Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-11-24

4 Inc prtzes al ne contest3was tinaliy decide
il favor Of MrscMcCuy, whose child II,
) ceiyed the bounty.
] Jacob Haymaker Inc same year con
msnced an Improvement in what is IS no no
Franklin. This township made a stro,n
claim for the County seat, and hut for atb
J death of Mr.. Olms,ead, the proprietor, an
the descent Of the title 10 minor heirs, woul
have made the claim good. 7'''.9
s'Fhe7 first Mail on the Reserve was ca
J ried by man by the name of ellison. +
l602, ION his back from Pittsburgh to w ar
rem and back once q month. In 1905
had become sqnite country" and Oh tha
account, or bee 1use Mr.. Granger, who wa
Postmaster General, owned CONSIDERABLE
land in the county, a mail route was es
tablished from Pittsburgh, through Warrer
and Ashtabula to Cleveland, then throu &
the wilderness 10 zRpveuna,7 Deerfield, an,
PiItsburgb;Y which, route, was performed
once week on horseback.
The first Postmaster in -Ravenr,a wa
Robert 'Campbell ll-who kept The sofic,
where the late Levi Sutliff lived iund died
= In 1902 Abel Forshey squatea on tbs
farm now owned by M. Farnam, ir
Charlestown-though a permanent settle
nent was not made in that township iii
1904, when John Campbell moved into the
'ewnshippsa and awrs appointed agent fol
Samuel liinckley !, the proprietor. Trough
bis exertions O. company; was formed in
Granville and Blanford, Massachusetts, ia
colonize the town. The company consist siiIl
ed ofLevifSutliff, Linus CurIiss, Charles
Curliss, David Coe, John Baldwin, g. Ain on
Babcock, and William and John King
The first two came. on in 1910, the others
in 1871. John Baldwin, Jr., was the first
white child born in the township. 9
In 1906 Joel Baker purchased the north
west corner Of the centre of Shalersyilie-
the same haying been given. by the preprie-
tor, Mr.. Shaler, Of Md 1letown Connecticut,
to Robert Campbell, who surveyed the
township. The balance of the township
did notacomes into market till three years
later, which retarded the settlement, till
l809., The first settlement was made in
Edinburgh, this yeur, by Lemuel Chapman,
in the west part of the township He is
still living on the farm he, first selected. j;
Adna Boslwick, Of this town, took the
first marriage license granted in this coun.
ty. II was issued during the sitting Of the
Court, at the August term n1508. sid hn.
An unfortunate occurance happened in
1606-which produced much excitement.
Some Mohawk Indians, encnmped in Deer
field, considering themselves wronged in
horse trnde, shot Daniel Diver through the
heod.J The party consisted of John Nc
hawk, who shot him, John Nicksaw, and,
Bigson and his two sons. AT this time all
the militia in the county composed but one
Battalion under the, command of Mai,r
Rogers. He Immediately summoned his
men, and started in pursui,-on the follow.
ing night they overlook them, al Porty's
camp, on the west side Of The Cuyahoga
river, in what is now Boston. IheIndians,,
discovering, their pursuers, fled; they were
pursued TO what is now Rich6eId,in Sunni,
county, when the aim, and deadly rifle or
Johnathan w Williams, an Indian hunter,
brought sNieksaw to the ground. Bigson
and his two sonsawere taken prisoners, but
Mohawk escaped. Bigson and his sons
were taken prisoners to Deerfeld, and by
Lewis Day, Esq, committed 10 jail at
Warren, but were acquitted, asit appeared
that it was the deed Of Mohawk alone, in
which the others did not participate. The
Indians buried Nicksaw on the ground
where he fell, and raised a mound over
him to commemorate his death, and the
circumstances which is still 10 be seen.,
The county seat was located in Rayenna
in 1908, and the first court, composed Of
Calvin Pease, President Judge; Amzi
Atwater, Aaron Norton, and William
Wetmore, Associates; was he'd in the
house OF Robert Eaton, where Isaac Thomp-
son now lives. Singular as it may appear
for the first year there was no Clerk
Judge Pease keeping his own record on a
half quire of paper, stitched together with
brown thread. The first appointment of a
Clerk, on record, is August term 1909,
when Seth Day was appointed Clerk pro.
tenn, though othors had officiated, without
any record appointment. The first meet
ing of the Commissioners was held in June
1908; when the first business presented to
them was petition for a road in ssNo 2
in the 10Th Range" Among the Petition
CTS uT6 =tE0t 3h6vs M DRCOU,k dud your
venerable townsman Ephruim Clark So
scarce were freeholders that they had TO
take the committee from among lhe Peti-
tioners-coming very near the condition Of
the militia company who, at an election,
fell short, one, Of enough for officers.
To induce the. location of the Court
House where it now is, Mr.. Tappan gave
the public ground, where it stands, and
every alternate lot. He also built log
Jail, and the old Court House, which has
since been moved off, and is now used by
Messrs. Clarks as wagon shop. II stood
midway of the public square, about on the
space between the present Court House and
Jail. -. --..-.,. ...,,..,-........
Before the square was graded there was
quite ridge on which the Court House
stood, being really the dividing ridge be-
tween the lake and the Ohio-the water
from the south roof running into the Gulf
of Mexico-that from the north roof into
the Gulf Of st Lawrence.
The great objection to the present loca.