The Alpha Omega Chapter, Alpha Delta State, of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an honorary women educators’ group, in cooperation with the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, presents a brief history of Kinsman. Kinsman township was drawn in 1798 as a standard township and assigned to John Kinsman who owned two-thirds stock and Uriah Tracy and Joseph Coit who together owned the remaining third. The land contained in the draft had been owned jointly by Kinsman and Major Joseph Perkins. These men had owned most of the Western Reserve but were dividing their interests so each could concentrate on developing and improving certain areas. Cummings and John and Isaac Mathews were left behind to clear the land. On the return journey, Kinsman made a contract with three Youngstown families to settle in Kinsman. David Randall purchased 202 - 1/2 acres of land for $405.00. Martin Tidd bought 106 acres for $212.00. The third family was that of James Hill, who was Tidd’s son-in-law. This group left Youngstown in the spring of 1802, bound for Kinsman with two teams and wagons. http://www.hubbard.lib.oh.us/HPL_Pages/docs/PDF/CityHistory/Kinsman.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Join the next generation of Hotmail and you could win the adventure of a lifetime http://www.imagine-msn.com/minisites/sweepstakes/mail/register.aspx