Research Log - 200 Years Ago

January

1 - Frankenstein published

15 - Esther Marsh died Scotch Plains, New Jersey age 72

26 - Amelia Speer born daughter of John & Mary Barbary (Grove) Speer

February

19 - Esther (Marsh) Clark probate

March

2 - Harriet (Rice) Powell born

15 - Andrew Jackson invades Florida during the Seminole War

18 - U.S. Congress approves first pensions for government service

25 - Henry Janes born Richford, Vermont, son of Jeremiah & Sarah (Allen) Janes

April

4 - U.S. flag officially adopted by Congress with 13 red and white stripes and a star for each state, 20 total states at the time.

7 - Brooks Brothers opens its first store in New York City

8 - Margareta Hocker born in Kentucky daughter of Joseph & Elizabeth (Dunn) Hocker

14 - Alfred Hocker md. Mary Duncan in Lincoln County, Kentucky

18 - Alexander Tomlinson born

28 - President James Monroe disarms the Great Lakes & Lake Champlain

May

1 - James Fitzgerald entered land in Gibson County, Indiana, SE1/4, Sec. 23, T3S, R11W

9 - Willis Gurley born in South Carolina son of William & Polly (--?--) Gurley

9 - John Tipton Hunt sold land in Fleming County, Kentucky in behalf of the heirs of Samuel Gallaher. 

16 - Samuel Clark leased Lot 2, Sec. 16, Upper Township in Lawrence County, Ohio. 

June

5 - John Bradford died age 78

18 - Chester Powell born in Richford, Vermont son of John & Aurelia (Fassett) Powell

July

2 - Benjamin Draper born in Dearborn, Indiana son of Thomas & Catherine (Harbert) Draper

4 - Elizabeth Colclasure born daughter of Jacob & Mary (Trinkle) Colclasure

9 - Charles Janes born in Richford, Vermont son of Daniel & Hannah (Lathrop) Janes

15 - Derrit md. Susannah Furguson in Posey County, Indiana

22 - Mary Magdalene Wallick died age 44

August

3 - Lydia Shepherd born son of Thomas & Annie (Janes) Shepherd

21 - David Robertson bought land from James George:

The property of Edward Corrington (?) sold for the payment of taxes by James Robertson collector of taxes, beginning at a large beach stump and stake on the bank of the Ohio River thence west to the northwest corner of said lot thence south to corner of said lot thence due east to the river.  160 acres in lot 1261, $350

September

5 - Mary Morgan died age 80

6 - Edward Parrish born in North Carolina son of Edward & Rachel (Tucker) Parrish

7 - James McDowell md. Susan Preston

7 - Carl III crowned king of Sweden & Norway

13 - Annie Skinner born in East Windsor daughter of Oliver & Rachel (Janes) Skinner

14 - William Hunt born in Fleming County, Kentucky son of William & Mary (Ricketts) Hunt

16 - Mary (Wheeler) Harbert born in Kentucky

18 - Stephen Hardin born in Washington County, Indiana son of John & Mary Ellen (Colclasure) Hardin

25 - Jedidiah Huntington died in New London age 75

October

14 - James Clark md. Martha Lambert in Lawrence County, Ohio

15 - William Patterson born in Kentucky

18 - Daniel Janes born in Richford, Vermont son of Ira & Precinda (Wright) Janes

20 - U.S. / Canada boundary is established on the 49th parallel.

20 - U.S. & England agree to joint control of the Oregon Territory

November

16 - St. Louis University founded

December

3 - Illinois is admitted to the Union as the 21st state

10 - Reuben Hunt md. Sarah Denton in Fleming County, Kentucky

24 - Christmas carol Silent Night composed by Franz Gruber

25 - Silent Night first sung in St. Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria

28 - Mary Mourning Orlena Maulding born daughter of James & Margaret (Crissel) Maulding

No date

Jedidiah Lathrop moved from Connecticut to Pennsylvania

William & Susan (Colclasure) Lewis moved from Indiana to Clay County, Illinois

Jane Beasley born daughter of Isham(?) & Judith (Coomer) Beasley

Susanna Fox died in Kentucky age 63

Cornelius Clark md. Elizabeth Lambert in Ohio

Joel Clark md. Margaret (--?--) in Ohio

Louisa Parrish born in Rowan County, North Carolina daugher of Ezekiel & Temperance (Perry) Parrish

James Galbreath born son of (--?--) & Elizabeth (--?--) Galbreath

Andrew Probst born in Prussia

Mary Armstrong born in Ohio

Nancy Tanner born 

Harriet Godonight born daughter of Michael & Charlotte (Durall) Goodnight

Samuel Clark paid taxes in Lawrence County, Ohio

David Robertson paid taxes chattels, 5 horses, 5 cattle

John H. Robertson paid taxes in Gallia Co., Ohio, chattels, 1 horse, 1 cow

John & Mourning (Maulding) Anderson note

Thomas Williamson born in Kentucky son of Henry & Nancy (Nothen?) Williamson

Daniel Cheney md. Anna Powell in Richford, Vermont

Joseph Henry bought 30 acres lying on the waters of Wier Creek a branch of the Tradewater for $40 in Hopkins County, Kentucky

Absalom Hunt in Cynthiana, Kentucky:

Leroy Cole born Essex Co., VA June 5, 1749, embraced religion, united with the Church, and was admitted on trial in the Conference in 1777.  He became an itinerant when there were only thirty-six traveling preachers in America, and a membership in the Methodist societies of only six thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight.  

In 1818, Brother Cole, who had joined the Connection in Kentucky, with the traveling preachers, appointed a camp-meeting near the town of Cynthiana, in Harrison county, to which place he had removed.  The writer was by special request - indeed, almost by peremptory order - called to attend his meeting.  To meet the old gentleman's command, made in the name of his blessed Master, in a very solemn manner, the writer left his home in Ohio, and attended.  The weather was very unpromising; the heavens poured down torrents of rain.  The people and preachers were discouraged; and to add to their other discouragements, the meeting was near the town of Cynthiana, a very wicked place; and a large collectino of young men of all descriptions had gathered, with their pockets filled with decanters of whisky, to stimulate themsleves to do mischief, and to reist the work.  On Friday it was truly discouraging; on Saturday it was equally so.  On Saturday night the work broke out.  Two rings were fomred for the mourners, when the poser of the Most High was displayed in a most signal manner.  The combined force raised in opposition to the work became alarmed.  Some ran up and sprang into the rings, throwing away their flasks of whisky, fell upon their knees and earnestly prayed for mercy.  Others, equally alarmed, threw away their bottles and ran into the woods, where their shrieks and cries were heard in various directions; when among the professors of religion there was a great shout in the camp, for the power of the Lord was upon them in the most extraordinary manner.  In the morning the 'whisky-bottles' were collected and placed around the ground on the candle-stands, fixed on trees, as a signal of a great victory!

Obeying the command of the old man, (Brother Cole,) on Monday the writer was directed to preach in Cynthiana, in the court-house.  He did so, and agreeably to the old gentleman's directions, formed a class, taking the old gentleman, his wife and several old members in.  He formed the first class in that place.  A revival commenced under the ministry of Brother Absalom Hunt and Brother Cole, with other assistance, when about four hundred members, in this place and its vicinity around, were added to the Church.  It afterward spread into different places, and revivals commenced after this in different directions .

Thomas Anderson born son of John & Mourning (Maulding) Anderson

Cornelius Clark paid taxes in Lawrence County, Ohio

William Welch born in Kentucky

Margaret Wood born in Kentucky daughter of William & Elizabeth (Grove) Wood

Rev. Erastus Lathrop in Ohio County, Indiana:

Bear Creek Regular Baptist Church

On the west side of Laughery Creek about one mile east of the western boundary of the county at the old graveyard situated there, nearly at the water's edge, formerly stood what was designated as "The Bear Creek Regular Baptist Church," which society was constituted June 13, 1818, at the residence of Judge John Watts, Elders George Hume and Jesse Vawter being the ordained gentlemen present.  The original members were John Watts, Fannie Watts, Erastus Lathrop, Dilly Lathrop, Ezra Lathrop, Sr., and Ezra Lathrop, Jr., and among the early elders were Judge Watts, Erastus Lathrop, George Hume, James milles, Andrew Baker and Moses Purcell.  Ground at this place was set apart for burial and church purposes by Judge Watts, and on it was early erected a log meeting-house, which in twenty-five or thirty years was removed to Friendship or Paultown in Ripley County, where it in connection with the society worshiping at that place some time before the late war, erected a neat and substantial brick church edifice.  The Bear Creek Graveyard is strikingly peculiar in the fact that all graves are walled up above the ground with stone in sarcophagus form with a lettered stone standing at the head of the grave as is usually the case. This place of burial is not large, though a number of graves are marked by rude unlettered stones, and quite likely many of the first settlers of that section of the country are interred here without any thing at all to mark their last resting place.  The yard is unfenced and for years has been open to the various causes that will eventually obliterate all traces of the hallowed spot.  Only a few of the stones bearing inscriptions are legible.  The oldest we noticed was inscribed to the memory of Newton Watts, born in 1800, died in 1818.  The remains of Elder Erastus Lathrop rest here, his death occurring in 1821, at the age of forty-five years. 

First Farmers Almanac published in United States