--part1_2fdacce.2471a643_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/16/99 9:07:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 73777.25@compuserve.com writes: << The following historical sketch of Delaware County and its noted characters was written for the first edition by Dr. H.C. Mann: The first settlement in the county was made May 1, 1801, on the east bank of the Olentangy, five miles below Delaware, by Nathan Carpenter and Avery Powers, from Chenango county, N.Y. Carpenter brought his family with him and built the first cabin near where the farm-house now stands. Powers family came out toward fall, but he had been out the year before to explore the country and select the location. In 1804 Carpenter built the first mill in the county, where the factory of Gun, Jones & Co. now stands. It was a saw-mill, with a small pair of stones attached, made of boulders, or "nigger heads," as they were commonly called. it could only grind a few bushels a day but still it was a great advantage to the settlers. >> I wasn't sure if anyone has this line but I hope it might be of some help to someone. It unfortunately is not my line! Betsy McGee Rice Riceys5@aol.com --part1_2fdacce.2471a643_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <OHDELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (rly-zc04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.4]) by air-zc05.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Sun, 16 May 1999 21:07:03 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id VAA02962; Sun, 16 May 1999 21:06:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA28031; Sun, 16 May 1999 18:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:59:37 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25@compuserve.com> Sender: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25@compuserve.com> Old-To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Message-ID: <199905162105_MC2-75E2-8B36@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [OHDELAWA-L] DELAWARE COUNTY - PART 1 Resent-Message-ID: <y3x_kD.A.R1G.Vu2P3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: OHDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: OHDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: OHDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <OHDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/395 X-Loop: OHDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: OHDELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 DELAWARE DELAWARE COUNTY was formed from Franklin county, February 10, 1808. It lies north of Columbus. The surface is generally level and the soil clay, except the river bottoms. About one-third of the surface is adapted to meadow and pasture, and the remainder to the plough. The Scioto and branches run through north and south -the Olentangy, Alum creek, and Walnut creek. Area, 450 square miles. In 1885 the acres cultivated were 108,277; in pasture, 98,488; woodland, 43,371; lying waste, 1,009; produced in wheat, 279,917 bushels; corn, 1,410,875; wool, 606,665 pounds; sheep, 107,895. School census 1886, 8,487; teachers, 196. It has 72 miles of railroad. TOWNSHIPS AND CENSUS 1840 1880 Berkshire 1,407 1,656 Berlin 827 1,388 Brown 908 1,178 Concord 1,185 1,478 Delaware 1,917 8,091 Genoa 1,193 1,045 Harlem 963 1,144 Kingston 657 562 Liberty 811 1,481 Marlborough 1,182 360 Orange 789 1,227 Oxford 774 1,266 Porter 678 925 Radnor 1,174 1,209 Scioto 877 1,667 Thompson 660 851 Trenton 1,188 899 Troy 838 954 The population of the county in 1820 was 7,639; in 1840, 22,060; in 1860, 23,902; in 1880, 27,381, of whom 21,890 were Ohio-born. The name of this county originated from the Delaware tribe, some of whom once dwelt within its limits, and had extensive corn-fields adjacent to its seat of justice. John Johnston says: "The true name of this one powerful tribe is Wa-be-nugh-ka, that is, 'the people from the east,' or 'the sun rising.' The tradition among themselves is, that they originally, at some very remote period, emigrated from the West, crossed the Mississippi, ascending the Ohio, fighting their way, until they reached the Delaware river (so named from Lord Delaware), near where Philadelphia now stands, in which region of country they became fixed. About this time they were so numerous that no enumeration could be made of the nation. They welcomed to the shores of the new world that great lawgiver, William Penn, and his peaceful followers, and ever since this people have entertained a kind and grateful recollection of them; and to this day, speaking of good men are Quakers. In 1823 I removed to the west of the Mississippi persons of this tribe who were born and raised within thirty miles of Philadelphia. These chiefs with a subject of reproach against the whites, pointing to these of their people and saying to us, 'see how you have spoiled them,' meaning they had acquired all the bad habits of the white people, and were ignorant of hunting, and incapable of making a livelihood as other Indians. In 1819 there were belonging to my agency in Ohio 80 Delawares, who were stationed near Upper Sandusky, and in Indiana 2,300 of the same tribe. Bockinghelas was the principal chief of the Delawares for many years after my going into the Indian country; he was a distinguished warrior in his day, and an old man when I knew him. Killbuck, another Delaware chief, had received a liberal education at Princeton College, and retained until his death the great outlines of the morality of the Gospel." In the middle of the last century the Forks of the Muskingum, in Coshocton county, was the great central point of the Delawares. There are yet fragments of the nation in Canada and in the Indian Territory. The following historical sketch of Delaware county and its noted characters was written for the first edition by Dr. H.C. Mann: The first settlement in the county was made May 1, 1801, on the east bank of the Olentangy, five miles below Delaware, by Nathan Carpenter and Avery Powers, from Chenango county, N.Y. Carpenter brought his family with him and built the first cabin near where the farm-house now stands. Powers family came out toward fall, but he had been out the year before to explore the country and select the location. In April, 1802, Thomas Celler, with Josiah McKinney, from Franklin county, Pa., moved in and settled two miles lower down, and in the fall of 1803 Henry Perry, from Wales, commenced a clearing and put up a cabin in Radnor, three-fourths of a mile south of Delhi. In the spring of 1804 Aaron, John and Ebenezer Welch (brothers) and Capt. Leonard Monroe, from Chenango, N.Y. settled in Carpenters neighborhood, and the next fall Col. Byxbe and his company from Berkshire, Mass., settled on Alum creek, and named their township Berkshire. The settlement at Norton, by William Drake and Nathaniel Wyatt; Lewis settlement, in Berlin, and the one at Westfield followed soon after. In 1804 Carpenter built the first mill in the county, where the factory of Gun, Jones & Co. now stands. It was a saw-mill, with a small pair of stones attached, made of boulders, or "nigger heads," as they were commonly called. it could only grind a few bushels a day but still it was a great advantage to the settlers. When the county was organized, in 1808, the following officers were elected, viz.: Avery Powers, John Welch and Ezekiel Brown, commissioners; Rev. Jacob Drake, treasurer; Dr. Reuben Lamb, recorder, and Azariah Root, surveyor. The officers of the court were Judge Belt, of Chillicothe, president; Josiah M'Kinney, Thomas Brown and Moses Byxbe, associate judges; Ralph Osborn, prosecuting attorney; Solomon Smith, sheriff, and Moses Byxbe, Jr., clerk. The first session was held in a little cabin that stood north of the sulphur spring. The grand jury sat under a cherry-tree, and the petit jury in a cluster of bushes on another part of the lot, with their constables at considerable distance to keep off intruders. BLOCK-HOUSES. -This being a border county during the last war, danger was apprehended from the Indians, and a block-house was built in 1812 at Norton, and another, still standing on Alum creek, seven miles east from Delaware, and the present dwelling of L.H. Cowles, Esq., northeast corner Main and William streets, was converted into a temporary stockade. During the war this county furnished a company of cavalry, that served several short campaigns as volunteers under Capt. Elias Murray, and several entire companies of infantry were called out from there at different times by Gov. Meigs, but the county never was invaded. Continued in Part 2 ==== OHDELAWA Mailing List ==== This list is for anyone with an interest in Genealogy in Delaware County Ohio. To search this list go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter OHDELAWA for the list name. --part1_2fdacce.2471a643_boundary--