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36 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
pointed clerk pro tern, of this court. And thereupon said Zenas W.
Barber appeared in open court, and, having executed and filed a bond
to the State of Ohio, in the penal sum of $10,000, bearing date the 4th
day of April, 1838, with John G. Camp and Oraii Follett his sureties,
conditioned according to laAV, which is approved by the court, took the
oath of office required by laAV."
Next came the appointment of school examiners, given on the docket
as fOIIOAVS :
" It is ordered by the court that the Rev. Alvin Nash, the Rev. Thomas
H. Quinan, E. B. Sadler, Esq., be, and they are hereby appointed school
examiners for the County of Erie, in pursuance of an act for the support
and better regulation of common schools, passed March 7, A. D. 1838.''
COURT HOUSE, SANDUSKY
The above, Avith the appointment of John G. CiufTp, Esq., as the
guardian of Ebenezer 15. Goodrich, constituted all of the legal business
transacted the first day of the session of the first court of Eric County
Common Pleas.
The County of Erie occupies a central position betAveen the east and
AA'est boundary lines of Ohio, and has no especially distinguishing physical
features. The surface, generally, is even, but here and there exist
evidences of the fact that its whole surface Avas at one time covered with
water; and that these Avatcrs, gradually receding, left Avhat is knoAvn as
a drift or sand ridge. These ridges, although not numerous, are found
in several townships of the county.
The evenness of the surface of the land throughout the county is
the rule, and the exceptions are feAV. The most marked depression exists
in the Township of Huron, Where a large area of the land surface lies
beloAV the water level of the lake, and is subject to overfloAv with a rise
of the lake AA'aters or those of the Huron River. Other than this there is
comparatively little swamp land, and AA'here this class has, in the past.