... County This north tributary is known today as the Blue River Branch near its junction at Blue Lake to which it furnished an outlet only a short distance away It stood on the west side of the river on a high sandy point of land surrounded on three sides by a great bend in the river A wide prairie marsh skirted those high lands north and south but on the east the high banks neared each other making it an easy ford to the north bank of the lake ...
... settlement in Ohio From Manary's Block House to Detroit was an unbroken wilderness with only a foot-path part of the way As the government had made no provision for the army they were compelled to carry their subsistence and forage in wagons and to literally cut their way through the thick woods and swamps Bridges had to be constructed over streams and marshes and spongy ground where none but the solitary red or white hunter or Indian trader ...
... 256 Ohio Arch 256 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ADDRESS OF HON SAMUEL H DOYLE DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 3 1895 Ladies and Gentlemen I come to you from the adjoining State to join with you in this celebration We have a common interest in this historic event with you I will detain you but a few minutes We have been together and associated together in four of the great important events that have touched the Northwest When Wolfe met the French at Quebec this territory was ...
... 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 by patent in fee-simple 1 165 square miles or 105600 acres of land By the same treaty an annuity of 2000 was to be paid to the Shawnees at Wapakoneta Upon the organization of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in 1821 a Committee of Men and Women Friends on Indian Concerns was appointed to cooperate with Friends of Ohio and Baltimore Yearly Meetings in carrying the plan into effect which had been received from Ohio Yearly Meeting but it ...
... settlement in Illinois-a settlements which they made in Illinois and in Indiana the one in 1682 and the other in 1702 There didn't seem to come out anything for some reason or other that is the matter as Mr Cutler once said with regard to Kentucky that is the matter something didn't seem to come of it But when the forty-eight men stepped off of the Mayflower here at the Point and Mr Jarvis ...
... settlements were rare before settlements drew others to follow In the columns of the newspapers and the other publications of the Atlantic states were mirrored the aspirations and the entire gamut of human motives that inspired this great American trek across the Appalachians toward the land of the setting sun President Johnson Professor Bond was a little alarmed fearing perhaps his paper ...
... County Ohio Through its County August 20 1794 This County Historical Society County History -- Frank County -- Pupils of Camden County Historical Society
... settlement at Marietta Ohio a settlements therein therelore Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio That steps be taken to properly observe the one hundredth anniversary of this important event in the history of our country That the United States government should erect a suitable memorial structure on the site of Fort Greenville to perpetuate the memory of General ...
... THE SANDUSKY FORTS THE SANDUSKY FORTS BY CHARLES A HANNA NEW YORK Several addresses on Old Fort Sandusky and the inscriptions on the monument erected last spring near the site of one Sandusky Fort were printed in the October 1912 number of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society's Qu arterly Some of these addresses and inscriptions are so full of inaccuracies misleading statements and incorrect inferences that they should be corrected The bronze tablet on the west face of the ...
... settlement of this matter for settlements in circuit Travel settlement the community of Paddy's Run or Shandon as it is now twenty miles northwest of Cincinnati was established in large part by a group of emigrants from Wales seeking to better themeselves financially intellectually and spiritually The most of the incoming settlers from ...
... settlements were established from Marietta but thus far this was the most remote No state in the Union was settled by a more worthy or enterprising class of citizens They were largely the soldiers or sons of soldiers of the Revolutionary War Many were college graduates and practically all of them were well educated and they brought to the west the very best civilization of the east Ohio at that time was an unbroken wilderness filled with wild ...
... settlement of Ruddell's Station on the Licking River Kentucky in the present county of Harrison In June 1780 Captain Henry Bird with a command of one thousand consisting in part of British troops but mostly of hostile Indians marched from Detroit through Ohio by way of the Miamis crossed the Ohio river to the Licking Ky and attacked and destroyed Ruddell's Station and Martin's Station Captain ...
... settlement cleared a small settlement were occupied in settlement After having freely settlement and procured the aid of forty men with whom they returned for the cattle and with the faint hope of recovering the captives Just as they gained the vicinity of their recent home they were ...
... County Virginia County Perry township on the Scioto General Lafayette was the favorite of our national munificence and gratitude for on March 3 1803 Congress gave him 1152 0 acres of land on December 28 18 24 it gave him 2 00 000 in money and a township of land estimated worth 115200 all of this in addition to the pay of major general which he received during his service as the friend of ...
... settlement and progress in settlement and development of settlement on the western settlements on the shores of settlement and his thorough acquaintance with the country in process of development had brought him to the favorable notice ...
... County of Kent and County of Kent dead or alive but without success as those loyal men could not be bought The silver cup I now hold in my hand was at that time taken from the Gaspee In May 1776 the Legislature of Rhode Island passed an act renouncing all allegiance to the King of Great Britain and ten days before the battle of Bunker Hill the same Legislature purchased and armed two sloops ...
... County officials order of County Signatures of James County with many signatures 1813-17 Military reports of the war letters from Jacob Lindley J P R Bureau R Meigs Lucy Petit Thomas L Pierce William Woodbridge Dudley Woodbridge Sr John Woodbridge Julia Trumbull Woodbridge William Petit In addition to military affairs these letters tell ...
... County this morning about County N Y people here of as ruddy a character as in any place I ever saw I shall start for home if nothing prevents in 4 weeks and you may expect to start as soon as convenient then for this place There is a fine chance for you girls I shall bring with me your uncle Wm's children I shall write again on Monday next and send you some cash Today is Wednesday 27 I want ...