... early in July arrived at Wheeling where Fort Fincastle was erected This fort too became an important factor in the Revolutionary War having withstood two awful sieges neither of which have been made a part of the history written in the East and yet the work done in those two conflicts aided greatly the American patriots for the fury of the Indians was held at bay and permitted the frontiersmen to join Daniel Morgan's regiment of sharpshooters ...
... 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 him out and though I had been somewhat familiar with his history from my ...
...early half a century Here early times the brave soldier and the honest man Simon Kenton Simon Kenton 39 An epitaph written by Collins on another occasion may fittingly close this brief sketch How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallow'd mould She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet ...
... 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 ...
...early approaching the early history of the early on the early concluded at Camp early established the genuineness of Logan's speech but has left in some doubt the question as to whether Logan's family were murdered by Major Michael Cresap ...
...early a year in collecting and drilling his men Meanwhile the commissioners of the government exhausted every effort for peace But all such efforts were unavailing In September 1793 General Wayne had so organized his army that by rapid marches he advanced up the valley of the Great Miami to Fort Jefferson and thence proceeded to establish a strongly fortified camp for the winter headquarters and called the place Greenville From that point he ...
... Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet 141 vation of their historic sites mounds circles squares and the tokens of a bygone civilization found therein To you and to your keeping we present this Tablet and are happy in so doing We realize that you and the great State of Ohio are leading in the procession of progress To you the custodian of the glories of the past peoples records and their trophies of valor we consign ...
...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 Hart Among the wounded were Colonel Sargeant and Lieut Col Gibson Major Thomas Butler and Viscount Malartie aidede-camp of St Clair The Indian loss is ...
... early homes as West early settlers and such early settler William Fee early towns while early days as among the ones who are enjoying the civilization that their heroism won They followed their husbands as Rachel followed Jacob-and ...
... early in the engagement early to its close Of his humanity there can be no question and he therefore rises above all the other aborigines of distinction Hatch says that he met many warriors at Greenville July 22 1814 during the formation of the second treaty Regarding Tecumtha's claim to honorable warfare and that he never tortured prisoners they invariably testified to the correctness of ...
... party of white men headed by Michael Cresap started out with the avowed intention of attacking Logan and his family On the way however Cresap who felt that Logan was not guilty of the offense for which they were about to punish him persuaded his command to return to their homes A few days Robert Thackleton in his Book of Philadelphia says in regard to Stenton the old colonial house just below Wayne Junction and its owner James Logan Stenton a ...
... party to these mischievous machinationsbut it is certain that Canadian authorities and British agents engaged in them and that the principal-the home government in London-could have known and should have known and was thus really responsible if not immediately guilty Indeed the London government did know for the American government made constant complaints English history is replete with the acts of 432
...early one hundred years ago Startling and significant events have occurred in the meantime affecting us as a state and as a people endangering not only Ohio but our Union itself But by clinging and adhering to the great principles upon which our governments federal and state are founded and resorting to the strong arm of the military power only when required to do so solely for their ...
... early boyhood days have I early pioneer days But early settlers of Ohio in early as 1762 A group of Moravian churches in Tuscarawas county remains as a fitting memorial of his Christian labors
... party of Indians These party was repulsed with a party the English garrison at the Rapids of the Miami he was authorized in the name of the President of the United States to do it These Indians of the northwest were the Shawnees and the Delawares-generally called the Miamis-who had taken refuge in
...early fifty-eight years early fifty-eight years I early days of his manhood was a dear friend of my departed father and who will soon join him in a more beautiful land than this in the country far away In returning to the grand old county of Gallia and the historic city of Gallipolis to participate in this grand and beautiful display and ...