Notes from Charlene about this list:
I am a decendent of John Ferris, and since he was a notary and very active in his community, we have many papers that have been passed down through the family.

I was looking through these recently and came across the militia list, which I have copied and attached.  As you can see, I have some questions about some of the names, either because of the spelling or because of the handwriting.  Also, a few were in pencil, which has faded.

I checked what I could in The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati, but since I find this book incomplete, to say the least, it hasn't been all that helpful where really old documentation is concerned.

Capt. John Ferris Jr. was the grandson of Isaac Ferris, who arrived in Cincinnati in November, 1788, according to papers I have that look to have been written by Isaac's son,  Ezra. Isaac and his wife, Mary Sherwood, had five sons: Ebenezer, Isaac, Abram, Ezra and John.   The Capt. John of this list is the son of this John Ferris. They first lived in Columbia and Isaac and his family were founding members of the Duck Creek Baptist Church; in fact, Isaac was the first deacon.  Later the family moved to Mount Lookout and, according to my brother, when the train began running, John moved over to Bond Hill, about 1850.  His farm is now the Macatewa (sp?) Golf Course. Their house was on Paddock Rd and was torn down in my brother's memory (he was born in 1941).  John's daughter, Mary, my great-grandmother, and her husband, James Ayres Wilson, built a home at 1323 Regent Ave. in Bond Hill, about 1877; it is still there.  My grandfather, Karle Sherwood Wilson, and his wife, Stella Blanche Wright lived on Carolina Ave., also in Bond Hill, in a house that was moved to that site.  It was rumored to have been the Bond farm house, for which Bond Hill was named, but I have no way of documenting that.  This list must be from a militia which existed on the eastern side of the city.   I based this assumption on my family history, but I was also able to find Elmore Cunningham (1812 to 1901) listed in the Bicentennial Guide to Cincinnati.  On page 193 of the Guide it says that he was a successful meat packer who built a brick house in the mid-1860s.  This home became the rectory for Holy Name Roman Catholic Church at 2448 Auburn Ave.  Charlene de Condé