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Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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em on our publicdomain as will amply remunerate them. The realization of these promises held outto the refugees was a work of time depend-ing upon the passage of the celebrated or-dinance of 1787, which established civilgovernment in the Northwest Territory, andopened the public lands to survey and settle- ment. On the 17th of April, 1798, Congressprogressed to the point of inviting all refu-gees who were claimants of land to maketheir claims apparent to the War Departmentwithin two years from the date of said action,by rendering a full and true account oftheir claims to the bounty of Congress. The refugees thereupon. made proofs oftheir respective services, sacrifices and suffer-ings in consequence of their attachment tothe cause of the colonies against the mothercountry, and when the legal limit had ex-pired, within which proof of claims must bemade, the Secretary of War divided therefugees into a number of classes, awardingto the first class 2,240 acres, and to the lowest160 acres.
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LICKING COUNTY. 321 On February 18,1801, Congress took actionupon the report of the Secretary by appro-priating, about 100,000 acres, which theydeemed sufficient to meet all the awards.This was a tract four and a half miles wide,and extending eastward from the Sciotoriver towards the Muskingum, about forty-eight miles, terminating in Muskingumcounty not far east of Gratiot. Two and a half miles of this four and ahalf miles strip, as originally surveyed,belonged to the United States military tract,and the remaining two miles was Congressland. ^ This line, dividing the military from theCongress land, running through the refugeetract, forms the southern boundary of Lick-ing county, and the northern boundary ofFairfield and Perry counties. Thus all threeof these counties have each a strip of therefugee tract. Although the refugee tract, as originallyappropriated, extended into Muskingumcounty, but few, if any, refugee locationswere made there, because it was land in ex-cess of the awards,

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