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1854. Reuben Chaffin, in place of IIelmick. 1856. J. B. Mitchel, reelected, and William Walker, in place of Chaffin, resigned.
CHAPTER XVII.
IIAMILTON TOWNSHIP.
THE lands in this township were originally surveyed for the government in 1799, by one John Matthews, and hence the words " Matthews's Survey," which are very common, though not necessary, in deeds and con- veyances of lands in this township. In 1800, these lands came into market, and in that year, or the year following, settlements commenced. Amongst the first settlers were John Dill and Michael Fisher, and soon after, Percival Adams, Thomas Morris, the Weathering- tons, the Stewarts, the Johnstons, James Culbertson, the Stombaughs, Geo. W. Williams and Robert Shannon and his sons, Samuel, Hugh, James, John, Joseph and William.
In 1807, the township was organized by its present name, though it then contained within its boundaries the territory also from which the Township of Madison was afterward created. Hamilton is now just eight miles in
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length, north and south, and about four miles in width, varying with the meanders of the river. In the origi- nal division of the county into townships in 1803, this territory was part in Liberty, and part in Harrison townships. This township has generally been regarded as containing a greater proportion of first rate land than any other in the county; and the location of the canal through it, gave it additional advantages in the way of water power. Hartwell's mill, at the four-mile locks, was erected soon after the completion of the canal, and subsequently, Cottage Mills were erected by Messrs. Hibbs and Dalzell in the year 1841.
In the fall of 1831, the town of Lockbourne was laid out by Col. Kilbourne, as the agent of Joel Buttles, Demas Adams and others. It now contains about sixty or seventy families, two churches, one denominated the United Brethren in Christ, who have a comfortable wooden church building, erected about the year 1843, the other Methodist Episcopal, with a neat brick church edifice, erected in 1850, two dry goods stores, three gro- ceries, two taverns, three practicing physicians, a grist mill, a saw mill and a post office, established in 1837.
SUCCESSIVE POSTMASTERS.
Nathan G. Smith, first postmaster, appointed in 1837. Zebulon Marcy, second 1838.
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John H. Stage, third postmaster, appointed in 1839.
C. M. Porter, fourth 66 66
1849
Dr. A. N. Boales, fifth 66 1851.
Dr. J. R. Marshal, sixth 66 66 1853.
John A. Sarber, seventh
1854.
John H. Haire, eighth postmaster, (present incumbent,) appointed in 1856.
At the Legislative session of 1839-40, an act was passed to incorporate the town, but the citizens never availed themselves of it.
In the spring of 1853, the village of Shadesville was laid out by A. G. Hibbs. It now contains about twenty families, one tavern, two stores, a Methodist church, a good school house, and a post office, established in the fall of 1853.
Mr. Hibbs, first postmaster, was appointed in 1853. Joshua Hertzel, second " 1858.
Besides the churches in Lockbourne and Shadesville, there are two others in this township - the Hamilton Township Presbyterian Church, organized by Doctor Hoge, many years since - and the German Lutheran Church. The latter have a good brick church edifice, erected about the year 1844 or '45, on the Lancaster road some eight miles south of Columbus. The former
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have a good-sized, frame church building, erected about the year 1831. The successive pastors of this church have been : Rev. N. S. Ransom, Rev. Elisha Vandeman, Rev. John M. Fulton, Rev. J. D. Smith, Rev. Thomas Woodrow, Rev. James Smith, Rev. W. Maynard, since the first of January 1857.
In 1840, the population of the township, including the villages, was 1258. In. 1850, it was 1485. In 1853, the township constituted thirteen school districts, with an aggregate of 560 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years. In 1857, the aggregate of such youth was 557.
SUCCESSIVE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1807. William Dunning and William Irwin, elected. 1809. David Spangler, in place of Irwin, deceased. 1810. Thomas Morris, in place of Dunning. 1812. John B. Johnston, in place of Spangler. 1813. Percival Adams, in place of Morris.
1814. John Stipp, in place of Johnston, deceased.
1816. Percival Adams, reelected, and George Hays, in place of Stipp, removed.
1819. Adams, reëlected, and Andrew Dill, in place of Hays.
1822. Adams and Dill, both reelected.
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1825. Adams and Dill, both reelected.
1828.
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1831. Dill, reelected, and Joseph Murray, in place of Adams.
1832. William Champ, in place of Dill, deceased.
1833. Michael Fisher, in place of Champ, removed.
1834. John Landes, elected, and Joseph Murray, re- elected.
1837. Wm. Jacobs, and Joseph Murray, reelected.
1840. William Shannon and Z. P. Thompson.
1843. W. Shannon, reelected, and George Earhart, in place of Thompson.
1846. W. Shannon and G. Earhart, both reelected.
1849. Earhart, reelected, and Patterson Harrison, to succeed Shannon, who removed to Illinois.
1852. Earhart aud Harrison, both reelected.
1854. Robert E. Shannon, place of Earhart, resigned.
1855. P. Harrison, reelected.
1857. Robert E. Shannon, reelected.
1858. Patterson Harrison, reelected.
CHAPTER XVIII.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
THIS township was set off and organized by its pres- ent name in 1809 .. It then comprised all of what is now Washington, all of Perry and Norwich, and part of Brown; and was composed of parts of the original townships of Franklin, Darby and Liberty. The first settlement in this township was commenced in the neigh- borhood of where Dublin now stands, about the year 1801 or 1802. Amongst the first settlers were old Mr. Ludwick Sells, from Huntington County, Pennsylvania, and his family of sons, Samuel, Peter, Benjamin and William ; the latter one of whom is still living, in the town of Dublin. An older brother, John Sells, also re- moved into the same neighborhood in 1808 or 1809. In 1818, he laid out the town of Dublin, which soon be- came a pleasant and healthy village, and of late years a place of considerable business, with a population of some three or four hundred ; a fair proportion of stores, taverns, and mechanics, and a good mill in the immedi-
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ate vicinity. There are four churches in the town - Methodist, Presbyterian, Newlight and Christian - all have their church buildings. Beside the churches in town, there is a respectable German Lutheran Church within a mile or two of the village, erected within the last year. In the west part of the township the relig- ious meetings are principally held in the school houses.
In 1855, the town was incorporated, and the borough government organized by the election of officers, etc. - Z. Hutchison, Esq., Mayor, and Wm Graham, Esq., Re- corder. But, after an experiment of one year, the citi- zens appearing to prefer a larger amount of liberty, de- clined holding further elections, and let the corporate organization go down.
In 1840, the population of this township was 843. In 1850, it was 1,282. In 1853, it contained eleven school districts, and 589 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years. In 1857, agreeably to the re- turns, there were only 511 of such youth.
There is but one post office in this township; that is in Dublin, established in 1820.
Daniel Wright, first postmaster, appointed in 1820.
Moses Davis, second,
66 about 1827.
Isaac N. Walters, third, 66 1828.
John Eberly, fourth, (present incumbent,) 1831.
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SUCCESSIVE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1809. Benjamin Sells and Daniel M. Brown.
1811. Daniel Bruek and Robert Justice.
1812. Justice Miller and Simeon Wilcox. 1815. George Robert and Tracy Wilcox. 1817. John Sells and Patrick Conner.
1818. David Smith and Chandler Rogers, in place of Wilcox.
1820. Peter Sells and Alexander Basset.
1822. Wm. Kilbourne in place of Basset, resigned.
1824. Charles Sells and Brice Hays.
1827. Charles Sells, reelected, and Jas. Howard in place of Hays.
1828. David Bailey in place of Howard, removed.
1830. Charles Sells, reelected, and Henry Coffinan and Jacob Paupaw in place of Bailey, deceased.
1831. John Eberly first elected in place of Paupaw.
1833. HIenry Coffman reelected, and John Uffner.
1834. John Eberly, reelected.
1836. Daniel Wright and James Howard.
1838. John Eberly, reelected, and William Harris in place of Howard, removed.
1839. Zenas Hutchinson in place of Wright, and George Churchman, elected. 1841. Eberly, reelected.
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1842. Henry Coffinan and Z. Hutchinson.
1844. Eberly, reelected.
1845. George W. Evans, in place of Hutchinson.
1848. Eberly reelected, and Wm. Graham.
1848. George W. Evans, reelected.
1850. Eberly and Graham, both reelected.
1851. George W. Evans,
1853. Eberly and Graham, both 66
1854. Eri Douglass, in place of Evans. Douglass re- signed in 1856 - his place not filled. 1856. Eberly and Graham, both reelected.
CHAPTER XIX.'
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
MADISON is the largest township in the county, being eight miles in extent north and south ; and now, since the accession in 1851, is seven miles east and west, with the exception of the jog in the south-east corner. It was organized as a township in 1809; had before been part of Hamilton. Settlements commenced in 1802 or 1803. As early as 1805, John Swisher, Esq., now of Perry Township, then from the State of New Jersey, settled here. He then found living in the township, Isaac Decker, Elias Decker, Charles Rarey, and his sons Adam, Benjamin, William, Charles and George - then boys, and a few others. Near the same time, and soon after, were added to the population, John Kile and family, Matthew Taylor, Jacob Gander, George Rohr and sons, and the Ramseys-Samuel, James and Robert, Mr. Mooberry and family, Billingsly Bull, Daniel Kra- mer, Matthias Wolf, Thomas Rathmel, Emmor Cox,
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James McClish, Philip Pontius, William D. Hendron, Philemon Needles, and others.
The school sections appropriated by the government to the townships of Madison, Hamilton, Montgomery and Truro, were all situated in this township, adjoining each other. The three latter townships sold theirs some twenty-five or thirty years ago. Madison still retains her section (No. 16), and realizes from it a handsome school revenue.
The first mill erected in this township was by Mat- thew Taylor, on Alum Creek, near its mouth, about the year 1807 or 1808. It was quite an acquisition to the settlement ; but it has long since disappeared, and no vestige remains to show where it stood. About the year 1810 or '11, George Sharp erected mills on Gahanna, which were afterward owned by John Sharp ; but have, a number of years since, entirely disappeared. There is now but one grist mill in the township, and that is Chaney's valuable mill on the canal, near Winchester. Near the same place is a wool-carding and fulling mill, also owned by the Messrs. Chaneys.
In 1817, the town of Oregon, formerly called Middle- town, was laid out by Isaac Decker. At the session of 1830-31, the name was changed from Middletown to Oregon. In 1829, a post office was established here.
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Dr. Thomas Hersey, first postmaster, appointed in 1829. Isaac D. Decker, second postmaster, appointed in place of Hersey, resigned, in 1833.
This office was discontinued about the time the office was established at Groveport.
In September, 1843, the western part of what is now Groveport, was laid out for a town, by Jacob B. Wert, and named " Wert's Grove," Mr. Wert being one of the first settlers in his new town.
In February, 1844, Wm. HI. Rarey laid out the east- ern part of the present town, adjoining the canal, and named it "Rarey's-Port." Mr. Rarey was also a resi- dent of the place at the time. The village improved as fast as either of the proprietors could reasonably expect, but each end of it bearing a different name. The pro- priety of a common name for the whole, soon became manifest to all. Each proprietor would doubtless have preferred his own chosen name. The citizens finally, willing to treat both proprietors alike, concluded to drop the prefix, or personal name of both, and retain the lat- ter part of each name, and thus the name of " Grove- port " was agreed upon ; and by that name it was incor- porated at the session of 1846-7.
The first Board of Councilmen, elected in the spring of 1847, were: Samuel Sharp, E. M. Dutton, J. P. By-
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waters, C. J. Stevenson, and Wm. Mitchell. Other suc- cessive officers :
Year. Mayor Recorder. Marshal.
1847. A. Shoemaker A. Clark
Wm. James.
1848. Henry Long.
Edmund Gares. Leonard Sarber. 66
1849. 66 60
1850. Z. P. Thompson
... A. Sharp James Turner.
1851.
A. Clark B. Callahan.
1852. E. W. Edwards .... A. Sharp James Turner.
1853. Jeremiah White .... A. Clark O. F. Connell.
1854. 66
J. Stimmel.
1855. Z. P. Thompson ... A. C. King . Wm. Watson.
1856. 66
R. F. Dildine
1857. N. Steel . H. McArthur J. Turner.
1858. L. Sarber R. F. Dildine . . Not yet appointed.
Groveport is quite a business place, well supplied with stores of dry goods and groceries, one drug store, three physicians, four churches, one Baptist, one Metho- dist, one Presbyterian, and one United Brethren, and a large and commodious school house. In 1850, the pop- ulation was 483.
A post office was established at this place in 1844.
Jacob B. Wert, first postmaster.
Edward Gares, second postmaster.
A. C. Headly, third appointed in 1852.
Samuel Sharp, fourth, present incumbent, appointed in 1854.
The annexation of six sections of land to the east
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side of Madison Township, in 1851, threw the town of Winchester, which had previously been in Fairfield County, into this. Winchester, like Groveport, is situa- ted on the canal, and is a place of very considerable business, particularly in grain and produce. In its bus- iness generally, it bears a similarity to Groveport, though it is a much older town. It was laid out about the year 1826 or '27, by Reuben Dove and John Coleman, of Fairfield. It now contains over 400 inhabitants ; three churches, viz : United Brethren, Methodist, and German Reform ; two schools, three physicians, three stores, two hotels, and the usual proportion of mechanics' shops, and a post office. Peter T. Krag, Esq., present post- master, appointed in 1853.
The town is not incorporated.
Beside the churches in the town of Winchester and Groveport, there are in this township a good Methodist meeting house, on the farm of Mr. Thomas Needles, known by the name of " White Chapel," erected about the year 1842 or '43; and a small German church som two or three miles from Winchester, erected about the year 1849. The Presbyterians worship at the " Truro meeting house," or at Groveport.
The population of this township, agreeably to the census of 1840, was 1,810. In 1850, it was 2,480. In 1853, the township contained twenty-one school dis-
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tricts, and an aggregate of 1,195 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years. In 1857, the aggre- gate of such youth was 1,209.
SUCCESSIVE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1809. Ebenezer Richards and George IIays, elected.
1810. Billingsly Bull.
1811. Wm. D. Hendren and Elijah Austin, elected.
1815. Elisha Decker, elected.
1817. Billingsly Bull, Emmer Cox, and James McLish, elected.
1820. Billingsly Bull, Nicholas Goeches, and William Godman, elected.
1823. B. Bull, N. Goeches, and W. Godman, reelected.
1824. Wm. D. Hendren, in place of Goeches, removed.
1825. Jacob Gander, in place of Godman, removed.
1826. John Swisher and William Patterson.
1828. Jacob Gander, reelected.
1829. W. Patterson, reelected, and Abraham Shoemaker, in place of Swisher.
1831. Alexander Cameron, in place of Gander.
1832. Wm. Patterson and Abraham Shoemaker, both reëlected.
1834. Alex. Cameron, reelected.
1835. Isaac Decker and John Swisher.
1837. Alex. Cameron, reelected.
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1838. W. W. Kile and James Pearcy, elected.
1840. Alex. Cameron, reelected.
1841. Abraham Shoemaker and John Courtright. . 1843. Alex. Cameron, reelected.
1844. John Cox and Wm. Mason.
1846. Joshua Glanville, -resigned in Sept. 1847. Jeremiah White, clected.
1847. W. W. Kile and Moses Seymour, elected.
1849. Jeremiah White, reelected.
1850. W. W. Kile and M. Seymour, reelected-Kile re- signed in March, 1852.
1852. Jeremiah White, reelected, and Henry Nicode- mus.
1853. M. K. Earhart, in place of Seymour.
1855. Joshua Stevenson, elected - died in 1856. Z. P. Thompson, in place of White.
1856. John Helpman, in place of Stevenson. M. K. Earhart, reëlected.
1858. Z. P. Thompson, "
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CHAPTER XX.
TRURO TOWNSHIP.
TRURO TOWNSHIP was established and organized in 1810. In the first division of the county into town- ships, it was embraced in, and formed a small part of Liberty Township. Its first settlement commenced in 1805. In 1806, Robert Taylor and his sons Abiather Vinton, Matthew, James and David, removed from Nova Scotia to Chillicothe, and from thence to this township in 1808, where they settled on Walnut Creek. At this time they found ten families that had settled in this wilderness before them, namely, in 1805, Thomas Palmer from Maine, and John Medford, Charles Med- ford, George Powell and Charles Chaney from Pennsyl- vania ; in 1806, John Edgar and John Lynch from Pennsylvania, and William Connell and Benjamin Con- nell from Virginia; in 1807, John Long from Chilli- cothe, (originally from Nova Scotia) ; subsequently, in 1808, Robert Wilson from Pennsylvania, and Daniel
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Ross, with a large family of sons, from Nova Scotia; in 1810, Zachariah Paul from Virginia, and William Thompson from Pennsylvania; in 1812, John Cam- bridge from Pennsylvania, and Captain John Hanson from Virginia ; and in 1814, Elias Chester and Jeremiah Nay from New York.
When the township was organized in 1810, the Taylor family had the pleasure of naming it " Truro," after a township in Nova Scotia, from whence they had removed. But little more than ordinary farm improve- ments were made until after the location of the national road.
In the fall of 1831, John French, who owned a farm and resided where Reynoldsburg now is, laid out the town, and James C. Reynolds, afterward Gen. Reynolds, then a young man from Zanesville, had temporarily located himself there with a small stock of goods suit- able for the demand of the laborers on the road. Reynolds was in no way interested in the town, but merely a boarder with Mr. French, who saw fit to com- pliment him by naming the town after him. Subse- quently, Mr. Reynolds married and became identified with the town as one of its principal business men. He continued his store, erected a steam mill in the town, was postmaster, etc. He afterward removed to Carroll, in Fairfield County, where he died some years since.
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Within the first twelve or fifteen years the town of Reynoldsburg grew up to near its present size and business. For the last ten or twelve years it has been nearly stationary. In 1850, it contained a population of 564.
At the session of 1839-40, the town was incorpo- rated, and at the first borough election, in the fall of 1840, Abraham Johnston, D. K. Wood, Samuel Gares, John W. Thompson, Mark Evans, James O. Kane and Archibald Cooper were elected the first Board of Trustees.
SUCCESSIVE MAYORS, RECORDERS AND MARSHALS.
Year. Mayor. Recorder. Marshal.
1840. Abraham Johnston . D. K. Wood Silas Howard.
1841. Daniel Taft . .. Geo. D. Graham ... L. P. Rhoads.
1842. 66 Robert Shield . . S. Howard.
1843.
66 Hiram Sibel.
1844. Robert Shield. ..... John Miller .R. S. Looker.
1845. Archibald Cooper .. Phillip Rhoads.
1846. James O'Kane
Hiram Sibel.
1847. R. Shield J. B. West Silas Howard.
[There were now several years without any borough election.] 1853. R. Shield.
H. M. Morton Silas Howard.
1854. J. B. West . Wm. Boyd . J. C. Abbott. 1855. C. S. West Jackson Clark.
1856. Richard Rhoads .... J. H. Lynch Orin Harris.
1857. J. B. West H. M. Morton
Not long after the laying out of Reynoldsburg, Mr
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Thomas Armstrong disposed of a few building lots on the road side near the crossings of Walnut Creek, which being improved, brought some four or five families in close proximity, and the place assumed the name of " Hibernia." The lots were never platted and recorded, nor was it intended for a regular town. There was, how- ever, a post office, established at this place in 1849, and Wm. F. Armstrong appointed postmaster, who continued to hold the office until 1857, when he resigned and the office was discontinued.
There are in Truro Township seven churches, four of which are in Reynoldsburg, one Baptist, one Presbyte- rian, one Methodist, and one Universalist. Near the middle of the township is the old Presbyterian " Truro meeting house," and at White Hall and at Mr. Powell's are Methodist meeting houses.
The old " Truro meeting house," was erected about the year 1820, and the church was organized by Doctor Hoge. The successive pastors have been, Rev. Mat- thew Taylor, Rev. Abner Leonard, Rev. Elias Vande- man, Rev. John M. Fulton, Rev. J. D. Smith, Rev. John Scott, Rev. John Arthur, Rev. Andrew Barr, Rev. W. Maynard, the present pastor.
In 1840, the population of this township, including the town of Reynoldsburg, was 1439. In 1850, it was 2156. In 1853, the township contained twelve school
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districts, and an aggregate of 659 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years. In 1857, the aggre- gate of such youth was 807.
REYNOLDSBURG POST OFFICE. - ( Established in 1833.)
James C. Reynolds, first postmaster, appointed in 1833.
Hiram Sibel, second
1840.
E. G. Hardesty, third 66
66 1841.
Jas. C. Reynolds, fourth
1842.
John Miller, fifth
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1846.
Lewis Sells, sixth
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1847.
L. P. Rhoads, seventh
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1849.
R. R. Johnston, eighth
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1853.
John Cookes, ninth
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1855.
H. E. Miller, tenth
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John Wright, eleventh
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SUCCESSIVE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1810. Ebenezer Richards, elected.
1812. Richard Suddick and John Stevenson, elected.
1815. Richard Suddick, reelected, and James Taylor, elected.
1818. John Long and Richard Cortright, in place of Taylor and Suddick.
1821. Long and Cortright, both reelected.
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1822. Matthew Crawford, in place of Cortright, removed fom the township.
1824. John Long, reelected.
1825. Matthew Crawford, "
1827. John Long,
1828. Daniel Whetsel, in place of Crawford.
1829. Jonathan McComb and Jeremiah Nay, in place of Long and Whetsel, both resigned.
1832. McComb, reëlected, and James C. Reynolds, in place of Nay.
1835. McComb, reelected, and Daniel Taft, in place of Reynolds.
1838. Joseph A. Reynolds, in place of Taft.
1839. James C. Reynolds, in place of Joseph A. Rey- nolds, resigned, and Sylvanus Baldwin, in place of McComb.
1842. Baldwin, reelected, and Geo. D. Graham, in place of Reynolds.
1843. A third justice was allowed to the township, and James Fancher, elected.
1845. Solomon Shultz, in place of Fancher, resigned. Baldwin and Graham, reelected.
1846. John Miller, in place of Baldwin, deceased.
1848. Geo. D. Graham and Solomon Shultz, both re- elected.
1849. John B. West, in place of Miller.
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1851. David K. Wood, in place of Graham, and S. Shultz, reelected.
1852. John B. West, reelected, and Barnabas Harris, in place of Shultz, resigned.
1854. D. K. Wood, reelected.
1855. B. Harris,
1856. N. C. Mason, in place of West.
1857. James Taylor, in place of Wood.
1858. E. C. Green, in place of Harris.
CHAPTER XXI.
PLAIN TOWNSHIP.
THIS township was organized in 1810, and then embraced two or three times its present boundaries, but after the organization of Jefferson and Blendon, in 1815 and 1816, it was reduced to its present bounds, which is just one original surveyed township of five miles square, and is designated on all correct maps as town- ship two, in range sixteen, of the United States Military Lands. The fourth or south-east quarter was laid out into one hundred acre lots for the benefit of revolutionary soldiers, holding one hundred acre war- rants, and the patents issued accordingly. Quarters number one and two, (north half of the township,) were afterward laid out into sections of six hundred and forty acres, and subdivided into quarter sections, and sold as other Congress lands. The third, or south-west quarter, four thousand acres, was patented to Dudley Wood-
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bridge in 1800, and was in April, 1802, sold and conveyed by Woodbridge to John Huffman, then of Washington County, Pennsylvania, but afterward a well known citizen of Franklin County, Ohio, for one gallon of whisky per acre, that is, for four thousand gallons of whisky, delivered at Marietta, though the consideration named in the deed is four thousand dollars. Mr. Huffman subsequently, about the year 1821 or '22, divided these lands amongst his children.
It is said that Joseph Scott was the first settler in the township, on a lease from Huffman ; though near the same time, in the summer or fall of 1802, Adam Baugh- man and Samuel Baughman, and one or two others, removed from Pennsylvania to these lands, part of the way cutting the road through the woods as they went. Henry Huffman soon followed, and subsequently 'Squire Patterson and others.
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