Clermont County Ohio Genealogy Trails A part of the Genealogy Trails History Group   Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Ohio is covered under our "Midwest" mailing list. Clermont County Founded: December 6, 1800 County Seat: Batavia Largest city: Milford Clermont County was established in 1800 and was the eighth County established in the Northwest Territory. The first village in Clermont County was Williamsburg, which was established in 1796. A large number of the early settlers came from Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia. The original county seat was in Williamsburg (originally spelled Williamsburgh), where it remained until 1823. It then moved to New Richmond along the Ohio River for one year before moving to Batavia, where it remains today. Clermont County played an important role in the Underground Railroad due to it being just across the river from the slave owning states of Kentucky and Virginia. A number of villages in Clermont County gave refuge to slaves, including New Richmond, Moscow, Williamsburg and Bethel. Clermont County was one of the first places that slaves could rest and be safe. A number of Native American tribes called Clermont County home, including the Miami, Delaware, Mingo, Ottawa and Cherokee. [Source: Wikipedia.org] Townships Batavia -- Franklin Goshen -- Jackson Miami -- Monroe Ohio -- Pierce Stonelick -- Tate Union -- Washington Wayne -- Williamsburg Municipalities and CDP's Amelia -- Batavia Bethel -- Chilo Felicity -- Loveland Milford -- Moscow Neville -- New Richmond Newtonsville -- Owensville Williamsburg -- Cherry Grove Day Heights -- Mount Carmel Mount Repose -- Mulberry Summerside -- Withamsville ONLINE DATA BIOGRAPHIES BIRTHS CEMETERIES CENSUS MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA OBITUARIES  DEATHS County HISTORY WILLS MAPS Township History  SUBMIT AN OBIT     Adjacent counties Warren County (north) Clinton County (north) Brown County (east) Bracken County, KY (south) Pendleton County, KY (southwest) Campbell County, KY (southwest) Hamilton County (west)   Visitors Since 8 Aug 2008 Back to the OHIO State Page JOIN US! DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY Submitters retain all copyrights ©2008 Genealogy Trails