... northwest and enforced for northwest of the Ohio River It opened the solemn and mysterious forest which extended in melancholy wastes from the Alleghenies toward the distant Mississippi to millions of freemen and the soil which had been gathering fertility from the repose of centuries began to bud and blossom of the rose under an ...
... northwest and outrages by Ohio savages continued however as long as the Northern posts remained in the hands of the British that is until 179630 The tale of Connolly's interest in Kentucky affairs has not yet been concluded Duly exchanged in October 1780 while he was in New York Connolly was soon appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Queen's Rangers and sailed with that Loyalist regiment to ...
... northwest The Indians located northwest across the divide northwestward his path led him through the western part of Clark county Though he reached the fort and remained there for a week or more Captain Trent was unable to have a conference with the Miamis The hostilities that had just taken place and the consequent excitement arising from ...
... settlement at Marietta was settlement in the vicinity The settlement and colonization settlement on the Muskingum settlement of twenty families settlement with houses
... northwest of the river Ohionorthwest of the river Ohionorthwestern part of the state by the treaty of Greenville August 3 1795 had been allotted to the Indian tribes as a reservation and was unsettled by the Whites The seat of ...
... 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 ...
... northwest of the Ohio was by Rev Geo Callahan a rider of the circuit lying in Virginia between Wheeling and Pittsburg This was at Carpenter's fort at the mouth of Short creek in September 1787 See Gen Butler's journal note in chapter on churches His congregation was guarded by a score of hardy backwoodsmen armed with rifles who stood at the edge of the assembly A daughter of Obediah Jennings ...
... settlements -- yet the settlements and a government settlements in the east no settlements are combined to settlements along streams the settlement on the east bank of
... TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF AND THE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE LR CHAS E SLOCUM DEFIANCE It is the desire of this writing to add somewhat to the mention of Tarhe the Wyandot Aborigine1 Chief and to the mention of the character of the Aborigines that appeared in the last number of the QUARTERLY although this addition shows their character different from that there mentioned Tarhe grew to adult life in very troublous times He was reared to savagery and to inebriety like ...
... settlements and when captives settlement had at this time settlements as they might be settlements and to become the settlement and the few houses scarcely more than huts and shanties The change in the past fifty years has been ...
... settlement of her loyal sons that served in the war for independence The influx of settlers commenced as soon as the town was laid out and even before the winter of 1796 it had stores and taverns and shops for mechanics The influence of civilized life soon began to unfold and within a few years a substantial town was in full operation with a population of one thousand In the spring of 1798 there came to Chillicothe from Berkley county Virginia ...
... northwest corner of the fort which still stands and opened a tavern the hotel of that day August 3d the treaty of peace was signed between the United States represented by General Wayne and the twelve tribes of Indians represented by their respective chiefs John Southerland who had been a packhorse man in St Clair and Wayne's campaign settled here in the spring and opened a store just beyond the north end of the fort in the house where Mrs Dr ...
... settlement of America to a settlement of the whole of settlement or occupancy of new settlements The justice and wisdom if any or the righteousness in the light of Christian civilization there was in forcibly driving back a barbaric race and in supplanting it with a modern civilization ...
... settlements in the Pickaway Plains Upon learning of the advance of General Lewis Lord Dunmore sent a messenger with orders for him to return with his army to the mouth of the Kanawha river This Lewis refused to do and continued his advance up the valley to about where we are now standing and went into camp Lord Dunmore was sorely tried He was negotiating peace with the very Indians General Lewis had just whipped with great sacrifice and this ...
... settlement and no retrospect settlements on lands inhabited settlement had spread down the settlement Hence on January 24 settlements two in what is now settlements was the same as ...
... 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 ...
... settlement of the city of Gallipolis in 1790 My return after an absence of so many years is almost like coming back from the grave In that period time has wrought wonderful changes and I see but one old landmark in this large audience that I recognize and that one is the venerable old pioneer and patriot William Waddell who in the early days of his manhood was a dear friend of my departed father and who will soon join him in a more beautiful ...