...formation were behaving very formation of an army about to invade their country-referring doubtless to an intended expedition by General Edward Hand then in command at Pittsburgh-the Indians embodied themselves They concluded by begging strenuously that Cornstalk and his particular tribe might be exempt from any hostile blow Under the circumstances Captain Arbuckle suspecting them to be spies ...
... County Pennsylvania lay County The journey took County near the 'Beautiful County They were abandoned County in the state of County some distance from
... County Maryland He was County is one of our most historical counties in Ohio It was formed January 12 1810 The name is a misspelling of Piqua the name of a tribe of Shawnee Indians We learn that most of our formal Indian settlements were near the Scioto river in the Pickaway Plains The remarkable Pickaway Plains may be designated as the section lying between the Scioto on the west Salt Creek ...
... WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION BY HON RUSH R SLOANE In considering this question it is necessary to advert to the fact that after the Declaration of Independence Connecticut set up a claim to the north part of Ohio above latitude 41 north and Virginia claimed Ohio below that line as being within the limits of her charter While these questions caused some discussion and negotiation they were amicably settled and on the 13th ...
...formation I could receive there are at the falls of the Hawk Hawkin Hockhocking upwards of three hunded families at the Muskingum a number equal At Meravens Moravian Town there are several families and more than fifteen hundred on the rivers Miami and Scioto From Wheeling to that place there is scarcely one bottom on the river but has one or more families living thereon11 It is evident from this that Armstrong had visited but a small fraction ...
... JONATHAN ALDER JONATHAN ALDER COL WM CURRY The tales of adventure and bloodshed related by the early pioneers of Ohio of their dangers and hardships have been familiar to me since boyhood Among others of whom I heard many harrowing stories related by my father and other pioneers was of Jonathan Alder who was at one time a resident of Union county Ohio and a noted pioneer and frontiersman Like Captain Samuel Davis the famous Indian fighter he ...
... Jackson The Indians well knew as they had failed to overcome the army divided it was useless to attempt a battle when the enemy was united A great council was held a treaty was made the Indians agreed to bury the tomahawk and the purpose of the expedition was fulfilled It will be remembered that Logan the primal cause of the war refused to attend the council and when sought out gave his reasons in that famous speech of his that has been ...
... THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MADE APRIL 6 1888 THE erection of a monumental structure at Marietta to commemorate the important historical events that became a fulfillment of the past as well as the foundation of the future when on the 7th day of April 1788 the pioneer band settled down upon the virgin soil of the Northwest Territory has been a favorite object in the proceedings of ...
... AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING REV N B C LOVE The greater part of the following data the writer had from Levi Savage in 1885 He was at this time old and blind but in possession of his mental faculties His memory seemed clear and tenacious I wrote down at the time what he said word for word and from this written account I draw also from government and church publications A camp meeting was held by the Christian Wyandots on the east side of the Sandusky river opposite the big ...
...formation and dated January formation was a public notice formation property strength will all be its characteristics I know many of the settlers personally and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community If I was a young man just preparing to begin the world or if in advanced life and had a family to ...
...formation and put so as to be valuable to the general reader and useful as a text book for the student It presents just the sort of material in just the right manner that our young people ought to get Professor Simkins goes back a good ways into the dim and misty past before man came into the world He tells briefly of the shell people the Cave men the Mound Builders prehistoric Indians the different stone ages polished rough and tough gives us ...
... JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION By HOWARD H PECKHAM When the Revolutionary War ended the new United States of America faced a problem that is acutely familiar to us today Nobody wanted to remain in the Army or Navy At the conclusion of the Revolution there were probably 20000 to 30000 men under arms The single unifying aim of the war -- independence from Great Britain - - appeared to have been won at least on the battlefield Acknowledgement of ...
... County organized a force of 1000 men and on the 30th of August had them concentrated at Urbana ready to march Here let me read an extract of a letter he wrote to Gov Meigs at that time Gov MEIGS URBANA Aug 30 1812 Gov MEIGS SIR-With all the exertion we could make we are not in a situation to make a campaign in the wilderness When I issued orders for an immediate preparation for a march I caused an examination of the public arms and although ...
... County Fair Grounds recently named the Israel Putnam Agricultural Park in honor of Israel Putnam and along the high ground until it reached the old Factor's house which was later changed into a fort and named Fort Stephenson after Colonel Stephenson who was in charge of the troops engaged in making the charge The encampment thus enclosed the low rich ground on which the Indians had from time immemorial grown their crops and through the center ...
... County Ohio traditions of County and pledged the County Fair Ground on the high bank of the Sandusky River near the ruins of one of the Free Cities described by General Lewis Cass Bradstreet's expedition which had now reached the heart of the Indian Confederacy was unable to proceed further owing to his inability to get his large water ...
... CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS ON THE MAUMEE CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS ON THE MAUMEE By HOWARD H PECKHAM In any historical celebration of the Maumee Valley Captain Thomas Morris may justly claim a brief mention He was the first British officer to ascend the Maumee River I say officer because it is possible that one or two Pennsylvania traders may have penetrated that far into Ohio in the 1740's or 1750's But Morris did something else too He has left us two accounts of his Maumee adventures--one a ...
... County Auditor was placed County published by Werner County and State of Ohio County SECTION 1 Be it County passed February County of Tuscarawas and