Descendants of Leonard BARNES

Notes

2. Moses F. BARNES

William Mitchell came to Morris Township, Knox County, Ohio in 1807.  His children were:

Jacob
Nathaniel - part of the scouting party that went out during the Copus Massacre 1812.  He died in 1813 from disease contracted by exposure in Indian campaign.

Abigail m. John H. Mefford

Mary m. John Young

Hannah m. William Mefford

Naomi m. Thomas Evans

Sarah m. Cyrus Cooper (James Fenimore Cooper's nephew)

John

Silas

William

The following are excerpts from "History of Ohio" compiled and written by Beers in 1895:

June 4, 1810 John Young Jr., William Evans, Jacob Young, John Haldeman, William Mitchell, Andrew Kilpatrick, John Young Sr., James Lewis, Aaron Young, Matthew Young, Adam Hand, Calvin C. Lawrence, Ephraim Lyon, Douglass' Mill to the Young settlement.  William Gass, Henry Haines and Joseph Walker were appointed viewers and John H. Millikin surveyor.  The view was returned July 9, 1810 and approved September 1810.

Indian horse-thieves were killed by Hughes and Ratliff from the Licking Valley in Licking County.  They were overtaken and killed in the bottom just South of Fredericktown-probably in the South branch of Owl Creek. In 1801 a party of Indians stole some horses from a little enclosure near the cabins of Elias Hughes and John Ratliff, who in 1798 had located on the Bowling green about seven miles below the present city of Newark on Licking River.  Hughes and Ratliff were the first settlers of Licking county, were related, the latter being the nephew of the former, and lived near each other with their families on a beautiful natural prairie.  At the time the horses were stolen, a Mr. Bland, who lived further down at the mouth of the Licking, was a visitor at Hughes' cabin and his horse was among the number stolen.  In the morning, finding the horses gone, these three men set out in pursuit following the trail of the savages, gaining rapidly upon them and overtaking them on Owl Creek at the place mentioned.  They came upon the Indian camp at day-break, shot the indians, recovered their horses and returned unmolested.  It is said that Bland and Ratliff relented when they saw they had the Indians in their power and were in favor of taking their horses and letting the Indian theives go; but Elias Hughes was not that kind of man; he was an old indian fighter and hater and he expressed his views in such emphatic language that the others gave up to his way of thinking and the indians were killed.

When William Mefford was clearing off the ground on which to erect his house, on Mile run, he plowed up the remains of the two indians killed by these pioneers, also a rusty gun barrel, brass guard and other pieces of a gun, which had not decayed.  These relics were placed in the hands of Jacob Mitchell.  George Conkie gathered up the bones and reburied them and the house was built on the spot.  It is the old Peck place on Mile run bottom where Mrs. Acre has since lived.  (original writing 1895)

On petition of John Kerr and others, James McGibney, John Hawn Jr. and John Mefford were appointed June 1, 1818, viewers, and William Y. Farquhar, surveyor to lay out a county road from Mt. Vernon to John Kerr's mill in Pleasant Township.  The road was confirmed July 26, 1818.