ORGANIZATtON. I7t 



ties, viz: Gallia, Scioto, Geauga, Butler, Warren, Greene and 

 Montgomery. 



Those parts of the state had suffered much for want of an 

 organization into counties. St. Clair had uniformly refused to 

 have these counties erected, and he had the power to pre- 

 vent it. 



Next year, 1804, Muskingum and Highland counties were 

 organized. These new counties, show where the country had 

 been filling up with people. Every thing; moved forward as 

 well as could be expected, considering our remote situation 

 from the older states. Mills, though poor ones, were erected, 

 bridges were built, roads were cut out, though not worked on 

 much as yet. 



Some general remarks seem necessary here, on the man- 

 iierSj and situation of the people of that time. The presi- 

 dent judge and the lawyers traveled their circuits, holding 

 courts. When arrived at the shiretown, the lawyers and judges 

 Were all, generally, thrown together, into one room, in a log 

 tavern, and slept under the roof, and some of them very near 

 it. The food was generally, cooked out of doors. And the 

 court house not unfrequently was some log cabin in the woods, 

 without a floor in it. 



We have seen a constable with a grand jury, sitting under a 

 tree, arid the constable keeping off the crowd, so as to prevent 

 their hearing the testimony of witnesses before the jury. 

 Another constable was guarding a petit jury under some oth- 

 er treC) while they were deliberating on their verdict. And 

 when a new county was organized, the newly elected officers^ 

 such as sheriff, clerk, judges, juries, &c., had to be instructed 

 in their duties by the president judge and the state's attorney; 

 These things are all in our recollection, fresh and distinctly 

 fcmembered. The people were quite uncouth in their aspect, 

 but not so unhappy as one would suppose. The greatest diffi- 

 culty which the people had to contend with, was sickness, in 

 many parts of the country. The farmer kept many dogs to 

 guard his sheep, hogs, fowls and himself. His fences were 

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