... settlements about the reservation with the consequent encroachments of civilization on the savage life of the occupants and disappearance of game the reservation was becoming unsuitable as an abode for them and accordingly they decided to abandon it for a home in the West beyond the then pale of civilization and under the treaty of Washington made on the 28th day of February 1831 they ceded the Seneca John Indian Chief 139 Seneca John Indian ...
...early a hundred years early traders and agents early as 1725 yet most of the trade with the Indians before 1745 was done east of the mountains But when the rivalry between the French and English began to be acute the agents of the latter sought trade in the very heart of the western forests and shrank at no danger in the pursuit of his ...
... settlements of Indian tribes settlements The future now lay settlements from the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the Indian and supplanted the harsher tones of strife and bloodshed with the softer enactments of charity and love Anthony Wayne will be remembered not less for the Treaty of Greenville than for the battle of the Fallen Timbers ...
... earlyOhio counties The early settlers in this early in the same ratio early equal parts but it did not remain in force for any considerable time The eastern division thus created was to remain under the existing government and the ...
... early in 1791 made early part of the early history of pioneer early scout and settler stands on the western side of the shaft This figure nine feet in height is one of the most impressive features of the monument With face stern and unyielding foot and leg striding forward flintlock and ...
... settlement There were settlement the first purely settlement It was the capital settlement Thus historic settlement until his death May 4 1824 His grave appropriately marked is in the revered cemetery of Marietta The monument bears the ...
...early Meeting of Friends early Meeting at Baltimore the latter part of the year 1798 inviting them to visit the chiefs at Upper Sandusky To this invitation were appended by the white man who did the writing the name of the chiefs Tarhe Crane Skah-on-wot Adam Brown and Mai-i-rai Walk-on-the-Water Seven Friends started westward on horseback May 7 1799 to accept this invitation After suffering ...
... early Virginians he spent early in his Virginian early life he was an early every page of the organic law The very first question of criticism that always arises in a consideration of this convention and of the constitution which it produced is that relative to the fact that that ...
... settlement certificates which settlement of his accounts he found himself reduced to a state bordering indigence and in 1789 removed to Marietta since which he has been compelled generally to labor in the field for a subsistence and has now no other means than his own labors to obtain his bread By the mail which carries this letter the Commodore sends a petition to Congress to be presented ...
...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 ...
... early discharged so that I can claim but small part in the history of the company and the regiment Their history was scarcely anything but a succession of defeats brought about in most cases by incompetent officers high or low But that does not dim the glory of their heroism Thirty-one of those were killed in battle and eight died of disease while an equal number more suffered through the remainder of their lives from the effects of wounds and ...
... settlement of the state few ever equalled it in the dignity and exalted character of its principal participators Many of them belong to the history of our country in the darkest as well as the most splendid periods of the revolutionary war To witness this spectacle a large body of Indians was collected from the most powerful tribes then occupying the almost entire West They had assembled for the purpose of making a treaty Whether any of them ...
... early the following day early three hours of hard early thirty miles The story of this defeat cast a gloom over the whole frontier and encouraged the Indians to renew their attacks on the scattered settlers This condition prevailed until Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the allied tribes on the Maumee in 1794 and caused them to sign the Treaty of ...
... settlement of the Miamis from which the savages fled in consternation while their town and their winter stores were utterly destroyed Despite the endeavors of McKee the Indians could not be persuaded to encounter the frontiersmen who after finding all attempts to bring them to a general action fruitless in the words of Clark himself retired on account of the lateness of the season To this blow as well as to Carleton's manifesto is to be ...
... settlements of this state Dunmore succeeded in persuading Cornstalk and all of his associated chiefs except Logan to meet him and enter into a treaty of peace The treaty was taken back in Dunmore's saddlebags to Williamsburg then the capital of Virginia but the Revolutionary war was impending and Dunmore was engaged in a controversy with the Virginia patriots which ended in his expulsion from the country In this turmoil the treaty was mislaid ...
... settlement on the Muskingum to settlement on the Virginia shore it makes this point very lively The day after we arrived was the time appointed for governor St Clair to make his first public appearance At 5 o'clock PM there was a general muster in the bowery His excellency came over from the garrison to this place escorted by the corps of officers the secretary ampc The secretary then read ...