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In 1819, the people grew accustomed to see- around the world. A shipper to New Orleans ing vast flocks of wild pigeons flying over the had to return the journey of weeks through the county. Flock after flock-their line reaching wilderness or take ship for New York, and as far as the eye could penetrate-followed journey over the mountains home. Oats sold in swift succession, flying westward and re- at ten to twelve cents per bushel; wheat brought turning. Their number was incalculable; and twenty-five to thirty-five cents, payable in store when descent was made upon the new-sown goods. People could not raise money to buy wheat in fall, the clash of countless wings, as salt, a cash article, nor to pay taxes. In this they rose in a blue cloud, gave forth a sound dilemma Mathews bought wheat at fair prices, like muffled thunder. During the same year payment to be made on getting return from an immense migration of squirrels south took New Orleans. His extensive mill machinery place. In their instinctive route they reached employed many hands. He ran his two saws the banks of the Muskingum. The stream night and day. His grist and merchant mills proved no bar to their progress: they swam required constantly the services of a number of across by thousands; and the men and boys of men. Many an old farmer would willingly the time, armed with sticks, killed many as bear witness to the benefit derived to the they reached the farther bank exhausted. county by the business habits of Mr. Mathews.
In these prosperous days of fractional cur- Moses Dillon, a Quaker by birth and a rency and sound banking, the expedients of the mason by trade, came to Muskingum in 1806, old-time citizens to secure change are truly in- from Baltimore, and purchased a large tract of teresting. The demand for small money author- land, including the falls of Licking, four miles ized a resort to cutting coin in quarters. The west of Zanesville, and erected a furnace and quarter cut in four pieces gave as many pica- forge at the upper fall for the manufacture of yune bits; in two pieces, a pistareen for each. iron. Wood assumed a value, and the ores be- It was no unusual matter for five quarters to be came subjects of interest. Iron was scarce, and made from one piece, and a financial gain Dillon sent out wagons to purchase in neigh- resulted to the operator. This cut money con- boring counties. The furnace was a valuable tinued till the issue of paper, which drove all and enduring enterprise, of immense influence silver out of the country. As a memento of the to the county. The water-power at the mouth early days at Zanesville, we have before us a of the Licking was owned by Isaac Zane. The dingy piece of paper, three by five inches in land on the Licking above him was the property dimensions, printed by Putnam & Clark, and of General Van Horne, who, in the fall of 1806, bearing date of January 23, 1816. It is embel- began to erect a dam over the stream on his lished by a wood-cut of Zanesville market house, premises. Zane also erected a dam on his falls, is numbered fifty-one, and reads as follows: and the lower one rendered the upper worth- "We promise to pay the bearer fifty cents in less. A lawsuit was prospective, when Dillon current bank paper, when a sum is presented to made a purchase of both dams independent of either of us to the amount of one dollar. the lands, and so ended the threatened contest. John Nouch, William Craig." Originally the John Dillon, the oldest son of Moses, was his amount was "five," but erased and written principal manager. Isaac Dillon, the young- "one."
est son, when the old furnace was abandoned
John Mathews was the founder of the Mox- for lack of material, erected mills at the mouth ahala mills. Useful and liberal, he was inval- of the Licking. He was the first to introduce uable to Muskingum county. While the tide of fine stock into the county. The first agricul- immigration was sweeping westward, and the tural fair in Muskingum was mainly his work. country was filling up, the traveler and new set- He was the soul and spirit of the Horticultural tler consumed the surplus produce of the society, devoted to improving fruit.
pioneers at liberal prices: but when the lands The Zane trace was the longest road in the were entered, and the farmers had raised more territory now known as the State of Ohio, and than they needed, grain became a perfect drug. extended over 200 miles. It soon became a
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leading central route from the East to the ment made by Bouquet, her husband being Southwest. In the pioneer days all the country present and receiving them. It was, as far as round about Zanesville was a wilderness and I am informed, the first known white child the road a mere trail. The Indians were kind born upon the soil of Ohio, but the exact time to their white neighbors, sharing with them and place of its birth, and its name, are alike their food and aiding them in their work. unknown. In 1770, an Indian trader named Several squaws gave help to and received assist- Conner, married a white woman who was a ance and instruction from the settlers' wives. captive among the Shawnees, at or near the Only one white man was killed by Indians in Scioto. During the next year she gave birth this vicinity. His name was Johnson, and his to a male child, probably at the above named death was a retaliation upon a company to point. Mrs. Conner, in 1774, with her husband, which he belonged for having killed one or two removed to Schonbrun, one of the Moravian of the Indians as the settlers were passing west- villages on the Tuscarawas, and there they had ward. Remains of Indian labor were abundant other children born to them. In April, 1773, in flint fragments lying scattered over the Rev. John Roth and wife arrived at Gnaden- ground in and about Zanesville and other hutten, on the Tuscarawas, and there, on the points within the borders of the county. At 4th day of July, 1773, she gave birth to a child, Dresden was an extensive Indian burying and which, the next day at his baptism, by ground, and the habitations of the Caucassian Rev. David Zeisberger, was named John Lewis race began to dot the landscape before the Roth. aborigines had yielded their reluctant hold. 1841.
He died at Bath, Penn., September 25, It is clear to my mind that John Lewis The Indians left the Muskingum country and Roth is the first white child born within the went to the Northwest in 1803.
Smucker inclines to the belief that the first white person who was born in Ohio first saw the light in this county. His statement con- cerning this and other claims to the same dis- ity of a Mr. Dinsmore, of Kentucky, that a Mr. tinction is extracted from the annual report of Millehomme, in 1835 (who then lived in the the secretary of state for the year 1877: parish of Terre-Bonne, Louisiana), informed
limits of our State, whose name, sex, time, place of birth and death, and biography, are known with certainty. Howe in his " Ohio Historical Collections," states upon the author-
"Considerable effort has been made by him that he was born of French Canadian par- various persons, to ascertain, if possible, who ents, on or near the Loramie portage, about the was the first white child born within the present year 1774, while his parents were moving from limits of Ohio, also when and where born, and Canada to Louisiana; but there is nothing defi- the name as well. The following claims to that nite or authentic in this case either as to time distinction have been presented, and I give or place. Joanna Maria Heckewelder, daugh- them in chronological order, with the remark ter of Rev. John Heckewelder, was born at that some Indian traders who resided among Salem, one of the Moravian villages on the the Ohio Indians, before the Bouquet expe- Tuscarawas, April 16, 1781, and she was the dition, in 1764, were married to white women, first white female child born upon Ohio terri- who probably had children born unto them, but tory, as to whose time and place of birth, and the evidence to establish it is lacking. In April, death, and subsequent history, there is positive 1764, a white woman whose husband was a certainty. Her death took place at Bethlehem, white man, was captured in Virginia, by some Penn., September 19, 1868, in the eighty-eighth Delaware Indians, and taken to one of their year of her age. I believe it is generally con- towns at or near Wakatomaka, now Dresden, ceded that the first white child born within our Muskingum county. In July of said year, she, State, after the permanent settlement at the while yet in captivity, at the above named mouth of the Muskingum, was Leicester G. place, gave birth to a male child. She and her Converse, whose birth took place at Marrietta, child were among the captives restored to their February 7, 1789, and who died near said river, friends November 9, 1764, under an arrange- in Morgan county, February 14, 1859."
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Chapter IU.
FORMATION OF THE COUNTY.
A S an interesting item of history, there is court of common pleas, and the clerk of that here given a copy of "An Act to Establish court was usually the recorder. The first so the County of Muskingum," passed Jan- appointed was Abel Lewis. Elijah Beall, who uary 7, 1804:
served until 1808, appears to have been the first clerk to the county commissioners. On the
"SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., that so much of the counties of Washington and Fairfield as comes within evidence of Stephen Reeve, Esq., who leased the following boundaries, be and the same is, hereby school land of them in 1804, it is stated that erected into a separate and distinct county, which shall the first county commissioners were William Montgomery, Joseph F. Munro and Christian Spangler. be known by the name of Muskingum, to wit: Begin- ning at the northwest corner of the Ninth township, in the Ninth range of the United States Military lands, thence with the western boundary line of said range, It should be noted here that there is no record of the action of the county commis- sioners prior to March 2, 1807. Following is the not very complete record, in full, of all meetings from March 2, 1807, to January 27, 1808, inclusive. It is valuable chiefly as stat- ing who were present: south to the southern boundary line of said military lands, thence with the same west to the western bound- ary line of the Fifteenth range of public lands, thence with the said line south to the southwest corner of the Sixteenth township of the Fifteenth range, thence east- wardly to the south boundary of the Sixteenth township till it intersects the west boundary of the Twelfth range, thence with the sectional lines east to the western bound- ary line of the Seventh range, thence with the same north to the northeast corner of the military tract, thence with the north boundary line of the Tenth township in the first and second ranges of said military lands, west until in- tersected by the Indian boundary line, thence with same westwardly to the place of beginning.
"March 2, 1807. Commissioners met agree- able to adjournment. Present, William Newell, William Whitten, commissioners. Adjourned until to-morrow at 8 o'clock." "March 3, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to adjournment. Present, William Newell, William Whitten, com- missioners. Adjourned until to-morrow at 8 o'clock." "March 4, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to adjournment. Present, William Whitten, William Newell, commissioners. Ad- journed until to-morrow at 8 o'clock." "March 5, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to ad-
"SECTION 2. That from and after the first day of March next, said county shall be vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities of a separate and dis- tinct county; Provided, always, that all actions and suits which may be pending on the first day of March next, shall be prosecuted and carried into final judgment and execution, and all taxes, fees, fines and forfeitures which shall then be due, shall be collected in the same manner as if this act had never been passed.
"SECTION 3. That the temporary seat of justice of journment. Present, William Whitten, William said county shall be at the town of Zanesville, until the permanent seat shall be fixed according to law.
Newell, commissioners. Adjourned until the first Monday in May next." "May 4, 1807. "SECTION 4. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next. "ELIAS LANGHAM, "Speaker of the House of Representatives, NATHANIEL MASSIE, Jan. 7, 1804. "Speaker of the Senate." William Newell only met according to adjourn- ment and adjourned until June term next." "June 1, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to adjournment. Present, William Newell, Will- iam Whitten, Robert Spur. Adjourned until The first sheriff of Muskingum county was to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock." "June 2, George Beymer; the first county surveyor, Levi 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to ad- Whipple; William Montgomery appears to journment. Present, William Newell, Robert have been the first county treasurer; Levi Spur. Adjourned until Monday next, the 8th Whipple was the first coroner. It seems that of June." "Commissioners met agreeable to conveyances of land lying in Muskingum were adjournment. Present, William Newell, Robert recorded in the office of the Washington county Spur, William Whitten. Adjourned until to- recorder until April 17, 1806. From this date morrow morning at 8 o'clock." "Commission- till 1831 the recorder was appointed by the ers met agreeable to adjournment, Present,
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William Whitten, William Newell, Robert Spur. uary 26, Commissioners met. Present, William Adjourned until to-morrow morning at 8 Newell, Jacob Gomber. And adjourned until to- o'clock." "Commissioners met agreeable to morrow 8 o'clock." "January 27, Commission- adjournment. Present, William Newell, Robert ers met. Present, William Newell, Jacob Gom- Spur, William Whitten. An adjournment took ber, and adjourned until the session in course, place until to-morrow at 8 o'clock." "Commis- first Monday in March next." Most of these sioners met agreeableto adjournment. Present, entries were attested by Elijah Beall, clerk. William Whitten, Robert Spur, William Newell. January 26, 1808, was resolved that all officers Adjourned until to-morrow 8 o'clock." "Com- entitled to traveling fees to and from the missioners met agreeable to adjournment. Pres- county seat and under their jurisdiction, should ent, William Newell, William Whitten. Ad- be allowed for every twenty-five miles' travel journed until Thursday, July 16th next." "July a sum equal to what the law allowed them per 16, 1807. Robert Spur only met agreeable to day on the same occasion, by rendering a just adjournment and adjourned until to-morrow at account of the same to be judged of by the 8 o'clock." "July 17, 1807. Commissioners board.
met agreeable to adjournment. Present, Will- Quite a little space is here devoted to the Newell, William Whitten, Robert Spur, and ad- early doings of the county commissioners. journed until to-morrow at 8 o'clock." "July The period 1807-1815 has been covered pretty 18, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to ad- fully. The details of the laying out of roads journment. Present, William Whitten, Robert will serve to show the rapidity and the direc- Spur, William Newell. Adjourned until the tion of the advancement of settlement. Ex- 4th Monday in August next." "August 24, cept in cases of known and glaring inaccuracy, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to adjourn- the names of persons concerned are spelled as ment: Present, William Whitten, William New- in the records.
ell, Robert Spur. And adjourned until to-
March-7, 1808, a petition from sundry in- morrow at 8 o'clock." "August 25, 1807. Com- habitants of Newton township, praying for an missioners met agreeable to adjournment. Pres- alteration of the county road leading from ent, William Newell, William Whitten, Robert Springfield up the south fork of Jonathan's Spur Adjourned until to-morrow morning at creek was read and tabled for a second read- 8 o'clock." "August 26, 1807. Commissioners ing next day, where it was again read and filed met agreeable to adjournment. Present, Rob- to be read at the following June term. A peti- ert Spur, William Whitten, William Newell. tion praying for a road to be laid out from And adjourned until the second Monday in the town of Zanesville to the northeast corner September next." "Commissioners met agree- of half-section Number 4, Township I, Range 7, able to adjournment. Present, William Newell, was read and disallowed, March 8. March 9, Robert Spur. And adjourned until the session 1808, sundry petitions were presented to the in course, when none met, until the 2d Monday Board asking the incorporation of several town- in December, 1807." "December 14, 1807. ships within the county limits and were grant- Commissioners met agreeable to adjournment. ed. The boundaries of the townships were Present, William Newell. And adjourned until established and ordered recorded. The town- to-morrow morning 8 o'clock." "December ships so created were named Cambridge, Salt 15th, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to Creek and Falls. At the same time an altera- adjournment. Present, William Newell, Jacob tion was made in one line of Madison township. Gomber. And adjourned until to-morrow morn- June 6,1808, the petition which was read and ing 8 o'clock." "Commissioners met agreeable filed at the last session of the board of com- to adjournment. Present, William Newell, Jacob misioners praying for an alteration of the Gomber. And adjourned until to-morrow 8 county road from Springfield up the south fork o'clock." "December 17, 1807. Commission- of Jonathan's 'creek was read and ordered to crs met agreeable to adjournment. Present, lie on the table for a second reading the fol- William Newell, Jacob Gomber. Adjourned lowing day. A petition signed by sundry until to-morrow morning 8 o'clock." "Decem- inhabitants of the county was presented to the ber 18, 1807. Commissioners met agreeable to board, together with the proper vouchers, adjournment. Present, William Newell, Jacob praying for the opening of a road from or near Gomber. And adjourned until the fourth Mon- the mouth of Cantwell's run, on the west side day in January next." "January 25. Com- of Muskingum river, up said river to the month missioners met agreeable to adjournment. Pres- of Whitewoman. A duplicate order for the ent, William Newell, Jacob Gomber. And viewers and surveyor of the proposed road was adjourned until to-morrow 8 o'clock," "Jan- issued and "delivered to William Whitten, for
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(as is doubtless meant) one of the petitioners tember, at ten o'clock A. M. June 14, 1808, to meet at Thomas Cantwell's on Saturday, the "Jacob Crooks was chosen and appointed to be eleventh of June, instant, at ten o'clock A. M." a county collector for the present year." June Thomas Cantwell, Isaac Workman and Henry 15, 1808, it was resolved by the board that the Miller were the viewers named, and John Cain sum of two dollars be offered as a bounty for was the surveyor. Another petition was pre- each and every wolf scalp certificate which sented, praying for the opening of a road from should be presented to the board agreeable to the mouth of Licking creek up said creek on law, certifying the same to be over the age of the north side by way of Col. George Jackson's six months, and the further sum of one dollar mills to intersect the State road near Jonathan was offered for each and every scalp of a wolf Wood's. William Wells, John Matthews and under the age of six months. Viewers on the Ebenezer Ryan were the viewers and Elijah road from the mouth of Cantwell's run to the Beall was the surveyor of this road, and to mouth of Whitewoman reported thereon to the them, as such, a duplicate order was issued and board, June 15, 1808, and after the first reading delivered to Col. George Jackson, as one of the their report was tabled until the following Sat- petitioners, to meet at the house of Henry urday. June 15, 1808, a petition from the in- Crooks, at McIntire's upper ferry, on the fourth inhabitants of Newton township was presented Monday in June, at eight o'clock A. M. June to the board, praying for a division of said 7, 1808, sundry persons petitioned that a road township, which was objected to by reason of a be opened from Springfield westwardly on counter-petition from said township. On the the south side of Licking creek, via Asher following day a petition from sundry inhabit- Thorp's, to the west boundary line of the ants of the county was handed in, praying to county. A duplicate ordered was issued to be set off from Salt Creek township and in- the viewers and surveyor of this road and to cluded 'in the Township of Zanesville, which the petitioners, through Doctor Matthews as was granted. June 17, 1808, the board ap- their representative, to meet at the house of pointed Joseph F. Munro a county treasurer, Peter Speck, in Springfield, on the third and he gave bond with the following sureties: Monday in June, at eight o'clock A. M. John- John McIntire, Daniel Converse.
June 17, 1808, the board regulated tavern Matthews, of Moxahala, were the viewers; the and ferry licenses throughout the county as surveyor was Elijah Beall. Another petition follows-The Taverns: " The taverns on the was presented, praying that a road be opened state road from Chillicothe to Wheeling, eight from the lower end of White Eyes plains to dollars each, except those within the towns of the bridge over Will's creek at the town of Zanesville and Springfield, which shall be Cambridge. The viewers were James McCune, respectively rated at ten dollars each. All the James Miskimmins and Abel Cain; John Cain other taverns opened within the county, and to was the surveyor. William Whitten was the be opened hereafter, in any direction whatever, representative petitioner. The meeting of the within the county, except in the towns and on the viewers, surveyor and petitioners was ordered road aforesaid, to pay five dollars each. The to be held at the house of George Miller ferries: Crossing the Muskingum immediately at ten o'clock A. M. on the first Monday to or from Zanesville to Springfield to pay a in August. The petition for an alteration license of twelve dollars each. Crossing the of the county road from Springfield up the Muskingum on the State road immediately south fork of Jonathan's creek, which had from Zanesville to Franklinton to be licensed been read the day before and ordered for at eight dollars each. Throughout the county, a second reading on this day, was taken up and except as above, to be licensed at five dollars the board decreed that said road should be each. Rates of ferriage throughout the county still kept clear until a petition be presented were established as follows: For a foot pas- for opening a road "from the new State road senger, three cents; for a man and horse, on the west side of Shawney run." June 13, twelve and one-half cents; for a loaded wagon 1808, a petition from inhabitants of the north- and one dollar; for an empty wagon and western part of the county was presented to team, seventy-five cents; for a four-wheeled the board of commissioners praying to be set carriage and team, seventy-five cents; for a off in a separate township, and was granted. loaded cart and team, fifty cents; for an empty The township so erected was called Newcastle, cart, sled or sleigh and team, thirty-seven and and the first election for township officers one-half cents; for horses, mares, mules and thereof was ordered to be held at the house of neat cattle, each ten cents; for hogs and sheep, Thomas Butler on the second Monday in Sep- each three cents. It was provided that in all
ston Thompson, William Reynolds and John
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cases where the ferry-keeper should be com- erly on the south side of Licking creek via pelled by law to ply in the night, he might Asher Thorp's to the west boundary line of the demand and receive for a foot passenger six county to intersect a road leading from Newark. and one-fourth cents and for a man and horse James Jeffries and William Reynolds were twenty-five cents.
appointed viewers and Levi Whipple surveyor,
June 18, 1808, the viewer's report on a road and directed to meet at the house of William from the mouth of Cantwell's run to the mouth Burnham, in Springfield, on the last Monday in of Whitewoman was again read, and, no objec- March. tion being made, the survey thereof was ordered
March 6, 1809, a petition for the division of for record. It was ordered by the board that Wells township was presented and a remon- this road "be opened and cut out forty feet strance against said division, which were tabled wide and be hereafter held, deemed and kept until the next meeting of the commissioners. open as a county road, agreeable to an act of March 6, 1809, the viewers appointed to lay assembly, entitled, " An Act for Opening and out a road from John Winner's to intersect a Regulating highways." September 5, 1808, the road leading from Zanesville to Wakatomaka viewers' report on a road from Cambridge to creek, at or near the forks of Symmes creek, White Eyes' plains was presented, read and made returns of the survey of said road, which ordered to lay over for a second reading the was read and reported on favorably. The following day. The viewers on a road from viewers appointed to lay out a road from Springfield up the south side of Licking creek Zanesville to the north end of half section to the west boundary of the county reported Number 4, in township Number - Range the same not to be of public utility. On the Number 7, to intersect a road leading from next day, the report of the viewers on the road Zanesville to the mouth of Wakatomaka creek, from Cambridge to White Eyes' plains was at or near the school lot occupied by Josiah read a second time and adopted, and, no objec- Cooksey, also made return with like results. tions being made, it was ordered that the said March 7, 1809, a petition for the division of road be opened fifty feet wide. The viewers Newton township was allowed, the south part appointed on the proposed road from the of said township, as divided and recorded, to mouth of Licking creek, on the north side retain the name of Newton township and the thereof, by the great falls, to intersect another north part to be known as Springfield town- road near Jonathan Wood's, did not report. ship. March 7, 1809, the road returns above December 5, 1808, a petition was presented mentioned were again read, and the roads were signed by a number of inhabitants requesting ordered to be opened forty feet wide. March that a road be laid out to leave the road lead- 8, 1809, it was ordered that the first election for ing from Zanesville to the forks of the Musk- township officers in the township of Newton ingum, at or near the house of John Winner, to be held at the house of Isaac Kent on the first intersect the road leading from Zanesville to Monday in April. At the same time the first the mouth of Wakatomaka creek, at or near the township election in the township of Springfield forks of Symmes creek. Duplicate orders for was ordered to be held on the first Monday in viewers and surveyors thereof were given-John April at the house of William Burnham. Adams, Leverett S. Stillman and John Painter, March 31, 1809, James Jefferies, William viewers, and John Cain, surveyor-to meet at Organ, and Samuel Henslce were appointed Mr. Shire's on the first Monday in January, overseers, and Levi Whipple surveyor of a road 1809. December 6, 1808, a petition was pre- from Springfield by way of Asher Thorp's to sented signed by a number of inhabitants pray- the west boundary line of the county, to meet ing for the laying out of a road " from Zanes- at William Burnham's April 26. June 5, 1809, ville to the north end of half-section Number a petition was presented, signed by a number 4, in township Number I, of Range Number of frecholders of Springfield and Falls town- 7, and from thence to intersect the road lead- ships, asking the appointment of viewers to lay ing from Zanesville to the mouth of Waka- out a road from the town of Springfield, thence tomaka creek, at or near the school lot now westwardly on the south side of Licking creek, occupied by Josiah Cookscy." Daniel Converse, passing the house of Jonah Smith, near the big Samuel Thompson and Robert Taylor were falls of said creek, thence passing a school- appointed viewers and William Reynolds sur- house near John Kerr's, thence to the west veyor, to meet at the house of the latter on the boundary line of Muskingum county, "in the
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