| | UNION COUNTY, OHIO 1883 HISTORY - CHAPTER III - VIRGINIA MILITARY DISTRICT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Congress effectually thwarted their schemes in 1855, but in the act of 1880, referred to, such provisions were inserted as to throw open to litigation between the present occupants and the heirs of the original locators the whole of the 130,000 acres of unpatented lands. |
 | | In the early part of 1787, the Virginia Military District was explored by two Kentucky surveyors, Maj. John O'Bannon and Arthur Fox, who wished to obtain a knowledge of the land for the purpose of making entries when the land office for the district should be opened. |
 | | He was appointed by Col. Richard C. Anderson (Surveyor General of the Virginia Military District) Deputy District Surveyor, and at the age of twenty-two years (in 1787) became one of the band of surveyors and pioneers who opened up the district to settlement. |
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