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Jay County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Bear Creek, Greene, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Madison, Noble, Penn, Pike, Richland, Wabash and Wayne. Jay County was formally organized March 1, 1836. Portland is the County Seat. The locating commissioners met on the first Monday in June, 1836, and decided upon the site at Portland and, at a special meeting of the County Board on December 5, 1836, gave the new County Seat the name of Portland. First settled in 1837 by H. H. Cuppy, C. Hanna, D. W. McNeil, and others, by 1849 it contained 60 houses and had a population of 300. According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1840. History of Jay County
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Your new county co-coordinators are Margie R Pearce and Jim Cox.
We hope you will be patient with us as we improve and add to the content to make researching your ancestors in Jay County ever more productive!
Many thanks to Sandi Koscak for her years of work as the past coordinator. She created most of these pages and we plan to continue to add to her work.
If you have photos, news clippings or other genealogical or historical
material that you would like added to the website, please send them to
Margie Pearce.
Site created by: SLR Creations
The Adams Co., Indiana INGenWeb genealogy web site is maintained by Margie Pearce and Jim Cox. They will be happy to answer all your site questions!
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Copying is permitted for noncommercial, educational use by individual scholars and libraries. You may link to this page with prior permission, provided no fee is required to access the link, but no commercial use of this material is permitted. This message must appear on all copied material.
