... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795--II Edited by RICHARD C KNOPF In this second installment of the Andrews journal which covers the months of May June July and August 1795 the author again records the flow of events through this crossroads outpost of the American army He notes the movement of Indian delegations towards Greene Ville the arrival and departure of chiefs the coming and going of traders the ...
... 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 ...
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... WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS SEEN BY A VOYAGER IN 1932 BY EDMOND S SINDLINGER On October 5 1770 George Washington set out on his historic journey to the Ohio country This journey was made in the interest of the Virginia soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars and had been promised western lands as a reward for their services He arrived at Fort Pitt on October 17th Here he obtained two boats a large one for himself and seven companions and a canoe for ...
... Jackson was to Florida what Sam Houston was to Texas what George Rogers Clark was to the Northwest Anthony Wayne was to the Ohio country He opened it up to civilization and it is well that we honor his memory and his name with a monument and a piece of sculpture that will stand through the endless years of time and should it crumble to dust the patriotism of the American people and the people of the Buckeye State will replace it and see that ...
...formation that evidences the formations while listening to the tales of fights with the redskins and in 1784 issued his History of Kentucky a work that stands today as the indispensable basis of all written accounts of the beginnings of the West even as the marvelously accurate map which accompanied it is invaluable from its location of the buffalo roads the block houses forts and outposts ...
... THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT LAKES JOHN M BULKLEY The French emigrants scattered along the northwestern frontier previous to the year 176 0 were chiefly from the provinces of Picardy and Normandy in France Without aspiring to the aristocratic rank of the noblesse who had congregated in the region of Quebec and Montreal they were accustomed to reverence the authority which had before been exercised over them under the French monarchy in ...
... County This is the Jacksoncounty when it was discovered by the whites It appears however that all the Ohio tribes were allowed to visit the salt springs and to make salt Situated as they were on the great Indian trail from the mouth of the Kanawha to the head of the Maumee they were visited by hundreds and sometimes thousands of Indians ...
...formation we can obtain the Enemy is marching to attack us either here or at Sandwich amp Madden The certainty of inhuman treatment from British amp Indians the retaliatory system adopted and the exasperated state of mind of both parties on this frontier at this time all combine to make both desperate and to inspire a resolution in our troops never to surrender The The Ohio-Columbus Centennial The Ohio-Columbus Centennial 45 9 folly of ...
... 80 Ohio Arch 80 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications arrive at its position till the first assault was nearly over After a volley or two in which the British sustained some slight loss the troops at this point also were ordered to retire The loss amounted to 26 killed 29 wounded and missing and 41 wounded most of them slightly and brought away total 96 The Americans state their loss at one killed and seven wounded Considering the way in which they were sheltered and the circumstances of the ...
... County Ohio Fort St Fort County Ohio which was probably located on the Montgomery farm This site was supposed to be in a picturesque little hollow near the Zion Church about seven miles from Fort St Clair On the morning of the 17th of October 1793 or one hundred twenty-nine years ago the seventeenth of last month began the skirmish which has meant so much to us and in which we are ...
... Jackson Col 4th Reg David JacksonCapt 6th Reg Mass Aaron OgdenCapt Jersey Samuel Reading Major Jonathan Holmes Capt Cyrus D HartCapt Edmund D Thomas Lt Abraham Appleton Lt L----- Dalsey Lt and Adjt John Peck Lt Wm Shute Ensign Samuel M Shute Lt Jos Buck Lt Samuel Hendry Capt Ben't Osmun Lt Moses Sproule Ensign Jno Reed L Frank Luce Ensign Wessel T Stout Lt John Bishop Ensign Wm Tuttle Ensign ...
... 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 ...
...formation and advice given formation she undoubtedly imparted to General Harrison and Major Croghan although it The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 105 is hard to estimate the actual value of the assistance given to Croghan in the battle Nevertheless the British were so incensed at her conduct that they stopped at the Whitaker home on their retreat down the river from Fort ...
... County Pioneer Association County still bear his name County The position of Fort Laramie was fully discussed in this Quarterly about five years ago It follows that the passage on page 279 wherein it is stated that the line from the Tuscarawas runs west to Loramie's Store is wholly wrong ...
... County Darlington and County 58 Ohio Arch 58 County Ohio in 1796 He County and we have about County Ohio had been named County whose native talents and mental energy and whose ...
...formation But really my friends when you come to think of it this Ordinance of 1787-practically carried into operation in 1788 and about which our friends the descendants of Dr Manasseh Cutler make so much and the descendants of General Rufus Putnam make so much about which indeed all the descendants of these great men come here and make so much-and none too much-when you come to think of it I repeat how youthful you are in comparison with ...
... County by Kerr Joseph 311 County in 281 Turkeys frequency of 209 219 iitia in 2 Militia in 232 Northwest in 461 U Sandusky in 363 Underground 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 ...
...formation about the West Mr Ewing remembered correctly that Dr Cutler foretells the use of steamboats on western waters Rumsey's plan for applying steam power to boats was then attracting considerable attention although twenty years would elapse before Fulton made his successful trip with the Clermont on the Hudson But the date 1785 given by Mr Ewing is incorrect for a very 204 Ohio Arch 2 04 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications obvious ...