The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-12-12

pay unto Jedediah CLARK seven sEilings and six
pence In money, unless Mr. Clark is mind to take
1t in anything else And this order is your dis
charge from your humble Servant VIM Rice
Soon after the above Mr.. Larned must have
''moved West" for in Jan. 17ss, we find by paper
dated at Portsmouth evidently Ohio that he de-
posits q pounds, in New York currency, to secure
the payment of pounds, 2 shillings and pence.
Horses, in those days were not as valuable as
they are now, as we find by the following:
have sold to Ezskial Larned bay horse, fifteen
hands high, eleven years old, and gray mare
fourteen and half hands high, both marked w.
D., for thirty-fve bushels corn to be delivered in
Cincinnati by the 18th inst Matt Ernst for
Nov, 8, IL 81. VIM Dean
Thirty-fve bushels corn would not go great
way toward purchasing a single horse now.
In February 1897, friend of his seems to have
been effected little like people have been since
the panic set in, and makes an earnest demand for
money.
February 8, 1877
Sr. please to pay the bearer hendney weaver
the sum of two pounds On my acompt and in %
doing you viii oblesge your friende
Cannot Do without it
To Mr. Ezekiel Larned
We next lind Mr.. Larned before justice giving
testimony in hog case, but we will let the JUS
! Jlces record tell now It Was:.
On the twenty ninth day of July one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-three, before NE William
Gofsrth, one of the Justices assigned to hear the
| peace in and for the County Of Hamilton, in the
/ Territory of the United States Northwest Of the
/ river Ohio, personally appeared Ezekiel Larned,
who being duly sworn ON the Holy Evangelists of
| Almighty God, deposeth and saith that sometime
in the fore part Of last winter as he was passing
through the Garrison, as 1t is called, at Norris
town, he heard John Webb speaking respecting
some hogs that had been killed over the Little MI
ami river, and he, that is Webb, said it was sus-
/ pected that Robt Mac Tenny had killed them, and
he believed it was like enough for he had broth
er up the river who was damd hog thief, that had
/ been catcht marking peoples hogs; and further
| this deponenth saith not.
| Sworn to the day and year above written, before
me William Goforth J. P.
In the following month he concludes to open an
Inn, and applies to the August Sessions Hamilton
Co., S., for License to do so at his house in Co
lumbia in said county.
Taxes in those days were not 50 much Of an item
as they are in these days. witness the following
| Reed Cincinnati 4th Dec 1T97 of Mr. Ezekie
Larned forty three cents, and twenty-five cents fol
warrant, the amount of Sarah Bakers tax for thC
year 1877, by order Of Robert Benham, ESQ.,, one
of the Commissioners for Hamilton County
John K. Ran
Tax SO
warrant 20
On the sd day of April 1910, Orr. Larned hayin!
deceasedJ Deriah Larned was appointed Admins
traitor of his estate.
There are other papers, but what we have give1
cover period of 80 years, commencing at tim,
when what is now known as Ohio was an almos
unbroken wilderness, ere the struggle for independ
enee had commenced. During that period the wa
had passed and the British grasp had been forcet
from the throats of the Colonies. The Colonia
Government had sprung into existence and passed
away, and the present government had been inst
tHted. Washington and Adams and Jefferson kat
served their respective terms as President, anC
Madison was in the second year of his frat term
Mighty changes had taken place between the dat
of the first and last named documents but nothing
to what has since occurred. Ohio has grown to b,
the third State in the Union, and what remained o
the ''TerritOry Northwest of the Ohio" has bios
somed into populous States. Where the Indian
trail was the only connecting link between import
ant posis, pixies have succeeded, forests have dis
appeared and cities and towns sprung into being
roads and railways traverse the country in all direc
tions, and communications are made In day whicl
at that time consumed months. The changes ar
mulitudinous, and CONFUSING when viewed in tn,
light of the past, and these old papers natural!
calls up the contrast.