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Source:
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Vol. II
Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882

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Chapter VII.
BROOKFIELD.
Trumbull Co., OH.
Pg. 346

  

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

POPULATION AND INDUSTRIES

 

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VILLAGES

 

PROPRIETORSHIP

 

EARLY SETTLEMENTS

     The first white man who came into this township for the purpose of settlement was JAMES McMULLEN, Sr..   The inducement held out to him to come into this then unbroken wilderness was an offer of one hundred and sixty acres of land in lot number seventy-eight in the east part of the township.  He arrived in the year 1796, and erected his log cabin near a spring a few rods southeast of the present school-house.
     This cabin was a very rude structure, built of unhewn logs notched and fitted together at the ends and “chinked ” with mud.  The floor was made of split logs familiarly known as puncheons.  McMullen had a family of seven sons, namely: Thomas, Samuel, John, Martin, James, William, and Doctor (the latter receiving this unusual name on account of his being the seventh son).  Samuel was married to Elizabeth, daughter of William Chatfield, in whose cabin the marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Thomas G. Jones.  This was the first marriage in the township.  The cabin stood immediately south of the present residence of James Bentley, lot sixty-seven.  William, a son of James McMullen and his second wife, was born in the log cabin above mentioned and was the first white child born in the township.

     REV. THOMAS G. JONES

 

 

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     JOHN BRIGGS

     JOHNSON PATRICK

     JACOB ULP lived southeast of Chatfield, and Ethan Newcomb joined Mr. Bentley on the north

     THOMAS THOMPSON

     JUDGE ROBERT HUGHES

     The first death in the township of which there is any record, was that of MRS. HENRY GANDY.  The body was interred in the woods, a short distance south of the present Whitacre coal bank.

     MATTHEW THOMPSON

     DR. THOMAS HARTFORD

     ROBERT MONTGOMERY

     In 1811 the road districts were designated and the supervisor elected received the names of the persons whom he had under his charge, and the following assignments are appended to show the extent of the Brookfield settlement in that year.  The district assigned to Jacob Ulp included the road leading from his house to Brockway's mills, also the road running east on the center line from Yankee run to the Pennsylvania line, and embraced the following persons with himself:  Thomas G. Jones, Benjamin Jones, James McMullen, Nathan Birge, Geo. Middleton, John Tribby, John Patterson, Philip Yarnell, and Daniel Groscost.

     JAMES WILSON

     HENRY H. GANDY

     William Cunningham's district included the road leading from the center north to Brockway's mill and from thence on the triangle road leading to Simeon Wheeler's, and included the following persons: David Bacon, Constant Lake,

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Clark Rathbun, Samuel l'atrick, Benjamin Bentley, Ethan Nathan, John Briggs, Reuben Campbell, James Thompson, Henry and John Hull, James Russell, Jacob Reeder, Richard Creamer, Thomas Pattens, Joseph R. Porter, Jonathan Alderman.

SCHOOLS

 

 

INDIANS

 

 

THE BROOKFIELD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

 

 

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THE PRESBYTERIAN (OLD SCHOOL) CHURCH.

 



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     In 1866 REV. G. S. RICE was the stated supply for a time.

 

 

THE METHODISTS

 

THE DISCIPLES CHURCH

 

NOTES OF SETTLEMENT.

     DR. ELIJAH FLOWER
 

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     E. D. KING

     JACOB ULP came from New Jersey to Brookfield in 1804 and settled on the farm where his sons now live.  He married Elizabeth Scheiner and raised three sons and two daughters.  All are living except one daughter, viz: William and Amos, Brookfield; Enoch, Hickory township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania; Eliza (Clark) Girard, Pennsylvania.  Susan is dead.  Jacob Ulp died in 1860 aged eighty-three; Mrs. Ulp
died in 1836 aged about sixty-two.  William Ulp was born in Brookfield on the farm where he now lives in 1810.  He married, first, Elizabeth Carkuff, a native of New Jersey.  She bore four children, all now living: Timothy Dwight, Enoch, William, and AdelaideMrs. Ulp died in 1845 aged thirty-two.  Mr. Ulp married for his second wife Nancy Wright, a native of Massachusetts.  Five children, Eliza, Jane, Leonidas, Ella, and IdaAmos Ulp was born in Brookfield in 1813, and is still a resident of the township.  He married Rachel Conover and has three children—Robert, Charles, and Alfred.

     ROBERT MONTGOMERY

     JAMES BENTLEY

 

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     WILLIAM SQUIRES

     ABIEL BARTHOLOMEW

     JAMES STEWART

     PHINEAS WHEELER

     JAMES CHRISTY

     DR. ROBERT P. HAYS

     Among the Welsh residents of Brookfield DAVID S. JONES, who lives on a farm in the southwest of the township, is one of the most prominent.  At the time of our visit he was absent, visiting his native land, therefore we are unable to give a personal history of him.
      - (See  Sharon's Notes at bottom of this page)

     JOHN and LUCY BENTLEY

 

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     SAMUEL D. GETTIS

     ISAAC D. PRICE

     R. R. MINER

     PETER COOK

     JAMES LAFFERTY

     J. G. TREAT

 

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BIOGRAPHIAL SKETCHES

     BLISS HART AND FAMILY

 

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SHARON'S NOTES RE: DAVID S. JONES
There is no biography of this man who was a prominent person in Trumbull Co., Ohio because he was on a trip when the biographies were written.
I have found the following things for him:
1870 Census Brookfield, Trumbull Co., OH on Aug. 19, 1870 - Brookfield Twp., OH - Post Office:  Brookfield, Ohio
Dwelling 153 - Family 150
Jones, David S.                    ae 35yrs  M W   Coal Digger  RE$2,000   Pers$300    b. Wales
Jones, Ann                           ae 33yrs  F W     Keeping house     b. Wales
Jones, Thomas                     ae 12yrs M W  b. Ohio
Jones, David                        ae 11yrs. M W   b. Ohio
Jones, Mary J.                     ae 9yrs.   F W    b. Ohio
Jones, Stephen                     ae 6yrs.   M W   b. Ohio
Jones, Edward                     ae 5yrs.   M W    b. Ohio
Next page continues family
Jones, Augusta                     ae 4yrs.    F W    b. Ohio
Jones, Elizabeth                   ae 3yrs.   F W    b. Ohio
Jones, Arthir                         ae 2 yrs.   M W   b. Ohio
Jones, Margaret                   ae ?/12yr  F W   b. Ohio
Source:  Ancestrycom  1870 Census Place: Brookfield, Trumbull, Ohio; Roll: M593_1271; Page: 63B; Family History Library Film: 552770

1880 Census Brookfield Tp., Trumbull Co., OH on 7th & 8th day of June, 1880
Dwelling 101  Family 124
Jones, David S.      W M 49                       Married  - Coal Mining                   b. England
Jones, Anna            W F 49        Wife        Married - Keeping House                b. England
Jones, David           W M 24      Son          Single    - Coal Miner                       b. England
Jones, Stephen        W M 21      Son          Single    - Coal Miner                       b. Ohio
Jones, Edward        W M 19       Son          Single    - Coal Miner                       b. Ohio
Jones, Augustus       W M 17     Son          Single    - Coal Miner                       b. Ohio
Jones, Elizabeth       W F 16    Dau          Single    - At Home                             b. Ohio
Jones, Arthur            W M 13    Son          Single    - At School                           b. Ohio
Jones, Margaret        W F 11   Dau.         Single    - At School                           b. Ohio
Jones, Gwenddolen   W F 9     Dau.          Single   -   b. Ohio
Source:  Year: 1880; Census Place:  Brookfield, Trumbull, Ohio; Roll: 1070; Page: 54A; Enumeration District: 187
Found at Ancestry.com
David S. Jones' Will can be found at Ancestry.com
It is in Vol. 12, pp. 401 - 405
The Will says David S. Jones died April 20, 1891 at Brookfield, Trumbull Co., Ohio

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