He was one of the original members of the old Ten-Mile Baptist Church, and shared the early pastoral labors of that body with the Rev. After settling his children around him he went to Chillicothe to purchase an adjoining tract of land, but died in that town in 1807, without effecting his object. Maurice Witham, a native of Maine, here secured a tract of 1,000 acres of land, which he and his family came to occupy in 1800, receiving a patent for his extensive domain Nov. The settlement of Union was effected about the beginning of the present century, and was more general in the southern part than in other sections, one of the most notable settlements being at Withamsville. They are, in the order named from the east, Shaylor's, Salt, and Hall's Runs. The streams are small, draining northward into the East Fork. In the western part it is especially adapted for market gardening, and considerable attention is paid to that industry. Some parts of the up-lands are clayey and their fertility is variable, but generally the soil is productive, and Union ranks well agriculturally. In this part the surface is level, and the township retains this characteristic until within a few miles of the East Fork, when it becomes broken and rugged, but immediately bordering on that stream are fine meadow-lands whose beauty and fertility are not surpassed in the county. It was erected with its present proportions from Ohio Township in December, 1811, with Batavia on the east and, since 1853, Pierce forms the southern boundary. Union is one of the townships bordering on the Hamilton County line, the second from the Ohio, and having for its northern boundary the East Fork of the Little Miami. Transcribed by Genealogy Trails Transcription Team Source: "History of Clermont Co., Ohio," By J. Part of the Genealogy Trails History Group Union Township History from History of Clermont Co Ohio
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