A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . rson as inspector of revenue for the port of Cuyahogaand, in 1806, Governor Tiffin made .iudge of the court 1805] END OF THE FIRST DECADE 71 of coniinnii picas for a term of seven years if he shall so long be-have well. Thus Judge Walworths little office housed the localauthority of the city, the county, and the nation; it soon accommodatedalso the solitary attorney and the only physician in tlie place. In this last year of Clevehinds first decade, Samuel Dodge, whohad married a daughte
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . rson as inspector of revenue for the port of Cuyahogaand, in 1806, Governor Tiffin made .iudge of the court 1805] END OF THE FIRST DECADE 71 of coniinnii picas for a term of seven years if he shall so long be-have well. Thus Judge Walworths little office housed the localauthority of the city, the county, and the nation; it soon accommodatedalso the solitary attorney and the only physician in tlie place. In this last year of Clevehinds first decade, Samuel Dodge, whohad married a daughter of Timothy Doan, Iniilt his log cabin onEuclid Road and was named by the trustees as a . Kingsbury put up the frame of a house that was finished inthe following year, the luml)er being sawed in a mill newly builtfor him and the brick for the chimney being made on his own land;part of the upper story was finished off in a large room in whichdances were held, and also Masonic communications, the Judge beinga zealous member of the mystic order. In the same year, David. Judge KiNGSBURis House Clark died, the eleven-year-old son of ^lajor Carter was drowned atthe mouth of the river, and the schooner Washington cleared atthe port and sailed into the lake, the last that was ever heard ofship, cargo or crew. By this time, the unorganized settlement atthe mouth of the Cuyahoga, although numericallj- smaller than New-burg, was becoming a place large enough to be recognized by theworld at large. Its further growth being assured, it will not benecessarj to follow it with the minuteness of detail that has beengiven to the first germinations of the seed planted by General Cleave-land ten years before. Beginning of Cleveland s Second Decade A letter written in 1860 by John Harmon of Ravenna gives someinteresting glimpses of Cleveland at the beginning of its second dec-ade. ? He says: I first visited Cleaveland, that part now called 72 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap.
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