Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-03-23

tire band OF INDIANS were klllcu, anu OOis
Balls victory complete. Ever after this af.
fair the Indians were cautious about en-
countering mail carriers on horseback"
RACE FOR LIFE.
find tho following incident narrated in
the manuscript Of DR.. Brainard:
at chanced one day that three men re-
turning from a distant settlement on the
east, when they had arrived within half
mile Of the Fort, espied about dozen In
dians armed with rifles, some forty rods to
their left, and about the same distance from
the Fort. Though themselves armed each
with musket, TO stand a fight with so
many seemed out of the question, and it
was resolved to make for the Fort with all
the speed possible, and if the foe should ad-
vance within fair musket shot TO wheel and
fire, then as they would have no time to
reload depend upon their legs for Safely
The plan was no sooner determined than
the Indians raised the yell, and sprung for
their prey. Not being wearied like the
white men with long march, aud natur-
ally feeter on foot the race soon became
fearful to the pursued. They saw the enc
my gaining ground, and some rifles had been
discharged at them. Al this juncture they
wheeled and fred, and had the satisfaction
of seeing two of the foremost Indians fall,
which for a moment appeared to check the
progress of the rest. But no time was to be
lost, the Fort they must reach or die. The
redoubled cries of the Indians, and their in
creasng speed to cut off their retreat, rem
dered their case almost hopeless. An occas-
ional zigzag movement in their fight they
thought was best calculated to shun the
frequent balls the foe discharged. In this
wav the race was continued till they wero
in the protection of the Fort, when round
or two of grape was aimed and discharged
at the assailents, but with no effect except
to frighten them off. In this fortunate es-
cape but one man was wounded, and he but
slightly"
FIRST COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, DC.
The first record of the County is as fol
lows:
"At the first meeting of the Commission.
ers morris A. Newman, jeremiah Everett,
and Moses Nichols,) held at the house Of
Morris A. Newman, in the town of Crog-
hansville, on Saturday the 9Th day Of
April, in the year one thousand eight humid
red and twenty:
"Ordered, No. /. That Jesse H. Newman
be appointed Clerk of the Commissioners
"No. 2. Ordered that Nicholas Whiten.
ger be appointed Treasurer of Sandusky
County,
"No. 8. Ordered that there be two blank
books purchased for the use of the County
"No. 4. Ordered that CharlesB. Fitch be
appointed Treasurer of Sandusky County
for the year 1920.
"No. 5. Ordered that this meeting be and
hereby is adjourned until Monday, the 10th
inst, at o'clock P. NJ, on said day, at the
house of Israel Harrington, in Sandusky."
AT the adjourned meeting the record
shows that Willis E. Brown appointed Sher-
if, and Nicholas Whitenger, Treasurer, ap-
peared, gave bonds, and took the oath re-
quircd BY law. The Commissioners then
adjourned to meet again on the 25th of
April, 1920, at the house of Morris A.
Newman, ESQ.,, in the town of Croghans-
vile, at which time and place they met
again, and
"No. 10. Ordered that Joseph Chafey
be paid eleven dollars for blank books; tc
be paid out of the County Treasury"
On the 5th of August, 1920, the Com
missioners met, and made this entry upoI
their Journal:
"CoUNTY TAX LEVIED FOR 1820.-Or
dered that there be County taxlevied on
the taxable property in this County at the
rate of ten cents per head for each head Of
meat cattle, and thirty cents for each head
of horses"
At the juno session, 1921, the following
order was made:
"CoUNTY TAX LEvIED.-Ordered: Tha
the County be taxed to the full extent o
the law"
The recorded tax list or duplicate, of the
year 1s21-which appears to be the first ev,
er made in the county-shows the follow
ing particulars and aggregate:
No land was then listed for taxation, and
all the taxable property consisted of houses
above the value of 800, and horses and
cattle, taxed, not according to value, but al
so much per head. There were then five
townships in the county, viz: Sandusky
Croghansville, Portage, Thompson and
Seneca The boundaries of the County
for civil purposes at that time, were from
the Lake and Bay on the North, to Tho
North line Of Crawford-then attached t.
Delaware-on the South, and from Woo
county on the West, to the line of the Fir
Lands, (the West line OF Huron county, OIL
the East. The aggregate number of horse
in these boundaries, returned for taxation
that year, was 1876; of cattle, 435. Th'
whole number of houses of the value o
one hundred dollars or over, in all this ex
tent of territory, was twenty-one; and thu
aggregate value three thousand five hund
red and thirty-fge dollars. All these wer
listed in Sandusky township; no house wa
returned for taxation in any other. Th
highest value of houses charged to any in
dividual, was two houses listed in the nam,
of Olmsteds, (meaning ]. s., and G. g
Olmsted) valued at $1,000. The lis
shows two houses in the county, of the val
ne of one thousand dollars each, viz: VII
liam Andrews, proprietor of the old fran
house now standing on the wharf beloV
and near June & Curtis foundry; and Mich
olas Whitenger, proprietor of the fran
house on the corner Of Pike and From
streets, owned now by William Kessler, an