... settlement after deducting from the charge for carpenter work some six or seven per cent and the 50000 there was found a balance due the proprietors of about 33000 which was paid by the state and thus was closed the political and financial enterprise of fixing the permanent capital for the state of Ohio Concerning this matter of the location of the capital The Supporter-a Chillicothe weekly of the date Saturday morning February 29 1812-in its ...
... FORT McARTHUR MEMORIAL TABLET FORT McARTHUR MEMORIAL TABLET On July 4 1913 a memorial tablet erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution was unveiled with fitting and interesting ceremonies at the site of the old fort McArthur three miles southwest of Kenton on the Scioto River We publish the addresses delivered on that occasion by Prof G Frederick Wright President of The Ohio State Archaeological amp Historical Society and Mrs John T Mack of Sandusky ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WRIGHT It is ...
... settlement and became so hostile that nothing could be done until the spring of 1786 when military aid History of Fort Hamilton History of Fort Hamilton 99 was secured from Gen Harmar and hostilities on the part of the savages were somewhat abated and work again began in 1787 John Cleves Symmes in the meantime contracted with the government for one million acres of land lying between the two Miamis On the 15th of May 1788 the contract was ...
... 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
... settlement in Virginia to the settlement But the opening up of Ohio has a special importance In this compact and central region between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River was the gateway through which the men from Connecticut from New York from Virginia from Pennsylvania could pass to the new frontiers in Michigan Illinois the Great Plains the Rockies the Oregon country It was the hand of ...
... settlement at Scioto or settlement of which had been settlement called Asylum near settlement at Gallipolis soon lost all coherence and dwindled away Religion gradually faded out Children were no longer baptized they did not even ask Dr Carroll to send them a priest On Sundays instead of ...
... settlements of the country lay settlement it had to be settlement Besides protecting settlements and Clark's Grant settlement Harmar was back at settlement The nearer the
... Logan about forty miles to the old Indian Boundary Line as fixed by Wayne's treaty in 1795 In 1 80 4 this line together with its future extension beyond the Indian Boundary to the Scioto was declared to be the western line of the Virginia Military District provided Virginia would agree to it within two years Virginia objected The land west of the Ludlow line had been by this time or shortly afterward surveyed into Townships and Sections as ...
... settlement dwell upon what settlement that was furnishing settlements were very settlements Gallipolis had settlements in this country is the fact that the Americans are at war with the Indians who who surround us and that the war is ...
... County Durham a young lady of eighteen Her father was lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man and a son of General James Agnew of American Revolutionary fame The mother of Margaret Agnew was Catherine one of the sisters of Harman Blennerhassett For this cause she Margaret was disinherited The young lady was absent at school her uncle Harman was sent to take her home instead of doing so he married her He was thirty-one The families on both ...
... settlements of mechanics in the town and the encouragement of those who may first settle lot No 3 in 20th square lot No 6 in 15th square lot No 6 in 12th square will be given to the first blacksmith the first carpenter and the first tanner all of whom are to settle and continue in the town pursuing their respective trades for the term of four years at which time the aforesaid Zane binds himself to make them a deed In testimony of all and ...
... Logan's fort near the Logan and Silas Harlan as Logan's Company 48 men Logan was to March to the Logan at a given signal Logan's and Harrod's divisions to fall back to the south of ...
... settlement The resulting settlements were well removed from the Ohio urged Brant to promote a peace along the Muskingum a war feast was held at the rapids with the Chiefs of the Shawanoes singing the War Song encouraging the Warriors of all the Nations to be active in defending their Country saying their Father the English would assist them and pointing to Col McKee52 McKee's version of the ...
... settlements was the same as settlement He reported to settlement west of the Ohio settlement of one Capt Hoglan a few miles above Wheeling and warned him off Journal of General Butler in The Olden Time 2438 October 1847 The other is a petition to Harmar by William Hoagland and John Nixon ...
... County Ohio 1 925 A fort was discovered near Venice by Major Falley overgrown with underbrush and timber but showing a double entrenchment It has since been completely obliterated by cultivation and now no trace of it can be found Vol II p 725 Johnson's fear was justified since this was probably the fort burned by Pontiac's men in 1763 Johnson continued his journey eastward camping at a river within fifteen miles of Sandusky Lake where he shot ...
... County He was responsible County where Mr Withers County Ohio Attached to County he having been appointed justice of the peace by the Governor of Virginia At that time the justices of the peace were almost the only political power He represented Harrison Monongahela and Randolph Counties ...
... Logan's family has often Logan now stands There he Logan the primal cause of Logan murder at Yellowcreek to the final act on the Pickaway Plains was a part of a general scheme to keep the people's minds away from the idea of independence and that the men seeing they had been duped ...
... settlements of the Americans settlements furnishing them with arms ammunition food clothing etc To meet this alarming situation three expeditions were sent against the Indian villages of the Maumee and Wabash with indifferent success These raids so greatly exasperated the Indians against whom they were sent that they formed a confederacy and entered into a conspiracy to drive the white ...
... County Court of Common Pleas and that said court should be held at two fixed periods in each county in every year and at the same places where the general courts of Quarter Sessions were held This law was promulgated on the 23rd of August 1788 and the first court in the Northwest territory was the Court of Common Pleas which commenced on the first Tuesday of September of the same year The ...