William Bradford 1770-1862 Was one of the original settlers on the lands in the Fox Military Survey No. 401 ———— His son David Bradford 1806-1879 Established the Bradford Family Burial Ground south of the Aberdeen-Manchester Road in Sprigg . . . — — Map (db m303685) HM
An early settler, set aside the Kimble Family Burial Lot on his farm at Kimble’s Landing on the Ohio River Sprigg Township, Adams County, Ohio about 1830 ————Those members of his family and their descendants buried there have been . . . — — Map (db m303489) HM
William Grimes Pioneer, those members of his family and their descendants who were interred in the Grimes Family Burial Grounds on the Grimes Farm at Grimes Landing on the Ohio River, Sprigg Township, in Adams County, Ohio, have been . . . — — Map (db m303692) HM
Graduates from Manchester High School
who gave their lives in Vietnam in 1969
William Sparks
June 9
William Rigdon
July 6
James Woolard
Nov. 3 — — Map (db m268332) WM
Israel Donalson, member of the First Constitutional Convention of Ohio.
In May 1800, Congress passed an act building the Northwest
Territory, with the western division becoming Indiana
Territory and the eastern called the Territory of the . . . — — Map (db m136539) HM
Son of Nathan Ellis 1749-1819 Founder of “Ellis Ferry,” now Aberdeen, Ohio Established the Ellis Family Graveyard on his farm near Ellis’ Landing on the Ohio River Sprigg Township, Adams County, Ohio about 1820 ———— It was with thoughtful . . . — — Map (db m185498) HM
A local preacher organized a Methodist Society in 1797 at his home on the Scioto Brush Creek north of the village of Blue Creek in Adams County in the Northwest Territory. In August 1800 the Society built a log church on a site provided by Mr. . . . — — Map (db m185497) HM
Manchester was founded in 1791 by Nathaniel Massie as a base to
survey the land warrants of American Revolutionary War soldiers in
the Virginia Military District. This bank of the Ohio River provided
a secure site for the last civilian stockade . . . — — Map (db m136536) HM
In 1784, the state of Virginia ceded all of its Northwest Territory
to the federal government except for this tract to satisfy the
land bounties owed to its Revolutionary War soldiers. The Virginia
Military District extended from the Scioto River . . . — — Map (db m136532) HM
Massie’s Station, built in 1791, was the fourth
permanent settlement center in Ohio and the
last stockade settlement built in Ohio.
It
provided protection from the Indians
for
Manchester’s settlers until 1794.
Manchester was . . . — — Map (db m136537) HM
Set aside a family burial lot on the high ground at a bend in Little Three Mile Creek on his farm in the Fox Military Survey No. 401 Sprigg Township, Adams County, Ohio about 1847. ————The remains of those buried there and not removed to . . . — — Map (db m303660) HM
