| Annals
of Pioneers on the Whitewater and its Tributaries, in the Vicinity of
Richmond, Ind., from 1804 to 1830 is
a small booklet, written by John Macamy Wasson and published in 1875.
Wasson was born in Wayne Township in 1810 and moved with his family
to Richmond in 1829. He was a wagon maker for many years, and later
served as Postmaster of Neill’s Station from 1857 to 1859, and
of Chester from 1861 to 1864. He moved back to Richmond in 1870 and
died in 1884.
Andrew W. Young, author of the first major local
history, History of Wayne County, Indiana (1872), credited
Wasson with some of the research in his own book. “He commenced,
several years ago, the collection of materials for a History of Wayne
County, and had gathered many facts relating to the early settlement
of Wayne township, including the city of Richmond, some of which are
embodied in this work. Although he did not proceed to the completion
of the contemplated history, the project seems to have originated
with him.” (p. 417)
With the exception of some pages of ads, the original
work is 59 pages of solid text with no breaks between thoughts. In
this version the editor has added headings to separate topics where
possible and added a table of contents for these headings. All misspellings
have been left uncorrected unless they interfered with clarity.
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