The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-03-07
BY THE EDITOR.



Elyah Kirkpatrick the First Tar Collector
in the County, Settles on Smoky Rotr-llorc
additions to the NeiO Market and White
oak Settlemeuts-THe Te,HyLins Settle on
East Fork--McRjJJen and Miller on Rocky
Forh-Additions to Sinking Spring settle
n'cnt-First Wheat Harvesting in High-
land- Vim. Pope's Right lOih Bear-
Michael Sroup, the Halter, arriues at Ncv
Market-His Industry and Enterprise
Opening Of the "Old Mad River Eoaap
from Nel0 Market, DC. e.
"tn the spring Of 1901, Elijah Kirkpat-
rick moved from Chillicothe and settled
with his family on Smoky Row. He was
the first collector of taxes in Highland
county.
"Lewis Summers moved into New Market
from Pennsylvania early in the same
spring, also George Row and Joseph Myers.
No other persons moved in during the
summer. In the fall Isaac Lemon and his
family m5ved ont from Virginia and set
tied in the town, also Geo. Galley. Nobody
died in the town up to this time, and there
was no serious sickness. The first bury
ings at the New Market graveyard were
Adam Medskcr, who had recently moved
into the neighborhood, and Robert Brnnson.
from the Rocky Fork. This was in the
summer of 1901
"Old Robert Finley was the first Preach
er in New Market, and doubtless the first
who preached within the present bound
aries Of Highland county. The preaching
was in the woods During the years 1901
and 'O2 Rev. Henry Smith, a Methodist
preacher from Virginia, occasionally
preached in New Market.
"The same fall Adam Lance and George
Fender moved from Virginia and settled
in the neighborhood of the Davidsons and
Finleys, on Whiteoak and Isaiah Roberts
moved up from Chillicothe the next fall
and settled on Whiteoall, on the farm on
which his son Isaiah now resides. James
Mcconnell also came up from the same
place the same fall and Settled in the same
neighborhood, and two years afterwards
came Joseph Davidson.
"During the winter Of 1901, George
Galley and Peter Hoop set out from New
Market for a good hunt. They Travelled
all over the country which is now occu-
pied by the town Of Hilsboro and the
surrounding farms, but could find moth
ing, After wandering about for a long
time in search of game, they became very
much fatigued and hungry, and to make
their miserios complete, they discovered
they were lost. They continued, however,
to travel on, and finally, when hopeless
and almost famished, they joyfully discov-
cred at nightfall, the cabin of Terah Temp
lin, where they were kindly received and
cared for by that most worthy man.
"Joseph NIcKibbou and Isanc Miller
came from Mill Creek, Fleming county,
Kentucky and settled on the East Fork Of
the Little Miami, in the spring of 1sOl.-
Mr. McKibben, Joscph's father, and Isaac's
guardian, gave each of them a hundred
acres ofland, axes, hoes, plows, and enough
corn meal to last them during the gunner.
Meat he refused, saying they might hunt
for that in the woods. The young pioneers
had a hard time the first summer. Noitb-
er was very successful in hunting, and
sometimes they almost starved, having
nothing for days together to eat, but a
piece Of corn bread washed down with a
gourd of water.
"Robert and Terah Templin came IN
from Chillicothe in the spring of 1901, and
made improvements on lands which they
had purchased of Henry Masse. Robert
settled on a branch of the Rocky Fork,
known at present as Templin's or Med
sker's Run, and Terah ON the Little Rocky
Fork, on the place since owned by Bennet
Creed. They were both at that time un-
married. They were among the first set
tiers of Chillicothe, having gone in the
company which went with Gen. NIassie in
the spring ofl796, to locate Chillicothe and
makethe settlement in that vicinity, at
Station Prairie
Paxton township, Ross county, in which
cambridge now is, was laid off in 1900,
and then extended west over what is now
Highland and Fayette counties. The place
of voting, holding meetings, &c., was at
the house of Christian Platter, one mile
east of where Bainbridge now stands.
"The Sinking Spring settlement did not
receive any additions until 1900, when ST.
mon Shoemaker senior, came with his
family from Virginia and settled in the
neighborhood. During " four preceding
years, Frederick Broucher had been en-
gagged slowly in clearing out a small farm,
and building and preparing his home for
the accommodation of the travel, which
began to be considerable along the trace,
on which he had located. His house was
the first Tavern out Of Chiuicothe on the
trace.
"Timothy Marshon cared nothing for the
elegancies of life, and but little for the
comforts. So he was contented to inhabit
the little cabin built by Wilcoxson, or
rather his wife and children inhabited it,
for he was most of the time in the woods,
hunting. He therefore, up to this'time,
had done little or nothing towards making
an improvement, depending solely for
subsistence on the bear deer &c, which
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