OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Jackson County, Ohio

History of Jackson County, Ohio
Vol. I.
by D. W. Williams -
The Scioto Salt Springs - Jackson, Ohio 1900

INDEX

	Page
Introduction	5
Fossil Bones	5
The Mammoth	5
A Jackson County Mammoth	7
The Mastodon	8
The Megatherium	9
Wild Game	9
The Buffalo	11
Some Bear Stories	14
The Elk	14
Deer	17
Panthers	18
Wolves	18
Beaver	20
The Raccoon	20
The Last Otter	20
Primeval Man	21
The Mound Builders	22
The Old Fort	23
An Archaeological Find	25
Rock Shelters	26
Salt	26
Human Skeletons	27
Story of the Ashes	29
The Salt Pans	30
The Shawnese	31
The Historic Period	31
Annexed to Virginia	32
Captain Batts' Expedition	32
First White Visitors	33
LaSalle	33
First English Visitors	34
Appearance of the Licks	35
DeCelorn's Expedition	35
The First Map	36
The Halterman Boys	36
Annexed to Quebec	40
End of French Dominion	40
Botetourt County	41
Battle of Point Pleasant	42
Lord Dunmore's War	42
General Lewis at the Licks	44
A Band of Hunters	45
Boone's Visit	45
Illinois County Organized	47
Jonathan Alder	47
Ceded to the United States	48
William Hewitt, the Hermit	49
Escape of Samuel Davis	54
Wayne's Campaign	56
Green 's Expedition	57
The James Foray	60
Treaty of Greenville	62
The First Salt Boiler	63
Congress Acts	64
The Second Salt Boiler	64
Squatter Sovereignty	66
George L. Crookham	67
Other Pioneers	68
Veterans of the Revolution	70
Gallatin's Suggestion	74
Harrison's Recommendation	74
Leasing the Licks	75
An Act Regulating the Public Salt Works	76
The First Agent	79
The First Road	80
The Last Road Appropriations	80
Tiffin's Message	81
A Postoffice Established	82
Other Salt Lick Legislation	82
An Act to Encourage Experiments at the Scioto Salt Works	83
Hildreth's Notes	84
Briggs' Notes	88
Survey of Jackson County	89
Lick Township	91
Ross County	91
The War of 1812	92
Camp Rock	94
Camp of 1812	94
Captain Strong's Company	94
Jackson County Erected	95
An Act to Erect the County of Jackson	96
First Commissioners	98
The First Election	99
-- Bloomfield	99
-- Franklin	100
-- Lick	101
-- Madison	102
-- Milton	102
-- Counting the Votes	103
Noted Salt Boiler	104
Commissioners' Proceedings	107
First Year's Taxes	111
The First Road Petition	111
First Term of Court	112
A Petition for a License to Keep a Tavern	114
First Criminal Case	114
First Petit Jury	115
Other Business	115
The First Fall Election	115
Early Criminal Record	117
The First Convict	119
The County Seat	121
Commissioners and Director Appointed	125
Selecting the Site	125
New Town Laid Out	126
Sale of Lots	127
Jackson's First Director	128
The First Jail	129
July 4, 1817	130
The First Court House	132
The First Merchants	133
Teachers' Examiners	134
The First Bankrupt	134
Autumnal Fevers	135
The First Deaths	137
The Old Graveyard	138
A Forgotten Graveyard	139
The Bunn Graveyard	140
Some Recollections	142
Darlings' Interview (James H. Darling)	145
The End	147
MISCELLANY.
A Southern Term	149
Township Names	149
Washington	149
Patent for Section 29	150
An Old time Will	151
Last Will and Testament of Hannah Thompson	151
Importing Cards	152
Lead Legends	153
The Lackey Tavern	155
Jamestown Cemetery	155
Burning of the Court House	156
The Martin Mound	156
Mackley's Recollections	157
Price's Recollections	163
The First Railroad	166
An Act to Incorporate the Iron Railroad Company	169
The First Bank	171
Citizen's Bank	172
The Mather Cemetery	172
Mt. Zion Cemetery	173
An Old Time Wedding	174
Wellston's Beginning	176
The Hughes Cave Skeleton	178
Jackson's Representatives	179
Witches	184
Symmes Creek	186
Franklin Valley	187

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