Philip Hawn settled on Survey 3,750, of 100 acres, in the western part of the township in 1819, and remained there till his death.  His wife, Mrs. Mary Hawn, claimed to have been the first white female child born at Cincinnati, where her birth occurred March 5, 1791.  Her father was Jacob Linsicome, who came down the Ohio from Pennsylvania in the fall of 1790 and stayed during the ensuing winter with his family within what are now the limits of Cincinnati.  Soon after the birth of Mary, be purchased land in Turkey Bottom and removed his family there.  He died of small-pox within three years after, and his widow subsequently became the wife of Samuel Edwards.  After a short time they moved to a place on the stream called Sycamore, and in 1821 to the Pickaway plains, settling three miles from Circleville.  Here Mary married Philip Hawn, and having exchanged her share of her father's land in Hamilton County for the 100 acres in Jerome, removed to it with her husband in 1819.  She survived her husband some years and died at the residence of her son Joseph Hawn near Unionville Center, June 21, 1861.