The country having for its name Ohio was constituted, under Genreal Arthur St. Clair, a territorial government in the 1788, and he continued as Governor until the adoption of the State constitution in 1803. By his proclamation the county of Fairfield was created December 9th, 1800, and the district of which we now treat was included therein until the month of February, 1808, when it was, by enactment of the Legislature, organized into a separate and distinct county, honored with the name of General Henry Knox, a distinguished officer of the revolutionary army, who was subsequently Secretary of War in Gen. Washinton's administration. from A Banning Norton's "History of Knox County. Myron