Troy Township

The settlement in the present Troy Township was about as early as any in the county. Elias Rector bought on Section 31, Township 6 south, Range 3 west, in 1809, and at the same time on Section 5, between Cannelton and Tell City. Aaron Fountain entered at Tell City and vicinity, a large quantity of land from 1813 to 1818. Wait Vaughan was one of the earliest settlers locating on Section 15, just above Cannelton in 1816. Isaac Wilcox located on Section 8, below Cannelton in 1817. David A. Leonard settled near Vaughan in 1818. John Cummings in 1815, bought on Section 29, now the northern part of Tell City. Abel Butler bought near him in 1818. John Sutherland entered a tract on Section 33, now the southeastern part of Tell City, in 1816, and Benjamin Persinger on the same section in 1819. Thomas Trasher bought on Section 6, Township 7 south, Range 2 west, in 1817. Dosier and Castleberry, two early settlers, gave names to the creeks at Cannelton. The Fulton Tract of land between Tell City and Cannelton was once owned by Robert Fulton, who first effected the application of steam to boats. Above Cannelton in 1824, the Marquis de la Fayette was compelled to pass the night in the log-house of Mr. Cavender, owing to the wrecking of the steamer on which he was a passenger, the " Lady Franklin." An interesting event at Troy is the fact that Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, kept a ferry there for a few weeks for Taylor, Porter or McDaniel. This fact is too well authenticated by those yet living, who saw young Lincoln thus engaged, to be doubted. An election held at the court house in Troy for representatives to Congress and the Legislature, August 4, 1817, resulted as follows : For Congress, Thomas Posey, 57 ; William Hendricks, 8. For the General Assembly, Samuel Connor, 62 ; Aaron Cunningham, 2. The following men polled their votes at this time: Peter Barber, William Gilbert, John Daist, James Hendricks, William Bolin, John Small, Joseph Wright, John Barber, John Bristoe, John Carter, Thomas Richardson, Daniel Hendricks, Adam Dosier, Sr., Joseph Wright, James Bristoe, John Farris, John Parrett, Runnels Jeffers, Thomas Carter, John Richardson, Marion Carter, Barnet Dewitt, Richard Hazel, Aquila Huff, Elisha Dewitt, Daniel Hazel, Samuel Hazel, John Hazel, Reuben Grigsby, John Terry, William Laforce, James Masterson, Hugh Masterson, Jonathan Johnson, John Archibald, Amos Richards, Nathaniel Huntington, Michael Huffman, William Hicks, John Miller, John Erwin, Edward Bibb, Austin Lincoln, Elisha Terry, George Huffman, Adam Dosier, Jr., David Edwards, Sr., Michael House, Samuel Eslick, John McCrum, Stephen McDaniel, Joseph Murray, Haws Posey, Samuel E. Goodrich, Richard Potts, Theodorus Davis, James Taylor, John Cummings, George Tobin, William Jones, Ishmael Connor, James McDaniel, Elias Roberts, Solomon Lamb, John D. Lamb, John H. Phillips.