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Set-Up in handeneae brick buildings, erected for that pur: 
ose, 
One latger steam vedill of thirty horse power, built of free 
stone, for the inediafictuce of flour; it has also attached to it, 
wo machines for carding fine and coarse wool. There are 
also two other carding machines ia the town, which are 
worked by horses; a brewery is now building, and will be 
in operation, in the course of the fsammer; and one or two 
rope walks are in constant operation. 
Boat building, including steam boats, is also cirri’ on to 
considerable extent in Marietta and the neighbourhood. — 
‘The county of Washington, was the first organized county 
in the North Western Territory ; it then embraced princi- 
pally or quite all the inhabited part of the territory; it is 
now reduced to nearly constitutional limits; it extends, 
a on the Muialeexam, 27 miles; and east and west, 
the Ohio o river, following the meanders thereof, 55 miles; 
it ect 448,000 acres, and is at present composed of the 
following townships, viz: Marietta, Unien, Adams, Water- 
atertown, Wesley, Barlow, Sarge Belpré, Fearing, 
Salem, Lawrence, Newport, and Gran 
The first court was held in Sapredtion 1788, by judges 
Parsons and Varnum. 
‘The settlement at Marietta, commenced the 7th April, 
1788. ‘This was the first that.was made in the county, and 
indeed in that tract of country which now constitutes the 
state of Ohio. This settlement was begun under the-direc- 
tion of the Ohio er The emigrants were New-Eng- 
landers, from the states of Massachusetts, a opt d, and 
Connecticut, forty-seven in number, and u the guidance 
and superiatendence of General Rufus nee That season 
they planted 50 acres of corn, and built a stockaded fort, or 
garrison, on the elevated plain near the Muskin, 
dians, should they prove ‘hostile. fn the summer and au- 
tumn they were joined by about twenty families; the first 
settlers, were prineipally revolutionary officers and soldiers, 
inured to fatigue, and habituated to danger. It was, I pre- 
sume, owing to these military habits, that they suffered so 
little from the attacks of the Indians, in the war which broke 
out the third year after their settlement commenced; being 
always on their guard, and going into their corn fields with 
their guns near —— and one or two of their number ele- 
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