Complex sentence: Davis was said to be the second man ashore at Point Harmar, 7 April 1788, and he declared later that he cut the first tree felled by a settler west of the Ohio River, a "buckeye" tree.
Split into simpler sentences: Davis was said to be the second man ashore at Point Harmar, on April 7,1788. He declared later that he cut the first tree felled by a settler west of the Ohio River, a "buckeye" tree.