... settlement by people of settlement in Ohio the settlements now mighty cities It is natural that this monument should be erected by the societies represented by your committee Your societies represent every important epoch and crisis in American history They are representative of the men ...
... northwestern part of Indiana I have a transcript from that book which enables me to correct two errors in the article on Simon Kenton viz the number of his children and the second marriage The information was received too late for the January Quarterly The name of the second wife was Elizabeth Jarboe and the marriage took place in Kentucky on March 27 1798 Of the first marriage there were two sons and two daughters of the second one son and ...
... settlement for exiles from settlement and shown great settlement in Holland near settlement in the new country settlement at Bethlehem was settlement who had chartered a
... settlement of Gallipolis the settlement was participated in by French officers of various dates But the French who came here a century ago did not come under the auspices of the French Government They expatrated themselves and left their allegiance and friends behind them They came not for conquest nor for glory but were in a sense refugees from the bloody wars then raging in their own ...
... northwest of the Ohio River northwest to imminent danger and in the emergency General Perkins demonstrated great promptness and signal military ability Being assigned to command the troops detailed from the Reserve to protect the frontier he marched to the Huron River and thence sent scouting expeditions to all quarters where it was ...
... 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 ...
... settlement of the Ohio Country settlement just north of Fort Washington However upon hearing of the pack train the chief decided to attack it instead upon its return trip and with this in view took to ambush just north of Fort Hamilton According to schedule the train was to arrive at Fort Hamilton on Monday Disregarding the schedule Adair ...
... settlements they have always settlement because of the settlement of the Northwestsettlements Far be it from me settlement in the first decade of our present Constitution but no ...
... 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 ...
... settlement in 1772 Here was settlement which he founded in April 1776 on the eastern bank of the Muskingum river two and a half miles below Goshochkunk Coshocton in accordance with the urgent wishes of the chief of the Delaware Indian Nation Chief Netawatwes whose capital was Goshochkunk the Indian name which has survived in Coshocton Netawatwes selected the site in such proximity to his ...
... COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE A PAPER BY HIS GREAT-GRANDSON DAVID FISHER MR PRESIDENT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - From the printed circular I hold in my hand I read the seventh of April 1888 is a day in which the immediate descendants of the first settlers of Marietta principally have an interest As a descendant of Commodore Whipple it is with emotions of reverence pleasure and pride that I am permitted to be present at the Centennial Celebration of Marietta and pay respect to ...
... northwestern boundary Early northwestern gap was to be closed by a line from the Lake of the Woods to the source of the Mississippi at which point the Louisiana boundary was to begin Had Mr King's convention been ratified this assumption on their part might have been maintained with the consequent loss by the United States of the upper part of the Red River Valley and a considerable fraction ...
... northwest of the Ohio being secured to the Republic in consequence of his prowess Again Indiana was associated with you when the Ordinance of 1787 was adopted - the grandest ordinance for the government of territory that has ever been conceived by man Its influence has been radiating from that day to this Again we were interested and associated with you when the splendid victories were made ...
... FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT WAPAKONETA By HARLOW LINDLEY About the beginning of the last century two bands of Shawnee Indians are known to have been settled on lands in the vicinity of the present town of Wapakoneta Ohio In the year 1809 these Indians began to receive attention from the Friends of Ohio Yearly Meeting In order to assist them in ...
... 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 ...
... northwest of the Ohio River could be formed so as to add strength to the Federal party It was therefore obviously the policy of the Governor and his Federal friends to postpone the creation of a new state as long as possible Accordingly he at first in a letter to the Secretary of State at Washington Mr Pickering advised a division with the Scioto River as the line of separation This he ...
... settlements in Kentucky10 The settlement at Ottawa village where we were hailed and cheered lustily by the Tahwa Indians as would be a foreign war ship in the port of New York23 But the town had been laid out by Benjamin Leavell of Piqua and Horatio G Phillips of Dayton in November 1822 and new settlers arrived in some numbers after 1830 One who settled in the community in August 1834 ...
... northwesterly direction and at length arrived at their place of destination Here in dark and filthy huts ornamented with the scalps of their parents and friends separated from each other did these lonely captives spend the long and tedious months of winter in a state of almost perfect starvation The Indians would never go abroad to obtain new supplies of food so long as one morsel remained and then sometimes returned with little success ...