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Subject: BE Barnesville Warren Township
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:10:09 EST

Warren Township 1800-1839
First settlers:
John Grier
located on what is now the Robert Smith farm
John Dougherty
Families that followed (all of the Friends religion):
Plummer
Vernon
Smiths
Doudna
French
Hick
All of the above settled in the eastern and southern portions.
Buchanan
Shannon
These settled along the northern border.
Grier, Henry (brother of John)
Campbell
Kennon
Douglas
Hartley
All of the above were on the west side.
English
Dodd
Reed
Engle
These settled down Leatherwood Creek.
First Mill was a horse mill and was built by Joseph Middleton…..
The first water mill was erected in 1807 near where Slabtown now stands, by
Carmm Thomas and the second was put up by Mahlon Hartley…
John Phillips had the only distillery…
1806-07 Warren township was organized and given the powers of a corporation.
She was named after the lamented Dr. Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker
Hill.
1807-first election took place at John Grier’s cabin. He was elected Justice
of the Peace and was re-elected for two consecutive terms.
Rev. John D. Price cultivated tobacco in Warren in 1819…..
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If the is a ….after the entry, there is probably more to the article. The
first part is just names as you see it listed.
If you need a copy of this article email me privately and put Warren Twp. In
the subject line. I am not sure how much of this will scan, this first part
was rather damaged when they did the microfilm, so we will try.

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