... EARLY CINCINNATI EARLY CINCINNATI JOSEPH WILBY CINCINNATI The following article was written by Mr Joseph Wilby and read before The Optimist Club Cincinnati March 1st 1902 Mr Wilby is at present the president of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio -EDITOR The first council meeting of the town of Cincinnati is said to have been held on the 5th of March 1 80 2 The present occasion lacks a few days of being the one hundredth ...
...general of the United general inquiry now is when generally more modern and general if not the uniform general good appeared to call for them That it is of the utmost importance to place at the head of such an institution and especially ...
... general land office On general directed that Ohiogeneral land office The general land office but the general land office those bearing instead John Quincy Adams' signature as ...
... 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 ...
... general in their army There general British emissaries were busy among the Northwest tribes stirring them up to war upon the Americans General Proctor with his savage allies had failed to capture Fort Meigs and Proctor had withdrawn to his old encampment and there he remained until on July 28th 1813 the British embarked with their stores ...
... general government The general emancipation of generally it is not sufficient The parent storms the child looks on catches the lineaments of wrath puts on the same airs in Thomas Jefferson's Views on Slavery 193 Thomas Jefferson's Views on Slavery 193 the circle of smaller slaves gives a loose to the worst of passions and thus nursed ...
... general government as the 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 by Mr name illegible a member from Rhode Island and acquainted with the Commodore's circumstances previous to his removing to this place I hope Congress ...
... general opinion that war is inevitable but I think it will be a continuance of the paper war and that more ink than blood will be shed in it The blustering system has so long been in use that we do not regard a little more of it as a sure indication of hostilities But the following is from a letter which on A ugust 26 1 812 he wrote to his wife from Ravenna It was found necessary for some person to go direct to Washington City to procure Arms ...
... general congress of the colonies to meet annually to deliberate on the common welfare Hanover Presbytery in Pennsylvania had passed a declaration which had an ominous sound Revolution was rife A collision between Britain and her American colonies was in the highest degree probable and there was only one possible way to avert a conflict that meant the loss to England of the very apple of her eye First Battle of the American Revolution First ...
... assembly of the general features of the organization of this company for the corporation amounted virtually to a land company The balance of the act refers mainly to the fees of officers provides for the laying and collecting of taxes - for the cor- 442 Ohio Arch 442 Ohio Arch and His ...
... general government in 1787 but there is no record of any such acquisition In 1846 in the office of the Cincinnati Gazette there was printed the Substance of an argument of Samuel F Vinton for the defendants in the case of the Commonwealth of Virginia vs Peter M Garner and others for alleged abduction of certain slaves delivered before the General Court of Virginia at its December term A D ...
... general who told his men to generalship of a real live general and of Virginia in general scheme to keep the people's minds away from the idea of independence and that the men seeing they had been duped proclaimed under the very nose of the royal governor their allegiance to American ...
... 1848 435 21 Sargent Diary September 30 266 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 26 6 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY returning to work on the fourth meridian or south Line of Col Sproat's 2nd Township from whence I quitted on the last Saturday If you should deem it proper for me to proceed on the 5th range which was ...
... 1848 and two years after at the ripe old age of eighty years he died at his home in Worthington He had seen the place a forest-a wilderness he left it the homes of affluence and the dream of his life the labor of his body and mind fulfilled ...
... general who served under general rejoicing Swift runners were at once dispatched to spread the glad news among the other tribes Meantime great preparations were made for his execution which was to be a great occasion celebrated by dancing and feasting Though entirely unknown to him Captain Brady's manly appearance had won the sympathy of an Indian chief's daughter who begged her father to ...
... 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 ...
... general orders by General Washington himself for its soldier-like and military appearance He quickly enlisted the company and on the twenty-ninth of May 1790 reported to Gen Putnam at Wellsburg on the Ohio river with thirty-six men Of the fifty whose services had been engaged ten had not yot joined and four had deserted The following is the ...
... general direction of general meeting of the army general meeting with a general impression being that the expedition was far from a failure The amount of booty obtained was large the march had been conducted outward with great secrecy and it was evident to all but for the accident of the ...