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Source: 'Pioneer Days' by Mary Sinclair 1962
Samuel Hunter Among Earlier Settlers. Samuel Hunter was one of the firstarrivals who settled inSteubenville.Hewas the father of the first whitechild born in the townSeptember 18,1798and the boy was called James. MrHunter kept a generalstore atthesoutheast corner of Market and ThirdStreets, known later astheMunkerCorner. About 1825 he decided to removeto the town ofKnoxvillewhere hebuilt a flour mill and kept a generalstore for manyyears. InIslandCreek Cementary will be found the graves ofSamuelHunter, born 1766andhis wife Mary, born 1773, died 1846.
Information from Michell Walsh has Samuel being borninWestmorelandCountyPA in 1766 and his father James being born inScotland
I have conflicting information on the birth of Samuel Hunter,eitherin1766in PA or 1773 in Ulster, Ireland, research continuestofinddocument thecorrect information.
Jefferson Co Townships by Doyle, 1910
Transcribed from The History of Steubenville and Jefferson CoOH.JosephB.Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill. 1910
Reproduced in 1992 by Closson Press, Apollo, PA undersponsorshipoftheJefferson Co Historical Society MuseumandGenealogicalLibrary,Steubenville, Jefferson Co, OH
Chapter XXII: The River Townships Steubenville, Island Creek, Knox,Saline, Cross Creek,WellsandWarren-Towns of Toronto, Mingo,Brilliant,Irondale,Hammondsville,Empire, Rayland, etc.vPioneer SchooslandChurchesvEarlyTrials and LaterDevelopments
Contents Steubenville Township Mingo Town, Toronto
Steubenville Township As most of the history of Steubenville Township andMingoJunctionhasalready been included in the general history of thecounty andin thatofthe city of Steubenville, it will only be necessary toincludehereandin the history of other townships such facts as are notrelatedintheforegoing. The original township was erected on May30,1803,andincluded what are now Island Creek, Cross Creek andSalemtownships,thetwo former being cut off on June 4, 1806, and the lastnamedon June3,1807. According to the township minutes an election washeld atthecourthouse in Steubenville, Zaccheus Briggs presiding,whenthefollowingofficers were elected by ballot: John Black,clerk;ZaccheusBiggs, JamesDunlevy and James Shane, trustees; RichardJohnsonandJonathanNottingham, overseers of the poor; ThomasHitchcock,WilliamEngle andRichard Lee, fence viewers; Matthew Adams andSamuelHunter,appraisersof houses; Andrew McCullough, lister oftaxableproperty;Thomas Gray,George Friend, Daniel Dunlevy andThomasWintringer,supervisors ofhighways; Anthony Blackburn andAndrewMcCullough,constables. This wasattested June 21. The next minute isasfollows: 'Ata meeting of thesubscribers, trustees of the townshipofSteubenville onthe 11th ofOctober, 1803, ordered that theaforesaidtownship be dividedin thefollowing manner: Beginning at the OHRiver atthe mouth of WillsCreek;thence up said creek to the head gate ofJosiahJohnstonussaw-mill;thence north to the township line; thence withsaidline to theriverallotted to George Friend.' Also from the OH Riverupsaid WillsCreektill opposite Benjamin Doyleus; thence south toCrossCreek, astraightcourse; thence down said creek to the mouth, withthetownofSteubenville, to be in the district with ThomasGray.(Thisispractically the present township except the part belowCrossCreek.)Alsofrom the mouth of Cross Creek up said creek on the southsideofthetownship line west; thence south to the township line; thenceeasttotheOH River, deeded to Daniel Dunlevy. As also from WillsCreek,asouthcourse to Benjamin Doyleus; thence south to Cross Creek;thenceupsaidcreek to the extreme of the township in a west corner totheplaceofbeginning, to be in the district allotted toThomasWintringer.'Theofficers for the succeeding year were: Trustees,BriceViers,JohnEngland, Thomas Patton; overseers of the poor,JonathanNottinghamandSamuel Thompson; constables, Anthony BeckandAndrewMcCullough;supervisors of highways, Daniel Treadway, JacobArnold,Geo.Friend,Joseph Porter: fence viewers, Richard Cox andPhilipSmith;houseappraiser, Joseph Day; treasurer, Samuel Hunter. Theonlyreferencetochanges in the township boundaries is a minute on June30,1806, totheeffect that in consequence of a division ofSteubenvilleTownship,DavidPowell, late trustee, has fallen into thetownship of CrossCreek,PhilipCable is appointed trustee in his place. Onthe old minutebook isfoundan entry of $4.43 for conducting a pauperfuneral. Underthe'squirrelact' of December 24, 1807, requiring certaintaxableresidentsto produceso many squirrel scalps annually with the viewofexterminatingthoseanimals, Hans Wilson is credited with thirtyscalps;Philip Cable,sixty;and Godfrey Richards, twenty-two; in all, 112scalps.The ideaofprotecting squirrels had not yet crystalized [sic]. OnApril 1,1811,itwas certified that Mordecai Bartley had received 132votes;JohnAdams,twenty-eight, and John McGraw, twenty-seven for justiceofthepeace.'July 10, 1813, Jacob Fickes produced his receiptformthetreasurer forpayment of $2 for refusal to serve as trustee.'Theofficeevidentlysought the man in those days. The present townshiphassomewhatthe shapeof a rude letter B, having six full sectionsandeightfractional,fronting on Wills Creek and the OH River,thenorthernboundary beingformed for a short distance by the creek,withstraightlines on the westand south separating it from Cross CreekandWellsTownships. The area isabout 7,100 acres, of which 1,676 arewithinthecorporate limits ofSteubenville. The principal streams areCrossCreek,Georgeus Run andWellsu Run. The Wabash system crosses it atMingo,withC. & P. and w. &L. E. along the river front, and Panhandle toandupCross Creek. Amongthe early settlers after Bezaleel WellsweretheJohnsons, Bickerstaffs,Abrahams, Permars,, Powell,Lockard,Hodbert,Myers, England, Potters,Rickeys, Adams and Hills. Mrs.Johnson,nee MaryBickerstaff,, was a mineof reminiscences
Source Information: United States. Bureau of Land Management. LandRecords.[databaseon-line]Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997-. Originalelectronic datafrom:UnitedStates. Bureau of Land Management. General LandOfficeAutomatedRecordsProject.
OH Land Records
HUNTER, SAMUEL Land Office: STEUBENVILLE Sequence #: Document Number:3025 Total Acres: 80 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes Canceled Document:No Issue Date: November 12, 1832 Mineral Rights Reserved: Metes andBounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 MultipleWarantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names:No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Legal Land Description: # Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line FractionalSection TownshipRangeSection# 1 ESW OH RIVER SURVEY No 12 N 3 W 12
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HUNTER, SAMUEL Land Office: STEUBENVILLE Sequence #: Document Number:3126 Total Acres: 78.82 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes CanceledDocument: No Issue Date: January 01, 1833 Mineral Rights Reserved:Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 MultiplePatentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Legal Land Description: # Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line FractionalSection TownshipRangeSection# 1 ENW OH RIVER SURVEY No 12 N 3 W 11
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