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JOHN BUFFINGTON.
Mr. Buffington was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 29, 1813. When twenty-three years of age he came to Ohio, stopping in Richland county four months, thence proceeding to Milan, Erie county, where he engaged in his chosen occupa- tion-that of wagon-maker. He resided at Milan seven years, when he removed to the township of Fitchville, Huron county, fixing his residence at the village of Clinton. There he married, in June, 1845, Miss Abbie J. Belding, daughter of Benjamin and Jane Belding, of Greenwich, this county. She was born January 24, 1818. He continued to reside in Fitchville until the spring of 1854, when he pur- chased and settled at Olena, in Bronson, where he has since resided. Esquire Buffington has held the office of justice of the peace, continuously, since 1845, with exception of the first four years of his residence in Bronson, a period of thirty years. We doubt if any other justice in the county can show such a term of service. It has been his practice, as a general thing, to advise the settlement of suits, and through his counsel, the cause of difference between parties litigant, have frequently been amicably adjusted. This course greatly commends itself to the better class of citizens.
Mrs. Buffington is a woman of characteristic amia- bility and an efficient member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Olena. Mr. and Mrs. Buffing- ton have three children, as follows: Ann, born No- vember 27, 1847, married Ransom Walcott and now resides in Barry county, Michigan; Jennie, born March 11, 1849, residing at home with her parents; John E., born August 19, 1850, married Ella Burras, and occupies the farm with his father.
W. G. MEAD,
son of Alfred Mead and Betsey Barger, and grandson of Jonathan Mead, of Scotch ancestry, was born Sep- tember 3, 1808, in the town of Genoa, Cayuga county, New York. Mr. Mead remained with his father until twenty-three years of age. When twenty-one years of age he began with David Tucker, of Genoa, New York, as a carpenter and joiner, serving some two years for instruction, which business he followed for twenty-one years successfully, paying for and clearing a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres with the earnings of his trade. In 1833, June 4, he arrived at Norwalk, Ohio, and immediately located lands in the town of Bronson, five miles south of the county seat of Huron county, and subsequently pur- chased lands amounting in all to two hundred and five acres, of which he is the present owner. Mr. Mcad is truly a pioneer, having cut his own road through the woods for one mile to get to his farm. He is generally acknowledged to have been one of the hardiest men of the country, and has done as much
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO."
manual labor in the clearing and improving of lands as any man in Huron county; is of strong physique. and, at present writing, managing and working one of the finest farms of the county in which he lives. In the fall of 1841, Mr. Mead was elected justice of the peace, and has served in said capacity twenty-one years. During the first ten or twelve years of western life our subject devoted much of his time to deer hunting, and was widely known as a lucky sportsman with the rifle. Mr. Mead is strictly a temperance man, having used neither tea nor coffee for thirty- seven years. In the year 1828, April 27, he was united in marriage to Hannah, daughter of Newman Smith, of Genoa, New York. By this union were
born two children: Betsey Ann, died at the age of twenty-two; and Alfred N., born March 21, 1841, at present lumber merchant in the city of Cleveland. In politics he is a prohibitionist and an earnest supporter of the principles of his party, although formerly a republican, and during the war was one of the com- mittee with James Knapp to raise money and procure men to avoid a draft in the town of Bronson, which was carried to a successful and satisfactory ending. Mr. Mead has the premium farm of the county, having been awarded the only prize granted, upon an examination of several farms by a committee chosen for that purpose, -a cut of his residence and buildings appearing upon another page of this work.
TOWNSEND.
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
FOR an explanation of the following table, sce Wakeman history:
TOWNSEND, TOWN NUMBER FOUR, IN THE TWENTY- FIRST RANGE.
CLASSIFICATION No. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't classed
Amos Morriss
Kneeland Town- send
1,235
15
4
Benjamin Pardy
66
9
0
John Townsend (2 rights)
19
14
2
Hannah Russell
17
17
6
Lewis Forbes
4
11
0
Footing of Classification No. 1, £1,344
0
CLASSIFICATION No. 2, SECTION 2.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
£
S
d.
Ezekiel Hayes
Kneeland Town- send
72
17
6
Isaac Townsend
11
16
10
John Closs
3
10
13
0
Ebenezer Townsend
9
5
0
Moses Venters
31
0
Footing of Classification No. 3, £1,344 CLASSIFICATION No. 4, SECTION 4.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't classed.
Esther Mansfield
Kneeland Town-
299
5
4
Joseph Bradley
Samnel and Abijah
403
9
13
15
11
ثث
Hezekiah Gorham
21
5
Simeon Joulin
Kneeland Town send
10
15
6
Amazia · Joulin
25
16
Caleb Hotchkiss
9
7
Jonah Hotebkiss
19
6
David Atwater
3
12
Timothy Atwater
Gad Luke
20
11
David Gilbert
Timothy Gilbert
S
10
344
Timothy Gorham
10
19
6
Joseph Munson
10
6
Abigail Potter
25
8
Tilly Blakesley
18
17
12
6
Sarah Pomeroy
16
11
16
G
Israel Monson
31
0
10
13
0
Joel Gilbert
2
9
0
Samuel Austin
..
. .
..
. .
..
44
1
6
Stephen Ball
36
0
12
17
10
James Sherman
7
1
0
3
4
Footing of Classification No. 2, £1,341 7 0
CLASSIFICATION NO. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss
Classified by.
Am't classed.
Ebenezer Sturges
Kneeland Town- send
89
4
8
Hezekiah Sturges
59
3
116
Abigail Whittier
Samnel Rowland
476
10
Grace Spalding
10
0
5
Daniel Osborne
135
0
Hezekiah Parmelee
109
5
1
Jonathan Fitch
170
3
Samuel Coudy
51
4
Benjamin Brown
30
1
Samuel Chatterton
2
0
10
12
0
Solomon Phipps
43
10
Buckminster Brent- nall
27
11
15
14
10
Jabez Johnson
13
19
640040 4
7
11
C
Sarah Pomeroy
16
0
15
19
6
James Rice
64
9
2
0
16
18
11
James Sherman
14 1
6
10
1
Nehemiah Smith
36
0
6
17
5
11
Hannah Howe
6
Sarah Howe
1
Daniel Osborne
Andrew Rowland 1,568
15
11
12
10
Abiab Alling
13
13
11
Jacob and Elijah Pardy
402
Mary and Lydia Pardy
40
4
Mary Pardy
131
14
0
James Prescott
26
3
6
Jedediah Andrews
9
11
or Briglin
3
15
0
Jesse Upson
47
18
C
John Beecher
25
0
Jonathan Edwards, Rev.
57
15
1
Jobn Beecher, Jr.
23
9
10
W'm. Brentnall
2
Samuel Munson
14
41
17
10
Ann Platt
10
11
3
Abraham Barnes
3
10
0
Abel Banitt
6
Stephen Austin
6
12
16
Samnel Gills
59
4
3
0
0
13
8
Elijah Hills
16
12
9
1
6
John Robinson
2
Thankful Thompson 23
8
13
6
1
6
James Gillett
..
0 Naphtali Duggett, Dr ..
82
11
0
Nathan Howel
Timothy Bonticon
13
2
₹
Willard Brentnall 36
0
20
1
4
Stephen Ball
. .
16
9
..
5
1
5
Stephen Ball
18
10
10
Jonah Mix
15
19
Nathan Oaks
19
16
10
8
Elijah Painter
14 20
0
09
16
4
4
0
Joseph Trowbridge
€
d.
3
14
13
6
Jeremiah Atwater
16
14
James Alling
12
12
Francis Brown
9
Nathan Beers
13
John Trowbridge
17
26
15
James Rice
12
0
John Wise
69 10
8
13
Benjamin Sanford
32
5
Levi Fobes
Footing of Classification No. 4, £1,344
0
£ s. d.
8
d.
51
10
Mary Kimberley
26
16
1 181800 0
Stephen Brown 19
33
13
11
111
13
238
346
£ 8.
d.
S.
d.
Phineas Bradley
Charles Channcey
d.
d.
send
Hnll
19
47
34230453 3 6 0 1
Addonijah Sherman 29
15
Wm. Ally 9
13
Nathaniel Mix
? 0
Jonathan Brigden,
6
12
27
13
. .
15
Wm. Greenongh
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
TOPOGRAPHY.
The surface of the township is generally level with slight undulations in the second and third sections. The soil is a clay loam, with a mixture of sand in the northern and northwestern portions. The streams are small, the largest being Rattlesnake creek, a trib- ntary of the Huron, flowing through the west part of the township. The name originated from the large number of rattlesnakes that were formerly found along the stream. There are two other branches of the Huron in the western part, and La Chapelle, a tributary of the Vermillion, in the eastern part. The stream is said to have derived its name from a French- man who discovered it, and explored it to its source.
Townsend was originally clothed with a magnificent growth of timber, the principal varieties of which were white oak, whitewood, ash. hickory, black wal- nnt, butternut, beech and maple. The manufacture of white oak staves was an import int industry of this township for many years. The staves were usually marketed at Milan, and so extensive was the business that the product was known there as " Townsend wheat."
The following estimate of the value of the primi- tive forests of this township, is made by gentlemen of experience and reliability:
Lumber-15,000 feet per acre, (16,000 acres)=240,000 feet.
Wood -- 100 cords per acre, .. * _ 1,600,000 cords.
240,000 feet of lumber, at $16.00 per 1000 $3,840,000
1,600,000 cords wood, at $1.00 per cord.
1,600,000
Total.
$5,440,000
One of the gentlemen above referred to cut from a single tree on his own land:
5,000 feet of lumber, which he sold for. $75 00
2,000 staves, which he sold for 60 00
20 cords wood, which he sold for 20 00
Total
: 155 00
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The earliest settlements in the township were made in the north part, in section number three, and George Miller is generally accorded the honor of being the first settler. He removed with his family from Pennsylvania to Milan, (then called Avery,) Erie county, Ohio, in 1809, and remained there until 1811, when he came to Townsend, and took up his abode on lot number five. His log cabin was the first habitation for the abode of civilized people in the township. Mr. Miller was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in 1765. He married Mary Burdue, of the same State, and bad a family of four children, all now dead. He died on his original location, February 2, 1828, and his wife, April 17, 1849, in the seventy-fourth year of her age.
Soon after Miller, came William Burdue and family. Burdue was also a native of Pennsylvania, and was born November 26, 1782. March 28, 1809, he mar- ried Elizabeth Blazer, who was born September 26, 1791. In 1810 he removed with his family, consisting
of wife and one child, to the vicinity of Milan, then called Indian Village, but remained there only one year, when he moved into Townsend, making his location on lot number four, in section three. He died on this place, October 23, 1834, and his wife, March 29, 1868. They raised a family of seven children, four having died when young. Six are now (February, 1879,) living, as follows : Nathaniel, in Norwalk ; George and W. W., in Townsend ; John, in Kansas ; Isaac, in Fulton county, Ohio, and Ben- jamin, in Indiana. George Burdue, who occupies the old homestead, was born during the residence of his parents near Milan, February 19, 1811. November 20, 1838, he married Susan Hill, of Delaware county, New York. They have two children, viz .: M. W. Burdne. who occupies the original log house built by his grandfather, in 1811, and Mrs. Thomas Riggs, who is also a resident of this township.
Soon after their settlement, the family made the acquaintance of an old Indian in the vicinity, and who, subsequently, by reason of the many favors shown him by them, especially by Mrs. Burdue, a woman of much excellence of character, became warmly attached to them. Burdue, having lost a span of horses and a colt on one occasion, was asked by the Indian to show him their tracks. He was taken into the woods, where the horses had recently been, and where their tracks were found. These the Indian carefully measured, with his hand, and then went off. He returned in a few days, and informed Burdue that he had found tracks answering to the description, directing him to the place where he had seen them. Burdue traveled a long distance to the south, until he arrived at an Indian camp. He saw his horses there, but did not make the object of his visit known. He learned, however, before returning, that the Indians would, in a few days, go to Huron-their usual trading place. They passed by his house in a few days, as expected, and Burdue followed them. On arriving at Huron he found the horses, and demanded their surrender, but the Indians refused to give them up unless compensated,-the terms being a small quantity of corn and whisky. These were promptly furnished, and the horses recovered.
The old Indian, above referred to, gave other evi- dences of his friendship for the family, the most im- portant of which was the information, shortly after Hull's surrender, that the Indians were preparing to massacre the settlers, and advising the family to seek a place of safety. He enjoined secrecy as to the source of their information, as, he said, if it were known he would suffer death. He then went away, and was never again seen in these parts. The family immediately left for Pennsylvania. where they re- mained until 1816, when they returned to their home. Before leaving, they hid some of their household furniture under the puncheon floor of their log cabin. These they found, on their return, undisturbed, although the cabin itself had been occupied by the savages.
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
The Miller family also went to Pennsylvania at the same time, and remained there until 1817.
Orisimus Kellogg and family, consisting of wife and six children, emigrated from Batavia, Genesee county, New York, to the Fire-lands, in June, 1811. They were about four . weeks on the journey, arriving in Townsend on the fifth of July. There were, at the time of their arrival, only two families-those of George Miller and William Burdue-in the township. The family lived with the latter until Mr. Kellogg could roll up his cabin on lot number one, the north- west corner lot in the township. He was Mr. Town- send's agent for the sale of his land, and received from him, gratis, one hundred acres, as a compensa- tion for leaving the comforts of his eastern home and settling in the wilds of Townsend. The log cabin, when first occupied by the family, was, indeed, a primitive habitation for the abode of civilized people. It was about twenty feet square, and was without a door, window or chimney, and the puncheon floor only half laid.
Mrs. Caroline Fay, a member of the family, gives the following account of their flight on hearing of Hull's surrender: "The sad news was announced at my father's dwelling at the hour of midnight of the 8th of July. The elder members of our family arose and set themselves to work immediately, making preparations to flee for their lives. At ten o'clock in the morning we were all ready and commenced our flight from the savage foe which we imagined was in close pursuit. We directed our course for Cuyahoga, Portage county. It had been raining quite hard all of the previous night. After traveling four or five miles we fell in company with four families of our acquaintance. We got twelve miles on our journey by dark, and pitched our tents and partook of our evening meal, and were obliged to spread our beds on the wet ground, and in the morning they were nearly covered with water caused by the rain that had fallen during the night. There we were, in an unbroken wilderness, and an unfrequented road of seventy-five miles to our place of destination. We were obliged to ford all the streams that lay in our path or to stop and cut trees and bridge those that were flooded by the recent rain. We were on our journey eight days and seven nights without seeing so much as a log cabin, expecting every night when we lay down to rest to be tomahawked and scalped before morning by the Indians. Many of the youth of our company were so much fatigued by travel that they could not stand alone when they first rose in the morning. One night we camped near a sugar camp where some one had made sugar the previous spring, and spread our beds on some bark that was lying on the ground. To my astonishment, when I arose in the morning, I saw a blacksnake peeping out his head from under the bed that I had rested upon. On removing the bed the men killed seven large snakes.
" There was only one mill on the Fire-lands at that time, and that was situated at the head of Cold creek.
It ground grain without bolting. Fortunately my father had returned from there the day but one before we heard of Hull's surrender, with nine or ten bushels of wheat ground. The next day we sifted the whole of it through a common hand seive. The flour of that grain was nearly all that the whole of the five families had to subsist upon during the journey. We numbered nearly thirty, -children and all. We re- mained at Cuyahoga about six weeks, and then re- moved to Painesville, where we remained until Octo- ber, 1813, and then returned to our former residence. We found our house, and the furniture that we buried before we left, in as good condition as could be ex- pected."
Bryant Milliman and family,. from Livingston county, New York, moved into the township in the spring of 1816, and settled on lot number twenty- three, in section three. His was the fourth family that settled in the town. A son, Amherst Milliman, aged seventy-three, now occupies the old homestead. The first settlements in the western part of Town -. send, were made by Jasper Miles, Benjamin Bailey, and Hezekiah Barber and their families, in February, 1817. These families were from Penfield, Ontario county, New York. Miles settled on lot number ninety-six, in section four. He brought with him from New York about one thousand dollars in money, but instead of paying for his land he bought it on time and used his money in making improvements, being encouraged to do so by Kneeland Townsend, of whom he made the purchase, and who promised leniency in case of failure to pay at the time stipu- lated. The family endured many hardships, toiled hard, and had the farm in a fair condition of improve- ment when the notes for its purchase became due. Townsend demanded payment according to the bond, in default of which the family was ejected, losing not only the money invested, but the results of many years of hardship and toil. The family moved to Milan where they lived about eight years, and then to Berlin, where they secured a home and afterwards resided. Mr. Miles died there in 1849, Mrs. Miles surviving him many years. They were an intelligent family and highly respected. During their residence in Townsend, Mrs. Miles, who had learned the tailor's trade, assisted in keeping " the wolf from the door" by making buckskin pants for the men, taking her pay in any thing that was of use to the family. But provisions were so scarce and high that it required days of hard labor to pay for even a little salt. A load having been brought to Milan in 1818, Mrs. Miles went there after some, and brought home a peck, for which she paid one dollar and twenty-five cents in cash.
Hezekiah Barber settled on lot number seventy- three in the third section, and Benjamin Bailey in the fourth section on lot ninety-five. Bailey subsequently removed to Berlin.
Soon after the above families arrived, the families of Amaziah Barber, Abijah Barber, Augustus Bar-
MARTIN DENMAN.
MRS. SALLY ANN DENMAN.
MARTIN DENMAN,
the subject of this sketch, was born in Neversink, Sullivan Co., N. Y., April 16, 1806, and was the seventh child of William Denman and Ann (Boreman) Denman. His parents were natives of Kent Co., England, and were married in Hadcom, in said county, June 24, 1790.
Martin Denman married Sally Ann Washburn, in Wawarsing, Ulster Co., N. Y., Jan. 20, 1830. In 1833 he immigrated with his family to this county, and purchased over four hundred acres of land in the township of Townsend, one hundred and fifty acres of which are still owned by the family. The only improvements on the land originally purchased by him was a clearing of five acres and five acres of slashing.
His remarkable energy and good judgment, as well as his sterling courage, will appear when it is known that his health was never firm, having inherited a pulmonic trouble; but feeble as was his health, stimulated by the very difficulties to be overcome, in the shape of a frowning forest, and especially the wants of a growing family, he pressed vigorously forward, conquered the forest, and carved there- from a beautiful home and a handsome competence for his family. His life shows what industry, economy, integrity, and determination will accomplish.
His education was limited to such as the common schools of his native county could furnish. He made a profession of religion in early life, and was a prominent and active member of the Methodist Church until his death.
In politics he acted with the Republican party, but cast the second Abolition vote ever deposited in this township. So hitter was the feeling against him, on account of this practical application of Chris- tianity, that his neighbors refused to hold his horse-who would not suffer himself to be tied-while he deposited his hallot. He was obliged to find a atable where he could accure his fastidious animal, when, with that courage and determination which characterized his life, he went fearlessly forward in the diacharge of duty, and that, too, when men of lesa courage and less principle would have suc- cumbed to prejudice and popular opinion.
What his hands found to do he did with all his might. This quality, as well as his patriotism, was, perhapa, never more apparent than during the late war, when active, clear-headed, large-hearted men woro needed to collect hospital supplies and clear the township
of draft, and thereby aave the few remaining young and able-bodied men to plant for future harvests. Here his real worth was apparent. He was untiring in his devotion to his country, and unflagging in his energies to provide for the wants of those who took their lives in their hands, and went forth to do battle for the maintenance of con- stitutional liberty and human rights.
On the 23d day of January, 1872, from an attack of typhoid pneu- monia, having, we may truly say, fought his good fight and finished his course, death came to bring the new birth.
We cannot speak of the end of such a life, when those who knew him hest, and were nearest to him in his earth-life, still live in the echoes of that life, making an immortality in whose glory they stand.
Mrs. Sally Ann Denman was the tenth and youngest child of James Washburn and Judith Griffin. The family consisted of seven girls and three boys. Of this large family but two are living, the subject of this sketch and one sister, Mrs. Golden, now living in New London, Ohio.
Her brother, Joseph Washburn, was one of the earliest settlers of Fitchville township, and is said to have donated the lands for the church buildings of that place.
Mra. Denman's parenta were Quakers, but at quite an early age she united with the Methodist Church, and has ever since been a member of that body.
Too much can hardly he said for the mother, who, in addition to the task of rearing a family, could courageously meet the trials inci- dent to, and inseparable from, a pioneer life in a new country.
Having turned her hack on the scenes of her childhood, with its pleasant memories and luring charma, with Christian fortitude and unfaltering faith in God, she went hand in hand with him who had promised to love and cherish her, meeting her trials with that calm resignation so hefitting a trusting soul. By her aid and good man- agement, her faithful husband-was enabled to see the fruition of his labors in the acquirement of a competence for the support of those who survive bim.
Two daughters and one son were tho fruit of this marriage: Julia Ann, married Philip Hawxhurst, May 4, 1854, and settled in Fitch- ville, this county ; she passed to a higher life, Sept. II, 1867. Harriet, married Horace S. Brooks, May 5, 1870, and settled in Huntsville, Logan Co., Ohio.
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
ber and David Lee moved into the fourth section near the Norwalk line. That part of the township took the name of "the Barber settlement," which name it has since retained. The Barbers were Baptists of the close communion order, and they were very exclusive socially as well as religiously. In bargaining for their land, they endeavored to secure a pledge from Kneeland Townsend, the proprietor, that so-called "worldly people" be kept from settling in that part of the township. There was almost no intercourse between them and settlers in other portions of the township. The children imbibed the ideas of the parents, and kept aloof from other children, and cousins intermarried with cousins. A double wedding of Barbers once came off, the notice of which was published in the Norwalk Reporter, headed "Barber- ous times in Townsend."
Amaziah Barber served in both the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war. He also en- listed in the war of 1812, but his former services were thought sufficient, and he was sent home. It is said that Abijah was the only one of the number who suc- ceeded in paying for his farm, and he was enabled to do so only by the aid of his father, Amaziah Barber, who applied his pension to the extinguishment of the debt.
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