FIRST SETTLERS IN
MEIGS COUNTY, OHIO
Listed below are the names of the first settlers in territory
included in Meigs County and the dates of their arrival:
| NAME |
DATE |
| James Smith |
1797 |
| Levi Chapman |
1787 |
| Thomas L. Halsey |
1792 |
| Hamilton Kerr |
1797 |
| Nicholas Brown |
1796 |
| Joseph Russell |
1792 |
| James Smith |
1797 |
| William Russell |
1792 |
| Brewster Higley |
1789 |
| John Case |
1799 |
| Levi Stedman |
1798 |
| Peter Grow |
1798 |
| Peter Shaw |
1792 |
| Ezra Chapman |
1799 |
| Shubael Burris |
1796 |
| William Bradford |
1792 |
| William Browning |
1795 |
| Joshua Chapman |
1799 |
| William Barton |
1792 |
| George Warth |
1798 |
| Peter Lalance |
1798 |
| Fuller Elliot |
1792 |
| Livingston Smith |
1800 |
| Josiah Rice |
1800 |
| Samuel Denny |
1800 |
| Thomas Everton |
1800 |
| Jeremiah Riggs |
1800 |
| Leonard Hedrick |
1800 |
| George Ackley |
1800 |
| Thomas Rairdon |
1800 |
| William Coleman |
1800 |
| John Miles |
1801 |
| James Merrill |
1801 |
| Timothy Dexter |
1801 |
| William Parker, Sr. |
1802 |
| Thomas Shepherd |
1802 |
| Conrad Alshire |
1802 |
| Michael Alshire |
1802 |
| Peter Alshire |
1802 |
| Joel Higley |
1803 |
| Daniel Rathburn |
1803 |
| Jabez Benedict |
1803 |
| William Johnson |
1803 |
| James E. Phelps |
1803 |
| Caleb Gardner |
1803 |
| Thomas Alexander |
1803 |
| Elias Hall |
1803 |
| Alvin Ogden |
1804 |
| Shubael Nobles |
1804 |
| Eli Stedman |
1804 |
| Samuel Branch |
1804 |
| Timothy Smith |
1805 |
| Frederic Hysell |
1805 |
| Mr. Bing |
1805 |
| Luke Brine |
1805 |
| Fuller Elliott |
1805 |
| Jacob Wolf |
1805 |
| Jeremiah Fogg |
1806 |
| Aaron Holt |
1807 |
| James Forrest |
1807 |
| John Forrest |
1807 |
| Thomas Gaston |
1807 |
| Joel Cowdery |
1807 |
| Henry Roush |
1808 |
| Jacob Cowdery |
1808 |
| Squire Bullock |
1808 |
| Philip Buffington |
1808 |
| Aaron Torrence |
1809 |
| John Eutsminger |
1787 |
| Josiah Vining |
1810 |
| Joseph Vining |
1810 |
| Alexander Warth |
1810 |
| John Hall |
1811 |
| Richard Cook |
1811 |
| Seth Jones |
1812 |
| Adam Harpold |
1812 |
| Augustine Webster |
1812 |
| William Skinner |
1810 |
| Samuel Everett |
1812 |
| John Williams |
1812 |
| Erastus Williams |
1812 |
| Nathaniel Williams |
1812 |
| Joseph Townsend |
1812 |
| Philip Lauch |
1813 |
| Andrew Anderson |
1814 |
| Jebediah Darby |
1814 |
| John Hayman |
1810 |
| Peter Pilchard |
1810 |
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