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THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY

THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.

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COMPILED BY W. H. HUNTER.1

 

STEUBENVILLE GAZETTE.

I.

Who were the Pathfinders ?- The Scoth-Irish Exerted Potent

Influence in Winning the Ohio Country from the Wilderness

and the Indians- Ohio History from      the Pennsylvania-

Virginia Point of View- The Third Race Division not

noted by Historians - The Scotch-Irish and not the Puritans

and Cavaliers made Ohio.

By means of the ever busy and facile pens of the descendants

of the noble Puritan fathers, the belief has taken deep root in the

eastern states, and it is not without adherents in the west, that

the pre-eminent position Ohio maintains as an element of the

Republic, is wholly due to the remarkable fecundity, mental and

physical, of the eight families from New England who located

at Marietta in 1788. Until very recent years no one had the

temerity to dispute in the least degree the claim that Ohio is

solely the product of Puritan forethought, fortitude, thrift, moral

power and enterprise, and no writer considered the pains de-

manded to gather data for a controversy, worth the bother to

show that other races should share the honor with the Anglo-

Saxon Puritan. However, the past few years have developed

a disposition among the so-called Scotch-Irish people2 to dispute,

1 In preparing the historical sketches introductory to a report of the

celebration of the Centennial of Jefferson county, the compiler has availed

himself of data gathered for the Caldwell History of Belmont and Jeffer-

son counties; of reports of proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Society of

America; addresses delivered at New England Society Dinners; the files of

The Steubenville Gazette, and historical addresses delivered by him before

historical societies in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and papers prepared

by him for the Wells Historical Society of Jefferson county.

2In a very able work entitled "The Covenanter, the Cavalier and the

Puritan" by Judge Temple of Tennessee, the Scotch-Irish are denominated

Covenanters.