James M Templin - Historical record

From the Pioneer records of Ross County Ohio.

James Templin Sr. emigrated from Kentucky to this Township in 1795. His Family consisted of Soloman, Robert, Jeremiah, Isaac, Margaret, and John. He landed at Portsmouth, and came up the Scioto to the station. He bought his land from General Massie. The old town was then the headquarters of the Indians. He and his brother John were in Colonel Clarks Regiment in the war of 1812, and helped build Fort Meigs. At the end of the war he resumed the cultivation of his farm. He was twice married and had fourteen children. He is now eighty one years of age and rather feeble. His children are scattered, most of them being in the west.