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The ancestors of Captain Josiah
Munro, with several other emigrants,
came from Scotland at a very early date and bought a large tract of
land in Lexington, Massachusetts, and settled there in company.
They were from the highlands of Scotland. At the breaking out
of the revolution Captain Munro, then recently married, was
living on a farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The battle of
Lexington was fought on the common in front of this father's door.
Immediately after this battle he left his farm and joined the forces
of the Colonies, and continued in the New Hampshire line during the
war. He was at the capture of Burgoyne, and the surrender of
Cornwallis. He was in 1783 one of the signers of the officer's
petition to Congress for an appropriation of western lands in
payment for their services. Of the formation of the Ohio
Company he became the share holder, and leaving his family at
Amherst, New Hampshire, he was one of the forty-eight who first came
to Marietta. Before the Indian war his family came west, and
during that calamitous period lived in the garrison at the Point.
Captain Munro was a talented and useful man. He was teh
second post-master in Marietta, succeeding Hon. R. J. Meigs
in that office, and holding it from 1795 to 1801. He was also
appointed a Judge of the Court of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace
in 1796. His family settled in Muskingum County. His
daughter married Colonel Daniel Convers, of Zanesville, Ohio.
Captain Munro's monument in Mound Cemetery, at Marietta,
bears this inscription: "Captain Josiah Munro; born at
Lexington Massachusetts. February 12, 1745; died at Marietta,
August, 1801. He was an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and
became the friend of Lafayette, who recognized his services in the
war by the gift of a sword. He was one of the original Ohio
Company who landed at Marietta, April 7, 1788, and was appointed
post-master at Marietta, 1794, which office he held at the time of
his death."
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Captain William
Mason was a native of Massachusetts; be belonged to
the Forty-eight, and was one of the first to land at the mouth of
the Muskingum, April 7, 1788. He married, March 14, 1790,
Susanna, daughter of Major Asa Coburn, and they were in
Campus Martius during the war. In the first organized militia
at Marietta under Colonel Sproat, Mr. Mason was an orderly
sergeant; in 1797, Winthrop Sargent, acting governor,
commissioned him lieutenant, and under a reorganization, Governor
Arthur St. Clair appointed William Mason, gentleman,
a lieutenant in the First regiment, 1801. When the
new state government went into operation, he received a Captain's
commission from Governor Edward Tiffin. He settled
about 1797, in Adams township, and was prominent in the early
community. He fine farm was on the bottom and plain nearly
opposite Upper Lowell, on the Muskingum. Here he lived with
his family of twelve children, and died there September 26, 1813.
Among his descendants was the late Colonel William B. Mason,
of Marietta, who entered the Union army, as private, in 1861, and
returned in 1864, Colonel of the 77th Ohio regiment.
Source:
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John Mathews
was a nephew of General Rufus Putnam. He was employed
in the survey of the seven ranges in 1786. He was appointed a
surveyor for the Ohio Company, and joined the expedition that landed
at Marietta, April 7, 1788, and was himself a share-holder in the
Company. While engaged surveying in the lower part of the
purchase, in Lawrence county, his camp was attacked by a party of
hostile Shawnees, early in the morning of August 7, 1789. He
had with him a guard of seven soldiers, all of whom were killed,
except the corporal. Mr. Mathews' assistant was shot dead at
his side, and he escaped almost naked, and succeeded, with three or
four of his party, who were unhurt, in reaching Colonel R. J.
Meigs, who was in a boat with a party surveying the Ohio river.
This was the most serious disaster experienced by any of the
surveying parties. Besides the loss of life, all the clothing,
guns, surveying instruments, and camp equipment were lost. In
1792, Mr. Mathews was appointed superintendent of affairs at
Gallioplis. **In 1796, he married a daughter
of Judge Dudley Woodbridge, of Marietta, and settled in
Muskingum County, and became a successful, active, and clear headed
men Ohio ever claimed for a citizen.
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Colonel Return Jonathan
Meigs was one of the surveyors
employed by the Ohio Company. He was a "Colonel in the
Revolutionary army, born at Middletown, Connecticut, December, 1740,
died at the Cherokee Agency, Georgia, January 28, 1823;
distinguished for exploit at Sag Harbor, and at the storming of
Stony Point; served to the end of the war. He was one of the
first settlers at Marietta, Ohio, in 1788. He was commissioner
of clothing under General Wayne, in 1795. In 1802,
Jefferson appointed him agent for Indian Affairs. The Indians
called him the White Path." He was a member of the Society of
the Cincinnati. On his removal to Georgia, "the inhabitants of
Marietta parted with him very reluctantly, holding his person and
virtues in the highest estimation. His upright, manly conduct,
dignified manners, and kind heart, had enlisted all in his favor.
During a long life of activity and usefulness, no man ever sustained
a character more irreproachable than Colonel Meigs. He
was a pattern of excellence as a patriot, a philanthropist, and a
Christian." His eldest son, R. J. Meigs, Jr., remained
a citizen of Marietta; he became a supreme Judge, United States
Senator, Governor of Ohio, and Postmaster General of the United
States.
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Of Simeon
Martin, of Chebacco, Massachusetts, another of the
forty-eight, only this is known; he owned a share in the Ohio
Company, and "was to go into the country, if wanted, on his own
hook."
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Henry Maxon
came to Marietta April 7, 1788, and went to Waterford at its first
settlement. He and his wife occupied a block-house on the west
side of the Muskingum, which Major Dean Tyler had erected for
the security of the settlers while engaged in cultivating their
land. It was on the peninsula, one mile from Wolf Creek Mills.
Major Tyler, a brave, intelligent, and worthy man, resided with
the Maxons. When the Indian war burst upon them, so
unexpectedly, on the long to be remembered night of January 2, 1791,
when the settlement at Big Bottom was destroyed, they retired to
Fort Frey, on the east bank of the river. Mr. Maxon
eventually settled in Fearing township, and was an active and useful
citizen.
Source:
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WILLIAM MORRIS,
who carries on general farming on section 19, Brush Creek township,
was born upon his father's farm in this county, his parents being
William and Elizabeth (Smith) Morris. His paternal
grandfather, John Morris, was a native of Scotland, born in
Edinburgh, whence he came to America at an early day, Milliam
Morris, Sr., is a native of Morgan county, Ohio, and although he
is now one of the prosperous citizens of the locality he started out
in life empty handed and worked at making rails for twelve and a
half cents per hundred. He was also employed at other labor at
twenty-five cents cents per day. When a boy in the
harvestfield he determined to win success, however, if it could be
done through honorable effort and by frugality, industry and strong
determination. He has gradually made advancement and is today
one of the extensive landowners of Morgan county, having eight
hundred and eighty-six acres there. He belongs to the
Christian church and his life has ever been upright and honorable.
In no business transaction has he ever been known to take advantage
of the necessities of his fellowmen and his integrity has stood as
an unquestioned fact in his career. Unto him and his wife has
been born eleven children and the record is remarkable in that the
family circle remains unbroken by the hand of death. They are
as follows: William of this review; John I., who
married Minnie Smith, and has three children; Leslie,
of Noble county, who wedded Daisy Russel, and five children:
Theodore, of Noble county, who married Melissa Combs,
and has two children: Ephraim, of Noble county, who married
Miss Willes, and has five children: Amos and Walton,
both at home; Elizabeth, the wife of Frank Smith, of
Noble county, by whom she has three children; Hattie, the
wife of a Mr. Van Parks, of Noble county, by whom she has one
child: Edith, at home; and Mary, the wife of
Everett Willes, of Noble county.
William Morris was reared upon his father's farm
and is indebted to the public school system of the state for the
educational privileges he enjoyed. He was married in early
manhood to Miss Sarah Russell, a daughter of Samuel
Russell, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was a very
successful farmer, living east of Zanesville at the present time.
His father was James Russell, who at one time resided in
Muskingum county, where his death occurred. For several years
after his marriage, Mr. Morris made his home in Noble county,
where he carried on general farming. He then purchased
ninety-six acres of land in Brush Creek township and took up his
abode thereon, since which time he has given his attention to the
further cultivation and development of his land. His fields
are well tilled and he annually harvests good crops. He also
raises good stock and both branches of his business are proving
profitable.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Morris were born twelve
children, of whom four died in infancy. Those still living
are: Minnie M., Mamie V., Anna B., Clarence L., Sherman, Maywood,
Wilmette and Amond. Mr. Morris is a stanch advocate
of republican principals in his political views and keeps well
informed on the questions of the day but has never sought or desired
office. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Mechanics lodge, and he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal
church. The family home is noted for its generous and gracious
hospitality and both Mr. and Mrs. Morris have a large circle
of warm friends. That his has been an honorable and upright
life is indicated by the fact that many of his warmest friends are
those who have known him from his boyhood days to the present.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
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William
Moulton, of Newburyport, and
his son, Edmund Moulton, were members of Major White's
party. Mr. Moulton owned a share in the Ohio Company,
and subsequently removed his family to Marietta. During the
Indian war they dwelt in the garrison at the Point. When
Captain Joseph Rogers, a noted ranger, was killed in 1791, and
the alarm-guns were fired, the scene at this garrison is thus
described by an eye witness, Col. Joseph Barker; "The first
person for admittance into the central blockhouse was Colonel
Sproat with a box of papers, then came some young men with their
arms, then a woman with her bed and children, then old Mr.
William Moulton, aged seventy, with his apron full of old
goldsmith's tools and tobacco. Close at his heels came his
daughter Anna, with the china tea-pot, cups and saucers.
Lydia brought the great Bible. But when all were in, their
mother was missing. Where was mother: She must be
killed! No, says Lydia, mother said she would not leave
the house looking so; she would put things a little more to rights,
and then she would come. Directly mother came, bringing the
looking-glass, knives and forks." Mr. Moulton died
during the war, in 1793. His son Edmund died in
Marietta, August 26, 1822.
Of Mr. Moulton's daughters we learn that Anna
married, late in life, to Dr. Josiah Hart, a graduate of Yale
College in 1762. He was a surgeon in the Revolutionary army,
and came with his family to Marietta, in 1796. On the
formation of the Congregational Church here, he was elected a
deacon, and was an intelligent, Christian gentleman. Dr.
Hart died in August, 1812, and his wife died a few hours after,
and they were buried on the same day. His descendants are
numerous and respectable.
Lydia Moulton married in 1802,
Dr. William B. Leonard, born in London, in 1737, and bred a
surgeon, in which capacity he served in the British navy. He
came to America about 1797, and to Marietta in 1801, where he died
in 1806. he was very eccentric in dress and manners.
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