... 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 got a clue which enabled me to locate Simon ...
... Wars of Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania p 1 29 17 The Centenary of Kentucky in Filson Club Publications No 7 p 27 18 Ibid p 34 19 John P Hale Trans-Allegheny Pioneers p 29 20 W M Darlington editor Christopher Gist's Journals P 39 21 Magazine of Western History Vol VI p III footnote ...
... Ohio 322 Kenyon's Chillicothe Kenyon's Chillicothe 323 Now as to the identity of the Chillicothe which was the scene of Kenton's running of the gauntlet I am acquainted with a little incident which bears upon that point I was acquainted for many of the later years of his life with John Carman who was brought by his parents at 2 years of age to the extreme southwest corner of Greene county about the year 1 80 2 He told me a few years before ...
... War and the result was that Congress made an appropriation of 30000 in fifteen annual payments as additional compensation to the Shawnees for their Reservation at Wapakoneta The claim was made for 100000 but the entire sum had not been demanded at that time The Committee was authorized to dispose of the property at Wapakoneta and hold the proceeds in trust and the Trustees requested to make such transfer of the real estate as the Committee ...
... War of 1812 Tecumsapease went to Quebec probably with her nephew Pugeshashenwa whence after a time she returned to Detroit where she died A few years ago 1884 some of her descendants were still living in Missouri TECUMSEH From the poem by Jessie F V Donnell in the Magazine of Western Western History True son of the forest whose towering form Imaged the pine in the wind-driven storm Whose eye like the eagle's pierced keen and far Or burned with ...