... SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF HIS TRAGIC DEATH ERECTION OF MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY COMPILED BY BASIL MEEK SENECA JOHN Not much is known pertaining to the direct biography of Seneca John The most that we have is incidental to and related in the story of his execution He belonged however to a prominent family of his tribe and was one of four brothers or rather of three full brothers named Comstock Steel and Coonstick and himself a half brother of the three named Comstock was a ...
... 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 ...
... SHAKER MISSION TO THE SHAWNEE INDIANS SHAKER MISSION TO THE SHAWNEE INDIANS BY J P MACLEAN A B PH D INTRODUCTION It is but a slight exaggeration to state that the aborigines of this country have been made the objects of conversion from all the religious sects that have found a domicile within our borders Under the civilizing influence of the dominant exotic race the American savage has constantly gone down It is not the fault of Christianity nor of the civilization of the nineteenth century ...
... NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY BY THE INDIANS IN 17821 FROM THE DIARY OF ABEL JANNEY On the 12th day of March 1782 about break of day as I and my two companions were lying in our blankets about half a mile from the Ohio river on the Indian's side near the mouth of the Great Kenhaway2 river We were surprised by a shout of Indians who came rushing upon us When I heard the noise I spoke to my two companions and said rise up here are Indians when ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 591 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 591 torical Society at Nazareth are assured that every precaution will be taken to insure its safety Some day I hope every one of you can go to the old Church and sit in front of the old fireplace which we discovered was twelve feet long and six feet deep We will have candlesticks along the wall we will serve you on a Moravian service such as was used one hundred and fifty years ago when the Moravians held services there I know 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 ...
... TARHE-THE CRANE TARHE-THE CRANE EMIL SCHLUP UPPER SANDUSKY Probably no other Indian chieftain was ever more admired and loved by his own race or by the outside world He was either a true friend or a true enemy Born near Detroit Michigan in 1742 he lived to see a wonderful change in the great Northwest Being born of humble parentage through his bravery and perseverence he rose to be the grand sachem of the Wyandot nation This position he held until the time of his death when he was succeeded by ...
... 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 ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ferson to the degree that he declared it compared favorably with any speech of Demosthenes or Cicero It matters little if this is not the exact spot where Lord Dunmore received the oration It could not have been far from here But tradition coming down through several reliable families whose representatives still live near here says this magnificent old elm the largest in all the land which then and for many years after had a fine spring ...
... CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON OF TECUMSEH In volume XXXIV of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly pages 143-153 appeared a contribution entitled Tecumseh and His Descendants gleaned from authentic records furnished by Thomas Wildcat Alford scholarly and cultured gentleman one of the great-grandsons of the famous chieftain Tecumseh born in Ohio and later one of the most intrepid and resourceful leaders of the confederate tribes in their campaigns ...
... NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 SALEM September 9 Extract of a letter from a gentleman at the new settlement on the Muskingum to a person in this town dated July 20th We had a beautiful passage down the Ohio from Pittsburg in company with 3 Kentucke boats Without sails or oars we glided down the fair river and in 48 hours arrived at the enchanting spot It is really a delightful situation The first thing which presented itself when we ascended the bank by a grand and easy pair ...
... CELORON'S JOURNAL CELORON'S J O URNAL 1 EDITED BY REV A A LAMBING INTRODUCTORY NOTE It is now almost two years since I read a paper before the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania on Celoron's expedition down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers in the latter part of the summer of 1749 The subject attracted considerable attention at the time and between those who culled from me and those who cudgeled me the local public have become pretty well acquainted with the movements of the French in this ...
... 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 ...
... REMARKS OF REV REMARKS OF REV B W ARNETT DD MR CHAIRMAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN There are times in the history and in the life of individuals when language fails to express the throbbings and longings as well as the aspirations of the heart and I find myself sir this evening without words to express my sentiments to you and to this intelligent audience the representatives of this great Commonwealth of ours But your call to me to say a word1 was a command which I could not disobey without feeling ...
... SQUAW TRAIL SQUAW TRAIL BY GEORGE NELSON HINDS John and Elizabeth Hinds and their three sons had emigrated from the Fen country in England to the New World on board a slave ship arriving in 1808 Traveling in an oilskin-covered wagon drawn by their oxen Thomas and Jeremiah they encamped at a point about thirty miles from Albany New York on the Squaw Trail This trail variously labeled the Iroquois trail King Philip's road and described as a tote road and a trace was known to the Indians as Squaw ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 2 A PRIL 190 9 NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES It will be noted in the report of the Annual Meeting of the Society held March 2 1909 that two life members of the Society were newly elected trustees for the ensuing three years They were Messrs Caleb Hathaway Gallup and Walter Charles Metz Below we give brief sketches of the lives of the gentlemen in question Mr Metz has been a member of the Society for some years and has been a student in archaeological lines Mr ...
... DEFIANCE IN HISTORY DEFIANCE IN HISTORY By FRANCIS PHELPS WEISENBURGER Today we stand in the heart of the historic Maumee Valley Long before any written records chronicled the story of the region French traders moved up and down the river in the long journey between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Basin To the French the site of Defiance was known as Au Glaize or Grand Glaize Among the Indians it was the site of the Tu-en-da-wie village of the Wyandots and the En-sa-woc-sa of the Shawnees1 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE OHIO RIVER It was one of Pascal's thoughts that rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go Surely it is that primeval and pioneer man has followed the courses of great streams because along those channels have been found the lines of least resistance On the rivers and their banks therefore has history found its favorite haunts Dry up the currents of the Tigris the Euphrates the Danube the Tiber the Rhine the Seine and the Thames and you ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 35 HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY BASIL MEEK ESQ FREMONT OHIO We have met today on this ground famous in history because of the victorious defence of Fort Stephenson then standing on this spot by Major George Croghan and the band of heroes under his command ninety-three years ago--not only to commemorate that brilliant achievement but also to further consecrate and make sacred the spot by the re-interment of the remains of its gallant defender To Col Webb ...
... BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE VISITS OHIO BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE VISITS OHIO The visit of Buffalo Child Long Lance to Ohio and his address before the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will long be remembered by those who were so fortunate as to hear and greet him He had been invited to speak on Ohio History Day at Logan Elm Park It was found however that by coming a few days earlier he could be present at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to ...