Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana

    First doctor of Washington Twp. in Gibson Co.,IN was Dr. Joseph Davidson/Davisson.  Washington Twp. is bounded on the south by Patoka and Center Twps.  This township was located in the northeast corner of Gibson Co. and was bordered on the northeast by Clay Township of Pike Co.   The White River was its northern border.   Washington Twp. was formed from White River Twp.,Gibson Co. in 1824.     Gibson County was once part of Knox Co. until 1813.  Next to Washington Twp. was Clay Twp. of Pike Co.   This area was once part of Gibson Co. before 1824.

   The names Davidson, Colvin, Hillman, Hornbrook, McClellan, Nixon, and Decker are found on a plat map in 1881. This is the township that my Josiah Davisson moved to before 1840.  Here his neighbors were Richard, Fieldin and Peyton J. Colvin.   Other interesting neighbors were Abraham Nixon, Samuel and Henry Decker, and James W. Lawnsdale.   Abraham Nixon married Eliza Whipps, daughter of Elizabeth Davison Whipps Colvin.   His brother, Andrew Nixon, married Ingiba Whipps, daughter of Elizabeth Davison Whipps Colvin.  James W. Lawnsdale, I believe is the son of James Lawnsdale and Mary Hillman.

  As of now, I believe Dr. Joseph Davidson, the Colvins, the Hillmans and the Lawnsdales are important clues to my Josiah Davisson.   Colvins, Hillmans, Whipps, and Lawnsdales knew each other in Kentucky and probably moved to Indiana together about 1816.