Jacob Jordan was born in 1764 in Chowan county, N. C., and in 1804 came to Loveland and in 1808, he came to where is now the site of Edenton. He was out nine months in service while the British were overrunning the Carolinas. He married in 1785 Mary Valentine and had three sons and five daughters. Of his children Nathaniel and Silas V. are the only ones that ever settled in Clermont, having located in Wayne township. Ambrose Ranson was born in 1765, in Virginia, and was among the reserves called out to repel the invasion of Cornwallis, and though but sixteen years old was present at the capture of Yorktown. He came to Miami township with Rev. Philip Gatch, with whom for many years he was associated as one of the associate judges of the common pleas court. Originally a brick-layer and plasterer, he bought a farm near Milford, then one near Newberry, but finally came to within two miles of Batavia where he died July 12, 1843. He was a member of the M. E. church for fifty-five years. John Charles Tippet [email protected]