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::There are TONS of counties in Northeast Ohio, all part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, that were ''created/founded'' on one date, but the county government was not ''organized'' until a later date...sometimes even a few years later. Please see [http://books.google.com/books?id=xEsbLFoBttYC&dq=history%20of%20the%20western%20reserve%20vol%201&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20the%20western%20reserve%20vol%201&f=false this link] from ''History of the Western Reserve'', page 58-59, which clearly identifies several counties which were set out, but did not have their governments functioning until a later date. I highly doubt this is unique only to Ohio. It has the ramifications of certain documents being caught in "limbo", that is, during the time in between county creation and organization, some documents may be left with the parent county or may have been taken to the new county--it just depends on who was organizing things and how it was done. Until a county (and this was true of ''many'' townships as well) was '''organized''', there were no courts for the new jurisdiction, so some things had to be done through the previous one. I hope I have made this clear. - [[User:LeeTHawkins|LeeTHawkins]] 17:56, 19 August 2011 (UTC) | ::There are TONS of counties in Northeast Ohio, all part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, that were ''created/founded'' on one date, but the county government was not ''organized'' until a later date...sometimes even a few years later. Please see [http://books.google.com/books?id=xEsbLFoBttYC&dq=history%20of%20the%20western%20reserve%20vol%201&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20the%20western%20reserve%20vol%201&f=false this link] from ''History of the Western Reserve'', page 58-59, which clearly identifies several counties which were set out, but did not have their governments functioning until a later date. I highly doubt this is unique only to Ohio. It has the ramifications of certain documents being caught in "limbo", that is, during the time in between county creation and organization, some documents may be left with the parent county or may have been taken to the new county--it just depends on who was organizing things and how it was done. Until a county (and this was true of ''many'' townships as well) was '''organized''', there were no courts for the new jurisdiction, so some things had to be done through the previous one. I hope I have made this clear. - [[User:LeeTHawkins|LeeTHawkins]] 17:56, 19 August 2011 (UTC) | ||
::Also, a perfect example of such a county is [[Lorain County, Ohio|Lorain County, Ohio]], which I have been working on for the past week or so. While it was created in December 1822, it did not have a functioning government with courts, etc., until January 1824, meaning there are records that may reside with the previous three jurisdictions for this period. County records do not start for this county until 1824. Therefore, the creation date is not so relevant as the ''organization date''. - [[User:LeeTHawkins|LeeTHawkins]] 18:08, 19 August 2011 (UTC) | |||
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