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Subject: [L'wrence] Re: OHLAWREN-D Digest V02 #78
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:19:03 EDT


For Jean Griesan:
Here is a description of the boundaries of the French Grant, which was in
Scioto County. This is taken from A History of Scioto County, 1803-1889 by
Henry Howe, 1898.

" The 'French Grant,' a tract of 24,000 acres, is situated in the
southeastern part of this county. It was granted by Congress in March, 1795,
to a number of French families who lost their lands at Gallipolis by invalid
titles. It extended from a point on the Ohio river one and a half miles
above, but opposite the mouth of Little Sandy creek in Kentucky, and
extending eight miles in a direct line down the river, and from the two
extremities of that line, reaching back at right angles sufficiently far to
include the quantity of land required, which somewhat exceeded four and a
half miles. Twelve hundred acres additional acres were, in 1798, granted,
adjoining it towards its lower end. Of this tract, 4000 acres directly
opposite Little Sandy creek were granted to Mons. J.G. Gervais, who laid out
a town upon it which he called Burrsburg, which never had but a few
inhabitants. Thirty years since there were but eight or ten families
residing on the Franch Grant."

A.C. Vincent was one of my French ancestors who was granted land in the
French Grant and raised a large family there. He and several members of the
family are buried in the Wheelersburg Cemetery, which is in Porter Township
of Scioto Co. I am not familiar with Gennet's Creek.
Eve Hughes

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