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138177 Catholic Record Barquilla de la Santa Maria BULLETIN of the Catholic Record Society- Diocese of Columbus Volume XXXI, No. 2 February 11: Benedict Flaget February, A.D. 2006 First Visit of a Bishop to Ohio: 1811 by Donald M. Schlegel Forlorn Sheep the town of Middletown, so named because it was At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Fink midway between Zanesville and Lancaster on the and Dittoe families were members of the Catholic trace. It later was renamed Somerset. The initial plat community centered at Conewago Chapel, in of lots 1 through 64, along Main Street, was signed southeastern Adams County, Pennsylvania. The by them on February 22, 1810. The fi rst of Fink’s sisters Mary and Catherine Sneeringer had married, lots was sold that July 4. The town took hold, began respectively, John Fink and Jacob Dittoe and all to grow, and in December Fink platted an additional three families had other kin in the congregation.1 series of lots.4 Our interest lies in their migration to and early years Jacob Dittoe, who was a farmer, wood worker, in Ohio, so we will note here only their last records carpenter, and wagon maker, brought his family in the keystone state: to Ohio in late 1803 or early 1804, for on June 4 - on April 28, 1803 Sarah Fink, daughter of John and of the latter year he “entered” the land on which Mary, was baptized at Conewago Chapel; St. Joseph Church would be built, along with the - on August 7, 1803 Sally Dittoe, daughter of Jacob northwest quarter of Section 20, on the trace west and Catherine, was baptized at Conewago Chapel; of what would become the town of Somerset, and - on April 9, 1804 John Fink and Anna Maria many other tracts. He was somewhat of a speculator, Schniringer were sponsors at the baptism of a placing some money down on each property and daughter of Peter Gauker at Conewago Chapel. hoping to pay the government for the land over the The Finks must have left Conewago shortly after allowed term of years. that 1804 baptism, for according to family traditions The family settled in Lancaster for a number of John Fink worked on the widening of Zane’s Trace, years. On January 5, 1805 Dittoe wrote from that the post road from Wheeling, Virgina to Limestone town to Bishop John Carroll in Baltimore regarding or Maysville, Kentucky, in 1804.2 The Finks settled the establishment of a church. He encouraged the in the Somerset vicinity in 1805. There was no bishop to obtain land near the present Rushville.5 Catholic church or priest stationed in Ohio at that Early in 1806 Dittoe bought lot 15 (in the 7th time. square) of Lancaster.6 However, fi nding the town The next April 5 (1806) John obtained a patent unhealthy, Jacob decided to move east, up the for the northwest quarter of Section 10, Reading trace. It was on November 15, 1807 that he bought Township, where he built his humble log cabin.3 The the northern portion of the east half of Section homestead was the present school site, on the north 19 in Reading Township from Jeremiah Conway side of Main Street, at the east end of town. There and Jacob Kufman.7 This tract, on the north side John opened an inn to cater to the wagoners and other of the trace (now Stagecoach Road), at that time travelers on the trace. In the winter of 1809/1810 was covered in white oak, beech, sugar, hickory, John Fink and Jacob Miller had a surveyor lay out and dogwood. A short time later it would become 9 their home. According to Robert J. J. Harkins of was that Fenwick got lost in trying to find them in Zanesville (husband of a granddaughter of Jacob the woods near the trace, finally locating their cabin Dittoe), Jacob and his sons began building a cabin by the sound of an axe. of about sixteen by twenty feet on the homestead in With the encouraging prospects of visits by a the northeast quarter of Section 19 this year.8 priest, on August 19, 1809 Jacob Dittoe, with the help By February 1, 1808 the Dittoes had moved east of kinsmen and former neighbors in Pennsylvania, along the trace. On that date Jacob wrote a letter to completed paying for the farm that was to become Bishop Carroll from Lancaster regarding payment the site of St. Joseph church and priory. But there is for the church land and requesting a priest. He no evidence that Fenwick visited that year. said that they then were living fourteen miles from During the first half of 1810, Fenwick was Lancaster, which would place them somewhere instructed to go to New York to welcome his friend just east of Rushville. Dittoe owned some land in Father Richard Concanon to America as first Bishop that area and there were other Catholics, notably of New York. He went in the summer and, while William Wiseman, in the vicinity. Later that year the ministering in Albany about October, fell sick and Dittoe family moved to their new homestead, the almost died. He was in New York City on November cabin they had completed on Section 19, where they 16.14 He visited Maryland and then returned to operated a tavern.9 Kentucky in 1811, as will be related below.15 Dittoe’s letters, as well as his activities in It seems clear that after 1808 Dittoe corresponded obtaining property for a church, make clear that primarily with Father Fenwick instead of with he and his kinsfolk were extremely anxious for the Bishop Carroll, but all such correspondence has been establishment of a church and the residence there of lost. Then on August 19, 1810 Jacob Dittoe wrote to a priest to bring them the Mass and the Sacraments. Bishop Carroll from Lancaster, “We have understood from Mr. Finnic that there was a bishop going on Visit of Fenwick in 1808 to Kentucky... There are some young Catholicks in It was in July of 1806 that Father Edward Fenwick this place that do wish to join in marriage, that are went to Kentucky for the first time and took up waiting upon the head of his coming, as it is a point residence, establishing the Dominican Fathers there. of some importance. And should he not come, we The date of his first visit to the Somerset Catholics was will thank you to write to us, whether they will be carefully researched by V. Rev. Victor F. O’Daniel, allowed to be joined together by an Esquire who is O.P., for his full-length biography of Fenwick.10 The also a Roman Catholick, or not.” From this one can best evidence is provided by a circular letter written infer that Fenwick had not visited Ohio since 1808, to Italy (and similar ones to Spain and England) and probably was not expected to be there this year. by Fenwick in 1823, according to which he went to Ohio for the first time in 1808. On this occasion he discovered three German Catholic families, 20 The Bishop of Bardstown Journeys West, 1811 persons.11 Benedict Joseph Flaget, who was born, educated, Fenwick in fact made two trips from Kentucky and ordained a Sulpician priest in France, came to to the East in 1808. Just prior to June 23 he was America in 1792. Bishop Carroll sent him at once in Baltimore.12 By July 10 he was in Lexington, to tend the Catholic settlers and Miami Indians Ky. when he wrote to Doctor Concanen. Then, at Vincennes, Indiana. In recommending him to on October 7, Father Badin wrote a letter from the people there, Carroll noted his zeal, piety, and Kentucky to Bishop Carroll, in which he mentioned manners full of sweetness and charity. Father Flaget that Fenwick then was in Maryland or on his way remained there until called back to Baltimore in 1795 there.13 to teach at the seminary. In April, 1808 Pope Pius As mentioned above, on the first of February VII appointed him first Bishop of Bardstown, a new Jacob Dittoe had written to Bishop Carroll. The diocese including all of Kentucky and Tennessee bishop, it is thought, mentioned Dittoe’s requests for and having attached to it the territory northwest of the visit of a priest to Fenwick in June and Fenwick the Ohio River. After a journey to France, where he sought out the forlorn sheep on his second journey found that his religious superior insisted he accept of the year to the East, about the end of September. the episcopal duties, he returned to Baltimore, to After writing to Bishop Carroll, the Dittoe family be consecrated on November 4, 1810. However, he had moved farther east to the new cabin, and so it had not a cent to his name. He could not undertake 10 the journey to his new diocese until his friends in Baltimore collected some funds for him. The Bishop and his party fi nally left Baltimore for the West in May, 1811. They traveled over the mountains to Pittsburgh, whence they embarked on May 22 in a fl at-boat chartered especially for the purpose. They were thirteen days in descending the Ohio river to Louisville, where they arrived on the 4th of June. On Saturday, May 11, 1811, Bishop Flaget and his companions left Baltimore, going north towards Gettysburg via a turnpike, loaded down with books for a seminary for the new diocese. In the party were the Bishop, Father John B.
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