Ohio History Journal

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THE KENDAL COMMUNITY

THE KENDAL COMMUNITY.

 

 

 

WENDALL P. FOX, MASSILLON.

[The following article concerning the "Kendal Community" was

secured for publication through the courtesy of Mr. Wendall P. Fox

of Massillon, Ohio. Mr. Fox in an explanatory letter to the Editor

makes the statement a portion of which we use as a preface to the

article itself.-E. 0. R.]

PREFACE.

According to the "History of Stark County" the first set-

tlers came to Perry township in the summer of 1806. Perry

township included the territory occupied by the city of Massillon

and the old village of Kendal is included within the present cor-

porate limits of the city. The township of Perry was created in

1813.

The inhabitants of the township were directed by the com-

missioners to meet at the house of Samuel Patton, in Kendal,

on the last Saturday of February, 1814, to elect township offi-

cers. From this it may be seen that the village of Kendal was

in existence before Perry township was organized. From the

source mentioned above we learn that the first religious society

organized west of Canton in Stark County was the "The Kendal

Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends" their Monthly

Meeting being at Marl-Borough, Quarterly Meeting at Salem,

and the Yearly Meeting being held at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson

County. It is supposed that all these organizations existed as

early as 1813. The principal members of Kendal Preparative

Meeting were Isaac Bowman, Richard Williams, Zaccheus

Stanton, Charles Coffin, Thomas Rotch, Mayhew Folger, Joseph

Hobson, Jonathan Michener, Matthew    Macy, Thomas Coffin,

Micajah Macy, and others, all of whom with a single exception,

were heads of families. About the year 1825 Kendal was visited

by two men, Paul Brown and Josiah Warren, who were both

disciples of Robert Owen the founder of a socialistic Com-

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