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Bono Bono township is situated on the southeast corner of the county. It is the oldest town settlement in the county established in 1816. The town was laid out on april 4, and the proprietors were William Hoggart, Marston G Clark and Joseph Kitchell. The first Merchant to settle in Bono was William Holland about 1818. Other early merchants were John kelly,Charles Miller, Thomas Lemon, James W Prow, James Batman, Asher Wilcox, ephraim Brock, Uriah Dilly, Albert johnson, John Shade, Thomas W Stevens, and Gabriel Harvey. the first physician was Walker Kelso, and Williamson Dunn was another doctor to come later. James Oldham was the owner of the first Grist Mill in the fifties. The first postmaster was Patrick Callan.
Guthrie Townsjip was the last to be formed in 1818 in the county of Lawrence, and is named for one of its prominent families of the early days. The first settler of guthrie i believed to be James Connelly, a squatter and native of North Carolina. The year was about 1815 and Connelly brought his family with him, building a double log cabin Land Entries for Guthrie were: 1816
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Others in this early list includedTHomas Dixon, William Shadrach, William Holland Sr., John Allen, robert milsap and his sons William, and James, Abner Walters, Samuel and William Foster, Benjamin and Isaac Newkirk, Jacob Mullis and John Dowland.
This township was named after Gen Francis marion the famous commander in the Revolutionary War. Early 1815 Lewis Phillips built a cabin. The only other early inhabitant was Samuel Hoskins who came from South Carolina. In the spring of 1816 many others arrived among them being George Sheeks, william Erwin, John Finger, Joseph Ples, Elijah Murray, thomas Rowark, John Sutton, James Boswell, and Joseph Boswell. All of these settlers were farmers with the exception of of Rowark who was a blacksmith.
One of three townships which form the northeast of the county Marshall is the center, and is next to smallest in the county. It was named for John marshall the chief Justice of the United States. The early land entries for Marshall were in 1816, 1816
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The first merchant of Marshall was Eliphalet Pearson the father of Judge E D Pearson of Bedford.
Township is located in the north East Corner of Lawrence County, and it was created when the County was organized in 1818. The township takes it's name from a creek that crosses the township named Pleasant. the least populated township of pleasant had but twenty - three land entries by 1829. The entries are as follows;
Shawswick was one of the original five towwnships, and the name came about because a man named Wick had many admirers in the county who insisted that the township be named after him. One of the commissioners at that time named beazley, had a comrade by the name of Shaw, who was killed at the batlle of Tippecanoe and he garnered support for naming the township after Shaw. A compromise was made and the township became Shawswick. Three Constables were appointed to the township being Nathaniel Vaughn, William Dale, and John Sutton.
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