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Samuel Thompson came from Pennsylvania to Cincinnati, where he mar- ried Catharine, widow of John Van Cleve. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson had two children-Sarah, who was about two years old when they moved to Dayton, and Matthew, born in January, 1796; Sarah married John Ensey. Mr. Thompson was drowned in Mad River, in 1817; his wife died, August 6, 1837.
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William Gahagan, a brave and kind-hearted Irishman, who came in Wayne's Legion from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, in 1793, and served with that army through the campaigns of 1794 and 1795. He and Benjamin Van Cleve were comrades; in May, 1794, they made a trip down the Ohio to Fort Massac, with contractors' supplies; returned, in July, to the army. After the treaty at Greenville, he at once engaged with surveyor, Capt. Dunlap, who was then get- ting ready for field work in the Mad River district. His land was up Mad River, and, for two or three years, he made his home at William Hamer's cabin, and afterward married Nancy Hamer. About 1804, or 1805, they moved to Mi- ami County, upon land that he owned south of Troy, known as Gahagan's prai- rie. He was closely identified with the settlement and progress of Troy. His wife, Nancy, died, and he married Mrs. Tennery; he died, in Troy, about 1845.
The McClures -- The father of James, John, Kate and Ann McClure, was killed at St. Clair's defeat; and his widow, their mother. brought them to Day- ton, and lived with them in the cabin, at the southwest corner of Water and Mill streets, for four or five years, then moved, with them, to Honey Creek, Mi- ami County.
John Davis settled at, or near, the bluffs, and was accidentally killed at the Cooper mill, in 1799; his death was the first that had occurred in the settlement. Solomon Goss, with his family, moved farther up the Miami.
Thomas Davis was a Welshman, but came here, with his family from Penn- sylvania, and located on his farm at the bluffs south of Dayton, where he lived until his death.
Abraham Grassmire, a German, a single man, and was a weaver by trade. He helped to make the first looms for the settlers, and was handy in the construc- tion of other household conveniences that the pioneers so greatly needed.
John Dorough, was a married man when he came here, and was a miller; he owned the mill on Mad River that afterward became the property of Shoup. and since known as the Kneisley Mills, but now owned by Mr. John Harries, of Dayton.
Daniel Ferrell was over fifty years old, and brought his family with him: but, little is known of him, except that he came from Western Virginia, and settled up the Miami, possibly on lands that are included within the bounds of Miami County.
William Chenoweth brought his family with him from Kentucky. He was fifty-five years of age, and a blacksmith, although he did not follow that trade here, for, up to September, 1799, there was no blacksmith shop within twenty miles of Dayton. His land was in the Mad River Valley, and was cut off from this county, in the formation of Greene County.
James Morris came West, to Fort Harinar, and was on the expedition un- der Gen. Harmar, in 1790. He was a farmer, and, after coming to this county, was twice married, but died childless.
TOPOGRAPHICAL.
As these settlers found it, the outlook was a waving sea of green tree-tops, varied only by channels of rippling streams, that spread out like a fan, from just above the location of the little hamlet of log cabins. The clean gravel bed of the Big Miami was the main channel from the north. winding its way through rich bottom lands, from its source down through this beautiful valley; emptying into it a mile above Dayton, was the Southwest Branch (Stillwater); just at the town site, dashing, whirling, beautiful Mad River joined the more steady-going Miami for a sweep around the point selected for the settlement. A half mile below, on the west side, was Wolf Creek, and five miles further down, from among the hills, came Possum Run, a stream of little importance.
George Birler
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Next was Bear Creek; then Little and Big Twin Creeks; and on the east side of the Miami, five miles below the settlement, was Hole's Creek; and just above he bluffs, the Rubicon. Into these larger streams, flowing from springs and akelets, were the numberless little branches, creeks and runs of clear cool waters; from the marshes and forests, glen and dale, through the bright prairies und broad bottoms, and, bursting from the hills, came the limpid waters to 'reshen the rivers.
From the level disk of prairie, meadows and swails, around the old Macka- cheek towns, clear, cool Mad River cut its way, fed by rapid-running brooks ind bubbling springs of delightful water. The Southwest Branch (Stillwater) winding through the hills from the northwest, drained an equally fertile section.
Wolf Creek and Bear Creek and Little Twin Creek, with their sources with- n the county, were the outlets of the geater portion of the western half of the county. Big Twin Creek, crossing the southwestern corner of the county, and initing with Little Twin, at the point where Germantown was afterward located, connected with the Miami a few miles below, in Warren County.
Hole's Creek was the only feeder of any importance on the east side of the Miami, below Dayton. The southeastern part of the county was partially trained by Little Beaver Creek and other small streams running into the Little Miami River. Small creeks in the northwest corner of the county, now Clay und P'erry Townships, led to the upper branches of Big Twin Creek.
The beauty and fertility of the Miami country had been made known by he earliest adventurers by the returning soldiers of the military expeditions, ind by explorers and surveying parties afterward. There was nothing monot- nous in the topography of the county, an ever-changing panorama of hills and alleys, sparkling streams gracefully winding through the green prairies and woodlands. The great rolling ridges of hills lay north and south in chains be- ween the streams, and rising gradually to the level table-lands in the northern part of the county, around to the county line on the west, and down to the head- vaters of Bear Creek and Little Twin. South of that and to the Miami, the highest land of the county is found; the hills there are about 350 feet above he river, about 600 feet above low water mark at Cincinnati- an elevation of bout 1,000 feet above tide water.
The hills between Mad River and the Miami are not so high or rough, and way from the rivers, generally run back to the gentle undulations of the more evel country beyond. South of Mad River, and down to the little branches ind creeks that lead east to the Little Miami and west to the Big Miami, the ay of the land was that of broad slopes with but little waste.
The main stem, the broad, rich bottoms of the Miami itself, from one to wo miles wide, along that river, from north to south, divided the territory that vas afterward formed into Montgomery County-one-fourth on the east side nd the three-fourths on the west side of the river. Here the pioneers could choose from the rich valleys of either the Miami, Mad River, Stillwater, the Twin Valleys, Wolf Creek, or Crooked Salem Creek above, or Bear Creek, or Hole's Creek, and even the hilly tracts were dotted with little green valleys of ich loamy soil-the best of farm lands.
From the water's edge, across the bottoms and up over the hills and sweep. ng slopes, in all directions, was an almost unbroken, undisturbed dense wood. I dead silence pervaded the wilderness; neither wigwam or cabin stood any- where in this very perfection of forest; a mass of tangled vines and under- growth made a safe retreat for birds and wild animals. To the north and west vere the beach lands, the hill-sides and plains were covered with sugar trees, hickory, elm, ash, walnut and poplars; on the hilltops were groves of stately aks. Timber, water and stone were in abundance. Gravel knolls and ridges -
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were most numerous to the south and east, but a good supply of clean gravel could be found in the beds of most of the streams. The uplands were generally a fertile, clayey soil, well adapted to raising tobacco or grain. The rich soils of the bottom lands, however, were to be the fine farming tracts; there the light, warm, dry soil would prove inexhaustible, and produce fully double what could be raised in the cold, wet, heavy uplands. The beech lands held so nearly a level position that the streams that had their sources in them were generally of a sluggish flow, and, although being in the highest levels, they were rated as the low lands of the county. The soil of the "second bottoms," while thinner than that of the bottoms, was of a loamy, sandy character and very productive. Prairie lands were not a particular feature in the topography of the county, and were chiefly valuable from the fact that they were ready for immediate cultivation, but wherever they were, they were of small extent. Wet lands and swamps were taken as so much bad with all of the good
The choice tracts of land were the rich, black bottoms, found alike in great bodies in the Mad River, Miami and Stillwater Valleys, as well as along Wolf Creek, Bear Creek and the Twin Creeks-all equally productive. These were the rich lands, which, to the intelligent eye of the pioneer, promised to blossom as the rose; lands apparently inexhaustible in their resources, and, therefore. to attract a good class from the stream of emigrants then moving westward from the colonies. This valley was indeed a garden spot. The Indian desertec it reluctantly, but God designed that they should have it who could make the most of it. And now the results of the labor of our pioneers show themselves Instead of the gloomy forests and underbrush of the river, fields and hill-tops that are now smiling acres and verdant gardens, and where the wild pea- vin once clambered up to meet the sunlight, the gracefully-tasseled corn waves in the same breezes that carried the red man's canoe from shore to shore of the rivers.
DAYTON TOWNSHIP.
The survey of the Miami tract by Col. Ludlow, definitely located the north ern boundary of Hamilton County, so that, instead of the line being drawi from the mouth of the Loramie Creek, it extended up the Miami to where tha river crossed the Indian boundary-line in Section 18, Township 2, of Range 1- of townships, between the Miami Rivers; thence along the Indian boundary-lin to the "Ludlow line," thence along that line to the head spring of the Littl Miami River, and down that river to the Ohio. The county embraced the en tire Ludlow survey, of fourteen ranges of townships and the fractional rang between the north line of the fourteenth range and the Indian boundary-line
January 2, 1790, the date of the formation of Hamilton County, Gov. Si Clair appointed Jacob Tappan and William McMillan Justices of the Peace fo the county. Their authority extended, of course, throughout all of the terr tory included in the county, but as there were no inhabitants in this uppe country, it is not necessary to notice more than simply the appointment of these the first civil officers of the valley.
At the time of the settlement at Dayton, William McMillan, Robert Whee an and Robert Benham were the County Commissioners of Hamilton County Tabor Washburn was Clerk; Daniel Symmes, Sheriff; Stephen Wood, Treasure; and George Gordon, Coroner.
During the winter of 1796-97, Dayton Township and other township were formed, making eleven in all in the county, viz., Cincinnati, Columbi: Miami, Anderson. Iron Ridge, South Bend, Colerain, Springfield, Fairfield Deerfield and Dayton. Fairfield Township included the territory east of th Big Miami, now in Butler County. Deerfield Township included the territor west of the Little Miami, now in Warren County, and that part of Montgon
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ry County between the Miami Rivers south of the north line of the fifth range of townships. Dayton Township was bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the east bank of the Big Miami, where it was intersected by the north line of the fifth range of townships; thence up that river in all its meanderings to the Indian boundary-line, at a point where said river crossed the said Indian boundary-line, in Section 18, Township 2, in the fourteenth range of townships, between the Miamis; thence along said line to Ludlow's line, and down that ine to the southeast corner of Section 5, Township 6, in the eighth range of ownships between the Miamis, where was a branch of the Little Miami River; hence down the river to the north line of the fifth range of townships; thence vest with said line to the place of beginning. The township thus described in- luded within its limits territory that now forms portions of the counties of Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Clark, Champaign, Logan and Shelby. All of Wayne, Mad River and Van Buren, with parts of Washington, Dayton and Mi- imi Townships, of Montgomery County, as at present formed, were in Dayton Township.
The Commissioners of Hamilton County, on the 10th of June, 1797, at a meeting held at the Mansion House of Seth Cutter's, in Cincinnati, appointed Assessors and Collectors for the several townships. James Brady was made Assessor, and John Kitchell, Collector, of Dayton Township. John Kitchell, failing to qualify, Calvin Morrill, was, on the 25th of August, appointed in his stead, and Cyrus Osborn was appointed Constable of Dayton Township. Con- stables made returns of persons and property to the Assessors, who made the ists and assessments, that were placed in the hands of the Township Collectors for collection. The Commissioners and Assessors jointly controlled the disburse- nents, making regular reports to the County Court. The reports of assessments and collections for Dayton Township for this year, were lost in transit, between Dayton and Cincinnati; the Clerk was ordered to forward duplicates, and Col- ector Morrill was directed to make return by the 15th of January, 1798. There were sixteen delinquents in the township, and the Collector made final return, eight of them non est, seven satisfied and one lost. After the lists were re- turned each year, the Commissioners and Assessors met as a Court of Appeals, to hear appeals against assessments. The following orders show the amount of fees paid to these first officers.
TO STEPHEN WOOD, TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF HAMILTON :
Sir-You will pay James Brady Five Dollars and Twenty Cents, out of the first monies that come into your hands, the same being his perquisites in full as Assessor for the Township of Dayton for the year 1797, and this shall be your warrant for so doing.
(Signed) WILLIAM McMILLAN, & Commissioners. ROBERT BENHAM,
Nov. 24th, 1797.
TO STEPHEN WOOD, TREASURER OF HAMILTON COUNTY :
Sir-You will pay Cyrus Osborn, Constable of Dayton Township, One Dollar and Ninety Cents, which by law he is entitled to for his trouble and attention in executing and returning the Commissioners' warrant for aseertaining the taxable property for the present year ; and also Fifty Cents for one quire of paper used in the aforesaid business.
(Signed) WILLIAM MCMILLAN, & Commissioners. ROBERT BENHAM,
CINCINNATI, Nov. 24th, 1797.
The county expense for stationery for the year was $14.34. The Commis- sioners' fees for the same time were $7.50 each.
Joseph Price was appointed County Commissioner in 1798, in place of Will- iam McMillan, whose term expired. Jacob Burnet succeeded Stephen Wood as Treasurer ; John Ludlow succeeded Daniel Symmes as Sheriff ; and John S. Gano was appointed Protonothary.
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James Thompson was appointed Constable of Dayton Township for the year 1798, Daniel C. Cooper, Assessor, and George Newcom, Collector.
The following rates (valuation for taxation) were fixed by the Commission- ers and Appraisers :
Single men with no property $1 00
Cleared land, per aere.
20 00
Cattle, per head. 16 00
Horses. 75 00
Cabins 20 00
Houses ..
600 00
Grist and saw mills, each.
600 00
Boats.
200 00
Ferries
1,000 00
Stud horses.
1,000 00
LIST OF TAXPAYERS AND ASSESSMENTS IN DAYTON TOWNSHIP IN 1798.
George Allexander.
$1 12
George Adams. 1 33
62
Benjamin Archer.
1 33
John Barnett.
1 25
Paul Butler
80
Loriam Beleher
1 25
George Boos (living at Dayton).
1 25
Johu Beatey (living near Cribb's Station).
1 25
Pateriek Broderiek.
94
Samuel Beek.
2 20
John Bailey
57
Andrew Bailey
1 00
John Childers (living at Smith's Town).
1 07
John Casey
1 00
Daniel Cox.
1 00
Daniel C. Cooper (including Vallentine Oyer, his miller).
6 25
William Chapman.
2 25
William Chenorth
1 00
James Collier.
1 33
William Caneannou.
37} 82
Thomas Davis.
1 40
Peter Davis (living at Dayton)
1 00
James Drew (living at Hole's Station). 1 00
1 37
Owen Davis (including Owen Batman, his hireling).
2 80
Thomas Denny (ineluding James Paehston).
4 25
James Demint (including Christopher Kailey).
2 35
John Dunean.
87
Philip Espetro ..
75 70
Henry Etcheson
1 124
Robert Edgar.
1 33
John Ellis.
40
John Ewing.
3 50
Daniel Ferrell
57
Daniel Flinn. .
1 20
Benjamin Flinn
1 07}
William Gahagen.
1 12
Henry Garrett (Smith's Town).
Smith Gregg
1 36
James Galloway, Sr.
2 50
James Galloway, Jr.
1 32
Benjamin Hamlet (Smith's Town).
1 07₺
David Huston.
. 37}
John Huston.
1 30
William Hole.
1 73
William Hamer,
2 40
Edward Harlin.
1 00
Zachariah Hole.
1 87
1
1 074
Benjamin Guinn (living with James Miller).
1 00
John Devor.
Jonathan Donalds ...
Nieholas Espetro.
Thomas Arnett.
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Daniel Hole, Sr.
374
Richard Hudson.
1 03
John Hillyard.
1 90
John Haggin.
3 00
Moses Harlin
: 50
Jerome Holt.
1 00
William Holmes (including John Teeds).
1 65
Samuel Holmes (Cribb's Station).
1 00
Simon Hughlock (Beaver Creek).
1 07
Boston Hoblet ..
75
Alexander Huston.
1 13
John Hole (including Arial Coy).
2 54
Thomas John.
1 50
John Jackson ..
1 00
Soloman Kelley.
90
Leonard Leuchman.
1 06
William Loe.
70
Jeremiah Ludlow.
1 00
John Laelley.
374
William Lamb (including Michael Woods and John Woods).
3 31
Nathan Lamb.
3 20
Andrew Lock.
1 37}
David Lowrey, Jr.
1 37
David Lowrey, Sr.
55
James McDonald (including Jacob Shin).
2 30
Jonathan Mercer.
40
James Miller, Esq.
1 55
Edward Mercer. .
1 00
James Morris.
1 30
James McClure
1 00
Widow McClure
80
David Morris
1 37
Adam McPersen (Little Miami).
1 80
Richard Mason. .
80
John McCabe (including his son).
2 30
James Miller.
74
William Maxwell (including his negro).
2 12
Joseph Mooney.
1 12
John McNight.
37}
John McGrew.
2 05
Thomas Newport
2 00
Benjamin Nap
50
George Newcome (including M. Bourget).
2 69
Chisley Nap
1 30
John Nap.
1 00
Daniel Nap.
1 00
Usual Osborn.
374
John Penticost
373
William Peney
50
John Paul.
1 12
James Paul.
1 00
William Paul.
75
Matthias Parsons
50
John Quick.
63
James Robe.
1 06
Thomas Rich.
1 873
Jonathan Rollins
1 00
Abraham Richardson
1 80
Patrick Rock (including his son).
2 50
William Robbins.
92
Benjamin Robbins.
1 30
Charles Sincks.
75
Jacob Sincks ..
37}
Anthony Shevalier
90
Henry Stumm.
75
Richard Sunderlin.
75
William Sunderlin.
75
James Small.
1 00
Alexander Sampson (living with James Thompson).
1 37
Benjamin Furman (including Aslam Eniswirt) ..
3 75
1
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Samuel Thompson.
1 75
James Thompson (including James MeCoy). 3 75
John Vanee. . 1 90
Joseph Vanee .. 1 70
Joseph Vandalagh
1 00
William Van Asdall
90
James Westfall.
1 30
Jobe Westfall ..
75
William Westfall (including two of his sons).
5 40
Andrew Westfall,
75
George Westfall.
1 12
Peter Washington (living with Daniel Flinn).
1 00
Jolin Weleh.
1 50
Joseph Layton.
1 00
Moses Young.
37₴
George Kirkendall.
56
Total.
.$186 66₺
D. C. COOPER, Assessor of Dayton Township.
His fees for this assessment were $7.21.
TOWNSHIP AFFAIRS TO 1803.
James Smith was appointed Sheriff. The first election held in the North- western Territory was that for members of the Territorial Legislature, on the third Monday of December, 1798. The following-named citizens were elected to represent Hamilton County: William Goforth, William McMillan, John Smith, John Ludlow, Robert Benham, Aaron Caldwell, Isaac Martin. Two Cincinnatians, Jacob Burnet and James Findlay, were selected, on the 22d of March, 1799, either by the President, the United States Senate, or the United States House of Representatives (authorities do not agree which) as members of the first Legislative Council of the Territory.
In 1799, David E. Wade received the appointment of County Commissioner, to succeed Robert Wheelan. The following-named officers were appointed for Dayton Township for that year: Constable, Samuel Thompson; Assessor, John McGrew; Collector, John Ewing. D. C. Cooper was appointed Justice of the Peace. The first entry in his docket is dated October 4, 1799. The case was a suit brought by Abram Richardson against George Kirkendall, for $8. The costs in the case were as follows: Summons, 10 cents; entering judgment, 10 cents; subpoena, 13 cents; total, 33 cents. Defendant stayed collection with John Casey on the security bond. The next case was brought by John Casey against Mathew Bohn, for $6,78. The Squire's record reads: "From the cir- cumstances in the case, it appears that there is really no cause of action and plaintiff is taxed with the costs, viz., Summons, 10 cents, entering judgment, 20 cents; sattisfyed." Another case recorded is a suit by Winetowah, a Shawnee Indian, against Ephraim Lawrence, for $7.66, due for furs. The Indian got judgment for the amount and $1.20 costs. The docket runs to May 1, 1803, the date of the formation of the county, and covers 118 cases, a hundred of them certified as "settled," the rest being marked " sattisfyed."
The lands around Cincinnati were more rapidly settled than this upper part of the valley, because of the protection of the garrison at Fort Wash- ington. Three new townships -- Washington, Ohio and St. Clair-were formed in the county somewhere south of Dayton Township, in the year 1799.
Assessor McGrew was tardy in sending in his list, and was ordered by the Commissioners to return it by June 28; by July 1, he had it completed, show- ing an assessment of $233.72; of this amount $224.64 were collected.
Ichabod B. Miller was appointed Commissioner in the year 1800, and Aaron Goforth, Clerk. July 18, Jerome Holt was appointed Constable of Day-
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on Township, and was directed to "list" the free male inhabitants of twenty- ne years of age and over; for which service he was paid $19.50. The rates f taxation for this year were upon houses, mills and other buildings-40 cents n each $100 valuation; horses, 40 cents each; cattle, 10 cents; young or single nen, 50 cents to $2; bond servants, $1 each; stud horses, the rate they stand t the season.
In 1801, William Ruffin was appointed County Commissioner. Benjamin Van Cleve was County Surveyor, and was made Lister for Dayton Township; le listed 382 free males over twenty-one years of age. In addition to this num- er, he found, west of the Big Miami River, twenty-eight, and east of the Little Miami less than twenty. Mr. Van Cleve was paid $29.50 for listing. The ownship paid $576.623 taxes that year. Local officers for the counties and ownships of the territory, had been appointed by the Governor and Courts; ut as the population of the Miami Valley increased so rapidly, it was decided hat other officers were required and should be elected, and the following au- hority was given for an election in Dayton Township:
TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES NORTH- WEST OF THE RIVER OHIO. HAMILTON COUNTY.
The United States to Jerome Holt, of Dayton Township, greeting : You are hereby equired to give notice to the inhabitants of said township, in three of the most public places thereof, at least ten days before the first Monday in April next, that they may and hall convene on said day at the house of George Newcom, in the township aforesaid, and hen and there proceed to elect by ballot a Chairman, Town Clerk, three or more Trustees or Managers, two or more Overseers of the Poor, three Fence Viewers, two Appraisers of Houses, Lister of Taxable Property, a sufficient number of Supervisors of Roads, and one or more Constables, agreeable to a law entitled an act to establish and regulate town meet- ngs. And of this warrant make due return. BY ORDER OF THE COURT.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of our same Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, at Cincinnati, this second day of March, in the year of our Lord 1802.
[SEAL.]
JOHN S. GANO, CUk.
The names of the officers elected are not known, as there was no record kept; but those who were elected served until the organization of the county, the next year, 1803.
OHIO.
By the census of 1800, there were 42,000 inhabitants in that part of the Northwestern Territory now included within the boundaries of Ohio. Applica- tion was promptly made for admission into the Union. as a State.
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