... SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND LAKE ERIE By CATHALINE ALFORD ARCHER Lake Erie and its borders have received some unusual attention lately including the explorations and early settlements Herewith is some pertinent material which seems not to have been reckoned with but which seems essential to the full story Harlan Hatcher's Lake Erie 1945 for example presumably the latest and best-organized account of the period does not mention the journey of Sir ...
... COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON NELSON W EVANS It is and has been utterly impossible to fix with absolute certainty the date or place of the birth of Colonel John O'Bannon It was not later than the year 1756 and may have been several years previous The place as near as can be determined was called Neville Virginia John Presley and Morgan Neville prominent officers in the Revolutionary War were her kinsmen and likely brothers We are not certain as to her father's name From the best ...
... Fremont in History Fremont in History 49 FREMONT IN HISTORY BY JULIA M HAYNES The Sandusky country in aboriginal history possesses a peculiar charm and fascinating interest During that period of years which fills western annals with the story of intrigue and bloody conflict the plains and prairies of the Sandusky valley were the home of the most powerful and most generous of the savage nations Less than a century ago these plains now covered by a thriving city presented an interesting variety ...
... Benjamin Tupper planned the Benjamin Tupper completed in this house the final draft of a circular entitled Information which was sent out to the press of Massachusetts in fourteen Massachusetts counties calling upon all the soldiers of the Revolution who desired to exchange their worthless certificates for public land in the West and all others who desired to join a company and make a ...
... LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO VALLEY STATES BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF In the discussion of the subject at hand I find I am con fronted with three very positive limitations First because the story of land grants for education is one that even the most investigating historian can find but little new general material upon which to write Second the program committee has wisely limited the time in which the subject may be presented However laudable this ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Stites went down Benjamin Tupper both also distinguished in that war and also as the fathers of the new colony and its most active promoters This august procession marched up a path that had been cut and cleared through the forest to Campus Martius the stockade when the whole countermarched and the Judges took their seats Rev Dr Manasseh Cutler one of the most eminent clergymen of ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 349 his voluntary service and the assistance of the regular employees of theSociety a mass of valuable material was collected This consists chiefly of local newspapers from which clippings have been made indexed and bound When the General Assembly finally acted it made only meager appropriations for the work At its last session no provision was made for the Commission but the work has been continued by the Society It should collect ...
... Benjamin Franklin perhaps Benjamin Franklin The four lots at the center of the town which was at the corner upon which we stand today were appropriated for public buildings only a state-house or court-house and as a commons If at first Mr Sullivant gave away lots in the deeds which are also recorded at Chillicothe the early residents were wise enough to state that the consideration for the ...
... Benjamin F 292 King Crane 97 Benjamin interested in Ohio -First white settlers in Ohio 87 lands 497 Flat boats Commercial importance of Fremont Cession of land at 43 on Ohio River 336 Fort Stephenson located in 53 Flint Iarness Mound implements from Hayes' Home at 54 177 Lower Sandusky changed to 51 Knives of 179 View of in 1846 98 Florida Indian burials in 452 French and Indian War St Clair ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 SOME INVESTIGATIONS AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FAMOUS SIXTH ARTICLE COL W E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE Senator Roberts of Pennsylvania in the great debate over the bill for the admission of Missouri to the Union in 1820 characterized the Ordinance of 1787 as that immortal Ordinance which with its elder sister the Declaration of American Independence will shed eternal and inextinguishable lustre over the annals of our country Daniel Webster in a speech upon ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 297 Section 2 That the care and control of the site of Fort Laurens located in Tuscarawas county Ohio and being the first fort established west of the Ohio river shall be vested in the board of trustees of the Ohio archaeological and historical society who shall hold the lands and property thereon subject to such use as the general assembly may by law direct Section 3 That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act and defraying the expenses of the ...
... WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society On June 15 1775 the Continental Congress passed the enactment establishing the Continental army and after fixing the pay of the commander-in-chief at five hundred dollars a month proceeded by ballot to elect that officer Washington was unanimously chosen and this result was formally announced to him on the next day when the newly elected general had taken his seat Rising in ...
... JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES BY BENJAMIN F PRINCE Professor of History and Political Science Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio The men who made Ohio for its first fifty years were persons of remarkable character and quality Four or five states gave choice selections for the settlement of that region They proved themselves good and true for the work they had to do and brought honor and success to the interests ...
... SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF HIS TRAGIC DEATH ERECTION OF MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY COMPILED BY BASIL MEEK SENECA JOHN Not much is known pertaining to the direct biography of Seneca John The most that we have is incidental to and related in the story of his execution He belonged however to a prominent family of his tribe and was one of four brothers or rather of three full brothers named Comstock Steel and Coonstick and himself a half brother of the three named Comstock was a ...
... The Firelands Grant The Firelands Grant 435 THE FIRELANDS GRANT BY CLARENCE D LAYLIN This article is the outgrowth of a paper read before the Political Science Club of Ohio State University The discussion which followed the reading of the paper among members of that club led to further investigation the result of which is the article as here produced-EDITOR In treating of the settlement of new countries the general and proper method is to recite the history of its pioneer days Without the ...
... Benjamin Tappan Ethan A Brown Alfred Kelley Jeremiah Morrow Isaac Minor and E Buckingham Jr commissioners to investigate four routes for a canal and report to the next assembly6 To the next assembly two reports 1The Chillicothe Supporter 1819 Feb 17 24 Apr 24 Nov 16 2 Senate Journal 1819 p 189 House Journal p 142 3 Do 1819 p 372 do p 332 4 House Journal 1819 pp 139 280 332 509 517 552 5 Do 1821 pp 73 125 274 do 1822 pp 51 81 87 6 O L 1822 p 31 ...
... ZANE'S TRACE ZANE'S TRACE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The first road maker in our country was the buffalo His successor was the Indian Instinct told the buffalo where to make his path Nature which is another name for instinct prompted the red man in marking his trail The white man came and reason told him that the red man and the buffalo had selected the driest shortest and most practicable routes of migration This is only another way of saying that the geography of any country determines its history ...
... Benjamin G Leonard Frederick Grimke Richard Douglas Joseph Sill William S Murphy Jonathan F Woodside Henry Massie John L Taylor Robert Bethel Gustavus Scott James Caldwell Amos Holton and perhaps others not now recalled Mr Theodore Sherer who had read the law with Messrs Allen amp Thurman and I with Creighton amp Bond were admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court on the circuit in Scioto county Ohio in March 184 0 From that time we continued ...
... Benjamin Tupper 20 Samuel Benjamin Tupper Mills was Benjamin Tupper have furnished eight trustees Another evidence of the oneness of Academy Institute and College is the fact that each was the handiwork of New Englanders Before the trustees of the Academy engaged Elisha 298 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 298 OHIO ...