... Benjamin Netherland who dismounted on reaching the west bank of the Licking and ordered his fellow-horsemen to turn and fire on the pursuing Indians The latter were thus driven to cover long enough to enable many of the fugitives to regain the opposite bank and disappear in the woods and thickets beyond whence they fled back to the stations On the next day the Indians laden with the plunder of the battlefield crossed the Ohio with their Tory ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE LEGISLATURE TERRITORY INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE LEGISLATURE TERRITORY OFTHE UNITED STATES NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO Actions law for limitation of 47 Debts law for determining under forty Aliens law proposed for naturalization shillings for recovery of small debts of 29 34-35 law directing the order of payAnimals trespassing of law relative to ment of 42 of deceased persons law adopted 42 regulating order of payment of 48 Attachment law proposed 29 Deeds law proposed relative ...
... Benjamin The Ohio Frontier Benjamin F Wade and the Benjamin The Ohio Frontier in 1812 Diary of an Indian Congregation XXII 205-66 Pershing B H Paul Henkle 1754-1825 Frontier Missionary Luth Ch Quar VII 125-51 Prince B F Beginnings of Lutheranism in Ohio XXIII 268-83 Rodabaugh J H Miami University Calvinism and the Anti-slavery Movement ...
... Benjamin Lincoln of Benjamin Mortimer from Bethlehem by way of Niagra through the Bush They came so unexpectedly for we had not thought of their coming before June or July that we rejoiced the more like children And the rejoicing was on both sides They too rejoiced for they had come a very hard way I ask you to note the expression - a very hard way - for when these dear people so heroic in ...
... FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT WAPAKONETA By HARLOW LINDLEY About the beginning of the last century two bands of Shawnee Indians are known to have been settled on lands in the vicinity of the present town of Wapakoneta Ohio In the year 1809 these Indians began to receive attention from the Friends of Ohio Yearly Meeting In order to assist them in adopting civilized modes of living they built for them a saw and grist mill on their lands and some of the ...
... HISTORIC WORTHINGTON HISTORIC WORTHINGTON MIRA CLARKE PARSONS One hundred years ago in the month of October the quiet of the wilderness where Worthington now stands was broken by the arrival of forty families under the leadership of James Kilbourne The journey had occupied more than six weeks They came from Granby and Simsbury Conn representing many trades and occupations and bringing the hope and courage needed in founding a new home in a strange land The previous year their leader and Nathan ...
... Benjamin S Cowan in the House passed Proceedings of the Society Proceedings of the Society 97 an act to establish the State Bank of Ohio The act provides that the bank shall have a capital of six millions one hundred and fiftythousand dollars and in addition the capital of such existing banks as might be authorized to become branches The State was divided into districts among which the capital was distributed and not more than one branch ...
... 120 Ohio Arch 120 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tablets in the city of Greenville Ohio commemorating the establishment of the fort there in 1793 the first treaty with the Indians August 3 1795 and the second treaty July 22 1814 together with statues of General St Clair General Anthony Wayne and General William H Harrison the hero of the victory of the battle of the river Thames which resulted in the death of Tecumseh and the restoration of a permanent peace with the Indians This ...
... THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO WESTERN LAND CESSIONS AMONG the documents relating to western land cessions brought before Congress that are not found in the Journals are the three printed below They are all of great interest and all difficult of access I am not aware that the last one has ever been printed The first two are found in Hening's Statutes of Virginia Vol X the third is printed from a copy furnished by the Secretary of State of the State of ...
... IN DEX IN DEX A PAGE Abolition Achilles Pugh publishes paper on 305 Scotch-Irish sentiment on 297 A Century of Statehood Address Nash 25 Acolhuans The Review of 104 Adams John Q Jeremy Bentham's works presented to Ohio by 365 On W orthington Thomas 357 Addresses - A Century of Statehood Nash 25 George Croghan Williams 375 Greatness of Ohio W atson 310 Kossuth before Ohio Legislature 114 Manly at Centennial Celebration 1 McClintick at Centennial Celebration 6 The First Constitution Ryan 11 ...
... JOHN LEWIS ROTH JOHN LEWIS ROTH The First White Child Born in the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten1 By HARLOW LINDLEY The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists at least must be given credit for arousing a group of Ohio's citizens from an unusual state of disinterestedness to one of profound interest and concern as to who was the first white child born in Ohio and some of these seem to have gone out of their way to misinterpret what it is all about I hold in my hand a clipping ...
... Benjamin Tupper The ceremony was performed on February 9 1789 by Judge Putnam who was attired for the occasion in full judicial robes The original marriage license signed by Arthur St Clair is still to be seen in the library of Marietta College Mrs Sargent died in September 1790 With the removal of the seat of government to Cincinnati Sargent took up his residence at that place Here he erected a fine house Its location and appearance are ...
... HISTORY OF FORT HAMILTON HISTORY OF FORT HAMILTON W C MILLER Butler County Ohio the eighteenth county established in the seventeenth state of the Union can present many points of interest archaeological and historical Chief among these is Fort Hamilton the first of a chain of forts established by the Government in the Miami valley for the protection of the pioneers In compiling this sketch of Fort Hamilton the writer a resident of Hamilton for fifty years has had access to the official records ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications some on board the fleet to take their second position nearer Canada They arrived a little before sunset that day at East Sister Island while General Harrison and Commodore Perry in the Ariel made a reconnoissance of the enemy's coast It was not until the morning of the 27th that they began this last journey across the lake One account says the day was fine and a propitious breeze made their passage a pleasing pastime It was a sublime ...
... Benjamin Franklin at the convention in Albany presented a well worked out plan for the definite union of the colonies under a governor to be appointed by the crown And now February 1755 General Edward Braddock appeared on the Potomac as the commander in chief of His Majesty's forces in America and marched with his army towards Fort Duquesne which he arrogantly asserted he would easily take and drive the French back to Montreal BRADDOCK'S ...
... Benjamin Wilson then an Benjamin Wilson of Virginia and a life member of this Society as well as a Daughter of the American Revolution it seems fitting to me at this time to ask that some steps be taken by this body to purchase and appropriately mark the site of the treaty that made it possible for our Colonial soldiers to win the war for Independence for after the treaty the border of ...
... 300 Ohio Arch 300 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 TRUDE CHRISTINA ANNA CHRISTINA ANNA SALOME and ANNA ELIZABETH Besides these there were five adults one man S CHAPPIHILLEN the husband of Helen together with four women and thirteen babes not yet baptized and the following members of the Mission at Schoenbrun who happened to be at Gnadenhutten to-wit NICHOLAS and his wife JOANNA SABINA ABEL HENRY ANNA and BATHSHEBA the last two daughters of Joshua the founder of Gnadenhutten in all ...
... THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE OHIO VALLEY THEIR EFFECT ON THE GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES JULIETTE SESSIONS In 1903 the Ohio Society Sons of the Revolution offered a prize of 100 for the best essay which might be submitted upon the subject heading this article Miss Sessions a member of the teaching corps of The Columbus High School entered the contest and was awarded the prize The essay is herewith made public for the first time through the ...
... TARHE-THE CRANE TARHE-THE CRANE EMIL SCHLUP UPPER SANDUSKY Probably no other Indian chieftain was ever more admired and loved by his own race or by the outside world He was either a true friend or a true enemy Born near Detroit Michigan in 1742 he lived to see a wonderful change in the great Northwest Being born of humble parentage through his bravery and perseverence he rose to be the grand sachem of the Wyandot nation This position he held until the time of his death when he was succeeded by ...
... Benjamin Herbert were finally secured Quarrying and hauling blue limestone from the nearby Sandusky river bottom was at once begun The material was transported to its place by the primitive ox team The size of the building was thirty by forty feet Owens and Herbert completed the masonry and plastering by early fall and received 800 for the work In the year 1825 our government made its first attempt at the removal of the Wyandots to the far ...