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R/RFHA Newsletter, June 1991 P.4
(more
Ohio records)
From
historian Jeanette C. Towne, 115 Branch Ave., Painsville, OH 44077
Lake
County, Ohio, was formed from Geauga County in 1840, along with 4 other
counties.
P. 137 - "History
of Geauga & Lake Counties" by William Bros 1878
Hamblen Township. "The years 1802 and 1803 saw 8 or 9 families within the limits of Hambden. The names of these settlers are given as Shadrack Ruark, JAMES RAWLINS, Joseph Bond, James Bond Jr., Thomas Evans, Thomas Evans Jr., William Evans, Stephen Bond and Andrew Cooley. All had families except Stephen Bond. Some of these, including Ruark and RAWLINS, became dissatisfied with the locality and moved away not long after they arrived." (They eventually settled in Mentor, now in Lake County.)
From Vol.
2 "Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve 1896-1924”; pg. 879-880
In 1803 several families arrived from the east; Shadrack Ruark ... William, James and Thomas Evans.. Joseph, James and Stephen Bond...Andrew Cooley...and JAMES RAWLINS. Ruark, RAWLINS and Evans remained but a year, removing to some other town.
From "Pioneer
Sketches" , published by the Geauga County Historical Society, 1880
"Hambden
was formerly called Bondstown, after Dr. Bond, who first came in the summer of
1801. (Dr. Solomon Bond of Connecticut) He was once quoted as saying "The
area was little known except for the indians, and he did not see a white man
once a week. He milked his cow in a bottle and baked his bread on a chip!” In
1802 and 1803 Hambden began to be settled, and in those years some 8 or 9
families moved into the township. The names of these first settlers were:
Shadrack Ruark, JAMES RAWLINS, Joseph Bond, Joseph Bond Jr., Thomas Evans,
Thomas Evans Jr., William Evans, Stephen Bond and Andrew Cooley. All these had
families except Stephen Bond. Some of the early settlers did not like the
township so very well and moved away - RAWLINS and Ruark to Mentor, and Evans
to the southern part of the state, which left only five families in the
township. In those days there were no roads, except a girdled road which ran
through the southwest comer of the township. The state built a road in 1804/05
so that people could get along with wagons."
*****
From Van
Cleaf's 1906 "History of Pickaway Co., Ohio"
P. 153 -
from a list of Societies - the New Holland Lodge #392 of the F. & A.M.
(???) among the first officers elected, MOSES VANCE RAWLINGS W.M. (This is son
of SAMUEL RAWLINGS, and grandson of MOSES (1740-1787)
P.224 -
Enlistees in Company H of the 30th Ohio Infantry, mustered into service in
Pickaway County August 29, 1861. Private DANIEL RAWLINS.
*****
From "History
of Fayette Co., OHIO," by R.S. Dills, pub. in
1881
P. 441 -
SAMUEL RAWLINGS, private, June 8, 1861.
P. 547 - "In 1836, there was published here a campaign paper styled the 'Political Hornet', which advocated the claims of W.H. Harrion for President. The 'Hornet’ had numerous contributors, among them Robert Robinson and J.S. Bereman. M.V. RAWLINGS, now a resident of Missouri, executed the mechanical work on the paper. Mr. RAWLINGS commenced the study of the printing business here in 1832, in the office of the 'People's Palladium' under A. Crichfield. We are informed that the county up to 1836 had been Democratic, but that year, by the assertion of many truths and some lies, the Whigs elected the entire county ticket. We have not found a copy of the 'Hornet' but wish we could obtain one. It was, no doubt, a spicy political sheet."
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