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Title: Ohio archæological and historical publications
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
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Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by F.J. Heer
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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HAMILTON COUNTY ENLARGED. February 11, 1T!)2, St. Clair issued a proclamation, settingforth the new county provision of the Ordinance of 1787, bywhich it was provided that new counties should be laid out asfast as the Indian titles were extinguished. There was a portionof the Territory hing between the Scioto and the Little Miami,which had not yet been included in a county. This, he said,on account of the scattered nature of the settlements, did notjustify the erection of a new county, and he added it to the countyof Hamilton. The boundaries of this county were then as fol-lows : Beginning at the confluence of the Scioto with the Ohioriver, and up the Scioto with the courses thereof to the upperpart of the old lower Shawnee town upon said river; thence byand with a line to be drawn due north to the territorial boundaryline, and westerly along said boundary line to the eastern bound-ary of the county of Knox, and down along the said eastern 332 Ohio Arch, and His. Society Publications.
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HuiiLTON County after being Enlarged. The Evolution of Ohio Counties. 333 boundary of Knox county by a due south line to the standingstone forks of the Great Miami river, and with tlie said Miamito its confluence of the Ohio river; thence up the ( )hio river10 its place of beginning. RANDOLPH COUNTY. On the 15th day of October, ITDo, St. Clair issued a procla-mation reciting that the separation of the county of St. Clair intodistricts had not given that ease and facility to the adniinistrationof justice which was expected, and it l)ecame necessary that itbe divided, and a new county erected. The territory south of aline running due east from what was known as the Cove Spring,to the Knox county line, was made the county of Randolph. WAYNE COUNTY. There was a wide stretch of country on the north part ofthe Territory that-was yet outside of any of the organized counties.On the loth day of August, 179G, Wayne county was organized,with boundaries as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Cuyah

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