Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-10-05

(about five acres on the bottom land which
now forms part of Mr.. Benjamin Lane S
home farm. The corn land was not fenced
in, because there were no animals except
deer, to disturb it, and they troubled it but
little.
In October of the same year, Mr.. Henry
Lane returned, and this time his son Ben
jamin came with him. Mr. Lane brought
100 small apple trees, tied in two bundles,
and strapped on the horse, Benjamin Lane,
(then boy of fourteen years. riding the
horse and sitting between the bundles of
apple trees These trees were Immediate
ly planted, and some of them are still liv-
ing thrifty bearing trees.
About the 10th of December, Mr.. Lane
and his two sons returned to Pennsylvania,
leaving Mr. Jones and his wife in the house
The next April Mr.. Lane returned with his
family, consisting of his wife, the two sons
before mentioned. and another (Asa,) and
two daughters, Catherine, (now Mrs John
TAFT, who still lives in Lordstown,) and
Annc who married Samuel Phillips, and
died some eight years since in Austintown,
iAfahoning Co. Mr.. Asa Lane returned to
Pennsylvania about the year 1920, and died
there.
Before the return of Mr.. Lane, in the
spring of 1900, Mr. Jones had built a
house on the farm now owned by Mr.. Isaac
Daily, on the west side of the river, and
removed there with his wife. Here was
born of Mrs Jones, in February, 1900,
the first white child in this county. This
was a girl, who married with William
Dutchin, about the year 1920, and died
some 20 years since. Mrs Jones, the
mother, is still living in Austintown, Ma
honing Co.
In the summer of the same year, Q799,)
Captain John Leavitt, and Ebenezer King,
(who with Ebenezer Sheldon, first bought
this township from the Connecticut Land
Company came, and brought with them,
Mr.. William Crooks, with his wife. MeSsrs.
King and Leavitt returned to Connecticut in
the fall, Crooks and wife remaining. Before
their return, they built log house, cleared
some Is acres of land and sowed it with
wheat, on what is now called the Murbur-
ger farm, two miles west of this place
This wheat was the first raised in the
county, our informant being one of the rea-
pers; in July, 1900. In june, 1900, Mr..
Leavitt, (called Esquire JOhn,) returned
with his family, consisting of his wife, four
sons, and three daughters. All of these
are now dead, except one of the sons, Hon.
Humphrey Lcavitt, of Steubenville, o.
/ During the year 1900, about twenty
families came in, and settled in this town.
ship, built houses and made clearings.
One, Mr.. John Adgate with his family, set
tied in Howland, where his grand son, Mr..
Adgatc, now lives
Salt was very scarce, very difficult to
get, and sold for Sc. per busheL At the
Salt Springs in Weathersfeld, in July,
1900, Joseph McMahan and two other men
were engaged in making Salt. The Indi-
ans were numerous in the vicinity at that
time, and some Is or 20 of them who had
been at Youngstown, and purchased some
whiskey, came to the Salt Springs with
their squaws and pappooses, and had
drunken spree, in which McMahan and
the two white men Joined. In the course
of the spree they got into a row, and the
Indians drove the white men of. The
whites came to this place, and the next
day accompanied by eight or ten other
men, among whom were Nr. Ephraim
Quinby. Mossrs. Benjamin, John and Asa
Lane, John Bentley, Richard Story, and
Jonathan Church, and others armed with
rifles. When they reached Salt Springs,
they found there, the Indians encamped.
McMahan went up to the chief, whose
name was Tuscarawa George, man of i'm
mense size, (who boasted that he had killed
40 white men, and spoke to him in the
Indian language. The Indian sprang to
his feet, seized bis tomahawk which stuck
in tree at his side, and struck at Mr.. Nc
Mahan, who dodged the blow, at the same
time presenting his rife, fired and killed
the Indian. At the same time, Story also
fired, killing another Indian, called Spotted
John, the bullet passing through the body
of John, breaking the arm of one pappoose,
the leg of another which was in the arms
of a squaw, and just touching the neck Of
the squaw, and raising a blister. The
whites in this vicinity were greatly alarmed
for fear the Indians would make reprisals,
and for about two weeks they all barrica-
ded themselves within Mr.. Quinby's house
every. night, but they were not attacked. !
The next day after the affray, McMahan
was arrested, taken to Pittsburg, and con-
fined in jail for some weeks, until some
time in August. when he was brought back
to Youngstown, tried and acquitted on the
ground of self defence. McMahan imme-
diately left this part of the country. with
his family, and returned to his former
home in Pennsylvania.
Story left before he could be taken, and
was not afterward arrested