... Little mention is made of the plans to join Aaron Burr but the agreements drawn up on the tenth of December 1806 and the few subsequent letters are eloquent of the tragedy that followed Many of the items are of interest because of the information they give regarding the furnishing of the famous Blennerhassett mansion This collection is interesting for studying the economic and social conditions of the day Woodbridge and Backus Manuscripts ...
... AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING REV N B C LOVE The greater part of the following data the writer had from Levi Savage in 1885 He was at this time old and blind but in possession of his mental faculties His memory seemed clear and tenacious I wrote down at the time what he said word for word and from this written account I draw also from government and church publications A camp meeting was held by the Christian Wyandots on the east side of the Sandusky river opposite the big ...
... edited and translated by edited and translated by PHILLIP J WOLFE and WARREN J WOLFE Prospects for the Gallipolis Settlement French Diplomatic Dispatches More than two centuries have passed since Gallipolis Ohio City of the Gauls was founded by French settlers It was on October 17 1790 that a group of French immigrants first set foot on the banks of the Ohio and found some eighty log huts awaiting them As colonists of the Scioto Company they had arrived in Alexandria Virginia and in other ...
... Miami of old and great renown Their country's rights and honor to reclaim Northward to the River of eventide Where their leader without a soldier's pride Gained to himself ignominious fame And a name forever covered with shame The cry To arms rang from every mouth Fr om Lakes of the North to Gulf of the South From states in the East where often before The broad fields had been drenched with gore Of the heroes of a hundred years ago None to-day ...
... 164 Ohio Arch 164 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications C L McIlvaine representing the New Philadelphia Board of Trade The announcement was made of the organization under the auspices of the Board of Trade of the Schoen-Brunn Monument Association and the names of the Board of Officers were announced as printed on the program President Wm A Wagner President Board of Trade Vice-President Rev Dr Wm H Rice Gnadenhutten O Financial Secretary Professor George C Maurer Treasurer James F Kildenbaugh ...
... Miami 5 Harmar's Road N Miami 1 Wayne's route to Miami Harmar's Road north Miami Wayne's route Road from Napoleon Henry County down Maumee practically identical with Wayne's route 1 See Note on map of Portage Path 294 Ohio Arch 294 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications To one to whom ...
... INDIANS IN UNION COUNTY INDIANS IN UNION COUNTY BY COLONEL W L CURRY In 1797 before a white settler had found a home in the tract of country now forming the county of Union a town was laid out on a large scale in what is now Darby Township on the south side of Big Darby Creek by Lucas Sullivant who named it North Liberty Doubtless Mr Sullivant expected his town would at some not distant day be a busy metropolis but he ruined its prospects by laying out in August of the same year 1797 the town ...
... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The program began at 2 o'clock Hon E O Randall presided and after a very brief preliminary address introduced Mrs Jones who read the following paper PRESENTATION SPEECH OF MRS HOWARD JONES One hundred and thirty-eight years ago this October momentous events were happening in this beautiful valley of the Scioto and history was being made in this fertile Pickaway plain-land East of us about seven miles at Camp Charlotte were about fifteen ...
... Littleton to accompany him on a journey through France and Italy From his intimate association with this nobleman and his companions he acquired a perfect command of the English language He wrote it even better than the English officers themselves No information is given here as to how why and when Bouquet came to this country and considerable search elsewhere for the information has been made in vain The narrative passes on to the formation ...
... NINTH ANNUAL REPORT NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNOR From February 19 1893 to February 19 1894 To th e HON WILLIAM MCKINLEY Governor of Ohio SIR-The eighth annual report of this Society was a resume of the work to that time chiefly along lines connected with the department of American Archaeology and History at the World's Fair Since the date of that report our labors have been principally directed toward completing in the best manner ...
... Railroad Station 289 Towns along 224 300 'trade route 224 Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society Trollope's Mrs journey on 380 385 277 392 394 Oberlin Covenant 269 Value of in pioneer settlement 220 Oberlin Peace League 277 Washington's steamboat descends Oberlin-Wellington rescue case 364 228 Ohio Canal opening of 241 Ohio River Steamboating-- Ohio Company First 125 221 Accidents 394 398 Ohio Company Second 127 Bibliography 398 Circular of ...
... Miami and two miles square on the Sandusky River which were ceded by the treaty of Greenville in 1795 Mr Perkins in addition to laying out the desired route from Cleveland to Detroit conceived and brought to completion the project of securing a cession of land for a road from the Reserve to the Maumee River He proposed the matter to several influential Indians and obtained the approval of Governor Hull at Detroit The treaty of Brownsville was ...
... Little Daddy Vicory He did not lack courage as will be seen from the following narrative Early on a Sunday morning while living in Springfield he discovered a thief stealing bacon from his smoke-house securing a rope he caught the thief and tied him securely until the hour when people were on their way to church when he drove him to the Presbyterian Meeting-House under the persuasive influence of a large club with two sides of bacon tied to ...
... Miami There is no cause Miami for 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 Virginia and the Carolinas were of the same type and one of the first deeds of the ...
... Miami and defeated them Doubtless this experience led to the feeling that something must be done in order to protect Kentucky and the Ohio River region against the aggressive assaults of both the British and the Indians At all events Colonel Clark had shown by his determined course at Vincennes in 1779 with General Hamilton that he was an uncompromising soldier when his back was toward his home and his face toward the enemy Out of this grew ...
... 38 Ohio Arch 38 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE September 10 1813 BY MRS JOHN T MACK It was a fair morning in September a gentle breeze was blowing down the lake rippling the water A little American fleet lay peacefully at anchor in the beautiful island-locked bay of South Bass Island its brave young commander and sturdy men anxiously waiting for the sign of a coming hostile sail A few days before with the Union ...
... Miami River32 -- From the Miami of the Lakes 338 Miami to Cross amp from appearances amp concil held it was suposed they were ready for us at the fording amp would attack us in the river which was deep -- This caused us to wheel off amp cross the river at a different place higher up -- Immediately on gaining the Bank we discovered a ...
... STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO BY JEAN DICK CHEETHAM The doctrine of state sovereignty was the natural outgrowth of conditions which existed in the American colonies1 in the Articles of Confederation the doctrine assumed definite form each state was to retain its sovereignty freedom and independence and this was the element of weakness that undermined the Confederation it hindered the acceptance of the Constitution by the States and delayed their union it was made the ...