... 16 Ohio Arch 16 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications bers of which had charge of the final interment The children scattered flowers in the grave a salute was fired taps were sounded and the honored dust of the gallant George Croghan was consigned to its final resting place on the spot and in the sacred soil he had so bravely and loyally defended ninety-three years before The grave was covered with a large block of Quincy granite bearing this inscription George Croghan Major 17th U S ...
... western country McAfee 56 western campaign of 56 Burials and types of in 125 129 Plans of relative to Ft Stephenson 138 62 Charnel house of 136 Tomb of 268 Copper axes from 155 157 158 War of 1812 in 23 57 Copper implements from 154 Hawkins Thos LCopper needles from 158 Old Betsey by 73 Cremations in 136 Cremations in 136 Hayes Lucy Webb 80 Culture group of 193 Ear ornaments found in 149 ...
...reserve their hunting grounds and homes Governor Dunmore raised an army of 3000 and separated it into two divisions of 1500 each one of which divisions he took with him to Pittsburg and there on flatboats floated down the Ohio to the mouth of the Hockhocking river where he built a stockade called Fort Gower He then proceeded to the interior of the state and encamped below the present site of Chillicothe The other division of these Virginia ...
...western Ohio-details of the western Campaign It was western Campaign at Fort western Ohio While passing Fort Miami and approaching Perrysburg the visitors were greeted with salutes from batteries from both positions At the landing the party was met by a delegation headed by Mayor E L Clay R ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MAJOR JOHN BURNHAM AND HIS COMPANY Mr Barlow had written Colonel Duer early in December 1789 that huts must be built on land opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha to accommodate at least one hundred persons The cost of these huts was to be paid by the agent of the immigrants upon their arrival In March 1790 General Rufus Putnam as agent for the Trustees for the Scioto Associates employed John Burnham of Essex Massachusetts to ...
...reserve and disseminate the lore historic and prehistoric of our great state The orator of the day the Hon Samuel D Dodge has recited to you in graphic terms the history that led up to the siege of Fort Stephenson and the incomparable bravery and patriotism with which the youth George Croghan and his gallant little band defended the crude stockade fort and stemmed the tide that to that moment seemed against the Americans The successful repulse ...
... western Pennsylvania or at western Indians the purpose western country was an western Indians The French western part of Clark western territory by these
... western tribes The nation western tribes who had held western end which were not yet purchased from the Indians the lands were sold in a lump to a Connecticut syndicate and resold in large tracts frequently by whole townships naturally many of these townships bear the names of their original owners The first permanent settlement was made ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dedicatory exercises in honor of the battle which occurred near this spot on July 30 1813 when Major Ball's squadron Second Light Dragoons U S Army while escorting Colonel Wells of the Seventeenth U S Infantry from Major General Harrison's headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate the fort was ambushed by Indians but gallantly charged them ...
... Note - Historical Note - Historical 443 Adieu to the roads which for many a year I traveled each Sabbath the gospel to hear The news was so joyful and pleased me so From hence where I heard it it grieves me to go Farewell my white friends who first taught me to pray And worship my Savior and Maker each day Pray for the poor native whose eyes overflow With tears at our parting Alas I must go NOTE - HISTORICAL In the excellent article On the Origin of Ohio Place Names printed in the July issue ...
... western Pennsylvania and western states and with our western forts The westernmost point reached Returning camped near where the old fort stood on the carrying place between Lakes Sandusky and Erie where Major Israel Putnam began 'clearing the ground to construct a fort' but October 18 ...
...reserves the memory of reserve and disseminate the lore historic and prehistoric of our great state The orator of the day the Hon Samuel D Dodge has recited to you in graphic terms the history that led up to the siege of Fort Stephenson and the incomparable bravery and patriotism with which the youth George Croghan and his gallant little band defended the crude stockade fort and stemmed the ...
... HISTORY OF FORT HAMILTON HISTORY OF FORT HAMILTON W C MILLER Butler County Ohio the eighteenth county established in the seventeenth state of the Union can present many points of interest archaeological and historical Chief among these is Fort Hamilton the first of a chain of forts established by the Government in the Miami valley for the protection of the pioneers In compiling this sketch of Fort Hamilton the writer a resident of Hamilton for fifty years has had access to the official records ...
... western country were western Aborigines and the western country by the western army at its advance into Canada This action however was insignificant for good as they had no part even in remote influence in turning the tide in favor of the American arms The repulses of the British and ...
... MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR By MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION From From Toledo Fort Wayne Miles Miles 000 Commodore Perry Hotel Toledo 1069 Superior Street entrance South 12 block to Monroe Street Turn right W 2 blocks to Erie Street Turn left S on Erie Street 5 blocks across Swan Creek to Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 09 Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 1060 Turn right on Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail which is a new super-highway constructed upon the bed ...
... western Maryland that he western country and had a knowledge of the conduct of both parties that Cresap had decamped and taken the road to Red Stone before the murder at Baker's that when the speech of Logan was read at the Treaty the army knew that it was wrong so far as it respected Cresap and afforded an opportunity of rallying that gentleman on the subject Clark discovered that Cresap ...