Hi, all, Continued records of the descendants of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris through their son, Obediah. I am trying to send all of this in a chronologically-based manner, but it is difficult to do so because there are so many different sources and so many different parts of this line. So as I have previously said, please place all the files I have sent & am sending into one folder on your computer, where you can then look at each posting, and coherently connect them all together. The dreary part of this county history is not so dreary when you realize that the Benjamin Harris, and his son Pleasant were the son and grandson of Obediah & Rebecca Johnson Harris. Pam pamstone@cfl.rr.com ========================== Extracted from: YOUNG, Andrew W.: History of Wayne Co., Indiana, From Its First Settlement to the Present Time; With Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches.; Published, 1872, by Robert Clarke & Co., Printers, Cincinati, Ohio, USA This volume is under no copyright, and is PUBLIC RECORD. --- pp. 81-82: Location of the County seat . The late Dr. Plummer, in his "Historical Sketch," quotes from John B. Stitt as follows: "At the June term, 1811, the commissioners appointed by an act of legislature, having failed to discharge their duty according to law, in selecting a seat of justice for the county, the court declared their duties ended, and appointed in their stead Samuel Walker, Richard Maxwell, and Benj. Harris." Richard Rue and Ephraim Overman were members of the territorial legislature of 1810, from the county of Dearborn, of which the present county of Wayne formed a part. There were then but three counties in the territory, Knox, Clark, and Dearborn.The Commissioners to locate the county seat were John Addington, George Holman, and John Cox. The law prescribing their duties and fixing the time and the place of their meeting, did not reach the court, then held at Rue's, until about a month after its publication.And the court ordered "that the town in Wayne, or the seat of justice, shall be called Salisbury." . This action of the court was denounced by friends of the central location.A paper was circulated to take the sense of the citizens in respect to the legality of the action of the court, designed to be presented to the court. The result showed 330 in favor of the report of the legislative committee [two of which determined that the seat should be in the center of the county], and 150 approving the action of the court. . Efforts were soon made for the removal of the county seat to Centerville. In the midst of the bitter strife between the Salisbury and Centerville parties.an act was passed in 1816, authorizing the removal of the county seat to Centerville. ========================== END OF FILE ==========================