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

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! aEbehezer' Sheldon the same year mad
/ a'settiement in oAuroraLfr from or to whic
there was ne road except an Indian bride
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-5.'lni May, of this year, Lewis Day, an
others, arrived in DeerfielG. in; q one f1ors
wagon, which was the first article Of tn,
kind known so far west. The same yea
Caleb .Atwaler, of w alhngsferd, Connect
cut, commenced opening a road TO " what i
now Atwa:er, which was done, as far a
| Deerield, when Ely S party arrived
saIn'the spring Of 1900, John Campbell
{better known as sGen.s'Campbell) A lvat
| Day, (bel,en known as Judge Day. ane
| others arrived, and formed n permanent,set
clement in Deerfeld.. This season Mr..
Laughlin arrived from Pennsy lvania, and
builra grist mill, on the Mahonlng, in the
south par, ofithe'township, which, as far as
cnn learn, was the frs. lgrist mill in Por,
tags, County. 1t has remained in the pos
session Of him and his, family ever since,
The seltlers this year, Suffered :, greatly
for the want, Of provisions, as it all had to
be brought from g Georgetown, on the Chic
rivei, distance Of 40 miles. n tf22s'a'
sa Mr.. 5fappan being joint owner Of Ra.
yenna.s with his father Benjamin ,Tappan
of Northampton, Massachusetts, on landing
at what is now Boston, in Summit County,
proceeded to this township and erected a
bark shartee on the hill, south east Of the
pond rear Deacon'Pee's insthe west part
ofthis township, w. here apple trees of his
planting are, still growing. -. .fs..g,za-,,
On the frs. day Of January 1900, Tap.
pan becomming. a little aris.ccra.ic, moved
into a log cabin he had erected a1httle be-
low Mr.4saac l'hompson's, where the res
mains are vet TO be seen on the east side
of,he road, and abandoned his bark shan.
lee TO some more humble occupant, This
cabin was the first house erected in Raven
ra: On the first arrival ofthei whites the
flies and mosquitoes. were savage beyond
all that The Imagination can now conceive :
They actually. killed one of Tappan's OK,
en-, the first season, BY drawing out his
blood, aud BY the torment of the operation
This, by breaking up his team, prevented
his putting in q crop The first yeas, and he.
was consequently driven to the necessity
ofarelylng on the chase fer his meat, and
on .westernsP Pennsylvania for his bread, a,..s
ri The first settlement was made in Palny-
ra, ioo the same year that it was in Ra-
venna,. Atwater,, and Deerfeld. David
Daniels, from Salisbury, Connecticut, was
the first pioneer, but he was soon followed
by thssBacons, Baldwins, Gilberts, Smiths,
Tuttles, Walters and others, who have left
numerous descendants in. that township
in fact large proportion the: Inhabitants
are the descendants of those who came in
to the township in 1899. ...Asrs
Bella Hubbard arrived the same year in
in Randolph, from Middletown Connecti-
cut, and selected his land one mile west Of
the center where he stis resides in aifresh
and vigorous old age. The first night he 4
spent in 1.-The township he slept on the
ground under a tree, on the east side Of
Breakneck, creek, where TInker's tannery
now is. He had no bed but the earth, and,
when asked what he had over him, signif-a
cantly replied, 5:sthe Heavens. Thus was
spent the, first night by the first white man
in Randolph ,.4,a IA .s .sisp, a.,
An anecdole will illustrate the hardships
which those early settlers had 10 endure
A person calling on Mr.. Tappan one day,
found him engagedsin slicing off raw tur-
nip, and giving it TO his dog. On being
inquired of way be did SO, Tappan said he
would not feed his dog with as good vituals
as he eat hi..lself; and as boiled turnips
were the best he had, he give them 20 his
dog raw. siv SCI se.E ss6i&1 q. sjssg .agsT nod
The next settlers that came into Raven.
ma after rappan, were the. Moore's, Sim.
coxe's, and Wright's, who fled from Penn.
sylvania TO avoid the consequences of their
participation in the whiskey insurrection-
but their morals did not seem 10 have i'm.
proved, for l fnd by inspecting the Re,
cords that the first Indictment in your coun.
ty was against William Simcox for hunt.
ing. on Sunday, and the second was against
him for stealing pet deer. These per.
sons settled around Muddy pond, on the
farms lately occupied by Wait Hickox,
and David c. Hall. They, and all their
posterity, having since left the county.
1880 Mason Tilden, and Daniel Owen,
from Lebanon, Connecticut, came to what
is now Hiram, and begun a settlement
Tilden left his family in Connecticut, but
Owen brought on his wife and two children,
being the first white family in the towns
ship. Tilden subsequently, sold out his
to Christopher Redding, and
returned to Connecticut and Owen moved
to Nelson-so that Redding may be cons
sidered the first permanent settler. Eyerit
Francis now owns the farm on which the
first Improvement was adjoining
the farm Of the late Miles II. Norton u
On the 22d Of August 1900, Mrs. Day,
wife Of tAlva Day. gave birth to daugh.
ter which was The first white child born
in the county; and on the 7rh of Novem-
Der Of thai year, the first marriage was
celebrated in Deertield. The parties we're
Gen. John Campbell and Sarah Ely,
daughter of Lewis Ely. They were mar.
ried by Calvin Austin, of Warren, who
came through the woods to Deerfeld, on
foot, TO perform the ceremony. 7'7gg.t giSi
The first civil organization of what is
now Portage County, was in 1902, when