New Cumberland, Ohio

Besides the above, the following land owners were living in the township in 1820; Absalom Butler, Thomas Cordery, Abraham Lane, Robert Meek, Jacob Riggle, George Strawn, John and Ephraim Sparks, Samuel Slutts, Philip Suter and Peter Sell. Many of them had come many years before that date. Abraham Lane was a Marylander. He owned fifty acres in the southwest quarter of Section 29, and died in the township. Absalom Butler, his son-inlaw, was the possessor of a small piece of land in the northeast quarter of the same quarter. He remained but a few years, then moved West. Thomas Cordery was well advanced in life when he became the owner and occupant of the southeast quarter of Section 20. He came from Maryland, and died in this township. Robert Meek was a Virginian, and purchased a farm in Section 34, entered by John Edgington, and afterward removed to Iowa, where he died. Jacob Riggle settled on the northeast quarter of Section 33. George, David, Philip and John Riggle were also early settlers. George Strawn came to the southeast quarter of Section 10, from Pennsylvania, at an early date, where he lived to a good old ago. John and Ephraim Sparks, brothers, from Fayette County, Penn., settled on the northeast quarter of Section 9, which was entered for them by their father. Both were citizens of Warren Township through lifa William Slutts was the first settler on the northwest quarter of Section 36, but soon after sold his possessions here to his brother Samuel. Philip Suter entered the northwest quarter of Section 29, settled there, and afterward laid out New Cumberland. Peter Sell, a son-in-law of Abraham Lane, was the owner in fee simple of fifteen acres, in the northeast quarter of Section 29, but after a brief residence here for some yeare, disposed of this realty, and became a citizen of Zanesville.

Passage source: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884.

Indians frequented the valley of One Leg during the period in which the white settlers took possession of the land, but so far as known amicable relations were always maintained between the two races. The first settlers, before their number equaled that of their dusky neighbors, stood somewhat in dread of them. The red men occupied the valley usually only during the summer as a hunting ground, but occasionally a party remained through the winter. A large party of them encamped near New Cumberland during the winter of 1808-9. They often visited the cabins of the whites, but invariably left their guns outside as a token of friendship. Mrs. Lappin made it a rule, which she followed without exception, to treat the Indians to victuals whenever they visited her husband's cabin, and thus secured their firm friendship. Mr. Lappin had brought no gun with him to his Western home, but the Indians often supplied him with turkeys, venison and other wild game in return for which they received bread and potatoes or other favors. During the troublesome period of the war of 1812, the Indians left this region. One old man, John Henry, departed with great reluctance. He had become strongly attached to the Lappin family, and assured them, with tears in his eyes, that if any danger menaced them during the war, he or his son would apprise them of it. The war checked emigration, but at the termination of hostilities the settlement of the township was renewed, and rapidly continued till all the lands were taken. A few of the Indians returned, and for a time haunted their old hunting grounds, but the encroaching corn-fields of their successors in the possession of the soil drove them at last to a wilder Western land.

Passage source: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884.

New Cumberland was laid out by Philip Suter in May, 1826, on the northwest quarter of Section 29. The plat included thirty-two lots, each three perches in width and twelve in length, sixteen of them fronting on Main street, which extends east and west, and sixteen on Cross street, extending north and south. James Meek, in 1841, made an addition of ten lots east of South Cross street; and, in 1847, John Suter made an addition of twenty lots on East Main street. Shortly before making the plat, Mr. Suter induced Samuel Lappin, Jr., to open a store on the site of the village. John Black, a wagon - maker, built the first house, and kept the first tavern. His residence here, however, was very brief, for the Ohio Canal, then building through Bolivar, attracted him thither, with the prospect of more work. Israel S. Lappin erected the next dwelling, designing to follow the avocation of house-carpenter and cabinet-maker. His brother Samuel, however, dying in 1827, Israel abandoned his craft at the solicitation of friends and took charge of the store, continuing a merchant of the little village fourteen years. David McConnell started the second store about 1830. A post office was established in 1831 or 1832, with Mr. McConnell as Postmaster. Since its foundation, the village has been the center of a fine agricultural trade. It can boast of no extensive manufactories. It reached the zenith of its glory in point of population in

Passage source: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884.

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