OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 302 Today's Topics: #1 Ohio Lands History [Part 10] [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #2 Erie Co. History Part 2 [LeaAnn ] #3 Heads of Household, Marion OH 1830 [Jane Peppler Subject: Ohio Lands History [Part 10] "Ohio Lands - A Short History" Part 10 Additional Reading Brumbaugh, Gaius, Marcus. Revolutionary War Records, Volume 1, Virginia. Washington D.C., Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, 1936. Bell, Carol Willsey. Ohio-Lands: Steubenville Land Office 1800-1820. Youngstown: Carol Willsey Bell, 1985. Bell, Carol Willsey. Ohio-Guide to Genealogical Sources. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1988. Berry, Ellen T. and David A. Early Ohio Settlers - Purchasers of Land in Southeastern Ohio, 1800-1840. (Marietta Land Office), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984. Berry, Ellen T. and David A. Early Ohio Settlers - Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840. (Cincinnati Land Office), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986. Berry, Ellen T. and David A. Early Ohio Settlers - Purchasers of Land in East and East Central Ohio, 1800-1840. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989. Carstensen,Vernon, ed. The Public lands: Studies in the History of the Public Domain. Madison, 1963. Clark, Marie Taylor. Ohio Lands: Chillicothe Land Office, 1800-1829. Chillicothe: Marie Taylor Clark, 1984. Clark, Marie Taylor. Ohio Lands: South of the Indian Boundary Line. Chillicothe: Marie Taylor Clark, 1984. Downs, Randolph C. Evolution of Ohio County Boundaries. Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications No. XXXVI, Columbus: OA&H Society, 1927. Reprinted 1970. Dyer, Albion Morris. First Ownership of Ohio Lands. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1911. Reprinted 1982. Gates, Paul W. History of Public Land Law Development. Washington D.C.: Public Land Law Review Commission, 1968. Hulbert, Archer B.,ed. Ohio in the Time of the Confederation. 2 Vols. Marietta: Marietta College, 1917. Hulbert, Archer B. The Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company. 2 Vols. Marietta: Marietta College, 1917. Peters, William E. Ohio Lands and Their History. 3rd Ed., Athens: W.E. Peters, 1930. Reprinted. Riegel, Mayburt Stephenson. Early Ohioans' Residences from the Land Grant Records. Mansfield: Ohio Genealogical Society, 1976. Rohrbough, Malcom J. The Land Office Business. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1968. Treat, Payson, J. The National Land System 1785-1820. New York, 1910. Sherman, Christopher E. Original Land Subdivision. Volume III, Final Report - Ohio Topographic Survey. Columbus: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, 1925. Reprinted 1982. Wall Map separate. Smith, Clifford Neal. Federal Land Series, Volumes 1-4. Chicago: American Library Association, 1972-1987. Smith, Alma Aicholtz. The Virginia Military Surveys of Clermont and Hamilton Counties, Ohio 1787-1849. Cincinnati: Alma Aicholtz Smith, 1985. White, C. Albert. A History of the Rectangular Survey System. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1982. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the use of illustrations from C.E. Sherman's Original Land Subdivisions, found on pages 2,5,8,11,14,16,19,21,26,35,38, and 67. To the many researchers who provided advice and suggestions for this publication, sincere Thanks and grateful appreciation for all your help. Constructive comments are always welcome. - ----------------------------------- (c) 1994 by the Ohio Auditor of State All Rights Reserved. FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION ONLY. Researched and written by Thomas Aquinas Burke Internet Address F491.3 B86 1994 977.1 Eighth Edition - September 1996 "Ohio Lands - A Short History" ReTyped & Graphics Rescanned December 1997 by Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Email at http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643 This booklet is available on the Auditor of State home page under Publications at: http://www.auditor.ohio.gov/auditor/ - ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:25:11 -0700 From: LeaAnn Subject: Erie Co. History Part 2 Historical Collections of Ohio Henry Howe LL.D. Erie County The first regular settlers upon the fire-lands were Col. Jerard Ward, who came in the spring of 1808, and Almon Ruggles and Jabez Wright, in the Autumn succeeding. Ere the close of the next year, quite a number of families had settled in the townships of Huron, Florence, Berlin, Oxford, Margaretta, Portland and Vermillion. These early settlers generally elected the ordinary log-cabin, but others of a wandering character built bark huts, which were made by driving a post at each of the four corners and one higher between each of the two end corners, in the middle, to support the roof, which were connected together by a ridge-pole. Layers of bark were wound around the side of the posts, each upper layer lapping the one beneath to shed rain. The roof was barked over, strips being bent across from one eave over the ridge-pole to the other and secured by poles on them. The occupants of these bark huts were squatters, and lived principally by hunting. They were the semi-civilized race that usually precedes the more substantial pioneer in the western wilderness. For two or three years previous to the late war, the inhabitants were so isolated from other settlements that no supplies could be had, and there was much suffering for want of food and clothing; at times, whole families subsisted for weeks together on nothing but parched and pounded corn, with a very scanty supply of wild meat. Indeed, there was not a family in the firelands, between 1809 and 15, who did not keenly feel the want of both food and clothing. Wild meat, it is true, could usually be procured; but living on this alone would much enfeeble and disease anyone but an Indian or hunter accustomed to it for years. For even several years after the war raccoon caps, with the fur outside, and deerskin jackets and pantaloons, were almost universally worn. The deerskin pantaloons could not be very well tanned, and when dried, after being wet, were hard and inflexible; when thrown upon the floor they bounded and rattled like tin kettles. A man, in a cold winters morning, drawing on a pair, was in about as comfortable a position as if thrusting his limbs into a couple of frosty stove-pipes. To add to the trials and hardships of the early settlers, it soon became very sickly, and remained so for several years. The following is but one of the many touching scenes of privation and distress that might be related: A young man with his family settled not far from the Huron river, building his cabin in the thick woods, distant from any other settlement. During the summer he cleared a small patch, and in the fall became sick and died. Soon after, a hunter on his way home, passing by the clearing, saw everything still about the cabin, mistrusted all was not right, and knocked at the door to inquire. A feeble voice bade him enter. Opening the door he was startled by the appearance of the woman, sitting by the fire, pale, emaciated, and holding a puny sickly babe! He immediately inquired their health. She burst into tears and was unable to answer. The hunter stood for a moment aghast at the scene. The woman, recovering from her gush of sorrow, at length raised her head and pointed towards the bed, saying, "There is my little Edward, I expect he is dying, and here is my babe, so sick I cannot lay it down; I am so feeble I can scarcely remain in my chair, and my poor husband lies buried beside the cabin!" and then, as if frantic by the fearful recital, she exclaimed in a tone of the deepest anguish, "Oh! that I was back to my own country, where I could fall into the arms of my mother!" Tears of sympathy rolled down the weather beaten cheeks of the iron-framed hunter as he rapidly walked away for assistance. It was a touching scene. A majority of the inhabitants of this period were upright characters; bold, daring and somewhat restless, but generous minded. Although enduring great privations, much happiness fell to the kind of life they were leading. One of them says: "When I look back upon the first few years of our residence here, I am led to exclaim, O! happy days of primitive simplicity! What little aristocratic feeling anyone might have brought with him was soon quelled, for we soon found ourselves equally dependent on one another; and we enjoyed our winter evenings around our blazing hearths in our log huts cracking nuts full as well, aye! much better than has fallen to our lots since the distinctions and animosities consequent upon the acquisition of wealth have crept in among us." Another pioneer says: "In illustration of that old saw, 'A man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long,' I relate the following. A year or two after we arrived, a visit was got up by the ladies, in order to call on a neighboring family who lived a little out of the common way. The hostess was very much pleased to see them, and immediately commenced preparing the usual treat on such occasions, a cup of tea and its accompaniments. As she had but one fire-proof vessel in the house, an old broken bake kettle, it, of course, must take some time. In the first place, some pork was fried up in the kettle to get lard, secondly some cakes were made and fried in it, thirdly, some shortcakes were made in it, fourthly, it was used as a bucket to draw water, fifthly, the water was heated in it; and sixthly and lastly, the tea was put in and a very sociable dish of tea they had. In those good old times, perfectly fresh to my recollection, the young men asked nothing better than buckskin pantaloons to go a courting in, and the young ladies were not too proud to go to meeting barefoot. The following little anecdote illustrates the intrepidity of a lady in indulging her social feelings. A gentleman settled with his family about two miles west of the Vermillion river without a neighbor near him. Soon after a man and wife settled on the opposite side of the river, three miles distant; the lady on the west side was very anxious to visit her stranger neighbor on the east, and sent her a message setting a day when she should make her visit, and at the time appointed went down to cross the river with her husband, but found it so swollen with recent rains as to render it impossible to cross on foot. There was no canoe or horse in that part of the country. The obstacle was apparently insurmountable. Fortunately the man on the other side was fertile in expedients; he yoked up his oxen, anticipating the event, and arrived at the river just as the others were about to leave. Springing upon the back of one of the oxen he rode him across the river, and when he had reached the west bank, the lady, Europa-like, as fearlessly sprang on the back of the other ox, and they were both borne across the raging waters, and safely landed upon the opposite bank; and when she had concluded her visit, she returned in the same manner. The lady still lives on the same spot, and is noted for her goodness of heart and cultivated manners. Early in the settlement of the fire-lands the land holders injudiciously raised the price of land to $5 per acre. The lands belonging to the general government on the west were opened for sale at $2 per acre; immigration ceased, and as most of the settlers had bought their land on a credit, the hard times which followed the last war pressed severely upon them, and the settlements languished. Money was so scarce in 1820 and 1822, that even those who had their farms paid for were in the practice of laying up sixpences and shillings for many months to meet their taxes. All kinds of trade were carried on by barter. Many settlers left their improvements and removed farther west, finding themselves unable to pay for their lands. The first exports of produce of any consequence commenced in 1817; in 1818 the article of salt was $8 per barrel; flour was then $10, and a poor article at that. There was no market for several years beyond the wants of the settlers, which was sufficient to swallow up all the surplus products of the farmer; but when such an outlet was wanted, it was found at Detroit, Monroe and the other settlements in the upper regions of Lake Erie. As to the commercial advantages, there was a sufficient number of vessels on the lake to do the business of the country, which was done at the prices of $2.50 per barrel bulk, from Buffalo to this place, a distance of 250 miles. Now goods are transported from New York to Sandusky City as low as forty seven cents per hundred, or $9 per ton. Most kinds of merchandise sold at a sale corresponding to the prices of freight. Domestic shirtings from fifty to sixty two cents and satinets $2.50 to $3.50 per yard; green teas $1.50 to $2.50 per pound; brown sugar from twenty five to thirty cents per pound; loaf from forty to fifty per pound, etc. etc. Butter was worth twenty five cents and corn $1.00 per bushel. As to wheat there was scarcely a price known for some of the first years; the inhabitants mostly depended on buying flour by the barrel on account of the want of mills. The Indians murdered several of the inhabitants in the fire-lands. One of the most barbarous murders was committed in the Spring of 1812, upon Michael Gibbs and one Buel, who lived together in a cabin about a mile southeast of the present town of Sandusky. The murderers were two Indians named Semo and Omic. The whites went in pursuit of them; Omic was taken to Cleveland, tried, found guilty and executed. Semo was afterwards demanded of his tribe, and they were about to give him up, when anticipating his fate, he gave the war-whoop, and shot himself through the heart. In the late war, previous to Perry's victory, the inhabitants were in much dread of the Indians. Some people upon Huron river were captured by them, and also at the head of Cold Creek, where a Mrs Putnam and a whole family by the name of Snow (the man excepted) were attacked. Mrs Snow and one little child were cruelly butchered, and the rest taken captive, together with a Mrs Butler and a girl named Page, and carried to Canada. They were, however, released or purchased by the whites a few months after. Other depredations and murders were committed by the savages. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:03:13 -0400 From: Jane Peppler Subject: Heads of Household, Marion OH 1830 Canaan Township, in the order they were recorded: Jeremiah Doty David Christy Jacob Rice Leonard Wickizer Joseph Brook John Underwood Jacob Kustler Andrew Kline Jacob Strawman John Apt James Campbell Jacob Hines Rufus Smith Daniel Cooley Daniel Long Frederick Dunklebarger Jacob Aye Adam Hines Henry Aye Robert Masters Thomas Merrit John Boyle John Herrod Jacob Brown Jesse Larsen Thomas Knight John Burdine William Sears John Dillin __ Pearson Luther Brown John S. Garrott George Dillin Luther Brown Snr William Monroe Jonathan Rickets Elijah Rickets Thomas D. Ford Rufus Dodd Elizabeth Black Jesse Harris Matthew Green Eli Johnson Sarah Campbell James Herrod Ira Brown Samuel Brown Henry Brown M. Glover Henry Gaster A. Bennett James Kustler Ebenezer Burt James Stanly David Knight Joel Berdine Thomas Palten Thomas Harris E. Brown Andrew Dalrymple John Moriarty Henry Alspaugh Harvey Monroe Elizabeth Spurgeon George Brook ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:09:35 -0400 From: Jane Peppler Subject: 1840 Canaan Tp Marion County Heads of Household for Canaan Township in Marion County 1840 In the order they were recorded: Heads of Household Canaan Township 1840 Hannah Gaster Jennet Richardson Samuel Valentine Isaac Darling John Dicken John Carem Temperence Smith Casper Fell Nathaniel Williams Thompson Mills John L. Shaw B. Martin Byron L. R. Carpenter Thomas Merritt Joel Harris Jacob Sheats Saml Brown Isaac Brown William Reed Denis Lanham William Herod John Arbuckle Hallet Mills John Smith Levi Harris James Reed Matthew Dotty Henry Jackson James Porter Mary Henry John Harris Charles King William Harris David Service John Dillon Peter Baird Cornelius Callihan Samuel Hideaker Daniel Callihan Josiah Brown Ira Brown George Dillon William K. Sipe Isaiah Wells Andrew Elliott Lewis Johnson Johnson Campbell Stephen Brown Luther Brown Peter Snyder Phillimon Pierson Elisha Brown Jonathan Ricketts Isaac Leonard Sarah Burt Thomas Callihan John Boyles John Smith John Valley Benjm Leonard Thomas Hurdman Jeremiah Doty Abner Hollingsworth Hannah Masters Aaron Brown Jacob Brown Frederick Shangle Ezekial Masters Adein Rinehart William Corwin S. D. Cook James Montgomery William C. Brown Archibald Culver William Olliver David Martin Abner Legrant Jobe Fous Nancy Hurdman John Morrison Rufus Dodd Milton Brown James Ashwell Franklin Fisk Lemuel Sherman Ruell Sayres John Herrod George Shaffer Ephriam Sayres George Riggs Danl Hammond Thomas Curl Thomas Herrod James Herrod George Geyer Frederick Miller Arthur Carmickle Andrew Miller James Cummings Matthew Green George Miller Obed Rodger Levi Rodgers Danl Reasner Caleb Squibb Jacob Hammond Spears Reasoner John Parks Peter Reasoner William Reed James Linden Jacob Aye Aden Hines Andrews Geyer John Hart John Dotty John Nichols John Weaver Christian Cothart Christopher Clous -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #302 *******************************************