[1830; Census Place: Perry, Pickaway, Ohio; Series: M19; Roll: 138; Page: 108; Family History Library Film: 0337949. Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]
Ohio Governor Jeremiah Morrow and New York Governor De Witt Clinton had taken part in the ceremonial start of the Ohio and Erie Canal (to link the river to the Great Lakes) on July 4, 1825.
[Map of Ohio showing canals built. Source: Ohio's Historic Canals]
And here's a detail from an 1831 Ohio map showing the route of the canal through Pickaway County.
[Detail from Ohio. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr. New York. Entered ... Nov. 11th in the year 1831 by David H. Burr ... New York. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection]
Obviously Jesse Tomlinson was affected by the construction of the canal as we can see from this page of The Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Canal Commissioners. He was awarded $125, a substantial amount at the time, for the loss of stone taken from his land.
[Ancestry.com. Public documents concerning the Ohio canals : which are to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River, comprising a complete officia [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Public documents concerning the Ohio canals : which are to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River, comprising a complete official history of these great works of internal improvement, from their commencement down to the close of the session of the legislature of 1831-32. Columbus Ohio: I.N. Whiting, 1832.]
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Perry Township is about 17 miles from site of canal.
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