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	Return J. Meigs, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meigs was born in Middletown, Connecticut, the descendant of early Puritan settlers in Massachusetts.
		He returned to Ohio in 1807 to run for governor.
		Meigs County, Ohio and Meigs County, Tennessee are named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Return_J._Meigs,_Jr. (210 words)

	Ohio Historical Society \| Ohio Governors
		RETURN J. The fourth governor of Ohio was Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.
		Meigs, Jr., was born at Middletown, Connecticut, on November 17, 1764.
		Meigs, a conservative Re- publican, had the support of the Federalists and Quids and was elected.
	www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/meigs.html (722 words)

	American President
		Return Meigs was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on November 17, 1764, and graduated from Yale University.
		Meigs would subsequently leave Louisiana at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson in order to serve as judge of the United States District Court for the Territory of Michigan (1807-1808).
		Return Meigs died in Marietta, Ohio, on March 29, 1824.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesmonroe/cabinet/postmastergeneral/ReturnJMeigsJr/email.html (217 words)

	Return J. Meigs 2nd (#191)
		Return Jonathan Meigs, 2nd (#191) was born on November 17, 1764 to Return Jonathan (#90) and Joanna (Winborn) in Middletown, Connecticut.
		Meigs, upon the flight of his companions, faced the remaining Indian, who was the one who had fired upon him, and endeavored to intimidate him by presenting his gun and threatening to fire.
		Meigs was elected in a heated campaign (5,550 votes to Massie's 4,757), but the election was contested and Meigs was declared to be constitutionally ineligible because of his prolonged absence from the state.
	www.meigs.org /rjm191.htm (2301 words)

	Meigs, Return Jonathan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meigs was born in Middletown, Connecticut on November 17, 1764.
		He returned to Ohio in 1808 and was elected Governor of the state but based on his previous residency was found to ineligible to serve.
		Meigs was then Postmaster General in the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe, 1814-1823.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/meigs.html (371 words)

	Return J. Meigs (#90)
		Return Jonathan Meigs (#90) was born in Middletown, Connecticut on December 17, 1740, the son of Return (#29) and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs.
		Janna Meigs [#12] of East Guilford, CT., the father of Return Meigs and grandfather of Col. Return J. Meigs, courted Hannah Willard, of Wethersfield.
		In 1772 Meigs' was commissioned by Governor Trumbull of the Connecticut colony as a lieutenant in the 6th Connecticut Regiment.
	www.meigs.org /rjm90.htm (2752 words)

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		Meigs, a conservative Republican, had the support of the Federalists and Quids and was elected.
		It was during Meig's first term that the general assembly located the permanent capital on the high bank of the Scioto, opposite of Franklinton and created a commission to plan for the construction of a statehouse and penitentiary.
		Meigs has the distinction of beng the first governor to recommend the construction of a State prison.
	www.rootsweb.com /~usgenweb/oh/newspapers/governors/gov04.txt (1554 words)

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		Return Jonathan Meigs was governor of Ohio at that time and on April 6, 1812, he received instructions from President James Madison, to assemble the militia at Dayton, Ohio, where the men were to be drilled and otherwise prepared for war, and all enrollments were to cease at the end of the month.
		John Jr and his family were members of the Lutheran Church and were among the pioneer members in that organization of the Lutheran congragation at the Four-Mile House, now known as the Salem congregation.
		The sons and daughters of John Jr and Mary Bowman Waggoner grew to maturity and married into the pioneer families in the community and with their descendants form one of the principal and perhaps the largest chapter in the History of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family.
	www.netmender.net /genelogy/wbio-jjr.html (2492 words)

	Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General, United States Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meigs himself would be interred there in a grave near that of his son, killed in action by Confederate soldiers.
		Meigs was appointed a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian on December 26, 1885 and served until his term expired in December 1891.
		Meigs' grandfather, wife, Uncle and son are buried with him, the latter memorialized by a reclining statue showing the young man as he died fighting for the Union Army near Harrisonburg, Virginia in October 1864.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /meigs.htm (3650 words)

	Meigs Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Josiah MEIGS ~1773-1851 Massachusetts - Gayle 4/06/05
		Re: Phebe MEIGS, Recompense MEIGS - Marge Hutchinson 8/23/04
		Re: Sally Meigs b.1762,d.1853 - Lida Fikes Perfetto 1/07/02
	genforum.genealogy.com /meigs (2107 words)

	My Family
		Anna MEIGS was born in 1779 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
		Benjamin Henshaw MEIGS was born on 27 Mar 1784 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
		Meigs was born on 8 Oct 1790 in Sunderland, VT. He died on 20 Nov 1856 in Swanton, VT. Parents: Benjamin Stone Meigs and Roxalanz B. Chittenden.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/hindmarsh/384/d673.htm (909 words)

	My Family
		Sarah MEIGS was born in 1683 in Guilford New Haven, Connecticut.
		Timothy MEIGS was born on 28 Sep 1782 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
		MEIGS was born on 14 Dec 1609 in Bradford, Dorsetshire, England.
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	Howe's 1852 History of Ohio: excerpts
		On their return to Canada, they did not fail to urge, in strong terms, the immediate occupation of the vast and fertile regions watered by the Mississippi and its branches.
		They met the deer returning towards the shore nearly exhausted, but the man who was the object of their solicitude was no where to be seen.
		He drank cider or Malaga wine moderately, but was so much of a teetotaler, as to have abjured ardent spirits since the time when, in a drunken frenzy, he aimed a blow with his tomahawk at his wife, which split the head of the papoose on her back.
	www.solomonspalding.com /Lib/1847Howe/1852Howe.htm (18690 words)

	Othneil Looker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He served in the Ohio State Senate from 1810-1817.
		While serving as Speaker of the Senate from 1813-1814, Looker was concurrently elevated to the governorship after Governor Return J. Meigs, Jr.
		Looker sought re-election but was badly defeated by the far more well-known Thomas Worthington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Othneil_Looker (186 words)

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		Meigs published the laws by nailing them to a tree where all could see and read them.
		Rufus Putnman was appointed Judge of Probate Court and Return Jonathan Meigs.
		Jr., Clerk, thus the commission of the government was put in motion and Gov. St.
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	Southeaster Native American Documents, 1730-1842
		Meigs mentions the mounting tensions in the Cherokee Nation due to the war and the Creek uprising.
		The Cherokees, Meigs explains, are loyal to the Americans thus far and feel unsafe without military protection.
		After speaking with several young chiefs, Meigs believes that the best course of action would be to form Cherokee troops headed by Cherokee officers to fight on the side of the Americans.
	oai.sunsite.utk.edu /sgm/00006.html (953 words)

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		This county is united with Gallia, Meigs and Athens, constituting the third sub-district of the seventh district.
		Paul Fearing and Return Jonathan Meigs, Senior, were elected from Washington county.
		Colonel Robert Oliver was appointed by the President one of five members of the Council, or upper house, and subsequently became its president.
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	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Soon he returned with his mother to their home in Orange county.
		However, when Madison returned to Washington after three days, he was soon cheered by word of the British defeat in Baltimore Harbor, the battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words to the national anthem.
		He returned officially to public life only to take part in the Virginia constitutional convention of 1829, where he sought both to diminish the power of Tidewater slave owners and to extend the franchise.
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	Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.
		Tennessee's share includes $10.2 million for Knoxville's intermodal facility, $9 million for a roadway connecting Interstate 75 and state Highway 58 in Chattanooga, and $2 million to widen state Highway 66 in Jefferson and Hamblen counties, among other projects.
		Some states also are pushing to receive a greater return for the money they pay to the federal highway fund through federal gas taxes.
		"Donor" states, like Tennessee, pay more than they receive in return, though all states are guaranteed 90.5 cents back for every dollar contributed to the fund.
	www.house.gov /duncan/2005/ap031005a.htm (321 words)

	COL Benjamin Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Indians promptly left and returned to their villages in northwestern Ohio and the few British returned to Detroit.
		In 1801, Spain returned Louisiana to France and in 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold Louisiana to America.
		Benjamin Harrison returned to the Louisiana Territory sometime during that decade settling in the St. Genevieve District.
	www.shawhan.com /benharrison.html (7861 words)

	Stratton House Inn :: Early Ohio: A Brief History, Part 2 -- From the Ordinance of 1787 to the State of Ohio.
		They had not gone far when Harmar received news that the Indians had returned to their ruined towns.
		On 3 November 1791, at what is now the line of Darke and Mercer counties, St. Clair halted his advance, intending to throw up some temporary fortification for the protection of baggage and to await the return of the absent regiment.
		After destroying all the houses and cornfields above and below the British fort on the Maumee, the victorious army returned to the mouth of the Au Glaize River, where Wayne erected Fort Defiance.
	www.strattonhouse.com /index.php?section=history&content=31135002 (3961 words)

	UNION COUNTY, OHIO - 1883 HISTORY - HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO
		On his return to his post, he was met by Heckewelder, who imparted the tidings that friendly Indians had warned him that the war was about to sweep over their section, and destruction awaited them.
		They again returned to Fort Washington, as the Commander-in-Chief, under the order of the Executive, had proclaimed inaction until the Northern or British Commissioners and Indians should convene and discuss the situation and prospects.
		No effort was made to return to the work until the State and various parties had weighed the subject, and finally the interposition of the Government became necessary.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Union/UnPIOH.htm (19609 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		In 1780, unable to obtain a field command, Monroe returned to Virginia to study law under Thomas Jefferson, who became a lifelong friend, patron, and major influence on his intellectual development.
		Monroe was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782, and his abilities and total dedication to public service won him election in 1783 to the Confederation Congress, where he sat until 1786.
		Noonan, John T., Jr., The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of John Quincy Adams and James Monroe (Univ. of Calif. Press 1990).
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	MEIGS, Return Jonathan, Jr. (1764-1825) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Letters to and from Meigs; documents signed by Meigs; and Meigs related material.
		Washington, DC Papers: In Return J. Meigs family papers, 1772-1862.
		Chiefly correspondence of Meigs relating to activities as an Indian agent to the Cherokees, 1801-1823, and a few letters (1772-1774) concerning his Revolutionary War service, together with papers of other family members.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=M000633 (187 words)

	Clinton County, Wilmington, Ohio History
		PAGE 345 - PICTURE OF J. THE list of Clerks and Commissioners and a large portion of the statistics found in this chapter, are from the Harlan notes.
		This includes 110 free colored persons, of whom twenty-four were in Wilmington, twenty-five in the rest of Union Township, twenty-eight in Liberty, four in Richland, eight in Vernon and twenty-one in Clark.
		For 1860 and 1870, the returns were as follows, giving the number of inin the villages separately:
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Clinton/ClintonChapVIII.htm (2138 words)

	James Madison - dKosopedia
		Secretary of the Treasury: Albert Gallatin, continuing from previous administration; William Jones, during the absence of Gallatin (April 21, 1813 to February 9, 1814); George W. Campbell, February 9, 1814; Alexander J. Dallas, October 6, 1814, entered upon duties October 14, 1816; William H. Crawford, October 22, 1816
		Secretary of War: John Smith, continuing from previous administration; William Eustis, March 7, 1809, entered upon duties April 8, 1809; James Monroe (interim), January 1, 1813; John Armstrong, Jr.
		Postmaster General: Gideon Granger, continuing from previous administration; Return J. Meigs, Jr.
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	USCS News Releases
		Crossville's Raceway USA was the site of the closest finish of the season during the 2004 USCS season.
		Also returning to Crossville's Raceway USA on August 13 will be local favorite R.J. Johnson of Decatur, TN.
		Johnson has just begun his senior year at Meigs County High School.
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	The Builder Magazine - November 1927
		Burnet, who had made the long and dangerous journey to obtain this authority, was prevented from ever returning to the West by the death a month later of his father, Dr. William Burnet, Sr., chief physician in the Continental Army, and likewise a Mason.
		Burnet, Jr., was Senior Warden of Newark Lodge, No. 2, of Newark, N.J., at the time he came to Ohio.
		So closes the story of this pioneer Masonic organization, the first regularly chartered body through Grand Lodge authority in the Northwest Territory, but the high lights of which have been covered in the foregoing.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1927_november.htm (13451 words)

	Local Editions: Celebration of Women Writers
		London: J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1791.
		London: J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1781.
		London, Paris and Toronto: J. Dent and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. Dutton and Co., 1916.
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	EARLY POSTAL SERVICES &
		Parenthetically, it should be remembered that Fort South West Point was first established in 1792 for use by the territorial militia, and that U.S. Army regular troops were posted there from 1794 until 1807.
		Return J. Meigs, Indian Agent, made his headquarters at south West Point until 1807.
		Their children were: JAMES, ELIZA, WILLIAM P., NANCY, JOSEPH, MARY, SAMUEL, JR., HUGH, MARGARET.
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		James J. Dana writes regarding "Iron Railings and Stone Fences for National Cemeteries," enclosing a 17 x 22 copy of his drawing of same, with printed circular and printed orders to Supt. of the National Cemetery on procedure (2 pp.
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		Due to her severe condition, she cannot stay in the country but must be returned to her parents in Hungary...." As Director of Department of Health, he advises the Jewish Agency will finance the trip back, as the life is rough, and the level of medical care is much below European standards.
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