... northwest of Clifton Beneath the branches of a monarch of the forest he paused to recruit his strength when daylight suddenly burst upon him Not seeming to comprehend his dangerous situation he did not move but coolly took a piece of pemmican from his pouch and began to devour it He was not unarmed for he had stolen his rifle and hunting accoutrements from his captors The pemmican had scarcely been devoured when the noise occasioned by the ...
... FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY With Mention of Other Forts in and Near the Maumee River Basin BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO There were at least five forts or stockades of defense in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River in its earlier history that were called Fort Miami namely 1 The first one ...
... settlement this vast empire settlement Could the boundary have been held back along the Ohio the vast natural resources of the Ohio country would have flowed eventually into British channels These resources constituted the coveted prize In any event the Indians were doomed to lose what ...
... CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN BY W H HUNTER Consul Wilshire Butterfield the famous Historian was born near the village of Colosse Oswego County New York July 28 1824 He was of Knickerbocker stock his father's people coming to America in 1634 His parents Amroy Butterfield and Mary Lamb Butterfield immigrated from Brattleboro Vermont to the State of New York Consul Wilshire Butterfield died at his home in South Omaha Nebraska onMonday September 25 ...
... CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON'S TIME1 BY MRS EMMA S BACKUS Cincinnati Ohio The old days were great because the men who moved in them had mighty qualities --THEODORE ROOSEVELT Grand old times with a grand old father This tribute to the times and the man was penned by a son of the subject of this sketch in 1885 when Matthew Sedam then residing at Terre Haute Indiana wrote reminiscently to his ...
... settlements where they could settlements or villages De Soto's chronicles make frequent mention of the granaries belonging to every town the early settlers of Virginia and New England were saved from starvation time and again by supplies obtained from the Indians Generals Clarke Wayne and others not to mention small marauding parties burned or otherwise destroyed great quantities of corn ...
... northwest of the Ohio river northwest of the Ohio River to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted to the Union on equal footing with the original state 2nd the new state was bounded as follows on the east by the Pennsylvania line on the west by a line drawn due north ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 27 ADDRESS OF HON CHARLES W FAIRBANKS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I am gratified indeed to be present and participate with you for a brief while upon this historic occasion I have not come to make a formal speech nor did I come to make you a speech at all According to the programme I am to indulge only in a few remarks What I shall say to you shall be born of the moment I have brought with me no well-turned phrases I have come simply to ...
... settlement of the Northwestsettlement of that town in the settlement of Gnadenhutten by settlement made on January 9th settlements to the North and
... settlement No said he very settlement was first made it settlement of the town and settlements between the settlements which had now settlements Boiling Spring and
... northwest wilderness of 1794 Wayne's March and battles are a prominent feature with possible incidents connected therewith both of fact and fiction The author was Andrew Coffinberry Wright and Leg were the publishers Columbus Ohio 1842 I do not know how large the edition or the price or popularity of the book I have knowledge of but two copies I saw the author in Sidney
... Samuel Finley Vinton Samuel Finley Vinton 231 SAMUEL FINLEY VINTON BY MADELENE VINTON DAHLGREN It was peculiarly characteristic of the patriotic unselfishness that was the dominating principle of the public career of Samuel F Vinton that he never paused while laboring with unremitting zeal for his country to prepare any journal or written notes of any kind that might assist the biographer to give the story of his own life Unaided therefore by that light which he himself could best have thrown ...
... settlements down the Ohio to settlements Sometimes he differed with his colleagues and some Scotch firmness revealed itself While courtly in manners he could speak plainly in a crisis But a study of his behavior and of the language of his letters and his own Narrative convinces me as it has all unbiased students of his life that he was ...
... settlements made there as it offered an asylum for all mankind To this state came the Swedes who settled along the Delaware River the Dutch from Holland who in turn drove the Swedes back into the state now Delaware the English Welsh Irish and the French Huguenots who had suffered persecution in their own land All came seeking a home of refuge and peace in a strange but chosen land The religious sect of Friends in England was not looked upon ...
... settlement of the territory settlement and the sale of settlements of Marietta Belpre settlement to receive and settlements in the same settlements with religious
... settlements therein This is not the place to enter upon a discussion of the motives and purposes of Dunmore's War-so-called-which followed on the heels of the Quebec Act Suffice it to say Lord Dunmore the royal governor of Virginia decided upon a hostile expedition across the Ohio the main ostensible purpose being to chastise the Ohio ...
... settlements will conceive it settlement of intestates' settlement of intestates' estates Pub June 16 Took effect August 15 1 3 To license and regulate taverns Pub June 17 Took effect August 15 14 Establishing the recorder's office Pub June 18 Took effect August 1 15 For raising county rates and levies Pub June 19 Took effect October 1 16 ...
... settlements could be found in settlements was that of the settlements in Kendall Yellow settlements see Carl Wittke We settlement was finally located settlement than actually came ...