Arvine Wales, Charity School of Kendal History, ca. 1849

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                     on acct of the health of his Wife whose
	                lungs were not equal to NE winters            
	      Thos Rotch left Hartford Ct^
	in the winter of 1810-1811 & explored Ohio to
	Cincinnati and to Urbanna & Springfield
	his object to look out a suitable place to erect a
	woolen Manufactory and lands suitable for the
	raising of sheep. In Apr. he returned to Hartford
	and made arrangements to remove to Ohio & started
                    400
	his flock of ^ Merino Sheep for the then far west on
	the 17th of Sept and crossed the Ohio at Steubenville
	where a pasture was procured for the sheep & 
	late in the Mo of Nov explored & purchased 3 qt
	sec that had been entend that embraced the fall
	of Sippo Creek above the Folger Qt together with
	entering to 2500 acres of land and before
	the month of May all the lands of value were entered
	in the neighborhood that were then considered worth
	purchasing.  The plat of Kendal
	bears date April 20th 1812 Which was
	the first enterprise of any note in this neighbor
	hood this and the following year a saw mill
	was built, a woolen factory & about 30 dwelling
					occasioned by
	houses were erected  the derangements ^the war
	left us without a circulating medium & the
			country
	productions of the^ were of very little value
	beyond the consumption of its inhabitants
	until the opening of the Ohio Canal when that
	improvement was located. Massillon was laid
				    that
	out upon its banks drawing to^ point the enterprise
	and energies that had commenced the earlier
	settlement backed up by an
	   agricultural community not supported
	by industry, & economy by any section of the
	United States in the center of a wheat growing
	region which has no parallel.  Columbianna
	                     can
	Stark Wayne & Richland^ produce more wheat
	than any other 4 County in Contiquity in the
	U.S.A.  before they were dismembered by erecting