History of Hopewell Township
,A·N Ac-c-aUNT OF I~t ftltbratiou of ~Ultricau ~ubtptubtuct. AT CLAY LICK, BY THE LICKIN~ COUNTY PIONEERS. TOGETHER WITH AN ADDRESS, BY DR. COULTER, ON EARLY TIMES IN THE CLAY LICK SETTLEMENTS. ALSO, HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE TOWNSHIPS OF LI,CKING,BOWLING GREEN, FRANKLIN AND HOPEWELL, &c. BY ISAAC SMUCKER. ,. ~ .. NEWARK, OHIO: CL4RK 8& KING, BOOK AND JOB PRIN'f.f:RS, A~E~ICAN OFFICE. 1869, NOTE.-Acknowledgements are due to the following persons for information furnished and used, in the preparation of the "PIONEER P .HERS," which are here presented in pamphlet form: Richard Green. Rev. Benjamin Green, Mr. Charles Wallace, Mr. Kel'an, Rev. S. Meredith, Mr. Schofield, Jesse R. Moore, Esq., Rev. J. L. Gilbreath, the Messrs. Siglar, Mrs. Motherspaw, John Bixler, EsQ.., Stephen R. Tuck er, Esq., Wm. Parr, Esq., Solomon Myers, Samuel B. HulJ, Joseph Hamil ton, Esq., John F. Bane, Esq., J. S. Griffith, Mr. Fluke. Geo. Gutridge, Esq., B. D. Sanford, Esq., James Pitzer, Esq., and others. The Pioneers of Licking and Independence Day. BASKET MEETING AT CLAY LICK. The meeting of the Pioneers of George Wilson, who has resided in Licking on Clay Lick, in Franklin the State of Illinois for the past 27 township, on Monday last, July 5th, years, I received the following ac was a glorious occasion. They met count of what he thinks was the in large numbers in the pleasant first celebra.tion of the 4th of July in grove, at Ellis Chapel, near the fine this county. He was of sufficient spring at the foot of the hill, where age at the time to recollect many of platform anu seats had been erected, !he particulars.
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