Absalom Smith owned a farm in Lytle's survey northeast of Williamsburg, near the Brown county line, and had served in the Pennsylvania troops. Alexander Buchanan emigrated to America in 1764, and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He was an own cousin to the ex-President Buchanan, who located in Lancaster, the same State. In 1792 he emigrated to Mason county, Kentucky, in 1796 to the mouth of Bullskin in Franklin township, and in 1799 to Washington township, where he died in 1802, his wife following him in 1812. His son, William, was the first permanent settler in Washington township, having come over from Kentucky in the summer of 1795. Alexander's children wre William Alexander, jr, Robert, James, John, married to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Fee, and father of the present Representative, Andrew, the old coroner, and Jane, married to William Dixon, Martha, to Thomas Phillips, and a third girl to Mr Wilson. He served in all the New Jersey battles. Thomas Manning was a pensioner in Ohio township in 1840, and owned a place on the Green survey which he entered before 1815. John Charles Tippet [email protected]