IN the present limits of the State of Ohio, part of the Territory of the Northwest, the first seven counties were created by the proclamation of Governor St. Clair in the following chronological order:  Washington, July 27, 1788; Hamilton, Jan. 2, 1790; Wayne, Aug. 15, 1796; Adams, July 10, 1797; Jefferson, July 29, 1797; Ross, Aug. 20, 1798; and Trumbull, July 10, 1800.
     Up to the early part of the year 1799 all the country between the Little Miami River and Elk River (Eagle Creek) was a part of Hamilton County, and called Anderson township; but in the latter part of that year it was divided into two townships, called Washington and Deerfield, the latter embracing the northern part of the present county, with the southern portion of Warren County, and the former including the southern and central parts of all the territory, now in Clermont and Brown Counties, between the Little Miami River and Eagle Creek.
     The first Territorial Legislature, consisting of a council of five, appointed by the President John Adams, on Mar. 22, 1799, to wit,  - Jacob Burnet  and James Findlay, of Cincinnati; Robert Oliver of Marietta; David Vance, of Vanceville, Jefferson Co.; and Henry Vandenburg, of Vincennes (Indiana), - and a House of Representatives of twenty-two members, elected by the people from the counties of Washington, Hamilton, Wayne, Adams, Jefferson, and Ross (in Ohio), and Knox, St. Clair, and Randolph (in Indiana), met and organized at Cincinnati on Sept. 27, 1799.  This body passed the following act.

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