Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-06-09


: Eighty days he spent among them. max
ing speeches to them on the subject of
O temperance. on introducing schools. and
:, on establishing a mission among them.
He then returned TO Trumbull County,
and in April, 1910. he removed TO Ash
tabula, and missionated in neighboring
settlements. April 9Th, 1910. he writes,
"Salt was S93 per barrel, and other mer-
: ~chandize in proportion"
About the LIST Of Oct 1879, General
Perkins was called out to guard the from
tier, and his troops marched 10 Huron.
e A scout passed over the outlet of San
n dusky, to the Peninsula-had a brush
q with the Indians; others were soon taken
y sick.
e Badger was appointed Chaplain TO the
o Brigade, and Post Master for the Army.
/ nNovember they were ordered to march
for S~andusky. There was no one in the
camp who had ever been through to San
dusky, on the Indian path, but Badger.
He observed to General Harrison, 'slhat
to pass through to S~andusky on the In
3. dian path with teams. would be imprac-
: title, on account of the deep mire and
deep swampy ground" He then sent
Badger with 90 soldiers and several axe
men 10 mark through where he suppos
ed the heavy teams might pass. In five
= DAYS the path was marked, and Badger
then piloted the army through in three
/; days.
S Feb. LIST, 1918. The army was or
dered 10 march 10 Maumee. Here Maj.
r Elisha Whittlesey was taken very sick.
r The Generals tent was crowded; Badger
: took Major w. into his own tent, ana
took care Of him, night and day. He
says all gave him up 10 die, except a
physician from Virginia and myself; but
while others fell victims TO the same dis
ease, he was saved. He says, 'In re-
gard to the article of salt, it is probably
mot known or remembered by many,
that salt was boiled and made from a
spring of very weak salt water, five miles
south CT Warren. The man who carried
on the works, could seldom make more
han two bushels a day with the help Of
a man and team, to cut and haul wood.
On this slender business depended al
most the entire population of the south
ern part of the Reserve; and for this salt,
poor, when compared with Salina salt,
they must give four dollars per bushel,
and then found much difficulty in get
ting enough for their necessities. Some
time in 1902, there was a road marked
and pushed out from Austinburg 10 War
rem, it having been previously cut from
the mouth of the Ashtabula creek 10
Ausiinburg. known by the name of the
Salt Road. Let one who wishes to know
some of the difficulties of the first settlers,
Just in his imagination follow one of them
through a painless wood. from five to
six and twelve miles, to the salt spring.
seldom 10 get over a half bushel, and
frequently none, but be obliged to re- (
turn and wait two or three days, and t
come again. Or let the man who now =
has bis well cultivated farm and orchard,
and something better for a dwelling than d
a poor log cabin. accompany the wagon
and team of two or three yoke of oxen,
hauling a load of salt, four 10 six barrels, -,
on the Salt Road from Ashtabula to I
Vernon. a distance of near fifty miles, !
through mud and mire, knee deep to the E
team a great part of the way, and FIRE /,
quently The wheels dropping into holes !
up TO the hub. He may thus get a faint .
idea Of the hardships of early settlers y
The price OF salt in those times was from l
SI9 10 $50 per barrel. (The salt thus 7
procured was brought in open boats from !
Buffalo 10 Ashfabula.) The first and
second years of the settlements, The want :
of bread stuff was severely felt. Green L
corn, and corn iointed from the cob, was y
resorted to, for sustenance; but the early Il
exertions of several settlements to build F"
grist mills afforded great relief. After o
all, the sufferings and bardships of the c
first settlers on the Reserve for several u
years Of their first beginning 10 break "
this grea: forest, will never be known or I
appreciated in any considerable degree F"
by the present and future generations Of
this vast population. o
In Vienna there was one family; the a
man. some time in Feb, 1901, was taken II
sick with a fever; no physician in The "
country. | was informed of his situation, p
and requested to visit him. / found "
the family, consisting of the sick man, "
his vile and one child, in a piiiable con 81
situated six or seven miles from II
any other family, in a cold log cabin,
wood enough, when cut, for The fire; but
with a scanty supply of bread. Here l /,
as nurse and doctor. nearly two 7
weeks, when the man began 10 conva :
lesce. and | returned TO Vernon, where :
l had left my horse. Gustavus was one :
of The best townships for farming, but it !,
necessary that a number Of the
settlers should die off to remove the
curse. In one instance a man got into :
his one horse jumper, went 10 the dis,il- :
lery in Kinsman, drank freele of whisky :.
and got some 10 carry home; set out at 9
evening TO return; when within a half "
mile OF bis residence, his horse stopped =
at his ~neighbors, who. looking out, saw =
the horse standing at the bars. lie T
went out 10 see what it meant, and found :,
in the Jumper, a man in the arms OF q
death, whom the woman recognized to 9
be her brother. :,
Here may be noticed with propriety the n
care God was pleased 70 exercise towards :,
the families scattered in thirty different :
townships on the Reserve, without mills
Of any kinl. depending On their own ex
ertions TO furnish necessary means for to
and induce others to join the en- II
re
The Indians were yet on their hunting OF
scouts, and in the proper season. making ty
They were friendly, and gave b.
considerable aid in furnishing wild meat. re
Notwithstanding they were in several in "
shamefully and cruelty treated q,
by unprincipled men, but there was no ri
general animO>ity excited. They gen el
bore with patience, the insults Al
and injuries they often met with. They C,
were often made drunk with whiskey and IT
heir peltries taken at a very low rate TO ra
nav the exoTbiiant Drice- asked for ar,; ::