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The whole of the township is in what is known as the Virginia Military District, and is composed of surveys entered by holders of military warrants, which are fully explained in the general history of the county. The following is a list of the entries and surveys made in this township.
Entry No. 550, August 4, 1787. Richard C. Anderson and Mayo Carring- ton enter 4,000 acres of land on Military Warrant No. 856 beginning three miles southeast of Col. Logan's encampment in October, 1786, when a man deserted from him, running southwest 400 polos, and from the beginning northeast 400 poles, thence at right angles southeast from each ond of this line for quantity. Surveyed March 3, 1794, by John Obannon, District Surveyor.
Entry No. 698, August 8, 1787. Jonathan Clark enters 1,000 acres of land part of Military Warrant No. 172, beginning at the northeast corner of Anderson and Carrington's entry, No. 550, running south 45° east with An- derson and Carrington's line 400 poles, thence north 45° enst at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 4, 1794.
Entry No. 727, August 8, 1787. Clement Biddle, assignee, enters 1,000 acros on several Military Warrants, Nos. 1,756, 1,000, 187, 1,891, 1,789, bogin- ning at the northern corner of Jonathan Clark's entry, No. 698, running 400 polos southeast with Clark's line, thence 400 poles northeast at right angles for quantity. Surveyod by John Obannon March 7, 1794.
Entry No. 729, August 8, 1787. John Tonch, assignee, enters 1, 200 acros of land, a part of Military Warrant No. 2,377, beginning at the north corner of Biddle's entry, No. 727, running southeast with Biddle's line 400 poles, thonco northeast at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Oban- non March 7, 1794.
Entry No. 730, August 8, 1787. Lieut. Nathaniel Anderson enters 1,000 acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 2,235, beginning at the north cor- uer of Jonatlian Clark's entry, No. 698, running 400 poles southwest with Clark's line, thence north 45° west at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 4, 1794.
Entry No. 732, August 8, 1787. Capt. William Lindsay enters 1,000
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acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 1, 199, beginning at the north cor. ner of Nathaniel Anderson's entry, No. 730, running southeast 400 poles with Anderson's lino, thence northeast with Biddle's line at right angles for quan." tity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 8, 1794.
Entry No. 758, August 8, 1787. Capt. Nathaniel Burwell enters 1,000 acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 2,133, beginning at the north cor- ner of John Tench's entry, No. 729, running south 45° east with Tench's line 400 poles, thence north 45° east 400 poles, thence at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 8, 1794.
Entry No. 763, August 8, 1787. Lieut. Col. Presley Neville enters 1,400 acres of land, a part of Military Warrant No. 18, beginning at the north cor. ner of John Roberts' entry No. 699, running south 45° east 500 poles, pass. ing Roberts' east corner at 400 poles, thence north 45° east at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 8, 1794.
Entry No. 766, August 8, 1787. Liout. Col. Presley Noville onters 1,400 acros of land, part of Military Warrant No. 18, beginning at the north corner of ontry 767, running south 45° cast with his former line 500 poles, thence north 45° east at right anglos for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 10, 1794.
Entry No. 837, August 9, 1787. Lieut. Col. Presley Neville entered 1,. 400 acres of land east of his entry, No. 766, but withdrew the entry, and on May 7, 1794, he entered 1,400 acres, part of Military Warrant No. 18, on the waters of Paint Creek, beginning at the east corner of his former survey, No. 766, running with his former line north 45° west 500 poles, thence north 45 ° east, and at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon June 15, 1794.
Entry No. 854, August 10, 1787. Lieut. Col. Thomas Posey enters 1,000 acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 240, beginning at the north corner of Nathaniel Burwell's entry, No. 758, running north 45° east, with Patrick Carne's line 400 poles, thence at right angles south 45° east for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 22, 1794.
Entry No. 855, August 10, 1787. Capt. Thomas Pemberton enters 1,000 acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 398, beginnng at the south corner of Thomas Posey's entry, No. 854, running north 45° east 400 poles with Posey's line, thence south 45° east at right angles for quantity. Four hundred acres of this was withdrawn and entered in Survey 274. Surveyed by John Obannon March 21, 1794.
Entry No. 895, August 10, 1787. Lieut. William Whitaker enters 1,000 acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 2,121, beginning at the north cor. ner of Thomas Pemberton's ontry, No. 855, and the south corner of Joseph Scott's entry, No. 891, running north 45° oast 400 poles with Scott's line, thence south 45° east, at right anglos for quantity. Surveyed by John Oban. non March 19, 1794.
Entry No. 891, August 10, 1787. Capt. Joseph Scott, Jr., onters 1,000 acres, part of Military Survey No. 1,887, beginning at the north corner of Edward Douse's entry, No. 880, running north 45° east 400 poles with Douse's line, thence south 45° oast at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 17, 1794.
Entry No. 900, August 10, 1787. Leut. Col. Edward Carrington enter- 1,500 acres of land, part of Military Warrant No. 1,792, beginning at the north corner of P. Neville's entry, No. 837, running north 45° east with Thomas Pemberton's line to his east corner, thence south 45° east at right angles for quantity. Seven hundred and eighty acres of this was withdrawn. Surveyed by John Obannon April 5, 1794.
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Entry No. 932, August 11, 1787. James Galt, heir, enters 1,000 acres of land on Military Warrant No. 194, beginning at the north corner of J. Scott's. entry, No. 891, the south corner of Alexander Balmain's ontry, No. 917, run- ning north 45° east 400 poles with Balmain's line, thence south 45° east 400 poles at right angies for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon March 18, 1794.
Entry No. 1,061, August 13, 1787. Gen. Daniel Morgan enters 2,500 acres of land on Military Warrant No. 19, beginning at the east corner of P. Neville's entry, No. 837, running south 45° west. 800 poles, thence south 45° east at right angles for quantity. Surveyed by John Obannon April 1, 1794.
Entry No. 1,449, August 18, 1787. Col. Edward Carrington entered 1,- 500 acres, which was withdrawn, and on March 13, 1794, he entered 1,200 acres on Military Warrant No. 1,792, beginning at the east corner of Anderson and Carrington's entry, No. 550, on the waters of Cæsar's Creek, running with their line, north 45° west 400 poles, thence north 45° east and at right angles for quantity. Survoyed by John Obannon March 29, 1794.
Entry No. 6,298, July 17, 1809. Thomas Bagwell and Agnes Lingo, ropresontativos of Thomas Lingo, docoased, ontor 309 acres of land on two mil- itary warrants, Bagwell 200 acres on No. 5,579, and Mrs. Lingo 109 acres on part of 5,589, on the waters of Paint Creek, beginning at the east corner of Edward Dawes' entry, No. 811, running north 45° wost 378 poles, thence north 45° east 88 poles, thence south 45° east 500 polos, thence south 45° west 136 poles, thence north 45° west 130 poles, thence north 45° east 48 poles to the place of beginning. Surveyed by John Galloway, Jr., July 20, 1809.
In addition to these surveys, there are, jutting into the township, small corners of T. Bland's entry, No. 885, Lieut. John Jameson's entry, No. 907, and Capt. William Lindsay's entry, No. 963.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
The following is a list of the Justices of the Peace of the township since its erection, together with the dates of election and terms of service: Absalom Reed, June 30, 1810, 1813, 1816, 1819, 1824, 1825, 1828, 1831, 1834, 1837, 1840, 1843; Willam Venard, June 23, 1810, to October, 1813; Joseph Roberds, April 21, 1810, 1813, April 21, 1821, April 21, 1824, 1827; his Jast term of office. as Justice of the Peace expired in 1850; John Allen, 1814 to 1817; Samuel Reed, 1815 to 1827; James Gollaher,, April, 1816; Joseph Shepherd, May, 1818; John C. Spencer, April, 1825; Maurice Howard, May 7, 1830; William Antram, December 15, 1831, to December, 1834; Stephen Evans, April 17, 1833, 1838, 1839, 1842; Edward Adams, April 3, 1827, to 1833; Moses Rees, November 16, 1833, November 25, 1859; Edward Thorp, May 15, 1837, 1840, 1843, Benjamin Brown, May 15 to May 27, 1837; resigned; Alexander Roberts, September 23, 1837; Adam Miller, April 11, 1837; Harrison Jeffs, April 26, 1842, died; Charles P. Gallaher, March 31, 1843, June 29, 1855, 1858, 1861, 1864; Oliver H. P. Dakin, November 16, 1853; James B. Betser, December 3, 1856; Joseph T. States, November, 1856; John Kingery, Octo- ber 27, 1844, 1867, 1876, 1879; John Sillik, January 26, 1861, resigned February 12, 1861; David Giffin, August 3, 1866, 1881; David Chance, October 28, 1861, 1864; John Jackson, October 20, 1870 to 1873; Joseph Roebuck, February 2, 1871 to 1877; James M. Morton, September 18, 1878 to 1881; William H. Dakin, Oc- tober 13, 1881 ;* D. B. Matthews, July 13, 1881.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
The early settlement of this township was greatly retarded by the imper- fect titles to the lands derived by settlers. Many of them purchased tracts
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of varying extent, and after clearing and improving the land, would find that the seller had no title, and they were obliged to pay for the land a second time, or engage in a useless law suit which usually resulted in little less than bank. ruptcy to the settler and a judgment in favor of the new claimant. On this account, people were afraid to buy, and preferred taking land direct from the Government in regularly surveyed townships. In addition to this, the nature of the ground was against early settlement, as our fathers preferred locating on more elevated lands, free from the water that covered the ground in the lowlands. Richland Township, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, was little better than a huge swamp or bog. The ground was covered with a heavy growth of timber, the leaves of which lay in half decayed matter of several inches in depth, the earth was wet and almost covered with pools of standing water, and a rank growth of grass and underbrush prevented the rays of the sun from ever reaching the sodden earth. But the clearing and drain- ing of the land has mado this one of the banner agricultural townships of the State. Its farms are rich, fertile and productive, its water supply good, and its drainage perfect. Farms that woro originally purchased for $1.80 per acre are now valued at $100 per acre. As a single instance of this, the farm of William Knox, in what is known as the Holly purchase, is citod.
Who the first settler of the township was has long been a matter of doubt, the honor being due to one of two settlements that were made at about the same time. Careful investigation of all testimony likely to throw light on the subject now leads to the belief that the first settlement was made in what is now called the Reed settlement. The settlement of the county was made in three stages, the Reed settlement on the Wilmington & Washington piko be- ing the first, the Upper Prairie settlement along Anderson's Fork being the second, and the Palmer settlement in the Tench Survey being the third.
The first settlers were Absalom and Samuel Reed, two brothers, who came from Bourbon County, Ky., in the year 1803, and settled on land in the Lind- say Survey. Both brought their families with them. Absalom's family con- sisted of his wife, Edith (Paris) Reed, and one son, Jchu, who was the only child they had. Samuel brought his wife, Sarah (Paris) and three children, 'viz., Elizabeth, Absalom and Abner. After his settlement here, he had born to him Josephus, Cyrus, John, William, Mary and Samuel P. The brothers bought all the Lindsay Survey, but afterward sold 100 acres to their brother, Cyrus, then a young man, who passed through the war of 1812, and in 1819, came to Ohio and settled on this land. Logan, the celebrated Indian chief, with his band, is said to have been on the land at the time of their settlement hore.
The next settlements that were made wore by Thomas Stett, David Reed and Samuel Reed, in 1804. Stett was of Irish descent, and brought his wife, Martha, a sister of the Reeds. He had six children, one boy and three girls being the present survivors of the family. He settled on 150 acres on Ander son's Fork, on the line of the Centerville road. In 1851, he moved to Iowa, where he died, his wife having died in Richland Township. His farm is now owned by William Reed, and is second to none for fertility in the township.
The Reeds, David and Samuel, were of Irish descent, and sons of James Reed. They came from Kentucky, and were both unmarried. David located on 100 acres of land, now in Wayne Township, and married Hannah Daugherty, by whom he had four children, three sons and one daughter, one son, William, being the only survivor. Samuel raised a family of eight or ten children.
Thomas Hardwick came from Tennessee to Kentucky, and thenco, in 1805 -06, to Richland Township, where he located on 150 acres of land in the Tonch Survey. He brought two sons, Charles and William, and three married daugh-
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ters, viz., Mrs. James Palmor, Mrs. John Palmer and Mrs. John Nelson. His family were all grown and married when he came, and all are now dead. Mr. Hardwick built the first horse-mill in the township. He was a respectable, honest, hard working frontier man. He sold his farm to Ezekiel Spurgeon in 180S, and returned to Kentucky. His son, William, settled another farm in the same survey, whore he remained a short time with his brother-in-law, John Palmer, but afterward moved to Wayne Township. Mrs. John Palmer, with her husband and family, removed to Indiana prior to 1837. Mrs. James Pal- mer, husband and family moved to Missouri about 1837. None of the Pal- mers have left any descendants in the county. Mrs. John Nelson and family moved to the neighborhood of Antioch, in Greene Township.
Ezekiel Spurgoon emigrated from Kentucky to Adams County, Ohio, and in 1808, camo to Richland Township, where he bought tho Thomas Hardwick farm. He had the following children: William, Rebecca, Nancy, James, John, Samuel and Jesse, all now doad but Robocca and possibly William. They all married and had children, and all of the family have now left the county ox- copt James, the son of John, Thomas, the son of James, and Cyrus, the son of Jesse.
Lovi Arnold came into the township shortly after the year 1807, from Kentucky. He was a smart man, much respected, and was subjected to a severe accident by being run over and almost split asunder by a wagon. Ho located on a farm in the Posey Survey, part of his land lying on either side of the creek in that survey. He was married and became the father of a large fam- ily. He moved from Clinton County to Illinois, where he died.
William Cue came to Richland Township from Warren County, Ohio, in 1810, and settled in the Tench Survey, buying 100 acres of land from James Gallaher, in payment for which he was to clear land for Gallaher. His farm included what is now known as the "Ulysses Morgan " property, and the recent site of the " burnt tavern." The latter part ho afterward sold to James Gillis- pie, who built the "burnt tavern," and the fall and winter of 1813-14, sunk a tan yard. Gillispie died on the place, and about the year 1832 his family left the county. The Morgan property was sold by Cue to Joseph Hathaway, who left the county in 1817 or 1818. Cue, after selling out, bought another farm in the same survey, part of what is now known as the " old Bos- worth" farm. He remained here until 1830, when he left the county.
William Burris emigrated from North Carolina to Kentucky, and in 1809 located in Fayette County, Ohio. Previous to 1812, he came to Richland Township with his wife, Celia (Bellar), and nine children. He was born Jan- uary 3, 1764, and his wife April 12, 1771. Both died in Richland Township. Of the children, the only three survivors are living in Clinton County, but none are in this township.
James Gallaher, who owned land in Richland Township, came to the township in 1810, and sold some of his land to William Cue. In February, 1814, he moved his family onto the premises where he died in 1825, aged sixty-one years. He was born in New Jersey, in 1764, and in 1796 emigrated · to Warren County, Ohio. While there, he assisted in building the first brick house in Lebanon. In 1796, he married Loah Porter, who died in 1831. They had eight children, two boys and six girls, of whom Cbarles P., now liv- ing near Sabina, is the only survivor. The land on which they located is still known as the " old Gallaher place."
David Osborn, Richard Thornburg, Richard_Mills, Michael Myers and Henry Myers, all settled on Rattlesnake Branch and Wilson Branch, north of Sabina, prior to 1813. Osborn came from North Carolina when quite old, bringing with him his wife, one son and several daughters, some of his family :
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being left at home. He afterward moved to Indiana. Thornburg moved from Carolina to Tennessee, and thence to this township. . He had two sons and four daughters. Mills was also a Carolinian; he settled on the land now owned by Smith & McClintock, but, after remaining but a short time, he moved to Indiana. Myers was a recent emigrant from Germany, and Henry was his married son. Very little can now be learned of them.
Joshua White was one of the soldiers from New Jersey who went into Pennsylvania to suppress the insurrection. After his discharge he remained in Pennsylvania, and there married Betsey Canno, of near Pittsburgh. He emigrated to Adams County, Ohio, and some time previous to 1814, located in . Richland Township, in what is now Wayne Township. In 1829, he came into Richland Township as it now exists, where some of his descendants still reside.
Joseph Roberds, a Pennsylvanian, emigrated from South Carolina to Clinton County, in 1805, and in 1818 moved into Richland Township, locat. ing in the Posey Survey, about a quarter of a milo oast of the Hoguo School- house, where he bought land of one Batton, who had bought out Levi Arnold. Mr. Robords marriod Anna Randall, 'and had a family of fifteen childron, fourtoon of whom reached their majority. Most of them are now dead, and only one, Elias, is now living in the county. Ho claims to bo the oldest man now living in the county that was born in the county and that has spont his whole life there. He was born in 1807, and now owns 350 acres of land in the Posoy Survoy. His father, Joseph, moved to Indiana in 1832-33, and died there in 1854.
Mrs. Catharine Jacks came into the township in 1818. She was born in Woodford County, Ky., March 15, 1795, and died in Richland Township June 25, 1880. She was the daughter of Timothy and Betsey (Hoblit) Bennett, who moved to Warren County in 1800, and to Clinton County in 1801, where they located on a farm east of Wilmington. Catharine married Joseph Doan in September, 1813, and moved with him to Indiana, where they remained until 1818, when they came to Richland Township, settling on the Mcclintock farm where Mr. Doan died September 2, 1825, leaving seven children. On the 7th of May, 1826, Mrs. Doan married Elkanah Jacks, by whom she had five children. Her first husband came to Richland Towsnhip from North Carolina in 1810.
John Jacks came into the township in 1818. He was born in Lawrence County, N. C., in 1777, and moved from there into South Carolina. His father was killed in the war of the Revolution. In 1802, he married Phube Roberds, a daughter of Freeman Roberds, of South Carolina, and in 1808 came to Ohio, landing at Cincinnati in October of that year, with his wife and two children. He afterward moved to Warren County and settled noar the town of Waynesville, where he remained until 1809, when he moved to Clinton County and located near Burtonville. He enlisted in the war of 1812, and at its close returned to the farm. He was dispossessed of his farm through a defective title, and in February, 1819, located on land in the Posey Survey, in Richland Township, where he in 1825 built a horse-mill. In 1837, he sold his farm and removed to Indiana, where he died in February, 1869. He was the father of nine children, five boys and four girls, all of whom reached thoir majority. Three boys and three girls now survive, only one being a resident of Clinton County.
Francis Wining, a Jerseyman, came into the township in 1815, and after remaining several years, moved West. He settled in the Posey Survey. Ho was an industrious, hard working man, much esteemed by the settlers of the vicinity. :
Edward 'Crabb or " Ned " Crabb, as he was more familiarly known, was
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in the township as early as 1812; but of the date or place of his birth or the date of his settlement, nothing can now be learned. He, however, merits a place among the old settlers, as those who came as early as 1812 found him located in the neighborhood of the Posey settlement.
There may have been others who settled in the township at or prior to the dates of some of those in the foregoing list. If such there were, all traces of them have become lost, and after the lapse of over half a century, it is im- possible to even learn their names. The readers will therefore be charitable in passing their judgment, remembering that any omission is not made through carelessness, but through ignorance. Our list closes at a time when the town- ship was becoming pretty generally settled, and when the settlement was at- tended with less difficulty and labor, on account of the drier condition of the ground and the conveniences furnished by civilization.
ROADS. .
The first road of any kind in the township was a trail called the "Miami" or "Chillicothe Trace," from Chillicothe through to Sabina and down Ander- son's Fork to Oldtown, three miles beyond Xenia, in Greene County. It was a mere path cleared through the forest, and was supposed to have been opened by the Indians, as the first settlers reported it as existing when they came. On this road, Wilson, one of the earliest pioneers of the county, first settled.
The "Kenton Trace " which is fully spoken of in the general county his- tory, was laid out by Gen. Simon Kenton in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and extended from the Ohio River opposite Maysville, Ky., to Urbana, Ohio, passing through Richland Township from Reesville to Morgantown.
The first regularly established road was the Urbana road, running from Hillsboro to Urbana, along the line of the Kenton Trace, through the town. ship from north to south, near the center, and built prior to the erection of the county. It was resurveyed October 7, 1820, on "account of the true course having become lost." It was not piked until 1873, but has always been one of the leading and most important roads in the township.
The road from Wilmington to Washington was also established prior to the county's organization. It runs through the full length of the township from east to west, and was piked in 1869.
A road from the Urbana road through Sabina to Leesburg, in Fayette County, was built in 1830, but was not piked until the winter of 1869-70.
The township is now crossed in every direction with good macadamized roads, many of them traversing the lines of the surveys. The pikes lead from all parts of the township to all the important places in the county, and are, many of them, connected with each other by summer or mud roads.
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SCHOOLS.
Schools began to be taught in the township as soon as the settlements were in sufficient numbers to justify it. Each neighborhood would erect a log schoolhouse in which school would be taught as long and at as frequent periods as a teacher could be had. The schools were kept up entirely by private sub- scription, each settler agreeing to send a certain number of scholars for whose instruction he would give a specified amount of wheat, corn or other produce, but very rarely money.
The first of these schools in the township of which we have any account, was taught in the house of James Palmer, near the present site of Reesville, in 1814, by James Ferguson, an itinerant schoolmaster. The number of scholars in this school, or the length of time it was taught, cannot now be as- certained; neither can we learn what became of Ferguson. Another early
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school, and perhaps the second one taught in the township, was by James Bloomingdale Daugherty, in 1815. The schoolhouse was in the Biddle Sur. vey, and about half a milo wost of the Burnt Tavern. An early school was taught by a man named Pollum, in 1820-21. It was held in a log house built for the purpose, which stood near where the schoolhouse now stands, on the McClintock and Smith farm. Previous to this timo, and about 1817-18, a subscription school was taught in the eastern part of the township, in a house built for a dwelling, on the Posey Survey, about a quarter of a mile west of the present schoolhouse in the survey. It was first taught by Thomas Powell, on the Tyson lands. The school was started principally to give Powell an opportunity of gaining a livelihood, and was only in oxistonce a short time.
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