CHAPTER XVII
KNOX COUNTY IN 1817
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Illustrations of the Spirit of the Times - Theatricals
- Missionaries to Be Sent to Connecticut - Small-Pox Excitement
- Trials of Interest - Patriotic Outgushings of Popular Feeling
- Combination of Mechanics - Bill of Prices - First Delegate to the State Institution
- Another Town - More Whiskey and More Marriages

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money be paid to Dr. Timothy Burr, the present Paymaster of this Regiment," &c.
     The State case vs. Alex. McKee was disposed of by fining him $5 and costs; vs. Wm. Henryby fine of $3 and costs; John Watt $3 and costs; George Lybarger $10 and costs.  Assault and battery was coming to be regarded in a more serious light.

ANOTHER TOWN ON PAPER.

     A new competitor for public favor springs into notice in September bearing the name of FLORIDA.  It is a town laid out by Samuel Hardenbrok, Geo. Vennemon and Plum Sutliff, on the X roads from Mansfield to Columbus, and from Mount Vernon to Upper Sandusky - on a handsome eminence surrounded with springs of elegant water and rich soil, convenient mill seats on the waters of Owl Creek and Whetstone.  Of this as of another city it may truthfully became  "Ilium fuit."

'10 TRIUMPHE" - A NEW INSTITUTION ESTABLISHED.

     Joseph Brown starts a distillery near Mount Vernon, and gives sixty-two and a half cents  for every 56 lbs. of good clean rye delivered at the distillery, or at Capt. Douglas' mill; he also gives one gallon of whisky for every five pecks of good clean rye.  Thus in October, 1817, did the second large manufactory of fire water go into operation.

THE MARRIAGES REGISTERED.

     "On January 2d, 1817, by Rev. James Smith, Mr. John Dwyer to the amiable Miss Sally Martin, both of Mt. Vernon.
     "On January 75h by the same, Mr. Reasin Yates  to the accomplished Miss Nancy Boalse, Daughter of Capt. N. C. Boalse, both of this town.