This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1YB.2ACI/803 Message Board Post: The History Of Carroll & Harrison Counties, Ohio author - Judge H. J. Eckley, for Carroll County author - Judge W. T. Perry, for Harrison County pub. in 1921 page - 240 Early Land Entries The records at the land office in Steubenville show that the office was open in 1800 and that the following entries were made for the first five years on land situated in what is now known as Harrison County, Ohio : James Arnold , Arthur Barrett , Thomas Barrett , James Black , Robert Braden , George Brown , George Carahan , John Carahan , Samuel Carnahan , Joseph Clark , Robert Cochran , John Craig , Thomas Dickerson , Samuel Dunlap , James Finney , Samuel Gilmore , Eleazer Huff , John Huff , William Huff , James Hanna , James Haverfield , Thomas Hitchcock , Joseph Holmes , William Ingles , John Jamison , Joel Johnson , Joseph Johnson , William Johnson , Absalom Kent , George Layport , John Love , John Lyons , William McClary , John McConnell , Robert McCullough , William McCullough , John McFadden , Samuel McFadden , John Maholm , Samuel Maholm , Robert Maxwell , Thomas Maxwell , William Moore , Samuel Osburn , Baldwin Parsons , John Pugh , Rev. John Rea , John Ross , Jacob Shepler , Samuel Smith , Martin Synder , John Taggart , Thomas Taylor , Hugh Teas , Robert Vincent , Thomas Vincent , John Wallace , Michael Waxler , Daniel Welcj , James Wilkin , Thomas Wilson. Of this list of pioneer settlers in Harrison County, it is known that the McFaddens , Craigs , Jamisons , Gilmores , Hannas , Reas , Welches , Moores , and Lyons came from Washington County, Pennsylvania The Arnolds , Dunlaps , Dickersons , and Maholmes, from Fayette County, Pa ; and most of the others probably came from the same districts. Alexander Henderson occupied the land near Cadiz known as the Walter Jamison farm as early as April, 1799, having moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania, with his family, about that time ; and that Daniel Peterson then resided with his family at the forks of Short Creek.