Chapter 4 Memoirs of Wayne County , Indiana page 36 By the same act of the Terriotrial legislature forming the County of Wayne , in 1810 , John COX , John ADDINGTON , & George HOLMAN , were commissioned to locate a County seat , on or before the first Monday in May 1811. Meanwhile , however , court was held at the rude residence of Richard RUE , as indeed it was susequent to locating the County seat , pending the building of a log court house. The first court was held 2-25-1811 but it was not a judicial session , the purpose being to divide the county into two districts or townships and appoint such officers as overseers of the poor & fence viewers , the county buisness being done by judges - Peter FLEMING , Aaron MARTIN , Jeremiah MEEK ; the clerk was George HUNT , the sherrif was JOHN TURNER & the prosecutor was James NOBLE .