Gooseport, Indiana

Tan yards were operated in many parts of the township from an early day. Hezekiah Thomas sunk one in 1836 in section i, antl ran it about three years. Alfred Pringle operated one a few years, a little later, on the southwest quarter of section 10. Uriah Gaddy sank a yard in section 16. in 1872, but it ran only a few years. Isaac and Benjamin Lockwood had quite an extensive tannery in section 36, built about 1835. They ran it several years selling out to Dias and Mitchell, who operated the same a fewyears, when it was al>andoned. Isaac A'aughn had a yard in section 26, built about 1820; probably the first tannery ever started in the townshii). He ran it several years and sold tn .Simeun (iarrintt.

Passage source: Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916.

"Thomas Thompson and sons came to the county the year before my father moved out. The same year we came Chas. Blithe and Daniel Gray moved their families over. Blythe settled in 1810 near the center of -section 8, Franklin township, and Gray located on the southwest quarter of section 9, both in the neighborhood of Wm. McKnight's One evening just before dark Billy McKnight came to our house considerably excited bringing the information that the Indians had destroyed the Pigeon Roost settlement, and told us we must escape for our lives. Father remonstrated at first against leaving home that night, but mother insisted that we should go to the fort and we went. I recollect how very careful they were that the children should make no noise as we passed along through the woods, for fear the Indians might be spymg out for us. It was quite dark when we left home and late bed time w^hen we reached the fort.

Passage source: Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

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