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Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications.
SOME ERRORS CORRECTED.
BY CHARLES E. SLOCUM, M. D., PH.
D., DEFIANCE, OHIO.
The following, regarding several
historic places in north
western Ohio, is submitted as a plea for
greater care by writers
and speakers that errors in historical
data may lessen rather than
increase:
FORT MIAMI, THE STILL-EXISTING
EARTHWORKS OF WHICH ARE
WITHIN THE PRESENT LIMITS OF THE
VILLAGE OF MAU-
MEE, OHIO.
The pamphlet containing the "Appeal
of the Maumee Valley
Monumental Association to the Congress
of the United States,"
in the winter of 1885-86, reads,
regarding Fort Miami, in part as
follows: "* * * by order of Glencoe, Governor of Canada,
it was re-occupied in 1785, as a
military post * * * in 1795
it was again abandoned * * *."
Whether these statements were copied, as
they read in the
pamphlet, from a former publication or
not, is not known to the
writer. Canada's Governor thus referred
to bore the name Sim-
coe, not Glencoe, and the British did
not build, nor re-occupy, Fort
Miami in the year 1785.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Sim-
coe, of good repute in the British army
in the Revolutionary war,
was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada,
under Lord Dorches-
ter, from 1791 to 1794. He it was who
built Fort Miami, and in
April, 1794.
This fort was evacuated by the British
garrison July 11, 1796,
not in I795 as stated in the pamphlet;
and it was immediately
occupied by a detachment of United
States troops that was en-
camped near by for this purpose. It was
soon thereafter aban-
doned on account of there being no need
of a fortification so near
(within seven miles direct line) of Fort
Industry.
In the pamphlet containing "A
Collection of Historical Ad-
dresses (relating to) the Battle Fields
of the Maumee Valley, De-
livered Before the Sons of the American
Revolution, District of