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Author: thatzanelady
Surnames: Drake, Jenkins
Classification: queries
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Roy, are you sure she was Satah Huston and not Sarah Jenkins? could she have been married
before, ie Sarah Jenkins to a Houston and later to Enoch Drake? I may have backed up the
wrong branch on Sarah, but the letter I have distinctly calls her "AUNT SARAH
DRAKE". Perhaps she was a daughter from a previous marriage of my Benjamin Jenkins
(1755-1835) who went from Chester Co., Pa to Ohio Co., Indiana.
From "History of Dearborn & Ohio Counties," 1885.
Previous to the admission of Indiana as a State, a number of families had settled within
the present limits of the township, among whom can be recalled Jacob MYERS, who resided in
the southern part of the township, where the hamlet of Aberdeen has since been built. This
was somewhat a central point on the road between Aurora and Vevay, and he early arranged
his dwelling for one of entertainment and became the early landlord of that region of
country. Along the eastern row of sections had settled the SCRANTONs, DRAKEs, and
LAMBKINSes. From reference to the land sales treated of above, it will be seen that the
first tract of land purchased in the township, was by James CURRY and Jesse DRAKE, in
1810. (This was the northeast quarter of Section 2). Mr. Drake moved upon this land in
1810, and was among the first settlers of southern Indiana, having emigrated from
Lexington, Ky., in the year 1798, to Grant's Creek; from thence, in 1800, to a point
on the Ohio River (Randolph Towns!
hip), opposite Laughery Island. Here he built a cabin, obtaining from the island boards
enough to lay the floor and loft, which boards were remnants of a flat-boat, and were
pierced by numerous bullet holes. On removing into Cass Township, Mr. Drake for years kept
tavern.
In 1814 BENJAMIN JENKINS and family, of Welsh and Irish extraction, coming from Virginia,
located in the township. Subsequently they removed further west, and settled in Decatur
County.
He said "there were no blockhouses in Ohio County, but two were very near the present
line, one of which stood on land afterward owned by James McGUIRE (Cesar Creek Township,
Dearborn County), built about 1813. The other was on land now owned by George SANDERS, one
half mile south of Aberdeen, built in 1814 by Capt. Charles CAMBELL's company of
rangers, the former by McGUIRE's company.
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diane
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