Corners -David Smiley, Esq., postmaster. In 1854,

it was discontinued and an office established at Hilliard, and Thomas W. Dobyns, Esq., the present incumbent, appointed postmaster.

There is one grist mill and several saw mills in this township. The grist mill is on the Scioto, erected by Joseph Corban some twelve or fifteen years since. A saw mill at the same place had been erected by Samuel Wilcox, some years before. These are now known as "Howard's mills." There is a steam saw mill at Hilliard, and one or two others in the township.

Amongst the oldest residents of the township at this time are Benjamin Britton and family, Wm. Armsted and family, Asa Davis, Asa Wilcox, John and Moses Hart, David Thomas, and some years after came Daniel Buck, Ezekiel Lattimer, David Smiley, Daniel D. Lattimer and others.

The leading religious denominations in this township are Methodists and United Brethren. The Methodists have a church building called "Wesley Chapel," near the residence of David Smiley, Esq., and some two or three other preaching places in school houses. The United Brethren hold their meetings at Carter's school house.

In 1840, the population of this township was 731. In 1850, it was 1053. In 1853, it was divided into ten

school districts, and contained an aggregate of 460 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years.

In 1857, the aggregate of such youth was 491.

SUCCESSIVE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.**

1813. Daniel Brunk, elected.

1814. Thomas Backus and Ebenezer Richards, elected. 1816. Daniel Brunk, reëlected, and Robert Elliot,

elected.

1817. Amaziah Hutchinson, elected.

1819. Daniel Brunk and Robert Elliot, both reëlected. 1822. D. Brunk, reëlected, and John McCan, in place of Elliot, declined.

1825. L. L. Lattimer, in place of Brunk, and John McCan, reëlected.

1828. John Weeden and George Black, to succeed Lat

timer and McCan.

1830. David Smiley, in place of Black, deceased.

1831. Miner Pickle, in place of Weeden.

1833. Miskell Saunders, in place of Smiley.

1834. Henry McCracken, in place of Pickle. 1836. Miskell Saunders, reëlected.

1837. Henry McCracken,

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When this township extended over the river — until 1820, there

were three Justices; after 1820, there were but two, until 1851, when the number was again increased to three.

1839. Miskell Saunders, reëlected.

1840. Benjamin Scofield, in place of McCracken.

1842. Miskell Sanders, reëlected.

1843. Benjamin Scofield,"

1845. Miskell Saunders,

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1846. Benjamin Scofield, "

1848. Miskell Saunders,* "

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John T. Britton, in place of Saunders, deceased.

1849. Benjamin Scofield, reëlected.

1851. John T. Britton,

Henry McCracken, elected, additional.

1852. Benjamin Scofield, reëlected.

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John Caldwell, in place of McCracken, removed

to the west.

1854. John T. Britton, reëlected.

1855. James H. Ralston, in place of Scofield.

1856. Thomas W. Dobyns, in place of Ralston, removed. 1857. John T. Britton, reëlected.

*'Squire Saunders died Oct. 16, 1848, in the 58th year of his age. On his tomb stone is this rather singular inscription: "He died a Christian and a Democrat."

CHAPTER XXVII.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP.

THIS township was set off and organized by its present name and boundaries in 1815. It had originally been part of Franklin Township. Amongst the early settlers in this township were William Brown, Nicholas Haun, Jonas Orders, William Badger, Woolry Conrod, William Sinnet, the Brackenridges, the Borers, the Straders and the Goldsmiths.

Until of late years, this township suffered much inconvenience from the want of direct and good roads to market; but since the construction of the Harrisburg turnpike, the Franklin turnpike and the Cottage Mill turnpike, all passing through this township, that inconvenience has been removed, and the township is increasing in population as fast as any other in the county.

There was no village nor post office in the township until Grove City was laid out in the summer of 1852,

by W. F. Breck, Esq., and a post office was then established at that place. Mr. Breck was the first postmaster, and held the office until 1857, when he was succeeded by Randolph Higgy, Esq., the present incumbent.

Grove City now contains about thirty families, two stores, one tavern, one physician, a large school and three churches-a Lutheran, a German Reformed and a Presbyterian. The Methodists also hold their meetings in the same house as the Presbyterians. Beside these churches there are in the township three others of the Methodist denomination-the "Hopewell," on the Jackson turnpike, a wooden building, erected in 1839, the "Concord," a wooden building, erected some years before, near the Shadesville pike, and "Hickory Seminary," erected since both the above, for the double purpose of church and school house.

Some thirty years ago, Rev. Benjamin Britton of Norwich Township used to occasionally preach for the New-Lights in Jackson, and Rev. Chandler Rogers of Perry for the Universalists. Mr. Rogers has been dead some years; Mr. Britton still survives.

There is no grist mill in this township, but several saw mills.

The population of the township in 1840, was 784. In 1850, it was 1550-almost doubled in ten years.