Comes buys 121 ½ acres from the east of Lot #4 (known later as Paynes' Corners ). Simeon Wheeler and family come to Vienna from Vermont.
Vienna’s first marriage takes place when Freelove Flower weds survey Samuel Hutchins. Comes and family move from Connecticut to Vienna.īrothers Timothy and Jonathan Alderman bring their families from Avon, Connecticut. Curtis is paid $1.75 for surveying Lot #3 in Vienna. William Titus Brockway sells Vienna land to Samuel Woodford, Darius Woodford, Isaac Woodford, Darius Humason, Isaac Humason, William Laferty, Samuel Lowrey, Isaac Scott, and Seth Bartholomew. William Titus Brockway makes an entry in his account book, using the name Vienna for the first time.ĭennis Clark Palmer buys an “old ax” from Titus Brockway for $1.Įphraim Root begins to serve in the Ohio State Legislature. Here I tarried, as nurse and doctor, nearly two weeks, when he began to convalesce, and I returned to Vernon, where I had left my horse. I found the family, consisting of the sick man, his wife, and one child, in a pitiable condition, situated six or seven miles from any other family, in a cold log cabin, wood enough, when cut, for the fire but with a scanty supply of bread. I was informed of his situation and requested to visit him. The man some time in February 1801 was taken sick with a fever no physician in the country. Reverend Badger 's memoir also includes this remembrance of the event: I found him very sick, and stayed and nursed him about eight days, when he got better. Here I tarried two weeks in which time Mr. This was the last opening toward the lake. The frequent snows and rains rendered it difficult passing from one settlement to another. Reverend Joseph Badger visits and nurses a very ill Dennis Clark Palmer back to health at his cabin. Palmer, Epenitus Rogers, Darius Woodford, Simeon Wheeler, and Isaac Woodford. Foster, Samuel Hutchins, Daniel Humison, Dennis C. On Monday I rode to Vienna, where was one family thence to Hartford, in which were three families.ĭarius Woodford walks from Hartford, Connecticut, with Timothy Alderman for the purpose of viewing and purchasing land in Vienna.Īccording to the History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties (1882), the residents of Vienna in 1801 were “ Isaac Flower, Isaac Flower, Jr., Levi Foote, James W. Reverend Joseph Badger reaches the Western Reserve on the “last Sabbath of 1800,” preaches in Youngstown, and then rides to Vienna where he notes that there is one family. Reverend Joseph Badger leaves Connecticut for his first mission to the Western Reserve, under the direction of the Connecticut Missionary Society. William Titus Brockway begins an account book for land sales for Ephraim Root. He contracts with William Titus Brockway (17 75 -1840) to be his land agent.
Lavinia Flower, the daughter of Isaac Flower, is the first Anglo-American born in Vienna.Įphraim Root makes his first visit to Vienna and Trumbull County. The families of Isaac Flower and Dennis Clark Palmer are Vienna’s first Anglo-American settlers.
Through subsequent transfers, Root would soon become owner of nearly all the land in the Township. The initial proprietors of Town 4, Range 2 are Timothy Burr, Uriah Holmes, Jr. Town 4, Range 2 is surveyed along with the rest of the Western Reserve. Range 8, Township 2 (Portage County) is named Rootstown. Root held interest in 100,000 acres, including Vienna. Prosperous lawyer Ephraim Root (1762-1825), one of 57 investors in the Company, serves as the Company’s secretary and agent. State of Connecticut sells three million acres of land in the Western Reserve to the Connecticut Land Company.
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