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ORIGINAL OWNERS.
We have now the pleasure of presenting a list of the highest interest and value, in connection with the beginnings here-one which we are assured has never before been in print. It represents the sales for several years, by the trustees at public vendue, of in- and out-lots in the town of Louisville, and is copied from the original books of record, now considerably dilapidated by time. We have omitted nothing, except the columns headed "Received by " (filled by names of the several trustees to whom payments were made) and "Remarks," which very seldom include anything of importance. The orthography of names has been followed as found in the record.
List of sales of lots and land in and adjoining the town of Louisville, at the Falls of Ohio:
Number.
Acres.
Purchasers.
Consideration.
18
Jacob Reagar.
James Sullivan
15
6
20
same
20
same
20
5
20
same
20
Eliza Moore 22
6
20
Adam Hoops.
20
6
20
James Sullivan.
22
9
20
same
20
I
IO
20
same
17
3
=
20
same
91
I
12
20
same 13
5
13
8
same
7
I
James Patton.
6
12
same
7
2
Will Johnston.
6
I
James Sullivan.
IO
10
10
same
14
I
£ 15
I 1234567890 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
20
20
20
312345 2 3 4 5 1
10
HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.
179
Number.
Acres.
Purchasers.
Consideration.
New Old
Purchaser.
£. S. D.
Date.
6
David Meriwether ..
15
7
10
Edm'd Taylor.
16
6
15
15 Simon Triplett.
3
June.
8
IO
same
17
5
17'
Buckner Pittman four lots and Square Num- ber I
.25
September, 1783
II
10
same
16
20
12
IO
same
13
I
21
33
Michael Troutman
3
November, 1785
13
10
same
I5
22
34
Samuel Bell.
3
June, 1783
14
10
same
15
II
23
35
William Christy.
3
ditto
15
IO
same
15
3
24
36
Jacob Pyeatt.
3
ditto
16
IO
same
13
25
37
Edward Tyler
3
June, 1783
17
same
IO
IL
26
38
(Greenup claims)
3
I
5
same
5
6
27
39
Nico Meriwether
3
2
5
Richard Eastin
5
8
29
41
George Wilson ..
3
ditto
3
5
James Sullivan same
7
5
30
42
same
3
ditto
4 5
5
Will Johnston
7
7
31
43
John Todd.
3
ditto
James Sullivan
7
12
32
44
James Patten.
3
ditto
6 7
5
Adam Hoops.
7
33
45
William Oldham.
3
ditto
8 9
5
5
Samnel Kerby
6
IO
36
48
Will. Johnston ..
I 16
6 May, 1786
II
5
Jacob Reagar.
6
IO
37
65
(Squire Boone).
3
12
Benja Earickson
6
IO
38
66
James Patten.
3
June, 1783
James Sullivan
8
39
67
George Wilson
3
ditto
same
8
40
68
Will. Johnston.
18 6
December, 1785
same
8
41
69
(Troutman claims)
3
John Dorrett.
8
14
42
70
Geo. Meriwether
3
June, 1785
James Sullivan
9
IO
43
71
Michl Troutman.
3
November, 1785
18
5
same
9
19
44
72 same
3
19
5
same
8
I
45
81 } {ls. Sullivan claims,
3
20 I
outlot
Will Johnston.
8
I
2
ditto
Will Croghan
17
49
85 Jacob Myers.
3
September, 1783
3 4
ditto
James Sullivan.
12
50
86 Will. Johnston.
8
May, 1786.
2
of squares
Andrew Heth
4
7
3
ditto
James Sullivan.
IO
52
James Sullivan.
6
ditto
ditto
same
1
54
Danl. Nead
10
6
ditto
5 6 ditto
John Sinkler.
76
53
same
6
6
ditto
7
ditto
Mark Thomas.
20
IC
57
73
3
9
ditto
same
1
I
75
William Stafford
3
September, 1783 ditto
II
ditto
same
2
12
ditto
same
23
The point over 1
Dan Brodhead, Jr.
5
9
New Old No. No.
I
Levin Powell.
3
June, 1783
2
2 Jacob Myers.
3
September
67
51 same
14
6 May, 1786
3
3 Simon Triplott
3
June
68
52 Patrick Shone
3
4
6 Levin Powell ..
3
ditto
69 53
John Baker.
3
5
5 Lewis Myers.
3
September
70 54
Danl. Sullivan.
3
6
6 John Todd ..
3
June
71 55
Will Johnston
1 10
6 May, 1786
7
7 William Pope.
3
ditto
72
56
John O. Frim
3
June, 1783
8
8 Will. Johnston.
3
September
73
57
James McCauley.
3
9
9
3
74
58 George Wilson.
3
IO
10 Isaac Bowman
3
December, 1785
75
59
76 60 (Bull claims).
3
12
12 Daniel Brodhead, Jr ... 5
December
77
61 Kerby & Earickson.
3 August, 1785
13
13 John Conway.
3
September, 1783 June
78
62 Jacob Pyeatt
3 June, 1783
14
14 Meredith Price.
3
79
63 Jacob Myers.
3 September
5
Edm'd Taylor. same
9
2
34
46
Heirs of Thos. McGee.
3
September, 1783
II
35
47
Joseph Sanders.
3
June
13 1.4 15 16 17
2
same
2
5
47
83
Edwd Holdman.
3
June, 1783
48
8.4 Kerby & Earickson
3
May, 1785
ditto
George Rice.
17
IO
53
same
8
ditto
ditto
same
5
I
56
Walter Ed. Strong. +
6
ditto
8
ditto
James Morrison.
I
3
58
74 Henry Floyd.
3
June, 1783
IO
ditto
James Sullivan.
I
60
76 Henry Floyd.
3
61
77 Geo. Meriwether.
3
June
78 William Swann
3
September
79
\Vill. Johnston.
IO
May, 1786
6.4
80 George Wilson
3
June, 1783 ditto
65 49 Andrew Hynes.
66
50
Will. Johnston.
3 16
6 December, 1785
9
9
Adam Hoops.
I6
I8
10
IO
James Sullivan
12
19
16
28
40
same
3
ditto
5
5 5 5
5
5
5
ditto
46
825 ass'n Pope).
3
-
51
Parnvenus Bullitt.
13
6 ditto
Beargrass §
Purchasers. A. S. D.
Date.
I
September, 1783 June
ditto
ditto
same
3
ditto
John Clark ..
3
No. No.
16
16 James l'atton.
3 May, 1786
ditto
59
62
63
ditto
5
16
IO
I80
HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.
New Old No. No.
Purchaser,
£. S. D.
Date.
New No.
Purchasers.
£. S. D.
Date.
141
Samuel Kerby
19
May
80 64
Henry French.
3
June
142
same
14
6 ditto
81
32 Simon Triplett ..
3
ditto
143
same
7
6 ditto
82 31
same
5
ditto
144
same
13
ditto
83
30
Willm Heth.
15
May, 1786
145
James Sullivan
8
May, 1786
8.4
28
Levin Powell ..
3
June, 1783
146
same
13
ditto
85
28
Will. Johnston .
I
3
December [?]
147
same
4
ditto
87
26
John R. Jones.
3
August [ ? ]
149
John Donne same
4
ditto
89
24
Jacob Myers ..
3
September, 1783
151
Will Johnston
3
ditto
90
23
Dan Brodhead, Jr.
5
May, 1786
152
William Johnston
3
ditto
91
22
Levi Todd.
3
June, 1783
153
George Dement
8
ditto
92
21
(McMullin claims)
3
154
same
4
ditto
93
20
Will Johnston
15
May, 1786
155
William Johnston.
3 10
ditto
94
19
Levi Todd.
3
June, 1783
156
James F. Moore
5
disto
95
18
Will Johnston
I
6
May, 1786
157
James Sullivan
6
ditto
17
George Meriwether
3
June, 1783
158
same
8
ditto
Richard Taylor. same
2
2
May, 1786
159
same
6
ditto
Elijah Phillips
6
ditto
John Donne, 3
ditto
161
George Dement
7
ditto
Will Johnston
6
I
ditto
162
James Sullivan.
3
ditto ditto
John Donne. I
7
ditto
163
William Johnston
3
6
same
I IO
ditto
164
William Beard.
3
February, 1786
John Belli
13
ditto
165
Burk Reagar.
I
8
December sale
George Rice
I
5
ditto
166
Rice Bullock.
I
6
ditto
Andrew Hare
16
ditto
167
Benjamin Price.
I
1
ditto
James Cunningham I
6
ditto
168
same
I
5
ditto
same
ditto
169
Edmd Taylor
I
12
ditto
Richard Taylor. same
19
ditto
171
Jane Grant
3
February, 1786
172
James Sullivan.
3
James Sullivan. 3
May, 1785
John Donne
3
February, 1786
174
same
7
ditto
same
3
ditto ditto
176
Richard Torrill. 10
5
ditto
Will Johnston.
15
May, 1786
177
Jinkin Phillips 7
I
ditto ditto
Elisha L. Hall.
3
February, 1786
180
Philip Barbour. 7
I
ditto
(John Sanders claims). .
3
18I
Robert Neilson. 6 12
ditto
John Reyburn.
3
182
same
4 13
ditto
September, 1783
183
same
4 4
5
ditto ditto
Will Johnston
3
September, 1783 186
same
4
Phil Waters ass'n.
3
187
same
4
5
ditto
Andrew Hale. I II
May, 1786
188
same
Daniel Henry.
6 ditto
189
Daniel Brodhead, Jr .. 3
Joseph Brooks, 3
September, 1783
190
same
I
6
William Croghan. 1 16
May, 1786
191
same
I
4
ditto
Margaret Wilson
3
December, 1785 ditto ditto
193
same
3
194
James Patton.
3
September, 1783
195
same
2 12
ditto
James Beaty
3
December, 1785
196
Samuel Kearby.
14
May, 1786
197 198
John Davis. 2 15
same
2 18
ditto
same
3
ditto
200
Stephen Ormsby 3
ditto
Irwin's Heirs.
3
ditto
201
Archibald Lockart 2 15
ditto
Jean Hambleton
3
February, 1786
202
George Close. 2 14
ditto
203 Samuel Watkins.
2 10
ditto
I
5
I
ditto
170
same
I
12
ditto
same 2 IO
ditto
Will Johnston.
May, 1786
173
Jinkin Phillips. 7
I
ditto
James Beard.
3
William Pope 10
ditto
Will Johnston. same
IO
May, 1786
179
William Payne . 5
I
Will Johnston. same
16
May, 1786 ditto
184
same
5
Richard C. Anderson. . 5
185
William Payne 5
2
ditto ditto ditto
Robert Neilson. 2 17
same
2 14
ditto ditto ditto
Jenkin Phillips. 3 5
ditto ditto
Jane Grant.
3
September, 1783
John Reyburn
5
ditto
199
* Remark: "Deed iss'd to Gab Johnston, ass'n " |as- signee ..
* Remark : "Deed issued to E. Phillips, per order."
96 97 98 99 100 IOI 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 IIO III 112 113 114 115 I16 I17 I18 119 120 121 122 123 124 125* 126 127 I28 129 130 131 132 I33 I34 135 136 137 138 139 140
4
6 ditto
88
25
Will Johnston
3
April, 1785
150
George Dement
7
ditto
86
27
Will. Harrod.
3
James Morrison
3
192
same
I 18
Stephen Ormsby. 2 18
ditto
3
December, 1785
178
ditto
3
ditto
175
ditto
ditto
160*
148
HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.
New No.
Purchasers. £. S. 1).
Date.
Purchasers.
£. S. D.
Date.
Thomas Brumfield 2 II
May, 1785.
Mark Thomas.
I
December, 1785.
Jacob Reagar. I 2
December, 1785
264 265
Benjamin Price .
I
I
6
ditto ditto
same
2 18
ditto
266
same
1
2
6
ditto
same
3 9
ditto
same
1
ditto ditto ditto
Adam Hoops.
I II
December, 1785
269
Burk Reagar I
3
ditto
270
same
L
6
ditto ditto
Jenkin Phillips. 5 17
ditto
272
same
I
ditto
Paul Blundell . 2 2
5
6
ditto
274
John R. Jones 3
ditto
James Morrison. 3
I
December, 1785
275 276
Public Squares.
Lawrence Muse 3
I
ditto
278
279 John R. Jones. 4
5 ditto
James Sullivan. 3
2
ditto
Richard Taylor
I
2
ditto
Richard Taylor I
1
ditto
Will Johnston .
I
1
ditto
same
I
ditto
Lawre Muse
I
2 ditto
Adam Hoops 4
2
ditto
same
I
I
ditto
James Sullivan
4
ditto
same
I
2
6
ditto
Edmd. Taylor
3
I
ditto
same
I
I
6
ditto
Will Johnston.
I
ditto
289
Charles Bratton. I
5
ditto
same
I
ditto
290
same
I
ditto
Richard Taylor.
I
ditto
291 292
Richard Eastin. I ditto
John Davis
I
2
ditto
Walter Davies.
I
ditto
294
same
18
ditto
same
I
2
ditto
I same 2
6 ditto
Enoch Parsons.
I
I
ditto
297
David Morgan 18
ditto
George Slaughter 19
ditto
298
same
19
ditto
Charles Bratton
I 13
ditto
299
John Daniel .. I
I
ditto
300
James Morrison
15
ditto
same
3
ditto
same
9
6 ditto
same
5
ditto
James Fr. Moore.
I2
May, 1786
George Rice.
7
ditto
same
7
6 ditto
same
15
ditto
Will Johnston
12
6 ditto
same
13
I ditto
same
4
6 ditto
same
5
6
ditto
Burying-ground. *
Henry Protzman.
7
ditto
Will Johnston
6
8 ditto
James Fr. Moore
12
ditto
same
15
I ditto
Thomas Dalton
18
6 December, 1785
same
I H
ditto
* Reserved in pursuance of an order for " a publick Burying Place," passed by the trustees of the village May 4, 1786. The lots formed the well-known cemetery on Jefferson street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth, lately converted by the city authorities into a beautiful little park. It was, of course, the first cemetery the place had.
* Remark : " Deed to John Mcpherson (Lasley). "
+ Remark in each case : "Deed issued to John Felty.'
210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 22.4 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 2.40 241 242 243 2.44 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262
1
1
same I II
Richard J. Waters 6 6
May
271
Josiah Bell. I
December,
273
Richard Taylor 2 12
ditto
Edward Tyler 3 15
ditto
277
Jacob Reagar 2 19
ditto
Edmd. Taylor 3 12
ditto
280*
Will Johnston 3 10
ditto
.
Adam Hoops. 4 II
ditto
Public Square.
283 284 285
286 287 288
Rice Bullock
1
6
ditto
Benjamin Price.
I
ditto
293
295 296
Daniel Henry
I
6
ditto
James Sullivan
2
6 May, 1786
The Connolly forfeitures occurred this year, not only by the definition in the foregoing act of the Virginia Legislature, but by the verdict of an escheating jury, assembled at Lexington, in this State, July Ist, under George May, escheator, whose proceedings and finding have been previ- ously recited.
ACCESSIONS TO THE SETTLEMENT
were numerous and important in this year of real municipal beginnings. Among these were people of wealth or talent who left the States along the Atlantic coast for homes in the "wild countries of the West." But the mass of the emigrants were simply hardy, earnest men and women, possessed of few talents and little wealth, but were ready to work in any and every place for the necessary means of existence.
In the former class was Mr. Thomas Helm, a relative of Captain Leonard Helm, one of the
204 205 206 207 208 209
Robert Neilson . 2
May,
267 268
same
Jenkin Phillips
5 2
ditto
New No. 263
Rice Bullock
Will Johnston 18
6 ditto
Robert Daniel.
ditto
281+
282+
Edward Tyler. 3
IS2
HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.
captains in Colonel Clark's expedition of two years before, into the Illinois country, and father of John L. Helm, who died in office as Governor of the State September 8, 1867. Mr. Helm was from Prince William county, Virginia, and came with William and Benjamin Pope, and Henry Floyd. He remained here but one year, during which he lost four children by the deadly diseases of the time and place, when he removed to Eliz- abethtown, Kentucky, and spent the remainder of his days there. His son, Governor Helm, was born in Elizabethtown.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
During the year Colonel George Slaughter, who is named in the act establishing the town of Louisville as one of its trustees, came down the Ohio with one hundred and fifty soldiers of the State militia, to be stationed at the Falls. Mr. Collins says of the effects of this arrival: "The inhabitants were inspired with a feeling of security which led them frequently to expose themselves with too little caution. Their foes were ever on the watch, and were continually de- stroying valuable lives." There can be no doubt, however, that the reputation for security gained by the successes of Colonel Clark in the North- west and the strengthening of the garrison at the Falls, was a powerful element in the attractive- ness of the place to the vast immigration that was setting into the new country.
Early in the summer of this year Clark took about two hundred men "of his Virginia regi- ment " from the fort at the Falls down the river to a point on the Mississippi a little below the mouth of the Ohio, where the parallel of 36° 30' intersects the left bank of the former stream, and there built Fort Jefferson, named, like the county in which Louisville is situated, from the Governor of Virginia, afterwards President of the United States.
1781 -- TRANSACTIONS OF THE TRUSTEES.
During the winter of 1780-81 the county of Jefferson was one of three great counties into which the immense county of Kentucky was subdivided, with Louisville as its county seat. The trustees of the town had possibly held meetings for consultation and business before this year set in; but the first meeting whose pro- ceedings have survived through the century is
that noted below, of date February 7, 1781. There are some indications, indeed, in the record itself, that this was the very earliest formal meeting held. We shall find it convenient to continue just here the transcript of the record for several years thereafter. It will be observed that the record of attendance at the first meeting noticed eor- responds precisely, so far as it goes, with the names, in the act establishing the town, with some slight differences in spelling. We have retained throughout the orthography of the record, except as to punctuation. :
At a Meeting of the Gentlemen appointed Trustees for the Town of Louisville, at the said Town, on Wednesday the 7th of February, 1781.
Present.
John Todd, Jr., Stephen Trigg, John Floyd,
George Slaughter,
William Pope, and Marsham Brashear.
Resolved, That the Surveyor of Jefferson County be re- quested to run off one thousand acres of Land on the East side of the 4,000-acre survey made for Conelly & Warranstaff, beginning at the mouth of the Gut between the two old forts, thence on a straight line to the back Line of said Survey, to include one thousand acres Eastward.
That the old Lot holders on the south side of the main street give up Thirty feet on the front of their Lots, as form- erly laid off, so as to make the main Street 120 feet, inclu- sive of the Walks on each Side the next Streets to the main Street parrallel thereto, lo be each Ninety feet.
That the Surveyor lay off the Balance of the 1000 acres not yet laid off, into Lots and Streets as aforesaid, and cause the same to be staked at the Corners.
That Cap. Meridith Price be appointed Clerk to the Trus- tees of the Town of Louisville, to enter and preserve the proceedings of the Trustees.
That the Clerk send Advertisements to the adjacent Counties, notifying all concerned that the Lots will be sold to the highest Bidder at next April Jefferson Court, as directed by Law, and in the mean Time prepare Deeds as well for the Holders of Lots already laid off as for further purchasers of Lots.
That George Slaughter, William Pope, John Floyd, and Marshall Brashears, or any three of them, be authorized to confer with Jacob Myers, relative to opening a Canal and erecting a Grist Mill, as set forth in his petition to General Assembly, and contract with said Myers to carry on said Works.
JNO. TODD, JR.
At the next meeting whose transactions are preserved, January 4, 1783, at least half of the Board had changed, and we find the names of only Pope and Brashears of the original Board, with Andrew Hynes, James Sullivan, and "Ben- jamin Pope, Gent," as new Trustees. It was at this meeting resolved " that Isaac Cox, William Oldham, George Wilson, and James Patton, Gent, be appointed as Trustees, and that the said Trustees meet at Captain James Sullivan's
183
HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.
to-morrow morning at ro o'clock." At the meeting thus provided for a number of deeds were executed to purchasers of lots, as noted in the foregoing account of lots sold under date of June, 1783. The clerk was given custody of the deeds, he to have six shillings for each, when delivered to the several proprietors. The clerk was afterwards directed to deliver no deeds " until the purchase money, three shillings, is paid to the trustees and six shillings to the clerk for each deed." Title-deeds, apparently, cost more in those days than the property they conveyed. William Pope and James Sullivan were made bursars to the Trustees. Thursday afternoon the next September court was appointed for an- other day of sale.
At the meeting of June 27, 1783, it was re- solved "that thirty feet be left on the bank of the Ohio as a common street in said town, at laying off the same, as per order of a meeting at Cap- tain Sullivan's per adj't the 4th instant;" also "that the land between the lots already laid off and the river be laid off in squares of four lots lying square to the river line, as mentioned in the aforesaid resol'n ;" and "that these persons who have built on the lots contrary to the lots already laid off, shall have untill the Ist of No- vember to remove their buildings ; otherwise they will be considered as the property of the Free- hold."
August 18, 1783, it was ordered "that no standing timber shall be cut, unless by the lot- holders, and that on their own lots, on the premises of one thousand acres of land, the forfeited property of John Conelly, and Marsham Brashear, James Patton, and George Wilson, Gent, dispose of the timber and agree on the price." At this meeting Water street was named.
The currency of the time seems a little mixed in the minutes of August 22, of the same year. By one vote twenty-four pounds were ordered paid to Mark Thomas out of the sale of lots for board- ing the trustees and their attendants, and by an- other thirty dollars were granted from the same fund to William Pope, for his chain carriers and attendants.
September 3, Benjamin Pope was voted one per cent on the sales, "for crying the lots and squares of said Town."
April 14, 1785, a further sale was ordered for
the ensuing 12th of May, "for ready cash, in order to defray the Expence of laying off the same and to satisfy the Mortgage of John Camp- bell, agreeable to Act of Assembly." Lots one hundred seventy-three to two hundred and four- teen, inclusive, were accordingly sold, as hereto- fore noted. Mr. "James Morrison, Gent," at the next meeting of the Board, "objects to the pro- ceedings of the Meeting of the 12th, and to the sales in general, since the act of October last, re- lating to the Town of Louisville, and doth resign his seat." At the next meeting recorded, August 3, William Johnston was appointed in his stead. The act referred to by Mr. Morrison will be found under its appropriate year.
The path of "city fathers" in the good old days was not strewn with roses any more than it is now. A bit of charming frankness in the report one of the committees of this body has left us a hint of the opinion held of it by at least one prominent member of the community. Two of the Board had been nominated to wait on Colonel Camp- bell, one of the original proprietors, and request of him the deed of partition between him and Connolly, in order to have the line run properly, as required by the act of Assembly. The com- mittee promptly waited on the Colonel and re- ported that he had not the deed, but only a copy thereof, "and also that the line had been run agreeable to the Deed of partition, as directed by the Act of October last, which Information he supposed the Trustees would pay no attention to !"
October 6, 1785, James Sullivan and James Patton were appointed to superintend the sales of lots. Captain Daniel Brodhead was subse- quently appointed in place of Patton. The superintendents of sales were authorized to bid on lots "as far as they may think necessary, or nearly their value, which purchases are to be considered as subject to the further direction of the trustees."
December 9, 1785, it was resolved "that all the land from Preston's line to the mouth of Beargrass and up said creek to said line be sold to the highest bidder, and also all the land that remains on this side of said creek at the mouth thereof, exclusive of the thirty feet allowed for a road between the Bottom squares and the Ohio." All the remaining land of the one thousand acre tract, formerly Connolly's, was ordered sold the
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next February "to the highest bidder for ready cash."
AN IMPORTANT ACCOUNT.
In August, 1787, an account was rendered of the trust regarding the Louisville property, as follows:
The Town of Louisville,
To the Trustees thereof.
DR.
To paid for exps. surveying and laying off the town in 1783. 47 10 0
To paid James Sullivan, atto. for John Campbell, per acct. No. I* 767 15 2
To I blank Book 305, minute Book 7s 6d. 3 qu. paper at 35. 2 66
To paid an atto. in 3 suits com'd, 15s. 2 50
To Wm. Johnston for services per acct. No. 2, no other allowance being made. 39 0 0
To pd. a Crier Nov. 85, do. Decemr.
85. 9 12 0
To pd. an express sent for the pursar [bur- sar] etc. 6 0
To paid cham men, etc., out-lots. 11 00
To paid Wm. Shannon in part for surveying ont Lots (he was allowed {20 16s.
8 10 0
To paid a Crier in May 1786 ..
3 12 0
To pd. a Crier for selling in 1783 in part.
3 16 2
To the Clerk of Jefferson for fee acct. 8 00
To a Commission of 2 per Cent. allowed the pursar per order amt. on £995 13s .. 18 17 2
To paid Surveyor and Chain men, etc., for laying off Town, etc., 2d time. 48 10 0
To sundry debts dne pr. memo 136 13 6
To balance in Wm. Johnston's, one of the pursar's hands
22 16 2%
To do. in Daniel Brdhead, jr. 's.
2 21 0
To the amt. of square no. 6, sold Jno. Sinkler, snit now depending 76 0 0
To pd. Mark Thomas for Boarding the Trus- tees first time of laying off the Town regu- larly, he was allowed {24. 20 10 0
£1,229 2 41/2
To a balance due Mark Thomas.
3 10 0
To a balance due William Shannon 12 60
By square no. 7, sold in 1783 to Mark Thomas and recd. in Exps.
20 10 0
By square no. 6 sold in 1785 to Jno. Sinkler he is now sned for 76 0 0
By sundries recd from the sale of Lots and
Lands, and balance dne pr. Genl. and par- ticular list.
1,132 12 2
£1,229 2 2
Balances dne the Town etc .:
Sundries per acct.
£136 13 6
Wm. Johnston,
22 16 21/2
Danl. Brodhead, Jr.
2 2 10
John Sinkler is sued for.
76 00
£237 12 61/2
* This was to extinguish Campbell's mortgage on the Con- nolly tract.
The balance in the hands of the trustees, and not otherwise accounted for, naturally awaked inquiry and created dissatisfaction, which finally culminated in a resort to law to compel them to disgorge. A loose leaf in an old file of papers, contemporaneous with the records from which we have given extracts, is evidently part of a committee report, and we subjoin it. The words enclosed in brackets are struck out in the orig- inal, but are also worth preserving:
[We do hereby Certify that] It appears to us from the minutes of the former Trustees that they are in arears £61 .- 6.4 [received and misappropriated by them exclusive of the Credits given above] for which a suit has been ordered, £173, the amount of sale for Square No. 6, for which a suit is depending and undetermined, also 972 acre Lotts sold for £11. 12.6 for which no deeds have Isned nor money paid the whole or so much thereof as may be recovered Can be ap- plied to the acct. of Simons & Campbell which wou'd If the whole was recd reduce the above ballance of 595. 17.8 to 349.18. 10.
SOME QUEER RULES.
The following is also among the old docu- ments, endorsed "Constitution to regulate the proceedings of the Board of Trustees when con- vened for business." No date is appended, but they apparently go back for their origin nearly or quite to the earliest days of the board. Some of them, particularly the seventh, are altogether unique :
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