In
that part of the old Sandy Creek township which in 1851 became Deer
Creek the first settlements were made somewhat later than those
mentioned above. Aaron Boylan and David Caldwell are said to have
settled there about 1800. Israel Tuttle was founder of a
prominent family there in 1804.
In the old Sandy Creek township
originated considerable litigation over land titles. The actual settler
and the settler under a warrant sometimes came into collision, and very
frequently justice was decided by resort to primitive arbitration or by
“bluffing.” If a settler allowed the fire to go out in his hearth
during his absence, his homestead became, according to the usages of
the time, liable to appropriation by a newcomer. Occasionally a case
got into the courts and thus became matter of permanent record, but as
a rule the differences among the pioneers were settled by the nearest
and most convenient tribunals, either legal or arbitrary, and only
neighborhood tradition preserved their memory.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Mercer County, 1909, page 162
Deer Creek Township
Cemeteries |
Deer Creek Township
Census Records |
Deer Creek Township
Towns & Villages |
Hagen
Jewell
Maple Grove
Pilgrim Fellowship Church | 1840 (Twp. not formed yet)
1850 (Twp. not formed yet)
1870 | Sunol
Deer Creek Twp. Churches
Deer Creek Methodist Episcopal |
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| Transformation of Deer Creek Twp. |
Formed in 1851
from Sandy Creek Twp |
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