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erected their temple on the hilltop to
the day of the traction car. But
that car like the one of Juggernaut is
the irresistible chariot of the
present that ruthlessly rolls over the
veneration for the past.
The pamphlet prospectus in question
devotes several pages to the
history and description of the mound and
properly presents it as one of
the leading features which will make the
proposed traction line a valuable
and paying institution. The pamphlet is
published at Peebles, Ohio, by
the Hillsboro, Belfast and Peebles
Promoters' Company. It can be
secured for the asking by addressing Mr.
P. M. Hughes, president of the
Company, Lovett, Ohio, Mr. W. B.
Cochran, secretary of the company,
Hillsboro, Ohio, or Mr. S. M. Rucker,
one of the directors, Peebles, Ohio.
NYE FAMILY REUNION AT MARIETTA.
We have received through the courtesy of
Miss Minna Tupper Nye
of Brooklyn, New York, a handsomely
published pamphlet of 100 pages
or more giving the proceedings of the
third annual reunion of the Nye
Family of America, held at Marietta,
Ohio, August 16, 17 and 18, 1905.
Benjamin Nye of Bedlenden, Kent county,
England, was the first to come
to America as early as 1637. His
numerous descendants are now in every
state and territory of our country.
Among the first pioneers into the Ohio
valley after the Revolution were Ichabod
Nye of Tolland, Connecticut, a
soldier of the Revolution, with his
family. They settled in Marietta in
1788 where Mr. Nye resided until his
death in 1840. From the descend-
ants of this early settler a very
cordial invitation was extended to the
Nye Family Association to hold the third
annual reunion in Marietta.
The eight branches of the Ichabod family
are scattered from the Medi-
terranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean and
yet not one of these branches
failed in showing their loyalty and
devotion by contributing in some way
to the entertainment. Great interest was
sustained throughout all the
meetings. The leading citizens of
Marietta joined with the family in
extending hospitality to the visiting
guests. Mr. James W. Nye of
Marietta was the local chairman and a
most interesting and successful
program was carried out. Mr. James W.
Nye welcomed his family
guests with a most pleasing and
appropriate address in which he said:
"On the walls at the relic room,
hangs a banner bearing the following
inscription, taken from an address delivered
here in 1888: 'The paths
from the heights of Abraham led to
Independence Hall. Independence
Hall led finally to Yorktown, and
Yorktown guided the footsteps of your
fathers to Marietta. This, my
countrymen, then, is the lesson which I
read here.' This refers to the little
band of stalwart men and brave
women, who in 1788, left their New
England homes, and turning their
faces westward, journeyed by the crude
means then in use, in search of
new homes, in the then unknown wilds of
the territory northwest of the
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Ohio river, this locality being their
objective point." In that initial land
of Ohio pilgrims were General Benjamin
Tupper, born at Sharon, Massa-
chusetts, in 1738, one of the directors
of the Ohio Company, and Colonel
Ichabod Nye, born at Tolland,
Connecticut, in 1762. Mr. S. Curtis Smith
of Newton, Massachusetts, responded to
the address of welcome. Mr.
George Nye of Chillicothe, Ohio, the
oldest living member of the Icha-
bod Nye family, (78) prepared a paper
for this occasion entitled, "The
Ohio Company." Miss Martha Sproat
of Chillicothe, Ohio, read a paper
written by Miss Theodore D. Dale of
Montclair, New Jersey, on Marietta.
Hon. David J. Nye of Elyria, Ohio,
delivered a very interesting and in-
structive address on the
"Beginnings of Ohio." Mr. William L. Nye of
Sandwich, Massachusetts, read an
excellent paper upon "Sandwich" which
was the first settling town in the
southeast corner of Massachusetts of
the first Nye immigrant in 1637. Miss Minna
Tupper Nye read an ex-
tended sketch of Minerva Tupper Nye,
wife of Ichabod Nye, the pioneer
who was her (Minna's) grandmother.
Minerva Tupper Nye was born in
Chesterfield, Massachusetts, in 1764,
the daughter of General Benjamin
Tupper, a noted soldier of the
Revolution. In 1784 she was married in
Chesterfield to Ichabod Nye, a young
soldier of the Revolution. When
in 1788 General Tupper brought his
family to the New Ohio, with him as
part of his family came Ichabod Nye, his
wife, Minerva, and their small
children, Horace, 2 year old, and
Panthea, aged six months.. The journey
of this family from Chesterfield, which
they left in June, to Marietta,
which they reached on the 6th of July
(1788) is described in detail by
Miss Minna Nye from the journals and
letters of the participants. The
paper is a unique contribution to early
Ohio History.
Mrs. Sarah M. McGirr of Marietta
presented a paper concerning her
great-grandfather, Ebenezer Nye, a
pioneer of Marietta in 1790. Many
other papers were read and addresses
made and the proceedings were
interspersed with musical selections and
social gatherings. The third
reunion of the Nye family at Marietta
was an event of much historical
importance and we do not know of any
monograph that will excel this
pamphlet of the proceedings, in giving a
first hand view of the termina-
tion at Marietta of that second
Mayflower voyage, the journey of the
galley Adventure which came to port on
the eventful day of April 8, 1788.
Vol. 15-19.