Generally in Ohio townships do not have any records that they keep about PEOPLE, they have records about road repairs and other such stuff. The county and state governments keep records having to do with births, deaths, marriages and land transfers. probably every state in the NW territories has a Licking River, mainly because early settlers and explorers found a salt lick somewhere near and named the river accordingly. I know for a fact about Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Mike salley