| Introduction |
3 - 7 |
|
Declaration of Independence in 1776 |
9 -13 |
|
The Ordinance of 1787 |
14 - 16 |
|
Ohio Company's Purchase |
17 |
|
Meigs
County Formed in 1819 |
17 - 18 |
|
Census Report for Letart, Lebanon and Sutton
Townships, for 1820 |
18 - 20 |
|
Township Boundaries |
21 - 22 |
|
Elections, for Governor |
24 |
|
Road Tax |
24 |
|
Rutland Township Organized in 1812 |
25 |
|
Brewster Higley and Family |
27 - 29 |
|
Joel
Higley and Family |
29 - 31 |
|
Hamilton Kerr and
Col. John Niswonger |
32 - 33 |
|
The
Warth Family |
33 - 34 |
|
Felix Benedict, Jabez Benedict |
35 - 36 |
|
Jeremiah Riggs and Family |
37 |
|
John Miles and Family |
37 - 39 |
|
Captain James Merrill |
39 |
|
William Parker, Sr., and Family |
40 - 41 |
|
Aleshire Brothers |
41 |
|
Thomas Shepherd |
42 |
|
Caleb Gardner |
43 |
|
Daniel Rathburn |
44, 45 |
| The Hunters - John and George Warth |
45 - 49 |
|
Abel Larkin and Family |
49 - 54 |
|
Allen Ogden and Descendants |
54 - 56 |
|
Shubael Nobles |
56 - 57 |
|
William Parker, 2d, and Family |
57 - 59 |
| A Gang of Indians |
59 - 60 |
| Pioneer Association |
60 - 63 |
| Sketch of Early History, by Luther Hecox |
63 - 66 |
| Alexander Stedman of Athens County |
66 |
| Long Bottom, by J. H. Stewart |
67 - 68 |
| Dr. Philip Lauck and Rev. Ezra Grover |
68 - 69 |
| The Pictured Rocks at Antiquity. Silas
Jones |
69 - 70 |
|
Dr. Fuller Elliot |
71 - 72 |
|
James Smith, Sr. |
72 - 73 |
| Erastus Stow |
73 |
|
Luke Brine |
74 |
|
Thomas Gaston |
74 |
|
Frederic Hysell |
75 - 76 |
|
Joshua Johnson |
76 |
|
Leonard Hedrick |
77 |
|
Aaron Holt |
77 |
| Weaver's Reeds |
78 - 79 |
|
Peter Lalance, Sr. |
79 - 80 |
|
John V. Lasher |
81 |
|
Stow and the Wolves |
81 |
| A Brave Boy |
82 |
| First Court of Common Pleas in Meigs County |
83 - 87 |
| Meeting of Commissioners, April 30, 1819 |
87 - 91 |
| Tax Laws |
91 - 92 |
| Mrs. Dolly Knight's Paper |
92 - 93 |
| Meager Accounts of Early Settlers |
93 |
|
George
C. Cooper |
94 |
|
Major John White |
94 |
|
Samuel Ervin |
95 |
| Letter to Teacher and Scholars of Pleasant
Valley |
96 - 99 |
| Original Forest of Rutland Township |
99 - 101 |
| Time of Dogwood Blossoming |
101, 102 |
|
Samuel Halliday |
103 |
|
The Windstorm of 1826 |
104 |
| Schools and School-houses |
105 - 106 |
|
Joel Lowther, the Centenarian |
107 |
|
The Grant and Knight Families |
108 - 111 |
| Pioneer Meeting at Middleport in August, 1882 |
111 - 112 |
| Col. David Barber, Ex-Treasurer of Meigs County
- A Guest ---- |
113 |
| The "Warth Family," Mr. Silas Jones |
114 |
| Plea for the Pioneer Graveyard |
115 |
| 1883. Tombstone for Mr. George Warth, the
Indian Scout, and Mail Carrier |
115 |
| Flax |
115 - 116 |
| Clocks, Cranes |
117 |
| Mills |
118 |
| Joseph D. Plummer |
119 |
| Josiah Simpson, Sr. |
120 |
| Robert Simpson, Sr. |
121 |
| John Newell and Descendants |
122 - 123 |
| Rev. Eli Stedman and Family |
123 - 124 |
| Captain Jesse Hubbell, Seneca Haight |
124 - 125 |
| Stephen Titus and Mrs. Margarhetta N. Titus |
125 |
| Melzar Nye and Lewis and Ebenezer Nye |
126 |
| Cattle Diseases |
127 |
| Cicada, or Seventeen Year Locust |
127 |
| Wild Turkeys, Wild Geese, Owls and Hawks |
128, 129 |
| Bees, Ingenious Contrivances for Work |
130 |
| Salt |
131 - 135 |
| Joseph Vining, Elijah Jones |
135 - 136 |
|
Asahel Skinner and Descendants |
136 - 137 |
|
Joseph Giles,
John Sylvester,
Lemuel Powell,
Aaron Torrence |
137 - 138 |
| Whittemore Reed and Family |
138 - 139 |
| Samuel Downing and Descendants |
139 - 140 |
| Aaron Thompson, Pleney Wheeler |
141 |
| Alexander Von Schritz, Joseph Townsend |
142 |
| John McClenahan |
142 |
| Stephen Smith and Family |
143 |
| Jesse Page, William Stevens, John Bing |
144 |
| Robert Bradford |
144 |
| Joshua Gardner |
145 - 146 |
| Timothy Smith |
147 - 148 |
| John S. Giles' Account of the Rescue of Adams
Smith from Jail |
149 - 153 |
| William Church and Family |
154 |
| Randall Stivers |
155 |
| Aaron Stivers |
156 |
| Adam Harpold |
157 - 158 |
| Henry Roush, 1st, and Henry Roush, 2d |
159 |
| George Washington Putnam, by Charles Matthews |
160 - 161 |
| Livingston Smith |
162 |
| William Johnson |
163 |
|
John Entsminger |
163 - 164 |
| Photograph of Stone House Built by Luther Donaldson,
a Revolutionary Soldier, the Home of his old age. |
164a |
|
George Wolfe |
165 |
|
Regular Baptist Church |
166 |
| Rutland Cemetery |
166 |
| John Hayman and Descendants |
167 - 168 |
| John Wagner |
169 |
|
George Burns |
169 |
|
Obadiah Walker, Sr. |
170 |
|
Thomas Halsey |
170 |
|
Doctor Fenn Robinson |
170 - 171 |
| John Hall and Descendants |
171 |
| The Sayres, Hon. Edgar Ervin |
172 |
| The "Keg Company" |
173 |
| Dr. David Gardner |
173 |
|
Edward Weldon and Family |
174 |
| Meteoric Shower.
Flood of 1832
of he Ohio River |
176 - 178 |
| The Cholera in Chester in 1834, by Mrs.
D. Knight |
176 - 178 |
|
Cholera in Middleport in 1849 |
178 |
|
Arthur Merrill, Frederic Merrill
|
179 |
| Samuel Pomeroy |
179 |
| Mr. V. B. Horton and Family |
180 |
|
Martin Heckard - Judge |
180 |
| Jacob Rice,
Ira McCumber |
181 |
| Fugitive Slave Case |
181 |
| James Petty,
Lucinda Smith née
Dunham |
182 |
| Mrs. Josiah Simpson, née
Dawson |
183 |
|
The Bradbury Family, by Samuel Bradbury, Esq. |
183 |
|
Simeon Elliott and Family |
184 |
|
Rev. Samuel Branch |
184 |
| Papers from the Levi Stedman's Documents |
185 - 188 |
| The Pilchard and Ellis Families |
188 - 189 |
| Scholars Equipments |
189 |
| Pioneer Hotel |
190 |
| First Newspapers Printed in Meigs County |
191 |
| "The Buckeye Rovers" |
191 - 193 |
| Associate Judges of Meigs County |
194 |
| Census List, in 1820, of Rutland, Salisbury and
Salem Townships |
195 |
| Cyclone in Columbia Township in 1886 |
196 |
| The Young Kentuckians |
197 |
| The Athens Colony |
198 |
| The Ackleys |
199 |
| Dr. John R. Pilson, Sr., Dr. John McClintock |
200 - 201 |
| Rev. Isaac Reynolds |
201 |
| Mr. Lucius Cross |
202 |
| The Alexanders |
203 |
| Dr. David C. Whaley. The Paine Family |
204 - 205 |
| Obiturary of S. C. Larkin |
205 |
