Athens County

Newspaper Abstract -1827

 

The Transcription to the right discusses a subscription payment for the Athens County Courthouse.  Below is an excerpt from the History of Athens County 1869 which further explains what this subscription payment referred to.

History of Athens County by Charles Walker, 1869,  states that the following persons gave a subscription totaling 500.00 which they paid to Henry Bartlett (of the county treasury) for the building of the Athens county courthouse  with agreement that they would not receive interest on the subscription but would gain access to the courthouse for use of their religious meetings for eight years from 1816 until 1826 and at that time their subscription would be refunded to them.

These subscribers were: Josiah Coe, Cephas Carpenter, Mary Ann Ackley, Lydia Ackley, James Gillmore, Jacob Dumbaugh, John Johnstone, Enos Thompson, David Pratt, Daniel Stewart, Joseph B. Miles, Henry Bartlett, Robert Linzee, Charles Shipman, Ebenezer Currier, Eliphaz Perkins, Chauncey F. Perkins, Alvan Bingham, Amos Crippen, John Porter, James J. Fuller, James Session, Silas Bingham, John White, Abel Stedman, Eliphaz Perkins Jr.,  S. S. Johnstone, John Havner, Thomas Armstrong, Seth Child, Asahel Cooley, Thomas McClelland and Arthur Coates. (History of Athens County, 1869 page 241)

Of these subscribers, Alvan Bingham, Arthur Coates, and Dr. Eliphaz Perkins were of the original nine members of the First Presbyterian Church of Athens established in 1809. (History of Athens County, 1869 page 222)

 

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Expenditures, Athens County, Ohio

This list of expenditures was found in the “Athens Mirror” dated June 21st, 1827

Extracted from Microfilm housed at Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Athens County, Ohio

Transcription:

Julie Lynn North

This is a partial extraction, as original paper was wrinkled and torn making full transcription not possible.

Paid:

Associate Judges $10.00
Grand Jurors $62.00
Constables; for attending C. C. Pleas, returning list for Jurors, & c. (C. C. = Court of Common ?) $41.90

Witnesses

 $50.00
Jailor for boarding sundry prisoners, & c. $38.50
Clerk of Com. Pleas his yearly salary, Office rent, Stationary, etc. $123.50
Sheriff, his yearly salary, summoning Grand Jurors, serving Trustees with notice, furnishing Court with chairs, etc. $158.46
(Illegible to me) $93.50

Justice

 $18.75
To support Lunatics $171.00
Prosecuting Attorneys $97.50
Petit Jurors $8.00
Surveyor and viewers of Roads $221.00
Wareham Gibbs, assessor for 1827 $126.98

County Commissioners

 $111.25
Recorder, for blank record $14.00

Printer

 $6.00
John Brown, 2d, Auditor, his salary, Office rent, & c. up to the 1st of March, 1827 $212.00
To redeem certificates given in 1816 for subscription for building of the courthouse (Left) $110.00
To finish Court house $21.31
County Treasurer, his fees $85.00
Shipman and Stewart, overcharge on store licenses $12.52
Bounty on wolf scalps $11.00
John M’Gill for putting roof on Jail; furnishing materials, etc $73.10

Miscellaneous accounts

 $25.00