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- Listed in parent's estate papers.
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Likely named for first Methodist Episcopal bishop of America; further evidence of early Methodism influence in this family.
From "MARYLAND MARRIAGES: 1800-1820"
Stafford, Francis A. to Eliza Henshaw, 27 Feb 1805, Allegany County, Mary
land
From "EARLY OHIO SETTLERS: Purchasers of land in Eastern and East Central Ohio 1800-1830"
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Stafford, Francis A. (z)1809 Sep 27Muskingum County08 04 20
Stafford, Richard A. (z)1812 Aug 25Coshocton County08 04 14
Stafford, Francis A. (z)1816 Mar 23Coshocton County08 04 13
Stafford, Aaron(z)1817 Feb 04Tuscarawas County03 06 17
Stafford, Robert (z)1817 Feb 04Tuscarawas County03 06 18
Stafford, Francis A. (z-m)1824 Jul 21Coshocton County08 0409
z: Zanesville officez-m: Zanesville office, military district land
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
The first settlers of this township were John Hardesty, JacobCray, Mordecai Chalfant, Peter Lash, Francis Stafford, Frederick Woolford, James Willi
ams, Bradley Squires, and George Smith. These were all in before 1811. Jo
hn Hardesty was from :Maryland, and came into the territory afterward embaced in Washington township before the State of Ohio was admitted. He was a regular frontiersman, and kept moving with the tide of emigration westward while his years admitted. He died some years ago in St. Louis. Edmund Hardesty, also from Maryland, came into the township in 1811; died a few years ago in Illinois. Mordecai Chalfant came from Pennsylvania in 1808; was for some time an associate judge of the county. George Smith was from Virginia. Bradley Squires was from Vermont. Jacob Cray came from Wheeli
ng, Va., in 1808; was a farmer; died about 1864. Thomas Hardesty, coming from Maryland about 1811, still lives in the township. Walter McBride, farm
er and carpenter, came from Pennsylvania in 1814; he is now more than seventy years of age.
The townshipwas named at its organization by Mordecai Chalfant. Through his influence, a small mill was built in 1810. In 1811 a school-house was e
rected, and also achurch (M. E.), which still goes by the name of Chalfant's meeting-house.
Coshocton County was formed from Muskingum County in 1811.
FROM A History of Coshocton County, found at heritagepursuit.com, 03-2005
Francis Stafford, who had been living in Muskingum county, settled upon t
he southwest quarter of section 12 about the year 1810. Joseph Harris, a l
ittle later, settled on the southeast quarter of section 13.
The early township records have seemingly perished. A list of the justices of the peace, however, has been preserved, the earliest of whom we
re as follows: Mordecai Chalfant, elected April 11, 1811, resigned June 1 b
,1813; George Smith, elected June 26,1813, resigned, May 16,1816; Joseph S
laughter, elected May, 1816, resigned the next year ; Samuel Hardesty; elected June, 1816; Richard Tilton, elected in 1817; 1820; 1823 and 1826; Bra
dley Squires, elected in 1818; James Pierce, elected in 1821 and 182
4;F. A. Stafford,
From "A History of Coshocton County", 1985:
"Chalfant Church--Chalfant Church is the oldest religious society in Cosh
octon County. It was organized in 1808 by Reverend William Ellington, who became Chalfant Church's first pastor. In 1811, the society, known as Chalfant Methodist Episcopalian Church, began to erect the first church building in the county. William Barcus was awarded the contract by was unable to complete the building until 1815, having to serve time in the frontier army. The hewed-log church served aslo as a meeting house a
nd a school for the ocmmunity. The earliest members of the church include Mr. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Reasoner, Daniel Johnson (a freed slave
), Francis Stafford, Peter Camp, Eli McClain and Mordecai Chalfant."
This is the first early evidence I have seen that the Staffords were Methodists, and the first evidence that this generation of Staffords were even religious people.
An unidentified female is found
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1782 - 1868 (85 years)
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