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The county was
originally divided into six townships: Jefferson, Green,
Wayne, Madison, Paint and Union.
JEFFERSON Began
at the north part of survey number 1093 on Paint Creek, and
followed its present boundary to the northwest corner of
Jasper; thence south along the present western boundary of
Jasper to the southwest corner of the same; thence east live
miles to the northeast corner of Clinton County; thence
northwest to the north part of survey 899, to Sugar Creek;
thence with its present boundary to the beginning,
including, as will be seen, the principal part of the
present territory of Jasper, GREEN.
Beginning at Henry Snyder's mill on Sugar
Creek, thence up said cre6k with its meanderings to the line
of Jefferson, northern part survey 899; thence southwest
with said line to the northeast corner of Clinton County;
thence south with the county line to the southwest corner of
Fayette County ; thence east with county line to Lemuel
Hand's. Thence to Alexander Beatty's
survey 3713; thence north, bearing west to Samuel
Edward's, northern part survey 660; thence to beginning,
including about three-fourths of the present territory of
Perry, all of Concord, and about a quarter of Jasper.
It appears that about 1818, Green was reduced in
territory by the formation of Concord, whose boundaries we
have no means of knowing until Mar. 3, 1828, when its hues
are given. Green at that time was limited on the north and
west by a line beginning at the mouth of Hankin's Run, on
Sugar Creek, at the lower bend, eastern part survey 626, and
running southwest to Samuel Stook-
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ey's, a little north and east of Staunton; thence
following very nearly its present limits to the county line.
"When Perry was first formed, it further reduced Green
to its present limits, save that portion north of a line
extending from near Buena Vista, to the mouth of Sugar
Creek, thence up Sugar Creek to Hankin's Run, the western
portion of which was subsequently— Mar. 8, 1849 joined to
Concord, and the eastern to Perry, thus leaving it in its
present shape in 1849. WAYNE.
Wayne originally included on the west, all that territory
not taken from Green in the formation of Perry, and with her
other lines nearly as they are now, except on the southeast
corner of Union at the mouth of Sugar, where we infer from
the language used, the line followed the creek (Paint).
MADISON.
Madison originally included all the territory now embraced
in Madison and Marion until June, 1840, when it was divided,
and the southern portion called Marion, and the northern
retained the original name. PAINT.
This also was one of the original townships and has not been
altered in its boundaries. UNION.
This has preserved its original lines with the exception of
a few slight changes near the old Snyder mill, on Sugar, and
extending a little farther into Wayne so as to touch the
corner of Bernard survey 739, and following the meanderings
of Paint Creek above the Brannon farm.
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