While surfing through the Crawford Co., Ohio site, under the History section: "In the first 25 years of history in every township in Crawford Co., the first occupants were the trappers and surveyors, who often became farmers also, joining the incoming farmers and settlers. SAMUEL NORTON, the founder of the village of Bucyrus, came from Susquehanna Co., PA in 1817, and as the first actual settler took up a claim on the border of the Sandusky Plains, 8 miles from the nearest cabin. He is described as a man of large athletic proportions, 6 feet high of strong determination, keen intelligence, and full of the true spirit of enterprise. After selecting his quarter-section he returned to PA for his family. When he returned he erected his pole cabin, and made a clearing located near the Sandusky River where his daughter, Sophronia, probably the first white child, was born within the original limits of the county. Hopefully this Samuel will fit into someone's genealogy. Joan