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 |