... CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED A granite monument erected near the site of Camp Charlotte bears a bronze tablet with the following inscription CAMP CHARLOTTE Near this spot -- the famous Treaty was made between Lord Dunmore Governor of Virginia and Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnees and Allied Tribes in October -- 1774 This Camp was named Charlotte after the Queen of England Erected by the Pickaway Plains Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1774 1928 This monument ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 2 A PRIL 190 9 NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES It will be noted in the report of the Annual Meeting of the Society held March 2 1909 that two life members of the Society were newly elected trustees for the ensuing three years They were Messrs Caleb Hathaway Gallup and Walter Charles Metz Below we give brief sketches of the lives of the gentlemen in question Mr Metz has been a member of the Society for some years and has been a student in archaeological lines Mr ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS WASHINGTON'S CAMP SITES ON THE OHIO RIVER BY GUY-HAROLD SMITH Ohio State University In the autumn of 1770 George Washington made a journey into the interior of North America in the interest of the Virginia soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars and had been promised western lands as reward for their services Also Washington had personal reasons for making this reconnaissance of the lands along the Ohio River He had the foresight to ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 35 HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY BASIL MEEK ESQ FREMONT OHIO We have met today on this ground famous in history because of the victorious defence of Fort Stephenson then standing on this spot by Major George Croghan and the band of heroes under his command ninety-three years ago--not only to commemorate that brilliant achievement but also to further consecrate and make sacred the spot by the re-interment of the remains of its gallant defender To Col Webb ...
... MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE WOMAN AND NEWCOMERSTOWN BY GEORGE F SMYTHE Mr C W Butterfield in his History of Ohio says1 Mark Kuntz upon the Tuscarawas with an Indian wife and Mary Harris upon the Walhonding with an Indian husband were it may be proper here to mention the first white settlers of Ohio so far as any authentic records disclose My interest at present is concerned with this Mary Harris There may indeed have been white women in Ohio before Mary ...
... DE CELORON'S EXPEDITION TO THE OHIO IN 1749 DE CELORON'S EXPEDITION TO THE OHIO IN 1749 BY 0 H MARSHALL The extensive territory lying between the Ohio River and Lake Erie has been the theatre of many remarkable historical changes Its earliest inhabitants left no record of their origin or history save in the numerous tumuli which are scattered over its surface bearing trees of the largest growth not distinguishable from the adjacent forest Measured by the extent and character of those vast ...
... THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE The following article comprising the statement of facts and the reprint of the wording of the treaty was prepared by Frazer E Wilson of Greenville Ohio The material is found largely in his little book The Treaty of Greenville The reproduction of the signatures and the symbol signs inscribed by the chiefs to the treaty is from a photograph in exact size taken from the treaty itself now carefully preserved in the archives at Washington D C The ...
... THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT History tells of two Ohios151the old and the new The old Ohio was that portion of the American Hinterland drained by the Ohio and Allegheny rivers which together formed la Belle Riviere of New France It included the territory between the Alleghenies the Mississippi and the great lakes save as we except the country of Illinois which early in history became a territory distinct by itself as the meadow ...
... THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION WALLACE NOTESTEIN This paper was awarded the annual prize offered to Ohioans by the Ohio Sons of the Revolution for an historical essay February 1905 The assigned subject that year was the Western Indians in the Revolution The writer aimed only at a clear and concise treatment of the Indian War in the West of which so far as he is aware there is no brief recent account The discussion of Gov Hamilton's responsibility ...
... WAS THE PONTIAC UPRISING A CONSPIRACY WAS THE PONTIAC UPRISING A CONSPIRACY by WILBUR R JACOBS Instructor in American History Santa Barbara College University of California Ever since Francis Parkman wrote his classic account of the Indian war of 1763 historians have questioned the exact nature of the origin of Parkman's so-called conspiracy of Pontiac Contemporary manuscripts reveal that there were enough abuses suffered by the Indians at the hands of the whites to justify in the minds of the ...
... 72 Ohio Arch 72 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE OHIO INDIANS ADDRESS AT FRANKLINTON CENTENNIAL BY COL E L TAYLOR SEPTEMBER 15 1897 We are engaged to-day in celebrating an event of a hundred years ago which was then apparently unimportant but which has led on to great and permanent results A hundred years ago a few intelligent and determined white men settled here in the then unbroken wilderness which settlement soon became and has ever since remained the center of a far-pervading ...
... SKETCH OF CORNSTALK SKETCH OF CORNSTALK 1759-1777 The following sketch of Cornstalk is from the Draper MSS Border Forays 3 D Chap XVIII in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin It is herewith published for the first time through the courtesy of Dr Reuben GoldThwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society-EDITOR The early history of Cornstalk1 is involved in obscurity During those eventful years of Indian attack and massacre between 1754 and 1763 there can ...
... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The program began at 2 o'clock Hon E O Randall presided and after a very brief preliminary address introduced Mrs Jones who read the following paper PRESENTATION SPEECH OF MRS HOWARD JONES One hundred and thirty-eight years ago this October momentous events were happening in this beautiful valley of the Scioto and history was being made in this fertile Pickaway plain-land East of us about seven miles at Camp Charlotte were about fifteen ...
... ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES AND RIVERS BY WILLIAM E CONNELLEY Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society Explanations of the origin of certain Indian names are varied and conflicting The writer submits the following authoritative statements relative to the derivation and meaning of the names of the states of Iowa Missouri Mississippi Ohio and Kentucky and the rivers Ohio Mississippi Missouri and Neosha IOWA The Iowa Indians called ...
... GEORGE WASHINGTON'S INTEREST IN THE GEORGE WASHINGTON'S INTEREST IN THE OHIO COUNTRY BY C B GALBREATH February 22nd will be the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of George Washington We are apt to think of him as a stately heroic figure far remote from us in time and space Two hundred years is a comparatively brief period in the life of a nation Only four generations have passed away since the death of Washington Many are now living who read in the newspapers at the time the announcement ...
... ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE ON THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE ON THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER MADE IN 1749 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MONSIEUR DE CELORON BY FATHER BONNECAMPS MONSIEUR It was not possible for me last year to give you an account of my voyage on the Beautiful River All the vessels had left Quebec when I reached it I could it is true have written you by way of New England but I had many things to say to you which prudence would not allow me to send through the hands of the English ...
... REV REV PAUL HENKEL'S JOURNAL1 HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO THE STATE OF OHIO IN 1806 Translated from the German by Rev F E Cooper of Milwaukee Wis and edited by Clement L Martzolff Ohio University Athens Ohio NEW MARKET SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA2 Monday July 7th To-day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I started on my first journey as travelling preacher As the affairs of my household were in such shape that my wife could leave home for a time and as we had some reason to believe that her bodily ...
... WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS SEEN BY A VOYAGER IN 1932 BY EDMOND S SINDLINGER On October 5 1770 George Washington set out on his historic journey to the Ohio country This journey was made in the interest of the Virginia soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars and had been promised western lands as a reward for their services He arrived at Fort Pitt on October 17th Here he obtained two boats a large one for himself and seven companions and a canoe for ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSEPH BADGER THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE WESTERN RESERVE BY BYRON R LONG A preliminary word to the writing of this document is not unlike that which I wrote to the last article furnished for publication in this historical record In the sketch of Isaac N Walter printed in the April number of 1915 I dwelt at some length on the story of the Christian denomination with which he labored for many years as a minister My own personal connection ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 581 Reviews Notes and Comments 581 the entire list of the regiment before finding the name of the soldier whose record is sought If the name of his regiment is not given the quest is almost hopeless In such cases it is a great saving of time to write at once to the War Department at Washington for the record This will not be necessary in searching for the record of a World War veteran Any person having access to this World War Roster can readily without assistance ...