... County Ohio The exercises County so to speak the County by these sturdy County At the third camp near Nelsonville news was brought from General Andrew Lewis of his victory at Point Pleasant which occasioned great joy among the troops Two days later a messenger from Cornstalk the Indian ...
... SIMON KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE SIMON KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE R W MCFARLAND Inasmuch as I had personally known only a part of Simon Kenton's family and the record of the William Kenton family gave only two or three items about Simon I consulted one of Simon's descendants and he gave the number of children of each marriage to the best of his knowledge The date of the second marriage was taken from the county records From the same gentleman I ...
... County carved from Portage County by a generation County called Trumbull County was formed from County Ohio named after him He was also a member of the Ohio Company that settled Marietta though it cannot be ascertained that he ever ...
... County Connecticut County of Kentucky there were three wealthy Tories whose aggregate holdings amounted to eight thousand acres By act of the Virginia legislature these lands were escheated and in 1780 were dedicated to the cause of education Three years later an additional grant of 12 000 acres was made and the new University came into being The acme of land grants for education was reached ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications some on board the fleet to take their second position nearer Canada They arrived a little before sunset that day at East Sister Island while General Harrison and Commodore Perry in the Ariel made a reconnoissance of the enemy's coast It was not until the morning of the 27th that they began this last journey across the lake One account says the day was fine and a propitious breeze made ...
... THE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNTHE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY EX-JUDGE DAVID DAVIS Mr William M Pettit in the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly of July 1931 has written an able article setting forth that Rev John Wheelwright of Boston and later of Exeter Massachusetts was the first man to form a Republican Government in America The records and history of the Colonies by many authors attribute that honor to Rev Roger Williams Rev Wheelwright came to the Colonies ...
... Rosscounty another where the present city of Chillicothe stands all in what is now the State of Ohio 99 Amer Arch 4th Series Vol I pp 722 723 100The Mingoes in 1774 had two villages upon the waters of the Scioto Pluggy's-town about eighteen miles up that river above the site of the present city of Columbus Ohio near White Sulphur Springs in Delaware
... LETTER OF HON LETTER OF HON GEORGE B LORING READ AT THE C ELE BRATION BY R R DAWES WASHINGTON D C April 5 1888 SIR I have been requested by His Excellency Gov ernor Ames of Massachusetts to represent that Commonwealth at the Centennial Celebration of the first settlement of the Northwest Territory under the Ordinance of 1787 at Marietta Ohio I regret exceedingly that at a late hour I am compelled to deny myself the pleasure of being present on the occasion I feel it to be my duty however to ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
... County Court he carried it to the Court of Appeals which affirmed the judgment of the lower court From the Court of Appeals it was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States and the decision of the lower courts was reversed Chief Justice Marshall declaring that the law taxing the Bank of the United States was unconstitutional and void Wheaton's Reports 4 p 437 The states named herein are probably the only ones that asserted the doctrine ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 297 Section 2 That the care and control of the site of Fort Laurens located in Tuscarawas county Ohio and being the first fort established west of the Ohio river shall be vested in the board of trustees of the Ohio archaeological and historical society who shall hold the lands and property thereon subject to such use as the general assembly may by law direct Section 3 That for the purpose of carrying out the ...
... County were marked with County Historical County near Circleville It County and one to Samuel County Pioneer and County It is undoubtedly what we may call an immigrant from some ...
... County Walking back up County Park Board and the County Indiana Leave County 1835 The village is now entirely obliterated 822 Antwerp Ohio 247 996 New Haven Indiana 78 1069 Fort Wayne Indiana 00 The committee in Fort Wayne Indiana furnished guides for a tour under the supervision of the ...
... Franklinton-An Historical Address Franklinton -A n Historical Address 59 FRANKLINTON--AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS By GENERAL JOHN BEATTY A few rods from where we are assembled to-day the waters of the Olentangy unite with those of the Scioto and together flow down to the Ohio thence to the Mississippi and so onward to a gulf of the Atlantic ocean Southwardly from the place where the two streams meet there was at the time to which we propose to refer a broad handsome stretch of valley land where good ...
... County at what is now the County He was obliged to change his course and followed down the river until he found himself at the Narrows the narrowest place in the river channel the Indians close on his track behind him he had not a moment to spare and as it was life or death with Brady's Leap Brady's Leap 459 him he made the famous Brady's leap ac
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 21 the rocky fortresses of the Appalachians Puritan and Cavalier looked down together upon the fair valley of the Ohio To them it was as the revelation to the prophet on Pisgah - the Promised Land They were permitted to enter But to hold it they fought with stubborn tenacity Every foot was contested But forward went this army across the prairies of Indiana and Illinois until the smoke ...
... establishment not only of Hudson but also of the town of Richfield Captain Heman Oviatt was born in Goshen Litchfield county Connecticut September 20 1 775 He was the son of Benjamin Oviatt who served in the Revolution enlisting from Goshen In April 1800 Heman Oviatt having caught the western fever left Goshen for the Western Reserve of Ohio He left Connecticut on horseback and traveled till ...
... County Associations and the Home Folks Woman Suffrage Parade Reception of Ohio's German Singers AFTERNOONOhio Centenary State Fair Open-air concert by the Central Ohio Saengerbund in the Capitol grounds 4 o'clock EVENINGSplendid street pageant The Story of the State told by wonderful and artistic Tableau Cars antique vehicles and over a thousand costumed characters 7 o'clock WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28-FRATERNAL AND CHORAL DAY MORNINGGathering of ...