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���possible for Mr. Newman always to be at home — the nearest flouring-mill being at Mt. Vernon — he took his family to Frederiektown, in Knox Co., Ohio, where there was quite a settlement, a block-house and a few soldiers stationed ; he returned alone to take care of his property, but found all his stock and grain had been taken for the use of U. S. troops, under Gen Beall ; his provisions and stock being all gone, he returned to Frederiektown and took his wife and children to her relatives and friends, at Chillicothe ; he left them there and returned late in the fall to this county, only to find his house burned ; he never was able to find out whether the Indians or soldiers p.erpetrated this outrage ; having no shelter, he went to Chillicothe and remained there dur- ing the winter; in the spring of 1813, he returned to Richland Co., built a new house, and that summer, in August, he brought back his family and began again ; he had five sons and six daughters ; their names, in the order of their births, are Mary, Henry, Susan, Jacob, Jane, Margaret, Harriet, John, Elizabeth, Andrew and Michael C. ; Mary married B. Goldsmith ; they had five children ; Goldsmith is now deceased, and his widow lives in Pierceton, Ind. ; Henry married Hannah Mar- ing and both are deceased ; they had one son, John M. Newman, who married Eva J. Miller; Susan married William Waugh ; they have no chil- dren, and they are living in Van Wert Co., Ohio ; Jacob married Catharine Stoudt ; they had two children, John H. Newman and Lizzie Newman ; his wife died soon after the birth of John H., since which time Jacob has been a widower, and lives in Van Wert Co., Ohio; Jane died when a young lady; Margaret married John C. Snow : they have no children ; Mrs. Snow is now deceased, and John C. Snow is now living in niinois ; Harriet died in infancy ; John is not mar- ried, and is now serving his eighth term as County Sur- veyor of Richland Co.; Elizabeth married Rev. N. F. Bell; Mr. Bell is now deceased, and his widow lives in Huron Co., Ohio ; Andrew is now living somewhere in Cali- fornia ; Michael maried Carrie Wilson ; they have four children, and reside in the city of Mansfield. Mr. Newman died in 1862, and his wife died in 1872.

NEWMAN, JACOB (deceased). The Newman fam- ily, of whom .Jacob was the oldest, were of Holland descent, and settled at an early day in Lancaster Co., Penn.; the children, Jacob, Polly, John, Christena, Andrew, Michael and a sister whose name is not now' known, were born here. This sister married a man by the name of Cline ; went South with him, and was lost trace of by the family. Jacob and Michael, when they became young men, went to Franklin Co., Penn., where Jacob married Catherine Freymeyer, by whom he had four children — John, Catherine, Jacob and Henry ; Mrs. Newman died when the last named was but 2 or 3 weeks old ; the death of the mother, in a measure, broke up the family. This was in October, 1802. Mr. Newman gave all the children but the youngest to their grandparents (their mother's parents) to keep, and taking with him the youngest, whom he kept by the aid of nurses, he went to the vicinity of Greensburg, and lived there on a farm three or four years. He desired a frontier life, and, hear- ing of the West as it then existed, and the easy terms upon which poor people could obtain land

��in the military and other districts in Ohio, he deter- mined to emigrate there. He came to Stark Co. and located some land near the town of Canton, then a frontier place. Not long after, he had a good chance to sell the land, and did so, and determined to remove still farther out. His kinsman, Gen. James Hedges, had been surveying in the new country, now comprised in this county, and had informed him of some of the choice selections of land and the probable location of a county seat, as the General knew a new county would necessarily be made in this part of the State. In the summer of 1807, he left his family at Canton, and, moving his few effects, came to the Rocky Fork, where he or Gen. Hedges had undoubtedly selected a location and erected a cabin. He brought, as a housekeeper, his niece, Catherine Brubaker, who did the cooking for him and his hands, who were probably her brothers, the Brubaker boys. As this early settlement is fully given in the pioneer history elsewhere printed in this volume, its history need not be repeated here. Mr. Newman remained here improving his land till the spring of 1808, when he took his niece back to Canton, and his brother Michael and his wife came out and en- tered the cabin. That fall, he brought Henry, his youngest son, out and left him here, while he went to Pennsylvania, where he was married to Susan Snively, and remained in the East during the following winter. Returning to this county, he remained in the Rocky Fork and improved his claim and run his saw-mill, which he had erected a year before. The removal of the site of the county seat from the vicinity of the mill, and its sale by Mr. Newman to Mr. Jacob Beam, caused Mr. Newman to remove again. He, in company with Gen. Hedges and Joseph Larwell, of Wooster, had laid out the town of Mansfield on its present site, and had begun improvements there. IVfe*. Newman built his cabin on the east side of South Main street, about two hundred yards south of the creek, and, in the latter part of 1811, brought up his family, and the next sum- mer raised a crop on his land here. In August, the Indian troubles occurred, and Mr. Newman took his wife and son Andrew to Mt. Vernon for safe-keeping, while he and Henry remained to guard the cabin and the town. While Mrs. Newman was in Mt. Vernon, Joseph was born (Sept. 25, 1812). Not long after, a company of soldiers came up to help guard the town — the killing of Jones having excited the people consider- ably — and Mr. Newman, considering all things rather safe, went to Mt. Vernon and brought his wife and children home. Gen. Crook's army came to Mansfield soon after this, on their way to the Upper Sandusky country, and Mr. Newman, being a practical, sagacious woodsman, was engaged to pilot the army through from Mansfield. Most accounts state that the army left about the middle of December. Mr. Henry New- man says this can hardly be true, as he distinctly re- members the event, and is sure his father did not leave till later in the winter, probably in February. This march, in an open winter, was very trying on the sol- diers, and even the hardy frame of Mr. Newman could not endure the strain. He contracted a pulmonary complaint, which, after reaching home about June 1, 1813, continued to grow worse, and on the 20th of that month he died. He left a widow and three

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