Early Settlers to Bloom Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio



    Alspach, Henry - 1808 land patent
    Baugher, Jacob - 1813 land patent
    Bright, Major - 1806 land patent
    Courtright, Jesse D. - 1814 land warrent (*4)
    Crumly, Christian - 1802/03 (*2)
    Falkner, Martin - 1806 land patent (*1)
    Flick, Andrew - 1807 land patent
    Glick, Philip 1809 land warrent section 30
    Hairoff, Peter - land patent 1807
    Hanna, John - 1807 land patent
    Harper, Samuel - 1807 land patent
    Holmes, Thomas - 1808 land patent
    Hosher, George - 1806 (*3)
    Hoy, Adam - 1816 land patent
    Hoy, Daniel - 1809 land warrent
    Lane, Wilkinson - 1808 land patent
    Lee, Samuel - 1806 land patent
    Lee, Zebulon - 1807 land patent
    Mason, Isaac - 1807 - land patent
    Needles, George - 1808 - land patent
    Newkirk, Reuben - 1807 land patent
    Schneider, Adam - 1808 land patent
    Spurgeon, Samuel - 1806 land patent
    Stine, Michael - 1806 land patent
    Tomlinson/Tumbleston, 1805 - 1805 land patent
    Wright, David - 1802 land patent

    *1 spelled "Felner" on 1806 tax list

    *2 "In 1802 or 1803 Christian Crumly (Crombich on land patent) came to Bloom Township and settled along the headwaters of the Hockhocking. However, he discovered he had settled on the wrong land. He crossed to the other side of the stream and took up government land sometime prior to 1812, the date of his land patent", from "Crossroads and Fence Corners", Charles R. Goslin, 1976 p 132. ISBN 8214-0366-4

    *3 "...immediately after making his initial payment on land in Section 3, laid out in 1806 the town of Jefferson. It was in 1811 that he received the patent for the land." From "Crossroads and Fence Corners", Charles R. Goslin, 1976, p 132. ISBN 8214-0366-4

    *4 After receiving his land warrent in 1814, Jesse D. Courtright laid out the community of Greencastle, "Crossroads and Fence Corners", Charles R. Goslin, 1976, p 132. ISBN 8214-0366-4



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