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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 184 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: Migration Ky to OH ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <02aa01bfd8c9$7f3885a0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Migration Ky to OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by blizzard.columbus.rr.com id LAA29298 ----- Original Message ----- From: Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 5:24 AM I have enjoyed the articles about migration between Kentucky and Ohio, in part because my gg-father Francis M. Eubanks married his first wife in Nicholas County, KY in 1860 and moved to Adams County, Ohio around 1864. I found a book in our local library about the early settlers of Ohio. Below is a portion of a history of Adams County, Ohio which explains how and why some families made the trip in the late 1790'99s. Bob Eubanks Leesburg, FL Adams County (Ohio) lies on the Ohio River fifty miles east of Cincinnati and one hundred south of Columbus. It derives it's name from John Adams, second President of the United States. It was formed July 10, 1797, by proclamation of Governor St. Clair being then one of four counties into which the North-west Territory was divided.....................The first settlement within the Virginia military tract, and the only one between the Scioto and Little Miami until after the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, was made in this county, at Manchester, by then Col. later Gen. Nathaniel Massie. McDonald, in his unpretending, but excellent little volume, says: Manchester Settled: Massie, in the winter of the year 1790, determined to make a settlement in it, that he might be in the midst of his surveying operations and secure his party from danger and exposure. In order to effect this, he gave general notice in Kentucky of his intention, and offered each of the first twenty-five families, as a donation, one in-lot and one out-lot, and one hundred acres of land, provided they would settle in a town he intended to lay off at his settlement. His proffered terms were soon closed in with, and upwards of thirty families joined him. After various consultations with his friends at the bottom on the Ohio River, opposite the lower of the Three Islands, was selected as the most eligible spot. Here he fixed his station and laid off into lots a town............... ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:54:00 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <02a901bfd8c9$7ee49940$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Local History - Piersol/Pearsall, Pierce - Jackson Township, Mahoning Co., OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 1:46 AM Entry from July 1, 1932 Mahoning Dispatch- Jackson Township History - installment -- by Harley Tuttle "The early traditions of Jackson township contain no records of mighty achievements of hunters and if there were any great fishers the account of their fishing has been lost. Like many of the other townships in this section there was an abundant supply of wild game. My, how some of our hunters of to-day would rejoice to go out and kill deer and bear within a few rods of the back door! It seems almost impossible to some of us to think that one day there were deer, bear, wolves and probably rattlesnakes in great numbers on all sides of where he (sic) live in comparative peace and quiet. The destruction of some of this game was not a matter of sport, but of necessity. There are kinds of wild game which cannot be tamed or taught to be good neighbors. Such criturs were the wolves. There was but one way to deal with them and that was to eliminate them. This the early settler did. Added to the necessity of doing this to protect the flocks and herds was a bounty on the wolf scalps. No need to say more. This made the destruction of the beasts a means of replenishing the pocket book of the settler which never was too fat. One night Joseph Pierce lost all his sheep, a drove of seventeen, except three, by these marauders. John Pearsall, one of the early settlers in the eastern part of the township was chased by a pack of these varmints one night. They always seemed to be up to their deviltry in the silent watches of the night when honest folks were in bed. At the time Mr. Pearsall was unarmed, but he procured a club and waded in on the pack and used it to such advantage that he was enabled to reach home without injury." _________________________________________ ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:41:06 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <070901bfd8df$7b884ce0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Next County: Ashland County Information Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/mashland.html DATE CREATED - 1846 PARENT COUNTY - Wayne, Richland, Huron, Lorain COUNTY SEAT - Ashland SURROUNDED BY: NORTHWEST - Huron County NORTHEAST - Medina County EAST - Wayne County SOUTHEAST - Holmes County SOUTH - Knox County WEST - Richland County OTHER INFORMATION Ashland County, located 60 miles southeast of Cleveland, was established in 1846. The county seat, is also named Ashland. It produces over half of the world's supply of toy balloons and is the home of Ashland College founded in 1816. Ashland College is also the home site of Johnny Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. Dairy products are the main agricultural industry. Other industries include; metals, machinery, transportation equiptment, rubber, stone-clay-glass, chemicals, automotive equiptment, home appliances and microphones. Clerk of Courts has divorce and civil court records from 1846. Maggie -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #184 *******************************************