----- Original Message ----- From: <EUBANKS123@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 5:24 AM I have enjoyed the articles about migration between Kentucky and Ohio, in part because my gg-father Francis M. Eubanks married his first wife in Nicholas County, KY in 1860 and moved to Adams County, Ohio around 1864. I found a book in our local library about the early settlers of Ohio. Below is a portion of a history of Adams County, Ohio which explains how and why some families made the trip in the late 1790’s. Bob Eubanks Leesburg, FL Adams County (Ohio) lies on the Ohio River fifty miles east of Cincinnati and one hundred south of Columbus. It derives it’s name from John Adams, second President of the United States. It was formed July 10, 1797, by proclamation of Governor St. Clair being then one of four counties into which the North-west Territory was divided.....................The first settlement within the Virginia military tract, and the only one between the Scioto and Little Miami until after the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, was made in this county, at Manchester, by then Col. later Gen. Nathaniel Massie. McDonald, in his unpretending, but excellent little volume, says: Manchester Settled: Massie, in the winter of the year 1790, determined to make a settlement in it, that he might be in the midst of his surveying operations and secure his party from danger and exposure. In order to effect this, he gave general notice in Kentucky of his intention, and offered each of the first twenty-five families, as a donation, one in-lot and one out-lot, and one hundred acres of land, provided they would settle in a town he intended to lay off at his settlement. His proffered terms were soon closed in with, and upwards of thirty families joined him. After various consultations with his friends at the bottom on the Ohio River, opposite the lower of the Three Islands, was selected as the most eligible spot. Here he fixed his station and laid off into lots a town...............