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  • "The History of Clermont County, Ohio" (Philadelphia, 1880).
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  • Category: Derivative
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  • Publisher: Philadelphia, 1880
Page: 398
  • Text: In the fall of 1796 and the following year a number of settlers came into what was the old township of Ohio. James John located at the mouth of Nine-Mile Creek, and Rodham Morin near Isaac Ferguson's, to which place his father, Edward Morin, with a large family, came the following year. Regarding these settlers and the settlements which followed, and the incidents of their pioneer life, the Hon. John Shaw said :

    "And soon after came Hezekiah Lindsey, Jesse Swem, Archibald Gray, Nathaniel Donham, William Abercrombie, John, Jacob, and Daniel Light, Alexander Robb, and John, Abner, and Joseph Fagin. These were all from Pennsylvania except the Morins, who were from Virginia. Mr. Morin, Mr. Lindsey, and Mr. Swem had been soldiers of the Revolutionary war, and perhaps some of the others named. About the year 1800 there settled near the mouth of Boat Run Messrs. Newton, Ayres, Weldon, and Eldridge. They were from New Jersey. The first settlement in Franklin neighborhood was made by Alexander Robb in 1804; and in 1806, Hugh Ferguson, William McCandless, James Whitaker, and probably Joshua and David Brown; and in 1308, John Shaw, Sr.; and before 1812, Timothy Rardin, Josiah Carnes, Nathan Nichols, Jonathan Rinker, Daniel Derry, Benjamin Morin, William and Archibald Bonnet, Andrew Gray; and soon after John Archard, Jephtha Moore, Everard Bettie, Nathan Layeock, Jonathan S. Donham, James Cates, Nathan and Nicholas Corbin, and Absalom Cook. These are all that 1 now reeollect. They were nearly all intelligent, industrious, frugal, and thrifty citizens, and raised on an average about ten children each, and their numerous progeny are now scattered from here to California.

    "The first settlers in what is now the northern part of the small territory of Ohio township were Amos and Robert Haiaes, Levi Moss, William and Hezekiah Lindsey, Rodham and John Morin, John, Robert, Amos, and Abel Donham, Reuben Laycock, John Snider, John and Abner Fagin, Edmund and Caleb Lindsey, John Cox, Sr., Edward Chapman, William Hardin, David White, Dr. Joshua Porter, Neely Gray, Hamilton Miller, Zebulon Applegate, Mr. WiShart, and Lewis Miller. I recollect all of the above except Alexander Robb, Isaac Ferguson, Nathaniel Denham, William McCandless, James Whitaker, William Abercrombie, and Mr. Wishart ; they died before my day. I think they were all here before 1812. They were nearly all men of integrity and untiring industry, and it seems to me that they were expressly designed for the settlement of a new country. The most of them were uneducated, but they were men of strong intellect and quick perceptive faculties, and were always on the alert to learn; and us knowledge in those days was not made a monopoly of or hid under a bushel, what one knew the others soon learned. I have often seen a half-dozen neighbors assembled around a winter- evening fire to hear the newspaper read, and they generally discussed every artiele in it before they broke up...

    ...Hezekiah Lindsey and his family came with Isaac Ferguson from Pennsylvania, and lived near him in Kentucky ; and after coming to Clermont settled below him on the river-bottoms. He died about seventy years ago, leaving sons named Manley, John, Philip, Hezekiah, William, Elijah, and daughters who married Joshua Brown, of Ohio ; John Fisher, of Monroe ; John Gilman, Elijah Mattox, and Jesse Swem, all of Pierce. John Lindsey and his brother Philip settled in Brown County. Hezekiah married a sister of Reuben Laycock, and settled east of Palestine, in Pierce, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. Of his sons Philip removed to Kentucky, John died in Pierce, Levi was drowned in the army, William removed to Illinois, Stephen became a Baptist minister, and Marion still occupies the homestead. Several of the daughters married,—Rachel, David Wheeler, and Nancy, John Reese.

    Col. William Lindsey was married to Nancy Ferguson, and settled on the present Trump farm, but died at Mount Pisgah in 1864, at the age of eighty two years ; and his widow at New Richmond in 1877, aged ninety-four years. Twelve of their children attained mature years,-John, William, Isaiah, Isaac, Hezekiah, and Ira. The latter resides at Newport ; and all but the former two yet reside in the county. His daughters married David Douham, Martin Behymer, Samuel White, Andrew Hixson, John B. Day, and Peter Myers, all of Southern Clermont. Elijah Lindsey lived in Monroe, but removed to Indiana many years ago.
Page: 403
  • Text: Civil Organization, Ohio Township

    At the division of Clermont County, in February, 1801, Ohio was constituted one of the original townships, to embrace about half of the present township of Monroe, all that part of Batavia lying south of the East Fork, all of Union and Pierce, and its present territory, with the following officers : John Hunter, Constable and Lister of Taxes ; Archibald Graye Appraiser of Houses ; Ezekiel Dimmitt and Isaac Ferguson, Overseers of the Poor ; John Donham, Jacob Light, and John Vancation, Fence-Viewers; Ezekiel Dimmitt and John Fagin, Supervisors of Highways ; John Hunter, Archibald Gray, and William Whittaker, Auditors of Supervisor's Accounts.

    Of the early elections no records have been preserved, but at the election for county commissioners, April 2, 1804, when William Simonds and Samuel Lane acted as judges and Shadrach Lane was clerk, 37 votes were cast; and at the October election the same year, John Fagin, Jacob Ulrey, and William Abercrombie were the judges, and Robert Townsley and Samuel Shepard clerks, and the total number of votes was 26. A year later Morris Witham, James Ward, and William Abercrombie were the judges, Edward Miller and Robert Townsley the clerks ; and the following were the voters : George Fagin, John McCleary, John Morin, Patrick Fagin, Abel Donham, Nathan Nichols, Rodham Morin, John Snyder, Tophel Apple, John Day, William Apple, Jesse Swem, Chapman Archer, Hezekiah Lindsey, John Apple, Jacob Teal, Moses Broadwell, Henry Davis, Joseph Avey, Thomas Robinson, Daniel Husong, Joseph Beechmer, John Dillman, John White, Peter Emery, John Bennett, Jacob Whctston, James Gest, Robert Lane, Isaac Ferguson, James Bennett, Amos Don- ham, John Lovell, Elijah Williams, David John, Alexander Robb, Reuben Laycock, William Whittaker, Shadrach Lane, Christian Husong, James B. Kyle, Jacob Light, James Ward, William Abercrombie, Robert Townsley, Edward Miller, Daniel Light, Daniel Gilman, Morris Witham, Henry Fitzpatrick, James Fitzpatrick, Peter Pelser, Ezekiel Dimmitt, Edward Chapman, Nathan Laycock, Joseph Gest, John Donham, Aaron Fagin, Isaiah Ferguson, Robert Donham, William Beasley, Abraham Ridland, Thomas John, Zachariah Chapman, Nicholas Prickett, Archibald Gray, John John, William Lindsey, Samuel Loveless, and Joshua Brown.

    No recorded account of the annual township meetings is to be found prior to 1826. That year Thomas Kirgan, William A. Brown, and Abel Donham were elected Trustees; John C. Wylie, Clerk ; Israel Littleton and Robert Carver, Constables ; Joseph Peden, Treasurer ; Robert Iles and Thomas Glisson, Overseers of the Poor ; Robert Haines and Levi Moss, Fence-Viewers ; John Placard, Ichabod Gilman, William Donham, Chapman Archer, John Wagoner, Thomas West, Lewis Huff, Samuel Short, Frederick Eppert, William Lindsey, David White, Nathan Laycock, Hiram Gray, James Robb, and William Watkins, Road Supervisors.
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John LovellNameJohn Lovell [S509] [S1095] [S1097] [S1680:188] [S1686]
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John LovellResidence1805Ohio Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States [S1095]
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