The first attempt at settlement was made at Neville, on the survey which was the first located in the county, if not in the State, in the summer of 1795, by John Gregg, William Buchanan and his wife Jane, and a man whose name is not recollected, who had served as a spy along the river. They came from Kentucky, where they had lived since 1792, when they came from Pennsylvania.
John Gregg had purchased a large tract of land in Ohio, which he came on to improve, and to cultivate a crop of corn and potatoes for others of the Pennsylvania immigrants in Kentucky, who purposed following them in the fall if the conditions for settlement were found favorable. Having several small children in his family, he left it in charge of friends, and brought the persons mentioned with him to help bear the burdens of a pioneer's life. They crossed the Ohio at Logston's ferry, at the mouth of the Bullskin Creek, and wending their way down the river, finally settled upon the beautiful bottom-lands at Neville, as the purchase of Mr. Gregg.
A half faced cabin was erected, which had a bark roof and the opening between the loge filled out with moss. The cooking was done by the side of a large stump in front of the cabin, and their mode of life was very primitive indeed. A few acres of trees were deadened or cleared away, the corn and vegetables planted, when it was found that they had located on the Neville survey instead of on the Anderson, which was to contain his land. This discouraged him greatly, and an examination of the latter survey convinced him that the land was so inferior that he did not care to improve it.
After Mr. Gregg had vacated his improvements at Neville, William Buchanan concluded to find another home near by, if a location could be found that would suit him. Working his way through the forests to the table-lands south of Indian Creek, he selected a fine tract of 300 acres, on which he settled in the fall of 1795. About the same time John Wood, David Wood, and Jeriah Wood and Elisha and John Manning, brothers-in-law of the former (the Woods), with their families, came from Kentucky, and after some difficulty succeeded in reaching a fine spring about a mile from the cabin of William Buchanan, where they determined to locate temporarily. After the pioneer manner in Kentucky, they erected a stockade of heavy timbers around their buildings and a small clearing for protection against possible attack by the Indians, who had not yet entirely left the country. This was known to the settlers as Mannings' Station, and later, from the owner, as Miller's Station. The station was never attacked, but it gave the occupants and the people in that part of the county a sense of security which they could not have felt without its existence. It is related that the station was a general resort for the incoming settlers, and that Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone sometimes sojourned there.
On many occasions William Buchanan would take his family and cattle to the stockade and abide there until the presence of Indians was no longer reported by the scouts.
William Buchanan died in 1806. He was married in 1789 to Jane Abrams, and had a family of four children, Enoch, James, Margaret, and Jane. Both the sons moved to Illinois before 1836[sic]. Margaret Buchanan married John Wood, and Jane Buchanan became the wife of Samuel Richards.
The widow Buchanan maintained that relation six years, when she married Absalom Wood, being twelve years his senior. She died in 1854[sic], aged eighty-four years, and for the last fifty
years of her life had lived on the Joseph Barkley place.
- Excerpt from Rockey, J. L. History of Clermont County, Ohio : With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
At the same election [Nov 1802] William Buchanan and William Fee were chosen as representatives to the Fourth Territorial Legislature, which was superseded by the State and never met. Instead the Constitution provided for a Governor and General Assembly, to be chosen Tuesday, January 11, 1803. At that time, William Buchanan was elected State Senator and Amos Ellis and Roger Walter Waring were elected Representatives from Clermont in the First General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That body met on March 1, 1803, the date generally accepted as the end of "Territorial Times" in Ohio.
- Williams Byron. History of Clermont and Brown Counties Ohio from the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present. Hobart Pub 1913.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Clermont County Court of Common Pleas
September 1806 Term -- The will of William Buchanan, dated 30 May 1806, was admitted to record; proved by Isaac Fee and John Dawson; James Buchanan executor and Adam Fisher, Thomas Jones and David Colglazier as appraisers.
John Gregg had purchased a large tract of land in Ohio, which he came on to improve, and to cultivate a crop of corn and potatoes for others of the Pennsylvania immigrants in Kentucky, who purposed following them in the fall if the conditions for settlement were found favorable. Having several small children in his family, he left it in charge of friends, and brought the persons mentioned with him to help bear the burdens of a pioneer's life. They crossed the Ohio at Logston's ferry, at the mouth of the Bullskin Creek, and wending their way down the river, finally settled upon the beautiful bottom-lands at Neville, as the purchase of Mr. Gregg.
A half faced cabin was erected, which had a bark roof and the opening between the loge filled out with moss. The cooking was done by the side of a large stump in front of the cabin, and their mode of life was very primitive indeed. A few acres of trees were deadened or cleared away, the corn and vegetables planted, when it was found that they had located on the Neville survey instead of on the Anderson, which was to contain his land. This discouraged him greatly, and an examination of the latter survey convinced him that the land was so inferior that he did not care to improve it.
After Mr. Gregg had vacated his improvements at Neville, William Buchanan concluded to find another home near by, if a location could be found that would suit him. Working his way through the forests to the table-lands south of Indian Creek, he selected a fine tract of 300 acres, on which he settled in the fall of 1795. About the same time John Wood, David Wood, and Jeriah Wood and Elisha and John Manning, brothers-in-law of the former (the Woods), with their families, came from Kentucky, and after some difficulty succeeded in reaching a fine spring about a mile from the cabin of William Buchanan, where they determined to locate temporarily. After the pioneer manner in Kentucky, they erected a stockade of heavy timbers around their buildings and a small clearing for protection against possible attack by the Indians, who had not yet entirely left the country. This was known to the settlers as Mannings' Station, and later, from the owner, as Miller's Station. The station was never attacked, but it gave the occupants and the people in that part of the county a sense of security which they could not have felt without its existence. It is related that the station was a general resort for the incoming settlers, and that Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone sometimes sojourned there.
On many occasions William Buchanan would take his family and cattle to the stockade and abide there until the presence of Indians was no longer reported by the scouts.
William Buchanan died in 1806. He was married in 1789 to Jane Abrams, and had a family of four children, Enoch, James, Margaret, and Jane. Both the sons moved to Illinois before 1836[sic]. Margaret Buchanan married John Wood, and Jane Buchanan became the wife of Samuel Richards.
The widow Buchanan maintained that relation six years, when she married Absalom Wood, being twelve years his senior. She died in 1854[sic], aged eighty-four years, and for the last fifty
years of her life had lived on the Joseph Barkley place.
- Excerpt from Rockey, J. L. History of Clermont County, Ohio : With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
At the same election [Nov 1802] William Buchanan and William Fee were chosen as representatives to the Fourth Territorial Legislature, which was superseded by the State and never met. Instead the Constitution provided for a Governor and General Assembly, to be chosen Tuesday, January 11, 1803. At that time, William Buchanan was elected State Senator and Amos Ellis and Roger Walter Waring were elected Representatives from Clermont in the First General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That body met on March 1, 1803, the date generally accepted as the end of "Territorial Times" in Ohio.
- Williams Byron. History of Clermont and Brown Counties Ohio from the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present. Hobart Pub 1913.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Clermont County Court of Common Pleas
September 1806 Term -- The will of William Buchanan, dated 30 May 1806, was admitted to record; proved by Isaac Fee and John Dawson; James Buchanan executor and Adam Fisher, Thomas Jones and David Colglazier as appraisers.
The first attempt at settlement was made at Neville, on the survey which was the first located in the county, if not in the State, in the summer of 1795, by John Gregg, William Buchanan and his wife Jane, and a man whose name is not recollected, who had served as a spy along the river. They came from Kentucky, where they had lived since 1792, when they came from Pennsylvania.
John Gregg had purchased a large tract of land in Ohio, which he came on to improve, and to cultivate a crop of corn and potatoes for others of the Pennsylvania immigrants in Kentucky, who purposed following them in the fall if the conditions for settlement were found favorable. Having several small children in his family, he left it in charge of friends, and brought the persons mentioned with him to help bear the burdens of a pioneer's life. They crossed the Ohio at Logston's ferry, at the mouth of the Bullskin Creek, and wending their way down the river, finally settled upon the beautiful bottom-lands at Neville, as the purchase of Mr. Gregg.
A half faced cabin was erected, which had a bark roof and the opening between the loge filled out with moss. The cooking was done by the side of a large stump in front of the cabin, and their mode of life was very primitive indeed. A few acres of trees were deadened or cleared away, the corn and vegetables planted, when it was found that they had located on the Neville survey instead of on the Anderson, which was to contain his land. This discouraged him greatly, and an examination of the latter survey convinced him that the land was so inferior that he did not care to improve it.
After Mr. Gregg had vacated his improvements at Neville, William Buchanan concluded to find another home near by, if a location could be found that would suit him. Working his way through the forests to the table-lands south of Indian Creek, he selected a fine tract of 300 acres, on which he settled in the fall of 1795. About the same time John Wood, David Wood, and Jeriah Wood and Elisha and John Manning, brothers-in-law of the former (the Woods), with their families, came from Kentucky, and after some difficulty succeeded in reaching a fine spring about a mile from the cabin of William Buchanan, where they determined to locate temporarily. After the pioneer manner in Kentucky, they erected a stockade of heavy timbers around their buildings and a small clearing for protection against possible attack by the Indians, who had not yet entirely left the country. This was known to the settlers as Mannings' Station, and later, from the owner, as Miller's Station. The station was never attacked, but it gave the occupants and the people in that part of the county a sense of security which they could not have felt without its existence. It is related that the station was a general resort for the incoming settlers, and that Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone sometimes sojourned there.
On many occasions William Buchanan would take his family and cattle to the stockade and abide there until the presence of Indians was no longer reported by the scouts.
William Buchanan died in 1806. He was married in 1789 to Jane Abrams, and had a family of four children, Enoch, James, Margaret, and Jane. Both the sons moved to Illinois before 1836[sic]. Margaret Buchanan married John Wood, and Jane Buchanan became the wife of Samuel Richards.
The widow Buchanan maintained that relation six years, when she married Absalom Wood, being twelve years his senior. She died in 1854[sic], aged eighty-four years, and for the last fifty
years of her life had lived on the Joseph Barkley place.
- Excerpt from Rockey, J. L. History of Clermont County, Ohio : With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
At the same election [Nov 1802] William Buchanan and William Fee were chosen as representatives to the Fourth Territorial Legislature, which was superseded by the State and never met. Instead the Constitution provided for a Governor and General Assembly, to be chosen Tuesday, January 11, 1803. At that time, William Buchanan was elected State Senator and Amos Ellis and Roger Walter Waring were elected Representatives from Clermont in the First General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That body met on March 1, 1803, the date generally accepted as the end of "Territorial Times" in Ohio.
- Williams Byron. History of Clermont and Brown Counties Ohio from the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present. Hobart Pub 1913.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Clermont County Court of Common Pleas
September 1806 Term -- The will of William Buchanan, dated 30 May 1806, was admitted to record; proved by Isaac Fee and John Dawson; James Buchanan executor and Adam Fisher, Thomas Jones and David Colglazier as appraisers.
John Gregg had purchased a large tract of land in Ohio, which he came on to improve, and to cultivate a crop of corn and potatoes for others of the Pennsylvania immigrants in Kentucky, who purposed following them in the fall if the conditions for settlement were found favorable. Having several small children in his family, he left it in charge of friends, and brought the persons mentioned with him to help bear the burdens of a pioneer's life. They crossed the Ohio at Logston's ferry, at the mouth of the Bullskin Creek, and wending their way down the river, finally settled upon the beautiful bottom-lands at Neville, as the purchase of Mr. Gregg.
A half faced cabin was erected, which had a bark roof and the opening between the loge filled out with moss. The cooking was done by the side of a large stump in front of the cabin, and their mode of life was very primitive indeed. A few acres of trees were deadened or cleared away, the corn and vegetables planted, when it was found that they had located on the Neville survey instead of on the Anderson, which was to contain his land. This discouraged him greatly, and an examination of the latter survey convinced him that the land was so inferior that he did not care to improve it.
After Mr. Gregg had vacated his improvements at Neville, William Buchanan concluded to find another home near by, if a location could be found that would suit him. Working his way through the forests to the table-lands south of Indian Creek, he selected a fine tract of 300 acres, on which he settled in the fall of 1795. About the same time John Wood, David Wood, and Jeriah Wood and Elisha and John Manning, brothers-in-law of the former (the Woods), with their families, came from Kentucky, and after some difficulty succeeded in reaching a fine spring about a mile from the cabin of William Buchanan, where they determined to locate temporarily. After the pioneer manner in Kentucky, they erected a stockade of heavy timbers around their buildings and a small clearing for protection against possible attack by the Indians, who had not yet entirely left the country. This was known to the settlers as Mannings' Station, and later, from the owner, as Miller's Station. The station was never attacked, but it gave the occupants and the people in that part of the county a sense of security which they could not have felt without its existence. It is related that the station was a general resort for the incoming settlers, and that Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone sometimes sojourned there.
On many occasions William Buchanan would take his family and cattle to the stockade and abide there until the presence of Indians was no longer reported by the scouts.
William Buchanan died in 1806. He was married in 1789 to Jane Abrams, and had a family of four children, Enoch, James, Margaret, and Jane. Both the sons moved to Illinois before 1836[sic]. Margaret Buchanan married John Wood, and Jane Buchanan became the wife of Samuel Richards.
The widow Buchanan maintained that relation six years, when she married Absalom Wood, being twelve years his senior. She died in 1854[sic], aged eighty-four years, and for the last fifty
years of her life had lived on the Joseph Barkley place.
- Excerpt from Rockey, J. L. History of Clermont County, Ohio : With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
At the same election [Nov 1802] William Buchanan and William Fee were chosen as representatives to the Fourth Territorial Legislature, which was superseded by the State and never met. Instead the Constitution provided for a Governor and General Assembly, to be chosen Tuesday, January 11, 1803. At that time, William Buchanan was elected State Senator and Amos Ellis and Roger Walter Waring were elected Representatives from Clermont in the First General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That body met on March 1, 1803, the date generally accepted as the end of "Territorial Times" in Ohio.
- Williams Byron. History of Clermont and Brown Counties Ohio from the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present. Hobart Pub 1913.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Clermont County Court of Common Pleas
September 1806 Term -- The will of William Buchanan, dated 30 May 1806, was admitted to record; proved by Isaac Fee and John Dawson; James Buchanan executor and Adam Fisher, Thomas Jones and David Colglazier as appraisers.
Family Members
Siblings
Advertisement
Advertisement
