Biographical and historical memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio. Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the county and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy families and individuals, Part 38

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Memory of General George Washington, the

The following, from the hand of Dr. R. E. founder of the American republic, 7th, Thomas Chambers, of Chandlersville, is reminiscent of Jefferson, the Author of the Declaration of In- an early excitement in this county: "In the year dependence: a patriot, enlightened statesman, 1819 a physician of Putnam, now Zanesville, and a philosopher; 9th, The Officers and Soldiers Ohio, on his return from Marietta, stopped at of the Army and Navy: freemen fighting for the village of Chandlersville for the night with civil and religious liberty; 12th, British Federal- Samuel Chandler, the tavern keeper. During ists in America: more dangerous than all the evening, the doctor, who was much inter- foreign enemies; 15th, Our Impressed Seafaring ested in geology, asked the landlord, an intel- Citizens: for twenty years enslaved on British ligent man, and the owner of the salt well warships, chained in poisonous holds, flayed at which had been operating for some two years, the gangway, protections torn to shreds, their what appeared to be the character of the forma- crime the claim of rights as Americans; 16th, tion through which they had passed in boring Hon. James Caldwell, our Representative in for salt. The answer was that his knowledge Congress. Volunteer toasts were offered by was limited, but he well remembered that at the Dr. H. Moore, Gen. Van Horne, Samuel depth of about 125 feet they encountered a very Sullivan, Esq., Maj. D. Chambers, William hard rock, and were only ableto cut from a half Craig, Esq., Joseph M. Wood, and the last to an inch per day; that he remembered their by Gen. Samuel Herrick, which was, "The finding particles in their sand pumping, that Union of the States: banishment or solitary whilst they could not melt they found them confinement to all those Americans who dare malleable.

to raise their traitorous hands against it." "The doctor was desirous of finding some Harmony and conviviality prevailed through- of the sand pumpings, and proposed that the out, and the company dispersed well satisfied. next morning they go to the well, and see if

In the fall of 1816, Jacob Lewis shot and they could find even at that late period any of killed Samuel Jones, at the mouth of Symmes' the exhumed formation of the depth below. creek, north of Zanesville. A jury met De- Their search was rewarded. The doctor whose cember 5th, that year, and indicted him for name was Conant, took with him to his home murder in the first degree. Samuel Herrick in Putnam, the sand pumpings found at the was prosecuting attorney; Calvin Pease and salt well, and with a crucible aided by a blow- Joseph N. Couch were supreme judges; John C. pipe, succeeded in melting the particles of the Stockton and Herrick were for the state and siftings, and from the molten particles he suc- Wyllis Silliman, Alexander Harper and S. W. ceeded in making a button. He called to his Culbertson were counsel for the accused. After aid another physician, and the siftings of the being out two days and nights, the jury re- well passed through the crucible a second time. turned a verdict of murder in the first degree. " Fully satisfied of a silver find, these gen- The jurors were Samuel Sullivan ( foreman), D. tlemen, with others, were not slow in visiting Wilson, James Culbertson, William Craig, Gil- Columbus, the legislature being then in session, bert Blue, Nathan G. Finley, Lewis Verdan, and asking for an act of incorporation for a George Reeves, Michael Peters, John McCleary, silver mining company, which was speedily Thomas Moorhead and William Blocksom. A granted. The value of shares was fixed at fifty solemn and lengthy charge to the prisoner dollars and such was the confidence in the ex-

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istence of silver that the stock was soon taken and a company formed.

" The men were all safely drawn out, but in a few hours the shaft was filled with water to "Our present experience enables us to ex- the depth of forty feet, and all tools, with a tract the precious metal from the bowels of the pump costing some $400, remain in the well to earth by the most improved machinery, but the the present time. Suit was brought against the pioneer had handed down to him the methods silver mining company by Mr. Chandler, and of the ancient Egyptians and did know how to he recovered damages to the amount of $1,- apply the horse and the ox, with the aid of the ooo, and hence he was charged with having tread wheel, and they were utilized.

silvered the mine.

" The important question that met the sil-

"While the imperfect exploration did not ver miner was to locate the silver bearing rock, establish the non-existence of silver, it did (if in a rock), and to remove all doubts, it was find the seven-foot vein of coal. The shaft proposed to use a scraper in the salt well. was abandoned and the work given up, and Though it was desired by the silver mining from that time to the present the drill auger company to sink the shaft around the well hole, has not been used at this place, but soon, it is Mr. Chandler refused, as it would destroy his expected, that the diamond drill will be used well. They agreed to sink the shaft forty feet to re-establish the fact of the seven-foot vein from the well. The scraper was arranged so of coal, as a party of gentlemen have been en- that the pressure down would close the springs tering into agreement with the citizens of this and withdrawing would suffer the springs to place and vicinity for that purpose, and pro- scrape the side walls ; in this way they would pose to buy the coal if its existence is re-af- find at some point along the well the silver firmed by the drill. So if we do not find silver deposit, and it was thought that the rock that in its purity, we hope to do so indirectly by the Mr. Chandler had described as so hard to drill exhuming of coal." through was the point at which the silver Following is an exhibit of Muskingum would be found. The shaft sinking was com- county's population, according to each succes- menced. The work went on from day to day, sive census from 1810 to 1890, inclusive: 1810, and as the point of the expected find was near- 10,036; 1820, 17,824; 1830, 29,334; 1840, 38,749; ing, the energy and watchfulness increased. 1850, 45,049; 1860, 44,416; 1870, 44,886, 1880, For it was expected at the depth of 125 feet 49,774; 1890, 51,210. they would find the precious metal that was to

The population of the county in 1890 was prove a godsend to the hardy pioneer. But distributed as follows: Adams township, 714; 125 feet did not reward his labors by a silver Blue Rock township, 1,070; Brush Creek town- find, but he labored on in hope. Reaching the ship, including Cannelsville village, 1,413; Can- depth of 140 feet, and not finding silver, it was nelsville village, 177; Cass township, 963; Clay proposed to run a horizontal shaft in the township, including Roseville village, 1,021; direction of the salt well. This was objected Roseville village, 714; Falls township, 1,591; to by Mr. Chandler, the owner of the well, and Harrison township, including Taylorville village, he warned them that if they destroyed his 1,250; Highland township, 795; Hopewell town- well he would bring suit for damages. Forty ship, 1,579; Jackson township, including Frazeys- feet of a horizontal shaft broke into the salt burg village, 1,479; Frazeysburg village, 610; Jef- well when the water came in in great profusion ferson township, including Dresden village, 1,288 from the opening from above. This was over- Dresden village, 1,247; Licking township, 872; come by the use of a canvas sack filled with Madison township, 979; Meigs township, 1,446; flaxseed and forced into the opening above. It Monroe township, 878; Muskingum township, was then proposed to sink a well around the 817; Newton township, including Uniontown salt hole, which was done, and in so doing they village, 2,131; Perry township, 923; Rich Hill passed through a seven-foot vein of coal, said township, 1,301; Salem township, including by Mr. Hildreth of Marietta to be of good Adamsville village, 872; Adamsville village, qualities. But it was not coal they were after, 335; Salt Creek township, 1, 148; Springfield and fearing that the object of their search township, 1,231; Union township, including would not be found in that direction, they then New Concord and Norwich villages, 1,820; tried the experiment of driving a well up the New Concord village, 719; Norwich village, salt hole, when they by blasting dislodged the 234; Washington township, 1,038; Wayne town- seed bag and the accumulated water rushed ship 1,582; Zanesville township (coextensive in at such a rate that the miners were re- with Zanesville city) 21,009; Zanesville city, minded of the days of Noah, but were without ward I, 1,254; ward 2, 1,591; ward 3, 2,392; his ark. ward 4, 1,750; ward 5, 2,672; ward 6, 2,333;

COURT HOUSE, ZANESVILLE.

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ward 7, 2,442; ward 8, 2,411; ward 9, 2,681; ward births 23, deaths II; Hopewell, births 13, deaths 10, 1,433. 12; Jackson, births 34, deaths 28; Jefferson,

Interesting figures from the assessors' re- births 27, deaths 27; Licking, births 28, deaths ports to the probate judge show the number of 19; Meigs, births 19, deaths 8; Madison, births births and deaths during the past year. As 16, deaths 13; Monroe, births 27, deaths 8; usual the sixth ward, of Zanesville, is ahead in Muskingum, births 20, deaths 15; Salem, births the matter of furnishing new born residents, 18, deaths 17; Springfield, births 26, deaths 14; the births numbering 79. The ninth ward Norwich, births 20, deaths 9; Newton, births comes next with 76, while the eighth ward is a 21, deaths 7; Rich Hill, births 18, deaths 8; poor third with 48. In both the first and New Concord, births 18, deaths 9; Salt Creek, second wards there were more deaths than births 13, deaths 8; Uniontown, births 9, deaths births. In the townships, Brush Creek reports 4; Duncan's Falls, births II, deaths 6; Wayne, the highest number of births, 50. In Jackson births 22, deaths 18; Newtonville, births 14, there were 34 births and 28 deaths. Cass re- deaths 6; first ward, births 5, deaths 7; second ports 23 births and only 6 deaths, while in Jef- ward, births 7, deaths II; fourth ward, births ferson there were 27 births and 27 deaths. The 23, deaths 13; sixth ward, births 79, deaths 34; total number of births was 801 and the whole seventh ward, births 35, deaths 28; eighth ward, number of deaths 463. The following are the births 48; deaths 28; ninth ward, births 76, figures: Adams, births 13, deaths 8; Blue deaths 41; tenth ward, births 27, deaths 10. Rock, births 18, deaths 7; Brush Creek, births Total, births 801, deaths 463. 50, deaths 23; Cass, births 23, deaths 6; Clay,

Chapter XUI.

ZANESVILLE'S SETTLEMENT, EARLY BUSINESS, ETC.

E BENEZER ZANE and Elizabeth his wife, assigns forever, a certain tract or parcel of land at the date mentioned therein, executed a containing six hundred and forty acres, lying deed, of which the following is a copy, of and being in the said county of Washington, in land described to Jonathan Zane and John Mc- the Northwest territory, on the Muskingum Intire. river, and bounded as followeth: Beginning at "This indenture, made this nineteenth day the northwest corner, at a post where a white December, in the year of our Lord one thous- oak, thirty inches in diameter, bears south and eight hundred, between Ebenezer Zane and twenty-one degrees, cast twenty-three links dis- Elizabeth his wife, of the county of Ohio, and tant, and an elm, six inches diameter, bears commonwealth of Virginia, of the one part; and north eighty degrees, cast twenty-two links dis- and Jonathan Zane, of the county and common- tant, thence ran east ninety chains to a post wealth; and John McIntyre, of the county of where a butternut tree, sixteen inches diameter, Washington, in the Northwest territory, of the bears north ten degrees east seven links dis- other part; witnesseth:

tant, and one other butternut, fourteen inches

THAT the said Ebenezer Zane and Eliza- diameter, bears south fifty degrees, east twenty- beth, his wife, for and in consideration of the five links, thence south eighty chains to a dog- sum of one hundred dollars, lawful money of wood sappling where an hickory, twenty-four the United States, to them in hand paid, the inches diameter, bears north ten degrees cast receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and fourteen links distant, and one other hickory. for divers other good causes and considera- eight inches diameter, bears south sixteen de- tions them thereunto moving, have granted, grees west twenty-six links distant, thence west bargained and sold, and by these presents do ninety chains to a post where a white oak, eight grant, bargain and sell, unto the said Jonathan inches diameter, bears north sixty-four degrees Zane and John McIntire and their heirs and cast twenty-four links distant and an elm, four- 13

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teen inches, diameter bears south ten degrees Blue avenue was deeded to McIntire, and that west six links, thence north eighty chains to the west to Zane. The United States granted to place of beginning. To have and to hold the Robert Underwood the third quarter of the said six hundred and forty acres of land with first township in the eighth range of the United the appurtenances unto the said Jonathan Zane States military lands, containing 3,817 acres. and John McIntire and their heirs and assigns In the southwest corner of this tract Under- forever as tenants in common and not as joint wood laid out a tier of eight lots of five acres tenants. In witness whereof the said Ebenezer each, extending from Seventh to Underwood Zane and Elizabeth his wife hereunto set their streets and from a short distance north of Mar- hand and affixed their seals the day and year ket street to the river, and another tier of five first above written. lots of ten acres each east of Underwood street EBENEZER ZANE. [SEAL ]. ELIZABETH ZANE. [SEAL ]. and west of Downer street. A street was laid out east of these lots running north from Mar- "Signed, sealed and delivered in the pres- ket street, a little west of where Blocksom ence of Isaac Zane and John Bryson.

street intersects Market, to the river, at a point "Washington county ss., Newton, December later occupied by the Ohio Iron Company. twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred, Section 1, Township 16, Range 14, was granted personally appeared Isaac Zane and John Bry- by the United States to Mathews, Whipple and son before Henry Smith, one of the justices of Putnam. A corner of this section lies north- the peace for the county of Washington, and east of the river, but the bulk of it lies in that made solemn oath that the within named Ebene- part of the city known as Putnam. The town zer Zane and Elizabeth Zane acknowledged the of Springfield was laid out at the time and in within deed to Jonathan Zane and John McIntire the manner described below:

to be their act and deed for the use therein mentioned.

" Plat of a town described, situate, &c., at Spring Hill, on Muskingum river, in the county HENRY SMITH, Justice of the Peace. of Washington and Territory Northwest of the Ohio, laid out by Rufus Putnam, Increase Washington county ss., January 3, 1801. The Mathews and Levi Whipple, into house lots, out lots, &c., with certain appropriations and DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, Recorder. reservations, as hereinafter mentioned, viz .: In this plat the house lots are numbered from I to

foregoing deed is a true copy.

Jonathan Zane and John McIntire pro- 147 and the out lots are numdered from I to ceeded to lay out a town. The plat of Zanes- 45. The house lots, except Nos. 8 and 9, and ville was filed for record April 28, 1802. The the fractional lots below Spring Hill, contain town was laid out in the southeast corner of half an acre each, and the out lots contain the the Zane grant, and extended nearly to the quantity noted in them respectively. The Muskingum river on the west. The east line house lots numbered from I to 7 are three was the west line of Seventh street, the south chains thirty-four links long by one chain fifty line was the north line of South street, and the links wide. The lots numbered from 10 to 17 north line was the south line of North street. are three chains thirteen links long by one Lots 8 and 16 in the 13th square were by the chain sixty links wide Lots 18 and 19 are three plat appropriated for a market house, and lots chains and three hundredths links long by one 5, 6, 7 and 8 in the 12th square ( the court house chain sixty-five links wide, and the remaining lot) "for other public uses." The first lot sold house lots below Spring Hill, numbered from was to Noah Zane, who paid $30 for lot I in 18 to 147, except the fractions, are two chains square 2- the first lot on the north side of Main fifty links long by two chains wide. All the street east of the canal. The deed bears date streets below Spring Hill are sixty feet wide May 31, 1802. Shortly after the town of and Front street is in many places more. The Zanesville was laid out Messrs. Zane and Mc- alleys passing through each block or square Intire aparted the residue of Zane's grant. That are sixteen and one-half feet wide. North portion immediately adjoining the town on street and the road leading toward Lancaster, the north and extending from Seventh street are each sixty-six feet wide. The alley between to the river became the property of John out lot No. I and the house lots north and that McIntire, and the part north of it, lying be- between house lots eight, nine and ten, and tween a line drawn from Elm street west and between thirteen and fourteen are each thirty the river was conveyed to Zane. In the partition feet wide. All the other roads and alleys of their property between McIntire and Zane marked in the plat above described are forty- all that part of West Zanesville lying east of nine and a half feet wide. The road or street

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leading from Spring Hill down to the street described. Furthermore, the aforesaid proprie- north of out lot No. 21 shall be made in the tors reserve for themselves and assigns the ex- most convenient place, where the ascents will clusive right of establishing a ferry or ferries for be easy and gradual. The alley" dividing the crossing the Muskingum river from any other blocks or squares of house lots below Spring part of the town as delineated in this plat, and Hill are for the particular accommodation of also for erecting wharfs and stores on the bank the proprietors of the lots in each square re- of the Muskingum, whenever it may be done, spectively, and may by the unanimous consent leaving Front street full sixty feet wide. Fur- of the proprietors be shut up. All the other thermore, all the streets and roads south of the alleys, roads and streets delineated in the plat. street which intersects Front street, between are appropriated to the use of the citizens and house lots Nos. 31 and 35 and the road leading the public in general under the restrictions and toward Lancaster, the aforesaid proprietors re- reservations hereinafter expressed. And the serve the right of having inclosed, while the before named Rufus Putnam, Increase Mathews house lots and out lots in that quarter remain and Levi Whipple, proprietors of the lands de- unsold, and shall not be obliged to open them lineated in the plat above mentioned, besides until they are wanted for the accommodation the streets, roads and alleys appropriated as of the respective purchasers in that quarter. aforesaid, do assign, appropriate and make RUFUS PUTNAM. SEAL. ] INCREASE MATHEWS. [SEAL. ] LEVI WHIPPLE. SEAL. ] over for the purpose of erecting such public buildings thereon as may be wanted for the use of the town or any religious societies estab- In presence of Wm. Rufus Putnam, Benja- lished in it, or for the county or state, the follow- min Tupper.

ing described tracts of land, containing about

"Washington county ss. Personally appeared eleven acres and a half, bounded as follows: this twenty-seventh day of July, 1801, Rufus Beginning at a post or station in the plat Putnam, Increase Mathews and Levi Whipple, marked A on Spring Hill, forty-nine feet and signers and sealers of the within instrument, a half North of the northeast corner of house and acknowledged it to be their voluntary act lot No. 17; thence running northwardly by the and deed. Before me.

dotted line, as follows: North three chains, north forty-three degrees, west two chains sev- enty-three links, north seventy-seven degrees, west four chains twenty-six links north, north of the original plat. Attest :

WILLIAM RUFUS PUTNAM, Justice of the Peace. Washington ss., July 27, 1801. A true copy

DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, Recorder."

Thus has been shown the original owner- links to a point or station at B, on the south ship of a good portion of what is now the city side of North street; then west by North street of Zanesville-at least of those portions which to C, a point or station forty-nine feet and a with their additions have gradually expanded half east of house lot No. 7; thence south to into the Zanesville of to-day. The subdivision D, a point or station forty-nine feet and a half of these tracts and the additions which have north of house lot No. 8; thence to the place of been made to them are matters of record.

forty-seven degrees, west two chains fifty links, north twenty-two degrees, west one chain eighty- six links, north twenty degrees, east eighty-four

beginning; of which tract so much as shall not

Another town laid out within the present be occupied by public buildings of the de- limits of Zanesville, but which never had any scription aforesaid shall remain a perpetual com- corporate existence, was Natchez, so tradition monage. Furthermore all the land between has it, brought into existence in 1806 by Gen. the aforesaid dotted line A, B, and the river, Isaac Van Horne, and bounded about as fol- and also all the open space between the out lows :- " On the east by a line west of the lot No. 17 and the river is designed to be left Muskingum river, beginning not far from the open or uninclosed for the present, but the be- Main street bridge, including part of the Pine fore named proprietors reserve for themselves street hill and extending near the intersection and assigns the exclusive right to occupy every of the National road and the Licking river, and part of this tract whenever they think proper having that stream for its northern boundary for the purpose of erecting mills and other and the Muskingum for its castern boundary." water works, for establishing manufactories, dig- This boundary included " the house built by ging stone, iron ore, stone coal, or for any other Henry Crook, in 1797, on the north side of the purpose whatever, provided they shall never in- bluff, near the north end of Pine street." terrupt the communication from Spring Hill to Gen. Van Horne built the second habitation that part of the town below by the road before there and Isaac Zane reared a domicile " be-

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tween Young and Spring streets, on the over the grave, and this tablet with its inscrip- Thomas Drake location." Proprietorship seem- tion placed beneath it to protect it from the ed contagious in those days.

weather. On December 24, 1889, this tomb was Born at Alexandria, Va., in October, 1759, opened and all that remained of Zanesville's we know but little of Mr. McIntire's early life, patron was tenderly placed in a metal casket other than that he had learned the trade of and removed to the vault which had been shoemaking, until in 1789, when we find him at built for that purpose, at the home which bears Wheeling, Va., where in December of that his name. A week later the remains of his year he married Sarah M. Zane. In 1797-8 he. daughter, Amelia, were placed beside those of in conjunction with Ebenezer Zane, his father- her father in the vault. Patron of the city, in-law, and Jonathan Zane, Ebenezer's brother, builder of its prosperity, frontiersman, land- cut out a road from Wheeling, Va., to Lime- lord, ferryman, philanthropist, representative stone (now Maysville), Ky., by the way of and leader among men, his memory shall be what is now Zanesville, Lancaster and Chilli- kept green while the printed page endures.

cothe. For his share in this work he received

The first white settlement within the terri- with Jonathan Zane the military warrant for a tory now occupied by the city of Zanesville, tract of land one mile square at this point, and occurred in 1794, when Joseph F. Moore, Her- located his grant so that the southeast corner man Blannerhasset and Dudley Woods came of the tract was at about the corner of what is here and established a trading post. Their now Seventh and South streets, and extending cabin was erected about where the office of the north and west a mile each way. In 1799 he, Pataskala mills now stands, in the Seventh ward. with his wife and household effects, moved Here for several years they carried on a suc- here and laid out the town of Westbourn, now cessful business with the Indians in furs, which Zanesville.

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio. Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the county and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy families and individuals, Part 38

Author: Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 642

Author:
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642