THE FIRST PURCHASERS OF LAND IN THE U.S. MILITARY DISTRICT IN TUSCARAWAS COUNTY LAND

According to Beers 1884 History of Tuscarawas County, thirteen quarter townships within the Military District were entered before the townships were further subdivided. The quarter townships are referred to as "sections" in the tax list and in abstracts of land office records (e.g. Family Archive CD 255 or in the "legal land description" at the Federal Land Patent Database) . They were numbered counter-clockwise beginning in the NE quadrant. Most of these early land purchasers' names appear in the original proprietor's column of the tax list. They are listed in Beers on pages 323-24 with some dates missing or incomplete.

Godfrey Haga.
3rd quarter of Township 10, Range 1, now the SW of Sandy Township. 28 March 1800.

Abraham Mosser, of Washington Co., PA and Thomas Boude, of Lancaster, PA, tenants in common.
1st quarter of T 10, R 2, now the NE of Lawrence. 23 May 1800.

Jonathan Dayton, a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
4th quarter of T 10, R 2, now the SE of Lawrence.

Col. James Morrison, of Lexington, KY.
3rd quarter of T9, R 2, now Dover township. 22 Apr 1800.

John C. Reich, John Shropp and Christian Lange.
4th quarter of T 9, R 2, now Dover and Goshen. 28 March 1800.

Godfrey Haga.
1st quarter of T 8, R 2, now Goshen including New Philadelphia. 28 March 1800.

John Heckewelder.
2nd quarter of T 8, R 2, now SE Dover and parts of Goshen and York. 28 March 1800.

David Galbraith, a New York merchant, and Thomas Elms, tenants in common.
1st quarter of T 7, R 1, now Northern Mill plus a small part of Union.

William Alman, of Washington Co., PA.
2nd quarter of T 7, R 1, now NE Warwick. 17 Feb 1801.

John Heckewelder.
3rd quarter of T 7, R 1, now SE Warwick. 28 March 1800.

John Rathbone, a merchant of New York City.
4th quarter of T 7, R 1, now Mill including Ulrichsville.

Godfrey Haga.
2nd quarter of T 6, R 2, now NE Salem and NW Clay. 28 March 1800.

John Beaver.
2nd quarter of T 5, R 3, now NW Oxford. 1800