to look after some stock, and called in to see how the boys
were doing and to spend the night with them and this was
the plight in which he found them. They had cornbread of
their own baking and venison. Mr. Higley examined the
boy's leg and found that it was broken, and he then mounted
his horse and rode to Mr. Knight's, the father of the boy, at
Middleport, who immediately started to his son in the
wilderness, going by way of Chester for Dr. Robinson to ac-
company him. They knew the path as far as Bissell's, but no
farther. They arrived there to find that Mr. Bissell was away
from home, but Mrs. Bissell got out of bed at midnight, had
her horse saddled, and piloted these two men through the dense
forest to where the suffering boy lay, leaving her own little
ones asleep at home, and stayed with the boy until Mr. Knight
returned and brought his wife and provisions. Mrs. Knight
had to stay twenty-one days before they could take the boy
home. Those were pioneer times.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST COUNTY COURT OF
COMMON PLEAS FOR MEIGS COUNTY, STATE
OF OHIO, ss.:
April Term, in the Year 1819
Be it remembered, That at a term of Court of Common
Pleas for the county of Meigs, begun and held at the tem-
porary seat of justice. Present: Hon. Ezra Osborn, president,
judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common
Pleas for the State of Ohio; and Horatio Strong, Fuller Elliot
and James E. Phelps, Esqs., associate judges of the Court of
Common Pleas for Meigs County, who produced their several
commissions under the great seal of the State of Ohio, which
were read in open court.
Robert C. Barton was appointed clerk pro tem. Of the said
court in complying with the requisitions of the law. Samuel
