A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . court of7-ecord in IfMO, but little is accuralely known. No ncwsjiapcrs existedto chronicle their ami Soh)moiiic decisions; Iheir dockets, ifthey kept any, which is very doubtful, have crumbled into dust, andthe memory of living man goetii not back to that remote date. 494 1800-02 BENCH AM) JJAli 495 James Kingsbury To James Kiiifrslniry may proinM-ly ho assifjiunl tho honor of tliotirst .iusticeshii) of the sectioii of Ohio wliii-li now iiicliuhs lie was duly eoinmissioned o
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . court of7-ecord in IfMO, but little is accuralely known. No ncwsjiapcrs existedto chronicle their ami Soh)moiiic decisions; Iheir dockets, ifthey kept any, which is very doubtful, have crumbled into dust, andthe memory of living man goetii not back to that remote date. 494 1800-02 BENCH AM) JJAli 495 James Kingsbury To James Kiiifrslniry may proinM-ly ho assifjiunl tho honor of tliotirst .iusticeshii) of the sectioii of Ohio wliii-li now iiicliuhs lie was duly eoinmissioned or not, it is imi)ossible to 1800 everything rolatinjr to the little eolony on the Cuyahogawas in a ehaotie state. Out of this, by the persistent efforts of thesturdy pioneers, finally came order and then law. There was butlittle need of legal coercion durinp: the Kingsbury ei-a, but whateverlaw was administered was laid down by him, we may be assured,with a strict sense of justice, lie ajijicars to have been, in manyrespects, a remarkable man. lie had come from Conncaiit to Cicvc-. Tkesent Coumy Colktuouse land with his family at the close of the century, June 11, 1797, pre-ceding Major Lorenzo Carter, and at once took rank as a leader inthe little group of pioneers. He was of the stuli that pioneers shouldbe made—hardy, persevering and of indomitable courage. At Con-neaut he had traveled many miles on foot through deep snows to pro-cure food for his starving family*; in Cleveland he encountered hard-ships scarcely less discouraging. But he outlived them all, and formany years was one of the most active factors in civilizing the 1802, a-s Ohio emerged from her territorial condition into thedignity of a state, and took upon her .sovereign shoulders the mantleof a constitution, the good people of Cleveland )lcd at JamesKingsburys house, which appears to have been a general place ofmeeting, and on Apiil 5th organized a township form of govern-ment. Pion
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