... settlement that the institution might be immediately profited The legislature responded with an act providing for the appraisement of the lands at not less than 175 per acre and the leasing of them for a period of ninety-nine years renewable forever The second meeting of the board of trustees was called for November 2 0 1 805 but no quorum present they adjourned The third meeting was held April 2 1 806 The long intervals between the sessions ...
... settlements identified by their owners present or kept in reserve for the proper claimants the sale commenced Some of the finest horses were struck off at fifty or sixty dollars but generally much less amp a pound of silver trinkets would bring some twenty dollars Thus went the large drove of horses the silver ornaments clothing and other articles The Monongaheleans who seemed to figure prominently in everything save fighting were far from ...
... County Vol 1 p 61 at the County 1888 Clark Waggoner County 1901 say on page 3 County 1910 page 77 says S County 1923 John M Killits says Fort Industry was erected on this site by order of General Anthony Wayne just after the Battle of ...
... County Ohio The position County was traversed by County is given However in County or Town Creek in County known on early maps County along Town or
... settlement the name of Londonderry which has since been changed to and is now known as Derry New Hampshire This location was then the very frontier of civilization All beyond to the north and west was a wilderness and the home of the Algonquin Indians It was here that Matthew Taylor Jr was born on October 30th 1727 While living at this place he was married to Miss Archibald and of this marriage there were born six sons and two daughters The ...
... County Pennsylvania old broken in health and strength in his country's service neglected and poor where he lived and toiled as proprietor of a wayside tavern for sixteen years and until his death August 31st 1818 which was occasioned by injuries received by the accidental over-turning of a small wagon on which he was riding engaged in gathering hay and grain in the rough mountain region of his home for sale to western movers He was then ...
... County Hunter's J B Finley's Autobiography Dr Morgan's Biography of Col John McDonald Dr Perry Williams College Dr Alexander White's Presidents of Washington and Lee Howe's Historical Collections Rev Thomas Robbins' Dairy Hildreth's Pioneer History ScotchIrish in America ...
... settlements General Washington settlements of western settlements And from that day settlements from their settlement of Revolutionary settlements on the Wabash
... settlement which he founded in settlement of the Lichtenau village was begun by Rev David Zeisberger on April 12 1776 just one day after his 55th birthday anniversary Eight families accompanied Zeisberger and his assistant Rev John Heckewelder a young man of 33 It was Saturday On the following day April 13 Chief Netawatwes with almost the entire population of Goshochkunk attended the first ...
... Logan is on Paint Creek Logan is on the east side of the Scioto nearly two miles northeast of the Court House in Chillicothe and is miles away from Paint Creek which is west of the Scioto Page 286 College Hill is named from two colleges College Corner with similar educational advantages has one Indiana and two Ohio counties cornering in it College Corner has no college at all and it was ...
... County The first section County contributed County was on exhibition These were systematically arranged with appropriate labels A continuous stream of people passed through the building and enjoyed the opportunity to visit this exhibit The celebration did much not only to revive interest in the past but to arouse local pride in present ...
... settlement and the early settlements should be restricted to the territory between Canada the Alleghany Mountains Louisiana and the sea Under these conflicting claims and from conflicting interests there necessarily arose bitter feelings and to these hostile acts soon followed Disorder lawlessness outrage and violence prevailed over a wide extent of territory especially in western ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 SOME INVESTIGATIONS AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FAMOUS SIXTH ARTICLE COL W E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE Senator Roberts of Pennsylvania in the great debate over the bill for the admission of Missouri to the Union in 1820 characterized the Ordinance of 1787 as that immortal Ordinance which with its elder sister the Declaration of American Independence will shed eternal and inextinguishable lustre over the annals of our country Daniel Webster in a speech upon ...
... settlements About this time an settlements did not extend settlements the people of Pennsylvania Kentucky and Ohio girded themselves for revenge Ten thousand troops were raised for Harrison and it was determined to wipe out the disgrace of Hull's surrender and avenge the awful death of comrades and friends so pitilessly and treacherously ...
... County Ohio Nathaniel County for a tract of 200 County On this tract he built the Wyatt Brick Tavern and on it was also built Fort Morrow in the year 1812 Wyatt's Hotel was comprised in the enclosure of the pickets made from split slats around the old fort The old enclosure contained two blockhouses one at the southwest corner and one at ...
... settlement This annoyed but settlement at Marietta and the settlement at Marietta he said No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum Information property and strength will be its characteristics I know many of the settlers personally and there were never men better ...
... settlement the chiefs and settlements farther south till after it is over Then you can return to your homes and take up your pursuits as before Thus your women and your children will be safe and you will all be happy Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet of the Shawnees were doing all they could to keep the Indians in a state of hostility toward the Americans These men felt personal ...
... 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 express the interest Massachusetts feels in the event y ou celebrate and in the prosperity and welfare of the community occupying this spot on which her citizens found an opportunity for the exercise of their ...
... settlement in the Virginia settlement of Ohio lands is evidenced by another type of land patent An example of this type in the Society's manuscript collection signed by President Thomas Jefferson and dated May 7 1802 reads in part as follows in pursuance of the act of Congress passed on the eighteenth day of February 1801 entitled An Act regulating the grants of Land appropriated for the ...