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��HISTOKY OF RICHLAND COUNTY.

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��copper pipe was plowed up in the old Indian burying-ground at Helltown. which is now in possession of Dr. Henderson.

The first white settler came into the town- ship, so far as known, in 1809, and was, there- fore, among the first in Richland County. The names of its first settlers are mentioned in a statement printed some years ago, from which the following extract is produced : " The first settlement of this township was made in the year 1809, by Samuel Lewis, James Cunning- ham, Andrew Craig and Henr}' McCart." This is. in part, erroneous, Samuel Lewis being the only one of those mentioned who settled within the present limits of Worthington. The men, hoAvever, settled very near to each other, and very near the line between Monroe, Worthing- ton and Grreen, and it has been with some dif- ficulty that their exact places of residence have been ascertained. They have been claimed as residents of Grreentown, and of G-reen Town- ship, but the fact is they settled very near where Monroe aad Worthington joins Green. James Cunningham moved about consider- alily ; in fact, many of these early settlers were somewhat restless, and it is therefore hard to locate them. Andrew Craig was among this number, and can hardly be called a settler at all. Of the former (Cunningham), it has been ascertained that he first settled on the north- east quarter of Section 6, in Monroe Township, so that his first residence was far from Worth- ington. His next move, so far as known, was to Mansfield, and his third move, made in 1810, was back to Monroe Township, where he settled on Section 30, near Greentown, and in the ]McCart and Lewis neighborhood, so that he was not one of the earliest residents of Worth- ington at all, though very near its northern line. He afterward moved to the northeast quarter of Section 24, in Monroe. Sometime during the war of 1812, he moved his family to Licking County. Ohio, and returning again after the war settled permanently in Worthing-

��ton, on Section 17. It will be seen that he was an earl}' settler in Worthington, but not among the earliest.

Samuel Lewis was probabl}- the first perman- ent white settler within the present limits of Worthington, settling on the northwest quarter of Section 1, in the spring of 1809. He after- ward, in 1812, erected a block-house on his fiirm for the protection of the settlers. This was known as Lewis' block-house, and is men- tioned in another chapter. Henry Nail, Sr., came in 1810, settling _on Section 1, and William Slater, Peter Zimmerman and James Wilson in 1811 ; Herring, Brodie, Pierce, Davis and some others, perhaps, a little later. James Pierce came before 1815, and settled on Section 2. William and Jonathan Darling came in soon after Lewis, and settled on Section 1. Joseph Friend and Peter Zimmerman came about 1811, the former • settling on Section 3, and the latter on the northeast quarter of Section 16. Zim- merman, erected a powder-mill, the first in the country, on Clear Fork, and established a good trade in the powder business. In 1813, William and Thomas Simmons came, settling on Section 20, and entering the land upon which stands the village of Independence. In 1823, Moses Andrews, wife and family, consistmg of Thomas B., William, John E., Moses, Jr., Catharine and Ann Eliza, came, settling on Section 32. When Mr. Andrews came, the following settlers were already here, in addition to those mentioned, viz., Frederick Eck, Section 32 ; Zeheniah Wade, Section 27 ; John Halfert}-, Section 34 ; Robert Kinton, Section 26 ; John Pipe ; Stephen Bishop, Section 28 ; Frederick Herring (one of the earliest settlers). Section 3 ; Thomas Watt, Section 31 ; David Filloon, Section 23 ; Nicho- las Fleeharty, Section 24 ; James Fleeharty, Section 13 ; Amasy Fleeharty (father of James and Nicholas, and a soldier of the Revolution), Section 24 ; Daniel Carpenter (father of George and W. B. Carpenter, of Mansfield), Section 2 ; Andrew Ramsey, Section 17, (1815) ; Robert

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