Zanesville was laid out in 1799, by Jonathan Zane and John McIntyre, and the same year houses were erected thereon.  Among other early settlers were William McCullough, Henry Crooks, James Duncan, Increase Matthews, Levi Whipple, Edwin Putnam, and some of the Zane family.
     As early as 1790, attempts were made to settle in Morgan County, but the ferocity of the Indians compelled the settlers who were not killed to flee for their lives.  About the year 1800, peace having been made with the Indians by the Greenville treaty of 1795, settlers came and dotted the county here and there with their cabins; and in due time villages were laid out by original settlers - among whom are to be found the names of Anderson, McConnell, Deaver, Fisher, Hoskins, Sharon, Wharton, Wood, &c.
     In 1818, the county of Morgan was formed, and the county seat established at McConnellsville, the original owner of which was Robert McConnell one of the influential men of that day in the county.
     The editor is indebted to W. G. Moorehead, Esq., for the names of the following early settlers in Muskingum County:
     John McIntyre, the founder of Zanesville; Lewis Cass, Elijah Merwin, Wylys Silliman, Samuel W. Culbertson, and Samuel Herrick- the five last being lawyers of wide celebrity.  Among the prominent citizens were Judges

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Stillwell, Finley, Putnam and Jeffrires; General Van Horn, General Green, Captains Taylor and Cass, Major Cass, Major Pierce, Captain Pierce, George, Richard, and James Reeve; Moses, John, and Isaac Dillon; Joseph Church, James Culbertson, Captain Ross, George Jackson, Daniel Converse, Robert Fulton, Robert Hazlett, Isaac Hazlett, Hugh Hazlett, Alexander McLaughlin, Alexander Adams, Nathan Finley, Colonel John Halle, James Hampson, William Blocksom, Gilbert Blose, Henry Wheeler, James Granger, Henry Granger, Doctors Belknap, Fowler, Safford, Matthews, Rhodes, Conant, Hanna and Mitchell; Ebenezer Buckingham, Solomon Sturges, J. D. Cushing  one of the first four children born in Ohio; Captain Elijah Ross, William Dennison - father and son; Captain Benoni Pierce - killed at River Raisin in the war of 1812; John Dugan, Nathan, Joseph, John, James, and Absalom Roberts; James Crosby, Joseph Shepherd, Thomas Moorehead, Joseph Robertson, William Pelham, Jeffrey Price, Charles Elliott - author of a work on Romanism; Peter Strickland, David Young, and several families of the Adamses.
     Joseph Fisher, Esq., ex-surveyor, furnishes the following list of early settlers of Muskingum County:
     "William S. Dennison whose donation to Granville College gave it its present name, Dennison University, came, when a boy, with his father, from Massachusetts to Muskingum County, about 1810.  He is a well-known farmer and stock-raiser; has never aspired to any office, but has, by constant attention to business, acquired a competency.
     "Daniel Stillwell known as Judge Stillwell in an early day one of the associate judges of the common pleas court of Muskingum County, emigrated from Eastern Pennsylvania, purchased a quarter township of land - four thousand acres - in Madison township, and was a successful farmer.  He was the father of Richard Stillwell, for some years judge of the court of common pleas.  The old gentleman, in crossing the Muskingum River, some years ago, when too high to be safely forded, had his buggy upset by

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the current, and he and his granddaughter were drowned.  His youngest son, John Stillwell is now a resident of Tennessee, some fifteen or twenty miles north-west of Nashville.
     "George W. Adams, the owner of Adams' mills and of the Ewing mills, is a Virginian by birth, came to Muskingum County from Farquier County, Virginia, with his father, George Adams, early in teh present century.  His brother Edward and he built a mill near the present Adams mills, about the year 1828 or 1829, and afterward the Ewing mills near Dresden.  They acquired a large landed estate in Muskingum and Coshocton counties.  He represented Muskingum County one term in the legislature, as member of the house of representatives, A. D. 1840.
     "Jesse John emigrated from eastern Pennsylvania to Blue Rock township, Muskingum County.  He was a respectable, influential man in that part of the county.  The father of Davis John, who represented this county in the legislature two terms - 1843 - '44 and 1845 - '46.
     "Henry Wheeler, aged upward of eighty years, came from western Virginia to Ohio, when a young man; settled in Muskingum County; resides near Adamsville; has been a member of the Baptist church at that place forty-five or fifty years, and was one of the county commissioners at one time.
     "Charles R. Copland came from Richmond, Virginia, when a young man.  His father was the owner of a quarter township of land - four thousand acres - being partly in Madison and partly in Muskingum townships.  He married Evelina Adams, daughter of George Adams who was also a large land-owner in Madison township.  Mr. Copland and his wife are still living in Madison.  They are upward of eighty years old.
     "George Slack and Jacob Slack, brothers, and living in the same neighborhood in Washington township, Muskingum County, came from Virginia, Loudon County, early in the present century, with their father, John Slack - long since dead.  They are between eighty and ninety years old.

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     "David Richardson and Martin Richardson, brothers, settled in Monroe township, Muskingum County, at an early day.  They came from one of the New England States, and were prominent farmers in that part of the county.  They died some years ago.
     "John Van Voorhis, an early settler of Muskingum County, and a successful farmer in Licking township, came from Pennsylvania, and died a year or so ago, upward of ninety years of age.  His son, David Van Voorhis, who was a reprehensive in the legislature one session, and was also a member of the constitutional convention of 1873-'74, still resides in Licking township, near Nashport."

EARLY SETTLERS AND INCIDENTS IN COSHOCTON COUNTY.

     Colonel Charles Williams was the first settler in Coshocton County.  Born in Washington County, Maryland, in 1764.  He married Susannah Carpenter, on the banks of the Ohio River, in the vicinity of Wheeling; emigrated to the salt works, on the Muskingum River, and after remaining there for a time removed to the forks of the Muskingum, and built a cabin on the bank of the river where Coshocton now stands.  This was in the year 1800.  The next year George and Thomas Carpenter, his brothers-in-law, arrived; also William and Samuel Morrison.  These men, making their home with Colonel Williams the first year, raised a crop of corn on "the prairie," four miles up White Woman's Creek.  This was probably the first crop of corn raised in the county, and was in the year 1801.  The same year (1801) Michael Miller located the second quarter, township four, range 6.  He lived seven weeks on venison, bear meat and other game, without bread of any kind.
     The first lands located were those along the rivers.  Among the first sections located were second quarter, township five, range six, Elijah Backus, of Marietta; first quarter, township five, range six, Chandler Price and Ben-

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jamin Morgan, of Philadelphia; second quarter, township four, range six, Michael Miller; third quarter, township six, range eight, third quarter, township six, range nine, Cairnoan Medowell, of Philadelphia; third quarter, township five, range six, third quarter, township six, range four, fourth quarter, township six, range five, Martin Baum, of Cincinnati; third quarter, township four range six, Benjamin Robinson; fourth quarter, township five, range five, Denman and Wells, of Essex County, New Jersey.
     John Matthews, surveyor of Marietta, made a number of the early locations for non-residents, receiving a certain part of the land as his compensation.  There were thirty-three military sections located in Coshocton County. 
     Among the early settlers should be mentioned George and Henry Miller, Isaac Hoglin, George McCulloch, Andrew Craig, William Whitten, Elijah Newcomb, Benjamin Robinson, Abraham Sells.
     Colonel Williams kept the first tavern, the first store, and the first ferry.  The house which he first erected was burned after a few years, with the loss of two children.  He rebuilt on the same lot, and here, after the county was organized, court was held.  The hardships of frontier life may be illustrated by the fact that Colonel Williams' daughter, at the age of twelve years, would sometimes ride on horseback to the White-eyes Plains (six miles) for a sack of grain; the next day go with the grain to mill at Zanesville, and return the third day.
     Major Cass located in the Muskingum valley, fourteen miles south of Coshocton.
     From 1805 to 1812 the population of the county increased very rapidly, as is shown by the fact that Coshocton County, embracing at that time part of what is now Holmes County, furnished four companies for the war of 1812; one company of volunteers under the command of Captain Adam Johnston; and three companies of drafted men, under the command of Captains Tanner, Beard and Evans.

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     Coshocton was laid out in 1802, by Ebenezer Buckingham and John Matthews, of Marietta, under the name of Tuscarawa.  The county was organized, and the name of the county seat changed, in April, 1811:  The first townships organized were Tuscarawas, Washington, New Castle, Franklin, Oxford, and Linton.
     Court was first held in Coshocton County in April, 1811, Little was done at this term, except to order elections for justices of the peace in several of the townships.  Court also sat in September at which time several minor cases were disposed of.  The first case in which there were any pleadings filed was at \the December term, 1811 - Charles Williams vs. Adam-47 Marpley Lewis Cass, attorney for plaintiff; John Howard, attorney for defendant; judge, William Wilson; associates, William Mitchell, Isaac Evans, and Peter Casey; judgment of $9.56 in favor of plaintiff.
     Among the first officers of the county were, Cornelius P. Vankirk, sheriff; Adam Johnston, clerk and recorder; Wright Warner prosecuting attorney; William Lockart county surveyor, and William Whitten, justice of the peace.
     The first resident physician was Dr. Samuel Lee who located here in 1811.  Rev. J. W. Pigman of the Methodist Episcopal church, who lived in the western part of the county, and Rev. Timothy Harris, of the Congregational church, Utica, used to preach here occasionally about the beginning of the war of 1812.  The first Sunday-school was organized in the year 1824, under the superintendence of James Renfrew.
     The first mill in the county was built several years before the war of 1812, by Jesse Fulton, one mile south-east of Coshocton, on the farm since known as the Benjamin Rickets place.  A mill run by horse power was erected soon after this on lot numbered two hundred and sixteen, corner of Cadiz and Second streets (the Harbaugh lot).
     The first brick house in Coshocton was built in 1816, corner of Cadiz and Second streets (the Fritchey house).
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brought from Pittsburgh to Coshocton in keel-boats, via Marietta - a slow and laborious method.  Letters came from Philadelphia in twenty-five days - postage twenty-five cents.
     Coshocton was visited by the "cold plague" in 1814 - quite a number of fatal cases occurring in the town and vicinity.
     It is said that Louis Philippe, afterward king of France, visited Coshocton in the character of a schoolmaster, during his exile.  His aristocratic notions were not in keeping with the republican ideas and rude manners of the frontier and his stay was very short.
     Caldersburgh was laid out in 1816, on the west bank of the Muskingum, by James Calders.  A large addition was subsequently laid out north of the old town, and the name changed to Roscoe.
     The completion of the canal marks an important epoch in the material prosperity of Coshocton, and other counties in the valley, as it afforded an outlet for the enormous crops of wheat which were raised after the clearing away of the forests.
     An incident of those early days may be worth preservation:  Five or six runaway slaves, from Virginia, made their way to Coshocton, and were quartered at the house of Pryor Foster, a colored man.  Word had reached the citizens beforehand of their escape - a large reward being offered for their capture; but such was the popularity of Foster among the white people, that they were willing to assist in the escape of the refugees.  Foster kept them in his house, and stood guard outside all night, to prevent any possible interference.  The next morning he took them across the river, and hid them in a cave a mile west of Caldersburgh.  The pursuers soon after made their appearance - pretty confident of overtaking the slaves - having traced them in this direction.  But no satisfactory information was to be obtained.  Some show of violence was also offered, and they rode out of town and gave up the pursuit.

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When it was certain that the coast was clear, Foster took them to the White Woman River, and told them to travel up the stream - giving them such further directions as would enable them to reach Lake Erie and Canada.
     This occurrence was about the time of the construction of the Ohio Canal.  The slaves were afterward captured some distance north-west of Coshocton, and taken back to Virginia.

EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN IN STARK COUNTY.

     After the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, the territory now in Stark County attracted many emigrants, down to the period when it was organized into a county, with Canton for the county seat, which was laid out in 1806, by Bazaled Wells, of Steubenville.
     From that period the emigrants from Pennsylvania and Maryland flocked in, and in later years the Germans from Europe came, and made it one of the rich and prosperous counties of Ohio.
     Among the prominent men of the county forty years ago- and some of whom being of the first settlers - may be mentioned Parker Handy, William Williams, Thomas Blackburn, Jacob Palmer, V. R. Kimball, John Kryder, H. D. Williams, David Stripe, William Dunbar, James Allen, John Saxton, Daniel Gutshall, Peter Kauffman, P. Loutzenheiser, Samuel Hownstine, Samuel Lyons, George N. Webb, George Crouse, George Cribbs, George Roudebush, Richard Sheckles, John Dunbar, Elias D. Albert, Arnold Lynch, William McCormick, William Sarball, Enos Raffensperger, Eli Sala, George B. Hoss, Harmon Stidger, Heram Griswold, John Harries, Samuel Lahm, Lyman Pease, George Slusser, Daniel Diewalt, Thomas H. Webb, Alexander McCulley, John, James, Elias, and Matthew Johnston, Oses Welch, Joseph Watson, Silasa Rawson, H.

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B. Hurlbutt, Lewis Schaeffer, Abel and James H. Underhill, Robert H. Folger, Daniel Atwater, George Diewalt, John Schlosser, John Myers, William Fogle, William Toffler, John Short, Sr., John C. Rockwell, Henry Kitzmiller, Matthias Sheplar, Peary Stidger, David A. Starkweather, John E. Dunbar, O. T. Browning, Judge Sowers, Peter Croft, William Christmas, John Black, William White, Doctor Rappel, William Bucher, Daniel Raffensperger, Andrew Meyer, Martin Wokedal, Benjamin F. Leiter, William Lemon, Doctor Robert Estep, Joseph Matthews, Sr., John Pirrong, Jonathan G. Lester, William Reed, Samuel Stover, Scraphun Myer, Jacob Schneider, Henry Hawrecht, John Rex, John Clark, Doctor Whiting, C. C. A. Witting, Samuel Petry, William Beals, Samuel Stanker, Joshua Saxton, Joseph Shorb, John Hawk, Samuel Hawk, Samuel Hunt.
     Of the above, Matthias Sheplar, David A. Starkweather, and Benjamin F. Leiter, each were members of Congress.  John Rex was the father of Hon. George Rex, now one of the supreme judges of Ohio.  John Saxton, Esq., James Allen, William Dunbar, Daniel Gutshall, Peter Kauffman, were all able editors.  Several of the others named represented the county in the legislature.  The physicians named were able men in their profession, known far and wide.  The lawyers, Griswold, Starkweather, Carter, Lahm, and Belden had no superior in eastern Ohio; and of the others it may be siad that, as farmers and business men, their influence and examples at an early day made Stark County take rank as one of the first-class counties in the State.

FIRST HOUSES, MILLS, STORE, STILL-HOUSE, ETC.

     The first buildings erected in the present county of Tuscarawas were, so far as known, as follows;  1760, Thomas Calhoun, trader's house, on the west bank of the Tuscarawas, near Bolivar; 1761, Christian Post's dwelling house, on the east bank of the Tuscarawas, near Bolivar; 1763,

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James O'Harn's trader house, on the east bank of the Tuscarawas, near Bolivar; 1772, David Ziesberger's mission houses, on the east bank of the Tuscarawas, at Schoenbrunn; 1773, John Christian Roth, and others, houses at Gnadenhutten; 1774, James Campbell and others, trader house, at present New Comerstown; 1779, D. Zeisberger and others, houses on the west bank of the Tuscarawas, New Schoenbrunn; 1780, J. Heckewelder and others, houses on the west bank of the Tuscarawas, at Salem; 1796, Charles Stevens, settler, in the present township of Fairfield; 1797, C. Clewell and John Carr and others, at present Gnadenhutten; 1798, Mortimer Benger and others, dwellings at Goshen; 1797, Jacob Bush, Paul Greer, Peter Edmonds, Ezra and Peter Warner, and others of the settlers; 1799, David Peter opened a store at Gnadenhutten for Jacob Reckseeker, and H. Bollinger brought teams with goods for the store; 1800, Lewis Huebner pastor's house and Becsheba church, on the west side of the river, near lock number seventeen; John Kinsey and George Stiffer built near New Philadelphia in 1804; Philip Menech built on the present Gooden farm in 1805; John Hull built the first house in New Philadelphia in 1805; Jacob Uhrich built the first mill (water) at Uhrichville, in 1807; the first horse-mills were put up in 1772, '73 and '74, by the missionaries; the first tavern built in New Philadelphia was by Leninger, in 1807; the first still house in the county was put up by Gabriel Cryder, on the west side of the Tuscarawas, about equi-distant between New Philadelphia and Dover.  A Mr. Vanrouff built the first ark, or grain-boat, at the canal at Dover; George Sluthour did the carpenter work.  Amos St. Clair built the first bridge across the river, at Dover, in 1826.

FIRST BIRTHS IN OHIO.

     John Ludwig Roth, son of Rev. John and Maria Agnes Roth, was born at Gnudenhutten mission, in the present Tuscarawas County, on the fourth day of July, A. D. 1773.

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This was the first white child born in the valley, and it is claimed to be the first in Ohio, but the white wife of a French officer gave birth to a child at Fort Junandat, on the Sandusky, as early as 1754, and while Ohio was French territory.
     On the 13th of April, 1781, was born at Salem, in the present Tuscarawas County, Maria, daughter of John and Sarah Joanna Heckewelder.  Her birth has been stated as occurring on April. 6, 1781, but the 13th is correct.
     Richard Conner and wife had one or more children born at Schoenbrunn prior to 1781.
     Of the several ministers, Mortimer, Smick, Jungman, Edwards, Senseman, and others, none had children in the valley, except as above named.

FIRST CHRISTIAN BURIALS.

     Prior to 1775 seventeen interments of Christians had taken place at Schoenbrunn grave-yard, on the farm now owned by Rev. Elisha P. Jacobs, three miles east of New Philadelphia.  Between 1774 and 1781 a larger number were there interred, aggregating about forty in all.  It was the first burying grounds of Christians in the two valleys, and has long since been obliterated by the plow.
     At Gnadenhutten grave-yard an equal, if not greater, number of Christians were interred prior to 1782, when the town was burned and inhabitants slaughtered.  In October, 1799, John Heckewelder and David Peter, who had came to the burnt town in 1797, gathered up the bones of the slain and buried them in a cellar, on the spot where the monument stands.
     In 1801, Rev. William Edwards was buried at Goshen cemetery, as also Zeisberger in 1808, and a number of Christian Indians.
     The above three are undoubtedly the most ancient cemeteries in the county, and the first two are the most ancient Christian Burying grounds in the State of Ohio.

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FIRST PREACHERS IN THE COUNTY.

     Of the first preachers in the county mention may be made of David Zeisberger, 1772; Rev. Heckewelder, Smick, Edwards, Roth, Jungman, Huebner and Mortimer; Rev. George Godfrey Miller, of Beersheba church, 1808; Rev. Christian Espech, Lutheran, New Philadelphia, 1811; Rev. Abraham Snyder, Lutheran, 1801; Deacon Elias Crane, 1816; Rev. John Graham 1817; Rev. Wieland Zarman, 1818; Rev. Michael J. Baumberzoar, 1818; Rev. Thomas B. Clark, and Rev. Jacob Ransberger, in 1819.

THE OLDEST INHABITANTS, MEN AND WOMEN, OF THE TUSCARAWAS VALLEY.

     The following are lists of the oldest inhabitants of the valley who came after 1800, who were born prior to the beginning of the present century, and who were, with a few exceptions, ancestors of the persons of the same name now living in Tuscarawas and other counties:

Oldest Inhabitants of Goshen Township.

     Born between 1730 and 1740, William Young.
     Born between 1750 and 1760, Mrs. Knisely mother of David; Mrs. Judy, mother of John, Sr.; Mrs. William Young, John Hoopengarner.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Matthias Gossett and wife, Mrs. Lucinda Haltzley, Henry Espich and wife, Philip Fackler, Isaac Cordray, Sr., Valentine Flack, Christian Bachman, Henry Meter, Henry Albright, Philip Jacob Fechtling.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, Samuel K. Kendrick, Christian Casebeer and wife, Daid Stiffler, Sr., and wife, John Judy, Sr., and wife, James Wood, John Frederick, Henry Auchenbaugh, Abraham Kniseley, Sr. and wife, Philip and Jacob Foreman, Mrs. V. Flack, Christian Fuller, George Platz, Mrs. C. Bachman, Casper Engler, Agnes Ellis, John McPherson and wife, Mrs. J. Hoopengarner, Amelia Hummell, Mrs. Henry Albright, John Suttle and wife, John Walby, Edward Dorsey and wife, George Stiffler, Sr. and wife.

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Oldest Inhabitants of Dover Township.

     Born between 1730 and 1740, Mrs. Finton, mother of William.
     Born between 1740 and 1750, Mrs. Brown, grandmother of George W.
     Born between 1750 and 1760, George Helwig, Mrs. Crisswell, mother of John; Elijah Critz, Mrs. Critz, mother of Andrew.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Adam Snyder, Mrs. Wallack, Mrs. Lower, Philip Baker, William Finton, Christian Kore, Godfrey Imber.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, Richard Burrough, William Gibbs, Sr., George R. Baer and wife, William Henderson, Conrad Lower, John Mumma, Benjamin Wallack, Ludwig Lower, Henry Frinkenbriner, Mrs. William Finton, Paul Grove, Sr., James Harper, Mrs. Kauffman, mother of Jacob; John Hildt, Sr., Mary Burroughs, C. Noftsinger and wife, Mrs. Christian Kore, Elizabeth Harmon, John Chesterman and wife, C. Ritter, Abraham Share, Jacob Blickensderfer.

Oldest Individuals of Wayne Township.

     Born between 1740 and 1750, William Collett, Mrs. Burrell, mother of Benjamin.
     Born between 1750 and 1770, Henry Myers, Eve Baer, Henry Duncan, John Bess, Sr., and wife, Jacob Bartlett and wife Daniel Bowers, Mrs. Obadiah Patterson, Adam Reamer, Cornelius Hand, Edward Jordan.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, John Aultman and wife, Eve Deardorff, George Wallack, John Tyler and wife, John Michael, Benjamin Gorsuch, Henry Knovel, John Lidey, Jacob Knaga, Mrs. Henry Duncan, Mrs. Bayliss Jennings, John Burrell, George Gusler, Jere. Savage and wife, Jonathan Williams, Regena Fulk, Mrs. Philip Bash, Abraham Beninger, Mrs. Daniel Bowers, George Rickett and wife, John McQuiston, Sr., and wife, Jacob Snearly, James Mills, Mrs. Adam Reamer, Mrs. David Reshley, Aesop Johnson, John G. Miller, Michael Wallack, John Wright, Sr., Mary ann Shonk, Elizabeth Swip, Patrick Moore, Michael Kore and wife, John Seloz.

Oldest Inhabitants of Sugar Creek Township.

     Born between 1740 and 1750, Michael Dorner, Sr.
     Born between 1750 and 1760, Mrs. Michael Dorner, Mrs. Bittle, mother of George; Mrs. Walter, mother of John; Joseph Kine and wife, John Yotter, David Miller, Jacob Miller, Sr., Mrs. Mafendish, mother of William D.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, John Ballman, Daniel Kaiser, Susannah Correll, Peter Harmon and wife, John Miller and wife, Isaac Miller, Mrs. Coblentz, mother of Jacob; Mrs. Jacob Miller, Sr., James Hattery, Joseph Hanlon and wife.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, George Richardson and wife, John Walter, Jacob Dietz and wife, MRs. Daniel Kaiser, John Bricker, Frederick Dorner, Chris. Winklepleck, Peter Hostter, George Dyce and wife, George Smiley, George Miller, Abraham Snyder, Daniel Yotter, Henry Kuntz, Ephriam Middaugh, Jacob Miller, Jr., Mrs. James Hattery, Christian Livengood, Leonard Hyder, Catherine Barnhouse, John Schultze, Jacob Lowe, William D. Mafendish, Mary Noel, Andrew Burkey.

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Oldest Inhabitants of Warwick Township.

     Born between 1740 and 1750, Barney Reysert, Sr.
     Born between 1750 and 1760, William Simmers, Sr. and wife, Godfrey Westhaver, Heary Davis.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Jesse Walton, Samuel Fry, Abraham Fry, Mrs. Benjamin Lane, Jacob Royer and wife, Mrs. Barney Rupert.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, Boaz Walton, Jr., John G. Hoffman, Henry Keller, George Metzger, John Knouse, John Demuth, Asa Walton and wife, John Whitehead, Joseph Sturgiss, William Hill, Joseph Madden, John Romig and wife, Joseph Shemal, John Richmond and wife, Richard Taylor, Catherine Whitman.

Oldest Inhabitants of Salem Township.

     Born between 1750 and 1760, Peter Good.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Humphrey Corbin.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, William Haga and wife, Mrs. Peter Good, Mrs. Frankboner, Mrs. Paine, Burris Moore, Mrs. Barneby Riley, Charles Hill and wife Jesse Hill and wife.

Oldest Inhabitants of York Township.

     Born between 1750 and 1760, Frederick Hummell, Henry Shawver.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Mrs. Frederick Hummell, John Shull,, John Pence, William Ross, Eli Barton, George Putt, Christian Beaver, Mary Cummings, George W. Kuhn, William Wolff, Henry Shawver, John Grimes and wife, Jacob Howe, Michael Bedinger.

Oldest Inhabitants of Clay Township.

     Born between 1750 and 1760, Matthew Organ, Mrs. George Hussey, Sr.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Jonathan Andrews and wife, Mrs. Matthew Organ, Benjamin G. Duharnell, George Hussey, Jr., Joseph Taylor.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, Anannias Randall and wife, Jesse Webb, Isaac Webb, Joseph Miller, James Hamilton, Magdalene Taylor.

     Born between 1730 and 1740, Mrs. Swain, mother of Joshua, Joseph Johnson, Rebecca Kannon.
     Born between 1740 and 1750, John Shaw.

 

 

 

 

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     Born between 1750 and 1760, Mrs. Severgood, grandmother of Jacob, Mrs. Morrison,  grandmother of Samuel, Peter Hammer, Thomas Archbold, Elisha Kitch and wife.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, John Williams, Richard Moore and wife, Ebenezer Kitch.
     Born between 1770 adn 1780, Shadrack Minster, Mrs. John Williams, Stephen Horn, Moses Horn, Mrs. Parks, Mrs. Robert McCoy, Edward Johnson, Mrs. Schooly, mother of SAmuel, Joseph Johnson, Neil Morris, William George, Samuel Boston and wife John Wilson and wife, Gabriel Vansickle and wife, Timora Russell, Mrs. T. Archbold.

Oldest Inhabitants of Rush Township.

     Born between 1750 and 1760, Michael Sponsler.
     Born between 1760 and 1770, Thomas Gibson, John Fairbrother, Mrs. Ginter, other of John, Casper Warner, Joshua Davis, William Caples, Sr.
     Born between 1770 and 1780, Michael Van Fleary, John Uhrich, Robert Laughlin, Mrs. Thoams Gibson, Thomas Connell, Mrs. Michael Sponsler, Esther Crumm, Peter Bowman and wife, Daniel Enterline, Conrad Westhaver, Mrs. Joshua Davis, Abijah Robinett, James Tracy, John Lambright.

Oldest Inhabitants of Oxford Township.

 

 

 

 

 

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SKETCHES OF EARLY SETTLERS, AND ANECDOTES.

CHRISTIAN DEARDORFF.

was one of the first pioneers on Sugar Creek.  He came from Maryland, prior to 1807, and settled at what is now Dover, where he took out a ferry license as early as 1809.  In company with Bohn and Slingluff he bought land, and laid off farm lots, and platted the town of Dover, which became, and has since retained the name of being, the great wheat market of the county.  Mr. Deardorff became one of the associate judges of the court in 1808, and remained in that position until 1824, being the longest period of service of any man who ever held office in the county.  A man of the most sterling integrity in all the affairs of life, his name became the synonym of all that was honest and upright.  He left a large family of sons to inherit his virtues and his large property, all of whom eh made farmers and business men.  Being advised to make his son Jesse a professional man, he shook his head, but finally consented to try it; and on Jesse's return from New Athens College in 1841-2, he was asked by the judge what class he graduated in.  He replied that he was the best ball-player there.  Judge Deardorff died in 1851, and his wife Catherine is yet living in 1875, being perhaps the oldest of the wives of the first pioneers west of the river.

JOHN JUDY

     Among the first white settlers of the county was John Tschudi - in English, Judy - who came to the United States in 1803, and reached Tuscarawas County the same year.  He was descended from an ancient Swiss family, the head of which, Von Aegidies Tschudi, was born at Glams in 1505, and who wrote the Chronicles of Switzerland, dating back to A. D. 1000, and coming down to 1470.  The subject of this sketch came first to Gnadenhutten, and being single, put up a cabin on a piece of land he had contracted for with John Heckewelder.  While making rails, John Knisely the founder of New Philadelphia, came to the woods where Judywas at work, and bought a large hog of him, and engaged him to come up to town and assist in raising a barn.  He did so, and the hog and his work make the first payment on fifty acres he then bought of Knisely, about one mile east of New Philadelphia, and which he owned until he died, having added thereto by other purchases.  Martin Keller and Jacob Keller with their father, had come over with Judy, who was saved from being sold for passage money by their aid.  Mr. Judy was a tailor by trade, and made clothes for the Indians; and at some time he put up on Water street the first house erected in New Philadelphia; assisted in cutting out the first road east from the town; and was three days helping to move Godfrey Hofffrom town to his settlement, about ten miles up the river, having to make a road, and in some places traveled up the bed of the river.