Centennial Historical Sketches of Greenfield and Vicinity

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Excerpt from Centennial Historical Sketches of Greenfield and Vicinity: July 4th, 1876 With prophetic vision they penetrated the future and saw their cherished bunting grounds disappearing before the devastating hand of civilization, and often repelled the encroachments of the pale face with the tomahawk and scalping knife. In July, 1797, Adams county was organized and embraced in its boundaries most, if not all, of what is now Highland, and was the fourth county organized in the State. At that time there were but two white people residing within the present limits of this county. John Wilcoxon being the first settler near Sinking Spring in 1795. In August, 1798, Ross county was organized and the territory now constituting Highland, detached from Adams and included in Ross, and continued so until May 1805, when Highland was formed from Ross, Adams and Clermont, and embraced within its bounderies about half of Fayette and two thirds of Clinton. The county was then divided into four townships, New Market, Brushcreek, Liberty and Fairftjeld. Madison was then a part of Fair-field and the place of voting was Beverley Milner's, on Hardin's Creek. New Market is the oldest town in the county, and was laid off in 1797, and was for a number of years the county seat. Here the first term of court was held May 10th, 1805. Court was usually held in a small room in a tavern only large enough to accommodate the judges, members of the liar, jurors, witnesses and parties, the spectators standing out side and listening through the cracks. The jury went out into the woods and sat on a log to deliberate on their verdict, and the session of the grand jury was usually held in a tree top. At one of these early terms of the court three men were ordered by the judge to be incarcerated during the night, which order the Sheriff attempted to execute by putting them in a cabin, but while he was fastening the door they all crawled out through an apperture between the logs. The prisoners made no attempt to escape regarding the matter as only a good joke. But the Sheriff was not to be outdone in this style, so he summoned a force, and rearrested the men with little difficulty. A Mr. Barrere had commenced digging a well which he had got about twelve feet deep, into this hole the Sheriff thrust the three men, covered the mouth closely with fence rails, where he left them to remain in perfect safety until morning when ordered out by the court for trial. They were taken out by means of an Indian ladder. I will leave it for the young people to find out how one is constructed. This was the first case of imprisonment in the county. In 1796 Chillicothe was laid out by Gen. Massie, and the first choice of in-lots sold for ten dollars. In 1799 a Post-office was established here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.