... 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 he left at once for the West ...
... settlement was constituted the settlement which is yet I think standing In May of this year he also surveyed the village plat In 1805 he was appointed a civil magistrate and captain of all the militia of the frontier The Greenville treaty line was only twenty-eight miles north of Worthington and hence the duties devolving upon him as guardian of the people's safety were by no means light He ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 17 ADDRESS OF C L MARTZOLFF It is said that a minister's text is but a peg upon which to hang his sermon If I were a minister the peg upon which I would hang this speech would be found among the jewels of the wonderful mines of King Solomon - The Book of Proverbs Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set Man has ever been a monument builder When the Israelites fought with the hosts of Amalek when the hands of Moses were ...
... early as 176 0 A British early and that was a good augury --perhaps As in all such councils there was much talk much wise talk even though the Indians knew that the end of such palaver was usually submission cession of lands solemn promises that the white man was the first to break After much debate in which Little Turtle more than held his own he finally signed on the last day of the ...
... early with his Bible and early summer of 1755 he early as 1700 Israel early a hundred miles early sunset but without stopping to rest or to change the checked farmer suit which he had been wearing since he left his plow the morning ...
... settlements on that river settlements browsing on the settlements in Virginia to settlements through the settlements and forts doing a settlements were attacked at
...early three years when early in the morning early Colonial days During the second war with Great Britain the British again ascended the Sandusky river and bombarded Ft Stephenson at Fremont but were repulsed by the gallant Major George Croghan and retreated down the river and over to Detroit where they remained until the British fleet under ...
... early in 1749 joined the British army as ensign in the 17th Regiment In December 1755 he was promoted a lieutenant His regiment was sent to America in 1758 at the height of the French and Indian War and was employed at the siege of Havana in 1762 It then returned to continental America and remained here under General Thomas Gage the new commander-in-chief You will recall that 1763 was a momentous year in this region The British had won the ...
... early history of early all the men were early in 1777 from Detroit and hostile parties were quickly on the war-path In his intercourse at the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten on the Tuscarawas Cornstalk had formed so great a regard for John Jacob Schmick and wife that he adopted them both into the Shawanese nation as his brother and sister ...
... settlements76 Such an order settlement of lands on the Ohio below the Kanawha and in Kentucky 45 Morgan Letter Book i April 1 1777 46 Morgan Letter Book iii July 17 1778 submitted to Col Daniel Brodhead 47 It was his belief that there were only some 300 hostile Indians in the Western Department Schoolcraft estimated that of the 7280 Indians ...
...early as the meanders of early three years Shortly early life He was not so early in the evening but early thirty years thereafter Mrs Whitaker resided in the old home and transacted the business of a frontier trader but her connections ...
...early of the same height early days found its early on a level with early to Lake Pepin early all were killed Gen early relators agreed precisely in the particulars of the narrative The ...
... early part of 1813 early settlers and those using the canal 267 On your left is a slack water pool or lake created 802 in the Maumee River by the canal dam 277-282 On your left the locks show where the canal en792-787 tered into the slackwater pool You are now driving along the old canal The road is partly built upon the canal in this area 282-299 You are now driving entirely upon the old ...
... settlement of the early three years early all night for they early historians were meagre and indefinite in their accounts of it because there was nothing known to tell and it was only after half a century that a few details leaked out and became known as already stated The Sandusky ...
...early one hundred years early days of this Ohioearly times if written by early days and so wrote early one hundred and fifty years have passed since the events transpired upon this ...
... early Western Reserve early the whole year according to the size of the district After and not long after this new source of income was opened the usual length of the schools was reduced to only three months or just the time that this fund would maintain the schools The sums which came as gratuities relieved the people of responsibility and deadened their interest until the schools were ...
... settlement under the British settlement of Fairfield The settlement of forty-two settlement here at Goshen Hither in October 1798 the venerable David Zeisberger in the 77th year of his pilgrimage came to spend the last of his honored career Here in the Goshen Mission Home he lived from ...
... settlement in Kansas has been only partially published There are in the hands of descendants of the pioneers who were contemporary with the Wyandots old letters memorandums account books and newspapers and other documents of interest if collected The writer has quite an amount of this kind of material and would be glad to have more The Indian Camp Meeting The Indian Camp Meeting 4 3 Christianity did much for the Wyandots It saved them from ...