Source:
GENERAL HISTORY
of
GEAUGA COUNTY
with
SKETCHES of
Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men
Publ. by
The Historical Society of Geauga County
1880

MUNSON.
BY ORIGEN MINER

(NOTE:  Some pages in this book were not properly photographed therefore then will be some missing items marked by "___" below here.  ~ Sharon Wick)

PUBLIC ROADS

SCHOOLS

RELIGIOUS MEETINGS, ORGANIZATION OF CHURCHES, ETC.

FRAME BUILDINTS, ETC.

ACCIDENTS.

SUICIDES.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

TORNADOES

REMARKABLE SEASONS, ETC.

HUNTING.

DEATH OF JOHN L. KELLEY.

REMARKABLE BIRTHS.

POPULATION.

STATISTICS OF ELECTIONS.

MILITARY ROSTER.
----
WAR WITH MEXICO.
Pg. 272

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     The township of Newbury is situated in range eight (8), town seven (7), is the second tier from the south and the second from the west, being in the southwest part of Geauga county.  It is laid out in three (3) tracts, known as tract one, tract two and tract three.
     Tract one is composed of a strip two (2) miles wide across the north side of the township.
     Tract two consists of one mile wide, through the center of the township, on both sides of the east and west center road.
     Tract three is the balance of the township, being two miles wide across the south side of the township.
     Tract one is laid out into thirty-six (36) lots, of about two hundred acres each, commencing at the southwest corner of the tract, running north three lots then back and forth across the tract, bringing lot thirty-six in the southeast corner of said tract.
     Tract two is laid out in eighteen lots, commencing at the northeast corner running west on the north tier, and east on the south side of the center road bringing lot eighteen south of lot one on the east side of the township.
     Tract three is divided into forty-four lots, of one hundred and sixty acres each, beginning with number one in the northwest corner of the tract, running east to the line of the township, to tract eleven, then west on the second tier and back and forth, bringing lot forty-four i the southwest corner of the township.

SURFACE.

     The northern and western part of the township is somewhat rolling and hilly, __ntral and southern more level, but undulating.  There is but very little __ land, the hill land being good grazing, and the low lands are excellent __ mowing lands.
     ___ ere are four bodies of water or lakes in the eastern part of the township.
     __rst, known as Houghton's pond, is situated on lot four, in tracts two and __y-four, in tract one.  The second, or Synair's pond, on lot three, on tract __own in later years as Emerald lake, lies in lot seventeen, tract two, and __, in tract three, which is the largest body of water in the county.
 

STREAMS.

     ___ughton's pond finds an outlet to the northwest through Coe's brook, where __s its way to Chagrin river, near the northwest corner of the township, and __o Lake Erie near Willoughby.
    _airs's pond, about one-fourth of a mile east of Houghton's, finds its way to __ad of Emerald lake, thence southeast out near the corner of the township __ Cuyahoga river, to Lake Erie at Cleveland.  So water that starts so near ___ creek, in the southwest part, flows north of west, and enters Chagrin near the center of Russell.
     The township is very watered, except the central southern portion, where __ water on the surface is somewhat scarce.

SOIL AND TIMBER.

SETTLEMENTS.

    The first improvements in the township of Newbury is supposed to have been by Judge Stone, near North Newbury, about 1802.  Judge Stone settled ___ township of Burton, but cleared land in both townships about the same ____.  Soon after Mr. Lemuel Punderson came from Connecticut as a land ___ for some eastern land companies and commenced making improvements.
     ___ _808 Mr. Punderson and Mr. Hickox entered into partnership to build a ____, a saw-mill and a distillery near the foot of the big pond.  During ___ they cut the raod west from Beard's saw mill, and to the lower end of the pond.  During the summer of 1809 they got out the timber (Mr. Punderson being a carpenter) for their buildings, and cleared the land to build on, and __ also built the dam.  Soon after letting the water against the dam, there came __ flood and carried off their dam, causing them a loss of several hundred dollars __ from Pittsburgh overland, and the millstones were made by a Mr. Parks, __ Burton, from hardhead stones.  In the year 1810, they completed the mill a__ distillery; then commenced making whiskey, and feeding cattle and hogs.  Tho___ commanding a good price and a ready sale.
     A. Mrs. Royce kept the house and did the cooking for Mr. Pderson, a__ his men and Mr. Royce worked on the mill, and was the first miller in the tow__.
     About 1816 or 1817 Punderson built the saw-mill.  They first attempted __ take the water from teh upper dam in the race that they cut in the east bank __ the oloow, but it being of a soapy clay, it would not stand.  So the neighbo___ around the country built the present dam, and moved the mill, taking their p___ in sawing at the mill as they wanted the lumber to use on their barns or hose__.  For a fuller account, see the personal sketch of Punderson.
     In 1818 Mr. Marcena Munn commenced erecting a saw-mill in the west p___ of the township, but dying soon after this completion, it was occupied by M___ Thomas A. Munn, his son.

LOTS MORE TO BE ADDED upon request.

     The tax-payers of Newbury, for the year 1817, were as fellows:
 

     So we see in 1817 the whole taxable personal property in the township of Newbury was twelve horses and sixty-seven cattle, and the whole personal property tax was ten dollars and thirty cents.
     Uncle Jo Wilber used to doctor clocks and watches on the Oakhill road half a mile east of the grist-mill.

MORE TO BE ADDED upon request.

CIVIL ROSTER.

     ____ following officers have served in the township of Newbury, since its or____, in 1817:

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

TOWNSHIP CLERKS.

ASSESSORS.

TRUSTEES.

TREASURERS.

CONSTABLES.

MILITARY ROSTER
(pg. 239)