... Miami rivers and gave the same to her soldiers of the Revolution as a reward for their services This was called the Virginia military tract So congress laid off a tract for that purpose which lay south of New Connecticut and extended from the Ohio river on the east to the Scioto on the west This was known as the United States Military tract Congress gave to Connecticut what was called the Western Reserve or New Connecticut It extended one ...
... Miami River which runs into Lake Erieand by this river and Lake Erie on the north 2 That in the first instance lands be assigned to the army to fulfill the engagements of the United States by the resolutions of September 16 1776 August 13 and September 30 1780 towit To a major-general 1100 acres To a brigadier-general 850 acres To a colonel 500 acres To a lieutenant-colonel 450 acres To amajor 400 acres To a captain 300 acres To a lieutenant ...
... Miamis Eel Rivers Weas Miami river at or near Miami at the foot of the Miamis ceded lands in Indiana and Ohio-the area in the latter being the small tract between the Greenville treaty line and St Mary's river marked No 2 1 on the large map This was the last tract in Ohio held by the ...
... Miami Maumee which falls into Lake Erie thence down the middle of that river to the lake is a tract of country not claimed as the property of or in the jurisdiction of any particular state in the Union That this country is of sufficient extent the land of such quality and situation as may induce Congress to assign and mark it out as a tract of territory suitable to form a distinct government or colony of the United States in time to be ...
... Miamis a thorough chastisement but on the approach of the English commander these three tribes sent deputies to meet him and promised to follow him to Detroit and make a treaty there if he would abandon the hostile plan against them It was with this expectation that he reached Detroit only to learn that the Indians whom he had expected to meet on his return to Fort Sandusky for the purpose of making a treaty had assembled there to oppose the ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 35 HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY BASIL MEEK ESQ FREMONT OHIO We have met today on this ground famous in history because of the victorious defence of Fort Stephenson then standing on this spot by Major George Croghan and the band of heroes under his command ninety-three years ago--not only to commemorate that brilliant achievement but also to further consecrate and make sacred the spot by the re-interment of the remains of its gallant defender To Col Webb ...
... Miami River General St Clair built a fort which he named after Alexander Hamilton A powder magazine was erected at the south end of the fort The building on the fort was presented by the estate of John Milliken to the John Reily Chapter D A R The Columbus Chapter has celebrated the marking of a historic spot by placing a boulder in Martin Avenue on which a bronze tablet tells its own story Near this spot June 21 1813 was held a council between ...
... Miami U S Statutes at Miami Thenceforth private Miami Page 220 same work North American Review Vol 29 p 21 6 Essay on the late war by Governor Cass The Malden Council In 1795 Gen Wayne addressed a letter as follows To Tarhe and all other Sachems and Chiefs at Sandusky and then goes on to promise the erection of a fortification at the foot ...
... Miami in the vicinity of the enemy's fort where I remained a few days in the hope that General Harrison might come to the relief of the fort which was invested in the Indian mode when finding that the Indians were returning to Detroit and Amherstberg I moved to Lower Sandusky where however we could not muster more hundreds of Indians than I might reasonably have expected thousands The neighborhood of Sandusky and the settlement on the Huron ...
... Miamis who led the Miami which runs into the Ohio then along said portage to the Maumee river and northerly down the southeast side of the same to its mouth Toledo thence along the south shore of Lake Erie to the mouth of the Cuyahoga river where it began Cleveland All the land contained within these lines was allotted to the Wyandot and Delaware Nations to live and hunt on and to such of ...
... Miami in the vicinity of the enemy's fort where I remained a few days in the hope that General Harrison might come to the relief of the fort which was invested in the Indian mode when finding that the Indians were returning to Detroit and Amherstberg I moved to Lower Sandusky where however we could not muster more hundreds of Indians than I might reasonably have expected thousands The neighborhood of Sandusky and the settlement on the Huron ...
... 86 Ohio Arch 86 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications one officer and myself went to New York on recruiting service That was in 1814 I remained in New York about two years When we left New York we marched with recruits to fill up the companies stationed on the northern frontier I had re-enlisted on the 23d of November 1816 for five years We marched to Sackett's Harbor and I was there assigned to Company D Second Infantry The other recruits were distributed at the different stations I was ...
... Miamis Eel Rivers Weas Miami which had been Miamis Pottawattomies and Miamis as they existed previously to the commencement of the war Thus the Franklinton conference was embodied in treaty form No call was made for Indian help under this treaty as on December 24th 1814 the commissioners ...
... Miamis Weas Kickapoos Miami river running into Miami and the Ohio and St Miami Maumee which runs Miami erecting first Fort Miami county about three
... 52 Ohio Arch 52 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The name Croghansville for the village was probably first suggested by Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office in a letter from Washington City April 12 1816 in which among other words are these If it were left to me to name the town at Lower Sandusky I should name it in honor of the gallant youth Col Croghan -and should say it should be Croghansville The name is still preserved in that of the school on the hill on the East ...
... Miami rivers as bounty lands for her soldiers and a tract in Illinois for George Rogers Clarke and his associates The next year came the cession of Massachusetts absolute like that of New York and the year following that of Connecticut Like Virginia's the cession of Connecticut was coupled with a reservation These two reservations making a pretty large fraction of the State of Ohio were excepted from the operation of that great system of ...