. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. as made October 21, 1829, by Owen Russell, grandfather ofIsaiah Russell, grocer, now of Muncie. Mr. Russell, comingto Hamilton at that time, found a settler on the land he en-tered by the name of Boggs, and traded him a yoke of oxenfor the improvements he had made before going to the landoffice and proving his title, but we have no way of ascertain-ing when Mr. Boggs came to the township. The land he set-tled on was the southeast quarter of section 26, now owned byMilton Hamilton. The northwest corner of this quarter iscrossed by the
. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. as made October 21, 1829, by Owen Russell, grandfather ofIsaiah Russell, grocer, now of Muncie. Mr. Russell, comingto Hamilton at that time, found a settler on the land he en-tered by the name of Boggs, and traded him a yoke of oxenfor the improvements he had made before going to the landoffice and proving his title, but we have no way of ascertain-ing when Mr. Boggs came to the township. The land he set-tled on was the southeast quarter of section 26, now owned byMilton Hamilton. The northwest corner of this quarter iscrossed by the Muncie and Granville pike, about three milesout from Muncie. Prairie creek crosses this (southeast) cor-ner of the towdship, draining sections 24, 25 and 26. Kil-buck also has its source in section 24, running entirely acrossthe township in a north of west course. Mud creek alsocrosses the township almost parallel with Kilbuck, with whichit forms a junction near the west line of the township. Jakescreek drains the southwest portion and Pikes creek has its. HAMILTON TOWNSHIP. 91 headquarters in the northern part of the township. Everyone of the thirty sections of land in Hamilton township isdrained by some of these several creeks or their tributaries. Hamilton township seems to have settled up rather slow-ly at first, as after Mr. Russell entered his land in section 26it was almost a year until there was any other entries recorded,and then but two. This was on October 2, 1830, when AdamShafer entered land in section 22 and Peter Williamson insection 25. These two pioneers were brothers-in-law, of thehardy, honest and industrious type, the kind of men who havemade Delaware county to stand in the front rank among thecounties of the Union. These two lived to raise large, re-spected families of children, and to enjoy the fruits of theirearly labor for many years, and their children and grand-children still own and occupy the early home of their honoredparents. In 1S31 there was onl
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