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SETTLEMENT NOTES.

Joseph Dixson GARRISON, tavern keeper and groceryman, North Bend, is great-grandson of a Swede or German named GARRISON, who was among the first settlers of New Jersey. His grandfather, Abraham GARRISON emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky at a very early day, and settled at or near Scott's station, removing in a few years to the Northwest Territory at Losantiville. Here his wife, Lydia GARRISON did considerable doctoring among the people of the place, and here he and his son Joseph, father of the subject of this notice, were eye witnesses of the murder of Benjamin VAN CLEVE by the Indians. She, in a small way, introduced the manufacture of soap in Cincinnati, and he built and operated the horse-mill on Third street, where the Presbyterian colonists held some of their earliest services. Joseph GARRISON is supposed to have been born at SCOTT'S station, and remained with his father at Cincinnati until he was well grown. His son gives the following amusing account of the manner in which he became acquainted with General HARRISON:
"He got acquainted with him in rather a comical way. My father had caught a cub bear by killing the old one. He raised it as a pet, and had it under good subjection. After it had grown up to about its full size, he would watch when the army would be on parade or drilling, and would then take his bear and go up on the side-hill above the parade ground, and tie an old camp-kettle to his hind parts and scare him and turn him loose, when the bear would run for home right through the line of soldiers, and break ranks, and make a grand disturbance. So one day the general followed him home and requested his father to stop him of his sport. I have often heard the general and father laugh about their first acquaintance."

Joseph GARRISON married Merab CONNER, near Lawrenceburgh, in 1805, and, after some service in aid of the Government surveyors, settled at the Goose pond, in Miami township, where Joseph D. was born, in 1816. The latter in early life tended GARRISON'S ferry, over the Great Miami, where the Cleves bridge now is, and made several trading trips with boats to New Orleans. He was married in 1852 to Sarah Ann, only daughter of James Smith LEONARD, an early emigrant from Canada to the neighborhood of Rising Sun, Indiana. The same day they started for California with a company he had agreed to take through. He there engaged in gold mining until the middle of February, 1855, when they started on their return to the States. While residing at Diamond Springs, California, their first son, now a physician in southeastern Kansas, was born. Two more sons and two daughters are now residing with their parents. After his return Mr. GARRISON pursued farming for a time, and then bought his present hotel property in North Bend.

One of the settlers of 1796, at North Bend, was Andrew SCOTT, a Scotch immigrant from Redstone, Pennsylvania, who was one of the first blacksmiths to erect a shop and open for business here. He remained at the Bend about six years, and then went on a farm, dying in Crosby township in 1831. His son James also worked for a time at blacksmithing here, and then became a teacher - one of the first in point of both time and reputation, in Hamilton county. He was also a civil engineer. He removed to Crosby township, where he was justice of the peace for several years, and was one of the founders, in 1803, of the Whitewater Congregational church at New London, Butler county. He died of cholera in 1834. His numerous descendants still reside in Crosby township.

Christopher FLINCHPAUGH was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1799, and came to America in 1817, settling in Miami township the same year. He was married to Elizabeth COLUMBIA in 1821. Three years later he embraced religion, and the same year commenced preaching the gospel. He was a member of the United Brethren church. He used to have such men in his congregation as General HARRISON, Judge SHORT, and numerous other distinguished men of our country. When he became a Christian he could neither read nor write. A short time after he began in the ministry he was assigned to a circuit of four hundred miles. The distance had to be travelled on horseback, and he was obliged to preach thirty-two times every four weeks. He filled the pulpit in Cincinnati, in both the English and German churches, and was presiding elder two years. At present he is retired, but preaches occasionally. He is highly respected by all who know him, and has indeed been a public benefactor. His faithful wife died July 30, 1880, at the advanced age of seventy eight. They have had twelve children: Jacob; William; Caleb; Christopher; Simon,

Henry FLINCHPAUGH was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 9, 1792. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the French army and took part in the campaign against Moscow, led by Napoleon BONAPARTE, suffering all the privations of the terrible retreat. He fought in the battle of Leipsig, also in Waterloo, and in the latter battle escaped without a wound. In 1817 he came to America, and, while passing through Pennsylvania, at the town of Lancaster, married Johanna SCHMIDLAPP. The same year he settled in Butler county, Ohio, where he remained about a year, when he came to Hamilton county and settled at first in the town of Miami, but afterward moved to a farm in Miami township. The place is now owned by Emanuel FAIGLE. He came to America poor, but succeeded in amassing a large property. He was a member of the church of United Brethren, and in politics was a Democrat. His death occurred October 7, 1852. His wife died October 1, 1863. Their family consisted of twelve children: David, now married to Maria FLEMING; Henry, married to Cynthia CREECH, Hannah, the wife of William CREECH; Mary, married to Frederick ULMER; Caleb, married to Rachel INGERSOLL; Jacob; William, married to Eliza BROWN; Harriet, Mrs. Gottlieb METZZER, John, married to Fanny YANNY; and three that died in early childhood.

Caleb FLINCHPAUGH was born in Hamilton county, in the house in which he now lives, in the year 1828, February 14^th. He has always followed the business of farming He was married February 27, 1851, to Miss INGERSOLL, of the same township. She died August 13, 1879, leaving eight children. He is at present township trustee, an office held by him during the past six years. He has also been on the board of education fifteen years and has a deep interest in everything pertaining to the cause of education. A zealous member of the United Brethren church, he has had several offices of honor and trust in the church. Politically he is a Democrat. He has an interesting family of eight boys, all living, and all at home. Their names are - William H., David, Wesley R., Isaac Y., Jacob S., Frank, Anderson, and Eddie.

John M. FLINCHPAUGH was born in this county in 1838, and has always been a farmer from preference. He was married in 1863 to Miss Fanny YANNY, of Miami township. A Democrat in politics, he has filled the place of councilman of the village one year. His five children are - Charles E., Nora L., Harry E., Jennie, and James E.

Henry FLINCHPAUGH was born in the town of Miami in 1819, and followed the business of farming till of age. Then he opened a store on TAYLOR'S creek, in which he remained five years, when he removed his stock of goods to Harrison, and remained another five years. He is a natural mechanic, and has worked considerably at the gunsmith's trade. During the gold excitement in California he made rifles for a number of men who went over the plains to that State. He is now engaged at his trade. He was married in 1843. In politics he is a Democrat. His three children are - Harriet L., now Mrs. Valentine FAGLEY; William M., married to Julia SIEPEN; and John F., still living at home.

David FLINCHPAUGH was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1818, and was moved with the family to Miami township the same year. He has held the office of township trustee three years, and has been school director more than thirty years. In politics he has always been a Democrat. He married Maria FLEMING, a native of Pennsylvania, in 1842, and settled, the same year, on the farm which he now occupies.

John B. MATSON was born in this township in 1796, and married Lucretia Y. BUCK, of the same place, in the year 1826. She died after thirteen years, leaving six children. Two years later he was married to Milchia VANGORDER. His first settlement was made on the farm now owned by Mrs. A. W. FLOWERS, the same on which he was born. He was a Democrat, and has been in the office of justice of the peace for one term. He died on the same farm in 1875, at the age of eighty years. His nine children are James, married to Elizabeth HOUTS; Oliver, married to Louisa STEPHENSON; John B., married to Cynthia A. BROWN; Lucretia, who died when four years old; Job, married to Catharine DERRICK; Lovina, who died in infancy; Albert, married to Anna CHAMBERS; Charlotte D., now the wife of Amasa W. FLOWERS; and Narcissa, Mrs. Richard C. FLOWERS.

John B. MATSON was born in this township in 1831. He attended Farmers' college, at College Hills, one term. In 1854 he was married to Cynthia A. BROWN, of the same county. He is a Democrat in his political belief. His children are James B., married to Mary Mc'SWEETY, Minnie, the wife of Asa C. BONHAM; Mary. now Mrs. Thomas M. GERARD; Kate, Fannie, who died at the age of seven years; Frank, who died at three years of age; Hattie, now living at home, and Bessie, who died an infant.

Chalon G. GUARD was born in this county on March 15, 1819. In 1841 he was married to Leah H. COMEGES of Dearborn county, Indiana. He was township trustee for several years, and, in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a member, he was steward during many years. In his political faith he was a Republican. He died October 21, 1873. His children are Angeline, Maton B., married to Sophia D. MOORE, and now living in Indiana; Simeon G., married to Inez M. LEWIS, and now in Kansas; Rachel M., Ezra G., Almira H., the wife of Stephen W. RITTENBURG and Eunice W., now Mrs. Luther FISHER, of Illinois.

John Mc'GEE was born in New Jersey in 1807. He came to Ohio in 1829, and settled on the farm on which he now lives in Miami township In 1833 he married Nacky BROWN, from Clermont county. He has held the office of trustee in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a member. He has long been a Republican. His children are Sarah, Robert, married to Sallie FAZELY; John, Jane, now Mrs. Michael SARGENT, and Annie.

Abel INGERSOLL was born in New Jersey in 1794, and

Isaac INGERSOLL was born in this county in 1817. October 31, 1844, he married Mary A. HARRON. Several years he has served as township trustee, and two years was township treasurer. He has always lived on the farm on which he was born. He is, in politics, a Democrat. He has five children: Joseph, now married to Florence MARKLIN; Nancy, Daniel, and Elizabeth, not living at home, and one that died while an infant.

William MAENSLEY was born in Virginia in 1785, where he married Nancy BUSSEL. She died, leaving six children, in Miami, in 1822. He came to this State in 1815, but had lived for a time previously in Boone county, Kentucky. His first Ohio settlement was made at North Bend, on the farm now the property of Charles SHORT. In politics he was an Old Line Whig. He died in Ripley, Indiana, in 1837. He had six children: James, at present in Texas; Moses B., now married to Eunice HAYES; John B., married to Mary J. INGRAHAM; Eliza, the wife of David JONES, of Indiana; Samuel, married to Catharine GRONENDIKE; and Stephen W., married to Mary VANGORDER, and a resident of Indiana at the present time.

Moses B. MAENSLEY was born in Boone county, Kentucky, in 1814, and was, while very young, brought by his parents to North Bend, Ohio. He has held the offices of constable and treasurer for his township, and has also been steward in the Methodist Episcopal church, where he has a membership. In politics he is a strong Republican. In 1846 he built a warehouse at Cleves and began the buying of grain, which he followed twenty years, when he abandoned it and took up farming. Twelve years previous to the above date he was in business on the river between Cincinnati and New Orleans. It took an entire year in those days to make one trip. In 1839 he was married to Miss Eunice HAYES, of this township. They have had nine children: Anderson B., married to Mary H. LEWIS; Anna H., and Alvin C.; James F., married to Anna MARKLAND; Abiatha B., the wife of Otto LOWE of Indiana; Fanny M., Job H., Arabella, and Chalon G.

Job HAYES was born in this county North Bend in 1791. His father, Job HAYES, died on a boat three months before his birth; he was buried on the bank of the Ohio river with such care to conceal the body from the Indians that even his friends were unable to discover the place of his burial. He always followed the business of farming. His children were: James, married to Penina CONNER; Sarah, the wife of Levi MILLER now living in Indiana; and Job, married to Johanna HAYES, and living in Iowa.

Job HAYES, jr., owing to the great distance to school, was obliged to study evenings at home, which he did by the firelight as best he could. He married Johanna HAYES, of Butler county, June 29, 1816, and first settled on the farm now owned by the MILLER heirs, in Whitewater township. In politics he was a Democrat; in religion, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died in Madison, Iowa, February 4, 1868. His wife died at the same place four years later. Their family consists of eleven children: Mary, Levi M., Joseph H., married to Sarah MYERS; Omer, married to Mary A. Mc'ELLHANEY; Sarah M., the wife of Isaac STEPHENS, of Indiana; Isaac D., married and living in Iowa; Martha, Jacob, Samuel F., married to Mary MARSH, and now of Iowa; and Buelah married first to Corydon SWIFT and afterward to Barney MULLIN.

Joseph H. HAYES was born in this county in 1824. In 1852 he married Sarah MYERS, also of this county. He has served as township trustee one term, is a member of the Methodist church, and in politics is a Democrat. His seven children are: Job W., Enos, Alice D., Isaac D., Joseph G., Wilson, and Charles.

Thomas MARKLAND was born in Maryland, in 1765. He was a cooper by trade, which business he carried on with farming all his life. He married Anna M. SOMERS, a native of Virginia, and came to this State in 1805. He reached Green township, of this county, on the second day of April, and settled on the farm now owned by Charles and Washington MARKLAND. At that time the nearest white settler was two miles distant, and the nearest church had to be reached by going eleven miles. The school was two miles from his farm, and the nearest grist-mill twenty-seven miles away. There was no sawmill within reach.

He helped Bailey GUARD land at Lawrenceburgh, Indiana, about the year 1806; was the first manufacturer of barrels in that part of the county. In politics he was an Old Line Whig. He died in 1825, and his wife's death occurred in 1837. They had a family of eleven children, eight boys and three girls Elizabeth, the wife of William ROGERS; Leah, wife of Henry TOWNER; Martha, now Mrs. James ANDERSON; Jonathan, married to Julia SAMMONS; Benjamin, married to Fanny ROGERS and afterwards to Emily EDWARDS; John, whose wife is Mary MILLER; William, whose wife is Mary SAMMONS; Noah, married to Jemima SAMMONS; Washington, married to Mary HAMMOND; James, now in Indiana, whose wife was Phoebe MOORE and afterward Eliza CREECH; and Charles, married to Jane GARDNER.

Noah MARKLAND was born in Kentucky, April 25, 1803, and came to Ohio with his parents when about two years of age. He remembers the building of the first school-house in Green township. It was made of logs, on the farm now owned by Simeon POUNDER. The first teacher was Moses W. COTTON, who taught in 1809. He also remembers the building of the first church, on

Moses ARGO was born in the State of Delaware, in 1771. A farmer by choice, he came to this State and settled near Mount Pleasant, this county, in October, 1803. He married Sarah BRUIN, of New Jersey, and his marriage license is the second on record in the probate court of this county. In politics, he was a Jacksonian Democrat. In 1813 he moved to Miami township, and began his home on the farm now owned by William BRAWLEY. He died in 1842; his wife bad died nine years previously. They had nine children: Libbie, now the wife of Lewis FOWLER; Lucinda, wife of Daniel HELTERBRINE, of Indiana; Alexander, married to Mary A. WALBRINE, and residing in Illinois; Ebenezer, who had three wives, Amanda TAPEL, Hannah SPINNING, and Laura M. OLDRUVE; Anna, who was the wife of Thomas KINKAID, and is now married to Enos GRAY, and living in Indiana; William, Elizabeth, and one that died in infancy.

Ebenezer ARGO was born in this county in 1810. When fifteen years old he began the trade of shoemaking. In 1836 he came to Cleves, and opened a shop in the building now used by him as a wareroom. In 1842 he married Amanda YAPEL, of Illinois. She had three children, and died in Cleves in 1848. He then married Hannah SPINNING, of New Jersey, who died in 1867. His third wife was Louisa M. C. OLDRUVE, a native of England. She died in 1876. In February, of 1861, he sold out the boot and shoe business to Michael MILLER, and began dealing in groceries and hardware, in which he is still employed. He is trustee and elder in the Presbyterian church, of which he is a member, and is a Republican in politics. He has three children: Sarah A., married to Edmund KANE; William, whose wife is Melissa HEARN; and James E.

Samuel BURR was born on Long Island, in 1766. He married Debora FLEET, of the same place. In 1793 she died, leaving one child. He afterwards was married to Phoebe DODGE, of the same place, and she died, leaving two children. He was an excellent mathematician, a self educated man. While in New York, he was appointed head clerk in the general post office, under President Washington, and served until the seat of government was moved to Philadelphia, when he resigned. In 1817 he came to Ohio with his family, and settled on what is now known as the Oliver SPENCER farm. While in Ohio, he followed farming and surveying. The first year after he came here, he was appointed trustee of the Cincinnati college, which office he held for a number of years. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics he was an Old Line Whig. His children are Edward M., now on Long Island; William P., married first to Cynthia BROWN and afterward to Lydia M. MOREHEAD; and Deborah F., the wife of Henry DODGE, of Long Island.

William P. BURR was born on Long Island, August 17, 1808. He came to Ohio with his parents, and settled on the same place. His business has been farming and surveying. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics was first a Whig, but more recently has been a Republican. In 1827 he married Miss Cynthia BROWN, of this township. She died March 18, 1834, leaving five children. He afterward married Lydia M. MOREHEAD. His family has numbered twelve: Mary, Edward, Martha A., Robert, Samuel, Deborah, Eliza, Emma F., Phoebe, and three others who died in early infancy.

Jesse HEARN was born in North Carolina in 1783, came to Ohio when about twenty-one years of age, and settled in North Bend. He was a farmer, which business he followed all his life. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for a great many years, held the position of trustee from the time the Miami church was built until his death. In politics he was a Democrat. He died June 28, 1854. His wife was Nancy KYLE, of the same township. She was born December 26, 1789, and died the same date, 1859. They had nine children: Elizabeth; Harriet, the wife of John BROWN; Edward, married to Sarah Palmer; Mary A., the wife of Isaac INGERSOLL; John, married to Patience INGERSOLL; James, who has had three wives, Hester A. ROGERS, Jane Mark-land and Kate HAYES; Purnel, married to Ann M. NOBLE; Anna B., the wife of Joseph SCHERMERHORN; Patience, who died an infant; and Jesse, now married to Henrietta FLINCHPAUGH.

Purnel HEARN was born in this township November 1, 1823. He was formerly a butcher, but is now a farmer. In 1850 he married Ann M. NOBLE, of Green township. One year he has served as township trustee, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and, in politics, is Democratic. He takes a deep interest in religious matters, has been class leader, trustee, and superintendent of the Sabbath-school for a number of years. His children's names are: Missuria, William, Elizabeth, Phoebe J., Frank T., George M., Purnel O., and one that died when very young.
 

NORTH BEND.

When Judge SYMMES found that he was to be disappointed in his hopes of founding a large city at the mouth of the Great Miami, he was easily persuaded to plant his colony where it had landed on the second of February, 1789, at the northernmost point of the great bend in the Ohio. Here, he writes, "I flatter myself with the prospect of finding a good tract of ground, extending from

It should be here observed that these proprietors did not include all the associates or partners of the East Jersey company, but were those belonging to a special company of twenty-four, formed March 15, 1788, under the auspices of Judge SYMMES and Dr. Thomas BONDINOT, to found the expected city of Miami and sell the property within the townships the judge had reserved to himself between the Ohio and the Great Miami. The business of the company was managed by SYMMES and BONDINOT, and the latter had given the judge power of attorney to sell "shares of propriety" in the said city and townships until all were disposee of. Each proprietor was entitled to choose an entire square or block in the city, when founded, which should be exclusively his own, subject to no future division with other proprietors. Under this arrangement SYMMES was now proceeding with his settlements in the Miami peninsula.

On the twelfth of September, 1789, Judge SYMMES' partners wrote him that their choice for the site of the city was where he had landed and made his settlement in February - namely, at North Bend - and instructed him to lay it off there. He set about the survey during the later fall and early winter, and reported on the ensuing first of January, as follows:
We find the ground rather uneven, but, on the whole I hope it will do better than I formerly thought it would, especially as it embraces several valuable springs which never fail. Some of the squares are very good ones, but others of them are very indifferent, owing partly to Camp creek's running across the plat, as also to very considerable hills and deep gutters which are interspersed through the isthmus. The city does not reach quite over to the banks of the Miami for I have laid it out exactly on the old plan and on the cardinal points, not receiving any instructions from you authorizing me to throw it into an oblong, which would have shot it better across the neck of land from river to river.

The new survey completed, the vacation of the old plat, which was included within it, and the nullifying of the arrangements made with settlers for donation and other lots. The judge was naturally apprehensive of resultant trouble; but he wrote in his January letter:
I believe that I shall have very little difficulty in procuring the relinquishment of all the lots which are sold and given away in North Bend. Those which have been paid for I hope will be restored on reimbursing the purchaser his money, though several of these purchasers are not on the ground at present, therefore I cannot say what objections they may start. The most of those who had donation lots in this village are well pleased with the new arrangement, as they now get five acres, and had but one before. This seems to pacify them, though they have generally built cabins on the acre.

Some special interest attaches to the judge's next remark, as showing the primitive character of the dwellings then upon the site:
Very fortunately for the proprietors, not one man in the village, but myself and two nephews, have been at the expense of building a stone chimney in his house; therefore they can the more readily cast away or remove their former cabins and build new houses on the proper streets of the city. The expense of clearing and fencing their lots is what they most lament, as this labor goes directly to the benefit of other people who take up such cleared lots. I shall, therefore, be obliged to make them some compensation for this in order to keep up the quiet of the town.

The judge had taken a rose-colored view of the prospects, which was not answered by the outcome of his destructive and constructive operations. In about five months (April 30, 1790) he was compelled to write to Dayton:
I must enjoin it upon the proprietors to send out some of their body with discretionary powers to act for the good of the whole without being subject to subsequent control by the proprietors, for you cannot conceive the disorders that have been occasioned by breaking up the old village of North Bend to make room for the city. Some have left the town offended at the measure, while others are quarrelling about the use of the cleared land which was opened last year. Captain John BROWN fenced one of these lots in order to sow it with hemp, but the same night his fence was all burnt and laid in ruins. He charges Daniel GARD and Peter KEEN with the fact.

SYMMES himself was obliged to make a plea to the board of proprietors, for the preservation of his own improvements, which were threatened with the common fate "in the general wreck of the village," he said. In the course of this he introduces the interesting description of his houses, which will be found a few paragraphs hereafter.

The "city of Miami" was, nevertheless, duly laid off in a square of about a mile, the streets intersecting at right angles, regardless of hill or valley, height or plain, and running with the cardinal. points of the compass. On the east (Mr. F. W. MILLER, in Cincinnati's Beginnings, says also on the north), running from river' to river, a strip of land was reserved for a common. The judge had no instructions as to the width of this, but took the responsibility of laying it forty rods, or an eighth of a mile wide. He wrote:
I would have left a wider common, but at this dangerous time when we have already had a man murdered within the square of the city, to leave a larger extent of unoccupied land between the city and small lots, would have looked rather like trifling with the lives of citizens who are obliged to go daily to their labor on the donation lots beyond the common.

By "small lots" the judge must have meant the smaller out-lots--those of ten acres, which lay next beyond the common. "The ten acres," he wrote, "I shall throw round the hills and city in the nearest manner I can." The lots within the city - some of them, at least - were of the unwonted size, for in lots, of five acres. Beyond the ten-acre tracts, in order, were out-lots, first of thirty acres, then of sixty.

This was SYMMES' plan for any other towns or cities he might lay off; and this was the main element in the embarrassment and uncertainty caused by the delay in fixing the site for the city, as mentioned in a previous section of this chapter. He was also anxious to know whether he might sell the proprietors' alternate reserved lots at North Bend, for which he had many offers; and had taken the responsibility of selling one "to a valuable citizen," rather than lose him, for "half a joe," or three dollars. He wished to sell more of them, to encourage emigration; and his anxieties to get the foundations of a

Under the new arrangement fifty of the small lots were to be given to the first fifty applicants, on condition that they should build a house and agree to reside three years in the city. They were rapidly taken up, and by April 30th the judge could write:
We have parted with all the donation lots around the city, and I think it highly incumbent on the proprietors to add one fifty more thereto, as, people being refused out-lots when they apply, go directly up to the back stations where they are sure to have them.

He also asked the privilege of giving away about thirty-five acre lots at South Bend, which was now going rapidly, and he desired to encourage the settlement there.

The proprietors seem to have acted liberally with the infant settlement, and to have given the judge ample powers of grant or gift; for, more than five years afterwards (August 6, 1795), he wrote to DAYTON:
There are yet several hundred donation lots in the plan of the town that have never been accepted by anybody, and very few indeed will purchase a lot when they can have such a choice of one gratis.

The inlots given to actual settlers in the city were soon taken up, and, as applications continued to be made, further surveys were extended up and down the Ohio, until over one hundred acre lots were laid out, giving the place a front on the Ohio of about one and a half miles, or nearly half of the present extensive frontage, according to the nominal boundaries of the village plat.

Judge SYMMES remained for six weeks in the rude shelter he had built for his family upon first landing, and then removed into a more comfortable log cabin, which by that time was enclosed and roofed. He subsequently wrote the following description of his own group of habitations and other buildings at this point:
I have gone to considerable expense in erecting comfortable log houses on the three lots, which I had taken for myself and two nephews, young men who are with me. The lots in North Bend were four poles wide; we have therefore occupied twelve poles of ground on the banks of the Ohio. This front is covered with buildings from one end to the other, and of too valuable a construction for me to think of losing them in the general wreck of the village. That the proprietors may be more sensible of the reasonableness of the request, I will give you a description of them. The first, or most easterly one, is a good cabin, sixteen feet wide and twenty-two feet long, with a handsome stone chimney in it; the roof is composed of boat plank set endwise, obliquely, and answers a triple purpose of rafters, lath, and an undercourse of shingle, on which lie double rows of clapboards which makes an exceedingly tight and good roof. The next is a cottage, sixteen feet by eighteen, and two and a half stories high; the roof is well shingled with nails. The third is a cabin, fifteen feet wide and sixteen feet long, one story high, with a good stone chimney in it; the roof shingled with nails. The fourth is a very handsome log house, eighteen feet by twenty-six, and two stories high, with two good cellars under the first in order to guard more effectually against heat and cold. This large cabin is shingled with nails, has a very large and good stone chimney which extends from side to side of the house, for the more convenient accommodation of strangers, who are constantly coming and going, and never fail to make my house their home while they stay in the village. In this chimney is a large oven built of stone. Adjoining to this house I have built me a well-finished smoke-house, fourteen feet square, which brings you to a fortified gate of eight feet, for communication back. All the buildings, east of this gate, are set as close to each other as was possible. Adjoining to and west of the gate is a double cabin of forty-eight feet in length and sixteen feet wide, with a well built stone chimney of two fire-places, one facing each room. This roof is covered with boat-plank throughout, and double rows of clapboards in the same manner with the first described cabin. In these several cabins I have fourteen sash-windows of glass. My barn or fodder-house comes next, with a stable on one side for my horses, and on the other one for my cows. These entirely fill up the space of twelve poles. This string of cabins stands - poles from the bank of the river, and quite free from and to the south of the front or Jersey street of the city. . . The buildings have cost me more than two hundred pounds specie, and I cannot afford to let them go to strangers for nothing - the mason work alone came to more than one hundred dollars. There is not another house on the ground that has either cellar, stone chimney, or glass window in it, nor of any value compared with mine.

August 10, 1796, the judge writes:
I am building a dwelling house and grist-mill, both on pretty extensive plans, and obliged personally to superintend the whole without doors by day, and to arrange my accounts by night, so that, from early dawn to midnight, I am engaged with my buildings or my farm. I had this season a wheat and rye harvest of fifty acres, and have one hundred and fourteen acres of land planted with Indian corn, and a stock of one hundred and fifty head of cattle.

Most of the settlers who received the original donation lots had fulfilled their obligations with reasonable promptness, and by the middle of May following the landing of the colony, about forty of the lots had each a comfortable cabin erected upon it, covered with shingles or clapboards, "and other houses still on hand," as the judge wrote. Not three donation lots, he added, remained at this time unappropriated.

The new city is designated as the City of Miami in Dr. GOFORTH's letters and in old official documents. Judge BURNER, in his Notes on the Settlement of the Northwestern Territory, says the place was known as SYMMES, and it was frequently called SYMMES City. Whatever name or names it may have borne, however, the settlement continued to be popularly called North Bend, and it has never wholly lost that cognomen from the hour of its christening to the present day. The place grew rapidly during its first two or three years, and in 1791 was deemed worthy of a garrison of eighty soldiers, who, according to Dr. GOFORTH, were stationed there. The presence of the troops had a great deal to do with the prosperity of the settlement, and when they were withdrawn the people rapidly followed them to Cincinnati, or removed to other points deemed more secure than North Bend, so that the village was for a time almost deserted. After ST. CLAIR's defeat some years later, there was a perfect stampede to the back country. August 6, 1795, the judge wrote:
The village is reduced more than one-half in its number of inhabit. ants since I left it to go to Jersey in February, 1793. The people have spread themselves into all parts of the Purchase below the military range since the Indian defeat on the twentieth of August, and the cabins are of late deserted by dozens in a street.

He remained steadfastly by his city, however, doing al he could to reanimate and resuscitate it. He built

The judge passes his time in directing his various works, and the ladies read. walk, and attend to numerous birds and animals, which they domesticate, both for entertainment and use. Miss LIVINGSTON is much of a botanist - a practical one. She collects seeds from such plants and flowers as are most conspicuous in the prairies, and cultivates them with care on the banks and in the vicinity of the house. She is forming a shrubbery also, which will be entirely composed of magnolia, catalpa, papaw, rose, and tulip trees, and all others distinguished for blossom and fragrance. In the middle is erected a small Indian temple, where this young lady preserves seeds and plants, and classes specimens of wood, which contribute much to her knowledge and entertainment. When the beauties of the fine season fade, and the country becomes somewhat inert and insipid, the judge and the ladies remove to Cincinnati, and revolve in its pleasures till fatigued, when they again return to their rural economy, and to the prosecution of happy and inoffensive designs. I could with great difficulty tear myself from persons so amiable.

This mansion is said to have been then the most spacious and commodious in the State. It was destroyed, however, in March, 1811, as was believed by the torch of the incendiary; and with it a large number of papers relating to his transactions in the Purchase, including the certificates of the original proprietors of Cincinnati, upon which the judge had executed deeds to the purchasers of lots, and the loss of which was irreparable. Of some of the papers duplicates were in existence; but the destruction of his files gave the judge infinite trouble, and aided to embarrass and embitter his closing years. Suspicion of the incendiarism rested upon a man named HART, residing near North Bend, who was known to be a violent enemy of Judge SYMMES - simply, it is said, because of the judge's refusal or neglect to vote for him when a candidate for justice of the peace. HART was arrested, indicted, and tried; but, although the evidence against him seemed strong, and most of the North Bend people believed in his guilt, he was acquitted by the jury. The judge died in Cincinnati in 1814. His will may be found, with other related matter, in our annals of the city for that year. His remains were brought back to North Bend, in accordance with his wish, and buried in the cemetery, about a mile southeast of his former residence. The inscription on the tablet in the brickwork above his grave is as follows:
Here rest the remains of John Cleves SYMMES, who, at the foot of these hills, made the first settlement between the Miami rivers. Born on Long Island, in the State of New York, July 21, A. D., 1742. Died at Cincinnati, February 26. A. D. 1814.

One of Judge SYMMES' sons-in-law, as before mentioned, was the distinguished general and afterward President of the United States, William Henry HARRISON. He also came, after his marriage with Miss Annie SYMMES, to reside in North Bend, which is now only known to the world at large as the place of his residence and burial. The famous "log cabin" of the Presidential campaign of 1840 was located here; but that, as usually pictured in the newspapers and on banners and transparencies at that time, was a myth, originating, it is said, in the sneer of a writer for a Baltimore Democratic paper at the general as a dweller in a log cabin. A part of the HARRISON mansion was, indeed, originally built of logs; but a large frame structure was subsequently added, and the whole clapboarded and painted white, making a comfortable, and for the time a quite superb mansion. It has tong since disappeared, except the excavation for a cellar; and some remains of the flower garden and other improvements may still be traced upon the grounds, which have been abandoned since the fire. The large farm formerly cultivated by the general in the vicinity has also passed to other hands, and his descendants have disappeared from the region, except a granddaughter, Mrs. Betty EATON, daughter of the Hon. John Scott HARRISON, who resides with her little family half a mile from the village, on heights commanding, probably, the finest view in Hamilton county, extending into three river valleys and three States.

HARRISON married Miss SYMMES in November, 1795. The tradition goes that the father opposed the match, and that the young couple were obliged to slip away from her home to the residence of Dr. Stephen WOOD one of the justices of the peace for the county, near the subsequent site of Cleves, where they were married without the presence of the father. The tomb of the general and ex-President, as is well known, is on the heights back of North Bend, west of the tunnel formerly used by the Whitewater canal and now used by the Indianapolis railroad. It is a plain mausoleum of brick work, suitably inscribed. For a time it fell into neglect, and became somewhat dilapidated; but has been restored of late years, and is now in good repair.

Among other notable early settlers was Brice VIRGIN, who was made a captain in the militia in 1790, among the first appointments by Governor ST. CLAIR, upon the erection of Hamilton county. He afterwards removed to Princeton, Butler county, where he died.

Among the early ministers who preached to the people at North Bend, were the Revs. John TANNER of TURNER'S Station (now Petersburgh), Kentucky, and Lewis DEWEES, also of Kentucky, who officiated from time to time during the years 1792 to 1804. Each of these was a Baptist, as was also the celebrated Rev. and Senator John SMITH, of Columbia and Cincinnati. The Rev. James KEMPER, Presbyterian, also sometimes came out from Cincinnati and preached. About 1804 Rev. M. OGLESBY of the Methodist Episcopal church, preached here, and afterwards Rev. John LANGDON, of the same. In the early day, the male worshippers here, as at Columbia and Cincinnati, always went to church armed.

North Bend village proper, has had no large growth, and is now simply a moderate cluster of houses at the original site. A large town plat, however, known by the same name, has been laid out for more than three miles along the river, with a width of about two-thirds of a mile west of North Bend station, and over two miles east of it that is, three sections wide, and extending back from the river something more than half a mile at the station to very nearly two miles on the eastern boundary, which intersects the river half a mile above the mouth of Muddy creek. The site thus comprises one thousand four hundred and forty-eight acres. Several railway stations - as SHUTS, named from the Hon. John Cleves SHUT son of Payton SHUT, and grandson of Judge SYMMES, whose decendants live here; also DEVIN's and GRIFFITHS' stations, are within the North Bend corporation. The certificate of its incorporation, for special purposes was filed with the secretary of State, August 25, 1874. The village had four hundred and twelve inhabitants by the last census.
 

SUGAR CAMP SETTLEMENT.

A little colony bearing this name is remarked in the Ohio Historical Collections as having been founded about the same time as North Bend, three miles down the river from that place and two miles from the Indiana line, upon the farm of W. H. HARRISON, jr. It had at one time about thirty houses, but afterwards became extinct. The block-house built in the early day for the protection of the settlers was still standing in 1847, but was much dilapidated and did not last a great while longer. A figure of it as it then appeared is given in the collections.
 

CLEVES.

This place standing upon or very near the large tract covered by the "City of Miami" plat, a mile north of the present North Bend station and on the Great Miami river, was originally called Clevestown, and bore that, as well as it bears its present name, in honor of the maternal branch of the SYMMES family, from whom the judge and many others derived in part their given names. It was laid out by General HARRISON in 1818, the recorded plat bearing date November 7th of that year. In 1830 it had one hundred and ten inhabitants; fifty years later, by the tenth census, it had eight hundred and thirty-six. Notwithstanding its comparatively light population, it has a large corporate limit, including nearly an entire section, or five hundred and ninety-five acres. It was incorporated for general purposes March 17, 1875.

The post office at this point has done duty at times during the decadence of North Bend, for both that place and its own. Under the presidency of General HARRISON, Mr. J. M. RUNYAN was postmaster. His successors were Thomas ARCHER, James CARLIN, George CASSADY, Mr. CROFOOT, and Charles RUFFEN, the last named of whom now holds the post.

The most notable event in the history of Cleves was the anti-slavery agitation of nearly forty years ago, which resulted in serious disturbances at this place. The following account of them appears in the Life of Senator Thomas MORRIS, formerly of Hamilton and then of Clermont county, by his son B. F. MORRIS:
Cleves, in Hamilton county, Ohio. was the scene of violent resistance to free discussion. In the spring of 1843 the pastor of the Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. SCOFIELD. and a majority of his flock called a meeting for free discussion on slavery. Samuel LEWIS, Jonathan BLANCARD, now president of the Galesburgh college, Illinois, and Thomas MORRIS, whose manly voice for freedom, integrity of principles, and firmness of character, have enrolled his name among the early champions of free speech and free soil, were the speakers.

A mob was organized and a riot threatened. A number of students from Lane seminary went down with the speakers. Landing at North Bend they passed the mansion and tomb of the lamented General HARRISON, on their way to the church. The doors of the meeting-house were barred against the friends of freedom. Prominent and influential men were with the rabble that prevented the convention from occupying the meeting house. The convention, thus forbid to enter the house, occupied the road in front. Rev. S. LEWIS, an able and faithful laborer in the cause of freedom, recently gone to an honored grave, kneeled on the ground and offered a most solemn and impressive prayer. For a moment the rioters were palsied in their nefarious operation. One of them often said, "That prayer I shall never forget." An infidel was converted, and "the wrath of man was thus made to praise God," and advance the cause of freedom

At the invitation of Richard HUGHES, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church of Berea, a mile distant from Cleves, the convention met at that church and held its sessions two days. The impression of that convention abides to this day; fires were kindled that are burning brighter and brighter.

The Cleves rioters, not satisfied with driving the convention from the village, smashed the windows of the meeting-house, mobbed the house of the pastor, threw his buggy into the canal, and shaved the tail of his horse. The perpetrators of these deeds of darkness chose the covert hour of night for their mob performances. They were of the baser sort in the community, but were instigated and backed by quite a number of those of reputation. These mob scenes created an era in the history of that region and will be long remembered.

A more detailed and very interesting narative of the same transaction is given in the life of Samuel LEWIS who was also of the party of visitors and speakers at the meeting, a biography also written by a son:
Mr. LEWIS was again at work in the spring and summer of 1843 laboring and speaking in behalf of the liberty party and of the slave. A meeting was appointed in Cleves, one and a half miles north of North Bend, and care was taken to ask and receive consent of the elders and trustees of the Presbyterian church; and notice was accordingly given. Judge SHORT and Dr. THORNTON, relatives of the family of General HARRISON, as well as J. Scott HARRISON, son of General HARRISON, and now member of Congress from that district, took umbrage at the project of an anti-slavery meeting so near their homes and expressed themselves in the strongest terms against the sitting of the convention in that place. The consequence was that a violent excitement soon prevailed in the vicinity, and threats of violence were made by vicious and irresponsible persons.

As it was understood that these threats would not influence the withdrawal of the appointment, a public meeting was called at which it was

The seventh being come, some fifty persons went down from Cincinnati to meet those who might assemble. Mr. LEWIS was early on the spot from another direction. When he arrived there, some time before the coming of the city delegation, he was advised by a personal friend by no means to venture to show himself at the church, as he could not do so without danger of extreme personal violence. He replied that "the danger he spoke of was the very reason why he should be there; that when there was no difficulty and danger in proclaiming the principles of freedom he would then leave the work to others and rest in the comforts of the family and home, with which God had blessed.

As the anti-slavery men presently came up the street toward the door of the church, Mr. J. Scott HARRISON stood forward in the crowd (and such a crowd made up of boys and half-grown men, with a few of those who did not advocate the doctrines of the Washingtonians), that awaited us at the door of the house, and stated "that he was there in behalf of a committee appointed by a meeting of the citizens of Miami township, to protest against that church being occupied by the convention;" giving as a reason that "the citizens of Miami township were believed to be generally opposed to the doctrines of the Abolitionists, not one in seven favored their incendiary doctrines, and they did not wish their peace disturbed by them; and if they attempted to hold a meeting there for the dissemination of these doctrines they could not be responsible for the consequences. But they prayed that the proceedings might not end in violence."

Mr. LEWIS then followed him in a short and earnest address, and with visible effect. He said "he was there among others to advocate no principles but those of the gospel of Christ and the American declaration of rights. He defied him to find in the crowd six men who were opposed to us who could tell what Abolitionism was; and, as to threats of violence, if violence was threatened, there were men present who, if they were disposed to do so, could prevent it; that they, and they alone, would be held responsible by God, and an enlightened public, for any violence which might occur. He appealed to them, as one living in their midst, whose person and habits of life they well knew, and asked them whether it had come to this, that American citizens could no longer peaceably assemble and present their views to each other without being met at the threshold and threatened with violence, and for no other reason than that they were a minority, only one in seven!" Mr. HARRISON, who withered sensibly under his earnest pathos and strong good sense, said that, if there were any persons present who had power to prevent meditated violence, he prayed Almighty God that they might exercise that power.

Rev. J. BLANCHARD, after a few moments more of conversation, proposed that the people present should say, by dividing to the fight and left, whether they would have the discussion or not. This he recommended as a peace measure, as in no ways declaring the fight to prevent a minority from discussion. The people divided as requested, and a dear majority appeared in favor of the discussion, Mr. J. Scott HARRISON not voting at all. The free discussion party, of course, embraced all the men of good sense, and all the ladies present, one of whom, a pious old resident of the place, quietly remarked: "Ah, well, I heard tell of the separation of the sheep from the goats, but I never expected to live to see it."

The left hand multitude were indeed a most forlorn-looking set. Long, lank boys, crooked, and sallow, and thin, most of them carrying clubs, with here and there a rusty musket, their cheeks distended with tobacco and their mouth resembling the closely drawn pouch of the opossum, enameled brown with the juice of the same - their rags and their rage together gave them quite a unique and comical appearance, which fully justified the Scriptural allusion of the pious old lady.

Mr. LEWIS called to the chairman to stand forward and see how the vote stood. Mr. J. Scott HARRISON answered from a distance that he had done his duty and could do nothing more, and made off as rapidly as he was able. His associates, of whom he was evidently ashamed, remained behind to disturb the meeting; and the meeting itself, being invited to another place a short distance off, they repaired thither and held their convention. First, however, they sang "How firm a foundation," etc., and then Mr. LEWIS led in prayer in the open street. That prayer, offered as it was in the very face of men of blood and violence, whose clubs were ready to be drawn over his head, and whose brows were lowering with the rage that maddened them, that very prayer led more than half a score to truth and liberty. Even the hymn rang in the ears of Mr. J. Scott HARRISON for months, according to his own confession. More than forty persons avowed themselves liberty men, with the venerable Judge MATSON at their head.
 

FERN BANK,

a place of suburban residence, laid out on the north side of the railways, in the southwest. part of section one, between Riverdale and SHORT'S station, just outside the limits of North Bend corporation.
 

GRAVEL PIT,

a station now little used, on the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, about two and a half miles southwest of North Bend, near Fort Hill, named from the extensive deposit of gravel here opened for the hallasting of the railway tracks. It was the scene of stirring times at one period during the war. In the early part of September, 1862, during the so-called siege of Cincinnati by Generals KIRBY SMITH and HEATH, a battalion of Squirrel Hunters was ordered here to guard a ford across the Ohio it being a season of very low water against the possible crossing of a force of rebel cavalry. The Squirrel Hunters remained until the sixteenth of September, when they were relieved by the Nineteenth Michigan infantry, a new regiment, which had just been ordered to the field. It encamped at first between the station and the river, and then on the higher ground above the station for two or three weeks, without special incident, and then returned to Cincinnati and advanced into Kentucky.
 

POPULATION.