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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, for the plan adopted by the inhabitants requires a positive answer.

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     Mr. Dhebercourt has 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 require.

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     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 3s 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.

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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.

     At a meeting of the associate judges of the county of Gallia, held at Gallipolis, on Tuesday, the 10th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, for the purpose of dividing the said county of Gallia into townships, and to apportion to each township a proper number of justices of the peace, and for other purposes.  Present, Robert Safford and George W. Putnam.
     The county was then divided into three separate townships:  Le Tarts, Kyger and Gallipolis.  The latter was divided as follows:
     "Gallipolis township, beginning at the mouth of Campaign creek, and thence down the river Ohio to the county of Scioto, thence north with said county line to Ross county line, thence with said Ross line to the northwest corner of the seventh townships in the seventeenth range, thence east to where Campaign creek intersects the line between the sixth and seventh townships in the fifteenth range, thence down said creek with the meanders to the place of beginning.  And that two justices is the proper number to be elected in said township, and that the election for said township be held at the house of John Bing."
     The county and townships were  afterward may times sub-divided and changed, and the present boundaries are indicated by the accompanying maps.  The county, as now defined, is situated in that geological division designated as Coal Measures; bounded on the north by Meigs, Vinton and Jackson, east by the Ohio river, south by Lawrence and the Ohio river and west by Lawrence and Jackson.  The river margin in the county is 36.40 miles in length, divided as follows:  Guyan township, 204 chains; Ohio, 876; Clay, 498; Gallipolis, 666; Addison, 501, and Cheshire, 167.  Its area is about 430 square miles; surface, hilly, excepting a tract bordering upon the Ohio river and bottom lands along various other streams, where it is more level, and soil fertile.  A great part of the county is covered with a black, sandy loam, well adapted to the growth of wheat and corn, which are quite extensively raised.  The staple crops are wheat, corn, oats, rye, buck-wheat, and recently the cultivation of tobacco has been assuming prominence.  Much of the land is excellent for grazing purposes, and a great deal of attention is paid to the raising of cattle, sheep and hogs, and much interest is being developed in the introduction of blooded stock.  The northern, western and southern parts of the county are underlaid with valuable, easily worked veins of iron ore, coal, limestone and fire clay which, since the advent of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad, in the spring of 1880, is being rapidly developed.  This railroad has an incline side track to the river at Gallipolis for the convenient transfer of freight with the Ohio river boats.
     The principal streams are Raccoon, Symmes', Chickamauga, Campaign, Swan and Kyger, all of which flow into the Ohio.
     The population of the county in 1810 was 4,181; in 1820, 7,098; in 1830, 9,733; in 1840, 13,444; in 1850, 17,063; in 1860, 22,043; in 1870, 25,545, and in 1880, 28,124.  The territory of the county was diminished, in 1849, by the formation of the new county, Vinton, on the north, by which Gallia lost Wilksville township, which went to the new county, and two tiers of sections off the west part of Raccoon township, and one tier off the north part of Greenfield township, which were ceeded to Jackson county, leaving fifteen townships.  The following was the

POPULATION BY TOWNSHIPS IN 1870 AND 1880.

STATISTICAL ITEMS.

     Gallia county contains 286,108 acres of land, the agricultural portions, 61,982 wood-land; 10,447 waste.  The number of acres sown to wheat for the crop of 1882 is 32,043.  During the year 1881 there was produced 298,896 bushels of wheat, 616, 866 bushels corn, 34,254 bushels oats, 1,805 bushels buckwheat, 651 bushels rye, 226 bushels clover seed, 84,872 bushels potatoes, 11,095 tons hay, 189,690 pounds tobacco, 45,253 pounds wool, and a large quantity of fruits and dairy products.  These figures, although taken from the Ohio Statistics for 1881, are probably not entirely correct, but they serve to give an idea of the staple agricultural products of the county.  The total valuation of horses, mules, cattle, sheep and hogs is $545,466.  During 1881, 3,500 tons of iron and 92,948 bushels of coal were also produced.
     The 286,108 acres of land in the county is valued on the tax duplicate at an average of $12.23 per acre, or $3,499,531, and the buildings thereon at $354,564.  Total, $3,854,095.  The valuation of property outside of Gallipolis exempt from taxation for college purposes, is $31,270; common school, $34,434; churches, $20,071; charitable institutions, $7,665; others, $854.  Total, $96,329.
     During the year ending March 31, 1881, there were 318 marriages, 224 deaths and 616 births.  The county had in charge 105 paupers, at a cost of 14 cents per day each, $8,752.61.  The only railroad in the county is the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, which has a main track 3.91 miles in length, valued upon the duplicate at $168,880.  The total duplicate for 1881 is$7,441,848, and the tax assessment $120,303.95.

GLEANINGS FROM THE COUNTY RECORDS.

     The opening pages of the records of Gallia County Commissioners are lost, and the first item found of especial interest is the settlement with the first treasurer, Nicholas Thevenin, July 2, 1804, for the preceding year;

RECEIPTS.

CREDITS.

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