Maxwell, Indiana

On the 9th of September, 1817, Moses Williams bought 160 acres on Section 7, and this was the first purchase in Salt Creek Township. Lowe and Lee bought 120 acres on Section 10, in 1818. On the 2d of August, 18^0, Elisha Pollard entered two quarters on Section 18, and during the same year Moses Williams entered another tract on Section 22, and John Huff on the same section. Williams also bought on Section 12, in 1821 and 1824. The following year Henry Wampler bought two tracts, one on Section 23, and the other on Section 27. John Huff also this year purchased a piece on the latter section, and Elisha Pollard on Section 6. James Matlock secured the next tract on Section 27, in 1822. John W. Lee bought on Section 11, in 1824, and J. 0. Howe on Section 12, in 1826. J. 0. Howe, Sr., bought 80 acres on Section 2, in 1824, and John Barnes on Section 10, in 1828. These were the only entries before the decade of thirties. Alexander Owens bought on Section 10, in 1832. In 1832, William Boruff entered a piece on Section 31, and .Jacob Stephens on Section 2 the following year. John Stephens bought a piece the latter year on Section 3. The following entries were made in 1836 : Samuel Smith on Section 3 ; Finney Courtney on Section 4 ; Henderson Myers on Section 4 ; Ambrose Miller, Aquilla Rogers and William Martin on Section 6 ; John McKissock on Section 7 ; Andrew Harshberger on Sectioii 8 ; J. 0. Howe on Section 11 ; Edward Walker and John Huff on Section 15 ; Jonathan Huntington on Section 17 ; George Johnson on Section 18 ; Thomas Ferguson on Section 19 ; Archibald Wilson on Section 21 ; Reuben Clark on Section 27 ; Samuel McCalla and George Johnson on Section 28 ; Thomas Ferguson and William Taylor on Section 30, the latter buying 125 acres ; Michael Wampler and David Killough on Section 31 ; James Wakefield on Section 32, and Archibald Wilson, Daniel Butcher and Aaron M. Wilson on Section 34. The following entries were made in 1837: W. W. Duncan on Section 4 ; W. D. Maxwell, Section 4 ; Garret Moore, Section 7 ; Isaac Bolinghouse, Section 9 ; Edward Walker, Section 15 ; Alexander Miller, same ; John Cherry, same ; John Armstrong, same ; Michael Wampler, Section 31 ; James Wakefield,' Section 31. In 1838, the foUow- , lowing entries were made: Charles M. Cunningham, Section 6 ; Samuel Curry, Section 7 ; Daniel McCaughan, Daniel Kilpatrick and James Gordon, Section 8 ; John Barnes, Section 10 ; Hamilton Gray, Section 21. In 1839, the following were the entries : Lankston Brummet, Section 4 ; Alexander Kerr, Section 6 ; Samuel Latimer, Section 8 ; Jonathan Huntington, Section 9 ; William Cabot, Section 17 ; George Johnson, Section 28 ; David Johnson, Section 28 ; John Campbell, Section 31 ; John Lucas, Section 33, and the same on Section 34. The above were the only entries of land in Salt Creek Township previous to the year 1840.

Passage source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884.

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

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