Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-07
township Correspondence
PENNINGTON.
A. El 1875


MARCH 5th, 1866.
Editor Chronicle:-I omitted to say in
the proper place in my last that MI. Cad
Hart came on with the Wolcott brother:
in the fall of 1906. We left them on the
road going back to Conn. After dispos
ing of their farms and crops, Josiah VOL
colt and Cad Hart, with their families,
started in the fall of 1907, for their new
home in Henshaw (now Pennington
arriving here in December of the same
year; they got on quite well until they
got to Mr.. Cummins, in Bristol. where
they staid the last night before reaching
Pennington, for they had to cut their way
through the woods, as best they could
the women land the children that were
large enoughl walking most of the way.
Polly, Mr.. Woleott's daughter, while
walking on a small log across a swail,
stealing herself with a pole or stick, the
pole broke, letting her fall into the water;
it being late in the season, she became
chilled, caught cold, was taken sick and
finally died before she had been here a
year.
Mr.. Harris family moved into the cabin
that had been built the year before, near
E. P. Wolcott's store, and in mean time,
Horace Wolcott, who had staid here had
got up quite a comfortable cabin, neal
where the house of Mr.. jackson, now
stands he hauled boards from Parkman,
and made lower and upper floors, and
thought he had pretty nice place for the
family but when the women folks came
to see it, they shed tears, saying they
thought it was pretty hard to come so far
and such a hard, long journey, to live in
such a house as that was; and in fact the
present generation know but little what
priyations and h~ar6ships the inhabitants
of that day underwent and endured.
l think it was in the course of the win
fer, or soon after, Mr.. Wolcott bought of
Esq. Tracy, in Mesopotamia, three hogs
and one beef; and III the course of the
next summer, perhaps, being out of meat,
he went down to the river where some
Indians were encamped, and told them
he would give them a silver dollar if they
would bring him the meat of a buck
deer, and it was not long before he had
it. Only think, Mr.. Editor, a SiLUer dollar!
would it not make our eyes sore now if
we should see one?
At this time there were no roads in
Pennington; the state road from Warren
TO HalnSVille was CUT through going
across the Southwest corner of this Town
ship. but was neither worked or bridged,
and there was a road cut out from War
rem or BRISTOL to Mesopotamia, and a
bridge across Grand River from one and
a half to two miles Northeast of the cen
ire of Pennington. During the year 1908,
nine or ten others came in. so that the
first inhabitants had neighbors, and there
was quite a settlement. Among these
were William Wilson, Josiah Wolcott, I'd,
son of Theodore Wolcott, Cad Barthol-
emew, Ezra Curtis, John Hethman, j. P.
Danford, Dennis Lewis, Jacob Barthol-
emew, and Amos P. Woodford, a part
having families and part yong men. Du-
ring all this time what milling they had
done, they had to go to Parkman for,
seven miles, through the woods and on
horse back, sometimes staying out over
night. There we will leave them again.
Truly Yours,
EARLY SETTLER.