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114 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
Am't Loss
Original Grantees • £ s. d.
Abigail Potter 573 4 11
James Miller 93 8 6
David ManAvaring 51 3 0
Samuel Belden 1,771 15 6
M. Dumont 263 18 8
Winth'p Saltonstall 1,181 36 8
Elisha Morgan 7 13 0
Charles Chester 6 19 , 0
Jonathan Haven 11 9 0
Samuel Walworth 10 11 6
John Gordon 1 16 3
Classification No. 3, Section 3
Am't Classed
Classified by £ s.
George Potter 573 4
George Potter 93 8
His Heirs 51 3
Samuel Belden 104 15
Hezekiah Bipley 133 15
AVinth 'p Saltonstall 361 0
John Morgan 7 13
Charles Chester 6 19
Elisha Chester ..„ 11 9
James Mitchell (5
George Potter 12
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Classification No. 4, Section 4
Am't Loss Am't Classed
Original Grantees £ s. d. Classified by £ s. d.
Samuel Belden 1,771 15 6 Samuel Belden 1,344 7 0
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The township was first colonized in the month of February, 1810,
by six families from Conneaut, Erie County, Pennsylvania. These
early settlers were: Jonathan Sprague, an old man who had served in
the army of the Revolution as lieutenant. He built a cabin on the
east bank of Pipe Creek, a quarter of a mile from Bloomingville. His
son's family and three families of Dunhams settled between him and
the present Bloomingville, and Linas Ensign settled a mile soutliAvest
of Bloomingville, on the farm afterward occupied by John Paxton. In
the month of July of the same year Thomas James and James Forsyth
moved into the township. During that fall three others, Nathan, Standish
and Wood, came, and Avere folloAved the next year by Thomas Hamilton,
Doctor Hastings, John Dillingham, and Samuel AIcGill.
The survey of the toAvnship AVIIS made by Jabez Wright and Almon
Ruggles, assisted by Benjamin Drake as chain bearer, in 1810, and
during that year many people moved in; but the following year tinentire
township AVas affected by the panic that folhnved Hull's surrender,
and many of the pioneers fled to older settlements for safety.
The greater part of those AVIIO fled Avent to Alansfield, conveying their
household goods and families on horseback and in wagons. Those who
remained behind proceeded at once to build a blockhouse in Bloomingville,
and later a second one was built near it and both enclosed by a
stockade. After this, until the close of the Avar there Avert* feAV additions
to the settlement in Oxford. The Register of July 2, 1879, contains
reminiscences by W. D. Gurley stating his arrival on September,
1811, at a small log cabin Avhere Bloomingville IIOAV stands. It was
then an almost unbroken forest. The next Sunday he heard his father
preach the first sermon on the firelands in the little log schoolhouse,
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