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in. He looked at them a moment and asked, "White man like wolf meat?" That satisfied their appetite. The Indians had jerked the wolf meat for their dogs. To prepare jerked meat, the Indians used to build a big fire and let it burn down into a bed of coals. Then they would drive forks in the ground, lay poles in these forks, then smaller sticks across these about two foot above the coals, and on these sticks strips of meat, after being salted, were laid. In this way the meat would be partly cooked, partly smoked and thoroughly dried, and would keep for months. The writer has known his father, James G. Gilliland, to bring a whole grain sack full of jerked meat home from some of his hunt- ing trips. Adam Gilliland married one of the daughters of Mr. Shaffner, on whose farm they were farming while at Bucyrus.
When James G. Gilliland moved to Ridge township he was four days coming from the Big Auglaize to Smith Hill's camp. The first home was built of poles and covered with linn bark. Later in the fall a better one was built of round logs and covered with clapboards held in place with weight poles instead of nails. During the fall of 1835 three men stopped for a drink, and said that the family would soon have neighbors (the nearest ones then, except Hill and John Mark, being 15 miles away), as they were going to lay out a town about three miles west. The Gillilands afterward learned that these were Aughenbaugh, Riley and Marsh.
When provisions ran low Mr. Gilliland went to Allen County and bought hard roasting ears, which were brought home and grated on a grater made by him out of part of a tin bucket by punching holes in it with a nail.
Later in the season he went to Piqua to mill and paid $1 a bushel and had the grain ground. He tried to buy flour, but there was none for sale, although there was flour there to
give away to those who were not able to buy. (It was sent from Zanesville. ) They told Mr. Gilliland that if he would say he was in need and had no money they would give him a bar- rel, but this he refused to do. While there he saw a rich man from Mercer county get flour. Father asked how he managed to get it. "Well," he said, "I had nothing to eat at home and had no money to buy, and they gave it to me." At that time he was worth five times as much as was Mr. Gilliland. It took two weeks to make the trip to Piqua and return with an ox team. The Gillilands went to Dayton for groceries, and to Sandusky City for salt. The writer once heard his Uncle Peter Mills say that he carried a sack of salt from Sandusky City on horseback. Mr. Gilliland once went to Kalida for crocks and on the way home lost the trail after night. He lay down to wait for the moon to come up, and fell asleep. He was awakened by something putting its cold nose against his face. It ran away and set up a howl and then he knew it was a wolf. For several years some of the family would go to Piqua to mill with an ox team.
John Gilliland was a blacksmith by trade and had moved to Logansport, Indiana. His mother and brothers wanted him to move here on a farm, but to do so he would have had to come around by way of Piqua. So the brothers and Peter Wills cut the road from four miles west of Van Wert through to Fort Wayne. After that Fort Wayne was the milling point, being 35 miles distant instead of 72 to Piqua.
Once James G. Gilliland went to Fort Wayne to mill and found about two acres cov- ered with wagons waiting for their grists. He unloaded his grain and then asked the miller how soon he could get his grinding, and was told that it would not be under two weeks. He said that his family would starve before that time as they did not have provisions to last that
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long. Some of the men spoke up and said that he was no better than they were and they had been there two weeks. Mr. Gilliland chained his oxen to the wagon and fed them. As soon as it was dark he bought a gallon jug, had it filled with the best brandy and then took it up and hid it in the bran pile. He told the miller that he had hid something nice in the bran pile and that when the hopper was about empty he should go down stairs and he (Gilliland ) would throw in his grain. The miller told him that the others would not let him grind it. Mr. Gilliland replied that he was a miller by trade and would grind it himself, and so it was ar- ranged. First he stuffed some rags in the bell so it would not ring. He then untied his sacks and was ready when the hopper run empty. He had more than half his grain in the hopper be- fore the others noticed what he was doing. Then they caught him and some of them held him while others hunted up the miller. The miller came up in a great rage, apparently, and a quar- rel ensued. The miller threw off his coat and Mr. Gilliland did the same. The miller finally said, "Well, he is a fool, I won't grind his grist, and he will spoil his flour and we will be rid ot him." Mr. Gilliland appeared to be disappointed because the miller would not grind the grist and began to beg the miller to grind it, but the mil- ler went off, refusing to touch it. That partly pacified the others. Mr. Gilliland ground his grist and started home the next morning.
The first winter after the Gillilands came to Ridge township, his brother Hugh came to James G. Gilliland's place and wanted the lat- ter to go coon hunting with him. James told him that he had never seen a coon track and would not know one if he should see it. Hugh said he had seen them in the mud at Bucyrus. So they started north and soon came to where there was a regular path between two trees.
They cut one of them down and put the family's little fiste (dog) in the top of the tree : he would come out at the bottom. They did this several times and were about to give up when Hugh happened to look in the stump and there lay five coons apparently not disturbed by the falling of the tree. They killed 14 coons that day and Hugh was so proud of his share that he said he would carry them home that night. He carried them as far as where the James M. Young farm is and threw them down in the snow, to lie there until morning.
The first house built in Van Wert was the Court House, a double log cabin with a space between, which was used as a prison during court. It was covered with clapboards, and held in place with weight boards instead of nails. William Priddy had the contract to build it. At the raising, he brought ear corn to grate to make corn bread, and James G. Gilli- land killed a deer about where the Third Ward schoolhouse is; when they were bringing in the deer, Smith Hill found a bee tree near where the deer was killed, so they had corn bread, honey and venison. Some of the men to help raise the house came from Allen County.
The Gillilands' nearest neighbors, excepting Smith Hill and John Mark, were 15 miles away at Willshire and on the Big Auglaize, and north it was 40 miles without a house. There were plenty of Wyandot Indians here. One in par- ticular used to stay all night at the Gilliland house. His hair was so long that when he sat down it would reach the chair. The writer re- members that he liked to slip up and pull the Indian's hair. Half John. John Lake and Spike Buck are Indian names that are familiar after 60 years have passed. The first citizens of Van Wert in the early days adopted the In- dian custom on holidays and elections. of select- ing one of their number to keep sober: the rest
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of them could get as drunk as they chose, but they would always obey the "Sober Indian," as he was called.
A practical joke that reacted on the origi- nators occurred about this time. Samuel S. Brown carried the mail between Greenville and Van Wert once a week on horseback. Frank Dodds, Frank Mott, S. M. Clark and Bill Par- ent and one or two others concluded they would have Brown get a pint of good whisky from Greenville as they would not drink Dan Cook's whisky. They decided they would not let Jim Graves have any. But the secret was too good to keep and some one told Graves' wife. Well you know how that goes. The day that Brown was to come, Jim Graves went south along the Grenville road and sat down on a log and waited. When Brown came along, Graves said, "Mr. Brown, the boys are across the creek hunting and wanted me to get that pint of whisky and bring it over to them." Graves got the whisky and when Brown reached town they were all out looking for him, wanting to know if he had brought the whisky. You can imagine their feelings when he said, "I gave it to Jim Graves. He said you were hunting over on the other side of the creek and had sent him over for it."
Smith Hill used to tell that he was sitting in his camp, which was 12 feet square covered with linn bark and open on one side, when he saw a young woman coming along the trail, carrying a little boy, with a little girl follow- ing. Mrs. M. H. McCoy was the little girl and the writer was the boy. Mr. Gilliland and his brother, Adam. came up with the team later on.
Mrs. James G. Gilliland, who had the rheu- matism so that she couldn't walk, one night crawled on her hands and knees 200 yards try- ing to get a shot at a bear that was eating the corn.
When James G. Gilliland went to mill, which was only twice a year, his family always had a feast of biscuits made of the shorts and his brothers' families frequently shared the feast also. But most of the year it was corn bread.
The writer recollects hearing Mr. Scott say that he was with Wayne's army. when they went through here and that they camped be- tween Prairie Creek and Blue Creek. In the night some of their oxen strayed off and they could not find them, which compelled them to abandon two of their brass cannon. He said they took them into a deep swale, took off the wheels and left them. So if any one should find them, they will know how they came there.
A bee hunter when he found a bee tree would mark his name on it and that would re- main his tree until he wished to cut it. One of the neighbors found a bee tree and marked it, but the next time he passed it he found his name had been cut off and Scott's put in its place. That was not to be tolerated. Some of the neighbors decided to cut the tree but for fear Scott would hear them chop, they took a log chain, put it around the tree and drew it as tightly as they could, so as to deaden the sound. They cut the tree and were just leaving with two big buckets of honey when they heard Scott coming through the woods. He never knew who cut the tree.
Smith Hill and some of his nephews were out coon hunting. They had tracked up a coon and were chopping the tree. when the dogs com- menced barking in a treetop near by. Hill set his gun against a tree and went over to the dogs with his axe. When he got close up in the treetop, a very large bear came at him, and he tried to back out. when his heel caught in a brush and he fell. When he got to his feet, the bear was almost onto him and he was com- pelled to fight. He sunk the bit of the axe into
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its head and killed it. It was very large and very fat. The writer recollects eating some of it.
THE GILLILAND FAMILY.
The early history of the Gilliland family has been quite fully entered into on preceding pages. John Gilliland, the father of James G. Gilliland and his brothers, was 63 years of age at his death in 1826. His wife, Jane (Briggs) Gilliland, died November 13, 1858, aged 83 years. Of their 10 children, nine lived to ma- turity. The children's names were as follows : James Gordon. born May 3, 1800; John, born January 28, 1803; Thomas, born October 22, 1806; Adam, born October 19, 1808; Nancy, born September 14, 1810, who married Peter Wills and raised a large family ; Robert, born February 2, 1813; Sarah, born April 3, 1815, who married George Guy and died within 30 days of her marriage; Hugh, born October 14, 1817; William, born September 1, 1820, who died at two years of age; and Jane, born Febru- ary 14, 1824, who married Theophilus King and left one child at her death,-Mary Ellen Swineheart.
The sons all remained in Van Wert County until their deaths, leaving large families. At their family reunion in August, 1905, 206 of the family sat down to the table at once. It is the boast of the family that there has never been one accused of a crime or been arrested for a misdemeancr.
THE M'COY FAMILY.
Two brothers, David W. and Alexander McCoy, came to the county in 1837 and en- dured the hardships of pioneer life and left a record of good citizenship and upright lives. Of large families, but two of David W. Mc- Coy's family are now living-William Creigh-
ton McCoy and Mrs. Elenor Harnley. Of Alexander McCoy's family there are yet living Moses H., Alexander R., Joseph G. and Almira Vanatta.
SMITH HILL
Came to Van Wert County, May 4, 1835. and se.tled in Ridge township. At that time there was not a white family in the county except in Willshire township. He and Aunt Julia Ann, as his wife was called by all that knew her, built a camp of poles and covered it with linn bark. It was open in front and a fire was kept before it for the purpose of cooking and as a protection from wild animals. Here they were living when the Gillilands came to the county. Hill was a great hunter, and made a good living ing from the pelts that he secured. He always kept two or three good coon dogs and a deer- hound. He was also a great bee hunter. If he found a bee on a flower in the woods, he would seldom fail to follow it to the tree and secure the honey by climbing and cutting the honey out.
Smith Hill, Elihu Ireland (a brother-in- law) and James G. Gilliland always camped out in the fall of the year to hunt. Hill spent most of his time hunting bees of a clear day and Ireland and Gilliland would hunt for deer. During these camping trips Hill always held prayers night and morning. as regularly as at home. He was a good singer and of a still morning or evening his voice could be heard for a great distance, although he was not a loud singer.
But Hill's greatest enjoyment was at quar- terly or protracted meetings and he would go a great distance to spend a week at such meet- ings.
Smith Hill and his wife had no children of their own, which was a source of regre :. Yet
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they were seldom without a large family of young people of their relatives or others. Their latch string was always out. "Uncle Smith" was always ready with good advice and coun- sel. The writer recollects that a young man once said in Hill's hearing that he had sworn that he would whip a certain man if he ever met him, for some wrong the man had done him, when he was a boy. "Uncle Smith" said, "A bad oath is better broken than kept. Then you will have one sin to repent of. If you keep it. you will have two." "Uncle Smith" and "Aunt Julia Ann" have both passed over the river and are reaping the rewards of their well- spent lives here below.
THE RIDGE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The first religious society in Ridge township was formed at the home of William Hill by Rev. O. Conoway, although prior to this Smith Hill had formed a class composed of himself and wife, John Mark and wife and James G. Gilliland and wife, which class met at Hill's every Sunday. At the time of the organiza- tion, the membership consisted of William Hill and wife, Smith Hill and wife, John Hill and wife, John Mark and wife, William Priddy and wife and some of the family and Oliver Stacy and wife. They met for a time at the house of William Hill, later at a log schoolhouse on the farm of William Martin and then at a hewed- log schoolhouse on the King farm near Middle- point until 1848, when they built a frame church on the land of William Martin. This church was used until 1874 when they built a brick church on the farm of Ebson Stewart. Smith Hill was the first class leader and held that position for over 50 years. The first camp- meeting was held on the farm of William Mar- tin, opposite where is now the Ridge Ceme- tery. Later the camp-grounds were located
on the farm of Henry Harrod, now the Walser farm.
THE GILLILAND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Was organized at an early day with the fol- lowing members: Hugh Gilliland and wife, Sarah Gilliland (wife of Adam Gilliland), Elizabeth Cavett (wife of William Cavett), Christian Harnley and wife and A. T. Priddy and wife. The Gilliland Methodist Episcopal Church for a number of years met in the school- house on the Thomas Gilliland farm. In 1857 they built a frame church on the farm of Hugh Gilliland. Among the early ministers were: Rev. N. B. C. Love, 1854 and 1855; Rev. Nathan Gavet, 1856; Rev. G. O. McPherson, 1858; Rev. William Baker, 1859; Rev. Frank- lin Merritt, 1860; Rev. James F. Mounts and Rev. A. Belt, 1861 ; Rev. James F. Mounts and Rev. B. A. Webster, 1862; Rev. B. A. Webster and Rev. H. L. Nickerson, 1863; Rev. Lemuel Herbert and Rev. Caleb Hill, 1864; Rev. Lem- uel Herbert and Rev. Nathaniel Hupp, 1865: Rev. Francis Hogan and Rev. Nathaniel Hupp, 1866; Rev. Nathaniel Hupp and Rev. J. Har- per, 1867; Rev. James F. Mounts and Rev. W. Beiler, 1868; Rev. James F. Mounts, 1869; Rev. Isaac N. Kalb and Rev. Nathaniel Hupp, 1870; Rev. Nathaniel Hupp and Rev. L. W. Patrick, 1871; Rev. Josiah Crooks, 1873, Rev. Caleb Hill, 1876; Rev. James F. Mounts, 1877.
The present brick church was built in 1880; in 1902 it was rebuilt and a vestibule added. The present membership is 60. The church is free from debt and perfect harmony exists among its members. It is supplied by the Van Wert circuit, of which it is a part.
THE FIRST SUNDAY-SCHOOL
In Ridge township was organized at the home of Daniel Beard by Rev. B. W. Chidlow in 1840.
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After Mr. Chidlow had been up through this part of the country and was telling about traveling for long distances through the woods without seeing a house, some of the company asked how he could find his way. He said,
"By blazes on the trees." A lady in the audi- ence said, "Now, Mr. Chidlow, would you tell us such things. Who was there to keep up the fires?"
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CHAPTER VIII
PLEASANT TOWNSHIP
Organization-The First Residents-Some of the Original Land Entries-Marks and Brands for Stock-Enumeration of Youths-Early Elections and Officials-Early Township Finances-The Kear Family.
Pleasant township was organized as a civil township June 5, 1837, by the commissioners of the county upon a petition of citizens, who requested its formation, its limits as Pleasant township to embrace township 2 south, range 2 east; and the petitioners also requested that township I south, range 1 and 2 east and the north half of township 2 south, range I east, be attached thereto for township purposes, which was granted. An election for township officers was ordered to be held at the house of James Maddox on June 20, 1837 (the Maddox house was where is now the E. R. Wells farm). The number of votes polled was 10. The next election was for justice of the peace and was held in the log Court House, at which Joseph Gleason was elected. He held the office for 15 years.
THE FIRST RESIDENTS.'
The first families in Pleasant township, outside of Van Wert town, were: Henry Myers, Asa Hipshire and Daniel Hipshire, liv- ing south of town; and James and Samuel Maddox on sections 8 and 9, William Miller on section 5, Augustus Bronson on section 6 and Levi Sawyer on section 7. In the summer
of 1837 Stephen and Joseph Gleason, Elisha and Williams Wells settled in the southwest corner of Pleasant township; also, in the fall, William, Thomas, Jacob and Benjamin Thorn.
The nearest place that corn could be ground was at East's Mill, three miles west of Lima. It was a tramp-mill run by oxen, working a large wheel set at an angle of about 30 degrees.
SOME OF THE ORIGINAL LAND ENTRIES.
SEC. NAME
ACRES.
YEAR.
I Charles Butler
322
1836
I James W. Riley 80
1837
I Henry Robinson 80
1837
I Charles W. Baird 80
1837
I
William Hammel 80
1837
2
Charles Caples 160
1836
2 Otis M. Wood
40
1836
2 Charles Butler 120
183€
2
David Edgar 161
1837
2
Hugh Thompson and H. Walker 161
1837
3 Charles Butler 160
1836
3
Dan Wyman 160
1836
3
Ferdinand Haskill 158
1836
5 Eli Adams
80
1838
5 W. L. Helfenstein
40
1840
5 P. M. Dix
39
1841
6 Nancy Bronson
80
1836
6 Augustus Bronson
40 1836
6 Jonathan Clendening 76
1836
6 George Miller
96
1836
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SEC. NAME.
ACRES. YEAR
SEC. NAME. ACRES. YEAR.
6 Joseph Miller
96 1836
14 Samuel S. Craft
480 1836
6 Stephen Wilkins
352
1837
14 W. L. Helfenstein 40
1840
7 George Hathaway 40
1836
15 Joseph Barnett 80
1835
1837 15 Samuel S. Craft 480
1836
7 D. L. McMannis
40
1837
15 John Lantz
80
1836
7 Newell Stiles
40
1837
16 H. C. McGavren
80
1835
7 Nancy Barry 48
1837
16 A. M. McGavren 80
1835
7 Mary J. Ross
100
1837
7 Henry Zimmerman, Sr.
48
1838
16 Jonathan Tumbleson 160
1835
7 Jesse Smith
48
1840
16 Zeph. Hartman 80
1835
7
John Smith 168
1840
17 James Henderson 160
1835
8
Abraham Griffith
40
1836
17 Adam Troup 160
1835
8 James T. Maddox
80
1836
17 R. & George McCoy 160
1835
8 Samuel Chesler 160
1836
17 Ephraim Sniver 120
1838
8 John Tumbleson
160
1837
17 Joseph Uhle 40
1838
8 John Uhle 120
1838
18 Henry Zimmerman, Sr. 192
1836
8 William J. Thomas
40
1839
18 Thomas M. Thompson 160
1836
8 John Shaw 40
1852
18 Charles H. Williams 80
1837
9 John Hathaway 40
1836
18 Josiah DeLong
40
1837
9 James J. Maddox 160
1836
18 David Balyeat
192
1837
9 P M. Dix
80
1836 18 James S. Shrives
40
1838
9 Charles Butler
160
1835 I9 Lucinda McCoy
160
1835
9 George Snyder
160
1836
9 William Ammon
40
1838
19 C. Vananda 160
1836
10 Graham Griffith
80
1834
I9 John J. Goodbread 194
1837
10 Joseph Barnett
80
1835
20 Evan Weaver 80
1836
IO Charles Meldon
80
1836
20 Herman Henderson 160
IS36
10 John Hathaway 40
1836 20 William Davis
240
1836
10 Charles Maddox 40
1836 20 James H. Eaton
160
1837
10 William Moore
160
10 Charles Butler
160
1836
80
18.36
II Samuel W. Parmley
200
1836
22 Charles Butler 160
1835
II William Versey
40
1836
22 L. B. Garley 80
18.35 18:6
1834 22 John Montgomery 160
1835
1834 22 John McCoy 80
18.6
12 Simon Perkins 80
1835 23 John Uncapher 480
1836
12 P. M. Dix 40
1836 23 Charles Butler 160
1836
12 William Stripe 80
80
24
Johnson & Conn 80
1852
12 William Glenn
80
1852
24 John Shaw 80
1852
12 Warner Stripe 40
1852
24 O. W. Rose So
1852
1852 24 Davis & Burt 240
18-2
13 Aughenbaugh, Riley & Marsh 240
1834
25 Samuel P. Hedges 80
1835
13 Joseph Griffith 80
1834
25 George Dustman 165
1836
13 Reuben Frisbie 80
1851
25 Henry Myers 160
1836 1836
13 C. P. Edson 80
1851
25 John Uncapher
160
13 Robert Gilliland 80
1852
25 Samuel W. Parmley 80
IS36
13 John Shaw
40
1851
26 Charles Butler 160
1836
13 George Marsh 40
1851
26 James Lindsay 120 1836
14 George Marsh 120
1834
26 Joseph Saint 160
1856
7 Milton J. Ross 100
1837
16 Samuel Miller 80
1835
16 P. O. & P. Ryan 80
1835
19 John McCoy 194
18.36
1836 21 Daniel Cook 320
1836 1836
11 George Marsh 320
1834
21 Elisha Wells
240
Il Charles Butler
80
1836 22 Mathew Makin 160
12 George Marsh 120
12 Joseph Wilson 80
1851 24 Robert Conn 80
1852
12 Davis & Bur
1852
12 J. C. Parkinson 40
21 John McCoy
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SEC. NAME.
ACRES. YEAR
26 Joseph Harbert
160 1836
26 James Simms, Jr.
40
1838
27 Henry Boston 320
1836
27 Hugh Thompson 320
1836
28 Andrew Smith 160
1836
28 David W. Green
160
1836
28 John Thompson 160
1836 1836
29 Andrew Smith
80
1836
29 Hugh Thompson, Jr.
160
1836
29 Sarah Thompson
160
1836
29
Alex. Work
200
1836
29 James H. Eaton
40
1836
30
William Thompson
160
1836
30 Jonas Balyeat
193
1837
31
Jonas Balyeat
48
1837
31
Joseph Gleason 208
1837
31
Alex. Work
40
1837 1837
31 31
Joseph Gleason 292
1838
31
William Watson 40
1838
32
Robert Thompson 160
1836
32 May Gleason
80
1838
32
Benjamin Harnley
80
1841
33 James Clendening
80
1836
33
Samuel P. Hedges
80
1836
33
John Montgomery 160
1836
33
Levi Saint
320
1836
34
James Montgomery
160
1836
34
William Thorn
80
1836
34
Thomas Thorn
120
1836
34 Benjamin Thorn 80
1836
34 James Simms 120
1838
34 Thomas Jacobs
40
1838
34
35 David Huelscher 160
1836
35
Charles Baker 160
1836
35
Arch. McCoy 160
1836
35 Joseph Saint
160
36
Daniel Hipshire 80
80
1836
36 John & Joshua Gossard
120
1836
36 Archibald . Cooper
160
1836
36 Benjamin Harnley 80
1836
MARKS AND BRANDS FOR STOCK.
for his cattle, sheep and hogs, and these marks and brands were recorded as follows: Asa Cook,-a crop off the right ear ; A. Brubaker,- two slits in the right ear; Joseph Brodnix .- a square crop off each ear and the end of the tail cut off ; Aaron A. Bronson,-a crop off the left ear and a slit on the under side of the right ear ; Jonathan Balyeat,-a slit in the right ear and on the under side of the left ear; Daniel Cook, -a crop off the right ear and a slit in the same; Samuel M. Clark, a slit in the left ear ; John W. Clark,-a slit in the left ear; Wil- liam A. Clark, a slit on the under side of the left ear; Joseph Clark,-a crop and half crop off the right ear; George S. Crafts,-a crop off the right ear and a slit in each ear ; Joseph Col- lins,-a slit in each ear; William Davis,-a swallow fork in the right ear and a half crop off the under side of the left ear; Peres M. Dix,-a crop off the left ear and a hole in the right ear; Samuel Farnam .- a slit in the right ear; Solomon Farnam,-a slit in the right ear; Samuel Engleright,-a swallow fork in the left ear and a hole in the same; Enoch S. Edson,- two under bits out of the left ear; Benjamin Gleason,-a standing crop off the under side of the left ear ; William Johns,-a square crop off the right ear; William Miller,-a crop off the right ear and a slit in the left ear; Smith Mil- ler,-a crop off the right ear and a slit in the left ear; Thomas S, McKim,-a crop off and a slit in the right ear and a hole in the left ear; William Parent,-a slit in the left ear; Lyman J. Webber,-a swallow fork in the end of each ear : E. R. Wells,-a square crop off the left ear and a swallow fork in the right ear; J. C. Park- inson,-two slits in the left ear : William Thorn, -a crop and slit in the right ear and a hole in the left ear.
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