... GIRTY'S ISLAND GIRTY'S ISLAND BY N B C LOVE DESHLER O Girty's Island in the Maumee River a hundred years ago was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home for a time of Simon Girty Rich in verdant foliage of varied green And many kindred growth of stately trees Plants flowers and vines with nectar for bees Blended in a quivering summer sheen And around the waters ebbying tide Bending low long boughs with vines interlace And reflect in the liquid mirror's face Scintillating like moving ...
... settlement at which many distinguished men of the nation took part and spoke One of the gentlemen here today was an orator on that occasion Mr D K Watson will now address you ADDRESS OF HON D K WATSON Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen I have lived long enough to know that a man never knows when he is going to get into trouble Standing on this platform together with other gentlemen here a few moments ago my distinguished friend Mr Randall ...
...settlement in North America settlements in the United settlement in the West Some settlement project from Quaker settlement in Indiana their settlement in America
... NULLIFICATION IN OHIO NULLIFICATION IN OHIO TWELVE years before the famous resistance of South Carolina to Federal authority the State of Ohio through the solemn acts of her Legislature attempted and succeeded for a time to nullify the laws of the United States and to disobey the decisions of her courts It was not merely a legislative ...
... settlements on the Scioto having to travel between forty and fifty miles without a house16 That these preachers sometimes died on the circuit is evident in this simple notation in Bishop Asbury's journal Wire and Layton two young preachers died lately upon their circuits17 According to Cartwright himself these itinerant messengers of God with saddlebags burdened with a library consisting of Bibles hymnbooks and religious tracts rode through ...
... REPORT ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF REPORT ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS OF OHIO HAVING been appointed by the Ohio Arch ae ological and Historial Society Chairman of a Committee to consider the necessity and the means of preserving the prehistoric mounds and earthworks of Ohio I arranged last summer to spend a week in ...
... settlement at the confluence settlement in 1788 Local settlements in Ohio that did settlement qualified to take the vessel to sea So once again though an old man Whipple came to the rescue took command and with an untrained crew took ...
... settlement at that time he had settlement Prior to 1804 he settlements in this territory settlement for far-seeing speculators commercially in those ante-railroad days whereas Cincinnati was an important outlet situated on a great water thorough-fare commanding a western and southern ...
... settlement Apparently the struggle that had marked the years immediately succeeding the Revolution was to be re-enacted in all of its horror The situation illustrates the fact that the conquest of the wilderness before modern methods of communication were known was a most appalling task involving the prospect that the territory so hardly won for civilization might at any moment relapse into the possession of its former savage occupants This ...
... II II BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY T H E EDITOR The Pioneers of Territorial Ohio seem to have been conscious of the fact that they were making history Intimations of this are found in the addresses and letters of St Clair and his associates and on the printed pages of William Maxwell's Centinel of the
... settlements from the east and settlement at Gallipolis 1790 settlements along the Western settlement to the present time settlements in the southern settlement and development of ...
... northwestern territory forever to freedom But no dream of fortune or of empire could blind those men of New England as to the path of duty nor bribe them to depart from that path and so they frankly said to the committee of Congress with whom the negotiations were being carried on We will not buy your land unless slavery is forever prohibited in that territory And so it came about that this nation and the world is indebted to those brave ...
... The Centennial of Jefferson County The Centennial of Jefferson County 329 EDWIN M STANTON Tuesday being designated as Stanton day the public mind was centered on the building in which E M Stanton was born Here the great war secretary lawyer and jurist was born December 19 1814 It is a two-story brick set back from Market street between Fifth and Sixth with a small enclosed yard between the house and the sidewalk In after years a three-story business house was built in front of the old house ...
... northwest of the Ohio River The eastern state was to be bounded on the west by the Scioto River thus cutting in half what the Republicans hoped would become and what actually did become the state of Ohio The natural result of this bisecting of what is now the state of Ohio would be of ...
... settlement of the Northwestsettlements at Marietta Columbia and Cincinnati and the survey of the Seven Ranges were conclusive evidence to the Indians that a final day of reckoning with the Ameri c an s was at hand Attempts at American-Indian conciliation resulted in the unsatisfactory treaties of Ft Stanwix 1784 Ft McIntosh 1785 and Ft ...
... EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 5 1903 The eighteenth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the rooms of the Society Page Hall Ohio State University ...
... northwestern corner of the State did not engage in this passenger traffic They are for the most part of too recent date The remaining counties with possibly one or two exceptions had somewhere within their boundaries sections longer or shorter of this invisible yet serviceable road The demands of secrecy were always carefully observed by those connected in any way with the thoroughfare as we have seen It is not strange therefore that records ...
... settlement on the Huron river eight miles below it could have afforded cattle sufficient to have fed my whole Indian force for some time had they been induced to accompany us Sandusky is ...
... northwestern Ohio was typical of the urgent rush to arms by the militia in most parts of Ohio in the late summer of 1812 84 Reasin Beall 1769-1843 had fought against the Ohio Indians in the early 1790s and moved in 1803 to New Lisbon where he had held various public offices He later served ...