... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REV JOHN HECKEWELDER BORN AT BEDFORD ENG MARCH 12 1743 DIED AT BETHLEHEM PA JANUARY 2 1 1823 AGED 80 YEARS LESS 50 DAYS BY THE REV WM H RICE VICE PRESIDENT MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIFE MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LIFE MEMBER OF THE OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred years ago to-day September 29 1898 Rev John Heckewelder then a man about fifty-five years old moved into the First House of ...
... townships the surveying to townships for the election of members of their legislature That such temporary government shall only continue in force in any State until it shall have acquired twenty thousand free inhabitants when giving due proof thereof to Congress they shall receive from them authority with appointments of time and place to call a convention of representatives to establish a ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 183 Records of the Synod of Pittsburgh 1802-1832 Centenary Memorial Volume of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania Papers by Darlington and Veech History of Pittsburgh by N B Craig 1851 History of Pittsburgh by Sarah H Killikelly 1906 History of Pittsburgh by Erasmus Wilson 1898 EARLY RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY BY C L MARTZOLFF OHIO UNIVERSITY The dominant note in the ...
... township During the session a memorial was presented by officers of the Virginia line in Continental service in the Revolutionary war praying for toleration to remove with their slaves to the military bounty lands As the Ordinance of 1787 prohibited it the body had no other alternative but to reject it But said Judge Burnet a member of the body and the author of most of the early laws of the 168 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PURCHASE OF FORT ANCIENT The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is to be heartily congratulated over the final accomplishment of its efforts extending through many years of securing entire possession of Fort Ancient It has been a long and stubborn siege with many vicissitudes and delays and dis couragements but the last walls of the enclosure have finally been taken and the Society now holds the fort It is necessary to repeat some ancient history in ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER LL D The last decades of our century bristle with centennial anniversaries the landmarks of human progress in the free institutions of a Christian civilization The Old World with its crowded populations with its social orders and castes and its despotic forms of government was stagnant and unhealthful Commerce reached forth its bold and eager arms for new fields for human enterprise and a larger and freer civilization Motives of gain mingled ...
... FAREWELL SONG OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS FAREWELL SONG OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS JAMES RANKINS UPPER SANDUSKY Mr Emil Schlup President of the Wyandot County Pioneer Association is authority for the statement that Rev James Wheeler the resident missionary preached the farewell sermon at the Old Mission Church Upper Sandusky in the forepart of July 1843 to the assembled Wyandot Indians Squire John Greyeyes a converted Wyandot Indian preached the sermon in the Wyandot language which sermon was ...
... RUTLAND-THE CRADLE OF OHIO RUTLAND-THE CRADLE OF OHIO A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE HOME OF RUFUS PUTNAM E O RANDALL It was in the bright and cheery days of September 1 90 8 that the Editor left the palatial Pullman car at Worcester and boarded a trolley that bore him along a rambling route amid tiny lakes and quiet hills to the little burg of Jefferson Here the trolley was exchanged for a motor bus the electric wings of which fluttered with intermittent and uncertain rapidity till the passengers ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED On Saturday December 9 1927 the Franklin County Pioneer Association founded in 1866 met in the southwest room of the Franklinton Public School Building for the purpose of unveiling and presenting to the city a bronze tablet marking the home of Lucas Sullivant founder of Franklinton The house that Lucas Sullivant built or a part of it is now incorporated in the larger buildings of the House of the Good Shepherd and it was by the ...
... NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 SALEM September 9 Extract of a letter from a gentleman at the new settlement on the Muskingum to a person in this town dated July 20th We had a beautiful passage down the Ohio from Pittsburg in company with 3 Kentucke boats Without sails or oars we glided down the fair river and in 48 hours arrived at the enchanting spot It is really a delightful situation The first thing which presented itself when we ascended the bank by a grand and easy pair ...
... township first section township second and third township second section townships boundary lines etc were surveyed by him than by any other person in this part of Ohio He soon acquired a comfortable property and was soon also engrossed in public affairs This company through which his ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF GENERAL WAYNE'S TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 PRAYER BY REV JOHN POYNTZ TYLER O God who art the blessed Potentate the King of kings and the Lord of lords the Almighty Ruler of nations we adore and magnify Thy glorious name for all the great things which Thou hast done for us We render Thee thanks for the goodly heritage which Thou hast given unto us for the civil and religious privileges which we enjoy and for the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY MARCH 1888LEGISLATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY APRIL 2 1788 a band of forty-eight pioneers left the mouth of the Voughiogheny in the Mayflower of the West Floating out into the Monongahela they emerged on the broad bosom of the Ohio and began an easier journey down that beautiful river to their chosen homes in the valley below Five days after they landed on the bank of the Muskingum river at its confluence with the Ohio and the first ...
... Dedication of the Logan Elm Dedication of the Logan Elm 295 chief Leatherlips who lies buried on the spot where he was killed about fifteen miles northwest of Columbus A significant feature of the program was an address by Mr Frank Tallmadge of Columbus a lineal descendant of Colonel Cresap the man that Logan believed to be responsible for the massacre of his family Mr Tallmadge sought to show that the Red Man was mistaken and spoke as follows ADDRESS OF MR FRANK TALLMADGE Roll back-my soul-to ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 493 FORT LAURENS--ITS SITE AND SIEGE The relation of the Ohio country and its pre-state pioneers to the events of the American Revolution has not yet been properly portrayed Until recently leading historians have either ignored it altogether or slightingly treated it It will ere long receive due attention Roosevelt in The Winning of the West Winsor in the Westward Movement and Moore in The Northwest Under Three Flags have given it more or less consideraton During the ...
... township in Coshocton 180 Ohio Arch 180 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications county The church probably stood in the yard of Mr Moore and the town stretched across over the farm of Mr Foraker The settlement of the Lichtenau village was begun by Rev David Zeisberger on April 12 1776 just one day after his 55th birthday anniversary Eight families accompanied Zeisberger and his assistant Rev John Heckewelder a young man of 33 It was Saturday ...
... townships and sections The townships in the first tract township and return to camp township was completed on townships and two townships This was not
... township Muskingum County township Union in S E 14 of township Newton from township Perry County 5It township 4A post-office was township along which it