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after the first election of county officers was
held, Apr. 7, 1828, two new townships, called
Amanda and Welfare, were erected from Findlay
Township, which previously embraced the whole
county. As the minutes of the
commissioners' journal from the organization of
the county up to April, 1829, having been
missing for some eyars from the record book
in the auditor' s office, it is not possible to
give the original boundaries of these townships;
but old settlers have stated that Amanda and
Welfare then embraced the whole southeast
portion of the county. On the 1st of June,
1829, in compliance with a petition presented by
the citizens of Welfare Township, the board of
commissioners changed the name of that
subdivision to Delaware. Upon the erection
of Jackson Township Dec. 7, 1829, a part of
Delaware was taken into that township, leaving
the latter composed of the full congressional
Township 2 south. Range 11 east. On Mar.
4, 1834, Township 2 south. Range 12, was
attached to Delaware, where it remained till its
erection as Richland Township, Mar. 2, 1835.
The next change in the boundaries of Delaware
occurred June 1, 1840, when the two western
tiers of sections were taken in the formation of
Madison Township. Wyandot County was erected
Feb. 3, 1845, and the five eastern tiers or
thirty sections of Richland Township became a
part of the new county, thus wiping out Richland
as a subdivision of Hancock. The remaining
tier of sections was attached by the
commissioners to Delaware Township, Mar. 5,
1845, and no change has since occurred in the
territory of this subdivision. It contains
thirty full sections of land - twenty-four in
Township 2, Range 11, and six in Range 12, or an
area of 19, - 200
Delaware is the southeastern township of Hancock
County, and is bounded on the north by Jackson
and Amanda Townships, on the east by Wyandot
County, on the south by Hardin County, and on
the west by Madison Township. In 1840, it
contained a population of 532; 1850, 1,035;
1860, 1,231; 1870, 1,280; 1880, 1,455.
The lands of Delaware Township were originally densely
covered with oak, elm, ash, maple, walnut beech,
hickory, sycamore, cottonwood, linn, buckeye,
hackberry and several other kinds of timber,
most of which has long ago disappeared before
the ringing blows of the woodman's ax. The
Blanchard River enters the township in Section
36, and meandering northward through he central
sections thereof strikes the northern Boundary
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line in Section 2, half a mile northwest of Mt.
Blanchard. It receives, in its course
through Delaware, Potato Creek and Hancock Run
from the southeast, and from the southwest,
Wolford's Run and Ripley's Run. Along the
Blanchard the surface is rolling, while back
from that stream it is generally more level.
The prevailing soil is a black, sandy loam, very
rich and productive, but on the higher lands a
clay mixture predominates, which, however, does
not lessen its fertility or value.
Pioneers. -
Late in 1821, or early in the followoing year,
ASA LAKE and his wife, CLOE, with
their son, Asa M., and daughters,
Lydia and Martha,
re..........................MORE TO COME
MICHAEL BURKE
DANIEL HAMLIN
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The GREER FAMILY
REUBEN W. HAMLIN
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GODFREY WOLFORD
In the fall of 1825 ROBERT E. and
CATHERINE ELDER
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Early Mills. -
Churches. -
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PICTURE of S.
F. DULIN
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Schools. -
Justices of the Peace. -
Mt. Blanchard. -
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