Belmont County OhArchives History .....Early Judicial History 
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The first constables and election supervisors of Belmont Co....1803
Kirkwood twp - constables, Wm Congleton and Thomas Richards and supervisors,
Thomas Richards, Wm Boggs, Joshua Hatcher and James Knowles.
Pultney - Constables, Philip Dover and Joseph Lashley; supervisors, Jacob
Repshire and David Wherry.
York - Constable, Samuel Dille; supervisors John Dille, Ephraim Bates & Michael
Moore.
     At this session of court, a license was granted Ananias Randall for keeping
a house of public entertainment, and Jacob Holtz was licensed to keep a tavern
in St. Clairsville.

The first records of the meeting of the Supreme Court was on June 28, 1803, at
Pultney.  The presiding judges were Samuel Huntington and Wm Spriggs, and Elijah
Woods was appointed clerk.  At this court Charles Hammond was appointed US
prosecutor and Daniel Barney was admitted to practice. 
      The name of Newellstown was changed to ST Clairsville, in honor of Gov St
Clair.  The change of the county seat from Pultney to St Clairsville apparently
came about during a gala held in Newellsville, in which General ST Clair was
'wined and dined', and agreed to the changing of the towns's name in his honor,
 AND to being the county seat instead of Pultney.  Thus, on April 1, 1803, the
first general  Assembly  of Ohio ws held in Chillicothe, who appointed a
committee to examine the possibility of the county seat being moved to St
Clairsville, and in April of 1804, the seat of justice WAS moved to St
Clairsville.  The first Court of Quarter sessions was presided over by Judge
Pease, and held in the house of Wm Congleton, of St Clairsville, on April 16,
1804.


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