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Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley
Chicago: Inter-State
Publishing Co.
1884
CHAPTER XVIII
GREENE, VERNON AND BLOOM TOWNSHIPS
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GREENE TOWNSHIP
FRENCH GRANT, VALUATION AND POPULATION.
THE TOWNSHIP AND CHANGES.
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thence northerly on back line of said lot No. 2 to the southwest
corner of George Salladay's, in the fractional section 26,
township 2, of range 20; thence with the line between Salladay's
and Wm. R. Neuse's to the east line of fractional section 26
aforesaid; thence south with the section line to the old French
Grant line; thence with the old French Grant and section 27 until
the same intersects the line of Porter Township."
June 10, 1843.
OLD SETTLERS.
The old settlers
of the French Grant were the French immigrants, but they were not
inured to hardship and were little calculated to buffet the storms
and trials of pioneer life. On receiving their grant from
Congress it was first coupled with the condition of a five year's
residence, but to many of them such condition was a bar to
occupancy, and this clause was subsequently stricken out. The
immigrants then got patents for their lands. A few settled on
the grant, many more remained in Gallipolis, and others returned to
France as soon as they could dispose of their gift form Congress.
The Cadots, the Duduits, the Valodins, Gervais,
Bertrand, Chabot, Dufliquy, Ginats, Ruishoud, Vincent and a few
others of French colony settled on the grant. Some of those,
however, also sold out and left for their French home or settled
among their kindred at Gallipolis. The grant gave each head of
a family 217 acres, and they were accordingly laid off in that size
lots, and 4,000 acres went to Jno. G. Gervais, Matthew Bartlet
drew lot No. 1, and in 1797 Thomas Gilruth and a Widow
Hempstead bought this lot of Bartlet at $2 per acre.
They arrived at their purchase Apr. 8, 1797. Gilruth
was a linen-weaver by trade. Lot No. 2, was drawn by
Nicholas Thevenin, and he rented it to Robert Buchanan, a
cabinetmaker by trade, the same year, 1796, and in 1797 Buchanan
had a shop built and was at work at his trade. Vincent
Fergason purchased this lot afterward, and it became the
property of his sons, James and John, he dividing it
between them. No. 3, was purchased of the French owner in the
year 1800 by John Haily. His brother, Wm. Haily,
who died the same year, was believed to be the first death in Scioto
County. The Duponson tract, lot No. 5, was purchased
some years later by Thayer D. White. Duponson
probably never saw the land. He was a Philadelphia lawyer and
took it for his fee, as he was instrumental in securing the grant
before Congress. Among the others that came in the years 1796
to 1800 were Luke Kelly in the former year; Darby Kelly,
a bachelor brother, a year later; Peter Vanbibber, Daniel
Wolford, George Austin, George Steward in 1799; Wm. Kelly
in 1796; Wm. Forester, Michael Bacus. Gervais planted
the first apple orchard in Scioto County, about 50 or 60 trees, and
cleared up some three or four acres of ground. Peter Bacus
lived there a short time and then moved to Gennett's Creek.
Francis Valodin built the first brick house on the grant, if not
in the county. A mile below Valodin's, Wm. Didway
settled. Both he and Valodin had stills and made
brandy. John Fletcher, a carpenter, a man by the name
of Dillon and Eli Barton, all were there in 1798.
These all settled below Valodin's, on the river.
Jno. Bertrand and John Gennett, from whom the creek takes
its name, had a floating mill. In 1798 Jno. Stump built
the first mill on the river, between Big Sandy and the Scioto, at
what afterward became Upper Township in Scioto County, and then
became a part of Lawrence County. Peter Fort and
Kimber Barton both came to the grant in 1800. Barton
was the first Justice of the Peace in the county, and had the first
house roofed with shingles in Greene Township, if not in Scioto
County, in 1800. John Bacus, Jno. Davisson and Jacob
Suitor, the two former in 1800 and the latter in 1798.
Jos. Crank came with the
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Suitors. He officiated at the first funeral in the
grant - a child buried in Kelly's graveyard, now in Lawrence
County, in 1800. Wm. Haily was also buried there.
The first Methodist church organized between Storm's
Creek and the Little Scioto was at Luke Kelly's house in
1812. Marcas Lindsey was the preacher.
HAVERHILL.
CHURCHES.
POWELLSVILLE.
CHURCHES.
SCHOOLS.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
EDWARD ANDRE
JACOB ANDRE
WAYNE ANDRE
GEORGE APEL
GEORGE APEL, JR.
ORIN G. BOYNTON
BENJAMIN BRUSH
JOSEPH H. BUMGARNER
JOHN BURKE
OLIVER H. P. BURKE
JAMES H. COYL
JESSE COYL
JOHN W. COYL
DAVID DISTERDICK
OLIVER P. DOTY
WILLIAM C. EAKINS
JAMES GILRUTH
THOMAS GILRUTH
THOMAS GILRUTH
CHARLES A. GODDARD
ORIN B. GOULD
NICHOLAS HAUBERT
JOHN HERRELL
PETER HOOVER
SAMUEL C. HOWELL
RADFORD HUDSON
HIRAM KELLOGG
WILLIAM KELLOGG
JOHN POWER LACROIX
IRA M. LAMB
MARCUS L. MARSHALL
JAMES H. MAYHEW
WILLIAM T. NORTHUP, M. D.
JOSHUA OAKES
JAMES ROSE
GEORGE SCHAFER
WILLIAM SEELEY
JOHN SHOPE
JOHN L. WARD
NATHAN WHEELER
THAYER DANIEL WHITE
GEORGE C. WINKLER
JOHN A. WINKLER
JAMES H. YINGLING
VERNON TOWNSHIP.
DESCRIPTION AND AREA.
OLD SETTLERS.
Vernon Township was early settled, and
was hunted over two or three years before the first permanent
settler located his claim. The last buffalo killed in this
section of country was by Phillip Saladay, in Vernon
Township, about 1798, and on the farm of a Mr. Chaffin.
Soon after this a few pioneers settled on Pine Creek. Among
those who first made Vernon Township their home were: David
Salladay, REuben Smith, Reuben Smith, Reuben Chaffin, Shadrack
Chaffin, his son, Nathaniel Searl, Wayatt Chamberlain, Lemuel
Cadot, Jacob Halterman, Richard Malone, Robert Bradshaw, William
Bacon, Samuel Perry, Peter Bussey, Edward Barkalow, Francis Duteil,
Lewis Duteil, James Patton, John Patton and Jerry Patton.
The first minister who preached in Vernon Township was Rev. Rufus
Cheney, who came here in 1816. He preached in Vernon in
1818; also Rev. Eli Kelsey. A few years later a
Free-Will Baptist church was organized, called the New Vernon
Church. A log school-house was erected it is thought in 1817,
on Pine Creek, between the Clinton Furnace and Chaffin's Mills.
The first store was started by the Old Clinton Furnace
Company.
Thomas Caden ran the first blacksmith shop in
the township, near Chaffin's Mill.
The first school-house was a log cabin, about fifty
yards northwest of the Chaffin Mill. The teacher was Amza
Welcher.
Henry Ambrust runs a general store on Lick Run.
J. Newland runs the mill and keeps general
store, and is the Postmaster at Chaffin's Mill.
Chaffin's Mill is the township voting
precinct.
CHURCHES.
SCHOOLS.
OFFICIAL
BIOGRAPHICAL.
HENRY ARMBRUST
JAMES C. CABOT
JOHN C. CADOT
SHADRACH CHAFFIN
DANIEL E. DOTY
JOHN DUTEIL
GEORGE W. GIFFORD
BENJAMIN HUMPHREYS
JOHN LEMON
ALBERT NAGEL
LEWIS NAGEL
PETER NAGEL
ANDREW RASE
DANIEL RUTH
THEOBOLD RUTH, JR.
THEOBOLD RUTH, SR.
REV. JOHN SHEPPARD
PETER SHOEMAKER
ANDREW SOMMERS
HENRY WARNEKE
BLOOM TOWNSHIP.
ITS MINERAL DEPOSITS.
AREA AND VALUATION.
ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT.
WEBSTER.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
CHURCHES.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
JAMES M. ALLEN.
AMAZIAH BENNETT
ASAPH BENNETT
REV. JOHN M. BENNETT
JOSEPH W. BLAIR
STEPHEN BOREN
NATHANIEL G. BURTON
JAMES M. COLE
ANDREW CRAWFORD
JEFFERSON DEVER
GEORGE EDMONDS
HARMAN ESSMAN
STEPHEN FISHER
WILLIAM S. GILLILAN
ARCHIBALD S. HANES
FREDERICK HELD
JOHN HOLLBACK
WARREN HOLMES
ALFRED L. JACKSON
WILLIAM H. KINKER
GOTTFRIED KUHNER
HENRY LEIVE
CHARLES LEONARD
HENRY W. LOOMIS
JOHN W. LUMMIS
OLIVER LYONS
WILLIAM MARSH
WILLIAM H. MARTING
ASAPH McCALL
BRANSON MILES
FREDERICK MITTENDORF
JOHN H. MITTENDORF
SHEPARD MOORE
JOHN PHILLIPS
WASHINGTON C. RICHART
JOHN H. SIMMONS
JAMES B. THOMPSON
REV. JOHN B. TRACY
JOHN WALKE
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