ORIGINALLY this township was included in the limits of Ashtabula, and it was not until Jan. 7, 1838, that the territory now under consideration was, by order of the county commissioners, detached from that township, and created a new one, to be known as township No. 12 of the third range.

ORGANIZATION

THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS

ROADS

TOPOGRAPHY

     Much of the western portion of the township is of high rolling ground, while in the southern part extensive marshes prevail, the largest of which is some three miles in length, and averaging, perhaps, three-quarters of a mile in width; its waters, flowing westerly, are discharged into Grand river, in Austinburg.  South of the “ Big marsh” lie two smaller ones, which are separated by a natural roadway, over which the mail was carried to Jefferson until the opening of the Franklin division of the Lake Shore railroad.  The waters of these two marshes flow, one easterly, into Ashtabula creek, the other westerly, into Grand river.

STREAMS.

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ASSESSORS' RETURNS.

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