Notes for Richard NORRIS, JR
Land agent for the Cincinnati District of the Northwest Territories & for Aurora Association for Internal Improvement.
Indiana Pioneers 1813
1812 19 Mar buys land, Section 31, Center/Hogan Twp, Dearborn Co., IN (the "Gore", originally part of OH. purchased at Cincinnati land office)
Oct 27 1812, buys 1 section land Dearborn Co.
Nov 20, 1813, buys 1 section land Dearborn Co.
History of Methodist Episcopal Church of Aurora, IN: "On site of Aurora, William Lambden preached the first sermon and organized the first class." This "first class" of 1816 consisted of 9 people, including Joseph Norris & wife, Richard Norris, but no wife listed! Aaltje should have still been alive...
1820 Dearborn Co., IN with 5 other males, 3 females
16 Sep 1835 - Bought 80 acres in Clinton Co.,IN NW Qrtr Sect 8 Twp 21 Range 1E
Trestor Cemetery located behind house owned by Ed Wells in year 2000. Cemetery is supposedly on border between two townships, and neither twp keeps it up.
Left land to his surviving wife and each surviving child.
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Revised: 27 Dec 2004 by Bonnie L Schermer