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BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County
from The Earliest to the Present Date
by H. S. Knapp
Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- 1863 -
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Mohican Twp. -
WILLIAM NEWBROUGH
and wife, in March, 1819, removed to the northeast
quarter of section 28, Mohican Township, having
purchased his land of Martin Longstrath. Upon
this farm he yet resides.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 424 |
Vermillion Twp. -
ANDREW NEWMAN removed to Vermillion
Township in the fall of the year 1825, and purchased of
Samuel McBride the farm upon which was afterward the site of
Newman's mill - being the same property now owned by
Joseph Boyd. At this date his family consisted of his
wife and two sons, namely, William, and James H.
Mr. Newman subsequently purchased a farm on the
south line of Vermillion Township[, where he died on the 20th of
January, 1861, at the age of eighty-three years.
He had immigrated to Richland County in the year 1806,
and during the war of 1812 resided about three and a half miles
southwest of Petersburg, Mifflin Township, on the Rocky Fork.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 283 |
Mohican Twp. -
THOMAS
NEWMAN. This gentleman is, (June,
1861,) beyond doubt, the oldest citizen now living within
Ashland County. He was born in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire,
England, about 1758, which would make him now one hundred and
three years of age. Mr. Newman is also at his time
among the oldest of the pioneers. He entered the land upon
which he now resides - being the northwest quarter of Section23,
township 21, (Mohican,) in the year 1810. About two years
afterward he received his patent, which bears date July 1, 1812,
and is signed by James Madison, President, and Edward
Tiffin, (the first Governor of Ohio,) Commissioner of
the General Land Office. This document, which has been
well preserved, is probably amount the oldest of its kind in the
possession of the original purchaser, which now exists in the
county.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 424 |
Green Twp. -
JOHN NEPTUNE, an
emigrant from Maryland, removed to Wooster in 1819, and in 1824
purchased the farm in Hanover Township, now owned by John
Sneer. In 1831 he purchased adn removed to the farm
upon which himself and family have sine resided, in Green
Township.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp,
Publ. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 332 |
AMOS
NORRIS and wife emigrated from Huntington County,
Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1809. They resided in
Lancaster until 1810, when they immigrated to Mohican Township.
Mr. Norris and William Eagle jointly entered a
quarter section in said township. Mrs. Mary widow
of Amos Norris, (who died in the summer of 1862, at the
age of seventy-four years, and who furnished this memorandum a
few weeks previous to her decease,) states that during the first
and second years of their residence in Mohican the Indians were
numerous, and visited and traded with them almost daily.
"In August, 1812, my husband and myself went on a visit to
Pennsylvania. We did not know that war was declared when
we left home, but when we reached the Pennsylvania settlements,
we found the people greatly excited, and the men volunteering
and drilling. In our absence Hull had surrendered
his army to the British, and when we returned home we found our
panic-stricken neighbors forted. The Indians had been
removed from their villages to Delaware by the Federal troops.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 517 |
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