A long-time goal of my research got fulfilled yesterday. I now have the most definitive proof to date that my family first set foot in Ohio before Ohio was a state.
Ohio became a state in 1803 and some circumstantial evidence pointed to my fourth great grandfather coming to the territory in 1798 or 1799.
I was stuck though.
So, I made a trip. I had to do it in person. No online, digital search had produced the results.
With the Northwest Territory Census of 1802 in hand at the library in Georgetown, Ohio, I found James McConnell along with his brother, Thomas, and brother-in-law Amos Ellis among the 154 males in Pleasant Township, Clermont County, Ohio.
Done.
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