1 30 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



other justices of the peace, viz: Archibald Gary, Isaac Pierce^ 

 and Thomas Lord, Esquires, giving them power to hold the court 

 of Quarter Sessions. They were in fact, judges of a court of 

 common pleas. Return Jonathan Meigs, (our late governor) 

 was appointed clerk of this court of Quarter Sessions. Ebenezer 

 Sproat was appointed sheriff of the county of Washington. 

 William Callis was appointed clerk, of the supreme court, 

 Ebenezer Sproat was appointed colonel of the militia. Rufus 

 Putnam was appointed Judge of Probates, and R. J. Meigs, 

 junior, clerk of that court. 



St. Clair by his proclamation, ordered the 25th of Decem- 

 ber 1788 to be kept as a day of thanksgiving. 



On the 2d day of January 1790, St. Clair, at Fort Wash- 

 ington, now Cincinnati, organized the county of Hamilton, con- 

 taining within its limits, the western half of this state. 



He created the same offices at Cincinnati, that he had at 

 Marietta; and he filled them as follows, viz. 



William Goforth, William Wells, William McMillian, Judges 

 of the common pleas and Quarter Sessions; Jacob Topping, 

 Benjamin Stitcs, John S. Gano, justices of the peace ; John 

 Brovv-n, sheriff; Israel Ludlow, clerk of the court of common 

 pleas. Israel Ludlow, James Flinn, John S. Gano, Gershom 

 Gard, captains of the militia. Francis Kennedy, John Ferris, 

 Luke Foster, Brice Virgin, lieutenants. Scott Traverse, 

 Ephraim Kibby, Elijah Stites, John Dunlap, ensigns. 



On the 5th January 1790, a law was enacted ordaining, that 

 the courts should be held four times in the year; on the first 

 Tuesdays in February, May, August and November. 



From Fort Washington St. Clair and Winthrop Sargeant, 

 his secetary, descended the Ohio, and on the 8th day of Jan- 

 uary they were at the falls of that river, commissioning offi- 

 cers there, and proceeding as they had done, in the two coun- 

 ties of Washington and Hamilton. From Clarksville, they 

 proceeded westward, and at Cahokia, erected the county of 

 St. Clair, and created and filled all the necessary military and 

 civil offices, in that county. The dangers of those times may 

 be learned from an ordinance of the territorial government en- 



