Portrait of Major John Belli, from a Painting Made in Philadelphia in November, 1794

ID: 715 ~ Source: "Re-Interment of Major John Belli." Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly 12 (October 1909): 176-84

This file appears in: Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek

This file appears in: Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek

Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek

In the summer of 1787, John O'Bannon surveyed a one-thousand acre parcel at the Mouth of Turkey Creek in what would become Scioto County, Ohio. O'Bannon selected these lands for Larkin Smith, a…