The Ohio Gazetteer, and Travelers Guide: Containing a Description of the Several Towns, Townships, and Counties ... ; Together with an Appendix Or ; General Register ...Isaac N. Whiting, 1841 - 578 strani |
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12 miles acres of land Ashtabula Athens census of 1830 Chillicothe Cincinnati Clermont county Cleveland Columbiana county Columbus contains corner Coshocton county coun county seat creek Cuyahoga Delaware dwelling houses Fairfield Franklin Geauga grist mill Harrison Huron county inhabitants in 1830 Jackson Jefferson Knox lake Erie land for taxation last census Licking Madison Marion Maumee mechanics shops Medina meeting house Miami river miles east miles north miles northeast miles south miles west Monroe Morgan county Muskingum river northeast from Columbus northwest office same name Ohio canal Ohio river Perry Population in 1830 post office post office called post town post township returns Richland county road leading running Sandusky saw mills Scioto river seat of justice situated small post town small town southeast southwest square miles Stark county taverns tax list Taxable land town and post Tuscarawas Tuscarawas county Union Vernon Warren Washington Wooster Zanesville
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Stran viii - ... to perform. The act of congress, providing for the admission of the new State into the Union, offered certain propositions to the people. These were, first, that section sixteen in each township, or, where that section had been disposed of, other contiguous and equivalent lands, should be granted to the inhabitants for the use of schools ; second, that thirty-eight sections of land, where salt-springs had been found, of which one township was situated on the Scioto, one section on the Muskingum,...
Stran xii - State for a donation and sale of public lands lying upon and near the route of the proposed canal. In consequence of this restriction nothing was accomplished for two years. In 1822 the subject was referred to a committee of the House of Representatives. This committee recommended the employment of an engineer, and submitted various estimates and observations to illustrate the importance and feasibility of. the work. Under this act James Geddes, of New York, an experienced and skilful engineer, was...
Stran x - He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly, and in case of disagreement between the two Houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months.
Stran 341 - Its grand object is the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion, among the growing multitudes of the Mississippi valley. It aims also at bearing an important part in extending these blessings to the destitute millions which overspread the earth.
Stran 377 - XX ranges of military or army lands north, and XXII ranges of congress lands south. In the western borders of this tract is situated the town of Columbus. French grant, a tract of 24,000 acres of land, bordering upon the Ohio river, in the southeastern quarter of Scioto county.
Stran xviii - ... and terminate in Mexico. Various have been the conjectures of the learned concerning the time when, by what people, and even for what purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected.
Stran 343 - Sargeant, from the neighborhood of Salem, in Massachusetts, agents for the " Ohio company," so called, which had then been formed in Massachusetts, for the purpose of a settlement in the Ohio country. Only 964,285 acres were ultimately paid for, and of course patented. This body of land was then apportioned out into 817 shares, of 1173 acres each, and a town lot of one-third of an acre to each share.
Stran xiv - Senator must be at least 30 years of age, and have resided two years in the district from which he is chosen. The General Assembly has the sole power of enacting all the state laws ; the assent or signature of the Governor not being necessary in any case whatever. 'The judiciary system comprises three several grades of courts...
Stran xx - The number of their entrances or gateways varies in different forts from one to eight or more, in proportion to the plan of construction, and magnitude of the enclosure. The walls are, mostly, single; but, in a few instances, the forts have been found consisting of two walls parallel, and adjacent to each other. ' 'As to their local situation, it may perhaps, suffice to observe that they are, generally, situated on a comparatively elevated site of ground, adjoining a river or stream of water. Some,...
Stran xxi - ... interior bourn of the ditch and the exterior base of the inner wall. Although this circumstance is far from being conclusive upon the subject; yet, the following fact almost infallibly proves this conjecture to be well founded. This is, that the interior wall is composed of clay, of which the inhabitants manufacture brick; whereas, the exterior circle is composed of dirt and gravel of a similar quality with that which composes the neighbouring ground.