In the early 1800's inducements were given to the people of Vermont to live in Canada. During the War of 1812, these people, whose ancestors had fought in the Revolutionary War, did not wish to stay there under the rule of King George III. In 1812, a group of them came into Union County,Ohio, to settle. Among these people were Peris Walton and Joseph Walton. This group from Canada left on September 20, 1812, and were six weeks traveling. They stopped at Worthington, Ohio, and the next summer, 1813, made their way to the Darby Plain, where some had cabins finished and were able to settle by the end of the summer, or the next spring. The settlement was called Green Settlement after the first settler there. The families who came from Canada were Russell Bigelow, father of the celebrated Rev. Russell Bigelow, Moses Patrick, Asa Plummer, Joab Hoyt, Amose Hawley, Dr. Gideon Hawley, PERIS and JOSEPH WALTON, and Nehemiah Sabine. The following year, 1814, another installment from the same place followed, and settled with their predecessors. They were Isreal Lockwood, James Dockum and Stephen Jackson, Ephraim Keyes, Obadiah Jones, from Vermont, Uriah Wood and Col. Jacob Fairfield, from the State of New York. From the Beers History of Union County, Ohio --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am researching Peres (Paris) Walton and his family. His youngest child, Mariah Walton was born in 1806 in Dunham, Canada. Her birth is recorded in the Dunham Vital Records and her parents are named in this birth record as Peres and Hannah Walton. Peres Walton had a son named Joseph G. Walton who married Deborah Gilbert. Deborah's mother and father Moses and Lydia Mallory Gilbert lived in Quebec and remained there. Peres daughter Mary Walton married Reuben Church in June of 1806 in Dunham, Canada, I do not have a marriage record for them so I am not sure of this date. They went to the Methodist Church in Dunham. They may have had children born in Dunham, Quebec before their move to Ohio. I am descended from Mariah Walton and am interested in corresponding with other Walton researchers. Sue in Ohio