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And that state of organization continued until at a meeting of the commissioners of Huron county, . held on the 4th day of March, 1822: present, Eli S. Barnum, Robert S. Southgate and Amos Woodward, commissioners, it was
Ordered, That township number one, in the twenty-second range (called Ripley), be and same is hereby annexed to township number one, in the twenty-third range (called New Haven), fo. township pur- poses.
Ordered, On the petition of Edward L. Cole and others, that townships numbers two and three, in the twenty-second range (the first Bronson, the second Fairfield.) be organized with township privileges, and that the same be known by the name of Bronson. And notice of township meeting on the first Monday of April next, given according to law.
Attest : MOSES KIMBALL,
Clerk and Auditor, Huron County.
Of the townships here named in parenthesis, the first should have been Fairfield, and the second, Bron- son, but the record stands as cited.
Thus it will be seen that from February 18, 1817, to March 8, 1820, Norwalk embraced a territory five miles wide and ten miles long, and from March 8, 1820 to March 4, 1822, its territory was five miles wide and twenty miles long; forming an election pre- cinct which polled sixty-two votes at the first elec- tion, as appears by the certificate attached to the tally sheet of that election, now on file in the county elerk's office, which is as follows:
At a regular election of the electors in the township of Norwalk, at the house of Daniel Tilden, in said Norwalk, on the third day of April, 1820, for two justices of the peace:
We do hereby certify, that Enos Gilbert had sixty-one votes; Samuel B. Lewis, forty-five; Luke Keeler, one; Ahijah Comstock, seven; Asher Cole, one; and Joseph Pierce, three, for the offices of justices of the peace.
PLATT BENEDICT,
Footing of CIRssification No. 4. £1,344 7 0 Attest : W'M. GARDNER,
ELIPHALET W. DAY,
ExOS GILBERT, Clerks.
ROBERT S. SOUTHGATE," Judges of Election.
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Elizabeth Gaylord
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Samuel Comstock
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Ephraim Stewart
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John Benedict
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Benjamin Peck
23
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Anna Reynolds
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516 9 6
Hannah Dickinson 33
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Thomas Benedict 779
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10 Thomas Benedict John Rich's heirs 71
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Thomas Benedict
779 165
1
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Thomas Benedict Isaac Keeler
32
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Jesse Benedict
144
Obediah Siscat Rebecca Smith Isaac Waring
3
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Joshua Rogers Mary Avery 11
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James Hoyt's heirs 26
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272
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James Crowley
7415 1
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Andrew Morehouse
16
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James Fitch 919
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219
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Edward Wentworth 80
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Samuel Bunal
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John Dovey
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Daniel Thatcher's 215
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At an election for sheriff on December 6, 1820, (at which Enos Gilbert, of Norwalk, was elected) seventy-two votes were polled.
113
HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
At an election for justice on the 2d day of April, 1821, (at which Timothy Taylor was elected) seventy- six votes were polled.
At the election for county officers, October 9, 1821, ninety-two votes were polled.
At the State election in 1877, the same territory polled for governor: Fairfield, 303; Bronson, 225; Ripley, 212; Norwalk, 1,344. Total, 2,084.
After Ripley, Fairfield and Bronson were detached from Norwalk, and at the State election of October 8, 1821, only fifty-one votes were polled in Norwalk.
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX FOR 1815. (Abstract showing Norwalk.)
Duplicate of taxes laid in Huron county for the year 1815, by the county commissions of said county.
Eli S. Barnum, Caleb Palmer and Charles Parker, Commissioners. Tax bill for the county of Huron in the year 1815:
WBEATSBOROUGH.
HURON.
Dillingham John
8390
Comstock, Ahijah
S 50
Reed. Hanson ..
80
Lewis, Samuel B
Wilson, James.
80
Newcomb, Benjamin
140
1
Total for Wheatshorough
280
2 80
Total for
11160
Total for Norwalk.
$8.30
Vermillion
2480
Total for Huron County, 8192.40
The townships of Wheatsborough, Huron and Vermillion appear to have constituted the whole county, for purposes of taxation, at that time.
This duplicate was probably made out in the early part of the year 1815. In August, of that year, there was an entirely different arrangement of town- ship lines established, as appears by the following extract from Volume I, page 1, of the Commissioners' Journal of Huron county:
Commissioners' office, at county seat, August 1, 1815. First meet- ing held at David Abbott, Esq.
Caleb Palmer, Charles Parker and Eli S. Barnum, Commissioners.
Ichabod Marshall, Clerk, appointed pro tem. Abijah Comstock, appointed County Treasurer.
The new townships following are set off, viz:
1. Wayne's Reserve, at Lower Sandusky, to be known by the name of Lower Sandusky.
2. Vermillion-comprising the following tract, viz: The whole of the twentieth range of the Connecticut Western Reserve, together with all tbe tract of country belonging to the county of Huron, east of said twentieth range.
3. Greenfield-comprising townships numbera two and three, in the twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth ranges of the Connecticut Western Reserve.
4. New Haven-comprising number one in the twenty-first, twenty- aecond, twenty-third and twenty-fourth ranges.
*
*
*
*
* * * *
By order of the Commissioners, ICHABOD MARSHALL, Commissioners' Clerk, pro tem.
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX FOR 1819. (Extract showing Norwalk.)
County tax assessed on the residents of Huron county for the year 1819:
Norwalk Township.
Horses. Cattle. Houses.
450
82 25
*Ammerman, Simeon
3
30
Benedict Platt
2
8
1 40
Boalt, Eben
1
40
Boalt, John
2
20
Brunson Hosea
1
10
Cole, Levi .
2
9
1 50
Comstock, Abijah
3
5
1 40
Benton William
1 10
Baker, Timothy
2
80
*Clark, Jahez.
1
1
70
*Beckwith, Willlam
3 30
Bangs, Theodore
15
Vorwalk Township.
Horses. Cattle. Houses.
*Clark, Halsey.
1
. . .
"Crawford, Joseph.
20
Cole. Thomas.
*Denung, Jabez
3
30
Forsythe, Frederick
1
1
350
2 15
Fay, Lucius
1
40
Gibbs, David ..
1
60
Gibbs, Samuel R
1
1
10
*Guthra, Eben
1
1 10
*Herrick, Ezra
1
C
50
*Herrick, Ezra Jr
1
3
30
*Hagerman, Thomas
5
50
Houk, Henry
O
80
*Herrick, Lott
Isham, Epaphroditus
40
Isham, Seldon
3
30
*Kellogg, Martin
1
1
70
Keeler, Luke
1
1
70
Keeler. John.
2
80
+Lockwood, George.
1
3
60
Laylin, John.
1
40
Laylin, Charles
1
4
70
Marshall, Ichabod
1
30
Mason, C'ornelius
1
10
Myres, Adam
1
30
*Pixley. Reuben
2
1
70
Powers, Abraham
1
4
70
Reed, Hanson.
1
1
70
*Reynolds, Joh T.
1
5
80
*Sypher, Peter.
1
4
70
Strong. Silas G.
1
1
300
1 90
Tice & Forsythe.
200
1 00
*Taylor, Benjamin
20
*Terry, Henry
1
10
*Tanner, Nathan.
4
40
#Underhill, Jasper
1
1
40
Wells, Ezekiel
1
70
*Welch, John
5
50
White, John.
1
60
Wilson, James.
1
4
70
Todd, Manning S
1
...
30
David Underhill. Levi Cole, Platt Benedict,
. Peter Tice, Frederick Forsythe and
Daniel Tilden, own all the town of Nor-
walk, assessed at $1,400.
7 00
Total for Norwalk
42 174
$43 10
Total amount of the tax
$1,217 75
NOTE .- Total names on this duplicate.
63
*Lived in Bronson, then attached to Norwalk
19
+Lived in Milan
1
#Lived in Ridgefield.
1-21
Residents of Norwalk
To HALLET GALLUP-Sir :- The taxes herein contained, assessed on the residents of Huron county for the year 1819; you are by the Com- missioners of Huron county, authorized to collect, you will, therefore, proceed to collect the said taxes, and pay the amount to the Treasurer of Huron county as the law directs.
By order of the Commissioners,
BENJ. ABBOTT, Clerk.
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX FOR 1820. (Extract showing Norwalk.)
LIST OF TAXABLE PROPERTY IN NORWALK TOWNSBIP.
Proprietors' Names.
Horses. Cattle.
*Ammermon, Simeon ..
192
5
$0.80
Bronker. Jobn.
1
70
Brunson, Hosea
2 291
20
Bangs, James.
20
*Clark, Lestor.
1
10
*Cole, David
1
40
Odway, Nehemiah ..
2
20
*Rundle. Abijah
3
30
*Sutliff, Nathan.
3
30
*Southgate, Robert S
1
10
Tice, Peter
2 142
20
Wheeler. Edward.
1
10
Lewis, Samuel B
1
70
*Hoskins, John.
141
40
10
Inman, Malvara
60
Lockwood, Henry
5 50
Huron.
56 00
70
20
90
Gilbert, Enos
30
Abbot, Ezra .
114
IIISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
Proprietors' Names.
Horses. Cattle.
Proprietors' Names.
Horses. Cattle.
Benedict. Platt.
6 1.20
*Baker, Spencer
1 1
3
60
*Baker, William
+
40
*Brownell, Abel
30
5
283
44.50
Boalt, John
1
60
Amount of Town Plat .. .
47 60
Boalt. Eben.
.
*Clark, Daniel L
1
4
70
*Crawford, Joseph
4
40
*Clark, Lester
4
40
*Clark, Jabez
1
30
Benedict, Platt.
Cole, David
Benton, William
35
*Conger, David
1
10
Bangs, James
35
Cole, Thomas
3
30
Bangs, Theodore 30
Case. Samuel
+Butman, John S
30
Carver, Aldrich
1
1
10
Cole Levi
4.50
Cole, Asher
1
6
90
Finney Erastus
1.35
Comstock. Abijab
3
1.60
Fay, John.
1.6216
Dewit, Zurich W
1
10
Forsythe Frederick
2.25
*Day, Eliphalet
1
40
Gallup, William.
1.50
Decker, Elick
5
50
Henry, Samuel
50
Dimick, John
1
10 Lane, Ebenezer
1.50
Dillingham, John.
15
1.50
Mason, Cornelia
2 00
*Demming, Jabez.
3
30
Tice, Peter
5.75
Dillingham, Henry
3
30
Tilden, Daniel
8.00
*Ervin, Thomas
1
50
#Underhill. David
3.75
Forsythe. Frederick
1
1
40
Finney. Erastus
1
10
Whittlesey and Benedict
6.60
Foster, Seth
1
10
Fay, John
1
.
Total amount of page footings of this duplicate. 31,142.14
To DAVID W. HINMAN, ESQ.,
Gardner, William
1
30
Gibbs, David ..
2
1 1.00
Gibbs. Samuel R
6
60
*Guthrie, Eben
1
8
1.10 10
Huyck, Henry
22
80
Hutchins, Elias
10
*Herrick, Lott
3
*Hoskins, John.
NOTE. Total names on this duplicate, including lot owners .. 101
33
*Herrick, Ezra.
+Lived in Milan
1
*Herrick, Ezra, Jr
20
Inman, Mulvery
30
Isham, Epaphioditus
10
Isham, Selden
2
1 70
*Jolinson, Bryant.
5
50
Jerolomon, Thomas
3
30
*Kellogg, Martin.
5
50
Keeler, Lewis
2
6 1.20
Keeler, Johu
80
Lewis, Samuel B
1
7
1.00
Laylin, Charles
1
Arnold, Alfred.
Norwalk. Horses. Cattle. Tar. 1 $0.10
Bangs, Theodore S., lot 60, 1820, 30c; 1821, $1.25; 1822,
75c. 2.30
Butman, Jno. S., lot 58, 1820, 41c; 1821, 79%gc; 1822,3736c; ..
1.50
Mason, Cornelia
10
5 Boalt, Eben. 50
1
1 40
*Moffit, Philip
Baker, Timothy, 1 house $400 3
11 4.00
*Pixley, Reuben C
1
1
Benedict, Platt, 1 house $400, half No. 1.
5 3.25
Pratt, John
1
1
lot 14, 1821, 8716c; 1822, 50c.
1.37%
Pierce, Joseph
1
lot 15, 1821, $4.40; 1822, 50c.
4.90
Porter, William
1
lot 18, 1821, 621gc; 1822, 50c.
1.1216
*Rundle, Abijah
5
= lot 33, 1821, 6216c; 1822, 50c.
1.1216
Raymond, Lemuel
1
4
Benton, William.
1
10
*Reynolds, Job T.
50
1
1
40
*Rusco, Armon
1
10
1
1.40
Reed. Hanson
1
80
2
2.55
*Sutliff, Nathan 5
50
3.00
*Southgate, Robert S
1
1.00
Cole, Asa, lot 22, 50c ..
1
90
*Sample, John
1
50
44 lot 30, 1820, $2.18; 1821, 80.8116; 1822, 50c 3.4916
30
Sifort, Peter, Jr
10
*Tanner, Nathan
1
6
90
Tice, Peter
3
30
1
10
Tilden, Daniel
1
30
Dillingham, John, 1 house $2,50.
12
2.45
Todd, Manning S
1
30
Forsythe, Frederick, 1 house 82.50
1
1.65
*Terry, Henry
1
10
*Taylor, Benjamin F
5 50
Finny, Erastus, 1 house . 200, 16 lot 24.
1.25
*Warren, Daniel
1
30
Fay, Lucius
5
50
Welch, John.
1
10
Wilson, James
1
4
White, John.
4
40
1
50
Wheeler, Levi
1
3
60
Gallup, Hallet, lot 61
1
1.4216
Western, Jonathan
4
40
Gilbert, Euos 1
2 50
Wells, Roswell.
1
5
80 Gibbs, David.
1
4 70
1
. .
Sir :- The county levies herein contained, assessed on the inhabitants of Huron County, for the year 1820, you are, by the Commissioners of Huron county. authorized to collect, you will therefore proceed to col- ject the same and pay to the Treasurer of Huron county as the law
directs By order of the Commissioners.
For LYMAN FARWELL, Clerk, ICHABOD MARSHALL.
PERSONAL PROPERTY, ETC .- TAX FOR 1822. (Extract showing Norwalk.)
Duplicate of the county tax levied on the personal and town propemay of Huron county for the year 1822.
Laylin, John
3
Lockwood, Henry
1
3
Lane, Ebenezer.
1
1
1
Marshall, Ichabod.
3
Boukee, John. 1 1
4
30 40 10 40 10
10 50 70
1
Boalt, John. Comstock. Abijalı
Cole, Asher, 1 house $250. Norwalk lots 4, 11, 19, 21, 27, 29
Sifort, Peter
1
41 4 1
70
Drake, Benjamin F
Drake, William, lot 26, half 1820, 81.0916; 1821, 80.813%; 1822, 80.25 2.16
Dounce, John
..
.. 3% lot 9, 1821 and 1822. 3.67
Fay, John, delinquent, 1820, 1 house, lot 16 same same for 1822
1.6216
1.00
1
Wilson, Thomas C ...
1
10
Ordway, Nehemiahı
1
10
4 3 1 حلو تت تت حدد حكم
40
$92.10
TOWN PLAT OF NORWALK. PROPRIETORS' NAMES.
Tar. 5 72%
$47.60
30
Fay. Lucius
5
50
Gallup, Hallett,
30
Gilbert, Enos
*Hagarman, Thomas
1
1218142231 1 1 1 3 1
30 10 70 80
*Lived in Bronson, theu attached to Norwalk
#Lived in Ridgefield 1-35
Residents of Norwalk
66
20
3
30
Williams, James 1.25
Gardner, William
11
5572 5 7
5
10 30 60 40
115
HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
Norwalk.
Horses. Cattle. Tax.
Gallup, William, lot 62, 1820, 121, 122
34.65
Gibbs, Samuel R
3
30
Hurlburt, Henry
1
10
Henry, Samuel lot 17, 1820, '21, '22.
2:45
Hoskins, Thomas.
1
50
Huyck, Henry
3
1
1.00
Isha', Epaphroditus.
1
10
Isham, Selden
1
1
40=
Inman, Malvery
3
30
Kimball, Moses, half 28.
75
Keeler, John
1
3
60
Keeler, Luke
1
1
40
Keeler, Lewis
6
60
Latimer, Pickett.
1
30
Lockwood. Henry
1
40
Laylin, Charles
3
30
Lane, Ebenezer, 1 house $200
1
3
1.50
Lewis, Samuel B
1
19
2.20
Laylin, John.
2
1
70
Merryman, Enoch B
1
2
50
Marshall, Ichabod
1
5
80
lots 36 and 37.
80
Mason, Cornelia, lot 34
1
2.00
Marvin, Zachariah, lot 35.
40
Comstock,Abijah
185022 4. . 2 & 3 27 75
27
15
200
4 50
4
50
Total am't tax (with rest of county ), $1.185.07.736
COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE. Huron County, Chio, June 8, 1816. We hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a duplicate of the State tax, for the County of Huron, for the year 1816.
Attest:
FREDERICK FALLY, Clerk.
+ There are in this duplicate one name from Portage county. two names from Medina county, four names from Cuyahoga county, one hundred and seven names from Huron couty,-four being from Nor- walk, and Comstock the only actual resident.
TAX IN 1817. (Extract showing Norwalk). Resident proprietors' land tax, for the year 1817, for Huron county, Ohio.
Proprietors' Names.
2d Rate
3d Rate
I Range
Town
Section
County
$ cts.
Colwell and others.
. 281
22 41
Huron
4 2116
do
23:2
22 41
do
520
Bull, Epaphrus W.
22 44
do
17 5016
Comstock, Ahijah
1850
do
2775
Fay, Aaron.
100
22 44
225
Frink, William
200
22 42
450
Gibbs, David
360
22 42
8 0916
Lockwood, Henry ..
200
280
22 43
870
Second Rate (for county)
2374216
Third Rate (for county )|
5072416
+,1339 8736
COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE, Huron County, Ohio, April 3, 1817. We hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a duplicate of the State tax, for the county of Huron, for the year 1817.
FREDERIC& FALLY, ! Commissioners. JOHN S. REENE,
$ There are in this duplicate one name from Portage county, two names from Medina county, two names from Cuyahoga county, one hundred and twenty-three names from Huron county .- seven being from Norwalk.
+ These figures are the total for the county. The total for Norwalk is $78.2316.
TAX IN 1818. (Extract showing Norwalk). Resident proprietors' land tax, for the year 1818, for Huron county.
Proprietors' Names.
2dl Rate
3d Ratı
Range
Town
Section
County
Lot
$ cts
Trumbul
1167
Beatty, John
281 22
41
281
23.2
41
3.48
Comstock, Abijah
185022 42& 3
18.50
Fay, Aaron
100
22 44
150
Frink, William
200
. . 22 42
3,00
Gibbs, David
360
22 42
5.40
Lockwood, Henry
200 280 22 42
5 80
Lewis, Samuel B.
200
. . . . 22 41
3 0716
Reed, Hanson
311 . .. . 22 44
..
*
I have compared this duplicate with the original, and find it correct. GEORGE PEASE.
The charge for drawing off the within duplicate is che dollar and fifty cents. Received payment of Charles Parker.# GEORGE PEASE.
*There is one name on this duplicate for Portage county, and one for Cuyahoga, with forty-seven other names for Huron county, the three above given being all there are for Norwalk.
# Charles Parker was one of the county commissioners in 1815.
§ William Frink was a resident of Ridgefield in 1812 and 1813, and of Sherman in 1820, and probably never resided in Norwalk.
TAX IN 1816. (Extract showing Norwalk). Resident proprietors' land tax;for the year 1816. in the County of Huron, State of Ohio.
Proprietors' Names.
Ist Rate
2d Rate
3d Rate
| Range
Town
| Lots
Section
$ cts. mills
S cts. mills
Beaty, John
281 22 4
4
21
5
4
21
5
Bull, Epaphrus W
1
17 50
5
17
50
5
Odway, Nehemiah, delinquent of 1821.
40
Pratt, John
1
10
Pearce, Joseph, delinquent of 1820.
10
Reed, Hanson
1
60
Richmond Everett, lot 66, 1821, '22
1 3116
Stratten, Daniel.
1
40
Tice, Peter, 1§ lot 9
2.6634 50
44
lots 6, 8, 1821, '22
6.75
lots 25, 33, 1821, '22.
2.9916
Tilden, Daniel
half lots 12, 26, 1820, '21, '22
2.7736
Underhill, David, lots 23, 28
1.00
Underhill, Benedict & Cole, lots 2, 3, 10, 20.
4.00
Williams, James, lot 64, 1820, '21, '22
1
4.65
Wells, Ezekiel
1
40
Wells, Roswell.
1
10
Woodward, William
10
Wilson, James
1
70
White, John ..
1
40
Wheeler, Samuel
1
10
Wood, Andrew
60
Wheeler, Edward
60
Whittlesey, Elisha, lots 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44. 45, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 63 and 65, 1821 and 1822
14.4534
Unknown, lots 7 and 31, 1821 and 1822.
2.63
Totals.
47 182 $121.5216
AUDITOR'S OFFICE, HURON Co., Ang. 1, 1822. I, Moses Kimball, certify the foregoing to be a correct duplicate of the county tax for 1822. MOSES KIMBALL, C. A.
NOTE .- The total tax for the county, including Brownhelm, Black River and Elyria, is footed up $1,659,36.
It will be remembered that Norwalk and Bronson were set off into a township by the name of Norwalk on February 18, 1817, and that Bronson was set off from Norwalk on March 4, 1822. This, then, is the first personal property tax duplicate for Norwalk town- ship proper, and shows a list of sixty-six taxable per- sons; but Butman, Underhill and Whittlesey were not residents, leaving the actual resident tax payers only sixty-three.
RESIDENT REAL ESTATE TAX IN 1815. (Extract showing Norwalk). Resident proprietors' land tax, in the year 1815, for the counties of Cuy- Rhoga and Huron, State of Ohio.
Proprietors' Names.
Ist Rate
2d Rat
3d Rate
Range
Town
Section
County
Amount of Taxes
Comstock, Abijah Frink, William $ . Wood, Standish
. . 200
. . . . 22 43
do
5
37
5
5
81 32
00
00
.. 200
... 22 41
do
5
37
5
37
5
232 22 4
3 48
3
48
Frink, William +
Amount of Tax
lotal Amount Dne
Amount
of Tax
44
Total Amount Due do
$ cts. mills 200 $ cts. mills 200
1450 22 4 2 & 3 Huron 25
81
25
5
co . 3
" lot 5.
FREDERICK FALLY, & Commissioners. EBENEZER MERRY, S
20
1
Lots
Amount of Tax
22 42 & 3
116
HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
There are in this duplicate one name from Portage county, one name from Medina county, one hundred and eighty-eight names from Huron county,-nine heing from Norwalk.
There is no certificate attached to this paper, but it is authentic, and forms part of the official record in the Auditors' office of Huron county.
TAX IN 1819. (Extract showing Norwalk).
The following Collector's duplicate, for the tax of the year 1819, found amoung the papers of the late Hallet Gallup, is the earliest one that the most thorough search has brought to light. None are on file in the Auditor's office.
Land tax of the residents of Huron county, for 1819.
2d Rate
3d Rate
R
T
S
Lot
County
cts.
Total am't of tax (for county), §1,605.90
John S. Reed says, the tax against Cornelius Reed was paid for last year.
To Hallet Gallup:
You are, by the commissioners o' Huron county appointed collector of the foregoing taxes, of the residents, on land in the county of Huron. You are, therefore, hereby authorized to collect the same, and make returns as the law directs.
Attest:
JOSEPH STRONG, ! Commissioners. BILDAD ADAMS,
BENJAMIN ADAMS, Clerk.
TAX IN 1820. (Extract showing Norwalk).
Non-Resident Proprietors.
Resident Proprietors.
2d Rate
3dl Rate
RT
'S
Lots
Scts.
Burrill, Jno. Ellas ... Burtiss, Samuel.
250
22 4 3
$3716
65
22
4 1
1 1334
Beatty, John
513
22 4
1
128216
Benedict, Thomas do
497
122 4 2
8 70
Benedict, Elijah.
Baker Timothy ... do
97
22
4.
4
1 6934
do
100
4
1
1.5
Benedict Platt, for Salley and Mary Pettit
68816
22
4
1
12 0434
Boalt, Eben.
200
4
1
350
Benedict, William
300
22 4
5.25
Comstock, Ahijah. 1160
22
9
1to6
2030
do
543
22 4
4
Cole, Asa & Thomas
200
22 4
4
41
4
. . 6334
200
4 2
3,50
100
2
4
4 1
1
30234
263
4
1
1
4
4
80
22
4
1
32616
22 4
4
5,7114
Frink, William +
69
22
4
1,216
Gibbs, SamuelR ..
550
22
4
2
96213
Gibbs, David
360
Huyck, Heury.
60
Inman, Melvery.
8736
4
4
4.
1
1'08
Jessup, James
200
22
4
3
2'00
Keeler, Samuel Keeler, Luke
317
22
4 1
4
18716 .10134
Keeler, Isaac, heirs of, Lockwood, Stepben. do
Lewis Samuel B ..
200
4 1
3'50
Lockwood, Henry. Lane, E.
480
4 3
840
Meers, Moody
50
22
.873 140
2d Rate
3d Rate
RTS
Lots
& cts.
Middlebrook, Sam'! { heirs of
413
22 4
1
7 2234
Russ. Isaac
14234
22 4 3
2 4916
Riggs. Jonah.heirs of
433
22 4 3
433
Reed, Hauson
170
22 1 4
2 9716
Tousey, Hannah F
60
22 4 1
105
White, Moss,
-
1356
4
4
2373
Wilson, James
14214
4
4
249
75
22 4
1
1 3114
87514
22 1
4
1532
216
150
22 1 3
26217
50
22 4 3
Newcomb, Jabez.
13
22 4 3
48
Total for Norwalk
$267 491
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct duplicate of the land tax in the county of Huron, for the year 1820.
ASA SANFORD, Auditor of Huron County.
+William Frink appears as a resident of Sherman, this year.
TAX DUPLICATE FOR 1878.
The present County Anditor, H. W. Owen, Esq., has kindly furnished the writer with a statement of the several footings of valuations and taxes for the township and corporation of Norwalk in the year 1878:
Township-total valuation
Township-total tax.
$748,736 00 8,834 79
State proportion.
2,171 33
County proportion
2,545 70
Township proportion. Norwalk township
4,117 40
Corporation-total valuation
§2,294,783 00
Total amount of tax
53,261 88
State proportion.
6,654 87
County proportion
7,802 26
Corporation proportion.
37,804 75
Total for township and corporation
$61,096 67
232
1
4.06 R
Comstock, Abijah
1770 22 42,3
17 70
Fay .. Aaron
100
4 4
175 Paid
Frink, William
200
22
1 2
350 Returned 1216, 20 630 Paid
Gibbs, David
360
22 1 2
Lockwood, Henry . 200 288
4 3
638 Paid
Lewis, Samuel B ..
200
22 4 1
520 Paid
Marvin, Zachariah 80
22,4 2
part'4
1 40 Paid
Reed, Hanson
1311
0 1
544 Returned
TAX IN 1820-CONTINUEO.
Non-Resident Proprietors.
Resident Proprietors.
Townsend, Jacob. .
65
22 4 1
113
Tice, Peter
516
0734
E.Tweedy, & others
Whitlock, Thadeous Whittlesey, Elisha. Wood, Stephen
13016
Keeler. John do
Beaty. John do
281 22
1
Huron
281 Returned
203
347
22 4 3
30416
127
00 4
4
2.2214
Cole, Levi, heirs of do do
140
245
Dickerson, Hanuah. Dickerson, Sarah
Dillingham, John .. Fay, Lucius
16616
100
22
4 6014 291 1,75 1'40
6.30
Jennings, Seth
62
95
4
1
1 6614
do do
50
1
108
4 3
1 03
873
4
15 2714
I1991622
4 3
11 9916
4
22 4 .. out lot
... 01
Marvin, Zachariah
80
4
2
4
105
Curtiss, Ira
26216
4 5912 3.50
Crawford Joseph.
3616
02
4
Fitch, Grant.
Fitch, Zalmon
203
22 4
3
FIRST ELECTION.
Of the first election ever held within the limits of the present township of Norwalk, Samuel B. Lewis says (see Fire-lands Pioneer of June, 1858, page 33): "During the summer and autumn of 1815, I built a house on the farm I have so long dwelt upon, and in that house, in the spring of 1816, was formed a town- ship organization, just after which was held, in my house, the first Norwalk township election. I do not, at this distant day, recollect all who were present at that election, but can only name, among others. pre- sent: Judge Southgate, David Gibbs, Esq., Henry Lockwood, James Wilson, Hanson Reed, Abijah Comstock, Esq., myself and some fifteen or twenty others. Judge Southgate, Abijah Comstock, Esq., and Samuel B. Lewis, Esq., constituted the board at this election.
Martin Kellogg says (see Fire-lands Pioneer of March, 1859, page 41): "The first election in Norwalk township was held at the house of Hanson Reed in April, 1812. Norwalk and Bronson were at this time organized as an election district. There was no jus- tice of the peace or other officer who could lawfully
4
4 3
153
9.5014
193
4
1
117
HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
qualify the election board before entering upon the duties for which they were chosen.
"Abijah Comstock had been justice of the peace, but his commission had expired previous to this elec- tion. After the electors had met and the board was formed, they had to send to Ridgefield for Esquire Littlefield to come and qualify the board."
"On the 6th of April, 1818, (Norwalk and Bronson being together as an election district,) R. S. South- gate was elected justice of the peace. Number of votes at said election, twenty-two, of which Mr. Southgate had twenty-one votes. On the 28th of May, he was qualified by James Williams, Esq., county clerk. On the 13th of April, 1818, an clec- tion was held at the house of Samuel B. Lewis, in Norwalk township, (Bronson and Norwalk together. ) At this election fifty-six votes were given. S. B. Lewis, Lott Herrick and Martin Kellogg were judges, and Reuben Pixley and Dr. Joseph Pearce were clerks of election."
. "Norwalk and Bronson were together as an election district from 1817 (the time of their first organiza- tion) to 1822. For a part of this time Fairfield was included in the same organization, making an election district five miles wide and fifteen miles long, the same being called Norwalk; and while so together, all the elections were held in the part called Norwalk proper."
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