Here's the contents of the title page of the copy that's available in the reference section of the LDS Family History Center in Mesa, AZ: 1798. ------- HISTORY -OF- LICKING COUNTY, O. ITS PAST AND PRESENT, -CONTAINING- CONDENSED, COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF OHIO, INCLUDING AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF THE NORTH- WEST; A CONPLETE [sic] HISTORY OF LICKING COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, SOCIETIES, INDUSTRIES, STATISTICS, ETC.; A HISTORY OF ITS SOLDIERS IN THE LATE WAR; PORTRAITS OF ITS EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; A CHAPTER ON NOTED PIONEERS; VIEWS OF ITS FINEST BUILDINGS AND VARIOUS HISTORIC AND INTEREST- ING LOCALITIES--SUCH AS THE "OLD FORT," ETC.; MISCELLANEOUS MATTER; MAP OF THE COUNTY; BIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORIES OF PIONEERR [sic] FAMILIES, ETC., --------------------------- COMPILED BY N. N. HILL, JR. --------------------------- ILLUSTRATED. NEWARK, OHIO: A. A. GRAHAM & Co., PUBLISHERS. 1881. I first ran across this book a few years ago; my g-g-grandfather Thomas THOMAS appears in a short paragraph outlining his service in Company H, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry from 1864 until his death in the explosion of the steamer "Sultana" on the Mississippi River. Here are some excerpts from Hill's narrative on page 505: The cabins of Hughes and Ratliff were erected on the Bowling Green prairie, between Montour's Point and the Licking creek, about half a mile above Bowling Green run. These two families, consisting of twenty-one persons, were the only white inhabitants of this township and the county until 1800. In the spring of this year Benjamin Green and Richard Pitzer arrived, and shortly after, John Van Buskirk. In September, Isaac Stadden and family arrived, and, in September, Captain Samuel Elliott came, making the seventh family within the limits of the township. Obviously between 1800 and 1881, so many people arrived in the county that Hill could not enumerate all of them. But among other things, Hill outlines the early history of the churches of the area, and this material in particular may assist researchers who need to figure out the names of the churches whose records may be pertinent to their searches. The site of the Ohio Historical Society, http://www.ohiohistory.org/ar_tools.html, indexes the book as part of its Online Collection Catalog. It will probably be a few weeks before I can get back down to Mesa to consult the book again. BTW, a web search for this book today (May 5, 1999) turned up the following site: http://www.higginsonbooks.com/nctook.htm (not an endorsement). Ron Donnell Cave Creek, AZ