... party of occupation made party attended by the party amid many perils and adventures through the northwest He took from the English Kaskaskia and Vincennes relieved Cahokia and invaded the country of the Shawnees and defeated the Miamis It was the conquest of Illinois Editorialana Editorialana 11 5 for the colonists To his wise valor and ...
... 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 ...
...early identical with the state of Kentucky as finally formed and admitted into the union Returning in our sketch to Augusta county it will be found that in 1776 the counties of Ohio Yohogania and Monongalia 156 Ohio Arch 156 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications were formed from that ...
... early as 1762 A group of Moravian churches in Tuscarawas county remains as a fitting memorial of his Christian labors Early in the nineteenth century immigrants from Germany and Ireland came in considerable numbers to this valley Their settlements are marked by Lutheran and Catholic churches The blending of all these elements could not be accomplished at once Eve n the native Americans had ...
... politics 313 Title in Ohio lands 152 First meeting with Lincoln 335 St Clair Arthur - Kerr's Life of 103 Defeat of 25 120 125 Mansfield home of 325 Dr Cutler's relations with 271 Original phrase repairing fences Note on 87 321 Sketch of 113 Presidential aspirations of 321 Steamboating Ohio river 89 Index Index 509 Stewart John-- W Death ...
... early in August 1779 was evacuated orders to that effect having been sent by Colonel Brodhead Such in brief is the tragic and romantic story of Fort Laurens and its siege For many years it has been the desire of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to secure the site of the Fort and erect thereon a monument suitable to the historic record of the stockade The editor of the ...
...early a year as charge d'affaires Upon his return home Colonel Piatt actively engaged in the presidential campaign giving his support to Lincoln When the Civil War came upon the United States Mr Piatt along with his brother enlisted the older brother and served as staff officer for General Schenck While Colonel Piatt was temporarily serving as chief of the staff at Boston he issued an order to General William G Buney to recruit a brigade of ...
... early in May of 1763 Nine early show the location early days wandered through the densely wooded trails over these plains which smiled to the sun in grass and flowers and along the banks of this historic river to the names of Daniel Boone Simon Kenton William Henry Harrison George Croghan and a host of others we can add the immortal name of ...
... early as 1750 or 1751 as early American out-posts in the Northwest Territory It was garrisoned by a detachment of United States troops under command of Col Beatty The post was abandoned soon after Wayne's victory in 1794 FORT WASHINGTON was built by Maj John Doughty who was sent with a detachment of troops from Fort Harmar in September 1789 to build a fort for the protection of the settlers ...
... party of thirty men party was encamped party who were some distance in the rear I abbreviate the remainder of the account Kenton ran forward to dispatch the wounded Indian and secure the scalps but while thus engaged he heard a rustling in the cane and looking up he beheld two Indians within twenty steps of him very deliberately taking aim ...
... THE INDIANS WHO OPPOSED HARMAR THE INDIANS WHO OPPOSED HARMAR By OTHO WINGER We have a few original sources of information about the Indians of the Northwest in and about Kekionga now Fort Wayne at the time of Harmar's expedition in the fall of 1790 George Croghan in 1765 traveled the length of the Wabash to Kekionga and gave an excellent report to his superiors in the East In the winter of 1789-90 Henry Hay representing British merchants in Detroit visited Kekionga and kept a diary of his ...
... early in October 1778 early a week their only early engaged the early two hundred Indians early parallel and only some four hundred feet apart Back that distance from the road through the cultivated field we were shown the exact spot ...
... early part of the early as the captives early acquaintance with the young man was accordingly sought by Mr Bates and greatly to his surprise and gratification he discovered in him a son of the long lost captive The youth remained at the school for a considerable time frequently visiting his relatives in this vicinity and at length after ...
...early spent and he ran with difficulty but self preservation was strong and he still pressed on through the tangled forest hoping to reach a place of safety About three or four miles from Kent he hid himself beneath a great chestnut log in the quiet waters of this pretty lake and managed to get air through some water reeds which grew in the lake Captain Brady had taken the utmost precaution to destroy all evidences of his trail and had ...
... early history of Greene county It is not surprising then that Tecumseh who frequently returned to his birthplace should have formed a fast friendship with James Galloway and have been his guest at all times when in this vicinity As the daughter Rebecca grew to young womanhood this chief fell under the charm of her personality and the power of her mind and in that valley amid all the beauty of forest and stream that nature can lavish on one ...