Hello While doing research on the surname Oury/Ory/Uhrig family in Jackson Co. Ohio. I was sent a few pages that had my ancestor name on it . While reading the other names I notice that the majority of them had or was connected to Westmoreland and Armstrong Co. So I thought I would post what little I have and if it can help anyone that would be great. HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY OHIO BY D. W. WILLIAMS VOL. I pg. 126 & 127 March 18, 1817, for the selection of a town site. On the appointed day a large assemblage of salt boilers, planters, hunters and trappers greeted them at DONNALLY'S tavern.. They found their duty a very simple affair. Nature had long before prepared a most beautiful town site, and all that it needed was the official sanction of Ohio's agents. The report of the commissioners was laid before Judge John THOMPSON on Monday, April 7, 1817, the opening day of the April term of Court of Common Pleas, and was as follows: The commissioners appointed by joint resolution of the Legislature of Ohio for fixing the seat of justice in the county of Jackson, after being notified of their appoointment, and the inhabitants having due notice of the time and place of their meeting entered on the duty assigned them by the Legislature, and after examining different sections of land in the six miles square reserved by Congress for the use of this state, do report that they are unanimously of opinion that section numbered 29 is the section they have chosen for the use of said county of Jackson, and that they are unanimously of opinion that the north end of said section, south from Salt creek and immediatlely back of the houses occupied by N. W. ANDREWS, Mr. GEORGE and Mr. A. WELSH, upon the highland , is the most eligible place for the seat of justice in said county of Jackson . All of which is respectfully submitted. Given under our hands at Poplar Row, Lick township, the 18th day of March, 1817. HENRY BARTLETT, SAMUEL REED, LEWIS NEWSOM, Commissioners. New Town Laid Out-- This report was approved by the court and ordered filed. The clerk was then directed to notify the director to give bond and qualify. Joseph ARMSTRONG, came into court April 8, 1817, presented his bond in the sum of $10,000 with Johon STEPHENSON, Emanuel TRAXLER, Robert G. HANNA and Andrew BOGGS as securities, which was approved, and he was therupon authorized to proceed to the execution of his duties as director. His first duty was to lay out the new town. Surveyor McNEAL did not care to undertake the work, and the services of Judge Joseph Fletcher of Gallipolis were secured. He was assisted by N.W. ANDREWS and David RADCLIFF. Joseph W. ROSS, Francis ORY, and George RILEY acted as chain carriers, and thestakes were made by James CHAPMAN and a son of Sheriff WELCH. The stone for the corners of the public square were furnished by Major John JAMES. The house of John GEORGE stood on the lot facing the RUF tannery, and that of A. WELCH on the site of the residence of Jacob W. BEYRON. The sides of the square determined the bearing of the streets. The remainder of the half section was divided into 137 inlots, 36 outlots, a common and the necessary streets and alleys. The survey occupied eight days, during which the surveying party was boarded with John GEORGE, whose account was $19.62 1-2. Judge FLETCHER was paid $60 for his services. SALE OF LOTS-- Next came the lot sale. It began June 2, 1817, and continued ten days. J. W. ROSS was auctioneer, and N. W. ANDREWS and Richard JOHNSON served as clerks. A large number of land speculators from Ross, Pike, Scioto and Gallia counties were in attendance, and the bidding on desirable lots was lively. Inlot 1, the southeast corner of Main and Portsmouth streets, was bid in by Elisha FITCH of Ross Co. who also secured the Commercial bank corner, paying $107 for the first, and $79 for the other. The four lots facing the public square brought $390. Inlot 5, the Martin corner, was bought by Robert LUCAS for $100. Daniel Hoffman bid in the Gibson corner, paying $141 for inlot 52, and $102 for inlot 51 adjoining. Inlot 35, the Isham corner, was run up to $145, and fell to Reason DARBY. The liveliest bidding was on the improved lots on Poplar Row, but the majority of them fell to the lessees. Inlot 110, the McKitterick corner was bought by John JAMES for $140. John GEORGE paid $120 for the lot facing the tannery. Daniel HOFFMAN bid $165 for inlot 116, the pg. 130-131 been fed at Andrew DONNALLY's ordinary, and guarded by deputy sheriffs. John GEORGE, the contractor for the building of the jail was in trouble with the courts all the time, and the expense of guarding him in the fall of 1817 amounted to $33.75. The guarding of Peter MARSHALL for a few days in August 1817 cost $39.75 and he esaped after all. The further sum of $25 was paid as a reward to William JOLLY for his recapture. July 4, 1817 Settling and receiving a statement of the sale of one-half section of land belonging to the county of Jackson of Joseph ARMSTRON, director. This meeting was held at the seat of justice in Jackson county, in the house of Andrew DONNALLY; present , Emanuel TRAXLER, John STEPHENSON and Robert G. HANNA, Commissioners, and Nathaniel W. ANDREWS, clerk. The director Joseph ARMSTRONG, then presented the following acounts as expenses of the survey, and the expenses of the sale, and also his own acount of the number of days employed up to the present time. William RANSOM for going to Chillicothe to surveyor general's office, for the field notes of the section, $3 Abraham WELCH for the use of a horse in going for said field notes and a boy one-half day making stakes $1 Nathaniel W. ANDREWS for two days and a half assisting surveyor, $2.50 Hugh POOR for two hands employed seven days making stakes, ect. and hauling plank for a shed for clerks, $11.50. John JAMES, for the use of a boy and one-horse wagon for hauling stakes and stone for the corners of the public square, and a hand one day in making stakes, $6.50 Joseph W. ROSS for carrying chain three days, $2.25 Francis ORY, do. six days $4.50 George RILEY, do. four days $3 David RADCLIFF, assisting surveyor, $2.75 James CHAPMAN two days making stakes $1.50 Joseph ARMSTRON for two days taken up in employing hands, $4