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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 139
was sold to R. H. HeyAvood and the late John 0. Camp at $1 per acre.
At this time there was but a small portion of the township under cultivation.
It was generally supposed that the oak openings were worthless,
and the land between that and the bay too wet for cultivation. A few
opening lots had been sold the year before by Mr. Jessup and small
improvements begun, but Calvin Smith, who knew their value as wheat
land, bought two lots at $2.50 per acre, put in a large crop of wheat and
the result Avas surprising to many and gave the land value.
Docartus P. Snow, of Vermont, in 1810 felled the first tree and built
the first log house. It is said that the proprietors donated to him 100
acres of land in consideration of his building a grist mill on Cold Creek.
He died in 1829. His widow 1 '(his second wife) married Philip S. Cowell.
Uziel Putnam came in 1810 or 1811 from New York. In 1821 he moved
to Sandusky County and was killed by being thrown from a sleigh in
1822. James Vanness settled here in 1814, coming from New York. He
left in 1830 and died in Fremont about 1849. Ebenezer Hartwell came
from Canada in June, 1815. He died about 1850. Andrus Parker came
from Gonneaut, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He returned to Pennsylvania in
1828. Philip Sutton settled on the northwest corner lot of the township
about 1821. Peter Dunham settled on lot 2, section 2, in 1816, and
died in 1830. Dougal Campbell located on lot 13, first section, in 1816,
and died in 1852. Harvey Fowler settled on lot 24, in .section 1, in the
fall of 1818 and resided there until his death, February 18, 1875. Ira
Barnes came here in 1818. Henry Cole came in 1815 and died in 1830.
Thomas McColough came in 1817 and died in 1850. A. M. Porter came
in 1817 and died in Sandusky. Samuel Walker came in 1816 and died
in 1831. Pliny Brown located on lot 7, in section 2, and lived there all
his life; he died in December, 1860. Richard Falley settled here in 1818
and died in 1835. John CoAvell located in the northwestern part of the
township in 1818 and lived there till his death in 1871. Philip S.
Cowell came about 1820, located at Castalia and died there in 1869.
Quite a number of others came here in the early days and only stayed
a short time. Many of them left on account of the War of 1812, never
to return. Among the early settlers the following took part in the Revolutionary
war and the War of 1812:
Maj. Frederick Falley, when but eleven years old, accompanied his
father as fifer in the company of which his father was captain, and Avas
in the Battle of Bunker Hill. After Washington came into the command
of the army he returned home with his father, who was employed by the
Government in the manufacture of firearms during the war. He died in
Margaretta, July 3, 1828, aged sixty-four.
Samuel DreAV, another Revolutionary soldier, came here about 1820
and resided here several years. Capt. Andrus Parker was in the army
at the taking of Burgoyne.
Thomas Caswell served in the War of 1812, on the New York frontier,
and died here in 1853. Henry Jones served one campaign, in the State
of NeAV York.