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CHAPTER XXVIII. -
COMMON PLEAS COURT RECORDS -
ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT SEAT OF JUSTICE
FOR HIGHLAND COUNTY - NAMES OF MALE
INHABITANTS OVER TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.
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ed, but death ensued soon after.
Hays was a Virginian of fine education
and good mind, and emigrated early to
Chillicothe. He came to Highland in
the spring of 1805, and was chosen clerk
soon afterwards. This accident caused
a great sensation all over the county, for
Hays was generally known and liked by
the people, and they deeply regretted his
early death. The sapling was about
four inches in diameter, and some one,
shortly after, twised the top into a knot to
designate it. It stood there for many
years after the accident.
In pursuance of an act of the Legislature, Jan. 30th,
1807, requiring the Clerks of the Common
Pleas Court throughout the State to notify
the township Listers within twenty days
after the annual election for township
officers, to proceed, while taking a list of
taxable property, to take the number of
white male inhabitants above the age of
twenty-one years, an enumeration of the
voters of the county of Highland was taken
in the month of May, 1807. The law
required this service to be performed under
oath, and limited the time to thirty days
commencing on the first Monday of May.
The Listers elected at the spring election, 1807, were
Elijah Kirkpatrick, for New Market
township; Mark Donald for Liberty;
B. H. Johnson, for Fairfield; and
John Roads for Brushcreek.
As this was the first census taken by authority of law,
in the county of Highland, and as it is the
best authority as to who made up the tide of
life here at that early day, we think it not
out of place in these pages.
The New Market list is entitled, "The Enumeration of
the free male Inhabitants above the age of
twenty-one years." then came the names
as follows:
Andrew Badgley,
Adams Bingeman,
John Bingeman,
Elias Boatman,
William Boatman,
Jonathan Berriman,
John Berriman,
Eli Berriman,
John Barr,
William Burris,
John Barr, junior,
Peter Barnhart,
William Boyd,
Thomas Boyd,
William Boyd, junior,
John Bowman,
George Bordon,
John Bordon,
Jesse Brain,
Edward Brown,
Sovereign H. Brown,
John Birr,
Christian Bloom,
John Barns,
Jacob Barns,
George W. Barrere,
Elisha Bratton,
Henry Bond,
Joseph Bratton,
Six Barngruver,
Allen Benjamin,
Thomas Colving,
George Cailey,
William Curry,
Isaac Collins,
John Colvin,
Andrew Charles,
George Charles,
Eli Collins,
Frederick Caily,
Jacob Coffman,
James Cowan,
David Chapman,
Isaac Chapman,
James Colvin,
John Campton,
William Campton,
John Donohoo, |
Michael Dugan,
Samuel Davis,
John Davidson,
Joseph Davidson,
John Davidson, Jr.,
Adam Ernold,
John Eakins,
Benjamin Eakins,
Joseph Eakins,
Edward Earls,
John Emry,
Andrew Ellison,
Jacob Eversol,
Robert Flemming,
Alexander Fullerton,
Geo. Fender,
James B. Finley,
John P. Finley,
John Flourence,
Lewis Gibler,
John Gibler,
John Gossett,
Frederick Gibler,
Julius Gordon,
Richard Gordon,
Daniel Garrison,
Jeremiah Grant,
Ebenezer Hamale,
Peter Hoop,
Joseph Hough,
John Hoop,
John Harvel,
Robert Hughston,
William Hough,
John Hair,
Samuel Hindman,
Walter Hill,
David Hays,
James Hays,
Gideon Jackson,
William Johnson,
Enos Johnson,
William Joslin,
John Keyt,
William S. Kenner,
Andrew Kessinger,
Elijah Kirkpatrick, |
Isaac Leman,
Adam Launce,
John Launce,
James Lane,
John McQuitty,
Hector Murphy,
Jacob Medsker,
James, Mountain,
James McConnel,
Samuel McQuitty,
Frederick Miller,
Joseph Meyers,
John Malcom,
John Malcom, jr.,
James Malcom,
Willford Norrice,
John Porter,
Moses Patterson,
James Pettyjohn,
Thomas Pettyjohn,
Benjamin Purcell,
Henry Roush,
James Reed,
St. Clair Ross,
James Ross,
James Rush,
Isaiah Roberts,
John Roush,
Oliver Ross,
Thomas Robinson,
Felty Kinnard,
Andrew Shafer,
Adam Shafer,
Frederick Saum,
Peter Snider,
David Sullivan,
Jacob, Saum,
Daniel Smith,
Michael Stroup,
Philip Wilkin,
William Wray,
John Wardlow,
George Wolf,
Godfrey Wilkin,
Thomas Wisbey,
Archabald Walker,
Wm. P. Finley |
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total of these voters is one hundred and
forty-three.
The enumeration of Liberty township is:
John Achere,
William Alexander,
Henry Alt,
Enos Baldwin,
Jesse Baldwin,
Jesse Baldwin,
Thomas Ballard,|
William Ballard,
Alexander Beard,
Benjamin Beeson,
Henry Beeson,
John Belzer,
Hesekiah Betts,
Benjamin Bloomer,
Joseph Bloomer,
Nehemiah Bloomer,
William Bloomer,
John Bowman,
Jonathan Boyd,
Robert Branson,
George Brook,
Benjamin Brooks, jr.,
Benjamin Brooks, sr.,
James Brooks,
William Brooks,
Adam Brouse,
David Brown,
Joel Brown,
John Bryan,
Bourter Burris,
Daniel Burris,
John Burris,
John Burris, jr.,
John Burris, sr.,
Miles Burris,
Moses Burris,
Robert Carson
Benjamin Chaney,
Edward Chaney,
Edward Chaney, jr.
Evan Chaney,
Gabrel Chaney,
Jesse Chaney,
Joseph Chaney,
Thomas Cheney,
William Clevenger, jr.,
William Clevenger, sr.,
Abijah Coffin,
David Coffin,
Zur Combs,
John Cook,
Reuben Crab,
Jacob Creek,
Joseph Creek,
John Crigger,
James Dean,
Adam Easter,
Jacob Easter,
John Easter,
Mark Easter,
Andrew Edgar,
John Ellis,
Willliam Eubanks,
Amos Evans,
Dan Evans,
Dicky Evans,
Hugh Evans,
Samuel Evans, Esq.,
James Fenner,
James Fenwick,
Bezel Foster,
Jesse George,
Samuel Gibson,
John Gray,
Jacob Griffin,
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James Hadley,
John Hanson,
Heth Hart,
Joel Hart,
John Hart,
John Hart,
Joseph Hart,
Thomas Hart,
Samuel Harvey,
Joel Havens,
Jarvis Hiett,
Joseph Hiett,
William Hill, Sr.,
William Hill, jr.,
James Hoge,
Ronyon Huffman,
Richard Hulet,
Asa Hunt,
Jonathan Hunt,
Stephanis Hunt,
Christopher Hussey,
Stephen Hussey,
Richard Iliff,
Daniel Inskeep,
John Jessop,
Ebenezer John,
Thomas John,
Thomas Johnson,
William Johnson,
David Jolly,
William Keys,
David Kinworthy,
David Kinworthy, jr.,
Elisha Kinworthy,
Isaac Kinworthy,
Joshua Kinworthy, sr.,
William Kinworthy,
Joseph Knox,
Masbach Llewellyn,
Joshua Lucas,
Charles Lucas,
William Lucas,
William Mason,
Joel Matthews,
John Matthews, sr.,
John Matthews, sr.
Hugh McConnel,
Samuel McCulloch,
Daniel McKeehan,
Nathan Mills,
Reason Moberly,
Joseph Moon,
William Morrow,
George Nichols, |
Demsey Overman,
Isaac Overman,
Obediah Overman,
Zebulon Overman,
William Perkins,
David Pierce,
Joshua Pool,
David Rap,
Joseph Reader,
David Reece,
Samuel Rees,
Abner Robinson,
Nicholas Robinson,
John Rockhold,
Samuel Evans-Rockyfork,
David Ross,
Henry Sharp,
Isaac Sharp,
Robert Sharp,
William Sharp,
Isaac Shelby,
Gideon Small,
Joseph Small,
Knight Small,
Enoch B. Smith,
James Smith,
Job Smith,
Joseph Sparger,
Jervis Stafford,
Leven Stafford,
Shedrich Stafford,
Alexander Starr,
Adam Steel,
Gideon Stevens,
William Stevens,
Samuel Stit,
John Stokesbery, sr.,
John Stokesbury, jr.
Anthony Stroup,
Lewis Summers,
Borter Sumner,
Joseph Swearingen,
Adam Tedrow,
Solomon Templin,
William Thompson,
William Thompson,
Josiah Tomlinson,
Moses Tomlinson,
Allen Trimble,
Isaac Troth,
John Troxel,
Alexander Underwood,
James Underwood,
Isaac Vanmeter,
Joseph Vanmeter,
Peter Vanmeter,
Zachariah Walker,
James Walters,
James Willison,
George Willson,
James Witty,
Jacob Worley,
Nathan Worley, |
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