History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties
pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
John James, an independent planter of Frederick County, Md., immigrated to the West in May, 1807, his family being conveyed in a flatboat from Redstone, and landed in Lawrenceburgh in June following. He remained at that point two years, he, for the purpose of educating his children, removed to Cincinnati, where, after a residence of two years, he removed to the place, , December 25, 1811, being but a few weeks after the famous battle of Tippecanoe, which occurred in September, 1811. In consequence of Indian hostilities prevalent at that time and frequent alarms of the settlement, to allay the fears of the family, he removed them to Louisville in May, 1812, one month previous to the declaration of war against Great Britain, while he and his eldest son, Pinkney, remained upon the ground. In the autumn of 1813 the family were brought back to this point. In 1879 the late Henry James said: "In the fall of 1813 we returned to father and Pinkney at the settlement, and in the following spring, on the 30th day of May, we laid out Rising Sun. Father superintended, Pinkney surveyed, and I carried one end of the chain, and another Negro carried the other."
Concerning this act, the records reveal the following:
"The town of Rising Sun situated in the county of Dearborn, in the Indiana Territory, being laid out on Section 3 and fraction 2, Township 3 Range 1. The aforesaid town is first laid off into blocks of twenty-four rods on every side, and an alley drawn through the center parallel with those streets which front the river. The blocks are then subdivided into twelve parts, each lot containing four rods in front, and eleven and a half rods deep;; fronts are always to and from the river. There is a street inning between every block and are five rods wide. The alley are but one rod wide. The lots situated between Front Street and the Ohio River are termed fractions, and are four rods front, and running each to the river." —John James, Proprietor.
Spoken by B. F. Morris in 1856, about John & Martha James:
"He (John) was a liberal man in all public enterprises, and was ambitions to found and build up a large and flourishing town. He died Mar 27, 1838, aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Martha James, July 21, 1821, aged fifty-seven years. "God's Acre" which they gave as a burial place for the dead, holds their mortal remains. They left, in their children and their children's children, numerous descendants, who honorable and useful stations in society.
"History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties. pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
Information from "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana : from their earliest settlement : Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."
pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
John James, an independent planter of Frederick County, Md., immigrated to the West in May, 1807, his family being conveyed in a flatboat from Redstone, and landed in Lawrenceburgh in June following. He remained at that point two years, he, for the purpose of educating his children, removed to Cincinnati, where, after a residence of two years, he removed to the place, , December 25, 1811, being but a few weeks after the famous battle of Tippecanoe, which occurred in September, 1811. In consequence of Indian hostilities prevalent at that time and frequent alarms of the settlement, to allay the fears of the family, he removed them to Louisville in May, 1812, one month previous to the declaration of war against Great Britain, while he and his eldest son, Pinkney, remained upon the ground. In the autumn of 1813 the family were brought back to this point. In 1879 the late Henry James said: "In the fall of 1813 we returned to father and Pinkney at the settlement, and in the following spring, on the 30th day of May, we laid out Rising Sun. Father superintended, Pinkney surveyed, and I carried one end of the chain, and another Negro carried the other."
Concerning this act, the records reveal the following:
"The town of Rising Sun situated in the county of Dearborn, in the Indiana Territory, being laid out on Section 3 and fraction 2, Township 3 Range 1. The aforesaid town is first laid off into blocks of twenty-four rods on every side, and an alley drawn through the center parallel with those streets which front the river. The blocks are then subdivided into twelve parts, each lot containing four rods in front, and eleven and a half rods deep;; fronts are always to and from the river. There is a street inning between every block and are five rods wide. The alley are but one rod wide. The lots situated between Front Street and the Ohio River are termed fractions, and are four rods front, and running each to the river." —John James, Proprietor.
Spoken by B. F. Morris in 1856, about John & Martha James:
"He (John) was a liberal man in all public enterprises, and was ambitions to found and build up a large and flourishing town. He died Mar 27, 1838, aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Martha James, July 21, 1821, aged fifty-seven years. "God's Acre" which they gave as a burial place for the dead, holds their mortal remains. They left, in their children and their children's children, numerous descendants, who honorable and useful stations in society.
"History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties. pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
Information from "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana : from their earliest settlement : Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."
History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties
pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
John James, an independent planter of Frederick County, Md., immigrated to the West in May, 1807, his family being conveyed in a flatboat from Redstone, and landed in Lawrenceburgh in June following. He remained at that point two years, he, for the purpose of educating his children, removed to Cincinnati, where, after a residence of two years, he removed to the place, , December 25, 1811, being but a few weeks after the famous battle of Tippecanoe, which occurred in September, 1811. In consequence of Indian hostilities prevalent at that time and frequent alarms of the settlement, to allay the fears of the family, he removed them to Louisville in May, 1812, one month previous to the declaration of war against Great Britain, while he and his eldest son, Pinkney, remained upon the ground. In the autumn of 1813 the family were brought back to this point. In 1879 the late Henry James said: "In the fall of 1813 we returned to father and Pinkney at the settlement, and in the following spring, on the 30th day of May, we laid out Rising Sun. Father superintended, Pinkney surveyed, and I carried one end of the chain, and another Negro carried the other."
Concerning this act, the records reveal the following:
"The town of Rising Sun situated in the county of Dearborn, in the Indiana Territory, being laid out on Section 3 and fraction 2, Township 3 Range 1. The aforesaid town is first laid off into blocks of twenty-four rods on every side, and an alley drawn through the center parallel with those streets which front the river. The blocks are then subdivided into twelve parts, each lot containing four rods in front, and eleven and a half rods deep;; fronts are always to and from the river. There is a street inning between every block and are five rods wide. The alley are but one rod wide. The lots situated between Front Street and the Ohio River are termed fractions, and are four rods front, and running each to the river." —John James, Proprietor.
Spoken by B. F. Morris in 1856, about John & Martha James:
"He (John) was a liberal man in all public enterprises, and was ambitions to found and build up a large and flourishing town. He died Mar 27, 1838, aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Martha James, July 21, 1821, aged fifty-seven years. "God's Acre" which they gave as a burial place for the dead, holds their mortal remains. They left, in their children and their children's children, numerous descendants, who honorable and useful stations in society.
"History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties. pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
Information from "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana : from their earliest settlement : Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."
pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
John James, an independent planter of Frederick County, Md., immigrated to the West in May, 1807, his family being conveyed in a flatboat from Redstone, and landed in Lawrenceburgh in June following. He remained at that point two years, he, for the purpose of educating his children, removed to Cincinnati, where, after a residence of two years, he removed to the place, , December 25, 1811, being but a few weeks after the famous battle of Tippecanoe, which occurred in September, 1811. In consequence of Indian hostilities prevalent at that time and frequent alarms of the settlement, to allay the fears of the family, he removed them to Louisville in May, 1812, one month previous to the declaration of war against Great Britain, while he and his eldest son, Pinkney, remained upon the ground. In the autumn of 1813 the family were brought back to this point. In 1879 the late Henry James said: "In the fall of 1813 we returned to father and Pinkney at the settlement, and in the following spring, on the 30th day of May, we laid out Rising Sun. Father superintended, Pinkney surveyed, and I carried one end of the chain, and another Negro carried the other."
Concerning this act, the records reveal the following:
"The town of Rising Sun situated in the county of Dearborn, in the Indiana Territory, being laid out on Section 3 and fraction 2, Township 3 Range 1. The aforesaid town is first laid off into blocks of twenty-four rods on every side, and an alley drawn through the center parallel with those streets which front the river. The blocks are then subdivided into twelve parts, each lot containing four rods in front, and eleven and a half rods deep;; fronts are always to and from the river. There is a street inning between every block and are five rods wide. The alley are but one rod wide. The lots situated between Front Street and the Ohio River are termed fractions, and are four rods front, and running each to the river." —John James, Proprietor.
Spoken by B. F. Morris in 1856, about John & Martha James:
"He (John) was a liberal man in all public enterprises, and was ambitions to found and build up a large and flourishing town. He died Mar 27, 1838, aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Martha James, July 21, 1821, aged fifty-seven years. "God's Acre" which they gave as a burial place for the dead, holds their mortal remains. They left, in their children and their children's children, numerous descendants, who honorable and useful stations in society.
"History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties. pg. 356-357, Re: City of Rising Sun.
Information from "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana : from their earliest settlement : Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885."
Inscription
In memory of
John James
(Proprietor of Rising Sun: )
who departed this life March
27th 1838;
in the 77th year of his age
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