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The first Circuit Court was held at the house of Henry Childers on the 5th day of May, 1820, Hon. John Trimble presiding. The Grand Jury of this Court were John Marksbury, foreman; Dixon Tongate, John Crook, Daniel Seward, Robert Childers, Richard Lucas, Perry Chipman, Bennett Williams, Zachariah Hogan, Lewis Gregory, John Norton, Ichabod Ashcraft, James Reed, Absalom Skirvin, John Rowland, and Thomas Thomas. This Court adjurned on the day it convened, having transacted all the business, the Grand Jury making three indictments-one against the County Court for not having the County divided into road precincts and overseers appointed. |
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Grant County History
- History of Williamstown, Grant County, KY
- How Grant County Came To Be
- The History of Grant County
- In the Beginning, Part of Virginia
- Grant was once part of Pendleton County
- Formation of New County not without controversy
- First Court; Tavern Rates Established
- First Circuit Court
- New Court House
- First Jail
- Hunting is the Chief Enterprise
- Early Development of Williamstown
- Early Development of Crittenden and Dry Ridge
- Further Development of Williamstown
- Fire
- Grant County Newspapers
- Religious History of Grant County
- The First Schools in Grant County
- School Districts Established
- The Big Tree and the Poison Spring
- General Marquis Lafayette comes to Grant County
- The Lynching of 1841