Cook and James McGuire came with their families from Mari-
etta in 1813 and settled on Section No. 1. Earl P. Archer
came about that time and bought land in 1814, and Elihu
Higley married Nancy Cook and settled on Section No. 2 in
1816. Bereman Bailey located a farm a little north in 1827.
Hazael Lathrop, who framed more buildings in this neigh-
borhood than any other man in his time, came from New
York in 1817. He married Catharine, a daughter of Billy
Wright, and lived in a cabin on the eastern border of Section
No. 8. He moved farther west in 1825, but after seventy
years that strip of land is known as the "Lathrop Place."
Mr. Richard Cook died July 17th, 1840, aged seventy-three
years. His wife, Irene Cook, nee' Hodge, died October 7th,
1839, aged seventy-three years.
About 1812 James McGuire bought a farm in Pleasant Val-
ley. He was born in Ireland August 14th, 1777. He emigrated
to Marietta and there married the Widow Murray, who had
four children-William, John, Eliza and Matilda. Mrs. Mc-
Guire's maiden name was Mary Garnet. She was a sister of
the mother of John Brough, the famous war Governor of Ohio.
A little story was current about Esquire Brough, father of the
Governor, of his queer decisions when an acting magistrate.
He made the witness pay the cost of prosecution in a case of
larceny. A mechanic living in Harmar and working in Marietta
had a canoe to go over to his work and back for his meals.
Persons troubled him by taking away his canoe when he
wanted it. He therefore gave notice that he would prosecute
the first one that did it. So the next day a man came along
and asked where such a man had gone. He saw him take the
canoe and go out of the mouth of the Muskingum. "Did you
see him do that?" "Yes." Dropping his tools, he went to
Esquire Brough for a warrant, and the man and the witness
were soon before the court. There the witness said he did
not see the man take the canoe, that he said so "for a joke."
The judge figured a little and said, "I find the prisoner not
