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    1. [OHBELMON-L] Centenial History of Belmont
    2. Sandra Ferguson
    3. I'm going to try to go through this book and pick out the names of the early settlers of each township, and other names I find. Colrain; settlement as early as 1788. Abner Barton had a farm, first bought from the government by Wells and Satterthwaite in 1788... Hugh Parks estabished a tannery. Richare Harris had the first flour mill in 1803-4. J. G. Hanes also had a mill, southeast of Colerain Village. Burton Stanton supplied the logs to build the mill; Farmington, laid out in 1818 by Daniel McPeak...early occupants were the Bundys, Mortons, Mitchells, Berrys and Dunlaps. Colerain village, founded by Friends who emigrated largely from NC and VA to escape slavery...among the early families were the Steers, Copes, Baileys, Hirsts and berrys...they came from Louden and Frederick Cos, Va. the Pickerings came from VA; the Howards and Steels from NC; the Millhouses, Vickers, Malins and Whartons from PA. Horton Howard was a well known minister; Geo. Smith was also a minister; Josiah Fox moved here in 1814, but was disowned for building war ships. The families of Given, French and Wright were also early Quaker families. There were also a large number of Scots-Irish amongt the early imigrants; Bartons, Majors, Wells and Wrights, John S, Williams was later the editor of the American Pioneer, in Cincinnati. Pleasant Grove; established by John Anderson in 1820. about 1800 an old hunter hamed Peter Babb lived there Churches; Methodist Epsicopal...Farmington...Scott, Johes and Lovman were early ministers Seceders" and Covenanters' churches...Seceders'; early meetings held at the farm of Rev. Hugh Parks...disbanded in 1835. covenanters established their church in 1842 but existed less than 25 years. Methodist Protestant; in Pleasant grove, established in1852, presided over by Reb Slater Brown, in the early years. Presbyterian Church of Farmington; organ 1872 through the efforts of the Rev. Robert Alexander of St. Clairsville..pastor James Day and elders John Theaker and James Wiley. Church of Our lady Queen of Angels...in Barton..organized 1893 by father Weigand of Bridgeport. St. Stanislaus' Church...Maynard....organized ca 1893 byFather Touhy of Martin's Ferry.

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