In 1800,
John VanBuskirk and Benjamin Murphy, the last week in March;
Phineas Ford, on the 7th of April, and J. Wayman, the same season.

In 1801-2,
Jonathan Benjamin, John Horned, Wm. Horned, George Wells, John Edwards, Alexander Holmes, Richard Wells, Joseph Wells, Bazeleel Wells, James Hendricks, William Wells, William Richardson, John Wagy, James Green, Henry Owens.

In 1803
Thomas Stone, George Stone, Philip Smith, Joshua Browning, William Holmes, John Price, Joshua Price, James Taylor, William Johnson, Mordica Price, Charles Howard, Benjamin Price, Nicholas Porter, Martin Lincoln, Abram Mouser, J. Pumphrey.

In 1804-5,
James Holmes jr., Daniel Smith, David Beaver, John Good, John Farmer, John Coulter, Elias Farmer, John V. Farmer, Abram Beaver, Francis Twigg, Cornelius Elliott, John and Jacob Myers, and Jeremiah Page, John Hilton.

In 1806-7
Samuel Hand, Henry Horn, Henry Hillbrant, John Black, Abraham Stepp, John Hughs, William Hughs, Peter Clem, Thomas Hughs, John Cunningham, Amos Park, John Thompson, David Benjamin.

In 1808 to 1810

     The increase of population was quite rapid, among whom we may name, John Rhodes, John Ruffner, Abram Rhodes, John Park, Henry Myers, Samuel Stone, George Callahan, Aaron Park, J. K. Myers, Philip Peters, James Cunningham.

     There were several of those that brought with them children, that were men, and women at the time of their parents arrival.  Among whom we may name, Jemima Black, and Jane Ingraham, daughters of Jonathan Benjamin, in 1801; Catharine Horned in 1803; Amos and Lewis Farmer in 1805, and in the same year, Samuel and Ephraim Coulter.  There were doubtless other families not named above, and some of these may be misplaced, but I think I am substantially correct.  Of those above named that came here married, I find but one left, namely - Mrs. Hannah Horn, she was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, May 25, 1785, married to Henry Horn, in 1804, moved to this to to this township in October 1806, lost her husband May 1, 1816, raised a family of four daughters, one of which (Mrs. Lane,) is still living; she has lived a widow for more than fifty-four years, and now in her eighty-sixth year, is in good health, still active on foot, and will get a meal of victuals for a family, or clear up her table and wash her dishes in less time and in better order than many young persons.  I was born in Mrs. Horn's cabin, and spent the first forty years of my life her near neighbor, and her daughters were my school-mates, whom I learned to esteem almost as sisters, and I know whereof I speak when I say that Mrs. Horn has passed through privations and trials, under which many noble women would have sunk, left alone in the wilderness among strangers, with four young daughters.  She had a home it is true, but it was but partially improved, but by the practice of an economy and an energy that most of us might do well to emulate, she drove her loom and superintended the improvement and cultivation of her farm, and raised her children to the respectability, and now at a ripe old age is living in the enjoyment of the home and association of a daughter and Son-in-law, that are ranked among the wealthy and influential citizens of Union Township.
     For some things that we could not learn from the living, we have visited the cities of the dead, and consulted the "Tombs," and from their records we have taken the following list, which will give a pretty fair representation of the astonishing degree of longevity, to which many of those hardy Pioneers attained, notwithstanding their privations.

     The aggregate age attained by these (65) persons is 5,005 years, or an average of 77 years.  A few of the above did not move into the township till a later date, but still were properly Western Pioneers, and came to the Licking Valley at an early day.  There are others who died out of the Township whose record we have not been able to get.  Among whom are James Taylor and wife, James and George Stone and wives, Alex. Wells and wife, and Susan Park, some of whom attained an age of near 100 years.
     There are a few of the Elder citizens of these early settlers that have attained a good old age; among whom are Jemima Black, aged 84; Lewis Farmer, 82; Mrs. Farmer, 77; Daniel Green, 79; Hannah Benjamin, 73; Margaret Ingraham, 71; Mary Vankirk, 74; Jonathan Benjamin, jr., 72; Rebecca Geach, 70; J. Van Buskirk, 70, Henry Pumphrey, 68; Thomas Ford, 68; Elizabeth Shaver, 81; John Peters, 76.  It may be worth noting that nearly all of these early settlers, both male and female, were expert in the use of the rifle, and some of hte men were "professional hunters," who devoted much of their time to the chase, especially in the Fall and Winter, when the flesh and skins of wild animals were most valuable.  Among these we may name Thomas Stone, Joshua Browning, John Edwards, John Price, John and Elias Farmer and John Coulter, as being among the most expert of their day.  Thomas Stone was distinguished as a bear hunter, sometimes killing as many as eight to twelve in a season.  Those men were seldom seen at any time, even at church, without their rifle.  Indeed some of them did not feel themselves fully dressed until their "hunter's belt" was buckled around them, and the shot-pouch and powder horn hung over their shoulders.  They not only gloried in the chase, but with some of them the chief source of their living until old age and the scarcity of game compelled them to give it up.  John Edwards and Thomas Stone were good farmers and fair business men, and accumulated some property, but most of these hunters died poor.