ABSTRACT
John Collier, a native of England, in 1817 came to America on a prospecting tour and visited this county. He with a fellow traveler walked over the mountains to Pittsburgh and from thence proceeded by skiff to Lawrenceburgh. The same year he returned to his native country, walking the entire distance from Tanner's Creek to Philadelphia. On his return to England he was married, and in 1819, a colony, composed in part of his two sisters and their families, namely, Ann Hansell and Jane Conforth, the Chapilows, the Clarks, the Linuses, John Gatenby and others, in addition to several unmarried men: These were all of one neighborhood. They landed in Lawrenceburgh in the autumn of 1819. The Hansell family settled on the west or north fork of Tanner's Creek, about one and a half miles above the village of Guilford.
