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During the year there has been a large number of visitors

at the Park. The custodian reports more than twenty-five thous-

and. While many of these, doubtless, have been the usual Sun-

day and holiday visitors, they have been orderly while at the Park

and, let us hope, have carried away with them some wholesome

impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy.

(Signed) W. H. COLE,

Chairman of Committee.

 

 

REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE

A. E. CULBERT, Chairman

On the fourth of October, the birthday anniversary of Ruth-

erford B. Hayes, in accordance with our annual custom, a cele-

bration and observation of the day was held at the Hayes Home-

stead and the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum    in the

Spiegel Grove State Park. The twenty-five members of the

lately organized Hayes Historical Society had been invited by

Colonel and Mrs. Hayes to be their guests at a dinner on October

3rd in preparation for the annual meeting of the Society on the

morning of the fourth.

Notwithstanding the gloom that was cast over the assemblage

by the sudden death of Professor Azariah S. Root, who was the

distinguished Secretary, Librarian and Chairman of the Book-

Purchase Committee of the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society, and also Director of

Research at original sources in Spain, France, England and Can-

ada, relative to the State of Ohio, the Northwest Territory, the

United States of America and the Western Hemisphere, which

had recently been endowed by Mary Miller Hayes, in an amount

equal to the bequests of her husband, a most successful meeting

was held.

The Rev. Dr. Thompson had hurried home to attend the

celebration and here met former Secretary of War Newton D.

Baker, former Justice of the Supreme Court, John H. Clarke,

who, with Representative Theodore E. Burton--absent in Europe

--and the American Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick--

slowly recovering at his home in Cleveland--constituted, with

Colonel and Mrs. Webb C. Hayes, the Board of Trustees of the

Rutherford B. Hayes-Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation.

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This meeting was held in commemoration of the fact that,

during the last twelve years of the life of Rutherford B. Hayes,

after the termination of his administration of four years as Presi-

dent of the United States from 1877 to 1881, he associated himself

and took an active interest in connection with many charitable

and philanthropic semi-public duties, as well as of military and

educational nature, throughout the United States, and, in partic-

ular, associated himself with educational and historical institu-

tions in his native state of Ohio.

In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Agreements

of the donors, the Trustees had appointed an Honorary Advisory

Council of twelve, consisting of the persons, who, from time to

time, are successors in the following positions formerly held by

Rutherford B. Hayes, or as a trustee or member of the Society,

viz.:

The Governor of the State of Ohio (Hon. A. V. Donahey)

The President of Kenyon College, Gambier (Rev. Dr. W. F.

Peirce)

The President of Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Rev.

Dr. R. E. Vinson)

The President of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware (Rev. Dr.

J. W. Hoffman)

The President of Ohio State University, Columbus (Dr. G. W.

Rightmire)

The President of Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Soci-

ety, Columbus (Hon. Arthur C. Johnson)

The President of Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland

(Hon. W. P. Palmer)

The President of the Firelands Pioneer and Historical Society,

Norwalk (Hon. H. L. Peeke)

The President of the Maumee Valley Historical Society, Toledo

(Represented by Judge J. H. Tyler)

The President of the Cincinnati Literary Club, Cincinnati (Dr.

G. B. Rhodes)

The Commander Ohio Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal

Legion (Captain E. L. Buchwalter)

The Occupant of the Hayes Homestead in Spiegel Grove, Fre-

mont (Colonel Webb C. Hayes)

The Trustees, as authorized, had further appointed an Exec-

utive Subordinate Body to have local charge of the management

and care of the memorial properties at Spiegel Grove and such

other service in connection therewith, consisting of the following,

who constituted also the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society:

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Judge A. E. Culbert, Fremont, Chairman of the Executive Body

in charge of the memorial properties and Chairman of the

Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological

and Historical Society.

Judge A. W. Overmyer, Fremont.

Miss Lucy E. Keeler, Fremont.

Mr. H. D. Messick, Vice-President Union Trust Company, Cleve-

land, Custodian of the funds and bequests, Treasurer.

Miss Linda E. Eastman, Librarian Cleveland Public Library.

Professor A. S. Root, Librarian of Oberlin College, Secretary,

Librarian and Chairman of the Book-Purchase Committee of

the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio State Archaeologi-

cal and Historical Society, and Director of Research at orig-

inal sources in Spain, France, England and Canada, relating

to the State of Ohio. the Northwest Territory, the United

States of America and the Western Hemisphere.

Professor C. C. Kohl, Bowling Green State Normal College.

The reports of Professor Root and Professor Kohl, on the

policy to be pursued, were read and considered and referred to a

special committee, consisting of Dr. Thompson, Mr. Baker and

Colonel Hayes.

Resolutions were adopted by the Trustees on the passing of

Professor Root, whose funeral at Oberlin was later attended by

the Trustees present, and also resolutions of sympathy to Ambas-

sador Herrick and of welcome to Theodore E. Burton, now on

the ocean, on his return from his public service at Geneva, Swit-

zerland.

Regret was voiced over the failure to be present of the mem-

bers of the Archaeological Society, whose Vice-President, Mr.

George F. Bareis, had announced they would make a pilgrimage to

Spiegel Grove and to the Battlefield of Fallen Timbers, for which

a cordial welcome had been tendered. It was specially desired,

in view of the pilgrimage last year to the southern portion of the

state and Marietta, as the first seat of civil government under

Rufus Putnam in 1788, to call the attention of the members to

the fact that the illustrious patriot, Israel Putnam, the hero of

Bunker Hill and many other similar military achievements, had

been sent as the commander of the Connecticut Battalion of two

hundred and fifty men, jointly with battalions from the colonies of

New York and New Jersey and five hundred British Regulars,

which formed the Bradstreet Expedition under orders of General

Gage, the British Commander-in-Chief in America, to recover

the seven British forts captured in Pontiac's Conspiracy of the

previous year and had conducted an expedition from Albany to

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the relief of Detroit and had reached, as its westernmost point, the

lower rapids of the Sandusky River at Fremont, where they

forced, by their presence in the center of the Indian country,

the surrender of all the white prisoners, held by them, to Colonel

Bouquet's Expedition, which had started from Fort Pitt and

reaped the glory and rewards gained by Bradstreet, whose treaty

with the Indians had been disapproved by the British Commander,

General Gage, with whom he was not in sympathy.

Israel Putnam and the Bradstreet Expedition encamped along

the ridge overlooking the Sandusky River, Brady's Island and

the Indian town, through the center of which the unfortunate

white prisoners, captured in Pennsylvania and Kentucky and

on the Ohio River, were forced to run the gauntlet, including

among the latter, Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, as well as the

unfortunate Moravians under Heckewelder and Zeisberger. This

occupation of the Sandusky country by the Bradstreet Expedi-

tion and the settlement resulting therefrom occurred some twenty-

four years before the organization of civil government at Marietta

under the younger Putnam, the distinguished Colonel Rufus Put-

nam, a distant relative.

The Colonel George Croghan Chapter, Daughters of the

American Revolution, after greeting the distinguished guests, had

an interesting meeting, the theme of which was "Israel Putnam,"

prepared by Mrs. H. G. Edgerton, a copy of which we present

herewith and urge that it be included as our report in the forth-

coming QUARTERLY of the Society, together with the portrait of

General Israel Putnam, which is found in Volume XVII of the

Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, for 1908.

Great regret was expressed at the inability of President

Johnson and Secretary Galbreath to honor us with their presence

and, in closing, we wish to express our appreciation of the prompt

and efficient service, especially of Mr. Galbreath, during the last

session of the Legislature and up to the present time.

Although it is but fifteen years since the construction of the

original Hayes Memorial Building, under funds prepared par-

tially by the State, but largely from Colonel Hayes' bequest, we

regret that the defects in the architectural plans by the original

architects, Howard and Merriam, and the later plans of the addi-

tions made under the supervision of the last two State Architects,

have nearly caused the destruction of some of the most valued

exhibits and made it necessary to request assistance from the

Board of Control for the revamping of the drainage and a cir-

culation of air through the building, as well as the defective heat-

ing plant, which we are now engaged in endeavoring to remedy.

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The report of the Librarian, Mrs. Dorothy E. Wright, shows

that there have been added to the Hayes Memorial Library, by the

acquisition of the Birchard A. Hayes collection, approximately

2200 volumes, from Miss Lucy E. Keeler 50 bound copies of the

Fremont Weekly Journal from 1849 to 1900, and 748 books pur-

chased through the Book Purchase Fund of which Professor Root

was Chairman.

After the address of the Regent of the Colonel George

Croghan Chapter, Mrs. Mary-Elizabeth Truesdall Williams, she

expressed the hope that the Hayes Birthday Meetings, on October

fourth, be devoted to at least one theme, to be delivered by a

member of the Chapter, on our forefathers who participated in

one of the expeditions prior to the close of the Revolutionary

War, or at least prior to the close of General Anthony Wayne's

Expedition, terminating in the final defeat of the Indian tribes

at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 8, 1795.

After well-delivered patriotic songs by the double quartet,

the program called for the christening, by the "laying on of

hands," of trees named in honor of the three "Life Trustees"--the

Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, President Emeritus of Ohio

State University; the Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War

during the World War; and the Hon. John H. Clarke, late

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,

who were present; and Major General Robert L. Howze and

Major General Dennis E. Nolan, both Commanders of the Fifth

Corps Area at Fort Hayes, Columbus, former comrades of Colonel

Hayes in the War with Spain and the World War.

It is suggested that the photographic illustration of the Spiegel

Grove State Park, shown on page 13 of the Illustrated Catalog,

with the Hayes Homestead, the Hayes Memorial Library and

Museum, the old Sandusky-Scioto Trail from Lake Erie to the

Ohio River (the Harrison Trail of the War of 1812) and some

of the native trees which have been christened by the "laying on

of hands" and named after distinguished guests, a custom estab-

lished by President Hayes during the twenty years prior to his

death in 1893 and since continued by Colonel Webb C. Hayes,

M. H., the donor of the Spiegel Grove State Park, be inserted

with our report and the attached roster.

The Regent called attention to the photostat copy of the

Connecticut Archives, giving the names of the following as mem

bers of three of the companies of the Connecticut Battalion under

Major Israel Putnam, which are here printed in order to secure the

names of any descendants of the Connecticut Battalion who still

reside in this county. These were kindly furnished by Mr. George

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S. Godard, the distinguished Librarian of the Connecticut State

Library at Hartford, Connecticut, who has indicated his continu-

ing interest in similar work:

Connecticut Archives. Manuscript Index

War. 1675-1774. Vol. 10. Doc. 203,204.

This Assembly Doth Appoint Israel Putnam Esq. to be

Major of the Forces now ordered to be Raised in this colony.

Past in the Lower House

Test Abr'm Davenport Clerk

March 1764     Concurred in the Upper House

Test George Wyllys Sands

This Assembly do Appoint

Israel Putnam                  Capt.}

Levi Willer                       1st Lt.}of the 1st Company

Daniel Moulton              2nd Lt.}

xAmos Hitchcock              Capt.}

xJames Arnold                   1st Lt.}of the second Company

xJosiah Stow                      2nd Lt.}

John Tyler                       Capt.}

James Chapman              1st Lt.}of the third Company

Alexander Chalker 2nd Lt.}

xJoseph Hait                      Capt.}

xNoble Benedict                1st Lt.}of the fourth Company

xDavid Rumsy                   2nd Lt.}

Roger Eno                       Capt.}

Nathan Tibbles               1st Lt.}of the fifth Company

Eli Cathing                      2nd Lt.}

 

In the forces now ordered to be raised for his Majesty's Service

against the Indian Nations, who have been guilty of Perfidious

and cruel Massacres of the English; and Desire they may be

commissioned Accordingly--And In case any of the above named

Persons shall Refuse to Engage therein--His Honor the Gover-

nor is hereby desired to fill such Vacancy, and give Commissions

Accordingly

Past in the upper House

March 1764       Test George Wyllys Sands

Concurred in the Lower House

Test Abr'm Davenport Clerk

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Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting      641     THIRD COMPANY Conn. archives. War x:231 Muster roll of Captain John Tyler's Company in the Con- necticut battalion commanded by Lieut.-Col. Israel Putnam, in the year 1764. Men's Names:

John Tyler, capt. James Chapman, lieut. Nath'l Humphris, lieut. Moses Jones, serg't Thomas Atwell, sr. Martin Humphris Henry Herrick, sar Daniel Pierce, sar Preserved Brumbly, cor. Daniel Eaton, cor. Simeon White, cor. Joseph Hewit, cor. Joseph Turner, priv. James Commer Naman Mosure Josiah Smith John Haley Robert Jakways William Carpender Jonathan Nonesuch John Daniels Moses Mils Edward Quin Edward McElroy Timothy Beckwith never joined William Wood

Jacob Clark Edward Murphy Simeon Mills Jonas Sanders William Gallup Daniel Norten never joined Joseph Ols    never joined Abraham Covil never joined Hezekiah Capron Jonathan Herrington James Harris John Meason Jacob Wolly Samuel Wheler Asa Seaton James Abner Phinehas Stewart Benjamin Suckiant Abraham Brown never joined Stephen Shippy never joined John Hunt      never joined Daniel Armstrong Elisha Guild Peleg Hart William Tatson William Wilson

A true copy made from the original list. Attest: (Signed)    EFFIE M. PRICKETT, For State Librarian. FOURTH COMPANY Conn. archives. War X:227ab Pay roll for Joseph Hait's Company. Stamford, December 20, 1764. Vol. XXXVI--41.

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642       Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications   Men's Names:

Joseph Hait, capt. Noble Benedict, lieut. David Rumsey, lieut. Jer. Jager, serg't Edward Tharp, serg't Abra'm Lockwood, serg't Moses Nichols, serg't Hez'h Williams, serg't Dan'l Barns, corp. Eph'm Lockwood, corp. Nath'l Jesup, corp. Dan'l Nichols, corp. Niel McNiel, corp. Samuel Tryon Joseph Hait Rich'd Lodge John Nicklas Abrah'm Farres James Mead Jn'o McCormack Dan'l Raymond Amos Hait Sam'l Palmer John Moor, deserted Thomas Church Joseph Murry Sam'l Merchant

Sam'l Andrews William Dunbar Nath'l Taylor Benja. Frost Patrick Malrany, died Francis Baxter, deserted James Burns Aaron Knap John Knap, died Thomas Allen Abel Seely Peter Closhee Matthew Clark Sam'l Lenard Thos. Burt Solomon Tucker Thomas Barber Joel Botchford Isaiah Greenis Gilbert Ferris Reauben Wright, deserted Silas Palmer, deserted Amos Partilo, deserted John Dorchester, deserted Sam'l Lyon, deserted Rob't Cosgrove, deserted

A true copy made from the original list. Attest: (Signed)       EFFIE M. PRICKETT, For State Librarian.   PAY ROLL OF CAPT. ABRAHAM FOOT'S COMPANY FOR THE CAMPAIGN, 1764 Weeks & Time of   Time of Days in                          Sums Due Men's Names                 Enlistment Discharge Service                          ?? s d Abraham Foot Capt.......... March 8                                Dec. 12 40-          80 Josiah Stow Lieut............ Do                                          8            Do            4 38-6               58-5-9 Isaac Kimberley Do.......... Do                                         8            Do            4 38-6               58-5-9 Asa Jones Serg't............. Do                                            26         Do            4 36-2               19-19-1-3/4 John Garrett Do............. Do                                             27         Do            4 36-1               19-17-6-1/2 Benj'm Stillwell Do.......... Do                                         16         Do            4 37-5               20-14-10-3/4 David Butler Do............. Do                                           26         Do            4 36-2               19-19-1-3/4 Jacob Curtis Do............. Do                                             23         Do            4 36-5               20-3-10 Rob't Bradford Corp ......... Do                                        26         Do            31 40-1            21-?-?

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Weeks &

Time of    Time of         Days in         Sums Due

Men's Names                 Enlistment Discharge   Service                   ?? s d

Benj'm Bates Do............ Do                    27     Do       4    36-1     18-19-6

John Tooley Do............. Do                   27     Do       4    36-1     18-19-6

Tho's Kumley ? Do......... Do                   21     Do       11 38         19-19

Amos Curtis Drum'r     ...... Do                28     Do       4    36         18-18

Ezra Bruster................ Do                       28     Do       4    36         18-18

Will'm  Boddington.......... Do                  29     Do       4                35-6 ?

Hez'h Bracket.............. Do                      17     Do       17 39-3      19-14-3

Purmort Bonfoly? .......... Do                  26     *Dd.Ag 13 20-1     10-?

Jonathan Bristol ............. Do                   19     Dec. 4       37-2     18-?

Waitstill Cook............... Do                    28     Do       4    36-       18

Abr'm  Cooper............... Do                    29     Do       11 36-6      18-?

Israel Deaton................ Do                     26     Do       31 40-1      20-?

Samuel Fenn ................. Do                    16     Do       4    37-5     ?

Nathan Frisbie ............... Do                   24     Do       18 38-4      ?

John Gardner ................ Do                     27     Do       31 40-        20-?

Joseph Hawkins............. Do                    24     Do       11 37-4      18-15

Jonathan Hastings   ........... Do                26     Do       4                36-2 18-?

John Jacobs................. Do                       28     Do       4    36-       18

?  Kelsey................. Do                      29     Do       4                35-6 17-18-6-3/4

James Lymon................ Do                     26     Do       31 40-1      20-1-5

? Murry ................. Do                        30     Do       4    35-5     17-17-1-1/2

Samuel Negos ............... Do                     29     Do       4                35-6 17-18-6-3/4

Gains Pritchard.............. Do                    18     Do       4                37-3 19-14-3

Chris'r Pate................. Do                       28     Do       4    36         18

Will'm Robinson............. Do                   26     Do       31 40-1      20-1-5

Henry Radnor ............... Do                    26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-¼

George Sexton ............... Do                    27     Do       4    36-1     18-15

Ezekiel Sandford ............. Do                  29     Do       4                35-6 17-18-6-3/4

Brigham  Stephens ............ Do                26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

?  Foaley ................. Do                     26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

Oliver Thorp................ Do                     ?        Deserted                2-0-0

Willard ? Thackery.......... Do                  28     Dec.    4    36         18

?  Utter.................. Do                       28     Do       4                36    18

Peter Yenduson .............. Do                  27     Do       4    36-1     18-1-5

Daniel Webb ................ Do                     24     Do       4 36-4        18-5-8-1/4

David Warner............... Do                     26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

Ezekiel Welton .............. Do                   26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

Reuben Webb................ Do                     28     Do       4    36         18

Wait Yail ................... Do                       29     Do       4    35-6     17-18-6-3/4

James Dumb ................. Do                     29     Do       4    35-6     17-18-6-3/4

Nath'l Allen.................                                     Deserted                2-

Will'm  Russel ...............                                   Ditto                     2-

Benj'm Cook .................Ditto                                      2-

John Wampea ...............Ditto                                      2-

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1042-11-19

A. E. CULBERT,

Chairman of Committee.

* Died August 13.

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NECROLOGY

Since the last Annual Meeting of the Society five alpha-

betically arranged lists of our membership have been prepared and

mailed to members in various parts of the state, with a request

that the Secretary be notified of the death of any member.

A card-index list of the members has also been prepared for

the use of the President.

During the year the Society lost, by death, the following

members:

LIFE MEMBERS

Mr. A. M. Woolson, Toledo, Ohio. October 7, 1925.

Mr. H. P. Ward, 329 North Third Street, Hamilton, Ohio.

October 3, 1926.

Mr. Robert F. Wolfe, 714 East Broad Street, Columbus. Janu-

ary 13, 1927.

Professor Andrew J. Waychoff, Hoffman Street, Waynesburg,

Pa. January 16, 1927.

Hon. Judson Harmon, 2957 Annwood Street, Cincinnati. Feb-

ruary 22, 1927.

Mr. C. D. Closson, Circleville, Ohio. March 14, 1927.

Mr. Charles Bozman, Zanesville, Ohio. April 13, 1927.

Colonel William L. Curry, Box 645, Columbus, Ohio. April 27,

1927.

Professor J. A. Shawan, DeGraff, Ohio. May 4, 1927.

Professor Charles Richard Williams, Benedict House, Princeton,

N. J. May 6, 1927.

Judge Daniel H. Sowers, 1134 East Broad Street, Columbus.

June 8, 1927.

Mr. D. M. Massie, Chillicothe, Ohio. September 3, 1927.

Professor Azariah S. Root, 150 N. Professor Street, Oberlin,

Ohio. October 2, 1927.

Mrs. Thomas J. Emery, Edge Cliffe, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.

October 11, 1927.

ACTIVE MEMBERS

Mr. Fred W. Schueller, 814 Bryden Road, Columbus. March 19,

1927.

CHARLES W. JUSTICE.

NEW LIFE MEMBERS ADDED SINCE ANNUAL

MEETING OF 1926.

Mr. Henry N. Rose, 190 S. Drexel Ave. (Bexley) Columbus,

Ohio.

Rev. Mark T. Warner, Montrose, California, P. O. Box 356.

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