SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Perry Township Early Settlement  (1883)

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History of Shelby County  Sutton 1883
Perry Township
Early Settlement
pg. 215

The first settlement made within the present limits of this township was
made by Judge David Henry in February, 1814.  He located in section 28, on
the farm now owned by Wm. R. Ried, Esq., on the banks of the Mosquito Creek.

  We cannot learn that there were any others who came that year.  The
following year Samuel and William Robinson, with their families, found their
way to the same neighborhood.   They were followed by Wm. Marrs in 1816; he
by George Chiles, Charles Johnston, Thomas Wilkinson, Peter Musselman, and
Benjamin Manning, all of whom were her prior to the organization of the
county in 1819.

The first road laid out in the township is the one known as the Sidney and
Urbana Road.

The first log and also the first frame house was built by David Henry.

The first frame barn was erected by Wm. Marrs.  The same is still standing
on the farm of Henry R. Miller.  The lumber was sawed for it in this
township on a mill built by Peter Musselman on Mosquito Creek.

First brick house was built by Henry C. Line in 1836.

The first flouring mill was built by Charles Mason, a colored man.  He built
a log mill on Mosquito Creek, near where the Manning & Line mill now stands.

  It had a corn and wheat buhr, the bolt was turned by hand.

The second flouring mill was werected by Wm. Pepper, on the place now owned
by E. F. Henry.

The first carding machine was owned by Peter Musselman and was built about
1835.

The first births were (twins) David and Sally Henry, born February 17, 1815.