John Belli's Federal Patent for Land at the Mouth of Turkey Creek (1802).

ID: 755 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 1802

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

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

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…