Greenfield was first settled in 1799 and was incorporated as a township in 1805. Isaac Meason, father of the late Venerable John Meason, was among the first to settle in the bounds of Greenfield. At the time of his coming there is said to have been not above half a dozen of families within the boundaries of the then very large township. Their names are Captain Joseph Stewart, father of Levi Stewart, now of Lancaster, Wm. Farland, Ralph Cherry, Jeremiah Cherry, Joshua Meeks, Dorsey Meason and Samuel Randall their lands under the "Tomahawk" Pre-Emption Claim, but they were subsequently sectioned and sold as Congress Lands at two dollars an acre, without any reference to "Squatter Sovereignty”. *

*A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio by Hervey Scott” Published in 1877