Indiana (territory) -- Wayne (county)


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County Quick Reference

County Seat: Salisbury

County Name: Named for the Anthony Wayne, American Revolution officer and veteran of the Old Northwest Indian War.


 
Boundary Changes
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Date
Area
Change
01 JAN 1811779Created from Clark, Dearborn, and Knox counties.
   

 

 

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Background
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Wayne County was formed on 01 January 1811 by An Act for the formation of two new counties out of the counties of Dearborn and Clark [click here for more information]. The county's boundaries would not change before statehood.

The following map shows the original size of the county at its founding (in red with yellow border) superimposed on a modern map

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Wayne County in 1811

 

Bibliography
(click on the title of the following works to learn more about life in the area; for those items not available online, check with your local library for availability)


  • History of the Thomas Family [of Wayne County, Indiana].
  • History of the Whitewater Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana, 1916.
  • Proceedings of the celebration of the establishment of Whitewater Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, Ninth month 30 to Tenth month 2, 1909. [Richmond, G.O. Ballinger Co., ptrs., 1909?].
  • American Lutheran Church (1961-1987). Archives. St. John Lutheran Church, Wayne County, Indiana Church Records, 1836-1977. microform. Dubuque, Iowa: Archives the American Lutheran Church, 1978.
  • Beck, Frank Orman. My Home Town : A Pennsylvania Dutch Village in Hoosierland. Richmond, Ind.: Warfel Inc., 1957.
  • Bercich, Maude McCorkindale and Ethel Jane McCorkindale. The Family History of John and Mary Williams : Quaker Pioneers of Wayne County, Indiana, with Four Generations of Their Ancestors, and Four (or More) Generations of Descendants Benjamin Franklin Junior Historical Series. San Diego: Family Historians, 1963.
  • Bicentennial Commission of Old Newport Area. History of Northeastern Wayne County, Indiana. Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1976.
  • Bowman, L. S. [Excerpts from] Family History of Christena Shultz-Bowman and Decendents from the Year 1842-1930 [in Wayne County, Indiana].
  • Cox, Clifford W. Grand Army of the Republic Records of Civil War Soldiers Buried in Wayne County, Indiana : Compiled from Fragile Old 1937 Notebooks. Centerville, Ind.: C.W. Cox, 2001.
  • Cox, Gerald Burton and Ann Cox Correll. The Kentucky Settlement in Wayne County, Indiana. Marshalltown, Iowa: G.B. Cox, 1991.
  • Darnell, Susan and Indiana Historical Society. Index to County Commissioners Record, Wayne County, Indiana : Volume I, 1811-1824, Volume Ii, 1824-1830, Volume Iii, 1830-1835, 2006.
  • Dean, Arnold L. The Indentured Apprentices Record Book : At the Wayne County (in) Courthouse. Richmond, Ind.: The Author, 1998.
  • Dean, Arnold L. and Wayne County Genealogical Society (Wayne County Ind.). Wayne County, Indiana History Series : Combined Index of History Series Microfilm. 1 vols. Richmond, Ind.: Wayne County Genealogical Society, 2002.
  • Farber, Renee and Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division. Index to County Commissioners' Records, Wayne County, Indiana. S.l.: s.n.
  • Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne county & the city of Richmond, Indiana, from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical & biographical record of representative families in Wayne county. Volume I. Madison, Wisconsin, Western historical association, 1912.
  • Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne county & the city of Richmond, Indiana, from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical & biographical record of representative families in Wayne county. Volume II. Madison, Wisconsin, Western historical association, 1912.
  • Fountain City Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Indiana). Fountain City Monthly Meeting Membership Records. Fountain City, Ind.: s.n., 2007.
  • Fountain City Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Indiana). Fountain City Monthly Meeting Ministry and Council Minutes, 1964-1965. Fountain City, Ind.: s.n., 2007.
  • Haas, Edgar M. Service Records of Wayne County, Indiana in the World War. 3 vols. Richmond, Ind.,, 1926.
  • Harvey, Charles H. and Andrew W. Young. Index of Surnames in Young's History of Wayne County, 1872. 1 vols. Nicosia, Cyprus: s.n., 1969.
  • Heiss, Willard C. Indiana Quaker Records. Indianapolis,.
  • Heiss, Willard C., Milford Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wayne County Ind.), Mill Creek Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Miami County Ohio), Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Randolph County Ind.), Friends Memorial Church (Muncie Ind.) and Genealogical Society of Utah. [Records, Milford, Mill Creek, Mount Pleasant, Muncie Monthly Meetings. microform . Richmond, Ind. Salt Lake City, Utah: Earlham College ; Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987.
  • Hinshaw, Idris Elizabeth. The Early History of New Garden Township, Wayne County, Indiana. S.l.: I. Hinshaw, 1948.
  • Holder, Nadine Duguid and Jill Rebman Martin. Harvey & Rachel Woodward Welch of Wayne County, Indiana & Mercer County, Illinois : Their History and Descendants. 1 vols. s.l.: s.n., 1996.
  • Hudson, Loy L. Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana : With an Added History of National Old Trails Chapter 1928-1978. Hagerstown, Ind.: L.L. Hudson, 1978.
  • Huff, Daniel. Reminiscences of Newport and Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana : And Its Environs from 1830 to 1896.
  • Huff, Oliver N. A Brief School History of New Garden Township (Wayne County, Indiana). Fort Wayne, Ind.: Allen County Public Library, 1985.
  • Indiana Historical Society. Family History Section. and United States. Census Office. 8th Census 1860. Indiana Historical Society 1860 Indiana Census. County: Wayne. Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana Historical Society, 1988.
  • Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association. Record Book 1851-1886.
  • Inter-state Publishing Company. History of Wayne County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns. 2 vols. Chicago,: Inter-State Pub. Co., 1884.
  • Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago Ill.). 1884 History of Wayne County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... And Biographies of Representative Citizens. 2 vols. Knightstown, IN: The Bookmark, 1978.
  • Kempton, John M. History of West Grove Friends Community, Wayne County, Indiana, 1812-1995 : History, Marriage, Birth and Death Records, Genealogy and Quaker Records. S.l.: s.n., 1995.
  • Lafever, Carolyn. A Pictorial History of Wayne County, Indiana. Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co., 1998.
  • Lafever, Carolyn. Wayne County, Indiana : The Battles for the Courthouse. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2010.
  • Marshall, Thomas Worth and Springfield Monthly Meeting (Wayne County Ind.). Records of Springfield Monthly Meeting of Friends, Wayne County, Indiana / Compiled by Thomas Worth Marshall. Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1936.
  • McCafferty, Carol and County Records of Indiana Microfilm Project. Guide to the Contents of Crimp Microfilm for Wayne County, Indiana. Richmond, Ind.: Morrisson-Reeves Library, 1989.
  • Miller, Clarke C. Hornish Family Records Some of the Descendants of Martin B. Hornish and Helena Rupert of Point Pleasant, (Now West) Virginia, Centreville, Wayne County, Indiana, and Tazewell and Peoria Counties, Illinois. Whiting, Ind.: s.n., 1951. http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/books/results/shortcitation?urn=urn:proquest:US;glhbooks;Genealogy-glh40846427;-1;-1;&letter=H.
  • M'Kinney, Donald. History of Olive Hill, Wayne County, Indiana. 1 vols. Fort Wayne, Ind.: Public Library, 1969.
  • Mullins, Joe, Gertrude Luckhardt Ward and Wayne County Planning Office. Resource Inventory Council. Historic Sites, Wayne County, Indiana. Richmond, Ind.: Resource Inventory Council Wayne County Planning Office, 1997.
  • Nettle Creek Baptist Church (Wayne County Ind.), Shiloh Baptist Church (Hancock County Ind.), Providence Primitive Baptist Church (Hancock County Ind.), White Water Association of Primitive Baptists. and Little Eagle Creek Primitive Baptist Church (Indianapolis Ind.). Nettle Creek and Shiloh Baptist Church Records, 1831-1957, Bulk 1831-1936.
  • Newby, Nancy, Ruth Dorrel, County History Indexing Project (Ind.) and Indiana Historical Society. Family History Section. Wayne County, Indiana Index of Names of Persons and of Firms. 3 vols. Indianapolis: County History Indexing Project Family History Section Indiana Historical Society, 1982.
  • Nicholson, Kenneth J., Nellie Frances Fouts Wilson and Barbara J. Nicholson. Daniel and Mary Strickler, Pioneers : A Family Record for Daniel and Mary Hammaker Strickler, Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers of 1839, Wayne County, Indiana, with Illustrations, History of the Strickler Family and Other Background Information. 1 vols. Falls Church, Va.: B.J. Nicholson, 1988.
  • Palladium-Item, Richmond Ind. Indiana Sesquicentennial Supplment, April 18, 1966.
  • Power, J. C. Directory and Soldiers' Register of Wayne County, Indiana. Richmond, Ind.,: W.H. Lanthurn & Co., 1865.
  • Ratliff, Joseph C. and James Smith. Wayne County, Indiana: Old Mills and Factories. S.l.: s.n.
  • Reed, H. S. Reed's Illustrated History of Wayne County : From the Year 1804 to the Present Time : Also a Complete Compilation of the Present Most Important Business Interests of the County : With Faithful Illustrations of Prominent Points of Interest. Richmond, Ind.: H.S. Reed, 1880.
  • Schlabach, John Y. Begebenheiten Von Die Alte Amischen Gemeinde Von Holmes Und Wayne County, Ohio Und Adams County Indiana Von 1938 Bis Zu 1958. Millersburg, Ohio: J.Y. Schlabach, 1968.
  • Secrist, Shirley A. My Father's Family : Striley, Head, and Allied Families. Kaysville, Utah: s.n., 2002.
  • Shreve, Irene M. Early Marriages of Wayne County, Indiana, 1811-1822. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1965.
  • Starr, Lewis M. History of Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana. Centerville, Ind.: Press of the Old Trails Echo, 1939.
  • Stewart, Florence Knipe. Story of Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana : As Compiled from Recorded History and the Memories of Many Citizens. 2nd ed. Dublin, Ind.?: F.K. Stewart, 1956.
  • Stiver, Inezetta Eliason. Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana : A Little Bit of History. 1 vols. Indiana?: s. n., 1997.
  • Thomas, Everett Eri. Eri Rich Family Tree Ancestors and Descendants to and from Chester County, Pennsylvania, Guilford and Randolph Counties, N.C., Wayne County, Indiana, Hamilton County, Indiana, Grant County, Indiana : Prefaced with an Account of Rich Family in England. Indianapolis: J. Woolman Press, 1963.
  • Tillson, Hosea C. History and Reminiscences of Bethel Church, Wayne County, Indiana, 1890s?.
  • Wayne County Indiana Historical Society. "The Wayne County Indiana Historical Society : It's Constitution and the Program and Officers." v. S.l.: Wayne County Indiana Historical Society, 1903.
  • Whitewater Valley Junior Historical Society (Ind.). Architectural and Historical Guide to Western Wayne County, Indiana. Ind.: Society, 1977.
  • Young, Andrew W. History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : With Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co. Print, 1872.
  • Yount, Beverly. Tombstone Inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana : Volume 1. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1968.
  • Yount, Beverly. Tombstone Inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana : Volume 2. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1968.
  • Yount, Beverly. Tombstone Inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana : Volume 3. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1968.
  • Yount, Beverly. Tombstone Inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana : Volume 4. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1968.
  • Yount, Beverly Wynn. Families of Hoover, Waymire, Yount, Cowles, Brown, Ross, Julian, Dickinson and Allied Families : Wayne County, Indiana. Richmond, Ind.?: s.n.
  • Yount, Beverly Wynn and Andrew W. Young. A List of Married Couples Compiled from Young's History of Wayne Co. And 1884 History of Wayne County.
 
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Proclamation erecting new county of Wayne, 1803

January 24th. 1803. "Whereas by an act of Congress passed on the 30th April 1802. Entitled an act to enable the people of the Eastern divisions of the Territory North West of the Ohio River, to form a Constitution and State Government, and that after the formation of said State, all that part of the north Western Territory which is not included within the Boundaries prescribed for said State, Shal be attached to and make a part of the Indiana Territory; it has Therefore become necessary for the convenience of the Citizens in the newly acquired Territory and for the due administration of Justice, that a new County should be laid off and Established, the Governor Issued a proclamation Establishing the boundaries as follows viz. beginning at a point where an East and west line passing through the Southerly Extreame of Lake Michigan would intersect a North and South line passing through the most westerly bend of the said Lake, and thence north along the last mentioned line to the Territorial Boundary of the United States thence along the said boundary line to a point where a due east and west line passing through the Southerly extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect the same thence west along the last mentioned line to the place of begining and that the said County should be designated and Known by the name of the County of Wayne

An Act for fixing the time at which the courts of Common Pleas are to be held in certain counties, and for other purposes, 1810

BE it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Indiana Territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, all that part of Dearborn and Clark counties which is included in the following boundaries, shall form and constitute two new counties, that is to say — "Beginning at the corner of townships number 7 and 8, on the line of the state of Ohio, thence north, until the same arrives at fort Recovery, thence, from fort Recovery southwardly, with the line of the western boundary of the purchase made at fort Wayne, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, until the same intersects the line of the northern boundary of the purchase made at Grouseland, thence northwardly, with the line of the last mentioned purchase until the same arrives at a point from which a due east and west line will strike the corner of town seven and eight on the aforesaid state of Ohio line"

An Act for the formation of two new counties out of the counties of Dearborn and Clark, 1811

BE it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Indiana Territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, all that part of Dearborn and Clark counties which is included in the following boundaries, shall form and constitute two new counties, that is to say — "Beginning at the corner of townships number 7 and 8, on the line of the state of Ohio, thence north, until the same arrives at fort Recovery, thence, from fort Recovery southwardly, with the line of the western boundary of the purchase made at fort Wayne, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, until the same intersects the line of the northern boundary of the purchase made at Grouseland, thence northwardly, with the line of the last mentioned purchase until the same arrives at a point from which a due east and west line will strike the corner of town seven and eight on the aforesaid state of Ohio line"

 

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