... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MAJOR JOHN BURNHAM AND HIS COMPANY Mr Barlow had written Colonel Duer early in December 1789 that huts must be built on land opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha to accommodate at least one hundred persons The cost of these huts was to be paid by the agent of the immigrants upon their arrival In March 1790 General Rufus Putnam as agent for the Trustees for the Scioto Associates employed John Burnham of Essex Massachusetts to ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications war for independence would have been greatly at variance with the desires of the American people Authorities for the above article are John J Jacob's Biography of Michael Cresap Olden Time-Monthly historical paper printed by Nevin B Craig at Pittsburg 1847 Statement of George Rogers Clark Washington-Crawford Correspondence-Butterfield Doddridge's Notes Narrative of Capt John Stewart Pennsylvania Archives McKiernan's Border History-W H H ...
... Jackson Donelson's party Jackson was a product of East Tennessee in Revolutionary times while his wife the daughter of Donelson went to the Cumberland Valley with her father in 1779 the younger brother of Clark shares with Lewis the credit for the exploration of the Oregon country and Sam Houston a product of the Tennessee frontier was the founder of the United States power in Texas As the ...
...formation as well as formation of the Ohio Company under royal sanction proposing as it did to carve a half million acres out of what the French regarded as their domain was not a matter to be tossed to and fro like a shuttlecock between the Cabinet at Versailles and the Cabinet at St James CELORON DE BIENVILLE The French proceeded to take the only course open to them They occupied the Ohio ...
... CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED A granite monument erected near the site of Camp Charlotte bears a bronze tablet with the following inscription CAMP CHARLOTTE Near this spot -- the famous Treaty was made between Lord Dunmore Governor of Virginia and Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnees and Allied Tribes in October -- 1774 This Camp was named Charlotte after the Queen of England Erected by the Pickaway Plains Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1774 1928 This monument ...
... County Again he took up County he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives The following year he married Miss Ella Kirby who possessed the qualities of a truly cultured gentlewoman These she still retains although she is now in frail health The home life of Colonel and Mrs Piatt was beautiful In 1884 they too built a magnificent stone home of Flemish architecture near the site of ...
... County near Circleville It County and one to Samuel Huntington Governor of Ohio in 1808 whose early home in Painesville Township is still standing The Old Northwest Chapter at Ravenna has marked the spot where Captain Samuel Brady immortalized the little lake which bears his name by erecting a granite marker there Last fall at the conference when it was suggested that the D A R of Ohio mark ...
...formation They instantly set formation in regard to formation regarding their formation says Having in 1780 met with his brother John Kenton they recognized each other and he resumed his family name Another writer says At this period 1782 he heard for the first time from his long abandoned ...
...formation of any who might formation on the general formation They instantly set out in obedience of their orders and reached the neighborhood of the town without being discovered From this point on the accounts given by McDonald or quoted and by McClung agree in all the essential points The small difference is that McDonald says they ...
... County West Virginia At County Kentucky were taken prisoners by a band of Shawnees A little later a party of surveyors in Kentucky nearly opposite the mouth of the Scioto River killed several Shawnee warriors An engagement also occurred with the Indians near the mouth of the Little Kanawha Dedication of the Logan Elm Dedication of the Logan Elm 297 and these men joined Cresap's men and all ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Battle of Point Pleasant Treaty twenty years before was its beginning Had the pioneers been successful in that conflict the Americans would not have rebelled It would have shown the impossibility of success But Colonel Lewis was successful and Anthony Wayne was successful The Revolution culminated in independence but not for Ohio until Wayne fought the last battle that gave our people instead of England the land upon which we now stand ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... 578 Ohio 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications stead it is now believed they are the remains of sacred places half temples where the dead were prepared for burial which was by cremation Inside this enclosure were divisions corresponding in a way to the family burying lot and in these the ashes and the trinkets of the dead were deposited When these were full the enclosure was filled up and the mound thus erected became a sort of monument not to one person or one family but to the dead of ...
... County possessed I should County have studied your County has gathered to herself all that remains of another hero her first if not her greatest Here under the shadow of this monument among the people who love to do him honor on the very spot he so gallantly defended will he lie Till mouldering worlds and tumbling systems burst When the ...
...formation as to the treatment formation with slight formation on Kenton etc 76 formation from Indians at the formation of this combination formation of the second
... Editorialana Editorialana 493 FORT LAURENS--ITS SITE AND SIEGE The relation of the Ohio country and its pre-state pioneers to the events of the American Revolution has not yet been properly portrayed Until recently leading historians have either ignored it altogether or slightingly treated it It will ere long receive due attention Roosevelt in The Winning of the West Winsor in the Westward Movement and Moore in The Northwest Under Three Flags have given it more or less consideraton During the ...
... County 4 500 Index Index County Underground R R in County Council Rock 308 County Council Rock in 307 County ary Dean VinWest County Stark land claims Western Reserve Historical ...
...formation are meagre but sufficient to give us a tolerably accurate idea of the state of affairs The French like other nations of Southern Europe possess a cheerful disposition but being also excitable this is characterized very often by extreme degrees of elation or depression They have winning manners and are warmly hospitable and are remarkable for their thrift and ingenuity That these traits were marked among the early settlers we think is ...