... Editorialana Editorialana 467 stimulation of his firm assurance that all is well here below and all will be better in the world beyond His life was above reproach his career an inspiration None knew him but to love him none named him but to praise No organization with which he was connected seemed to give him greater pleasure than the Archaeological and Historical Society Its field of investigation its province of collecting and preserving the records of the past and its work of storing the ...
... NOTEHISTORICAL NOTEHISTORICAL R W M'FARLAND OXFORD OHIO People familiar with the early annals of the West know something of Simon Kenton They know also of the rivalry between him and Leitchman for the hand of a young lady-that Kenton was unsuccessful in his suite-that there was a fight in consequence and that in the first encounter Kenton again lost but in the second by wrapping Leitchman's long hair about a sapling Kenton won and so severely beat his opponent that thinking him fatally injured ...
... County like sheep at a market91 President Jefferson characterized the speech as intemperate and indecorous and Judge Burnet said it was sensible and conciliatory 92 On the next day with only one negative vote93 the convention decided to form a constitution and a plan for the same was drawn up It was to be composed of eight articles and a schedule each article being drafted by a special committee read three times before being read for final ...
... County at the point of bayonets in the hands of white men Why should we become like them Now they send us missionaries who seem trustworthy and the United States government builds us a few houses but when I remember Tecumseh I cannot suddenly love the long-time enemies of my people who have taken away so much and given back so little I am Tecumseh's direct descendant his representative as a leader of our crushed and wronged Shawnee nation It ...
... 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 may make donations County of 30 Putnam MSS in County They were the members of the graduating class of 181534 In 1817 the university expanded In addition to the president there was now a faculty member Joseph Dana professor of languages -- salary 250 a year Dana continued in the service of the university till his retirement in 1835 ...
... establishment and garrisoning of these western forts-- three in Pennsylvania two in Ohio and two in Indiana--had the effect of stringing out Harmar's meager force in a thin line Communication and the forwarding of supplies were difficult and almost impossible in bad weather Harmar was plagued with all the old troubles familiar to generals in the Revolution and some new ones He had difficulties with army contractors who failed to deliver food ...
... establishment of a colony on the coast of Africa The colonies of Sierra Leone and Mesurado he considered promising well and worthy of support The second object was to provide an asylum to which we can by degrees send the whole of that population from among us and establish them under our patronage and protection as a separate free and independent people in some country and climate friendly to human life and happiness He declared that he had ...
... County was represented by County sent Joseph County aided in shaping County began circulating its precious volumes in the backwoods in 1804 The first chartered public library in the State was the one at Dayton It may be said truly that Ohio is a vital member of the National Republic of ...
... establishment in 1812 of the United States General Land Office under the department of the treasury After this time land patents issued for Congress Lands were no longer co-signed by the secretary of state but by the commissioner of the general land office The last major change prior to 1833 in land laws bearing on the issuance of president-signed land patents was the land act passed by congress in 1820 Under the Harrison land act large ...
... County Virginia January 2 County In 1761 he was County New York in 1777 a County in the convention County Virginia February 11 1749 He was a Revolutionary soldier commissioned lieutenant colonel in 1776 was captured by the British ...
... County who for their County18 The provisions County But notwithstanding County brought on a riot61 County Lieutenants to meet County on the 12th Inst
... establishment of highways and of establishment of the State line between Ohio and Michigan I am taxed in Michigan on three and one-half acres and the same land is also claimed by Mr Nair on the north The land is described on the tax receipt as bounded N by 14 line S by State line E by lands or bounds unknown W by See line There is a piece of road that is pretty bad at certain times of the ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications NOTES - GEOGRAPHICAL BY R W MCFARLAND LL D These notes are intended to draw attention to errors or slips which manage sometimes to get into print and which may mislead the unwary Attention is called to four such points FIRST It has been stated in the OHIO STATE AR CH A E OLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY that the United States military tract extended to the Ohio river This is an error See Vol 2 U S Laws page 565 act of June 1 1796 The ...
... County a copy of which Act I herewith transmit to the Department I am under the impression that the operation of these laws will have a considerable effect on the minds of the Indians If it be thought advisable by the Department I will keep the negotiation open upon my own responsibility without asking from Government any further appropriationsand will improve every favorable opportunity to effect a negotiation in accordance with the views of ...
... Remarks of J Remarks of J V Jones 175 REMARKS OF J V JONES ESQ LADIES AND GENTLEMENIt would hardly be proper for me to say fellow-citizens for the reason of having been absent from your county for nearly fifty-eight years During that time many changes have been wrought in the city of Gallipolis and Gallia county Eighty-one years ago a young married couple might have been seen slowly wending ...
... KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO The question of the identity of Old Town near Xenia with the Chillicothe where Kenton ran the gauntlet the first time has been thoroughly discussed in previous issues of the QUARTERLY and in my opinion the evidence in favor of it is decidedly satisfactory Prof McFarland's testimony seems conclusive of itself while the traditions bearing upon the question reach back to the earliest settlement of that ...