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A house of entertainment was opened at a very early day on Third street -probably 1805, by David Holloway, and another at the upper end of Main street in a large two-story log house as early as 1808, by Samuel Martin, who continued until after the war. The tavern house at the crossing of Main and North streets, Waynesville, was built in 1826. by Joshua Ward. Israel Wood- ruff was the first to keep a tavern there, who only remained one year. Then by Josuha Ward; 1828 and 1830, by Brice Curran; 1835, by S. M. Linton. I will not pursue its occupants; it is now (1881) the property of Samuel Cor- nell & Son.
A tavern was opened previous to 1820 on the Lebanon road, at the cross- ing of the Middetown road, in a log building, by Adam Morris. It was for wagoners and travelers a favorite stopping-place; after the building of the turnpike road it was rendered valueless as a tavern. Taverns were opened at an early day at Mount Holly and Raysville, but by whom or when I am not advised. The tavern at Mount Holly, in 1836, was kept by Peter Dehaven. The editor of a paper published in Cincinnati in 1810, called the Freemen's Journal, made a tour through the State, and, in August of that year, on his return, says: "Crossing the Little Miami River, I arrived in Waynesville.
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The town was laid out on a high and healthy tract. * * There are about fifty families, three or four stores and about as many taverns." It is unfort- unate that he did not give the names of the owners of the stores and taverns.
DISTILLERIES.
Distilleries were early established in the neighborhood. Whisky has always been a salable commodity. At the time the first settlements were made, there was but little or no market, except to new-comers, and grain was distilled on shares; what was not consumed was taken to Cincinnati and sold or exchanged. The first distillery was operated at the head of Main street in Waynesville by Samuel Martin, in probably 1802; the next, by Samuel High- way down on the Miami near his mill; one by Joseph Chenoweth, on the Lile farm, and one at a spring on the hill on the cemetery grounds, by John Everhart -all previous to 1812. Between that and 1820, one was operated by Whicker on the Cartwright farm, and one by Thomas Hall on the A. P. O'Neall farm; one was run by Ward & Thurston at the upper mill, Waynesville, about 1825, and ceased to be used in 1832. Distilling was extensively carried on by E. H. Pence at Mount Holly; the date of the commencement I am unable to state, but it was closed some years ago, since which time there has been no distillery in the township.
EARLY INDUSTRIES.
But little is known of them. Daniel Wharton was the first to establish blacksmithing permanently, in 1810. John Craft, Jr., a carpenter, previous to said date; Samuel Rogers worked at carpenter work in 1812; Joshua Jones at the same trade, from the close of the war of 1812 as long as he was able; also Thomas Pugh and Augustus Moreland, previous to 1820. Joseph Rogers came to the township first in 1812. He returned to New Jersey and moved to the township in 1816. He brought with him patterns for iron mold-boards for the Peacock plows, and got his castings at Brush Creek, I believe, now in Highland County, and was the first to manufacture plows with iron mold- boards here, if not in the county. He also worked at the carpenter trade. He is at this date (1881) living, in his ninety-third year.
William Bunting and family came to the township in 1816, and he and his son Thomas worked at blacksmithing until the time of their death-after 1831.
A tanyard was first sunk by Samuel Martin, on the flat above the head of Water street, Waynesville, as early as 1805; one previous to 1810 by David Pugh, on a flat opposite Waynesville, on the farm now owned by S. S. Haines. David Morgan became the owner of this about 1818, and, after 1820, en- larged it, and did a good business there until after 1830. He let the business go down, and, in 1842, moved with his family to Iowa. A yard was sunk by Cothron in 1816, on the hill above the Friends Graveyard, and closed in 1819; one by Moses Henly, in 1826, near the Upper Mill. There is now no tanyard in the township.
Cabinet-makers-Allen Clutch, previous to 1808; John Lucas and John King, 1822; George Sherman, 1830; John Lloyd, 1834.
The writer was engaged in the cabinet and undertaking business from 1836 to 1876. During that time, there were buried from his establishment about 2,000 persons.
But little is known of shoemakers previous to 1820. At that date, James Borden and family were here, and he worked at that business; Joseph Ogborn, from 1823 to 1830; Robert Huston and William Moore, 1823; Joseph Shaw, 1826; Samuel Barton, 1820; John Meeks and William Small, 1826.
I find David Suffrins, a hatter from Virginia. was here as early as 1805, and
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he and his son-in-law, Frederic Stanton, afterward associated with him, until about 1830.
Tailors-1820, Levi Johnson, and shortly after, Benjamin Kemp. Coop- ers-Benjamin Barnhart, before and after 1820. Chairmakers -- Clement Mes- sick, from 1817 to 1823; Ezra Adams, from 1823 until the time of his death; he also made spinning-wheels. Robert Cummins made spinning-wheels from 1806 to 1823. The first wagon-makers known were Thomas Durell, before 1820, and at that date and until 1831, Stephen Covert.
The first saddlers of whom I am advised were Bateman and Elijah Brady, between 1812 and 1820, and Shepherd Florer, after 1820; Ezra Smith, 1824. The first livery stable was by Joseph and Job Rogers, 1847.
The first show was a lion-1818; next was an elephant-1823; the next was a nice little collection of animals-monkeys, ponies, etc., the same year.
BRIDGES.
Before 1819, the channel of the river on the road to Corwin was not as now, but where the bridge now is was in the bend of a horseshoe, the channel above and below the bridge having been made since. The crossing of the river was between High and Main streets, in Waynesville. When the water was high, there was a ferry used, and when low, a ford. About 1812, an effort was made to build a bridge at the ford. The abutments were raised and a super- structure was placed on trestles. A freshet in the river swept out the work and no further effort was made to build a bridge at that place. In 1817, a bridge was built on a contract, where the bridge now is, by John Satterthwaite, for $700, including the abutments. It was built of oak timber, principally hewed, never covered or weather-boarded, and only lasted about ten years. At that time, the road crossed the West Branch of the Miami, known as the race at the mouth and followed the north bank of the Miami to the bridge. The race wsa then a small stream, no bridge over it; the ford was a very bad crossing.
A second bridge was built at that place about 1827. It stood several years before it was weather-boarded and roofed, and, in 1836, it fell down. An open bridge was built there on a contract by Samuel Welch in 1837, for $350; it only stood a few years, and, about 1842, another was built there. I am unable to give the name of the contractor, but O. J. Wright enlarged the abutments. and, in 1861 and 1862, the present substantial bridge was built by H. E. Hebbe. No other bridges were built across the Miami in the township until the iron bridge, three miles below, was built in 1873, and but one bridge across Cæsar's Creek in the township-that near the railroad, in 1869.
STORES.
Mr. Highway was the first to sell goods here. He brought a stock of goods with him at the time of his settlement, and afterward increased it, so that, it is said by his descendants, he had at one time the largest stock of goods of any one store in Ohio, and, while out assisting in cutting a new road (date not given), his store and dwelling took fire and burned down. At dates not known to me, stores were kept by William Ferguson and Mr. Phillips (who afterward removed to Dayton)-all previous to 1815.
In 1803 a store was kept at the east angle of the crossing of High and Third streets by David Holloway. A few years after, Jacob Pierson kept a store there for some time. Shortly after, a store was kept at the north angle of the same crossing, and in 1810 by Seth Silvers. In 1808, David Brown built a house on Outlot No. 4, Waynesville, and kept a small store there; in 1806, David Pugh had a store on Main street; in 1810, on the same street, by
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· John Satterthwaite; in 1813, by Satterthwaite & Linton; in 1819, David Brown and others. At that date, no knives and forks or cups and saucers (except of potter's ware) could be bought in the town.
PRICES OF LAND.
I deem it not improper here to give some of the early prices of lots and land. I find that after Faulkner got a patent for 208 acres (Waynesville), deeds were given, and the considerations therein mentioned, by David Faulk- ner, in 1807, as follows: Lots 8 in Miami square, 5 and 7 in Washington square, to Jonathan Newman for $32; Outlot No. 14, to Joel Wright for $8. 16; Lots No. 5, 6 and 7, Miami square, to Samuel Test, $87; Lots No. 6 and 8, Washington square, and 3, 4, 7, 8, Adams square, Outlot 7 and part of 8, to Seth Silver, for $122.04; to Zadock Street, Lots No. 1 and 3, in Washington square, $2.04; to Merrick Starr, Lots No. 2, 3, 4 and 6, President square, $2; to Rowland Richards, Outlot No. 13, $8; to David Linton, Out. lots No. 5 and 6, $10; to David Holloway, Lot 5, Wabash square, Lot 1. Jefferson square, Outlots 12 and 17, $400.
The first title obtained by Highway, and, I believe, the only one in fee simple was that year from Falkner, when there was deeded to him Scioto and English squares and four and one-half acres on the southwest of town, for $368.
The prices given could not have been the value of the property sold, and I can only account for it from the fact that sales had been made by Highway and partners, and that the purchasers had paid part, and that the above prices were balances or considerations to quiet title.
I will now give considerations of later dates that I think better represent values, viz., liammett to Satterthwaite, Lot No. 1, Wabash square, 1811, $80; David Pugh to David Brown, 1808, Lots No. 3, 4, 7, 8, Ohio square, $50; David Holloway to Thomas Swift, 1814, Lots 5, 7, Washington square, $150; Joel Wright to David Morgan, in 1820, four and one-half acres, southwest of the schoolhouse, $50; John Haines to David Brown, Outlot 4, $200; in 1807, Clevenger to Seaman, Lot 4, Miami square, $34; James Jennings to John Conner, in 1816, Lots 7, 8, Ohio square, $71.50; in 1811, Sarah Buckels to Noah Haines, Outlots 10, 11, 18, 19, $450; Thomas Swift, in 1816, Lot 4, Ohio square, $190; in 1819, Thomas Wilson to Samuel Rogers, Lot 5, Wa- bash square, $200; in 1811, David Linton to Noah Haines, Lots 3, 4, 7, 8, Adams square, $500.
The farm immediately above Waynesville was a part of the land original- ly patented to Henry Seeman. Satterthwaite bought, in 1815, of Seeman, forty- nine acres for $600; of Joseph Chenoweth, eight acres for $93.75; of Mr. Biggs, fifty acres for $270; of John Croft, nineteen acres, price not given. making the farm 126 acres.
The farm owned by the Benjamin Brown heirs, at the crossing of the Franklin and Dayton roads, was patented to John Craft in 1810. Among the early owners and occupants on the east side of the Little Miami, I will name a few : Military survey, No. 528, embracing a tract of near 1, 700 acres, was purchased by the Rev. James Smith, of Maj. Harris, in Virginia. I am not advised at what price per acre. Smith liberated his slaves, valued, I am in- formed, at near $40,000, and removed with his family to the Northwest Terri- tory. In 1798, they went to reside at a small station near the Little Miami, called Middletown, between Columbia and Newtown, where Mr. Smith died in 1800, and, in the winter of the same year the family (after having some primi- tive improvements made) removed to the land above mentioned. This tract was the first one divided by a decree of the Warren Court of Common Pleas on
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petition for partition in the county. At the time of the settlement there by the Smiths, Martin Heston lived on Section 10 and Obediah Walker on Section 9 across the river, and Studybaker and Miller on Survey 2,464; these, I be- lieve, were the nearest settlements.
Abijah O'Neall and Samuel Kelly bought, of John Brown, of South Caro- lina, his military claim of 1,500 acres for $2,100 in silver, and got for a part of it Brown's survey of 600 acres, and, for the balance of it they took two sur- veys in Greene and one in Fayette Counties. O'Neall got two-thirds and Kelly one-third, and they divided their land here by deeds in 1809.
Survey No. 399 was bought by Gaines and Philip Goode for 9 shillings per acre and settled by them about 1805.
The upper part of the survey above Holeman's Survey of 1,333 acres, was settled by Robert Furnas and others, and the lower part by Clark, of South Carolina, in 1806. I have been informed that Clark paid about $4.50 per acre for his part.
To show the prices otherwise paid for lands on that side of the river, I will give a few of the transfers: In 1803, Nathaniel Massie to Ezekiel Cleaver, 135 acres for $405.75; John Overton to Abijah O'Neall, 621 acres of Griffin's Survey, for $1,255; James Murry to Israel Wright, 572} acres of Survey 1,554, for $1,000; Thomas Posey to Jonathan Wright, in 1807, 298g acres of Survey 1,056, for $297; J. Macher to Abijah O'Neall and Joel Wright, in 1807, 1,040 acres of Survey 614, for $1,500; in 1803, Nathaniel Massie to David Faulkner, 165 acres, for $95.75; in 1805, Benjamin Anderson to Abijah O'Neall, 1,000 acres on the lower side of Cæsar's Creek, for $2,000; in 1807, Abijah O'Neall to Robert Millhouse, 210 acres on Caesar's Creek, for $72.10; Abijah O'Neall to David Whitsen, 112 acres, on the southeast side of Cæsar's Creek, for $252; same to Mordecai Spray, 98 acres, for $221; in 1808, same to Joel Wright, 285 acres of Survey 774, for $410; Philip Goode to Gabriel Crane, in 1809, 131 acres, for $351.
MARRIAGES.
I will now give some of the early marriages of the township. Many, no doubt, will be omitted that might with propriety be inserted. Previous to 1803, license had to be obtained from Cincinnati and among Friends, previous to 1803, by the authority of their monthly meeting in Pennsylvania. It was not unusual, however, if a couple desired to marry, to advertise it, and then appoint a public meeting and unite in marriage by a public declaration-after the manner of the Friends. I have been informed that William Mills, who came here from Carolina in 1799, was married in that way. By furnishing proof of publication to a Justice or minister, parties could be married without license:
1803-Benjamin Jones and Hannah Julien.
1804-Matthew Compton and Rachel Campbell; Ennis Baldwin and Sarah Hunt.
1805-William Pope and Grace Lupton; William Edwards and Jemima Bridges ; Thomas Perkins and Sarah O'Neall; Henry Millhouse and Jane Strawn; John Cook and Dinah Spray; David Linton and Letitia Silvers.
1806-Samuel Jay and Bethsheba Pugh; Joseph Cloud and Jane McCoy; Job Carr and Ruth Mason; Jacob Paxton and Sidney Richards; Isaac Waldrup and Kitty Campbell; Joseph Chenoweth and Nancy James; Burwell Goode and Elizabeth Smith; Nathan Linton and Elizabeth Smith; Jonathan Mote and Susanna Hollingsworth; Eli Jenkins and Ruth Mendenhall.
1807-John Compton and Ann Pearick; Jonathan Sanders and Lydia Lupton; Thomas Sanders and Elizabeth Pope; John Sears and Penelope John- son; Isaac Mills and Catharine Richards; John Jay and Mary Steddom; James
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Cook and Elenor Matlock; Thomas Clark and Rachel Martindall; Alexander Stewart and Rebecca Clark.
1808-Thomas Swift and Verlinda Pugh; Job Pugh and Nancy Swift; Robert Sale and Magdalene Smith; David Brown and Mary -; Noah Haines and Ann Silvers; William Gray and Mary Cleaver; John Jeffreys and Esther Prewett.
1809-Allen Clutch and Rachel Austin; John Satterthwaite and Elizabeth Linton; Samuel Tamset and Sarah Clark.
1810-Israel Wright and Leah Ferree; Frederick Stanton and Hannah Suffrins; James Edwards and Martha Manning; Cornelius Morford and Mar- garet Ray; Jonathan Clark and Ruth Elmore; Samuel Highway and Mary Jennings.
1811-Robert Cummings and Polly O'Harro.
1812-Samuel Brown and Rebecca Evans; Abraham Cook and Ruth Haw- kins; Stephen Cook and Elizabeth Evans.
1813-David Evans and Rachel Burnet; Micaja Johnson and Rebecca O'Neall; Thomas Evans and Hannah Pedrick; John Shaw and Elizabeth Wright; Daniel Wharton and Margaret Cunningham.
1814 -George Phillips and Ann McCoy; Joshua Carman and Jane James; Obediah Smith and Margaret Holloway; William Chenoweth and Catharine Chenoweth; David Morgan and Rebecca Brown; George Hatton and Margaret Foulk.
1815-Benjamin Ninde and Jane Whitacre; Abner Hibbs and Esther Lynch; John W. Smith and Sarah Evans; Martin Robinson and Abigail Swift.
1816-William O'Neall and Martha Smith; George Moss and Fannie -; Benjamin Barnhart and Elizabeth Holloway; Aaron Chandler and Han- nah Ward; Jesse O. Jones and Mary Ward; Sylvanus Cornell and Sarah Florer; Josiah Rogers and Abigail Cleaver; Martin D. Lathrope and Rebecca Wright; Joel Wright and Ann Bateman.
1817-Samuel Rogers and Pamelia Heaton; Clement Messick and Sarah Suffrins; Abraham Gause and Jane Mullen; Stephen Covert and Elizabeth Wicker; Gamaliel Davis and Ann Smith: Edward Hatton and Rachel Lukens; Abraham Hollingsworth and Sarah Pigeon; Henry Millhouse and Sarah Horner.
1818-Seth Cook and Ruth Cook; Samuel Brown and Ruth Gause; Ben- jamin Butterworth and Ruth Welch; Josiah Davis and Anice Little; Ellis Pugh and Sarah Mills; Stephen Pardee and Patty Welch; Uriah Farquer and Sarah Jennings; Joseph Mannington and Lydia Lynch.
1819-Robert Huston and Sarah Shaw; Ishmael Pugh and Tabitha Con- ningham; Thomas Bunting and Catharine Holloway; David Wilson and Eliza Kay; David Montgomery and Anna Barton; Levi Cook and Ann Hasket; Peter Cleaver and Sarah Crews.
1820 -- Nathan Davis and Lydia Cleaver; George Mather and Mary Ricket; James R. Johnson and Rhoda O'Neall; Samuel Stephenson. Jr., and Hepsiba - Evans; Joshua Jones and Harriet Pugh; John Woods and Sarah A. Lynch; Caleb Satterthwaite and Rebecca Ward; Jacob Chenoweth and Charlotte Cabe. 1821 -- Samuel Barton and Nancy Holloway; Samuel Cornell and Susanna Crane; William Graham and Ary Clymer; Jesse Flora and Nancy Wilson; Jonathan Hillman and Dorothy Moore; Curtis Mills and Sarah Stratton; Evan Ward and Catharine Jeffers; Benjamin Brown and Sarah Chapman; George Evans and Sarah Hasket; John Burnet and Elizabeth Hawkins; Joseph Lukins and Hannah Brown.
1822-John Lashley and Grace Borton; Horace Lathrope and Jane Worrell; Cornelius Ratcliff and Mary Kinley; Jacob Doan and Hannah Stubbs; Benja-
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min L. Satterthwaite and Ruth Evans; Richard Pedrick and Mary Evans; William Edwards and Elizabeth Newman; Benjamin Lukins and Mary Sat- terthwaite; Ellis Ward and Mary E. Newman.
1823-Thomas Kersey and Letitia Craig ; James Smith and Mary C. Brown; William Cox and Rachel Tamset; Jeffrey Truman and Dorothy Isham; Edward L. Kenrick and Patience Barton; Levi Pugh and Sarah Naylor.
1824-John King and Rachel Billingsly; Henry J. Goode and Margaret Mckay; Peter Dutterow and Charlotte Roberts; William Brown and Lucinda Blackford; Conrad Smith and Sarah Ridge; Ezekiel Cleaver and Elizabeth Carr; Ezekiel L. Cleaver and Mary Taylor; Moses Kelly and Abigail Sat- terthwaite.
1825-Moormon Butterworth and Fanny Smith; Isaac Engle and Mary E. Haines; John Brown and Rebecca Barton; Noah Jones and Sarah Copner; Joshua Jones and Catharine Lawrence; James Spray and Biddy Fox; William White and Agnes Wilson; Mason Borden and Louisa Small; John McGahee and Polly Smith; Benjamin Barnhart and Polly Holloway; Benjamin Clifton and Mary Williams.
1826-William Butterworth and Elizabeth Linton; Seth Furnas and Dinah Kindley; Henry Small and Kesiah Ware; Thomas Bispham and Eliza Jen- nings; Vachel Tharp and Jane Hunt; James Clutch and Deborah Ray; Charles Bradshaw and Phebe Morris; Ustacy Cooper and Mary Ann Filer; Shepherd Flora and Mary Crossley; Philip Mintle and Mary Smith; Dayton Holloway and Cynthia A. Conner.
1827-Joseph Oats and Elizabeth Gray; Henry Clark and Ann Antram; Samuel Silvers and Tamson Haines; John McGinnis and Mary Mintle; Asher Brown and Esther Jones; Joseph Hopkins and Mary Ann Crispin; Richard Hopkins and Hannah Wharton.
1828-Jason Evans and Amyra Haines; Samuel Kelly and Achsa Stubbs; Joel Satterthwaite and Phebe Watson; Thomas Phillips and Catharine Davis; Samuel Gordon and Martha Montgomery; Nathan Everhart and Aseneth Howe; Ellis Pugh and Mary Edwards; Abijah O'Neall and Eleanor Hall.
SOME EARLY SETTLERS.
The account of the trip through from Philadelphia by Messrs. Baily and Highway to Waynesville, and of the parties that accompanied them from Co- lumbia, is silent as to the names of the persons. Enough, however, is known that the young Englishmen whom Mr. Highway hired in Philadelphia for two years for 50 pounds currency, were John and Samuel Tamset, and the two women mentioned in the narrative were their wives. They afterward settled a short distance west of Waynesville on tracts of land each of eighty acres (now owned by S. S. Haines). Each of them raised large families of children. John died about 1824, and Samuel, in 1830, sold out, and, with his family, moved to the St. Joseph country. The wives they brought with them from England both died, and they afterward married sisters by the name of Clark Their only descendants remaining are John Tamset, near Raysville, and Sarah Pugh, at Bell Brook, children of John.
Culbert Watson came to the town from Columbia with Highway, and drove one of the wagons. He shortly after came to the township and settled on Section 33, Town 4, Range 5.
Rev. James Smith, who was in Waynesville in October, 1797, mentions in his journal the fact that there were then about fourteen families settled here. I have made every effort that has suggested itself to my mind to get their names or a part of them, but without success.
I supposed when I first read the mention of Highway by the Rev. Smith,
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that Highway had emigrated to this country but a short time before making a settlement here. I have since seen a record of an oath of his, made for the purpose of becoming naturalized, in 1804, in which he stated he had been a citizen of the State of Ohio and of the Northwest Territory for twelve years; that would have brought him into the territory in 1792.
I will give the names of such as I have of settlers after those I have men- tioned, viz, Abijah O'Neall and family, James Corey, Josiah Sutton, Charles Monroe, Ezekiel Bell, Mr. Isham, John Quigley, William Mills.
In 1799, Martin Hester lived on a part of Section 10, Town 4, Range 4. Obediah Walker lived on the same section; a man by the name of J. Sutton lived on said section at a later date. Abraham Studybaker and -- Miller lived on Survey No. 2,464.
In 1800, Samuel Martin, who lived at the upper end of Waynesville, built a large two-story log dwelling, and sunk a tanyard on the flat on the opposite side of the road as it is now; also under the hill, a brewery and distillery: his water supply came from Satterthwaite's spring. He also kept a hotel.
In 1801, Samuel Kelly, David Faulkner, David Painter, James Mills, Joshua Carman, William James. In the fall of that year Ezekiel Cleaver came here from Virginia, leaving his family at Brownsville, and put up a house at the crossing of Third and Miami street, on the east corner of said crossing in Waynesville, and, in the spring of 1802, moved here with his family. With him came John Mullen, Rowland Richards, David Holloway and others. The same year, Samuel Linton, of Pennsylvania, moved here with three sons and two daughters. He afterward settled on Todd's Fork. Henry Seaman and Jonathan Newman came here that year with their families. Newman came first from South Carolina and settled in Tennessee, and after that removed here.
In 1803, I find Jemima Wright and her family-Jane, Joshua, Jemima, Joab and Joel were here with others whose names 1 have been unable to obtain.
In 1804, among others, Edward Kinley, Robert Furnas, Amos Cook, Will- iam Lupton, Samuel Spray, Solomon Lupton, Jordan Whitsen, Amos Hawkins. David Pugh. Matthew Compton, John Jay, Samuel Pearson, Benjamin Evans, Charles Bridges, Asher Brown, John Embree, Thomas Perkins, Isaac Perkins, John Boales, Joseph Wilson and John Furnas and the families of all that had families, and Noah Haines and John Haines and Isaac Ward.
In 1805, Azariah Pugh, Ellis Pugh, George C. Ward, Isaac Cook, Na- thaniel Edwards and their families, Seth Silver and daughter, Samuel Test, John Sanders, Joseph Cloud, David Jones, Jonathan Wright and the families of such as had them.
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