Solomon MCCOLLOCH

                   Early Ohio
Solomon was in the Legislature also, and served as County Commissioner when his compensation was only three dollars per year.

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   Ohio County, Virginia formed from District of West Augusta and Yohogania County. Now part of West Virginia. [Virginia Counties: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation, by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson, originally published as Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Volume 9, January, April, July 1916, reprinted 1992 by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD.]
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Ohio County VA., (now, W. VA.) was established in 1776 from the western lands of the District of West Augusta. The county derived its name from the Indian name for the river which meant "great river" in their language. The first known settlers had arrived just a few years before, in 1769, at present-day Wheeling. In 1785, upon settlement of the western boundary of Pennsylvania, the remainder of Yohogania County not ceded to Pennsylvania were added to Ohio County. Brooke County was formed from Ohio in 1797 and Tyler was established in 1814. With the creation of Marshall County in 1836, further cessions from Ohio County came to an end.

Solomon's occupation is reported as a surveyor.
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1840 US Census- White Co., Indiana
       Shows Solomon with 2 children, one male 15-20, and one male 20-30).
1830 US Census- Jefferson Twp., Logan Co., Ohio (next to Zanesville)
      Shows Solomon with 4 children
1820 US Census- Jefferson Twp., Logan Co., Ohio
      Shows Solomon and Jemima with 9 children

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Tree #2400, Date of Import: 27 Jul 2000]According to "Draper Manuscript Collection," Entry 82: "Solomon McColloch first at Wheeling, then lived Zanesville region and finally located in Logan County. Moved to White Co., IND and died there in Oct 1843, aged 66 years. Did not serve ____(an undecipherable word) in War of 1812-1815. Several children
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Ohio Census, 1790-1890  about Solomon Mc Collock

Name:	Solomon Mc Collock
State:	OH
County:	Champaign County
Township:	No Township Listed
Year:	           1806
Record Type:	Tax list
Page:	001
Database:	OH Early Census Index

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Ohio Census, 1790-1890  about Solomon Mc Collock
Name:	Solomon Mc Collock
State:	OH
County:	Champaign County
Township:	No Township Listed
Year:	1807
Record Type:	Tax list
Page:	001
Database:	OH Early Census Index


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1803- Came to Logan County, Ohio with two of his brothers. Samuel and Captain William.
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	been previously located and surveyed. This produced great confusion in the surveys, and often in the titles, and frequent litigation which greatly enhanced the business of the lawyers and of the courts. These individual land warrants were, however, mostly bought up by speculators and land-jobbers, at a merely nominal price--if at any price at all---so that many could estimate their lands by tens of thousands, and some by hundreds of thousands of acres. The first courts of common pleas of Logan county were held in 1818, in the town of Bellville, a small village of five or six houses a mile and a half directly south of the public square in Bellefontaine. The common pleas courts of those days were composed of three Associate Judges elected by the people of each county, and one Presiding Judge for a district composed of several counties. The first associate judges of this county were James McIlvain, Levi Garwood and John Shelby, and the first presiding Judge was Orris Parish of Columbus.  James Cooly, Esq., of Urbana, was appointed Prosecuting Attorney, Nicholas Pickerell Sheriff, and Samuel Newell, Clerk pro. tem. The first County Commissioners were Robert Smith, Solomon McColloch and William McBeth; they met at Bellville, April 14, 1818; on the 23d they appointed Martin Marmon, County Treasurer, and on the 26th Thomas Thompson, County Recorder. The fees of County Treasurer for 1819, amounted to the sum of $20.80.  The committee appointed to examine and establish a site for the location of the county-seat of Logan county, agreed in 1818 to locate it on Mad river about two miles below Zanesfield, on Solomon McColloch's farm and some adjoining lands, but upon examination some doubts arose as to the validity of the title to said land much, prejudice existing at that time against the Virginia Military Land titles, in consequence of the frequent litigation which had grown out of them. Consequently in 1819 that location was set aside, and the location permanently fixed on the lands of John Tullis, William Powell and Leonard Houtz, on what was called Congress land. On December 28, 1819, this action was reported to and approved by the court, and Solomon McColloch appointed Director of the town of Bellefontaine, the name of the new county-seat.  The proprietors of the land agreed to donate to the county every alternate lot in the town, and also a block of the size of four lots "for building a court-house upon, and one of the same size in the north-east corner of the town, the north half of which was to be
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No mention is made in the court journal quoted of the name of the new county seat, but in the year following the title Bellefontaine appears an accepted thing. It is well understood now that the name was selected not in reference or compliment to any other town or family of that name, but as descriptive of the crystal springs in which the locality abounded, and possibly in special reference to Blue jacket spring, the site being that of Chief Blue Jacket's former residence. Further on in the proposition of Messrs. Tullis, Houtz and Powell, the southern boundary of the town was fixed (page 186) as "a line running due east and west," and so located as to include "the big spring." The long misprized gift to the town was at the foot of the slope, south of the old Blue jacket cabin in which (with some improvement, doubtless,) John Tullis, sr., then made his habitation. The word "Bellefontaine," meaning "beautiful fountain," was suggested by a daughter of John Gunn, who, it will be remembered, is said to have been a man of scholarly attainments, and whose daughters were also unusually accomplished ladies. The town was laid out March 18, 1820, by the proprietors and the town director, Solomon McColloch, duly appointed and authorized by the court. Based upon the southern boundary line, the plat was divided into sixteen blocks, standing "four square" with the world-or so it was honestly intended by the early surveyors. Cincinnati (now Main) and Columbus avenues intersected at the center, the public square lying at the southeast angle of the intersection. Chillicothe and Sandusky avenues extended east and west to south and north of Columbus, and Mad River and Detroit streets ran north and south to the east and west of Cincinnati street. The outer edges were simply designated "corporation limits" and only thirty feet was allowed each for roadway. The lots averaged fifty-five feet in width, by two hundred and twenty feet in depth. The cemetery was located in the northwest corner of the plat, and many years later, after the removal to the new city of the dead, the plot was transformed into a pretty little park (Powell), in which a memorial boulder and bronze tablet was placed a few years ago by Miss Mary Powell, in honor of her grandfather, William Powell. Needless to say, the whole plat lay almost unimproved, and mostly lost in a thicket of trees and underbrush, through which the projected streets had yet to be hewn. The Blue jacket cabin, in which lived the senior Tullis, was the only structure within the limits of the plat. The whole was done as written down. The town director was ordered by the court to attend public sales, and authorized to make private sales at his own discretion if he believed the county should profit thereby, and in particular authorized to sell to William Powell, "Lot 114, on which some improvement is made." In the mammoth game of "tit-tat-toe" between the county and the proprietors (scarcely as smile-provoking to the participants as it seems today), the county had taken all the lots with "even numbers." These lots were offered at public sales, the first of which was held the first Tuesday in June, 1820. The plat was fled for record August 12, 1822. Solomon McColloch held his responsible office, for which he gave bond in the sum of $10,000, until 1831, at which time a further entry in the court journal reads : "Solomon McColloch comes into court and tenders this resignation of the office of town director, which resignation is accepted by the court who thereupon appointed Benjamin S. Brown his successor, with Henry H. McPherson, David P. Alder, and Anthony Casad for his sureties. Dr. Benjamin S. Brown was still acting in the capacity as late as 1841, and doubtless continued to act until the county's properties. were finally disposed of.

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THE PIONEER LANDLORDS OF 1829-34
The first lands entered in Prairie Township, generally with the intention of establishing homes upon them, were in sections 3, 5, 17, 20, 22, 26, 29, 31, 33 and 34. With the exception of the tract entered in section 33, all of the lands filed upon previous to the organization of the township in 1834 were not located west of the present site of Brookston. The following are the names of these pioneer landlords, most of whom became settlers: in 1829--Jesse L. Watson, 80 acres in section 3; William Phillips and Jesse Johnson, each 80 acres in section 26; William Kennedy, 80 acres in section 34; and Robert Barr, 80 acres in section 36.
1830--Bazil Clevenger, 80 acres in section 33; Charles Wright, 80 acres in section 22; Frederick Smith, 146 acres in section 31; Christian Church, 80 acres in section 32; John Graham, 80 acres in section 5; Samuel Alkire, 80 acres in same section.
1831--Robert Harvey, 80 acres in section 31.
1832--Solomon McCollach, 78 acres in section 29; William Gay, 160 acres in section 29; James Gay, 40 acres in section 32; William Gay, 40 acres in section 31; William Gay, Jr., 40 acres in section 31.

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FIRST VOTERS AND OFFICIALS
At the first meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, held July 19, 1834, the civil organization of Prairie Township was furthered by their order that all elections during the first year should be held at the house of William Woods. Solomon McColloch was at the same time appointed inspector of elections; Samuel Smelcer, supervisor of roads; William Walter, overseer of the poor; and Samuel Alkire and William Phillips, fence viewers.
The first election, as provided for by the board, was held at Mr. Woods' house on the 6th of April, 1835, under the direction of Mr. McColloch. The following men voted and it is safe to say that the list comprised most of the landholders and citizens in the township: Charles Wright and Thomas C. Smith (judges), John Barr and William Gay (clerks), Solomon McColloch, George Brown, William Gay, Jr., Daniel Brown, Ezekiel W. Brown, William Woods, William Watson, William Sill, James Gay and Henry Smelcer. Mr. Woods was elected justice of the peace; Daniel Brown, constable; William Gay, inspector of elections; Solomon McColloch and John Barr received fourteen votes each for supervisor of roads; William Gay and William Phillips, fourteen votes each for overseers of the poor; and William Smelcer and John E. Metcalf, thirteen votes each for fence viewers.
The following cast their ballots at the house of William Woods in August, 1835: Royal Hazelton, John Barr, John Young, John Barr, Jr., Simon Hornbeck, Oliver Hammond, James Barr, Robert Barr, William Woods, Benjamin Newell, John Blair, Elisha Bowles, Joseph Bostick, Solomon McColloch, Willis Pherly, James Gay, John Price, William Gay, James Kent, John Gay, James C. Moore, Simeon Smith, John E. Metcalf, Joseph Sayre, Thomas Sutton and Samuel Smelcer.