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December 17th.
Resolved, That athe secretary be ordered by the committee to go
to the house of Mr. Dhebercourt, to request him to declare if
it is his intention to join himself with us for the acquisition of
our property, fo the plan adopted by the inhabitants requires a
positive answer.
ETIENNE, Sec.
Mr. Dhebercourthas
replied that he is disposed to agree to the acquisition of the lands
of Gallipolis, paying for his property seven shillings six-pence per
acre, and that he will not conform to the plan adopted until he has
taken such steps as he believe his interests rquire.
ETIENNE, Sec.
Resolved, That
Messrs. Berthelot and DuPort, whom we have appointed
collectors, go to the houses of the inhabitants to receive the sums
set down in the list made between us, according to the plan agreed
on by the inhabitants, Dec. 17th, 1795.
Resolved, That Mr. DuPort is by us
appointed cashier, and in this capacity the money remain in his
hands until the time of payment for the lands.
December 19, 1795. According to the resolutions
of the committee, on the 16th of this month, agreed to by the
assembled inhabitants, reserved lots near the square, divided into
eighteen equal portions, have been drawn by lot in the presence of
the assembled inhabitants, and fell to Messrs.
Vandenbemden, Chandiver, father, Chandiver, son,
Vonschriltz, Gervaise, Ferrare, jr., LaCour, Davoux, Villerain,
Muqui, Quarleron, Michau, Brunier, Bureau, Lafillard, child of
Vonschriltz, sr., Francis Valodin, and Pierre Richon.
December 22d. By virtue of the resolution of
the committee of the 18th, Messrs. Marin DuPort and
Mathieu Berthelot have been engaged in receiving the sums to be
give by each proprietor, which sums have amounted to $594 5s 6d in
money, and orders on Mr Sproat for the appointments of Spies,
of which sum of money amounted to $91 es 2d.
Bills on different persons $203. Orders of spies
on the current appointments $553, which sums form a total of $1042
2s 8d.
Resolved, That Messrs, Mathieu Berthelot,
Romain Bureau, and Marin DuPort, DeVacht and John
LeTailletur go to Marietta in the name of the committee of the
inhabitants of Gallipolis, to conclude with the Ohio Company the
acquisition of the two squares (of land) indicated in the plan which
has been given us by the agents of the Ohio Company.
ETIENNE, Sec.
PARMENTIER.
This was acknowledged
before E. W. Tupper, Justice of the Peace, Apr. 9, 1817.
Recorded May 25, 1824.
"John Paul alias Jones," Commodore U. S.
N. during the Revolutionary War, was one of the purchasers of five
of the original shares in the Ohio Company's purchase. Part of
his land was located near the northeastern line of the corporation,
now the T., C. & H. V. R. R. Co. has a gravel pit upon part of
it, where Camp Carrington was located in 1861, and where a military
hospital was subsequently built.
Soon after the establishment of the county a record was
made of which the following is a copy:
DIVISION OF GALLIA COUNTY INTO TOWNSHIPS BY THE
ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
POPULATION BY TOWNSHIPS IN 1870 AND 1880.
STATISTICAL ITEMS.
GLEANINGS FROM THE COUNTY RECORDS.
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