... settlement of the Northwest Territory begun at Marietta April 7 1788 Resolved That the eminent and patriotic services of the Congress composed of representatives from the original thirteen States in maintaining the struggle against their powerful enemy in establishing the independence of their country in securing quiet possession of the Mississippi valley and in giving to it the ordinances for disposing of lands and governing its inhabitants ...
... 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 incapable of stubbornness except in what he believed to ...
... County Ohio who was a County was the surveyor THOMAS IRWIN of B C Ohio There was six wagoners with the artillery and one cook Two wagoners and the cook was killed Cap't'n Ford with the small pieces always encampted on rear line right in rear of the large ones The officers on that campaign was as good as any that ever carried a gun T I Spelling and grammatical construction according to ...
... settlements the complicated legal steps by which property at Ora Labora passed from a communal to a private basis would require the examination of scores of court records The final dissolution according to Baur came in 1868 Act 429 of the public acts of Michigan for 1867 shows that considerable land was patented to Baur on November 12 1867 and that acting as trustee for the society he was engaged in settling its debts When the colony ...
... 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 was built in November 1679 by ReneRobert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle by the River St Joseph of Lake Michigan on rising ground near its mouth Parkman's La Salle ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 31 liberty that we are enjoying to-day and I wish to say that upon this spot this historic spot that the tide turned in favor of the American nation in the war of 1812-13 How unfortunate you are to have within your corporate limits the most historic spot in the United States of America I never stood upon this ground upon this battlefield until today My mind turns back to my youthful days when I read of the bravery of Croghan and his 160 men and I ...
... settlement of this country and settlement of our state while settlement reaches back little settlement of this country By settlements are springing up and extending in all directions and the very ground on which we stand but a few ...
... 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 For the relief of the poor Pub ...
... County southeastern County a pleasant and County about five miles County Pennsylvania March 1 1855 aged eighty-eight He left little money and his sons William and Alexander were like him in their indifference to wealth and their preference for unpretentious life Everyone knows that they ...
... County Tyrone Ireland married James Renfrew of Coshocton and brought her five children to that place about 1 820 while some of the Indians still remained in the vicinity From statements of my father W K Johnson and my Uncle John Johnson and also of some of the older settlers who still survived in my boyhood days among whom I may mention Captain Neff and Jesse Workman I have information which I feel should be placed of record before it is ...
... County the head-waters of the river from which the valley takes its name are located in this county To this county my maternal ancestors moved at an early date and endured the trials and hardships of pioneer life In this county my grandmother with gun in hand took command of the fort and ...
... settlement Great streams of immigration poured into it Before they came the ordinance creating the Northwest Territory had declared that 'religion morality and knowledge being necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind schools and means of education shall be forever encouraged' and for that purpose there was set apart a certain portion of the land Thus there was laid in morality in integrity in intelligence and in honor the ...
... A VANISHING RACE A VANISHING RACE MRS JENNIE C MORTON Frankfort Ky Read by the author before the Ohio Valley Historical Association at their meeting with the Kentucky State Historical Society in the New Capitol October 16th 1909 Whether we call the Indian North American or South American we know the Indian race historically as a peculiar and distinctly marked people-disappearing gradually into oblivion An authentic history of the race has not been written but the traditions concerning it ...
... Logan Esarey Messages and Logan Esarey Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison Indianapolis 1922 6 The Works of Henry Clay Edited by Calvin Colton New York 1904 in ten volumes Vol I II Newspapers and Pamphlets 1 Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Mercury for December 24 1804 September 10 1804 February 10 March 3 August 11 November 25 December 2 1806 December 13 December 2 0 1809 May 22 ...
... County taken from Ross and County taken entirely from County and the elections for the Representatives aforesaid shall take place on the second Tuesday of October next the time fixed by a law of the territory entitled An act to ascertain the number of free male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one in the territory of the United States ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 305 buried near what is now the city of Fort Wayne To the end he was true to his mission of planting nurseries and sowing the seeds of medicinal herbs To the pioneers of Ohio he was an unselfish benefactor and we are here today to aid in transmitting to coming generations our grateful memory of his deeds HISTORICAL SKETCH The historical sketch of Johnny Appleseed was prepared and presented by Mr A J Baughman a recognized authority in the early history of ...