160 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



ter the Indian war was ended, settled along the Ohio river, 

 opposite the white settlements above, opposite, and below 

 Maysville, in Kentucky, that a county was organized where 

 they had settled, and it was called Adams. This was done 

 on the 10th day of July 1797. Settlers during the same pe- 

 riod, had been crossing the Ohio, and settling on its west side, 

 opposite Wheeling and Brooke county, in Virginia, this terri- 

 tory was organized into a county, and called Jefferson county. 



This was done on the 29th day of July 1797. In the mean 

 time, the Scioto country had attracted the attention of the 

 Virginians, and they had surveyed a great deal of their milita- 

 ry lands, between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers. Gene- 

 ral Nathaniel Massie, acting as the deputy of Colonel Rich- 

 ard Anderson, the Surveyor General of this tract, was busily 

 engaged in surveying and locating military warrants, during 

 the very time of the Indian war, and immediately afterwards- 

 In 1796 General Massie, assisted by Duncan McArthur (late 

 governor of the state, and a general in the army of the Unit- 

 ed States) laid out a town in a dense forest on the west side 

 of the Scioto river, and called it Chillicothe. The territo- 

 rial Government organized a county on the Scioto, and called 

 it Ross. This act passed on the 20th day of August 1798, 

 and it made Chillicothe its seat of justice. 



By this time many settlers had come into the state in many 

 parts of it. In 1796 New Connecticut began to be settled. 

 As early as 1796, a settlement was made at the mouth of 

 Coneaut creek. Cleveland was laid out — the lands began to 

 be surveyed in New Connecticut. The whole of that region 

 was organized into a county, and called Trumbull. This act 

 passed on the 6th day of December 1800. The Hocking 

 country had been settling for some time, and on the 9th of 

 December, Fairfield county was organized, and Lancaster was 

 made its seat of justice. So dense and extensive had the pop-> 

 ulation become, opposite Wheeling and Wellsburgh, in Vir- 

 ginia, that Jefferson county was divided, and the county of 

 Belmont (it should be Beaumont) was organized and St Clairs- 



