Note - Historical. 443
Adieu to the roads which for many a year
I traveled each Sabbath the gospel to
hear,
The news was so joyful and pleased me
so,
From hence where I heard it, it grieves
me to go.
Farewell my white friends who first
taught me to pray
And worship my Savior and Maker each
day.
Pray for the poor native whose eyes
overflow,
With tears at our parting, Alas! I must
go.
NOTE.- HISTORICAL.
In the excellent article "On the
Origin of Ohio Place Names,"
printed in the July issue of the
Quarterly, there were a few slips
which should be noted for correction.
On page 277, "Loramie's store was a
noted landmark and
appeared in all the treaties after
1769." The store was burned
in 1782 by General Clark's men, and was
never replaced. Subse-
quent to 1769, three general treaties
were made with the Indians;
one at Fort McIntosh, in Western
Pennsylvania, January 21st,
1785; one at Fort Harmar, near Marietta,
January 9th, 1789; one
at Greenville, August 3, 1795. Only the last treaty mentions
"Loramie's." The following is
a part of the boundary named
in that treaty: "Thence westerly to
a fork of that branch of the
Great Miami river running into the Ohio
at or near which fork
stood Loramie's store." The store
"was fifteen miles up Lora-
mie's Creek, a branch of the Big Miami.
The stream, the post-
office at the mouth, and the Reservoir
Shelby County, still bear
his name" - so the article
continues. There is no post-office
within several miles of the mouth of the
stream. The post-office
"Loramie" is about 15 miles
from the mouth of the stream, and
is at the village of New Berlin, in the
northwest corner of Shelby
County. The position of Fort Laramie was
fully discussed in
this Quarterly about five years ago. It
follows that the passage
on page 279, wherein it is stated that
the line from the Tuscar-
awas runs "west to Loramie's
Store," is wholly wrong.