The township is five miles square in area, consisting of the sixth township in the fourth range of the United States military district. The eastern half was congress land, which was surveyed into sections of one mile square by Alexander Holmes, in the year 1803. The western half was composed of two military sections of 4,000 acres each. In 1800 military land could be entered only in tracts of 4,000 acres, and it sometimes occurred that a number of persons, each holding an insufficient number of warrants to enter a whole section, would unite their several claims for this purpose, afterward dividing the section among themselves, in proportion to the amount of each one's warrants. Thus it was with both of these sections. The northern one, constituting the northwest quarter of the township, was entered by a company of ten individuals as follows: Jesse and Abijah Hunt, of Hamilton county, holding warrants for 1,500 acres; Ephraim True,of Washingtonn County with warrants for 600 hundred acres; James Percival, of Connecticut, for 500; Lewis Morris, of Charleston, South Carolina, for 400; Joseph Love-land, of Fairfield county, for 300; Joseph Lockland, for 300, and four others, Henry Ross, of Washington county; John Buel, major in the army; Stephen Smith and Christopher Hamel, for 100 acres each. The section was located and surveyed for the company by John Matthews, he receiving in compensation for his services the one-tenth part, or 400 acres. The other section, forming the southwest quarter of the township, was located for a company of Marylanders, of whom Rezin Davis and O. H. Williams were . the most extensive shareholders, the two owning more than the one-half of the section. S. Herbert, Jacob S. Towson, Richard Pindall, W. VanLear and P. Thomas had lesser amounts. The land in these two sections was not placed in the market for many years, and, as the owners were non-res-