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From: "Dresser" <>
Subject: Fairview 1848- & info on the toll house
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:28:39 -0500
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From the History of Hancock by Jack Welch, p. 53,
"Prominent men in the new county met at Fairview on April 10, 1848
in the home of Samuel C. ALLISON to establish the county government.
John PITTENGER, David PUGH, Andrew HENDERSON,
John GARDNER, David WYLIE, William H. GRAFTON and
John MAYHEW were selected justices of the court. The court then
selected John ATKINSON, Clerk; Robert BROWN, Proscecuting
Attorney; Josiah A. ADAMS, Comissioner of Revenue; Thomas J. HEWITT,
Surveyor. David WYLIE, Williiam H. GRAFTON and John MAYHEW
were selected to execute the office of sheriff, and William H. GRAFTON
and John MAYHEW were chosen to act as coroner. James COCHRAN
and Alexander D. PUGH were appointed constables.
A number of disputes arose over the formation of the new county.
The first was the exact location of the border between Hancock & Brooke
Counties. There is a legend that Thomas N. BAMBRICK, the Hancock
representative to the Virginia legislature, had something to do with the
final
decision. Both Hancock and Brooke Counties wanted possession of the
"Toll House" on Pittsburgh Pike which was located at the junction of the
Cove Road and Collier Road. The line was to be surveyed from a point
on the Ohio River, at what was known as Williams Rocks to a point
joining the Pennsylvania Border."
Mr. BAMBRICK is said to have met the surveyors as they were
approaching the site for the surveying on a frosty morning in 1848 and
suggested a trip to Steubenville. There he staged a party for the surveyors.
Later in the day when the surveyors departed for Williams Rocks, they
began at a point slightly south of the original point, thus giving Hancock
County possession of the "toll house". "

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