Ohio History Journal

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ME -SHE -KUN-NOGH -QUAH,

ME -SHE -KUN-NOGH -QUAH,

OR LITTLE TURTLE-1783-1812.

 

 

 

N. B. C. LOVE, D. D.

O River, weird historic water,

What tales of bloody human slaughter

What scenes of hate, and tragic acts,

What woeful pictures, solemn facts,

Thou couldst before the world portray!

What greed and hate and wrong betray!

No subject claimed the attention of President Washington

more after the close of the War of the Revolution 1784 up to

his death 1799, than the settlement

and occupancy of the territory ceded

to the United States by England.

With that part of this territory

known as the Northwest, we are es-

pecially interested in when writing of

the life of Little Turtle, the great

Miami Chief. The scenes of his life

are  located  here. The    territory

known as the Maumee Basin, includes

Northwestern Ohio, Southern Michi-

gan and Northwestern Indiana. At

the ending of the 18th Century and

the beginning of the 19th, it was a

region of vast natural resources. Its

fertile soil, and natural drainage by

creeks and rivers, into the lakes, made it productive of vast for-

ests, wide prairies covered with nutritious grass, and valleys pro-

ducing, with little cultivation, immense crops. The streams and

lakes abounded in choice fish, and the forests in wild animals in

great variety and numbers. Wild nuts and fruits were plentiful

and could be laid by in store for winter use.

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