Early Land Entries of Stampers Creek Township

This information is taken from Goodspeed’s 1884 History of Orange County, p. 406.


The names below were the only entries in the present French Lick Township, prior to January 1, 1813. The second list shows 1813-1820.

BURT, Asa October 11, 1811 T1N, R1E, Sec. 1; 160 acres
BUSH, William November 25, 1812 T2N, R1E, Sec. 25; 160 acres
COPELAND, Thomas April 1, 1812 T1N, R2E, Sec. 18; 160 acres
HOPPER, Thomas September 26, 1810 T2N, R2E, Sec. 32; 160 acres
HOPPER, Thomas September 21, 1811 T1N, R2E, Sec. 5; 150 acres
MAHAN, Peter March 10, 1812 T2N, R1E, Sec. 35; 160 acres
SCOTT, Thomas September 18, 1812 T2N, R2E, Sec. 32; 160 acres


The following men entered land in this township from January 1, 1813, to January 1, 1820:

ALLGOOD, Presley 1817
BAKER, James 1817
BROOKS, William 1815
CONLEY, James 1814
CORNWELL, Peter 1815
DILLARD, William 1818
DOAN, J. W. 1818
DOUGHERTY, George 1814
DOUGHERTY, Henry 1819
DOUGHERTY, John 1818
DOUGHERTY, Robert 1818
DOUGHERTY, Samuel 1814
DOUGHERTY,William 1818
FINDLEY, Harvey 1817
FINLEY, David 1813
GRESHAM, John 1817
HINTON, George 1813
HOLLOWELL, Robert 1817
HOLMES, Hugh 1817
KING, Cornelius 1818
LINDLEY, Zachariah 1817
MARTIN, Robert 1819
MAY, Francis 1816
MONTGOMERY, Robert 1819
MURPHY, James J. 1814
PETERS, George 1815
RANEY, J. 1819
REED, Joshua 1815
RIGNEY, J. 1819
RIGNEY, William 1813
SANDERSON, Robert 1819
SMITH, Humphrey 1817
VANCLEAVE, Benjamin 1813
VANDEVEER, John 1819
WAGONER, Jacob 1814
WAGONER, Jacob 1818
WIBLE, Samuel 1818
WIRE, William 1813
WHITE, William 1816
WOLFE, Henry 1818
WOLFE, John 1819