Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana . ther and Samuel Miller com-menced building a mill on Deep river. After narrating many interestingrecollections of his childhood in Lake county he at length says that hisfather .sold out, in the spring of 1838, his possessions in Lake county toSamuel Miller of Michigan City, for one thousand dollars, and that fivehundred dollars was paid in gold. So Miller must have had some further adds that Miller failed a short time afterwards. In June of1838 the Crooks family left Lake county. RuFUS Hill, an early resident in Pleasant
Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana . ther and Samuel Miller com-menced building a mill on Deep river. After narrating many interestingrecollections of his childhood in Lake county he at length says that hisfather .sold out, in the spring of 1838, his possessions in Lake county toSamuel Miller of Michigan City, for one thousand dollars, and that fivehundred dollars was paid in gold. So Miller must have had some further adds that Miller failed a short time afterwards. In June of1838 the Crooks family left Lake county. RuFUS Hill, an early resident in Pleasant Grove, perhaps as early as 1839, is noted for having one of the ^?ery largest families in the county. Credible authority gives the number of his children to be twenty-two. These were not all the children of one woman. The names of six of his older sons were Welcome, William, John, Charles, INIartin, and Richard. There were six daughters of corresponding age, and then younger sons and daughters that made up the number. He lived to be over eighty years of JOSEPH A. LITTLE HISTORY OF LAKE COUNTY. 121 New Hampshire Settlement. Joseph A. Little, son of Captain Thomas Little, was the seventh indescent from George Little who came from London to Newbury, Massa-chusetts, in 1640. The given names of his ancestors were, George, Moses,Tristam, Enoch, Jesse, Thomas. The names of sixty-five hundred descend-ants of George Little have been collected. The family of Thomas Little came into the then open and wild andbeautiful center of Lake Prairie, and with the Gerrish, Ames, Peach, Plumer,and Morey families, formed wliat was known as the New Hampshire Settle-ment. The Wason family was soon added to the number. Joseph A. Little was torn in Merrimack county. New Hampshire. May24, 1830. In 1859 he was married to Miss Mary Gerrish. He became a suc-cessful farmer and large wool-grower, keeping large flocks of fine wool represented Lake county in the Indiana Legislature in 1886 and 18
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