from the mouth of Shade river to the mouth of Kerr's run and
out of its territory the townships of Lebanon and Sutton were
formed.
Salisbury township originally embraced territory as far
north as Ross county, but such portions of the township as
were within the boundaries of Meigs county were divided into
Rutland township, Salem township, and a township remaining
Salisbury. Deeds of land are recorded according to the
nomenclature of the Ohio Company's surveys.
Ohio, having been admitted into the Union in 1802, it fol-
lowed that a constitutional convention should be called to
prepare a constitution for the new state, therefore, electors,
or delegates, were elected according to the regulations given by
the Congress of the United States, and according to the
Ordinance of 1787, for the Northwest Territory, eliminating
only one claim of that ordinance, viz: the property qualifica-
tions from the counties within its boundaries.
The Constitutional Convention was composed of thirty-five
members. Washington county was entitled to four dele-
gates, as follows: Rufus Putnam, Ephraim Cutler, Benjamin
Ives Gilman, and John McIntyre. This convention assembled
at Chillicothe, November lst, 1802, and adjourned November
29th, 1802. That assembly formed Gallia county by a law
that was to come in force April 30th, 1803, by a division of
Washington county, with specified boundaries, but it was
bounded on the west by Scioto county until 1816. Athens
county was formed March lst, 1805, and was bounded on the
south by Gallia county until January 7th, 1807. The boundary
of the south of Athens county was changed to take a portion
on which Chester is located, from Gallia, and add it to Athens
county, where it remained until the formation of Meigs county,
April lst, 1819.
An act of legislature authorizing associate judges to divide
the counties into townships was made May 10th, 1803. In ac-
