The Ephraim Kimberly Grant was a land tract in eastern

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that was granted to an

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veteran by Congress late in the 18th century. It was located in the Seven Ranges along the

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The

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had little money to pay the soldiers who fought for independence. They made promises of land to induce army enlistment. By resolutions of September 16 and 18, 1776, and August 12, September 22, and October 3, 1780, they proposed to give each officer or private continuously to serve in the

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army until the close of the war, or until discharged, or to the representatives of those slain by the enemy, tract sizes dependent on rank. Capt. Ephraim Kimberly, (October 22, 1738, September 8, 1795) (Company of the 2nd

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) is recognized as a patriot by the

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Society. After the war, Kimberly

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at the mouth of Indian Short Creek, now Short Creek, along the Ohio River. On April 8, 1794, Congress granted Kimberly in an act entitled “AN ACT to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to locate the land warrant issued to him for services in the late American Army” - Text of Act of April 18, 1794

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The Tract was surveyed by Absalom Martin, and was the first deed recorded in Jefferson County, Ohio, located in Warren Township. The tract was in Township 4 of range 2 of the Old Seven Ranges. In modern times,

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lies at the mouth of Short Creek.

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