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James Kilbourn, Agent for the Scioto Company, having attended to the several objects in the western country for which he was appointed, begs leave to report as follows.
Tuesday, April 5th, 1803. Was prevented from beginning my journey as was expected, by having to meet the Committee and Secretary, which took up the whole day before the business could be fully arranged.
Wednesday, 6th. Left Simsbury and proceeded to Hartford to get the specie changed for bill and credit. Procured the change of Hartford and Middletown notes with much diffi- culty and one dollar discount. Put up at Pratt's.
Thursday, 7th. After finishing the business, which was not completed yesterday, set out on the journey. Dined at N. Haven, and obtained an exchange of the bill on that Bank, part in gold at the bank and part by private hands in bills of the United States, making dis- count of 25 cents. Left N. Haven just at evening, and put up at Milford.
Saturday, 9th. Arrived at N. York, and put up at Dr. Stanbery's. Spent Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday, till 10 o'clock here, & having got the necessary business arranged set out for the westward.
Thursday, 25th. Arrived at Pittsburgh after a very unpleasant journey on account of the snow storms & other disagreeable weather.
Friday, 22nd. Proceeded directly to the business of obtaining millirons, blacksmith's tools, iron, &c, &c, for part of which I had to go to the works & wait to have them made. Was detained here till Tuesday the 26th, 5 days, & closely employed to get all things in readi- ness. During this time I purchased the following articles to wit: Crank, gudgeon, ragg- wheel, stake, 2 cowbells, 1 housebell, 2 faggots, nail rods & a box of window glass. Also some bilious pills & red Bark to use on emergency. Having this morning got all the heavy articles on board a Cincinnati boat, to be delivered by the Master (Mr. Reader) to the care of Mr. Wm Russell, at Alexandria at the mouth of Scioto, at ten o'clock left Pittsburgh & pro- ceeded on my journey. The day following, at Wheeling, fell in company with two gentlemen from Litchfield who accompanied me thro' the wilderness to Zanesville, where we parted. Found no bay for the horse in all the hill country, from St. Clair's to Zanesville ; had to keep the horse wholly on oats, which foundered him in a degree. Put up here from Friday even- ing, the twentyninth, till Wednesday morning May 4th, when he became able to proceed on the journey. Had been hindered here 4 entire days.
On Wednesday, May 4th, left Zanesville in company with Wm. Wells, Esqr., who went with me one day's journey on Licking road. Passed all the rest of the wilderness alone to Franklinton. Had a heavy N. E. storm all the way, & to swim my horse through 2 Rivers, by which I was completely wet from head to foot as possible; the weather at the same time quite cold. This storm cleared with a sharp frost. On Friday, sixth, at evening, arrived at Franklinton very wet, cold and much fatigued. Put up at James Scott, Esqr's, the man who had the care of survey the Dunlap section.
Saturday 7th. Left Franklinton, went up Whetstone & spent this & the 2 following days in the woods viewing our lands & choosing out a place most favorable for onr first im- provements. Returned to Franklinton Monday evening, the ninth, & found there the Mr. [Messrs. ] Morrisons, who had arrived the evening before, being the Sth. Put up with them at Mr. Scott's.
Sunday, 10th. Procured as many articles of supplies as could be had at a fair price at Franklinton, & in the afternoon of the same day procured a boat with some hands of Mr. Warren (a New England man), who, with Mr. [Messrs. ] Morrisons put off down the river to Chillicothe for the rest of the supplies. Took a horse, and went ou myself by land, & by reason of some hindrance by Mr. Warren's hands the boat did not arrive till I had every- thing procured and ready to load, altho I had to procure the axes, chains, &c., &c., to be made after I arrived. Found all produce much raised by the opening of the port of N. Orleans, which had been announced about 10 days when I got into the country. Bot. here the fol- lowing articles, viz: A smith's bellows, 300 ewt. Bar Iron, with some steel, grindstone, a large iron kettle for brewing & washing pot, dish-kettle, bake-pan, spider, tea-kettle, frying-pan, three chains, 5 woodsman's axes, 2 wedges, plow-iron & clevis, 3 hoes, 3 scythes, 2 shovels, one spade, draughts for smith's, hammer, sledges and a crowbar, 3 bushels salt, a sad iron,
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chest & chest lock, jug, 10 flour and bran barrels, 3 bags, 2 1-2 bushels malt for beer, two Barrels for beer & one for tubs, I tin pail, 2 tin pans, for milk, do. for basin, & other house- hold matters as per bills; tow cloth for bedticks, I piece of Hum. for sheets & some blankets ; also 1 Barrel of Whiskey, 30 bushels wheat & many articles of provision, which see, &c., &c.,
Thursday, 12th of May, arrived at Chillicothe, and Tuesday, 17th, got all on board the Boat, which started just before evening, and myself set off for Franklinton. When we came to the mill, it had broken and the wheat was not ground nor could it be short of a week, and we had to leave it and go on.
Wednesday, 18th. At evening got back to Franklinton ; put up at Scott's. While the boat was getting up proceeded to collect what I had previously found could be bad here. Bought of Mr. Lucas Sullivant, 30 bushels corn, 15 do. oats, 8 lbs. pickled pork, 40 do. ball soap, &c., &c .; of Mr. Domigan 50 lbs, bacon ; of Mr. Flenniken 112 do. ; of Mr. Moorehead and others, 10 bushels potatoes, and of sundry persons sundry articles of provision, &c. Also bought of Mr. Lyle two cows with calves, one of which diseased of the horn, &c., and was taken back and another given in exchange, aud a better one, I giving a dollar to boot. When the boat got up, I procured a team to carry up part of the load, and went on to the ground. On my return to Franklinton at this time from Chillicothe, found Case, Bristol and L. Pinney at Mr. Scott's, who had been in about half an hour. When they had refreshed they went up the river with me and went immediately to work, while I returned to meet the boat, &c., at Franklinton, leaving them to board at Esqr. E. Brown's till I returned. Then bought of E. Brown, Esqr. a yoke of oxen, $50, & a large cow without the calf, $11, & got him to make us a plow. Bought also of Capt. Morris Brown a yoke of oxen, $50, & some other supplies as per bills and memorandum.
Friday, May 20th. Ground up the axes and made a beginning in clearing. Found many valuable springs and rivulets. The following day had a visit from Mr. Anijah Rorie, of Lanesborough. After getting on the supplies, and having the work duly regulated, and being in want of some cornmeal, took some corn and went up to the upper settlement, other- wise the Yankee settlement.5 Found all well, in fine spirits and rapid improvements. This was the 25th.
Thursday, 26th. Left Capt. Carpenter's and viewed the upper section of ours, and found it better than I expected. It is indeed good farming land, and will afford a plenty of good pasture and mowing ground. Returned very late in the evening to our own home. From this, kept at work with the hands till Pinney and Brown arrived, which was on Sunday, the 29th, in the morning, previous to which I had negotiated with Mr. King and Mr. Vance that Mr. King and Benjamin should remove, and in compliance with this arrangement Mr. King had removed on Friday and on Saturday we had come into his cabin. Soon after, I agreed on the price of the improvements with Mr. Vance as agent for Mr. Dayton.
Monday, 30th. Began upon King's lot to finish the clearing they had begun, and to add to it for a cornfield as we could sooner get a large piece here to plant than where we first began. Put all hands to the work, and kept with them myself what time I could get, till I had to go down the river to get up the flour and other supplies which had been left behind.
Wednesday, June Ist. Began to plow for corn. Worked with the hands to help clear the ground before the team, by burning brush, &c. The next day pursued the same business till I found the cow we had bought of Esqr. Brown to be sick; then attend to her till she died, which was in a few hours.
After my second trip down the river to Chillicothe, on my return to Franklinton Wednesday morning, June 4th, heard of my brother in Licking wilderness. Went to meet him, and on Thursday, the 9th, at evening, conducted him safe to our cabin. On Wednes- day, the 15th, finished planting our corn, potatoes, &c. .
JAMES KILBOURN, Agent for the Scioto Company.6
Such was the beginning of the Worthington colony. In these unstudied memo- randa ot its founder he has, without intending it, told the story of that beginning,
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and of his own sagacity and indomitable efforts in establishing the new settlement. Reading these homely but significant details, we learn what the conditions of pio- neer life were, and what foresight, diligence and resolution such an enterprise re- quired.
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ORIGINAL PLAT OF WORTHINGTON.
The lands bought by the Company were the first section of the first township, seeond and third sections of the second township, and the second section of the third township, in the eighteenth range of the Government survey. The price
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paid was one dollar and twentyfive cents per aere. By the terms of their associa- tion, the purchasers agreed to reserve one hundred and sixty acres for the support of schools, and the same amount for the benefit of a Protestant Episcopal Church. It was further covenanted that roads should be laid out, one running north and south, and one east and west, through the Company's tract, and that at the inter- section of these thoroughfares should be located a town plat of one hundred and sixty single-acre lots, four of which at the central corners, should be reserved as a public square. Reservation was also made of one lot for the school and one for the church. To the members of the Company town lots were apportioned as follows :
James Kilbourn, 93, 94, 116, 117 ; Thomas T. Phelps, 5, 6, 156; Abner Pin- ney, 54, 59, 70, 102, 127 ; Russell Atwater, 30, 40, 46, 86, 90, 108, 119, 120, 121, 135, 136; Jedediah Norton, 15, 41, 42, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 74, 83, 85. 87, 92, 106, 111, 113 ; Job Case, 84, 88, 91, 95, 155 ; Levi Hays, 13, 14, 19; Levi Buttles, 3, 4, 29, 149, 24; Jeremiah Curtis, 68, 69; Zophar Topping, 1, 20, 80; Ebenezer Street, 57, 81; Nathan Stewart, 67, 99, 100, 110, 143; Roswell Wilcox, 133; Lemuel Kilbourn, 45; Jonas Stanberry, 36; Abner P. Pinney, 28; Josiah Topping, 23, 24, 53; Azariah Pinney, 44; Moses Andrews, 21, 22; Samuel Sloper, 51, 52; William Thompson, 63, 77, 82, 103, 115, 141, 142, 146, 159, 160; Alexander Morrison, Sr., 2, 26, 39, 58, 72; Samnel Beach, 11, 12, 147, 148; John Gould, 18, 109; Alexander Morrison, Jr., 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 77, 114, 125, 126; Ezra Griswold, 16, 17, 61, 62, 78; William Vining, 104, 105, 123, 124; John Topping, 131, 132; Israel P. Case, 27 ; Israel Case, 37, 38, 137, 138; David Bristol, 7, 8, 60, 61 ; Glass Cochran, 97, 107. 112, 139, 140, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154: Lemuel G. Humphrey, Ambrose Case and Jacob Mills, 9, 93, 98: James Allen, 65, 69, 96; Nathaniel W. Little, 25, 71, 75, 118, 144, 157, 158: Ichabod Plum, 101; James Kilbourn and others, committee, 10, 35, 64, 76, 134.
The first of the colonists to arrive have already been mentioned in the report of Mr. Kilbourn. Additional squads came at intervals, porsning the Indian trails and cutting their way through the woods. At midsummer Mr. Kilbourn returned to Connecticut and led out his own and ten other families. Thus the colony gradually increased until it numbered one hundred persons. Meanwhile, fields were cleared and planted, the town of Worthington was surveyed and staked out,7 twelve log cabins, a schoolhouse (used also as a church), and a blacksmith- shop - all of logs - were built, and a mill and a dam on the Whetstone were begun. St. John's Parish, the first Protestant Episcopal society in the Northwest, was organized with Mr. Kilbourn as its pastoral leader. It included in its member- ship nearly all the adult members of the colony. During the winter a subscrip- tion school was taught by Thomas T. Phelps, who was succeeded, the ensning season, by Clarissa Thompson." Political obligations were not forgotten. On July 4, 1804, an appropriate oration was delivered by Mr. Kilbourn, and seven- teen giant trees were felled - one for each State - as a national salute.
The first tavern in the colony was opened in 1803 by Ezra Griswold, who built, two years later, the first frame house in the settlement. The first brick house was erected in 1804 by Mr. Kilbourn who, in 1805, built a small gristmill on the Whetstone. Subsequently Preserved Leonard managed to turn an overshot wheel for milling purposes by water conducted to it in troughs.
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The first store in the settlement was kept in the Griswold cabin. Its pro- prietor was Nathan Stewart, who was also a distiller. A postoffice was estab- lished about the same time. The first postmaster was William Robe, who held the office ten years." The mail was brought from Franklinton. The first physician was Doctor Josiah Topping, who arrived in 1805, but removed to Delaware in 1806. His place was supplied four years later by Doctor Daniel Upson. The first marriages in the colony were those of Abner P. Pinney to Miss Polly Morrison, and Levi Pinney to Miss Charlotte Beach. These alliances were solemnized Feb- ruary 10, 1804, by Thomas Stevens, Esquire, in the log schoolhouse at Frank- linton.
Among the younger colonists was Joel Buttles, who, later in life, became a business partner with Doctor Lincoln Goodale. Mr. Buttles's father was a share- holder in the Worthington colony, and was also interested in the New England settlement at Granville, twenty miles further east. He brought out his family from Granby, Connecticut, in the autumn of 1804. A diary written by Joel But- tles in 1835, and since printed, contains the following passages referring to that experience :
There were [in 1804] no white people living north of Worthington, except some four or five families in what for a long time was called Carpenter's Settlement, which was on the Whetstone River, about fifteen miles north. On the east there were some thirty families about thirty miles away ; and near what is now Newark there were a few families. In the southeast direction, about ten miles, Reed Nelson and Shaw, and perhaps one other family, had made a beginning on the bottom land of Alum Creek. Following down the Whetstone south before coming to Franklinton, nine miles from Worthington, a few families had lately settled, mostly from Pennsylvania. These were the Hendersons, Lysles, Fultons and Hun- ters. Franklinton was then the principal town or village north of Chillicothe, indeed I believe the only one, unless Jefferson, on the Pickaway Plains, had been located, of which I am uncertain. It was a county seat, where courts for the county were held. On the west I do not know that there were any settlements
For several years after the time of which I write, the Indians still continued to make the country around their hunting grounds. Many times I have been to their camps. They invari- ably selected some pleasant situation for these, generally near the river, or some stream, where water and wood were convenient, and when they had hunted a few days there they would shift to some other situation and, as they called it, hunt over another ground. It was thought that the whites would soon kill or drive off the deer entirely, but this did not appear to be the case for several years. The whites were probably not as good hunters as the In- dians, and, being so much more engaged in other things, it was found that the deer in- creased more in the neighborhood of the white settlements than at a distance where the Indians were more numerous.
We ended our journey on the fourth of Decmber, 1804, now more than thirtyeight years ago. Three days before we reached our destination the snow fell about two or three inches deep. The storm began with rain and finished with snow, the ground not frozen at all, but that snow was a foundation for all others that fell during the winter. It gradually accumu- lated until it was ten or twelve inches deep.
About the first of January there was more rain, which soon turned into snow, and being cold afterwards, a crust was formed which would generally bear young cattle. We had a cabin of one room for onr numerons family and effects, and this cabin was in the woods, about twenty rods north of the public square or Main Street. It was a sorry time with us. Onr cattle and horses had to be fed, though not much. We had to go to General Worthing- ton's mill, on the Kinnacannick, above Chillicothe, for our flour, about forty miles away, but as the roads were good-good snow paths-sleds, which could be soon made were put in requisition.
Horatio Wrigh
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Very soon after our arrival, my father made preparations for building a more comfort- able house. Logs were hauled to the sawmill above the town, on the Whetstone River. These logs were soon converted into two-inch planks, thirteen feet long, which being set up on end, edge to edge, and spiked to suitable timbers, soon formed a house, such as it was. The roof was covered with boards from the mill, and the rough boards laid down, without smooth. ing or straightening, for the floors. Thus, in about two weeks, we had a house to move into, which, though not warmer, was more roomy than the cabin, as there were two rooms below, and what answered to two above. The chimney, if it could be called one, was in the middle of the house ; it was constructed of two pieces of large timber, framed in when the house was raised, about six feet apart, and about five feet high, above the floor, reaching across the whole width of the house. The fire was to be built upon the ground, and the smoke to aseend between these two timbers, which should be called mantel-pieces. On these mantel-pieces boards were set up on end, running out through the roof, something in the shape of a square cone. But this did not do well, and had to be remodeled as soon as could be done. . .
At that time there were no other buildings in Worthington than log cabins except a frame storebouse built by Nathaniel Little on the north side of the public square. By the by, what I call and is now the public square, was then pretty much all the "opening" there was about there. The ground laid out for a public square was, as was all the country about there, covered by a heavy growth of forest timber. At the time I speak of these trees on the square had been cut down only, falling across each other and every way, as they were naturally inclined. It was, of course, difficult getting about among these fallen trees, and going from house to house.
On the north side of the public square there was the frame house I mentioned west of Main Street, and Ezra Griswold's double cabin on the east side of the street, who kept a tavern, the only one there was. On the east side of the square, there was a large cabia built for public purposes, and used on the Sabbath day as a church, Major Kilbourn officiating as a dea- con of the Episcopal Church. At all public meetings, it was a town hall ; and whenever the young people wished to have a dance or a ball, that being the only room large enough for that purpose, it was used as a ballroom ; and this, I know, was very often, probably once in ten days on an average. Of course the house was never long unoccupied or unemployed.
On the south side of the public square, the only house was that of James Kilbourn, then called Major and Esquire Kilbourn, now Colonel Kilbourn, who was the principal sachem of the tribe, being general agent of the Company settlement - the Scioto Company - socalled clergyman of the place, Justice of the Peace, large stockholder, or rather landholder in the Company, had been the longest out there, and so the oldest settler, having been there over a year, and many other things which went conclusively to designate him as head of the elan. On the west side of the square, I only recollect one house, which was occupied by isaac Case, at whose house I frequently boarded.
During the month of March, 1805, Mr. Buttles's father was overtaken by a frightful tempest in the Licking wilderness. He was endeavoring, at the time, to make his way, on horseback, from the Kilbourn colony to the twin New England settlement at Granville. Seeing the storm coming on, at evening, he pushed ahead, hoping to find some house or other shelter, but lost his way, and was soon involved in utter darkness except as the lightning illuminated with its fierce flashes the rayless gloom of the woods. " Finding it impossible to go further," says the diary of his son, " he took the saddle from his horse, and laying it down in the snow beside a large tree, he seated himself upon it and leaned against the tree, holding the horse's bridle in his hand, in which position he expected to spend the night. But the rain poured down the tree so that he had to change situations several times before morning : but no change saved him from wet. We can hardly con- ceive of a more uncomfortable situation that what he described his to be, knowing, as we did, the horrors of the night. As soon as the morning light enabled him to
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proceed, he went on, and soon came in sight of the house at which he had expected to stay. But a new difficulty had arisen. Licking Creek was now impassable, which the evening before was not ten inches deep. In short, the whole day was spent in getting himself over, leaving his horse to provide for himself."
This adventure precipitated a fever, which resulted fatally in the ensuing June. Compelled by this calamity, young Buttles, then seventeen years of age, cast about for some means of independent support. The expedients which he adopted are thus set forth in his diary :
Mr. James Kilbourn had procured a printing office to be brought to and established at Worthington for the purpose of publishing a weekly paper. He was himself acting as editor, but his other business rendered it desirable for him to disengage himself from the paper. I had never been in any printing office other than this, nor had I ever seen a type set; but I proposed buying this in conjunction with a man by the name of George Smith, a printer by trade. Our proposition was accepted and I engaged at once, not only as editor but as printer. This business succeeded so well, principally on account of the war with Great Britain soon after this time, which made this part of the country a scene of preparation, reinforcement, provisioning, etc., for the army which went against General Hull [sic]. The failure of that expedition left this country exposed as a frontier to the British and Indians, neither of which it afterwards appeared, had the courage or ability to molest ns. But they were fearfully apprehended by our people; and many an alarm, or report of their coming, gave great dis- turbance and distress to us. Such stirring times made newspapers in great demand, and gave some good job work, and we made some money by the business. About this time I had to perform a campaign of a few weeks only with the militia, who were called ont en masse to guard the country from the threatened attacks of the British and Indians of Canada, who it was feared, would come in by the way of Sandusky.
The weekly newspaper mentioned in the foregoing extract was the Western Intelligencer, of which a full account will be given in the history of the press. In 1812 Mr. Buttles sold his interest in the Intelligencer in order to participate in a store opened by the Worthington Manufacturing Company at Franklinton. The founder of that Company was Mr. Kilbourn, whose personal career continues to engage our attention as the most conspicuous factor in the development of the Worthington colony. Soon after the organization of the State, he was appointed a eivil magistrate and an officer of the militia on the northwestern frontier. About the same time he began trade with the Indians, whose boundary, fixed by the Greenville Treaty, was only twentyeight miles north of the Worthington settle- ment. Appointed in July, 1804, to survey part of the military lands of the Chilli- cothe District,10 he explored, in the spring of 1805, the south shore of Lake Erie, and selected the present site of Sandusky as a post for northwestern traffic. By vote of the General Assembly, he was made one of the original trustees of the Ohio University at Athens in 1806, and one of the three commissioners to locate the Miami University in 1808. Promoted to but declining the colonelcy of the Frontier Regiment, he was elected in 1812, and many times thereafter reelected, as Presi- dent of the corporation of Worthington College.
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