... early part of 1778 made early and told his wife early opposite the early hardships in the backwoods and adventures with the Indians so that by the time we came to Urbana we had all become quite free talkers All the time I did not take any hint as to who he was though I tried hard to study ...
... settlement and culture A settlement of the great West Other Indian wars and outbreaks there were but none so formidable after that great treaty was signed The immense flood of emigrants that poured into Ohio found happy and peaceful homes on the old hunting grounds and in the Indian villages of the Northwest and from them has descended a ...
... settlements early day the leading early eighty miles enclosed on both sides by hills at the foot of which lay wide plains terminating abruptly in bluffs or sloping gently to the lower bottoms through which the river flowed These plains that now form the fruitful fields of the second bottoms as they are called were then wooded with the oak ...
... 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 ...
... settlements The army under St Clair had rendezvoused at Fort Washington and after being divided into three military organizations had started northward into the Indian country Fort Hamilton built principally as a depot for supplies stood 304 Ohio Arch 304 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 on the east bank of the Great Miami ...
... 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 little acquaintance with their neighbors from other states and there were differences in faith and in customs which for a time kept the little qroups asunder I have often heard a tradition of a New England family that was surrounded by Virginians A girl from this family had gone on some ...
... settlements hoping to thus settlement impossible The settlement that had been made settlement along this border was as has already been said a continuation of the Revolutionary War which began at ...
... settlements were near the settlements of Virginia during and after the French and Indian war and Pontiac's war During his raids inhabitants were being murdered and many were taken to the Shawnee towns on the banks of the Scioto River His capital called Cornstalk's Town was located on the north bank of the Scippo Creek a short distance from his sister's village Grenadier Squaw Town The ...
... settlement where he arrived a little later His friends could scarcely credit his story but found that he had indeed had a race for life and rejoiced with him that it had not been in vain Captain Brady renewed his warfare upon the Indians and at one time captured several single handed and marching by night and hiding by day took them a distance of many miles The place where he made his bold leap has since been known as Brady's Leap the hill ...
... early hours of the early American armies Gen early seven hundred were dead thirty of Me-she-kun-nogh-quah or Little Turtle Me-she-kun-nogh-quah or Little Turtle 143 these were women and three hundred wounded lay on the field Among the prominent officers killed were General Richard Butler Major Ferguson Colonel Oldham Major Clark and Major ...
... settlements began north of the settlement of the western country This reser- 282 Ohio Arch 282 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications vation of section 16 therefore could not April 30 1 80 2 be made the consideration of a new bargain between the United States and the state of
... CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON OF TECUMSEH In volume XXXIV of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly pages 143-153 appeared a contribution entitled Tecumseh and His Descendants gleaned from authentic records furnished by Thomas Wildcat Alford scholarly and cultured gentleman one of the great-grandsons of the famous chieftain Tecumseh born in Ohio ...
... settlements in the southern eastern and northern parts of the state multiplied apace Rapid strides were made in population and cultivation statewards From the achievement of national independence by the Treaty of Paris 1783 to the passage of the Ordinance of 1787 the great west so far as it was governed at all was governed by the Continental Congress When the new Federal government went into operation March 4 1789 it became necessary to make ...
... settlement and through their royal charters and patents claimed the extension of their rights west from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and even on beyond to the unknown sea It was at Logstown some twenty miles below the site of Pittsburg 1753 when the first great conference was held between the three rival races The Indian the native savage represented by Half King chief of the Iroquois St Pierre representing the French and he whose name we ...
...early half of which is 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 ...
... settlement which marked its settlement with Congress and secure a title to the lands already paid for The matter was referred to a Committee of the House who in their report say ...
... settlement of our forefathers SOUTH SIDE Erected by John Boggs to the memory of his grandfather and fathersoldier scout and pioneer WEST SIDE Major John Boggs born near Wheeling Virginia 1775 Moved to Ohio with his father 1789 Married Sarah McMechan 1800 Raised eight children all born in a cabin that stood on this spot His wife Sarah died 1851 He died 1863 363 364