... establishment in this Country where the veteran soldier and honest man should find a Retreat from ingratitude--never more to visit the Atlantic Shores but in their children and like Goths and Vandals to deluge a people more vicious and villaneous than even the Pretorian Band of Ancient Rome These words were expressive at once of the high hopes that men had of the joy and peace and justice they would find in their future homes in the West and ...
... County Ohio May 16 1822 County from New Jersey His County settling near New County An abandoned County The six children born to them are yet living In 1905 some time after the decease of his first wife Mr Brokaw was again married to ...
... County of which he was the County Pennsylvania and gave bail to appear at the next term of court He kept his word and returned to meet his judges But he was accompanied 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications by a considerable body of armed men who captured the court and took them off to Staunton in Virginia as themselves trespassers The merry war went on until the ...
... Rosscounty on the Rossville The fort was a stockade somewhat triangular in shape with four good bastions and platforms for cannon The officers' quarters were near the river Eastward stood the soldiers' barracks and southward was the magazine The next summer an addition to the north was erected by General Williamson commander of the army ...
... Ross and Court street A barracks was built in like manner for one hundred men a guard room two storehouses for provisions and a magazine and all this was done in two weeks September 30th it was named Fort Hamilton in honor of Alexander Hamilton who was then secretary of the treasury in Washington's cabinet General St Clair's army being defeated on November 4th near Greenville Darke county ...
... establishment of civil authority and the laws was conducted From a manuscript written by an eye-witness now in my possession I have obtained the substance of the following The procession was formed at the Point where most of the settlers resided in the following order 1st the high sheriff with his drawn sword 2d the citizens 3d the officers of the garrison at Fort Harmar 4th the members of the bar 5th the supreme judges 6th the governor and ...
... County Historical Society and overshadowed by its giant branches the three organizations to all of whom the event was a most auspicious one were photographed together Could there be one in that group who did not feel this reunion of Red Men and White beneath Logan's tree to be a fitting ending to a memorable day Dedication of the Logan Elm Dedication of the Logan Elm 307 ...
... establishment of the remaining lands of the Old Northwest as a permanent Indian preserve Moreover a broad difference was that both the Indians and the British hoped in the coming treaty to gain acceptance of the idea that the Indians could treat as a united confederacy holding their lands in common while the Americans hoped to emphasize the idea of the different Indian tribes having rights to particular tracts of land The American ...
... County were Winthrop County was formed on June County has provoked much County The Governor was further irritated by not finding the public seal and records of the Territory at Cincinnati when he reached that place29 However in a letter of December 1 St Clair disclaimed any intention to ...
... 578 Ohio 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications stead it is now believed they are the remains of sacred places half temples where the dead were prepared for burial which was by cremation Inside this enclosure were divisions corresponding in a way to the family burying lot and in these the ashes and the trinkets of the dead were deposited When these were full the enclosure was filled up and the mound thus erected became a sort of monument not to one person or one family but to the dead of ...
... 452 Ohio Arch 452 Ohio Arch and H ist Society Publications For God shall dwell among us and men shall say The former bitter things are passed away Gone are our strifes and banished all our fears For here is love that wipes away all tears Here is the rest for which our souls have striven This is the city that came down from heaven WHY OHIO IS GREAT At the dinner participated in on Tuesday August 27 at the Southern Hotel by the Descendants of Ohio Governors the following address was made by Prof ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY DECEMBER 1887 THE WESTERN LAND POLICY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FROM 1763 TO 1775 THE ink with which the treaty of Paris was written was hardly dry when Great Britain took a very important step in the line of a new land policy Just how much this step meant at the time is a matter of dispute but the consequences flowing from it were such as to mark it a distinct new departure Previous to the French and Indian war England had virtually affirmed ...
... County Ohio Cincinnati 1871 5-7 10 William Allen White The Changing West 1939 4 TREATY OF GREENE VILLE 11 TREATY OF GREENE VILLE 11 Few and simple as were the tools of the pioneer they gave him the advantages he needed in his struggle with untamed nature The iron-bladed ax and iron-shod plow cleared the forest and furrowed the soil The boat-bottomed canvas-topped wagon could be floated ac
... THE INDIANS WHO OPPOSED HARMAR THE INDIANS WHO OPPOSED HARMAR By OTHO WINGER We have a few original sources of information about the Indians of the Northwest in and about Kekionga now Fort Wayne at the time of Harmar's expedition in the fall of 1790 George Croghan in 1765 traveled the length of the Wabash to Kekionga and gave an excellent report to his superiors in the East In the winter of 1789-90 Henry Hay representing British merchants in Detroit visited Kekionga and kept a diary of his ...
... County Ohio is proud of County Society In another few hundred years this tree may be forever lost but the site shall remain and let us hope that posterity may suitably commemorate with a monument of bronze the world famed speech of the great Mingo Chief Logan Dr G Frederick Wright President of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society received the deed from the hands of Mrs Jones and ...
... BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE May-June 1779 Draper MSS Border Forays 5 D chap 27 pp 1-20 The following account of Captain Bowman's expedition against Chillicothe on the Little Miami in 1779 is from the original manuscript of the Draper collection in the archive department of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin During the past summer 1910 through the courtesy of Dr Reuben Gold Thwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society ...
... TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF AND THE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE LR CHAS E SLOCUM DEFIANCE It is the desire of this writing to add somewhat to the mention of Tarhe the Wyandot Aborigine1 Chief and to the mention of the character of the Aborigines that appeared in the last number of the QUARTERLY although this addition shows their character different from that there mentioned Tarhe grew to adult life in very troublous times He was reared to savagery and to inebriety like ...