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Source:
History of Seneca County :
from the close of the Revolutionary War to
July, 1880 :
embracing many personal sketches of pioneers, anecdotes,
and
faithful descriptions of events pertaining to the organization of the
county and its progress
Published: Springfield, Ohio: Transcript Print. Co.,
1880
CHAPTER XL
SCIPIO TOWNSHIP.
Pg 586
T. 2, N. R. 17 E.
Nobody will now dispute the fact
that the Anways were the first who identified their
names and the early settlement of Scipio township.
About the time of the land sales at Delaware, William
Anway, from Scipio, Cayuga county, New York, settled in
the woods upon land that is now embraced within the
geographical limits of this township. It is said that
when Mr. Anway arrived and located here in 1821,
there were two families living upon the school section, who
soon moved away.
The late Mr. Laughery, the father of my old
friend, James Laughery, was the first man who
purchased land in this township, but the first patent
recorded for land purchased in the county was that mentioned
in the history of Clinton, by a Mr. Anway.
C. T. Westbrook, John Wright, Adam Hance, Abraham
Spencer, Isaac Nichols, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Osborn, Timothy P.
Roberts, Morrison McMillon, E. H. Brown, Seth F. Foster,
Nathan Foster and William B. Mathewson may
be mentioned as early settlers.
Mention has already been made of the time and manner of
organizing the township, and that it then took in Reed and
contained sixteen inhabitants, etc. It was also stated
that Mr. Anwaynamed it after his old home in New
York. The time and manner of its survey was also
mentioned it chapter x.
The petition for the organization was presented to the
county commissioners on the 6th of December, 1824. The
petition was granted, of course, and an election ordered to
be held on the following 25th day of December, 1824 -
Christmas day. At this election seventeen votes were
cast. Of those voting, thirteen received office,
leaving but four to make up what is called the "sovereign
people," and the other thirteen were their servants.
Let us hope that this distinctive feature in our peculiar
American institutions may ever so remain; that our public
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officers shall be regarded as public servants only and never
be permitted to become our masters. So mote it
be.
At this first election in Scipio
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TIMOTHY P. ROBERTS.
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ARCHIBALD STEWART
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N. P. COLWELL.
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LANCE TODD.
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came into this neighborhood soon after the Todds
settled here; also John Hall.
After the reservation came into market, the country
settled up very rapidly, and soon the land was all taken up.
Then roads were opened, land cleared, and houses put up, so
that it began to look like an old country.
Mr. Todd has about seventy-five acres cleared
and about thirty-five acres in woods. He helped to
open and start six farms in this neighborhood, and still
lives on the place where he located, fifty two years ago.
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