report a bill in regard to keeping hogs, and Jacob Moore was allowed $3.00 for his services as Clerk of the Market.
January 10, 1817, John Brown, Jr., was elected a member of the Coun- cil in place of Samuel B. Burt removed. The Committee on hogs asked for further time, the subject being very weighty.
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March 10, 1817, at the corporation election, John Brown, Sr., David Gharky and Philip Moore were elected Councilmen for three years. David Gharky was elected Treasurer, Ezra Osborn Assessor, and John Noel (spelled Nowell) was elected Town Marshal, and John Brown Supervisor.
March 14, 1817, an ordinance to prevent hogs from running at large, was passed.
May 14, 1817, Nathan Wheeler was elected Councilman in place of John Brown, Sr., resigned. There were no records of any meeting between July 16, 1817 and April 1818. The Council evidently let the town take care of it- self.
April 8, 1818, it was noted in the Journal that no election had been held of Councilmen.
In March, 1818, N. K. Clough, William Kendall and John Brown, Jr., were elected Councilmen by the other members of the Council. N. K. Clough was elected Recorder, and John Noel, Town Marshal. On the same date, a survey and plat of the town was ordered. N. K. Clough was allowed $4.00 for making out a duplicate of the town for 1817.
May 22, 1818, a bill was passed to prevent the spread of small pox. Drs. Thomas Waller and G. S. B. Hempstead were ordered to attend the house of David McCann and to prevent infection. There is no record of any further meetings until the 8th of March, 1819, when Thomas Waller, William Lodwick and John R. Turner were elected Councilmen for three years. Cornelius Mc- Coy was elected in place of John Brown removed. Jacob P. Noel was chosen in place of Philip Moore removed. Thomas Waller was elected President; John Noel, Marshal, and Hugh Cook was elected Supervisor, but declined. Na- than Wheeler was appointed in his place.
March 12, 1819, David Gharky was allowed, for the use of his oxen and a hand, $1.50. He was allowed as Treasurer for 1818, $30.00.
May 14, 1819, Jolin H. Thornton was allowed, as Supervisor for his ser- vices in 1817, $30.50.
May 21, 1819, the ordinance regulating hogs was repealed.
October 1, 1819, Jacob P. Noel, William Kendall and William Lodwick were appointed a committee to inspect the streets and alleys and to direct the Supervisors who were to work on the same. This was the first Committee on streets in the town of Portsmouth.
February 4, 1820, a bill was passed to compel members to attend the Council. N. K. Clough, Recorder, resigned.
February 9, 1820, John R. Turner, William Lodwick and Jacob P. Noel were a committee to contract with some one to enclose the burial grounds.
March 13, 1820, David Gharky, Jacob P. Noel and Jacob Clingman were elected Councilmen for three years.
March 14, 1820, Samuel Gunn was elected Councilman in place of Wil- liam Kendall, resigned. On the same date, Jacob Clingman was elected Re- corder, John Noel, Marshal, David Gharky was elected Treasurer and Jacob Clingman, Supervisor.
August 12, 1820, William Kendall was appointed Surveyor in place of Thomas Waller resigned.
August 14, 1820, an ordinance to prevent fires, was passed. Cornelius McCoy asked to burn brick on lot No. 175. The request was referred to the committee.
August 25, 1820, N. K. Clough was fined for leaving Council without per- mission and John R. Turner and David Gharky for non-attendance.
March 12, 1821, a corporation election was held at the Court House. William Kendall, Samuel Gunn and N. K. Clough were elected Councilmen. John Noel was elected Marshal, and William Lodwick Supervisor. There is no record of any other meeting until March 11, 1822, when three Councilmen were elected and the following votes were cast, William Lodwick 44, Daniel Corwin 40, James B. Prescott 32.
March 14, 1822, Thomas Waller retired from the Council. John R. Tur- ner was elected President, Simon DeLong was elected Town Marshal, Wil- liam Lodwick Supervisor, and John Hatch, Clerk of the Market.
March 25, 1822, John Noel was allowed 50c a meeting for attending Council meetings for two years. The amount allowed $7.00.
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March 15, 1822, a committee of Council reported that $502.00 in tickets of corporation, were in circulation, and the Treasurer was accountable for $725.00.
March 25, 1822, the Council adjourned to meet at the Court House by early candle-light.
March 26, 1822, it is solemnly entered that Simon DeLong, Marshal, being unwell, had leave to go home.
April 6, 1822, David Gharky, Treasurer, was removed by a unanimous vote of the Council for squandering the circulating medium of the Town. (Corpor- ation tickets.) Samuel Gunn was elected in his place.
April 8, 1822, $25.00 was appropriated for fire hooks.
April 24, 1822, the Council met at William Lodwick's accounting room. An ordinance, to compel the citizens to keep fire buckets, was passed. Wil- liam Lodwick was allowed to keep a wood yard under the bank in front of his store; and to bring the wood up on the first bank in case of high water. He was to pay one-half of one per cent on the wood sold, and there was a tax of that amount levied on the property.
May 29, 1822, $50.00 was appropriated to fence the graveyard, and a Com- mittee appointed to attend to it. David Gharky was then a member of the Council. $100.00 was appropriated to repair the Market House.
June 13, 1822, four pillars were added to the Market House. David Gharky entered his solemn protest against spending $50.00 to fence the grave- yard. It seems he did this because the proposed fencing did not enclose the entire graveyard, but left some graves out. At the next meeting the bodies in these graves were ordered taken up and buried in the enclosure.
Sept. 17, 1822, Nathan K. Clough and Daniel Corwin were appointed a Committee to wait on John H. Thornton, and purchase a Bull for the town.
Sept. 26, 1822, $68.00 was ordered paid John H. Thornton for the Town Bull, less subscriptions. He was to keep it for $50.00 a year for his services. No other meeting was recorded till January 8, 1823.
Jan. 8, 1823, a public meeting was called on Jan. 9, 1823. A Committee was appointed to protest against Henry Massie, selling the front of the Town. March 10, 1823, the corporation election was held. Samuel M. Tracy, John Noel and Murtaugh Kehoe were elected Councilmen.
March 14, 1823, Jacob Clingman was elected Councilman in place of N. K. Clough, resigned. John H. Thornton was elected Town Marshal. Daniel Corwin, Supervisor and Jacob Clingman, Recorder. Samuel M. Tracy and Daniel Corwin were appointed a committee to write to Henry Massie. Edward King, lawyer from Chillicothe, was allowed an attorney fee in this case of the Corporation against Moore. This is the first record of any services performed by an Attorney for the Town of Portsmouth.
March 21, 1823, Drs. Waller, Offnere and Hempstead were appointed a Committee to report on the slaughter houses in the Corporation, as affecting the public health. A committee was also appointed to revise the rules and or- dinances, composed of Samuel M. Tracy, John Noel and Daniel Corwin.
May 5, 1823, William Carey was elected Councilman in place of James B. Prescott, removed from town. $19.00 had been subscribed for the Town Bull, and $11.00 paid. Ordered that the subscription paper be sent around at 1 p. m. Adjourned until 4 p. m., when a number of ordinances were read.
May 12, 1823, Jacob Clingman resigned as Recorder and member of the Council. Samuel M. Tracy was elected Recorder in his place. A resolution was passed, stating that Henry Massie had only put locust stakes at lot corners, and that survey be made, and stone planted on Market street, First East, Second East, West street, and First West street. Kehoe and Corwin were appointed a committee to clean and repair the public well. The town was di- vided into two wards, East and West. All below Market street was the West Ward, and all above was the East Ward. This was only for street purposes. Daniel Corwin was appointed Surveyor of the West Ward, and John Noel of the East Ward.
May 19, 1823, Council went into a Committee of the whole to consider the purchase of fire ladders at $22.50. On the same date, a Committee was a- pointed to lease the school lots. William Lodwick was allowed $16.00 as Su-
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pervisor for 1821 and 1822. Alexander Caldwell was elected Assessor. John H1. Thornton was allowed $33.33 for keeping the Town Bull.
May 26 1823, Simon DeLong was allowed, as Marshal in 1822, $8.00. James Lodwick was a member of the Council at this time.
June 6, 1823, John H. Thornton was elected Clerk of the Market.
June 16, 1823, he was allowed $1.25 for a copy of the Cincinnati ordi- nauces, which he had purchased.
July 4, 1823, William Lodwick resigned as Councilman. Jacob Offnere was elected in his place. He refused to serve. Daniel Corwin also resigned. Elijah Glover and William Oldfield were elected in their places. Elijah Glover was elected Supervisor of the West Ward.
August 4, 1823, the committee on Markets was allowed $3.33. At this same time, Elijah Glover, James Lodwick and John Noel were appointed a street committee for 1823.
Sept. 12, 1823, John R. Turner resigned as President of the Council, and as a member. Jacob Clingman was elected President of the Council. At this time, Moses Gregory had two butcher stalls in the Market.
Sept. 19, 1823, the Committee on the front of the town reported that Henry Massie did not answer their letter.
October 3, 1823, a committee was appointed to secure the front of the town, and to go to law about it. John Noel, William Oldfield and Elijah Glover were the Committee.
January 2, 1824, James Lodwick resigned as a member of the Council, and Wilson Gates was elected in his place. John Thornton agreed to keep the Town Bull until the 1st of May next for $17.00.
February 1, 1824, Murtaugh Kehoe resigned as a member of the Council, and Charles Rand was elected in his place. Alexander Caldwell was allowed $4.00 as Assessor for 1823.
March 8, 1824, a corporation election was held between the hours of 11 A. M. and 4 P. M. Samuel Gunn and Wilson Gates each thirteen votes, and Jacob Clingman, twelve; and they were all elected.
May 29, 1824, John H. Thornton was appointed Clerk of the Market.
June 4, 1824, John H. Thornton was allowed $17.00 for keeping the Town Bull. Wilson Gates resigned as Councilman, and Jacob P. Noel was elected in his place.
June 11, 1824, John H. Thornton was elected Supervisor of the West Ward. The Council directed an ordinance prepared for the Health Board. Samuel M. Tracy, John Noel and Samuel Gunn were appointed to bring it in. This was the first move for a Board of Health in Portsmouth.
August 13, 1824, an ordinance creating the Board of Health, was pass- ed. It was composed of Jacob Offnere, John Peebles and Ebenezer Corwin.
November 18, 1824, William Oldfield and Samuel Tracy were appointed a committee to print twenty-five copies of the ordinances. Charles Rand and John Noel was appointed a committee to sell the Town Bull. This is the last of the Town Bull. He was sold to Clinton Furnace.
March 14, 1825, the Corporation election was held. Ebenezer Corwin had 37 votes, William Oldfield 26, and Samuel G. Jones 21. All were elected. May 6, 1825, John Peebles was elected Assessor. The taxes collected in 1824 were $205.48.
June 3, 1825, John H. Thornton resigned as Town Marshal. Samuel G. Jones resigned as Councilman and was elected Marshal. John R. Turner was elected to Council in his place. Charles Rand resigned as Councilman, and G. S. B. Hempstead was elected in his place. This is Dr. Hempstead's first ap- pearance in public office in the town of Portsmouth. Jacob Clingman re- signed as President of the Council, and John R. Turner was elected in his place. G. S. B. Hempstead and Ebenezer Corwin were appointed a Commit- tee to allow persons to work out the Corporation tax.
June 10, 1825, Nathaniel W. Andrews was appointed Health Officer. June 14, 1825, Samuel G. Jones was elected Clerk of the Market. There is no record of any election in March, 1826. None was probably held.
May 12, 1826, three members of the Council were elected by the others. William Peebles, Ebenezer Corwin and John Noel were elected a Committee on pavements. John Noel and Ebenezer Corwin were appointed a committee
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to buy five acres for the new burying ground. John Peebles was allowed $4.00 as Assessor in 1825.
June 22, 1826, G. S. B. Hempstead, John Noel and Samuel M. Tracy were appointed a committee to revise the laws and ordinances in the Corporation. Samuel M. Tracy was ordered to perpetuate testimony in regard to the claim of the land in front of the Town.
July 19, 1826 an ordinance was passed to require all hay sold in the town to be weighed on the town scales.
March 12, 1827, at the Corporation election, three Councilmen were elected by the following votes, Samuel Gunn 41, John McDonald 27 and James Lodwick 23.
March 19, 1827, Silas W. Cole, David Gharky and Havillah Gunn were elected Health Officers. No meeting was held from this date until July 26, 1827, when Zina Gunn was elected Health Officer in place of David Gharky, declined to serve.
July 26, 1827, Silas W. Cole was allowed $6.00 in payment for his service as Supervisor of the East Ward for 1827. G. S. B. Hempstead and John Mc- Donald were the Street Committee.
From this date until Dec. 14, 1827, no meeting was recorded. At that date, Kennedy Lodwick was elected Councilman in place of Ebenezer Corwin. James Lodwick was appointed to go to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve notice on Henry Massie to perpetuate testimony in regard to the front of the town. John R. Turner, Jacob P. Noel, G. S. B. Hempstead and Samuel M. Tracy were appointed a Committee to attend to perpetuating the testimony.
In March, 1828, no election was held, but on April 4, 1828, the Council elected Kennedy Lodwick, John R. Turner and William Oldfield to succeed themselves Nathaniel W. Andrews, Havillah Gunn and Silas W. Cole were elected Health Officers. The Supervisors were ordered to ascertain the cost of reparing the public well, and to put in a pump.
April 18, 1828, the Committee on repairing of the public well, reported it would take $25.00 to $30.00 to repair it, and the Council resolved to ask the Commissioners to help; and a Committee was appointed to raise the sub- subscriptions. John McDonald, Kennedy Lodwick and G. S. B. Hempstead were the Committee. Simon De Long was allowed $76.27 for services as Town Marshal and Clerk of the Market in 1826 and 1827.
Feb. 6, 1829, William Oldfield and Kennedy Lodwick were appointed a Committee on the new Cemetery to report at next meeting. The old Commitee having done nothing was discharged.
March 9, 1829, ground for the graveyard was bought. That is, ground for the beginning of the present Greenlawn Cemetery.
March 9, 1829, at the Corporation election, John Noel. G. S. B. Hemp- stead and Samuel M. Tracy were elected Councilmen for three years. The Health Officers. were Thomas Strong, Wilson Gates and Allen Farquhar. Samuel G. Jones was allowed $12.00 for Clerk of the Market, in 1829.
April 21, 1829, a pump was put in the public well at a cost of $25.00 The County Commissioners were to pay $10.00.
May 1, 1829, the laws and ordinances were ordered to be printed when revised.
May 11, 1829, a number of ordinances were passed.
June 5, 1829, Julius A. Bingham was allowed $25.00 for printing two- hundred copies of the ordinances. C. O. Tracy was allowed $7.50 for copying ordinances for printing.
June 10, 1829, it was ordered that no tax be collected this year, because the Assessor had failed to make proper returns, but this order was reconsidered on July 3, 1829, and an ordinance passed as to objects of taxation.
July 19, 1829, a Committee of three on the front of the Town was ap- pointed. Noel, Hempstead and Tracy were the Committee. John Noel and Dr. Hempstead were also appointed a Committee to lay out the burying ground. July 22, 1829, Samuel M. Tracy and Washington Kinney were appointed a Committee to wait on Henry Massie as to the river front etc. They per- formed their duty, and reported he would sell his entire interest in the town of Portsmouth for $18,000 and $6,000 for his interest in the wharfage, $3,000 down and $3,000 in ten years, excepting that heretofore sold to William Lod-
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wick and another part to William Kendall. John R. Turner and John Noel were appointed a Committee to see on what terms the interest of William Lod- wick could be purchased from him. He offered to sell his interest for $2,000. His was Massie's addition to the Town plat of lots 189 and 289, and he offered to lend $3,000 to pay Massie and to take the Town scrip. $6,000 was borrowed of Lodwick, and notes given in gales, and the wharfage pledged to secure the same.
August 7, 1829, the Committee to close with Massie, John R. Turner, Samuel M. Tracy and John Noel, reported that they had done so and had agreed to pay him $3,000, and had given him a note for the same amount due in ten years. and that Massie had made a deed to the President of the Common Coun- cil of Portsmouth, for the tract of land lying east of Second East street and west of lands owned by Thomas Waller between Water street, now Front street, and low water mark, except cross streets. Also another tract adjoining the first one on the west, running down the river, fifteen rods to Gharky's field and from low water mark, north to the top of the grade, for landing and grade. He also conveyed the lots from Water street to low water mark, excepting what he had sold to William Lodwick and William Kendall. The deed was left with William V. Peck, and the mortgage was to be executed to secure the purchase money. The action of the committee was approved by a resolution.
September 2, 1829, Washington Kinney and Samuel Gunn were ap- pointed a Committee to procure two floating wharves, sixty feet long.
Nov. 28, 1829, William Hall was elected Councilman in place of John Mc- Donald. Henry Massie made a deed to the City of the old graveyard. John Noel was appointed a Committee of one to clear the new graveyard.
March 8, 1830, Jacob P. Noel, George D. H. Wilcoxon and Nathaniel W. Andrews were elected Councilmen.
April 14, 1830, the Health Officers were Levi C. Barker, Ruloff Whitney, and Murtaugh Kehoe. John Peebles, Inspector of Whiskey, and Robert Mont- gomery of Flour.
March 7, 1831, Wilson Gates, Ezra Osborn and Silas W. Cole were elect- ed Councilmen. The Health Officers were Hylam Rawson, Moses Gregory and James Salsbury. The Health Officers were allowed $1.00 a year. Samuel M. Tracy was allowed $48.00 for four years service as Recorder from 1826 to 1830. Havillah Gunn was appointed Assessor. John Noel was allowed $5.00 as As- sessor for 1830. Simon DeLong had been Town Marshal since 1827, and was allowed $32.72 for his service from that time to the present. The old grave- yard was sold for $3,500 to John T. Barr.
June 3. 1831, Havillah Gunn was allowed $5.00 as Assessor for 1831.
March 12, 1832. Samuel M. Tracy, G. S. B. Hempstead and William V. Peck were elected Councilmen. The Health Officers were John Musser, Oliver C. Thoroman and Richard Lloyd.
April 6, 1832. there was a grant made to McCollough and Roap for a site for the Water Works.
May 19. 1832, John Noel was elected Assessor. On the same date, G. S. B. Hempstead was allowed $4.50 for services as Supervisor of the East Ward for 1832, and William Hall was allowed the same amount for the West Ward.
July 6, 1832, Simon Del ong was Clerk of the Market, Marshal and Jail- er. Preparations were made for the Cholera. Cleanliness and temperance were enjoined. A free dispensary for Cholera patients was provided for. Hugh Cook, Silas W. Cole, Jacob Offnere, Robert Wood. Thomas Strong and Ben- jamin Friar were added to the Board of Health, and the graveyard was ordered staked ont in lots.
Oct. 5, 1832, the Grocers' Licenses were $37.50 per annum, which included liquors. Peter Kinney, Richard Lloyd, Benjamin Melcher and Hugh Cook each had one.
Nov. 2, 1832, a special Committee was appointed on Cholera and a special Board of Health Officers, composed of Drs. Andrews, Farquhar, Pattillo and Rodgers.
March 1, 1833, grocery license issued to Robert Montgomery. On the same date, the Budget from March 1, 1832 to Feb. 28, 1833 was $3.060.54. The wharfage made $838.00 and the grocery licenses made $419.38. The duplicate
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of 1832 was $434.061/2, of 1831, $226.17, of 1830, $30.95. The Councilmen were paid for their services. The largest expenditures were on the wharves about $1,600. The Public Well in front of the Court House was still maintained. On the same date, at the Corporation election John Noel, Isaac Noel and Moses Gregory were elected Councilmen.
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