Morning all, I came across this FAY reference in "The History of Huron and Erie Counties" published 1879 by W W Williams. I'm not aware that it ties into the lines I'm researching, but may be of help to someone else on this list. Enjoy, Jim SHREVE Sr. EARLY SETTLEMENT ..... Orisimus Kellogg and family, consisting of wife and six children, emigrated from Batavia, Genesee county, New York, to the Fire-lands, in June, 1811. They were about four weeks on the journey, arriving in Townsend on the fifth of July. There were, at the time of their arrival, only two families - those of George Miller and William Burdue - in the township. The family lived with the latter until Mr. Kellogg could roll up his cabin on lot number one, the northwest corner lot in the township. He was Mr. Townsend's agent for the sale of his land, and received from him, gratis, one hundred acres, as a compensation for leaving the comforts of his eastern home and settling in the wilds of Townsend. The log cabin, when first occupied by the family, was, indeed, a primitive habitation for the abode of civilized people. It was about twenty feet square, and was without a door, window or chimney, and the puncheon floor only half laid. Mrs. Caroline Fay, a member of the family, gives the following account of their flight on hearing of Hull's surrender: "The sad news was announced at my father's dwelling at the hour of midnight of the 8th of July. The elder members of our family arose and set themselves to work immediately, making preparations to flee for their lives. At ten o'clock in the morning we were all ready and commenced our flight from the savage foe which we imagined was in close pursuit. We directed our course for Cuyahoga, Portage county. It had been raining quite hard all of the previous night. After traveling four or five miles we fell in company with four families of our acquaintance. We got twelve miles on our journey by dark, and pitched our tents and partook of our evening meal, and were obliged to spread our beds on the wet ground, and in the morning they were nearly covered with water caused by the rain that had fallen during the night. There we were, in an unbroken wilderness, and an unfrequented road of seventy-five miles to our place of destination. We were obliged to ford all the streams that lay in our path or to stop and cut trees and bridge those that were flooded by the recent rain. We were on our journey eight days and seven nights without seeing so much as a log cabin, expecting every night when we lay down to rest to be tomahawked and scalped before morning by the Indians. Many of the youth of our company were so much fatigued by travel that they could not stand alone when they first rose in the morning. One night we camped near a sugar camp where some one had made sugar the previous spring, and spread our beds on some bark that was lying on the ground. To my astonishment, when I arose in the morning, I saw a blacksnake peeping out his head from under the bed that I had rested upon. On removing the bed the men killed seven large snakes. "There was only one mill on the Fire-lands at that time, and that was situated at the head of Cold creek. It ground grain without bolting. Fortunately my father had returned from there the day but one before we heard of Hull's surrender, with nine or ten bushels of wheat ground. The next day we sifted the whole of it through a common hand sieve. The flour of that grain was nearly all that the whole of the five families had to subsist upon during the journey. We numbered nearly thirty, - children and all. We remained at Cuyahoga about six weeks, and then removed to Painesville, where we remained until October, 1813, and then returned to our former residence. We found our house, and the furniture that we buried before we left, in as good condition as could be expected."...... EARLY EVENTS. The first wedding in Townsend was that of Dr. Lyman Fay, of Milan, and Miss Caroline Kellogg, daughter of Orisimus Kellogg, of this township. This event occurred at the house of the bride's father, July 21, 1816, David Abbott, Esq., tying the nuptial knot.