... County is one of our most historical counties in Ohio It was formed January 12 1810 The name is a misspelling of Piqua the name of a tribe of Shawnee Indians We learn that most of our formal Indian settlements were near the Scioto river in the Pickaway Plains The remarkable Pickaway Plains may be designated as the section lying between the Scioto on the west Salt Creek on the east and extending north and south between lines which would run ...
... 372 Ohio Arch 372 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER IN THE VALLEY OF THE LITTLE MIAMI BY WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY M D VICE PRESIDENT OHIO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION In considering The Revolutionary Soldier in the Valley of the Little Miami I am impressed with the significance of the territorial enactments which particularly designated his settlement in this beautiful and fertile location The territory granted by King James I to the company which founded the ...
... County Oviatts T D OVIATT Warren O February 15th 1889 Almost incredible is the recital of the hardships and sufferings from savage cruelty to which the early emigrants of our western set- Editorialana Editorialana 585 tlements were exposed With very few of the comforts of life and none of its luxuries they penetrated deep into the dark and unbroken forest erected their rude habitations and placed within their unembellished walls their wives ...
...formation write the formation and is no doubt formation of the Union itself formation of the Union might be rendered possible It is interesting as well as gratifying to know that the spirit of compromise prevailed and that the states directly interested in the controversy respecting this ...
...formation existing concerning formation concerning the formation and think a supply formation which led him to consider it as the point of divergence of the future commerce of the lakes meeting the ocean Virginia being then regarded as the State through which this trade must pass to the ...
... County they descended that valley to the Scioto and thence to a prairie on Kinnikinnick Creek where was the freshly deserted village of one of the tribes This was thirteen miles south of Chillicothe now Westfall Here they were met early on the twenty-fourth by a messenger from Dunmore ordering them to halt as a treaty was nearly concluded at Camp Charlotte But Lewis's army had been fired on that morning and the place was untenable for a camp ...
... County of Lucas the 29th day of October 187 0 It was witnessed by Victor Keen clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Gen Hunt was only about nine or ten years of age when he had knowledge of the things he swore to in 1870 We knew him in 1870 and he was in his right mind then In 1807 General Hunt resided in Ft Wayne Indiana and during his residence became well acquainted with the celebrated Indian Chief Little Turtle of the Miami Tribe of Indians ...
...formation in the letter formation received by Dunmore formation to the Indians Capt Stewart informs us that Lewis had no contemptible enemy with which to deal the Indian army was composed chiefly of the Shawanese that cut off the British army under Gen Braddock in 1756 they were the Indians who defeated Major Grant and his Scotch Highlanders ...
...formation almost in a generation of a howling wilderness into the peaceful and prosperous garden spot of civilization - the Buckeye commonwealth The poetic classic that tells of the search of the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece is not comparable to the simple but splendid prose epic describing the jou rney of the little band of Revolutionary veterans which orgainized in the Bunch of Grapes Tavern journeyed over the snow-clad mountains where the ...
... 300 Ohio Arch 300 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 TRUDE CHRISTINA ANNA CHRISTINA ANNA SALOME and ANNA ELIZABETH Besides these there were five adults one man S CHAPPIHILLEN the husband of Helen together with four women and thirteen babes not yet baptized and the following members of the Mission at Schoenbrun who happened to be at Gnadenhutten to-wit NICHOLAS and his wife JOANNA SABINA ABEL HENRY ANNA and BATHSHEBA the last two daughters of Joshua the founder of Gnadenhutten in all ...
...formation about the Indians formation is the book The Land of the Miamis by Judge Elmore Barce The leading tribe was that of the Miamis with several divisions Their chief town and capital if it may be so called was at Kekionga There were strong divisions of this tribe along Eel River and the Mississinewa called Eel Rivers and Mississinewas the Weas at Ouiatenon near the present Lafayette and ...
... Address of Governor McKinley Address of Governor McKinley 207 ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR McKINLEY DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 8 1895 INTRODUCTION BY J R KNOX - The people of Ohio like to see their Governor the soldiers of the army like to see their old comrade everybody wants to see McKinley and I have the pleasure now fellow citizens of presenting to you Governor McKinley of Ohio who will now address you Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen Your president has said that the people of Ohio want ...
... Remarks of J Remarks of J V Jones 175 REMARKS OF J V JONES ESQ LADIES AND GENTLEMENIt would hardly be proper for me to say fellow-citizens for the reason of having been absent from your county for nearly fifty-eight years During that time many changes have been wrought in the city of Gallipolis and Gallia county Eighty-one years ago a young married couple might have been seen slowly wending ...
...formation furnished by Hard Hickory and on the approval of Tall Chief Steel and Coonstick were arrested At the trial however Tall Chief contrary to expectation did everything in his power to defend Steel and Coonstick The story as related by Mr Meek is based largely upon the report of Henry C Brish Indian sub-agent at Upper Sandusky and supported by the reminiscences of Sardis Birchard In other words the foregoing con- Seneca John Indian ...
...formation Mrs Dryer has been and is among the women of Columbus foremost in religious civic and patriotic work of that city She has been active in the affairs of the League of Women Voters Young Women's Christian Association and is at present Vice-Regent of the Columbus Chapter of the D A R and President of the Columbus Presbyterial Society Her address follows Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen I am the greatgranddaughter of Colonel Benjamin ...
... formation of this society formation of the Ohio Company of Associates in 1786 the passage of the celebrated ordinance in 1787 for the government of the territory Northwest of the river Ohio the purchase by the Ohio Company in 1787 and the planting of the colony in the next year the framing of the Constitution by the Convention in 1787 its ratification the next year by a sufficient number of ...
...formation After speaking of the march of the army from Fort Defiance on the 15th of August and the arrival at Roche de Boeuf on the 18th instant and the work of the 19th in making a temporary post for the reception of stores and baggage and in reconnoitering the position of the enemy the report proceeds At eight o'clock on the morning of the 20th the army again advanced in columns agreeably to the standing order of march the legion on the right ...
...formation have made the Indian gauntlet an institution of the most shocking cruelty It is true severe tortures were often inflicted upon prisoners the degree depending much upon their fortitude and presence of mind for no people admired bravery as the Indians did But the gauntlet was rather a place of amusement than punishment unless the offence had been one worthy of particular revenge The gauntlet track of the Wyandots here at Lower Sandusky ...
...formation concerning it the company selected Christopher Gist of North Carolina to explore these lands The company was composed of a number of gentlemen prominent in political life and of approved business ability Among them were Thomas Lee President of the Council of Virginia Lawrence and August Washington Thomas Cresap Robert Dinwiddie Governor of Virginia and fourteen others In preparation for Gist's journey a store was opened at Wills Creek ...