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Mr. McKellogg is one of the prominent citizens of Fairfield. He is a representative self-made man, hav- ing raised himself from poverty to affluence. Ener- getic and determined, he is always found at the head of all enterprises in which he is engaged. He and his wife are active members of the Congregational Church, and their large and elegantly furnished house is opened to many social entertainments.
Mr. McKellogg has for some time owned the great- est amount of farm stock of any one individual in Fairfield. He is a shrewd dealer, a close buyer, and a successful operator in this line of business. His fine farm of two hundred and forty acres is well sit- uated for this business. It is watered by a beautiful stream, which affords living water for his herds of animals all the year. Besides the church and Sab- bath school, Mr. McKellogg interests himself in the common schools and the judicial interests of his im- mediate district and the country surrounding.
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NEW LONDON .*
In presenting to the public a history of the town- ship of New London we regard as proper to preface our work by a list of the
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
For an explanation of the following table the read- er is referred to the history of Wakeman township:
TOWN NUMBER TWO, RANGE TWENTY.
CLASSIFICATION No. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
€ 350
8.
d.
Nathaniel Richards 255
3
1
Temperance Moore
21
3
24
3
D
Timothy Durfey
20
14
0
20
14
0
Thomas Hopkins
198
1
..
198
17
Lydia Latimore
20
16
0
64
29
16
0
Laurance Martin
55
18
6
55
18
6
Walter Welch
59
19
0
59
19
1
Henry Deshoe
900
0
2
Ester Cleveland
322
12
10
Guy Richards & Son 811
8
0
Samuel Mather, Jr. 256
18
10
Isaac Champlain
142
3
Sylvester Mather
94
15
5
Footing of Classification No. 1, £1,344 7 0
CLASSIFICATION No. 2, SECTION 2.
Originol Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
Mary Hurlburt
212
13
0
Nathaniel Ledyard
£ 212
13
Roger Gilson
884
18
616
184
8
616
James Angell
169
3
1016
20
3
1016
Samuel Coit
19
Elizabeth Brebe
16
6
0
16
6
0
Ester Conklin
39
1
680
39
1
6
John Brown
29
5
29
18
0
Benjamin Vose
6
6
..
6
6
Serg't Dan' Eldridge
1
1
9
-
1
9
John Starr
19
6
46
19
6
Nathan Sholes
15
3
15
3
Tho's Mansfield, Esq 604
16
0
466
14
6
Footing of Classification No. 2, £1,344 7 9
CLASSIFICATION No. 3, SECTION 3.
Originol Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by .
Am't Classed
Guy Richards & Son
811
0
Nathaniel Richards 60
142
17
0
Nathan Douglas
941
11
941
11
9
Patrick Robertson
3
0
0
3
0
0
Solomon Rogers
10
1
3
..
101
1
3
Robert Kennedy 350
0
0
..
94
16
11
Footing of Classification No. 3. £1,344 7 0
CLASSIFICATION No. 4, SECTION 4.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't classed
€
d.
3
d.
Ebenezer Ledyard, Esq.
1151 3
4
Nath'l Ledyard
1151
3
4
.deceased
75
0
0
75
-
Stephen BillIngs
74
6
Jedediah Chester
21
13
..
15
11
Mary Ward
0
0
..
..
Sarah Stedmau
14
14
. .
Footing of Classification No. 4, £1,344
0
NAME,
.
The township very naturally took the name of New London from the fact that N. Douglass, N. Richards,
and the Ledyards, were the principal, or largest orig- inal proprietors, or sufferers; and they resided in New London, Connecticut. The name of the township has never been changed since its first settlement.
NATURAL APPEARANCE, ETC.
The surface of the township is generally level, though, in many portions in the vicinity of the water courses, it is quite rolling, and other portions may be classed as gently undulating. It was originally, with the exception of a small portion in the fourth section, known as the cranberry marsh, all densely covered by timber. The principal varieties of wood were black walnut; elm of several varieties, rock, red and white; maple-hard and soft; beech; oak-white, yellow and black: basswood, whitewood, hickory, white and black ash, cherry, dogwood and willow. There has been no particular change in the forest, except the almost en- tire disappearance, by use. The soil is very produc- tive-well adapted to grass, small grains, corn, veg- etables and berries-clayey, or marl, with a slight preponderance of the clay, and, in the third section, sandy; while rich, deep muck, is abundant in the fourth section. It is about equally well adapted to.the the dairy products, hay, grain or stock raising. Fruits of several kinds and varieties do well. In short, for fertility and productiveness, very few, if any town on the Fire-lands, can surpass this. At an early day in the settlement of the township, quite a large portion of the third and fourth sections were deemed as low land and swampy; now, all or nearly all is drained and is tillable.
The streams running through the town are two. One running northwardly through the fourth and third sections, is formed by Skellenger's creek, Knowl- ton's creek and Carpenter's creek, uniting with the Vermillion river in the township of Clarksfield, as its east branch; and Rawson's creek, uniting with other small streams and making East creek, a west branch of Black river. The various creeks and streams are fed by many springs, which render this section of the county quite well watered.
BEASTS OF THE FOREST.
When the first white men settled in New London, the black bears and wolves were the most formidable; deer, raccoon, otter, sable and gray fox, wild turkeys, beaver, wild cat, hedgehog and fishers, or pekans, abounded to a limited extent. The deer and wild turkeys became far more abundant about 1822, evi- dently coming into the town from the east: and the wolves appeared to follow the deer
(362)
8.
d.
S. 17
1
George Newcomb
238 1
9
169
19
6
B'nj. & Cal'b Ledy'rd 200
0
150
0
Henry Mason
18
d.
8
d.
Nathan Bailey
20
6
41
27
8
6
John Morris
Robert Kennedy
0
€
d
By A. D. Skellenger, M.D.
d.
Youngs Ledyard,
..
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
INDIANS.
There were camping grounds on farms in the second section, but no villages. The hunters of the Dela- ware and Wyandot nations frequented their old grounds for a few years after the white man came. In their intercourses they were very kind and friendly, and gave no cause for trouble or alarm. Honesty and friendship are characteristics of the red men of America, till deceived or betrayed by the whites!
EARLY SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENTS.
The settlement of this township was delayed by the war of 1812-15, and again from the disputes of title from 1820 to '25, which will be more fully noticed hereafter, it being the cause of the greatest law suit ever affecting the settlers on the Fire-lands.
Mr. Abner Green, wife, and wife's three daughters, were the first white settlers. The family moved into the township on foot in the month of February, A. D. 1815, and located on lot number ten, third section, near the northwest corner of said lot. Here Mr. Green erected the first log house-a small cabin- using basswood bark as covering or roofing. His furniture, or rather cooking apparatus, and farming tools and implements were few and very simple. His- tory tells us they were conveyed on his back in a box or "chest captured from General Proctor." Green was born in the State of Vermont at a day sufficiently early for him to be a Revolutionary soldier, though the date of his birth is unknown-probably, about 1758. He served also during the war of 1812 as ser- geant. His wife, a Mrs. Van Deusen, was a widow lady, and mother of several children at the time she was married to Mr. Green. One of the daughters- Hannah-married Nathan Canada March 17, 1817. The marriage ceremony was performed by one David Abbott, a justice of the peace. Another of the daugh- ters, Miss Margaret, was plaintiff in a breach of promise case at her father's house, Mr. J. P. Case, justice of the peace. It was a very exciting affair, as it was the first lawsuit in the township. The de- fendant, Mr. Henry Bates, finally settled the suit by giving to Miss Margaret a horse. The next year the State of Ohio made an effort to vindicate its dignity by having Miss Margaret arrested, indicted, and tried at the log court house at the first county seat below Milan, for the crime of. infanticide. The jury pro- nounced her not guilty. Thus we have in the early history of this young but unfortunate girl two points to be noticed: She was the first plaintiff in New Lon- don, and the first defendant in a criminal case in old Huron county. Her subsequent career has passed from the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Mr. Green cleared some two or three acres of ground in 1815, and raised the first crop of corn in the town- ship, and the historian is informed he had a good crop, cultivated by the use of the ax and the hoe. He was noted as an honest, industrious, patriotic, and religious person, often holding religions meetings,
and the then boys say he did good preaching "as a Methodist, and at times swore for a change." He also erected a cabin and lived for a few years on lot number twenty-four, second section. Thence in 1823 he moved to the southern part of Ohio, and died about 1826, from, as is supposed, the effect of a wound received in the battle of Fort Malden, under General William H. Harrison.
August 15, 1815, Mr. Hosea Townsend, from Ty- ringham, Massachusetts, came and located on lot num- ber twenty-three, in the third section. He remained a
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few weeks, returned to the east, and remained until the 4th of February, 1816, when, with an ox team and wagon, in company with his brother, Hiram, he again set out for his Ohio home. He was fifty-two days on the road, arriving in New London March 28, 1816. Mr. Townsend brought with him irons which made the first plow used in New London soil, and, as such, first time used to work on the road just south of William Prosser's, on the little hill, then very steep, south of the creek; also, apple seeds which he planted the same year. He and his brother Hiram bachelored it for two years. The first seuson they planted four acres of corn. When harvested, a portion was fed to the oxen, a portion ground in the hand-mortar and beech stump grist mill, for their own food, and the other portion was sold to the red hunters for English specie (crowns) worth one dollar and six cents per bushel. He put out the first orchard in 1820 and 1822; and built the first frame house in 1826. He was born in Greenbush, May 25, 1794; married Miss Sophia Case, (the first school teacher, born April 26, 1798), March 25, 1821. Mrs. Townsend died March 2, 1875. Mr. Townsend, now, May, 1879, is living with his daughter, Mrs. A. S. Johnson, in the village of New London, aged eighty-five years. 1Ie was a soldier in 1815, and draws a soldier's pension.
During the year 1815, the following persons settled in New London: In November, Mr. Isaac P. Case,
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wife, and Sophia, Philothe and Eliza, daughters, and Tracey. a son, settled on lot fourteen, section three. Mr. Simeon Munson and family, on lot seven; Mrs. Porter, mother to Mrs. Betsey or Elizabeth Scribner, and Philo T. and Aurora Porter, (two brothers); Sherman, Austin and Major Smith (three brothers, Major but six years of age) all came at the same time, and in the company of Mrs. J. P. Case, and all set- tled in the third section. They were from Connecti- ent, though at this immediate move from near Spring- field, Clarke county, Ohio, by the way of the Maumee route.
One or two days later in November, 1815, Mr. An- thony Hendryx and family, and Benjamin Hendryx, a brother. and his family, came from New York, and settled on lots thirteen and eighteen, in the third section; also, about the same time, John Hendryx and his brother Thomas, and their families, from Brigh- ton, Monroe county, New York, settled in the second section,-John on lot number twenty-three, and Thomas on lot number eighteen. Many others whose names are forgotten, came and settled, and some moved in, in the year 1815.
During the year 1816, William Sweet arrived, who came in January, with his family, from Brighton, in Monroe county, New York, and settled on lot fif- teen, third section; made a large and permanent im- provement; put out a large orchard in 1822. He filled several township offices with credit to himself, and, in 1831, sold to Abram Prosser, and moved to Erie county, Ohio.
Also. in July, 1816, Mr. John Corey and Phebe, his wife (daughter of Abram Hendryx), and family, then consisting of Polly, John, Hannah, Benjamin and Phebe, came from Steuben county, New York, and settled on lot seven, section four, now owned by T. B. Hemenway, on which is the first cemetery, and also the New London agricultural association grounds and track are located. He lived on this lot, and made quite an improvement, setting out a large orchard, but, as he had no valid title to his farm, (Devil) John Hendryx, as the phrase is by the early settlers, "bought it out from under him" in 1829. In 1837, he and his wife moved to Michigan. His family married as fol- lows: Polly, the eldest daughter, married, Decem- ber, 1817, Mr. John Day, and settled on lot number twenty, section one; John, the eldest boy, married Alzina Day, daughter of widow Day, of Clarksfield, for his first wife (wife and two children soon died), and for his second wife he married Mary McConnell, daughter of James McConnell, of Rochester, and now lives near Coldwater, Michigan; Hannah married Daniel Iliggins, of New London, afterward a "lively Mormon;" Phebe married Ansel Barber, and Benja- min married Martha Ann, daughter of Simeon Mun- son, and all live, or did, near Coldwater, Michigan. Polly (Mrs. Day) soon died, and was buried on her father's farm, which was the first burial in the village cemetery. As a family, history informs us, they were kind and obliging. Richard Bailey settled on lot
number one, section four, remained a few years, and sold to Paul Lebo, and Paul Lebo sold to J. McClave.
1817 .- There were many additions to the pioneers of the township during the third year of its settle- ment, a few only have we space to specify. among whom we will name: February 22, 1817, Mr. Henry Anderson, from Livington county, New York, and Mrs. Russell, her sons Alcott and Charles, from the same county; and about the same time, came Paul Pixley, and Ariel his son, and their families, from Brighton, New York; Nathan Munson, Steven Post and A. Miner, from the State of New York, and lo- cated as follows: Anderson, on lot number eighteen, third section; Mrs. Russell, on lot number seven, third section; Alcott, a boy, lived with Anderson; Paul Pixley, on a part of same lot and section; Ariel Pixley, settled on lot number ten, same section; and Post, on number eighteen.
In the spring of this year, Mr. Josiah Day and his brother, John, came. Josiab settled on lot number twenty-five, first section, where he soon established a manufactory of black salts, or potash; and in after years, in company with Mr. Tracy Case, did quite an extensive trade in ashes, potash and cotton goods and family groceries. He always lived on this place. Was elected justice of the peace in 1855; died October 14, 1855, an honest man, even to the dividing of the last cent! John Day settled on lot twenty, first section.
Ezekiel Sampson and William Merrifield and their families, from Brighton, New York, arrived in De- cember, 1816. Sampson located on lot number eight, fourth section; and William Merrifield located on lot number three, second section.
Mr. Solomon Hubbard, (a soldier in the war of 1812-14,) from Livingston county, New York, born 1789, in Connecticut, came to Florence, February 12, 1816. The next spring, April, 1817, he traded his farm with Mr. Nathan Smith, who located on lot number five, third section, in 1816. Mr. Smith came on to said lot under a contract with Nat. Ledyard, and erected a house. He had a large family of daugh- ters, and thought he could educate them better in Florence than in New London, which is said to be the motive that resulted in swapping farms. Mr. Solomon Hubbard, by the enforcement, in court, of the Ledyard "contract" with Smith, obtained a deed of fifty acres as a gift. Mr. Hubbard filled several important offices. He died January 16. 1829.
J. B. Hubbard, a son, born August 27. 1812, and now living in Cincinnati, is the oldest white tuale, living, born in the township. His son, Holsy, born in New York, April 11, 1815, now lives on the lot, and is one of the most prominent and respected citi- zens of all the living early pioneers. He has several times filled the office of township trustee; has been justice of the peace for three terms, and from 1869 to 1825. six years (two terms), was one of the most reliable and energetic county commissioners. He has reared a family of five boys-S. G., Joseph B.,
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Alfred, Edward E. and Frank E., and three girls- Julia M., Marsium B. and Arminta D .; five children are living. S. G. died October 11, 1849; Joseph B. died November 5, 1864, and Alfred died November 15, 1864. Solomon Hubbard's children were five, three boys and two girls: Holsy, Joseph B., Solomon, Charlotte M. and Rebecca, four of whom are living. Solomon died in March, 1864. Mr. Holsy Hubbard now owns three hundred and fifty-five acres of land.
In the month of August, the same year (1817), Deacon Isaac Sampson and wife, and family, consist- ing of Ezekiel (who came in 1816), and Sally, Isaac, John, Roxy and Marium, arrived in the township,- second section, and after remaining a few years, moved on to lot three, fourth section. He was a brick manufacturer and stone mason; made, burned, and, in part, constructed the brick house in Ruggles township,-the first brick dwelling ever erected in all this portion of the then county of Huron, for Deacon Harvey Sackett, in the year 1834. The children married, as follows: Ezekiel to Polly, dangh- ter of Joseph Merrifield; Sally to Enos Smith, of Florence, January 5, 1819; Isaac to Patty Hendryx, daughter of Old Anthony, in 1823, and in after years went west with the Mormons; Roxey to Archibald Bates, about 1826; John to Miss Townsend, and went to Illinois at the "Nauvoo Mormon Emigration," and Marinm, at the age of thirteen, married to Gam- malia Townsend, and, in company with Truman and Archibald Bates, in 1832, went to Indiana. Ezekiel
and family moved to Iowa. Lewis, their youngest son, has just closed liis second term as member of the Congress of the United States. Deacon Isaac Samp- son died at Fulton county, Illinois, in 1838, and Ezekiel in Keokuk county, Iowa; Polly, his widow, at the age of eighty-three, in February, 1871, at Sigourney, Iowa.
Joseph Merrifield and his son-in-law, Nathan Hoyt, came in July, and erected a log cabin on lot number two, fourth section (Thomas Hendryx had previously entered the same lot, but as he had made no improve- ments, it cost only a trifle to "jump his claim.") Their families came, December 22, 1817. from Brighton, New York. The names of the children of Mr. Joseph Merrifield are: Polly (Mrs. Ezekiel Samp- son); Betsey (Mrs. Nathan Hoyt), and William, who were married in the State of New York, and Lydia (who married Peter Kinsley March 13, 1820); James B., Joseph Seymour and Lewis. They all lived for several years, and most of them all the remainder of their lives in New London; and some of their chil- dren and grandchildren to this day are here among us-good and highly respected citizens.
1818 .- Fancis Keyes and family-wife and four children, from Vermillion (though formerly from the State of Massachusetts), came in the month of Nov- ember, and settled on lot number six in fourth sec- tion. His, was the fourth log cabin in that portion of the township, now in the village-the first having been built by Jolin Corry; the second by Ezekiel
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
Sampson; the third by Joseph Merrifield. Mr. Keyes put out his orchard, in 1820, which was the second one put out in the village. The names of his four children were: Ursula, the eldest daughter, who married James O. Merrifield: Mary, married Lewis Merrifield in 1828, and the two boys, Perry and Har- rison (as their sisters had married brothers), con- cluded to, and did, marry sisters, by the name of Sher- rick. Mrs. Keyes brought with her from the old Bay State, that common destroyer-consumption, of which she died in May, 1819. Her death is noticed as the first white adult of the township. Her chil- dren and her grandchildren still continue to die of consumption, showing in this instance, a remarkable tendency that consumption is hereditary.
Mr. Keyes, in July of the same year, married Mrs. Elizabeth Scribner. He sold his improvements in 1821, to James O. Merrifield and Peter Kinsley, and moved to the east part of Fitchville township, whence, in 1834, as history relates, he and his wife, and his two boys and their wives, were swept along by the mighty and popular wave, the Mormon emi- gration, to the far west, where they and hundreds of others hoped to find the land of promise, wherein saints of the Most High could enjoy freedom to worship God, and not be persecuted as they had been in Huron county.
Peter Kinsley, born in Dublin, Ireland, July 12, 1797, and Henry Bates, an Englishman, both deserted the British army, and under fire of their guns, swam the Niagara river in 1815; and in the fall of 1818, both came to New London. Kinsley, during the winters of 1818 and 1819, tanght the first school in the fourth section.
Abram Dayton Hendryx, wife and family, came in 1817, and, as the oldest inhabitants say, they lived "all over"-first on lot number nine, then on lot number three, then to Sullivan, then back to New London, from one section to another. He was the father of John M., who married Eunice, daughter of Dr. Sam- uel Day, (who also came to the township in 1817. Dr. Samuel Day was the father of John, Sally, Josiah, Eunice, Ephraim and William, who all came about the same time; and afterward, in New London, the father of Hannah, Elizabeth, Almira, Elijah (who had fits), Charles, Samuel, Matilda, Huldah and. Polly, and three others that died; eighteen in all. Dr. Day made and exported the first potash, or black salts, from this township, in 1821. Dr. Day died December 31, 1839.) Sophia, who married John Town, and settled on lot twenty-five, fourth section, and afterwards went to the State of Michigan ; George, who married, in Ruggles, Perwilla Stevens from Knox county; Sally, had John Fisher for her first, and Cummings for her second husband, now living with Mrs. Kannauss, a granddaughter, in the city of Cleveland; and Anna, the oldest girl, married Ben- jamin De Witt, of Plymouth. The fee for this mar- riage, to Isaac P. Case, justice of the peace, in absence of any money (as negotiated by one Simson, De Witt's
debtor), was a fine "dog" pup, afterwards becoming "old Bose," one of the most respected members in "old Squire Case's" family, and of the neighborhood.
Samuel Sherman and family, in 1818, settled on lot number eighteen, third section. Mr. Sherman and his two sons, Samuel and Leonard, were very hard and industrious laborers. A son-in-law, by the name of Braynard, put up the frame barn now stand- ing directly north of the residence of Leonard Gold- ing. It is said of the Sherman family that they "cleared more land than any pioneers of the town- ship."
Mr. Willis Case, wife and family, consisting of Charles, Leonard and George, came in 1818, and set- tled on lot number fourteen, third section. He was a brother of I. P. Case. Many of his grandchildren are still living in the county.
Mr. Zelotes Barritt came to New London in 1816, and kept "hall" with one Simeon Blackman, on the same lot that Abner Green occupied. Mr. Barritt first owned and cleared a farm-lot number six, fourth section-in Clarksfield. Though for the last fifty years of his life, he owned, and for most of the time lived, and died on, lot number ten, third section, in New London.
Jacob Roorback came to New London in 1823, spent a short time and went Ruggles in 1823 or 24. John Roorback and family came to New London in 1826, and settled on lot thirteen, first section. He was father to John W. and Frederick S.
Clark Winans settled on lot number ten, third section, 1825, but soon sold to Z. Barritt. Benjamin Hendryx, living on lot number twenty-three, second section, after firing off his gun, as he supposed, blew in it, and it discharged, killing him. This was in 1823, and he was the first man shot in town. John Akright and Jacob Akright came in 1823. B. Crampton and wife came and settled on lot number twenty-four, third sec-tion, in 1816.
The family of Abner Case, a brother of I. P. Case, a wounded soldier, came to the township at an early date; also the family of Blackman, who settled mostly in the second section. Ansel, Ira and Simeon Black- man, and families, are supposed to have settled abont 1818, also Abram Prosser, David Loveland, John Tainter and Captain Wm. Blackman, on lot number nineteen, second section: Phillip Sworthout in fourth section, and Elder Benjamin B. Brackenbury and John Hooker, in the third section. Wm. C. Spanld- ing settled on lot number seven, third section (Sim Munson owning it before this time), and by him was erected the first frame store in the township, on the same lot. It can still be seen as a part of the barn of Lyman Dunks. Tracy Case was, at one time, a part- ner of Spaulding. They purchased most of their goods at Huron, Milan and Vermillion. The further immediate settlements of this township became much retarded, and, in fact, we may say, almost entirely suspended. There were two events operating as causes-the death of Nathaniel Ledyard, which took
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