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From: "Richard A Blue" <>
Subject: [OHBROWN-L] Re: Fishing Gut
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:13:26 -0500 (EST)

For Susan Willaims:
Fishing Gut is the name of the creek that enters the Ohio
River near the western edge of Aberdeen, OH. One of the
early land surveys in the Adams - now Brown County area
was 1000 acres surveyed for Philip Slaughter -- your
ancestor I presume. Slaughter, I believe, never settled
on that survey, but instead sold it to James Edwards
(my ancestor) in 1796.

James Edwards, along with son George Edwards and sons-in-law
John West and William Rains, settled at the mouth of Fishing
Gut. They named their settlement "Aberdeen" after James
Edwards' place of birth in Scotland.

There is available a booklet on the early history of
Huntington Township that contains a detailed early map
showing the original survey lines, including that for
the Philip Slaughter tract. It extends for roughly
two miles along the river starting about where the present
bridge is located to a point downstream beyond the mouth
of Fishing Gut.

The booklet is published, I believe, by the Huntington
Township Historical Society of Aberdeen. I don't have
a mailing address as I bought my copy when I was in the
area. While the graphics are wonderful the history
they present is less carefully done.

Dick Blue

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