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The Catholic church, which is now the only organiza- tion, having religious tendencies, in the township, was formed in 1836, and comprised some fourteen families. Ten years later a meeting house was built. This was of logs, and was occupied until the completion of the present brick meeting house, in 1857. The society have also a school house and parsonage, of brick, and are in a condition satisfactory, no doubt, to them- selves.
This church was first attended by - Bruner, then pastor of the church in Thompson township. John Tomar was the first settled priest. He assumed charge in 1868, and remained some eighteen months. Peter Pitts succeeded him. He was removed in Sep- tember, 1872. The present priest. Victor Hausner, assumed charge of the church January 10, 1873. The church directors are : Peter Bishop, Michael Phillips and John Swartz.
PHYSICIANS.
There was no doctor in the township previous to 1824, and since then, those who have located here have not remained long. Possibly, the township is too healthy, for certain it is that these medical gen- tlemen were thoroughly educated, and fully competent to combat disease successfully. Their names are Jackson, West, Hathaway, and M. R. Nichols, who at present comprises the entire medical staff in the township.
SOCIETIES.
There was at one time a large and flourishing lodge of Good Templars in the township. This has gone out of existence. Possibly. the need of temperance societies does not exist in Sherman.
INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.
Under this head the historian finds little to mention. Without doubt the first was a steam saw mill, built by David Weaver, on lot number thirteen, in the third section. A small tanning establishment is in operation near Weaver's corners.
The township did not reach the proud distinction of having a "whisky mill" within its boundaries, until the summer of 1856. David Weaver was the projector of this "institution " which was located near the corners. It was in operation, under different owners, until the spring of 1874, when it was closed. We learn it was never a success, financially. It is now in ruins.
PRIVATIONS.
Few of the present inhabitants can appreciate the privations endured by the pioneer settlers of Sherman township. Their milling was done at Eldridge, Cold Creek, and sometimes Greenfield. Wheat and corn were the principal productions, but there was no
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market. At one time thirty-six bushels of corn were paid for one barrel of salt. Not many of the necessa- ries, and fewer of the luxuries, of life were enjoyed by them. Wolf scalps and Owl creek bills constituted a large portion of the currency. At present (March, 18:9.) there are but two of the first residents now living in the township. These are Major Purdy and George Bloomer.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
THE PURDY FAMILY.
Ransom Purdy was born in Saratoga county, New York, July 9, 1795. Not long after the family moved to Ontario county, whence, in October, 1817, the sub- ject of this sketch, together with his parents, five brothers and one sister, emigrated to Huron county, Ohio. Thev slowly made their way, with teams, through almost unbroken forests and across streams unbridged, until, in the latter part of the following February, they reached what is now Sberman town- ship, and, moving into a deserted house opposite the present Purdy homestead, they began in good earnest the rough and self-denying labors of pioneer life, which secured for the family a competence in later years. Huron county, at that time, embraced all that portion of the State known as the "Fire-lands," . together with a part of Lorain county. What is now the main road from Monroeville to Fremont was then but a mere trail; known to the hundred, or less, white families (which, together with the native Indians, constituted the entire population for some ten miles square) as "Strong's Ridge trail."
Monroeville possessed, at that time, three or four houses and a small variety store; but where Bellevue now stands all was an unbroken wilderness. The nearest cabin was one and a half miles to the east, and the nearest settlement two and a fourth miles south, known as the " Woodward Settlement."
During the spring of 1818 a clearing was made on the farm now owned by Mr. Mowry, in Thompson township, and a log cabin built, into which Mr. Purdy's parents moved. Also, during this spring, Ransom and his brothers, Horace and Major, took a contract to cut and split the rails to fence forty aeres of land owned by Gurdon Williams, the northwest corner of which was in the center of Bellevue, in front of the old Tremont House. While engaged in this work they boarded in the Woodward settlement, staying out from morning till night, and taking (without thinking it much of a hardship, either) their johnny-cuke and jerked venison dinners with them.
It was during this season that the hearts of all the settlers were made glad by the erection of Burch's mills at Monroeville, the "raising" of which necessi- tated the gathering of all the able-bodied men for miles around, including the subject of our sketch.
In January, 1821, Mr. Purdy married Miss Sally P. Bennett, whose father's family had moved here from Steuben county, New York, two years before. They at onee rented and went to keeping house on the place which they bought the next year, and on which they continued to reside some forty-four years, i. e. till 1865, when they rented their fine old homestead to their sons, William and Daniel, and came to Bellevue to spend their remaining days in quiet with their daughter, the wife of Dr. H. L. Harris.
To Ransom Purdy and his wife, four children have been born, of whom brief biographical notices will here be in keeping: Diana, the eldest, was born March 3, 1822. She married Lewis Betterly, of Penn- sylvania, and now resides in Kent county, Michigan. William S. was born September 10, 1824, of whom more will be said below. Daniel M., born February 11, 1826, also resides in Kent county, Michigan. Eliza M., the youngest, was born May 25, 1832. She was married to Dr. H. L. Harris, of Lorain county, and now resides, as above stated, in Bellevue.
William S., the second child of the family, married Mary, danghter of John Harris, of Lorain county. They have one child, named Belle, born April 29, 1854, who is now residing at home with her parents. The edneation of William S. was limited to the com- mon schools of Sherman township. He remained at home until he was twenty-five years old, when he went to Flat Rock, Seneca county, and engaged in the grocery business. He continued in this for five years, when he sold out and went into the dry goods business, in which he was engaged for four years. Again he sold out and went to Amherst, Lorain county, and leased his father-in-law's farm for four years. He then returned to the old homestead, and, with his brother Daniel, worked the farm for about seven years, when he bought out the heirs and became sole proprietor. In politics, he was a whig, till the formation of the republican party, with which he has since aeted.
From what has been said, the reader can get an idea of the wonderful changes made hereabout during the last half-century, and of the part worthily per- formed by the Purdy family in settling this portion of the State, and developing its resources. Ransom Purdy, the principal subject of the foregoing sketch, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Harris, in Bellevue, March 23, 1872, aged seventy-six years, eight months and fourteen days. In all the relations in life, as husband, father, neighbor and citizen, he proved himself honest, upright and just; and he was taken home in the fullness of his years, mourned by all his friends, and respected by all who knew him. His aged widow still survives, enjoying the csteem and affectionate sympathy of the entire community. His four children were all near him in his last days. Of the brothers who accompanied him here, sixty-one years ago, three survive-the eldest, Major Purdy, living in Sherman, in the eighty-second year of his age.
RESIDENCE OF WM. S. PURDY, SHERMAN TP, HURON CO., 0.
RANSOM PURDY.
MRS.SALLY PURDY.
MRS. MARY PURDY
WILLIAM S. PURDY.
MAJOR PURDY.
MRS. HANNAH PURDY
RESIDENCE OF MAJOR PURDY, SHERMAN TP. HURON CO., O.
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MAJOR PURDY.
Major Purdy was born in the town of Westfield, Washington county, New York, October 9, 1797, where his father was a farmer. In 1801, his father and mother removed to Argentile, Canada, about fifty miles north of Montreal, on the Ottawa river, he then being some four years of age. Here they re- mained until he was sixteen years old, when they re- moved to Chittenden county, Vermont, where they remained three years, then moving to Ontario county, New York, in 1816, where they remained one year. From New York State they removed to Ohio, arriv ing in Ridgefield, Huron county, in February, 1818. They were detained this side of Buffalo, New York, some six weeks, on account of bad weather. Their journey was begun with wagons and ended with sleds. The family at this time consisted of father, mother and nine children. Of these, two are now living in Michigan.
For some time after coming to Ohio, Major Purdy worked wherever he could obtain work to do, at chop- ping cord-wood, splitting rails, etc., all of the hardest kind of labor. He was one of four persons to split rails to fence forty acres of ground in the southeast part of the present village of Bellevue, one corner of the lot being near the present bank building on the county line road; the fence running thence to a point near the mill, and south to the cemetery, the west line being along the county line. At this time San- dusky county had not been surveyed, and belonged to the Indians.
Mr. Purdy first bought forty acres of land in Town- send, Huron county, Ohio, but was unable to obtain a title to this property, and lost it." He then bought forty acres of land on what is called Muggs' ridge, in Sandusky county. He sold this property in 1824, and bought his present farm of eighty-eight and a fraction acres, then an almost unbroken wilderness.
It had for improvements a log house and a small girdling. For these he paid one hundred dollars. Sinee that time. he has disposed of two and one-half acres, leaving his present homestead of a little more than eighty-five acres.
In 1824 Major Purdy was married, in Sherman, to Hannah Bennett. The fruit of this union was six sons and two daughters, of whom two daughters and two sons are now living. One son lives in Lyons, Rice county, Kansas; one in Toledo; a daughter in Hillsdale county, Michigan, and a daughter, Mrs. Letherer, with whom he now lives, on the old home- stead in Sherman, Huron county, Ohio. Mrs. Purdy, his wife, died September 3, 1874, aged seventy-seven years and ten months.
Very few settlers were to be found in the country when Mr. Purdy arrived. No county roads had been made, and not more than one was surveyed. The roads were mere trails through the woods; more tim- ber and swamp than dry land.
Since he came to Ohio he has followed farming, and his present fine homestead was won from a rough country by the hard labor of his own hands, the land being girdled and cleared a little at a time. As the timber became deadened after girdling, corn was - planted or grain sown in the spaces between the trees and stumps, until they were removed by burning, or by the more tedious action of the elements that rotted the tough wood. In time the fields became free from stumps and roots, and he could begin to see the re- sults of his hard labor, and now he has a well ap- pointed farm. He erected a good frame barn in 1832, but lived in his log honse until 1839, when his present commodious frame house was built.
On his next birthday, October 9, 1829, Major Pur- dy will arrive at the ripe age of eighty-two years. He is still hale and hearty, and at this writing, May, 1879, is preparing to take a long journey to visit friends in Michigan.
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RICHMOND.
Ix the preparation of the following history, access has been had to John H. Niles's " Memoirs." This became necessary from the fact that none of the pio- neer settlers reside in the township, and but few of their descendants.
This township is bounded on the north by Nor- wich township; south, by Auburn and Cranberry townships. in Crawford county; east, by New Haven township; and west, by Venice township, in Seneca county.
Richmond is divided into upland and marsh. The upland occupies the north half of the township and a strip across the west side. This was covered with heavy timber. The north shore of the marsh is a bluff, and rises thirty or forty feet above the marsh. The soil is a clay loam, the surface generally undu- lating, except in the northwest part, where it is broken by streams.
Honey creek rises in the marsh on the north side, east of the center of the township, and runs west along the north shore some two miles, where it enters the woodlands. In leaves the township on the west line and empties into the Sandusky river above Tiffin, in Seneca county.
The marsh covers over one-third of the township, and contains about twenty square miles. It is six miles long from east to west, and over three miles in width, covering an estimated area of five thousand five hundred acres in Richmond, three thousand five hundred in New Haven, and three thousand eight hundred in Auburn township, Crawford county. It has the appearance of a large grassy prairie, with clusters of timber and bushes, forming islands. The soil is composed of decayed grass, and is wet and spongy, sinking under the feet, and, where the turf is not strong enough to bear, it is sometimes dangerous.
The Pigeon Roost, the largest of the timber islands, lies on the county line, and is two miles in length, by about one half mile in width, and, from its isolated position, marshy surroundings, and its almost im- penetrable thickets of underbrush, has always been the favorite roosting place of myriads of pigeons dur- ing the summer season.
On the north side of the marsh, in the first section of Richmond township, is an immense bed of cran- berry bushes, covering some two hundred acres. Whortleberries are also found in and around the tim- ber islands.
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
For an explanation of the following table the reader is referred to the history of Wakeman township:
CLASSIFICATION NO. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees. Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
8. d.
€
8.
d.
Eliphalet Lock-
721
8 1116
Eliphalet Lock-
721
N
1116
23
18 0
23
18
0
Stephen and Hooker
St. John
30
1
6
8
0
3
William Seymour
93
1
9
93
1
Jabez Sanders
3
13
11
31
13
11
John Cannon
1,913
8
234
His heirs
469
4
116
Footing of Classification No. 1, £1,344
7
0.
CLASSIFICATION No. 2, SECTION 2.
Original Grantees. Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
£
S.
d
€
S
d.
John Lockwood 3d 218
4
016
Andrew Fitch
52
John Lockwood
9
12
11
514
85070600000 0 6 0 0 0
11
17
137
Hannah Fitch's h'rs 141
2
4
0
1114
John Platt
15
4
054924 0 0
..
12
11
10
13
Peter Sturges
1-
6
Sarah Burt
330
18
0
Benj. Isaacs' heirs
40€
Benj. Isaacs' heirs 316
2
5
John Northrup
142
17
Benjamin and W'm. Isaacs 14:
17
5
Samuel Olmstead
G4
18
18
14
Nathan Keeler
3
7
0
Sam'l Middlebrooks
3
0
Matthew Mead
4
19
4
..
..
4
19
4
Benjamin Keeler
10
19
1
=
10
19
1
Clapp Raymond
31
3
10
..
31
3
10
Abraham Benedict
73
3
11
~3
3
11
Peter Betts
180
6
1016
169
3
434
Nehemiah St. John 59
9
6
59
14
2
Josiah Wentworth 151
16
0
Nath'l Raymond
10
Footing of Classification No. 2, £1,344
CLASSIFICATION No. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
£
8.
d
9
d
William St. John
11
0
Wm. St. John's h'rs 318
11
0
35
19
0
35
12
0
Stephen and Hooker St. Jolın
30
1
..
5
0
8
Abraham Gregory
50
14
686 6 6
John Belden's heirs 303
14
6
Hannah Hanford
60
3
03/
60
3
0-3/4
John Cannon
1,933
8 23
John Cannon's
570
16
00
Footing of Classification No. 3, £1,341
CLASSIFICATION No. 4, SECTION 4.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss. Classified by.
Am't Classed.
John Cannon
1.933
8 234 John Cannon's
heirs
893
Thomas Fitch's h'rs 415
3
0 Mary Esther Fitch | 17
15
Thomas Fitch
14
511 and Edward Fitch -".
¥ 6
0
1116
Betsey Hall
19
11
Betsey Hall
22
9
11
Daniel Fitch
259
9
1
Jonathan Fitch
129
14
616
Rebecca Fitch
63
0
31
11
6
John Lockwood 3d 218
4
016 Andrew Fitch
165
.
15
10
Footing of Classification No. 4, £1,344
The original name of Richmond was Cannon, given in honor of Samuel Cannon, a wealthy merchant of Norwalk, Connecticut, who was one of the "suffer- ers." IIc had five sons and one daughter. The lat- ter married a man named Lockwood.
(290)
3
5
4
15
6
2
101
Uriah Smith
39
316
Esther St. John
14
0
Simeon Stuart, Jr.
18
10
Isaac Scudden
661
16
0 00
..
12
Thomas Fitch
38℃
10
1016
Thomas Fitch's h'rs 415
Benjamin Merrill
Nath'l Raymond
7
C
8
d.
£
8. d.
10
1014
Hannah Fitch's h'rs 141
(deceased)
50
John Belden
303
Jolın Belden, Jr.'s heirs and Amos Belden
heirs
0
0
1
216
wood
wood
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
SQUATTER SETTLEMENT.
Before the lands of Richmond were offered for sale, the thousands of bushels of cranberries that annually grew on the marsh allured to the north shore a settlement of squatters numbering perhaps twenty families. An important part of their business con- sisted of picking cranberries, which were sold to the distant settlers. Hunting necessarily claimed a good share of their attention, and as the deer flocked to the marsh to avoid the flies in the summer and the hunt- ers in the winter, their chances for deer hunting were unusually good. The settlers of the surrounding townships kept large numbers of hogs, that swarmed in the woods and fattened on the untold quantities of mast. The squatters paid no attention to car-marks or ownership, but "appropriated" whenever in need of pork. The strong arm of the law was sometimes invoked to abate their thievish practices, but if the unfortunate prosecutor got off, by paying the costs, without having his corn-crib, meat barrel, and hen roost plundered in turn, he was extremely fortunate.
With the sale of their cranberries, deer skins, "shack pork," and coon skins, and the produce of a small patch of potatoes around their cabins, they managed to live, but made no improvements to entitle ' them to the name of settlers, nor did any of them ever become owners of the soil or join in the march of improvement that has since characterized the in- habitants of the township.
But Richmond has long since outlived this gang of outlaws, and with honest industry, liberal churches, and well conducted schools, it now stands second to no township of its age in moral worth and prosperity.
Jutting out from the south shore of the marsh, a mile or so in length, is a point of timbered upland, on the extreme northern point of which stood the cabin of Morehead the trapper, who was the first, and for many years, the only inhabitant of Richmond township. His principal occupation was trapping and spearing muskrats, and in times of high water, made his daily rounds over the marsh in a small boat kept for that purpose. Many a weary hunter has sought his cabin and shared his homely meals, always consisting of johnny cake and venison; laying down at night on a plat of deer skins spread for the purpose on the cabin floor, and arising at dawn re- freshed and hopeful for another day's hunt.
SETTLEMENT.
The first land sold for settlement in Richmond township, was by Isaac Mills to William Tindall, in 1825. This was lot number twelve, in the second section, and is now occupied by Ezekiel Buckingham. Tindall cleared a field the same year, built a cabin, and set out an orchard, the first in the township. This consisted of fifty trees taken from Johnny Apple- seed's nursery. This orchard is yet standing. Tin- dall soon became tired of pioneer life, traded his land to Judge Ives, of New Haven, and left the township.
In 1833, Amos Ogden began on lot one, in the
second section. He was the first permanent settler in Richmond township, and died in 1850, leaving no children.
Jacob Croninger, the next settler, came into the township October 6, 1835, and began settlement on lot number fourteen, where E. W. Fast now lives. He was born in Pennsylvania, and moved from West- moreland county, in 1811, to Stark county, Ohio, and from thence to this township. He died in 1862, having a family of three sons and nine daughters.
Reuben Franklin and family came from Herkimer county, New York, to Ohio, in the fall of 1832. He stopped during the winter in Norwich, and, the sub- seqnent spring, located permanently in Richmond, on lot number twenty-nine, in the second section. Here he died four years later (October 16, 1832). Mrs. Franklin died the year following their settlement in Richmond. Of the nine children composing this family, four are now living: Maria, Rebecca, George and Edmond. The latter occupies the old home- stead, and is the earliest settler now living in the township.
Philip Upp, came into Richmond in the fall of 1835, and cleared off two acres on lot number sixteen. Upon this he built a cabin, during the winter, and, the third week in February, 1836, moved his family into it. Mr. Upp was a native of Pennsylvania. His death occurred in March, and a family were left consisting of two sons and two daughters. Jacob, the eldest, died in 1862, and left a family in Michi- gan. Philip, the youngest, now resides in Plymouth, this county. Elizabeth is the wife of Jonathan Cro- ninger, and Hannah lives in Pennsylvania.
Eleazer Day came into the township in the spring of 1836, and commenced settlement on the corner of lot nine, in the third section. The following year his brother-in-law built an addition to the house and opened the pioneer hotel in the township. They both left the township in about 1845, and of their history nothing is known.
William Hutchison came from Monroe county, Ohio, to Richmond, in 1836, and located on lot num- ber four, in the first section, now occupied by a son, James. William Hutchison died in 1849. Mrs. Hamilton is still living.
Daniel Sykes, who was originally from Franklin county, Vermont, came to Huron county in 1832, and first settled in Greenfield township. His wife was Arabelle Butler. In 1836 he removed to Richmond township. and located on lot number twenty-seven, in the second section, where he now resides. He has had seven children, fonr of whom were in the army. One was killed at Resaca, one died, and one lost a leg at Winchester, Virginia.
Jonas Fackler came into the township on the 30th day of April, 1837, and moved into the cabin with Philip Upp. His younger brother, Jacob Fackler, came with him, and in nine days they had completed a cabin and moved into it. This was on lot number two, in the second section. He had four sons and
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one daughter. The sons still live in the township. the daughter in Michigan.
William Johnson came from the State of New York to Hartland, in 1833. Here he remained some four years, and removed to Greenfield. Two years later he located permanently in Richmond township. This was on lot number two, in the second seetion. lIere he died, in 1862. His wife died some ten years before. The family consisted of twelve children. Mary mar- ried Huriah Robinson, and lives in Richmond.
Huriah Robinson eame with his parents to Norwich, in 1832. January 26th, he married Mary Johnson and the following year came to Richmond township, loeat- ing on lot thirty-seven in the second seetion, where he still lives. Mr. Robinson has been for twelve years justice of the peace. Of the nine children born of this marriage. four only are now living.
In May, 1837. Daniel Sweetland came to Ohio, and eventually located in Greenfield township. The children who came with him were : Elijah and wife, and Daniel, Jr. Elijah settled in Norwich, where he died. Daniel, Jr., married Orphelia Crosby, and settled on lot number forty-five, in the second section of Richmond township, where he now lives. They have had eight children, six of whom are living. Daniel Sweetland, Sr., died February 20, 1848, and Mrs. Sweetland the March following. The following are among the early settlers : Benjamin B. Tanner, lot fonr, in the second section : George and Elisha Baker, Peris Miner, lot thirty-four, seetion two ; James and Abram Reed, Griffith Johns, lot thirty-three, seetion two; John Kelsey, lot seven, section three; Henry Rush, lot six, section three; James Lutts. lot eighteen, seetion three; Michael Lutts, lot seventeen, same section : John Hall, lot one, seetion two; Robert Moore, Samuel Post, and possibly others.
James Youngs settled in Richmond township in December, 1835. His family, at that time, consisted of a wife and six children, and came from Broome county, New York. When the family reached Rich- mond, their entire worldly effeets consisted of a yoke of oxen and a wagon, some bedding, a dog and gun and a York sixpence. They located in the northeast part of the township, near where Chicago Junetion now is. Here they lived some three years, then re- moved to New Haven township, eventually locating in its eastern part. Mrs. Youngs died here, and Mr. Youngs subsequently married and settled in Green- field township, where he died in July. 1813. The children numbered eleven, three only of whom sur- vive: James J. and Charles, who live in Greenfield, the latter on the old homestead. A daughter, Mrs. Jacob Platts, resides in Michigan.
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