"...Among those who came during the first fifteen years of the colony were David Hudson, 1799; Thaddeus Lacey, 1799; R. H. Blin, 1799; William McKinley, 1799; David Kellogg, 1799; Joseph Darrow, 1799; Jonah Meacham, 1799; Jesse Lindley, 1799; Samuel Bishop, 1800; David Bishop, 1800; Joseph Bishop, 1800; Luman Bishop, 1800; George Darrow, 1800; Allen Gaylord, 1800; Joel Gaylord, 1801; Heman Oviatt, 1801; Stephen Thompson, Sr., 1801; Abraham Thompson, 1801; Stephen Thompson, Jr., 1801; Dr. Moses Thompson, 1801; John Bridge, 1801; James Newton, 1801; George Pease, 1801 Eben Pease, 1801; William Leach, 1801; George Kilbourne, 1801; Bradford Kellogg, 1801; Amos Lusk, 1801; John Oviatt, 1801; Eliada Lindley, 1801; William Boughton, 1801; Ezra Wyatt, 1801; Aaron Norton, 1801; Robert Walker, 1801; John Walker, 1801; James Walker, 1801; Robert Walker, Jr., 1801; George Walker, 1801; Elisha Norton, 1802; George Holcomb, 1802; Nathaniel Farrand, 1803; Robert O'Brien, 1803; John O'Brien, 1803; Charles Miles, 1804; Rev. David Bacon, 1804; Henry Post, 1804; Zina Post, 1804; Jonathan Williams, 1804; Christian Cackler, Sr., 1804; Owen Brown, 1805; Benjamin Whedon, 1805; Marmaduke Deacon, 1805; Daniel Johnson, 1809; William Chamberlain, 1809; William Chamberlain, Jr., 1809; Nathaniel Stone, 1810; Samuel Hollenbeck, 1810; Gad Hollenbeck, 1810; Joseph Kingsbury, 1810; Elisha Ellsworth, 1810; Dr. Jonathan Metcalf, 1812; Augustus Baldwin, 1812; Dudley Humphrey, 1812 Ariel Cobb, 1813; Gideon Mills, 1814; Chauncey Case, 1814; Harvey Baldwin, 1814; Rev. John Seward, 1814. Most of these persons came from Litchfield County, Connecticut, or Ontario County in the State of New York. The larger proportion were married, and some brought into the country large families, that intermarried, so that few of the earliest families remained unrelated in this way. David Hudson brought in a family of six children - Samuel, Ira, William, Timothy, Milo and Abigail. Ira Hudson married Huldah Oviatt; William married Phoebe Hutchinson; Milo married Hannah Rogers; Abigail married Birdseye Oviatt. Samuel Bishop had a family of five sons and four daughters: Timothy married Rebecca Craig; David married Miss Kennedy; Luman married Rachel Gaylord; Reuben died single; Joseph married Miss Hollenbeck; one of the girls married Stephen Perkins; one, Elijah Nobles; one, Samuel Vaile; and one, Gad Hollenbeck. Joel Gaylord brought with him three sons and four daughters: John, Daniel, Harvey, Sally, Olive and Betsey; Sally Gaylord married William Leach; and afterward a John Ford; Olive married George Darrow; Betsey married William McKinley; and Nancy married William Chamberlain." - Reminiscences by Christian Cackler

History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Chicago. 1881. pp.420-421