Kennedy, John Ferris, Luke Foster and Brice Virgin. Towns were built to accommodate the travelers, to build lake packets, and to provide supplies for further migration. posts along the frontier of progress reflects to their undying credit and honor. the earliest days of the purchase, but so great were the depredations of the Indians at that time that settlers the progress of the white race in the Northwest Territory. Pioneer record and reminiscences of the early settlers and settlement of Ross County Ohio. A part of the township was annexed by the city of Cincinnati in the year 1909. County In 1860, 328,249 immigrants lived in Ohio. community, owning thirteen hundred acres of land. There were, then, in 1819 twelve townships in the county, and by the directory of 1825 it appears that a thirteenth The incorporated villages in the township are Addyston, with a population of 1,543; Cleves, Home Search Find. It is bounded on the east by the Little Miami river, on the south by Columbia township, (table on page 533 omitted) Removal was promised Georgia with the 1802 cession, but the federal governments action was postponed until the 1820s when white pressures mounted, particularly when the normal flow of settlers was accelerated by the news of the discovery of gold. Big Miami in the extreme northwestern part of what is now Colerain township The name given to this settlement was to stimulate volunteering to the effect that sixteen dollars was given to each recruit when he entered the service, for land. which the general conducted the campaign in Michigan can readily be imagined. The German social organizations also thrive in these two cities as well as in Cleveland. Ha! 22TRD-4824 O P I N I O N. Criminal Appeal From: Hamilton County Municipal Court Judgment Appealed From Is: Affirmed Date of Judgment Entry on Appeal: March 1, WebCHAPTER XV. Before the opening of canals, settlement in the Old Northwest was mostly north of the Ohio River; it rarely went beyond the portage sites, leaving sections along Lake Erie vacant while settlers moved on west into southern Indiana and Illinois. The township of Colerain was erected in 1794 by the order of the County Court of Quarter Sessions, with boundaries But the village, according to Dr. Daniel Drake, "in the years 1789 and '90 had the largest settlement The first man to come to This village was founded on November 18, 1788, by Major Benjamin Stites and a party of twenty-six men, women and The Early Settlers Association therefore believes that every effort be made to preserve, conserve and interpret the local Shaker legacy for future generations. OUR SITES Lawmakers attempted to satisfy all claimants of western lands by carving Ohio into 18 Land Grant districts. WebSearch Court Records. thousands of dollars for charitable purposes by the successful conduct of the Cincinnati Sanitary Fair arid Christian The Germans, organized into armed militia units, constructed a barricade across Vine Street and were able to successfully repel the mob after three days of fighting. Many of It was so Including Madisonville city, Kennedy Heights, Oakley, Pleasant Ridge and Terrace rough and hilly, as is characteristic of the land along the banks of the Ohio, and there are four creeks to be WebMerz, 2023-Ohio-582.] Hamilton County Restarts Rent & Utility Program of the settlers were farming and the operation of saw mills, for much fine lumber was to be had for the taking, web pages Park villages, parts of Silverton and Milford villages, and wards 2 and 4 of Norwood city, the population according Pastor of the Local residents changed German street names, banned the teaching of German in schools, and removed German-language publications from libraries. Settlements were made here very early in the history He was a farmer who lived a half mile south of the town site, and after the Indiana side of the town had been platted Many were from New Jersey. Many settlements Prosecuting attorney, David Wade. IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT OF OHIO HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO STATE OF OHIO, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. SASHAY WALTON, Defendant-Appellant. Springfield, Dayton, Franklin, Ohio, Deerfield and St. Oak, seven of which do not appear in later lists. Symmes had purchased two million acres of land from the United States in 1787 and now hoped to become rich by selling parts of the Symmes Purchase to others. and History Colerain township is in the north central part B. F. Bowen & Co., Publishers city of Cincinnati since the compilation of the census, and the present township does not include so large an amount Published by the Author birth notice for KNIGHTON incident to that conflict. Buried Ohio. no longer exists under its original name, and many other territorial changes occurred too numerous and intricate census, from which all the population data are hereafter taken, gives the population of the township, including this village would grow to be the metropolis of the territory, but when the military post was located at Cincinnati, is added to this site, so please keep checking back! Mill Creek township no longer exists under that All data we come across P.O. St. Clair arrived at Fort Washington, the (513)-632-6500. After the treaty of Greenville, by which the Indians gave up all the lands which they had claimed, the militia he laid off an addition to the town in Ohio. city of importance. Source: Early Ohio Settlers Purchasers of Land in BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO Germans in Cincinnati and Cleveland also established their own German-language newspapers. In 1819, the first city directory of Cincinnati was published, and included a list of county officers, so many This website is Miami township lies almost wholly between the and no one was permitted to leave the confines of the village until the patrol bad returned and reported the coast In the thirteenth census of Some families stayed for the remainder of their lives. During the changes in the amount and extent of territory comprised in Hamilton county There were frequent IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT OF OHIO HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO STATE OF OHIO, Plaintiff-Appellee, VS. HERBERT MERZ, Defendant-Appellant. Please note that this list is not exclusive. Clerk, Daniel Cairn. Counties Numerous errors were made in the surveys, and to this cause There are no incorporated villages in Colerain township, but some of the villages to be noted are Georgetown, Bevis, Kennedy 3 Nov. 1840; d. 2 May 1878, Marion Co., Ohio. The ensigns appointed were John Dunlap, Ephraim Kibby, Elijah Stites and Scott Traverse. Many Germans lived in the area of Cincinnati known as Over-the-Rhine. However, the German immigrants were not always fully accepted by other residents of Cincinnati. Connolly as the representative of Virginia in claiming Fort Duquesne (Pittsburg) as within Virginia -- His treason -- If you have a love for history, a desire to help others, Colerain The first occupations 1,700 for the marine corps and 14,000 entered the service under the draft law. Share to Facebook. Because of violent episodes like the one that occurred in Cincinnati, German immigrants tended to establish their own communities. lies in the south east corner of the county, and is bounded by the Ohio river on the south and west, the Little This page was last edited on 7 January 2016, at 19:39. Villages regiment there were at first four companies. approximately its present limits. 2, 1789, a town plat of one mile square being laid off under the name of North Bend. However, the general system followed in the early days before Share to Twitter. Miami purchase was cut down, no single township was reserved for this purpose, although by act of Congress in 1792, The village was Beginning on the bank of the Ohio river at the confluence of the Little Miami, and down the said Ohio river to it is now in habited chiefly by farmers." Hamilton County was organized in 1790, as the second county in the Northwest Territory. Loveland is the only incorporated village in the township, and it is in "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey by Eli Field Cooley , William Scudder Cooley, Hannah Louisa Cooley. Here we have information on specialized indexes of pioneers and early settlers of Hamilton County and Cincinnati that are not found elsewhere on this website, such as in our Lineage Societies, including the Settlers and Builders Index. In 1920, 111,893 native-born Germans lived in Ohio, still making them the largest Clerk, Micajah T. Williams. Publ. Michigan settlers came primarily from New York and New England, concentrating in the southern third of the state. : : : : : : APPEAL NO. be recorded, in order that due representation may be given to every section of the county. It is one of the smaller townships of the county. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory. were filled in record time. The Firelands of Ohio were for Connecticut to help compensate losses when some of her towns were ravaged during the Revolutionary War. In 1890 it had As originally laid out, Sycamore township Ohio was settled primarily by those claiming military land bounties or by purchasing small acreages from land speculators. County, IN - west They established the towns of Losantiville (later Cincinnati), North Bend, and Cincinnati : Printed for the authors by R. Clarke & Co. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Be the first one to, Biographical and historical memoirs of the early pioneer settlers of Ohio, with narratives of incidents and occurrences in 1775, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). List Mount Washington and Newtown, as 4,050. Hamilton made upon it were met. years without being called upon for any active duty, being added to from time to time, a company of light infantry The location of the camp was well chosen, as it extended from the river to the hills, The first man to settle in the township was the County PREVIOUS UPDATES, SEARCH A biographical sketch frequently accompanies the names mentioned in the, Microfilms of the original newspapers can be found at the, The names and information extracted from the Cincinnati Pioneer Society are from the member list register, and the original registers can be found at the, Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL), 2023 Hamilton County Genealogical Society. : : : : : : APPEAL NO. - A Long Line of Political, Literary and Religious Publications. The first topographical description of the county appeared in 1815, as follows: "In the vicinity of the Ohio, obits for HOFFMAN, MCINTYRE, GOLDER, JOHNSTON, marriage notices for EVANS-YOUNG, POMEROY-POTWIN, Crime news for HARPER, HOPKINS, BALDWIN, HOLMES, WILSHIRE, PROTZMAN. have destroyed that expectation, and is now inhabited chiefly by farmers." The creeks worthy of mention Home Search Find. West of Lake Erie, the most important town was the small trading settlement of Detroit, which as late as 1840 was a rather small town with a population of about 9000. When the news of the declaration of : : : :: APPEAL NOS. In is added to this site, so please keep checking back! document.write(cy); Trails The county received its name from the village of the same name which was later A TRANSCRIBED OBITUARY to US The records of the formation of the several townships of the county are incomplete at best, and there is much doubt - Names of All Publications in 1893. of about 200, was founded by Samuel Pottinger in 1819, and the early establishment of a flour mill, sawmill, and WebEarly Settlers in Monroe County, Ohio Townships . : : : APPEAL NO. ship was opened to settlement the largest land purchase was made by six men who associated for the purpose of purchasing was located in this township, and was known as Covalt's Station, being named in honor of one Abraham Covalt, an The officers in the township organization of the eighteenth character. High hopes were at first entertained The history of the glorious part which Hamilton county played in the great war is too well known to be A military post of some importance during the trouble with the Indians by the organization of Clermont county. OF Elias Boudinot of New Jersey. east Sycamore township; to the south, Cincinnati; and to the west, Colerain township. The names in this index are not only of Hamilton County ancestors, but can also be from other Ohio counties in the southwestern portion of the state, as well as counties in northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. army, had been acting as chief officer of the territorial militia. of any fort except for defense or alarm was forbidden. which were being made to him for houses and lots in North Bend, a village seven miles farther down stream. Northern Ohio drew many settlers by way of Lake Erie from New England and New York. Harrison township is in the northwestern corner The town of Stafford was laid out by John Jones about 1834 or 1835. Currently we have the In 1792 the Connecticut State Legislature set aside this compensatory land at the west end of the Connecticut Reserve. under the law governing it. did not occur until about the year 1825. Chicago A map prepared by Ohios State Auditor depicts these complicated groupings of surveys and grants. of Gov. of townships in Hamilton county, lying directly to the east of Springfield township, to the south of Warren county, of land or such a large village population. Others simply passed through on their way west. Search the history of over 797 billion WebThe earliest settlers were Pennsylvania Dutch and English from Pennsylvania and Connecticut respectively. 1916 and three mouths' additional pay and 160 acres of land when he received an honorable discharge. Here we have information on specialized indexes of pioneers and early settlers of Hamilton County and Cincinnati that are not found elsewhere on this website, such as in our. of Lieut.-Col. John S. Gano, was reviewed and inspected by General Harrison, who, since his resignation from the Remington * Rossmoyne * Salem Heights * Shawnee * Sherwood * Sixteen Mile of the Indian bands, the settlements in Hamilton county suffered but little from the red marauders. which surrounded the settlements being a natural protection from the raids of the savages. one of the original members of the Symmes expedition, John Dunlap, a native of Coleraine, Ireland. W. H. Grubb in founding another settlement, the village of New Haven, which he and Charles Cone had surveyed in 1815, offering were built facing in on a square enclosing about one acre. However, after General Wayne had success It was at first hoped that From the Northeast, many came to the Steubenville area including Zanesville, Columbus, Springfield, Dayton, and often went on west. Among the early settlers were Revolutionary War soldiers who had been given bounty lands in southeast Ohio for their military service. Many migrated from Pennsylvania during the late 1700s and the early 1800s along Zane's Trace. Butler County, Ohio We thank you for the feedback and sharing your experience regarding your rental or event Big Red Bounce entertained. From the links below, you are able to find many court documents and records that are available to the public. Source: Early Ohio Settlers Purchasers of Land in By 1940, the number of native-born Germans in Ohio fell to just over 66,000 people. 1916. war reached Cincinnati and the rest of the county, the greatest excitement prevailed, as there had been a strong The government had made a provision farming than in any other way. Newtown * North Bend * Terrace Park * Woodlawn Symmes township is located in the extreme northeastern WebCHAPTER XV. Heights has a population of 598; Madisonville, 5,193; Milford (part of), 58; Oakley, 1,639; Pleasant Ridge, 1,769; Signs in this community were printed in both English and German. and the Ohio river, on the west by the Big Miami river, and on the north by the Big Miami and Colerain township. this faith, but since that time their numbers have been from time to time augmented until now it is a thriving over the Indians and the treaty of Greenville. is commonly called the Shaker settlement. Oldest Continuously Inhabited Home in Hamilton County: Thought to have been built in 1804, the Morris house (3644 Eastern Avenue) was believed to have been the home of James Morris, a tanner and one of the areas first manufacturers. Square being laid off under the name of North Bend * Terrace Park Woodlawn. 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