... INDEX TO MORAVIAN RECORDS INDEX TO MORAVIAN RECORDS VOL 2 A Black Art Known by Indian preachers 78 Abraham convert assists Zeisberger 36 78 43 53-55 57 59 67 71 73 74 76 78 Bonn John goes west with Zeisberger 43 53-55 57 59 67 71 73 74 76 78 79 81 98 100 102-103 8 returns 9 Achgohunt see Echgohund Bread expensive 95 Africa entered by the Moravians 3 Bread and butter served at lunch by Algiers entered by the Moravians 3 Indian 44 Allemewi Chief influenced 61 65 sends Brukker Moravian missionary ...
... THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE The following article comprising the statement of facts and the reprint of the wording of the treaty was prepared by Frazer E Wilson of Greenville Ohio The material is found largely in his little book The Treaty of Greenville The reproduction of the signatures and the symbol signs inscribed by the chiefs to the treaty is from a photograph in exact size taken from the treaty itself now carefully preserved in the archives at Washington D C The ...
... INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO BY S S KNABENSHUE Ever since the civilized nations of the world began to occupy lands peopled by savages they have based their claims upon the right of discovery followed by occupation This principle has been judicially affirmed by the United States Supreme Court which declared that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy either by purchase or conquest and also to sovereignty Johnson and Graham's ...
... HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE COL E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS On the 28th of June 1 90 4 the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution did themselves and their organization great honor by placing in Martin Park in the western part of the City of Columbus a large bowlder of igneous origin bearing a very handsome designed tablet in commemoration of the important council or conference which General William Henry Harrison had with the chiefs of certain ...
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE ADDRESS OF HON SAMUEL F HUNT DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 AT GREENVILLE O Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen of Darke Cou nt y Fellow Citize ns One hundred years have passed since that eventful day in August when the treaty of Greenville was signed The different nations of Indians present and parties to the treaty consisted of one hundred and eight Wyandots ...
... INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE W S HANNA MILLERSBURG The Indian Boundary Line sometimes known as the Greenville Treaty Line or Wayne's Treaty Line had its origin in the closing events of the Revolutionary War As an historical land mark it has no equal in the early history of this country Around its history cling many of the most stubborn and sanguinary conflicts and border outrages that so distinctly marked the closing of the eighteenth century On every good map of Ohio it will be ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE MORAVIAN RECORDS VOLUME TWO THE DIARIES OF ZEISBERGER RELATING TO THE FIRST MISSIONS IN THE OHIO BASIN EDITED BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT AND WILLIAM NATHANIEL SCHWARZE INTRODUCTION THE MISSIONS OF THE UNITAS FRATRUM The ancient church of the Unitas Fratrum the United Brethren or Moravians as they became widely known from their original home-land was all but utterly destroyed by the persecutions that accompanied the Thirty Years' War Fleeing ...
... THE TOWNS CALLED CHILLICOTHE THE TOWNS CALLED CHILLICOTHE In Volume XI page 230 of the Society's Publications was a valuable article by Prof R W McFarland of Oxford Ohio on the Chillicothes This article led to an interesting discussion in the Chillicothe News-Advertiser of which Mr W H Hunter one of the trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is editor We reprint the articles which speak for themselves The communications by Dr Morgan and Prof McFarland appeared in the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 493 FORT LAURENS--ITS SITE AND SIEGE The relation of the Ohio country and its pre-state pioneers to the events of the American Revolution has not yet been properly portrayed Until recently leading historians have either ignored it altogether or slightingly treated it It will ere long receive due attention Roosevelt in The Winning of the West Winsor in the Westward Movement and Moore in The Northwest Under Three Flags have given it more or less consideraton During the ...
... 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 ...
... 18 Ohio Arch 18 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away They fly forgotten as a dream Dies at the opening day 0 God our help in ages past Our hope for years to come Be Thou our Guard while troubles last And our eternal home Thou who hearest prayer for Jesus' sake give ear to these our prayers and praises which we sum up in the words of our Lord Our Father Who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth ...
... 72 Ohio Arch 72 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE OHIO INDIANS ADDRESS AT FRANKLINTON CENTENNIAL BY COL E L TAYLOR SEPTEMBER 15 1897 We are engaged to-day in celebrating an event of a hundred years ago which was then apparently unimportant but which has led on to great and permanent results A hundred years ago a few intelligent and determined white men settled here in the then unbroken wilderness which settlement soon became and has ever since remained the center of a far-pervading ...
... 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 ...
... 164 Ohio Arch 164 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications C L McIlvaine representing the New Philadelphia Board of Trade The announcement was made of the organization under the auspices of the Board of Trade of the Schoen-Brunn Monument Association and the names of the Board of Officers were announced as printed on the program President Wm A Wagner President Board of Trade Vice-President Rev Dr Wm H Rice Gnadenhutten O Financial Secretary Professor George C Maurer Treasurer James F Kildenbaugh ...
... SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND LAKE ERIE By CATHALINE ALFORD ARCHER Lake Erie and its borders have received some unusual attention lately including the explorations and early settlements Herewith is some pertinent material which seems not to have been reckoned with but which seems essential to the full story Harlan Hatcher's Lake Erie 1945 for example presumably the latest and best-organized account of the period does not mention the journey of Sir ...
... CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF BY MRS ORSON D DRYER Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock A certain queer little cradle hanging from a limb of a tree in a great green forest about the year 1720 is rocking to and fro as the soft summer wind sways the branches above it It is a gay and pretty cradle soft and warm with the skin of the moose and gorgeous with bird feathers and brightly colored quills of the porcupine and from it shine out ...
... 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 ...
... LOGAN TECUMSEH THE SHAWANO INDIANS LOGAN TECUMSEH THE SHAWANO INDIANS BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen I esteem it both an honor and a privilege to appear before you and speak briefly upon the lives of two great characters Logan and Tecumseh and also tell you a little concerning the Shawano Indians commonly called the Shawnees whose villages were in this part of our State We are assembled on a very historic spot historic not merely because the cabin of the earliest ...