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Surnames: Palmer/Palmore/Morgan
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When these settlers arrived from South Carolina the Northwest Territory was sparsely
settled. In 1810 there were no more than 300 persons in all of what is now Daviess County
(per Goodspeed's page 620). Five forts were built in 1812. Comer's Fort was built
on Daniel Comer's farm not far from the cabin occupied by Hezekiah and Nancy Ragsdale,
in the forks of White River in Hawkins Twp., Knox County, Indiana.
Goodspeed's History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana, 1886
Occupants of the Forts:
Comer's Fort - Friend Spears, James and Thomas Aikman, Ebenezer Jones, Alexander
Stevens, Chris. Gregory, John Stringer, William White, John Wallace, the widow Wallace and
two sons, the widow Ellis, Vance Jones, Ephraim Thompson, E. RAGSDALE, Thrice Stafford,
and Alexander Stephenson. There were a large number of young men in this fort, among them
Wiley R. Jones, Jesse Hallem, William Phillips, John and James Stafford, Samuel Aikman,
John and Josiah Wallace; John, David, and William Ellis; Colman Morgan and Wesley Wallace;
John RAGSDALE and John Thompson.
Ballow's Fort - John, Thomas and William Horrall, Jeremiah Lucas, Charles Sinks,
Richard Steen, Thomas Scales and Nathan Davis. Young men and boys: George Mason and
Fleming Ballow; John, James and Samuel Steen, and Salem Sinks. These names comprise a list
of nearly, if not quite all the male inhabitants of Daviess County, at the breaking out of
troubles with the Indians.
Land records prior to 1814:
William HORRALL, October 10, 1808, southwest quarter of Section 9, Township 2, Range 7
Thomas HORRALL, October 13, 1808, southeast quarter of Section 9, Township 2, Range 7
Daniel COMER, May 16, 1808, southeast quarter of Section 4, Township 2, Range 7
Hezekiah RAGSDALE, April 29, 1808, northwest quarter of Section 4, Township 2, Range 7
These tracts of land were all located in what later became Washington Township.