Part 15 (1/2)

_History._--The first permanent settlement of Ohio, was made at Marietta, on the 7th day of April, 1788, by 47 persons from Ma.s.sachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. This was the nucleus around which has grown up the populous State of Ohio. Amongst the most active promoters of this colony, were those called then ”The Ohio Company.” The next settlement was that of Symmes' purchase, made at Columbia, six miles above Cincinnati, in Nov. 1789, by Major Stiles and twenty-five others, under the direction of Judge Symmes. A colony of French emigrants settled at Gallipolis in 1791. In 1796 settlements were made by New England emigrants at Cleaveland and Conneant, on the southern sh.o.r.e of lake Erie. The intermediate country gradually filled up by emigration from various parts of the United States. Some slight diversity exists, in different sections of the State, in manners, customs, and feelings, amongst the people, in accordance with the States or countries from which they or their fathers emigrated. These shades of character will become blended, and the next generation will be _Ohians_, or, to use their own native cognomen, _Buckeyes_.

In Sept., 1790, the first territorial legislature convened at Cincinnati. The governor having exercised his right of _veto_ in relation to the removal of a county seat, an unhappy collision followed, and, upon framing the State Const.i.tution, in Nov., 1802, the convention prevented the governor of the State from ever exercising the _negative_ power upon acts of the legislature.

DATE OF ORGANIZATION OF SOME OF THE OLDEST COUNTIES.

Was.h.i.+ngton, July 27th, 1788 Hamilton, Jan. 2d, 1790 Adams, July 10th, 1797 Jefferson, July 29th, 1797 Ross, August 20th, 1798 Trumbull, July 10th, 1800 Clermont, December 6th, 1800 Belmont September 7th, 1801

These were all organized under the territorial government.

INDIANA.

Length 240, breadth 150 miles. Between 37 48' N. lat.i.tude, and 7 45'

and 11 W. longitude. Bounded north by the State of Michigan and lake Michigan, east by Ohio, south by the Ohio river, which separates it from Kentucky, and west by Illinois. It contains about 37,000 square miles, equal to 23,680,000 acres.

It is naturally subdivided into the hilly portion, bordering on the Ohio; the level, timbered portion, extending across the middle of the State; the Wabash country, on that river; and the northern portion bordering on the State of Michigan and the lake. The two last portions include nearly all the prairie country.

For civil purposes, this State has been divided into counties, and those subdivided into towns.h.i.+ps.

TABLE.

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Bearing and

Date of

Square

Population

distance from COUNTIES.

Formation.

miles.

1830.

SEATS OF JUSTICE.

Indianopolis.

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1823

720

1,000

Fort Wayne,

Bartholomew,

1821

588

5,800

Columbus,

Boon,

1830

400

622

Lebanon,

Carroll,

1828

450

1,614

Delphi,

Ca.s.s,

1829

460

1,154

Logansport,

Clark,

1802

400

10,719

Charlestown,

Clay,

1825

360

1,616

Bowling Green,

Clinton,

1830

450

1,423

Frankfort,

Crawford,

1818

350

3,184

Fredonia,

Daviess,

1816

460

4,512

Was.h.i.+ngton,

Dearborn,

1802

448

14,573

Lawrenceburgh,

Decatur,

1821

400

5,854

Greensburgh,

Delaware,

1827

400

2,372

Muncietown,

Dubois,

1817

420

1,774

Jasper,

Elkhart,

1830

576

935

Goshen,

Fayette,

1818

200

9,112

Connersville,

Floyd,

1819

200

6,363

New Albany,

Fountain,

1825

400

7,644

Covington,

Franklin,

1810

400

10,199

Brookville,

Gibson,

1813

450

5,417

Princeton,

Grant,

1831

415

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Marion,

Greene,

1821

540

4,250

Bloomfield,

Hamilton,

1823

400

1,705

n.o.blesville,

Hanc.o.c.k,

1828

340

1,569

Greenfield,

Harrison,

1808

470

10,288

Corydon,

Hendricks,

1823

420

3,967

Danville,

Henry,

1821

440

6,498

Newcastle,

Huntington,

1832

400

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Jackson,

1815

500

4,894

Brownstown,

Jefferson,

1809

400

11,465

Madison,

Jennings,

1816

400

3,950

Vernon,

Johnson,

1822

300

4,130

Franklin,

Knox,

1802

540

6,557

Vincennes,

La Porte,

1832

420

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La Porte,

Lagrange,

1832

380

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Mongoquinon,

Lawrence,

1818

460

9,237

Bedford,

Madison,

1823

420

2,442

Andersontown,