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Dutch Creek, a small stream which empties into Todd's Fork, in Adams Township, runs across the northwest corner of Union, taking a southwesterly direction. Todd's Fork, Dutch Creek, Lytle's Creek and Cowan's Creek, with their numerous branches, constitute the water-courses of Union Township, supplying ample drainage facilities, as well as an abundance of good water for stock and other purposes.
In the pioneer days the grazing along those streams was very fine, but as the population increased, the grasses and shrubbery disappeared. The bot- toms were covered with spice bushes and pea vines, the twigs of the former
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being used by the early emigrants in making tea, which they thought pos- sessed a fine flavor. The pea vine in full growth resembled buckwheat in the summer and fall seasons, and cattle and hogs were fond of it. When ripe it was about the height of full-grown flax and grow very thickly on the ground. The white clover, or, as it was then called, buffalo clover, was vory abundant and grew in height from eighteen to twenty-four inches. These wild growths afforded fine grazing for all classes of stock, and proved a great blessing to the pioneer.
No stone crops cut on Cowan's, Lytle's or Dutch Creeks, in this town- ship, but on Todd's Fork, northwest of Wilmington, stone in large quantities and of good quality has been quarried for many years and is easy of access. Here it was that the early settlers found stone in abundance, which they used in building their rude chimneys, and at a later day in the erection of more commodious residences and outbuildings, as well as in the construction of streets and roads. Though the Legislature of 1803 had passed an act estab- lishing somo sixtoon or eighteen State roads, yot but a small number of them had been cleared out in 1806. Up to that year, there were no roads opened in the settlement comprised in Union Township, but each neighborhood estab- lished its line of travel by blazing and marking trees. There were paths or trails running from Todd's Fork to Chillicothe, one of which crossed that stream near Centre Meeting-House, passing through the wilderness to Van Meter's, and thence to theScioto Valley. The origin of those trails was not known to the early settlers, but they were supposed to have been made by the Indians in their social intercourse with their brothers on the Maumee and Scioto. The township to-day is a network of good gravel roads, which are free of toll. Radiating in every direction from Wilmington, the traveler will find a well- improved, well-developed country, and, if good roads are evidence of pros- perity and intelligence, then indeed may Union Township be proud of her po- sition in Clinton County.
LAND ENTRIES.
Survey No. 550, a portion of which is within the limits of Union Town- ship, located in the eastern part thereof, was the first entry made. It em- braces 4,000 acres of land, and was entered August 4, 1787, by Richard C. Anderson and Mayo Carrington. The surveying was done by John O' Bannon, March 3, 1794, assisted by Andrew Porter and Charles Pigman, chain carriers, and David Flough, marker. Other entries made in the township are as follows:
No. 730-August 8, 1787, Lieut. Nathaniel Anderson enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon, March 4, 1794.
No. 885-August 10, 1787, Col. Theodorick Bland enters 1,334§ acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon, April 3, 1794.
No. 961-August 11, 1787, Lieut. Nathaniel Anderson enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyod by John O'Bannon March 6, 1794.
No. 1,554-February 19, 1793, Gen. H. Gates enters 2,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie March 6, 1793.
No. 1,556-February 19, 1793, Gen. H. Gates enters 2,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie March 6, 1793.
No. 1,558-February 20, 1793, Gen. H. Gates enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie March 8, 1793.
No. 2,248-February 20, 1793, Gen. H. Gates enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie March 9, 1793.
No. 1,561-February 23, 1793, Gen. H. Gates enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie March 9, 1793.
No. 2,246 -- February 20, 1793, William Boyle enters 666g acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie March 12, 1793.
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No. 2,279-April 19, 1793, Thomas Banks enters 777§ acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie October 4, 1793.
No. 1,735-December 19, 1793, Lieut. Col. William Nelson enters 880 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie February 11, 1794.
No. 1,338-December 19. 1793, Gen. Peter Muhlenburg enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie May 7, 1793.
No. 2,386-March 13, 1794, Archibald Johnson, Patrick Moore and Betty ` (his wife) devisees of George Johnson, deceased, enter 6,000 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon into three 2,000 acre tracts November 3, 1795, November 4, 1795 and November 5, 1795.
Nos. 986 and 2,433-March 13, 1794, Lieut. Col. Ed Carrington enters 1,367 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon June 17, 1794.
No. 1,162-April 15, 1794, Thomas Buckner enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon November 7, 1795.
No. 1,170-April 15, 1794, Thomas Gaskins enters 1,500 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon November 8, 1795.
No. 1,085-January 27, 1795, Col. William Heath enters 1,100 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie, January 30, 1795.
No. 523-January 28, 1795, Daniel Duval enters 1,750 acres of land, sur- veyed by Nathaniel Massie, May 28, 1800.
No. 1,230-January 28, 1795, John Anderson enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie January 30, 1795.
No. 2,471-January 28, 1795, Daniel Duval enters 1,177 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie January 31, 1795.
No. 1,057-January 28, 1795, Thomas Posey enters 2,820 acres of land, surveyed by Nathaniel Massie January 3, 1795.
No. 625-June 14, 1796, Thomas Fenn enters 1,000 acres of land, sur- veyed by John O'Bannon June 26, 1796.
No. 2,027-June 15, 1796, Thomas Ridley enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon June 27, 1796.
No. 096-June 15, 1796, Thomas Fenn enters 1,000 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon, June 26, 1796.
No. 2,694-June 15, 1796, Thomas Fenn and John O'Bannon (assignees) enter 550 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon January 27, 1796.
No. 1,096-June 15, 1796, John Roberts enters 1,000 acres of land, sur- veyed by John O'Bannon June 27, 1796.
No. 699-June 15, 1796, John Roberts enters 1,000 acres of land, sur- veyed by John O'Bannon June 27, 1796.
No. 2,693-June 15, 1796, Gen. Ed Stephens enters 715 acres of land, . surveyed by John O'Bannon June 29, 1796.
No. 2,690-June 15, 1796, William S. Hawkins, heir, enters 1,383 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon June 28, 1796.
No. 2,692 -- June 15, 1796, William S. Hawkins, heir, enters 895 acres of land, surveyed by John O'Bannon July 6, 1796.
No, 1,088-June 15, 1796, John Spotswood enters 900 acres of land, sur- veyed by John O'Bannon.
No. 2,714 -- June 22, 1796, William White enters 1,450 acres of land, sur- veyed by John O'Bannon June 24, 1796.
No. 4,613-December 5, 1804,'Daniel Bailey (assignee) enters 4,000 acres of land, surveyed by James Galloway, Jr., December 20, 1804.
No. 4,634-January 14, 1805, James Towler (assignee) enters 1,745 acres of land, surveyed by James Galloway, Jr, February 1, 1805.
No. 4,693-June 17, 1805, Francis Dade enters 1,636 acres of land, sur- veyed by James Galloway, Jr., July 1, 1809."
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No. 5,991-June 6, 1808, James Galloway, Jr. (assignee), enters 3463 1 acres of land, surveyed by James Galloway, Jr., June 7 and 8, 1808.
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"They came to the West when the forest stood Mighty and solemn and grand, And built their homes in the shades of the wood, That covered our Western land."
In the pioneer settlements a close union existed; kindness, benevolence and friendship were cultivated. In locating and improving their new homes, they all had to work and soon became a community of self-reliants. The lives and property of all were vigilantly guarded, while courage and manhood were held in high esteem. The man possessing the greatest physical power was a hero, yet strength, power and manhood could only be tested by honorable and fair moans. As a general rule, the sons and descendants of the pioneers havo been content with agricultural . pursuits, and there are not many instances where they have abandoned soil-culture for the allurements of commerce, trade, the arts and the sciences. This is strong proof of their good judgment and independence of spirit, for the man who owns the soil and possesses the art to cultivate it is an independent sovereign-the peer of any in this land, no matter what his vocation may be ..
The brain and intellect of the early pioneer shared the increased energy of his physical being. Constant labor developed the powers of the muscles, the brain and the nervous system, and hence in these early communities of emigrants there were men of full stature of body, possessing capacious brain power. The lives and histories of these brave old pioneers should not be for- gotten, and the man who feels no interest in perpetuating the memories of those men who spent their time and energy in fitting the soil of the great State of Ohio for culture, deserves not the respect of his fellow citizens. The sketches of pioneers in the history of Union Township up to and including Col. Thomas Gaddis, were written by the late Judge Robert B. Harlan, or from the notes collected by him ere his death.
Timothy Bennet was one of the most prominent, as well as one of the first settlers, of what is now Clinton County. He came to the Northwest Territory, now the State of Ohio, in the year 1800, and to his well known home, about one and a half miles nearly east of where Wilmington now is, about the mid- dle of March, 1801. . He was a native of the State of New Jersey, born near the city of Philadelphia on the 27th of January, 1765. Of his early history little is known other than that he was reared on a farm and spent his boyhood like other boys brought up to agricultural pursuits. Soon after arriving at manhood, he left his native State, and took up his residence in Westmoreland County, in Western Pennsylvania. Here, early in the year 1789, the precise date not ascertained, he was married to Elizabeth Hoblitt, daughter of Michael Hoblitt, a native of Germany, and ancestor of the Hoblitts of Clinton and Greene Counties.
Stimulated by the reports which had reached him of the fertile lands of Kentucky, Mr. Bennet, in the fall of 1789, determined to remove there, and, in company with his wife's father and family, he descended the Ohio River in boats to Limestone, now the town of Maysville, Ky. The Indians at that time were exceedingly troublesome on the river. Few boats were allowed to pass with impunity. If captured, as they frequently were, the entire party were slain in the most barbarous manner, or, what was little better, carried away into Indian captivity. Mr. Bennet and his party proper had the good fortune . to pass through this cordon of savages without sustaining any disaster; but & boat in their convoy was not so lucky, for, being permitted to fall too far in
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the rear it was attacked with great fury by the Indians, and, though it escaped being captured, sustained a loss of two men killed. The party of emigrants to which Mr. Bennet belonged, before landing at Limestone, proceeded to the in- terior of the country by way of the Lower Blue Licks and Lexington. At the latter place, a halt of some weeks was made, for the purpose of examining the country for a suitable location. After a pretty thorough exploration in various directions, the party made choice of a point in what is now Woodford County, near the site of the present town of Versailles, and here Mr. Bennet resided for about ten years.
In the fall of 1790, Mr. Bennet joined the expedition of Gen. Hurmar, which was sent by the Government to destroy the Indian towns near where the Rivers St. Mary and St. Joseph unite and form the Maumee. The forces col- lected for this purpose rendezvoused at Cincinnati, then a sinall village about two years old. From here, they marched nearly north for about fifteen or twenty miles, until the Ohio River hills had been overcome, when their course was changed to about northeast, which led across Muddy Creek and Turtle Creek to the Little Miami. They crossed the stream about one mile below the , mouth of Caesar's Creek, and continued up the river to the mouth of Glady Creek, near Spring Valley, then up Glady to near the point where Xenia now is, to Old Chillicothe, now called Old Town. Near this point, it is said that Mr. Bennet became too lame to travel, from a cancer in the leg, and was there- fore honorably discharged and sent home. He thus escaped the disgrace of Harmar's abortive campaign and the dangers of Hardin's disastrous defeats. The route taken by the army led through a most beautiful and productive country. That Mr. Bennet should have placed a high estimate on the lands through which he passed may well be assumed. A few years later, he is found acquiring land, supposed at the time to lie near the line of his march, and soon after coming to settle upon it.
In the fall of 1799, he purchased about 200 acres of land from William S. Hawkins, one of his Kentucky neighbors, who was an extensive land-holder in the Virginia Military District, lying between the Little Miami and Scioto Rivers. The land purchased was a part of Survey No. 2,690, but the location of the survey was represented to Mr. Bennet to lie between the Little Miami and Cæsar's Creek, and so of course in the region of country through which he had marched nine or ten years previous, while in the army of Harmar. Confiding in this representation, he made his purchase. In 1799, a few settlers had es- tablished themselves between these streams, and many more on the west side of the Miami opposite to and in the neighborhood of where Mr. Bennet's land was said to lie. Indeed, at that time, the country between the Great and Little Miamis, as far north at least as Dayton, was beginning to be well dotted with settlers' cabins and improvements, and attracted the attention of emigrants far and near. Having, as he supposed, acquired valuable lands near new but thriving settlements, Mr. Bennet began at once to make arrangements to settle upon them. The land, however, turned out, as will hereafter appear, to lie in a very different locality from that supposed.
He removed from Kentucky in the spring of 1800, with his family, which at that time consisted of his wife and six children, two sons and four daugh- ters. He regarded the removal as the best step to take, in order to advance the interests of himself.and growing family. At the time of leaving Kentucky, the only means of transportation within the reach of Mr. Bennet was pack - horses, a common one in that day. Accordingly, pack-horses were provided to carry Mrs. Bennet and the infant Nathaniel, the bedding, wearing apparel, provisions, agricultural tools, cooking utensils and such of the children as were not able to walk. The cows, calves and other stock were driven in the
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wake of the pack-horses by the oldor children. Mr. Bennet, with rifle on shoulder and shot-pouch and powder-horn slung to his side, and hunting- knife in scabbard, sometimes led the van and sometimes brought up the rear, according as his presence seemed to be most required. At times, he would quit the trace and march for hours on the right or loft of the moving column, in pursuit of game, and, being a most successful hunter, he was gonerally able to keep the family supplied with the most palatable meats. He came north by the "Dry Ridge " road to Cincinnati, then but recently named. From Cincinnati, he took Harmar's trace to a point near where Lebanon has since been laid out, and from there, nearly a north course to a point near where Centerville, Montgomery County, has grown up, distance from the Ohio River, forty-five miles. In what is now the Centerville neighborhood, he found his brother-in-law, Soboston Hoblitt, and a number of his old neighbors in New Jersey and his recent neighbors in Kentucky, as the Nutts, Robbins. Becks and Archers, who had settled there three years before. The town of Center- ville, in Montgomery County, Ohio, was laid out afterward in the same neigh- borhood by one of his old New Jersey friends. From some of these Mr. Ben- net expected pilotage to his land, but his friends had only been there a short time and ever since their arrival had been busy raising cabins for themselves or neighbors, or planting and raising something to live on. They had found no time to look much beyond the narrow circle of their own concerns, and really knew no more about Hawkins' Survey, No. 2,690, in the Virginia Mili- tary District, than we of Clinton County in this day know of some Spanish Don's land grant in Florida or New Mexico. And what made it worse, the records pertaining to the surveys in the Virginia Military District were kept in the Principal Surveyor's office in Louisville, Ky. After an impatient wait- ing for information in regard to the location of his land, he at last had the good fortune to learn of a Mr. McFarland, living on the Little Miami, near the mouth of Todd's Fork, who, it was supposed, could give him the desired in- formation. Without delay, Mr. Bennet called upon Mr. McFarland, and was conducted by him up Todd's Fork, by the way of Smalley's, near where Clarks- ville now is, to the Deserted Camp Corner, a well-known landmark from which the line of an intervening survey conducted them to a corner of Mr. Bennet's land. This land is situated south of Todd's Fork, about one and a half miles nearly northeast of the present town of Wilmington, and includes lands owned by James S. Garland, the tract included in the home farm of Samuel R. Glass, and about fifty acres on the Prairie road, late the residence of Miss Catharine Mc Whorter.
Mr. Bennet does not seem to have been transported with pleasure on be- holding his possessions for the first time. They were part of an immense tract of woodland, and were covered with large forest trees of almost every kind growing in the country. In that day a considerable part was wet land. The only settler within ten miles of the land known to Mr. Bennet, was William Smalley, whose cabin he and Mr. McFarland had passed ten miles below on their way up Todd's Fork. Smalley had in early life been taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, and had been brought up among them. His color was much like an Indian's; his hair was straight and black; his eye had the wild- piercing glance of a bird of prey, truly Indian. Therims of his ears had been cut from the cartilaginous parts, and hung down in strings as a sort of trim- ming, after the fashion of a ladies' eardrop. His history up to this time was not calculated to make him desirable as a neighbor, even at a distance of ten miles off, for only eight years before he had been the interpreter for Col. Hardin, when sent by Gen. Washington on a peace mission to the Shawnee Indians, and had suffered Hardin to be killed by an Indian man and boy while asleep
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in the night before the fire. If Mr. Bennet had other neighbors nearer than the banks of the Little Miami, he had not seen nor heard of them. The land being found, Mr. McFarland returned home as he came, by Todd's Fork, and Mr. Bennet hired an Indian to pilot him to Waynesville, on the Little Miami, while he followed with a tomahawk and blazed the way so as to be able to find it again.
In the summer of 1800, Mr. Bennet raised a crop in the Centerville neigh- borhood, and, on the 30th day of January, 1801, at the same place, his daugh- ter Amy was born. A few days later, Mr. Bennet, with his brother-in-law, John Hoblitt, and his four oldest children, came to orect a house and make an opening on his wilderness lands, taking with them cooking utensils, farming tools and provisions. They selected small trees for house logs, so that when cut to their proper length two men could place them in the walls of the house. Boards were made for roof, loft and door, and puncheons for the floor, and the house nicely prepared to rocoive Mrs. Bennot. Leaving Mr. Hoblitt and the children to keep house, Mr. Bonnet, returned to the Centerville neighborhood for his wife. On their way back, they found the Miami out of banks, and, there being neither bridges nor boats on the river in that day, the passage had to be effected by swimming their horses. Mr. Bennet led the way, carrying the infant Amy in his arms, and Mrs. Bonnot followed at a proper distance, riding her horse for greater safety, after the fashion of a cavalier. Other streams, of large size when swollen, lay betwoon the Miami and their home, as Cæsar's Creek and Todd's Fork; but whether the horses were put to a swim or not has not been ascertained. The same evening, after a ride of twenty-five miles through a pathless wood and without a solitary house for fifteen miles, Mrs. Bennet was rewarded by seeing, for the first time, her home among the trees.
The spring and summer of 1801 was a busy season for the Bennet family. Land had to be prepared for a crop. To remove all the great oaks, elms, hick- ories and beoch from any considerable number of acres of land, between the 1st of March and the time for planting, was too great a task to be for a mo- ment seriously entertained. Mr. Bennet, therefore, cut away the trees of small growth, grubbed up the spice bushes, girdled the large trees and removed the down timber by cutting and burning. All was inclosed with a substantial fence. In this work all could engage. The seed was planted in the loose, rich ground without plowing, and the crops cultivated with the hoe and hand. It required unceasing vigilance to protect the corn from the squirrels by day and the raccoons by night, but enough was saved to keep famine from the door. 1
After Mr. Bennet made his settlement, for several years the Indians came in the fall season to make their annual hunt. They were generally divided into bands, numbering from three to fifty. The larger companies were at- tended by the women, children, ponies and dogs. In such cases, thay invari- ably retired at the approach of winter to their towns farther to the north. A few stragglers not infrequently stayed in the country through the winter to trap. They were mostly Shawnees and Wyandots, with an occasional Dela- ware. A favorite place for camping. for them was along Todd's Fork, near Mr. Bennet's residence, above and below where Starbucktown now is. Another was on Anderson's Fork, extending up the creek from the Telfair farm to near the site of Centerville, Wayne Township. In the fall of 1811, the Indians seemed less friendly than usual, and at times created uneasiness among the settlers. About the beginning of November, all their young men disappeared. After an absence of about three weeks they were noticed as having returned. While they were gone the battle of Tippecanoe had been fought. They had brought the result of the fight several days in advance of the Cincinnati and
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Chillicothe newspapers. William Smalley was a frequent visitor at their camps, staying for several days together, and no doubt eating with unfeigned gusto their dirty cookery.
The first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, after their removal to what is now the Wilmington neighborhood, was their daughter Margaret. She was born November 19, 1802, on what has since been known as the farm of Judge Hinkson, on the north side of Anderson's Fork, near where the Radcliffe road now runs, at the house of James Mills, father of James. R. Mills. Mr. Mills and his brother-in-law, Amos Wilson, from whom Wilson Township has been named, were, at the time spoken of, living in the same dooryard, but each having a separate dwelling. Mrs. Bennet had been taken to Mr. Mills' house some days before, in anticipation of hor accouchement, that she might have . the aid and attention of Mr. Wilson's mother, the wife of Hon. John Wilson, a member of the first Constitutional Convention of Ohio, who had come over from between the Miamis to be at hand to perform the same part for her daughter-in-law as necessary in the case of Mrs. Bennet. The only white women in that day within what are now the limits of Clinton County are be- lioved to have been Mrs. Mary Van Meter, wife of Morgan Van Meter; Mrs. Miller, wife of the late Esquire Samuel Miller, Mrs. Amos Wilson, Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Bennet.
Mr. Bennet was a most successful hunter. He killed a great many deer on what is now the original town plat of Wilmington, at the licks along the branch south of the residence of Richard and Mary Peirce. It is said by early settlers that, after his health became enfeebled, his wife was in the habit of often bringing him on a horse to these licks. He would climb up into one of the old beech trees above the lick, situated upon what is now known as the old hill residence of the late Robert B. Harlan, and remain there through the day, watching for the deer to come to the lick, when he would shoot them. In the evening, the horse was brought for him to return home with his game. Other early settlers speak of having often hunted over this same ground. It was then covered with an undergrowth of spice and hazel bushes and was a noted hunting-ground. Michael, Mr. Bennet's oldest son, at the ageof twelve years, is said to have killed a large bear, near where the present residence of Mrs. Margaret Treusdell, in Wilmington, is situated. Mr. Bennet is believed to have been twice elected to the office of County Commissioner of Clinton County; he ceased to be a Commissioner in 1815. He was in feoble hoalth for many , years prior to his death. He made his will in 1823, and died early in the year 1827.
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