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History of Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
Published by D. W. Ensign & Co.,
1879

HISTORY OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY,

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PART SECOND:

THE CITY OF CLEVELAND

CHAPTER XLV

THE VILLAGE FROM 1800 TO 1815

Population in 1800 - Civil Organizations - City Lots too High - Good Crops - The First Distillery - An Indian Play ground - A White Dog Feast - Samuel Huntington - Spafford's Map - Changes of Streets - The First School - A Lawyer Among Wolves - First Hotel Keepers - Huntington's Advancement - First Framed House - Its Destruction - One Family A Year - Price of Freight - First Militia Company - Purchase of the West Side from the Indians - The First Post Office - Newburg Families - Samuel Dodge - The Two Omics - Young Moic's Violence - Carter threatens to Hang Him - The Story of "Ben" - A Curious Ending - John Walworth - The First Collector - A Framed House on the Ridge - A New Religion - hard Customers in Cleveland - Slaughtering Hogs on Sunday - A Would be Runaway - Forcing a Man back to take his Pay - Another Major - A Cleveland Governor and Senator - Fanny Hawley's Adventure with an Indian - His Freaks at Hawley's House - The Last Division of Reserve Lands - Cleveland made the County Seat - Elias Cozad - Samuel and Mathew Williamson - Levi Johnson - The Residents of 1810 - The Two Stores - The First Court of Record - Another Warehouse - George Wallace - The First Execution - The War of 1812 - Residents at the Beginning of the War - Taking Potatoes to Perry - The First Brick Building - A Schooner built in the Woods - The Village incorporated - Close of the War.

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IN 1800 the population of the tract laid out as a city still consisted only of the families of Carter, Spafford and Clark, Stpehen Gilbert and perhaps Joseph Landon; making a total of about twenty persons. In the whole territory now included in the city, however, there must have been between sixty and seventy persons.
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