... Miami and Mad river but he was a frequent visitor among the early 483 484 Ohio Arch 484 O hi o Arch and Hist Society Publications white settlers at Old Town and there is no doubt the Galloways and others received truthful information from him and from other sources The earliest roads of the white man followed Indian trails Detroit street running north and south through Xenia got its name from a traders' trail to Detroit which it followed ...
... Little is known of his early life but it is said that he was a relative of General Hugh Brady an American general who served under Wayne and won distinction for his bravery According to one record Brady was left an orphan at an early age and that he went to live with relatives whether with General Brady or not is not certain The family with whom he lived had previously adopted a lad named Simon Girty who was the same age as the orphan lad The ...
... DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Enthusiastic interest was manifest at the dedication of the monument to George Rogers Clark August 8 on the site of the battle of Piqua near Springfield Ohio It was here on August 8 1780 that George Rogers Clark and his little army of Kentucky frontiersmen vanquished the Shawnee Indians and burned their village This was a punitive expedition provoked by the ...
... Miami and Wabash Rivers Miami River until it should intersect an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend of Lake Michigan on the north by an extension of the latter line to Lake Erie and then by Lake Erie to the eastern boundary and on the south by the Ohio River 3rd all other territory east of the division line of 1800 was to be a part of Indiana Territory 4th the suffrage for ...
... Miamis and Wyandottes-were still in possession of them and the Frenchmen soon saw that they could only keep the land they had bought by buying it a second time from the Indians themselves The colonists appealed to the American Government and General St Clair with 3000 soldiers was sent to expel the Indians St Clair's expedition came to grief at Point Pleasant one-half of his troops being killed and scalped so that failure overtook the Colony ...
... BRADY'S LEAP BRADY'S LEAP BY E 0 RANDALL In what is known as Tract 29 issued in 1875 by the Western Reserve Historical Society the tradition-as the Tract calls it-of Brady's leap is related That a famous leap by Brady was made at the place generally designated as the site there is little or no doubt The time and attending circumstances of the achievement are much in dispute and wrote Mr L V Bierce in 1856 the numerous traditions respecting ...
... UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER Appropriate and interesting exercises marked the unveiling of a tablet by the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution on the site of old Fort Gower at Hockingport Athens County Ohio The exercises preliminary to the dedication were held in the city of Athens Friday evening November 9 The formal dedication and unveiling of the tablet occurred on the day following at Hockingport The granite monument bears two tablets one ...
... Miami Rivers north of the Ohio River There was immediately a rush of those who held land warrants to secure the best land within those boundaries Massie being by this time an experienced woodsman and of great courage was commissioned to locate many of these claims The usual fee was fifty pounds or in lieu of money a twenty-five to fifty per cent interest or share in the amount of land the warrants called for With such liberal remuneration is ...
... Railroad the first to be built in the State he was made its President in to which office he put the same energy as in other positions which he had filled He was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 While returning home from his labors there he was stricken with paralysis from which he died August 24 1852 His body lies in an honored grave in Oakdale Cemetery Urbana Ohio Governor Vance was an honest industrious and useful ...
... Railroads Ohio's first Railroad 269 Significance of 460 United States Banks 244 Washington GeorgeUniversity Townships 418 415 418 Congressional acts to secure title to Urbana Military Post at 231 Ohio Lands for 315 Dispute over Ohio Lands 312' V Duke of Wellington's tribute to 319 Hock-hocking encamped at 406 fVance so JosephLocation of Ohio Lands for 306 Ancestry of 230 Ohio Lands of 304 ...
... Miamies were also represented as unfriendly in their feeling toward the Colonies Cornstalk had scarcely returned to his people when he sent a very friendly letter to Captain Russell written at the chief's dictation by a trader in which he assured the Captain that the Shawanese were always willing to comply with any reasonable request that the Big Knife should ask that a negro woman had been returned as desired but her two children were ...
... Miamis and Shawanese stayed away and the Confederated tribes did not sanction the treaty Brant the great chief of the Six Nations was laboring to unite the western tribes into a Confederacy and the English were supplying them with ammunition and aiding them with their counsel This was the situation confronting the Mariettians in less than two years from their settlement Marauding parties of the savages were everywhere The travel down the Ohio ...
... Miami where the public road from Cincinnati to Greenville crosses the said river 2 The petition of Andrew Christie for leave to keep a ferry at the same place 3 The petition of Stephen Cisna an imprisoned debtor stating his insolvency and praying relief 46 Ohio Arch 46 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Ordered to lie on the table Stephen Wood treasurer of Hamilton presented his public accounts for inspection ORDERED That the said ...
... Miamis Mingoes Mohawks Miami This straitened the Indians for supplies and effectually dampened their high spirits In the meantime Captain Bradt with 40 English rangers and over 2 00 savage allies had attacked Ft Henry For the third time the fort stood firm and the assailants retired into the Ohio forests This was the last important military event of the war Already the Detroit commander had ...
... 582 Ohio 582 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications little and after a careful search they found some blood stains and with a mighty war whoop dashed on his pursuit once more By this time Captain Brady's strength was nearly spent and he ran with difficulty but self preservation was strong and he still pressed on through the tangled forest hoping to reach a place of safety About three or four miles from Kent he hid himself beneath a great ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The short inscription of this tablet we are honoring today gives concisely historic facts which all may read It does not need a very vivid imagination to see and feel all the labor sacrifice bloodshed aching hearts and desolate homes which are summed up in these facts We exult over the victories achieved and thrill with horror over the martyrdom of Col Crawford His name is on the bead-roll of fame and we all unite to honor his memory ...
... Miami chief Little 306 Miami tribe 316 415 Leatherlips 434 Scott's expedition against 417 at Wyandot County Kan Wyandot In Greenville Treaty 427 dians remove to 452 Weiser Conrad commissioner to Ohio Wyandot County O Delawares in Indians 328-329 314 Tarhe's Town in 4'4 602 Index 602 Index Wyandot Indians 310 reasons for cornWyandot ...
... Miami Villages on November 4 of that year On May 10 1792 Major Sargent was appointed by Washington Adjutant General of the Army of the United States with the rank of Colonel and in 1798 Colonel Sargent was appointed by President Adams the first Governor of the newly organized Mississippi Territory with headquarters at Natchez on the Mississippi Winthrop Sargent was deeply interested in the Northwest Territory and projects for its early ...
... Miami the Delaware and the Shawnee and all other tribes living between the Ohio River and Lake Erie were simultaneously to fall upon all the forts between the frontier of Pennsylvania and the stronghold at Fort Pitt All the scattered villages of the Iroquois in the Ohio region were suddenly to overwhelm Presqu'Isle Le Boeuf and Venango The line of communication between German Flats in the Mohawk Valley and Fort Niagara was to be severed by ...