The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-06-11

prepared were more or less filthy than the
sugar and molosses prepared by southern
slaves. leave for others TO determine. The
Indians also supplied us in their season with
craubcriics and whortlcbcrrlcs, both o'
which wcrc abundant aud cheap. do not
know to this day where they grew. But
the saVagcs have been gOno more than
twenty-five years. and the fourteen counties,
containing in 1874 twenty thousand whites
have multiplied to nearly four hundred
thousand Though | was thus carly res
dont Of Williams county, have never been
within its present limits OF its early set.
tiers. remember in diton to the names
already mentioned Montgomery Evans,
Pierce Evau5, Judge Perkins. the two elder
Hiltons, Judge Shirley and his sons, Chris
tiau Shroof, Major Rico, Mr.. Bycrs, and an
old man named Myers, who was drownca
in April, 1927, in little bayou, in state
of intoXica,jon Judge Samuel Vance and
Nr. Charles Gum also resided within the
| judicial limits Of Williams county at Pra'-
| rie Du Mask. So did the hali-bood Mohcan,
who was attcrward hung at Pcrrysburg for
| the murder OF Isaac Richardson. His name
was Porter
II is probably too early TO publish the
"reminiscences Of tho northwest for their
present interest, but il Ia not anjss to put
! them on record before those on whose N I'm.
ory they depend shall have passed away.
When ! went to Defiance, thorc was
still standing near tho huglai2c Il large,
Apacious hlockhOusc. erected during the
war OF 1912, but whether by the Americans
or the British have forgotten. II wls in
o dccaycd. dilabidated condition. with its
roof half gone. There were kicking about
the village sundry empty bombshalls, and
Il few cannon ball, which have II history 10
,rccord. When the British, who had n fort
here in the war Of 1872, evacuated th'
place they did it hast lyund having no means
to convey their heavy stores to Fort N'ami,
they threw aumo OF their cannon, bomb.
shell aud cannon ball into tho river. The
cannon are, suppose there still; but u
part Of the balls and shells were discovered
hy the early settlers and iishrd ont. These
were thrown upon the bank, ut Defiance
where every one who wanted one took It ;
and the remainder were kicked about as
things of no value, but as rolCS Of thc war,
and matters Of idle curiosity and remark.
Ono day Il lOaIing party amused themselves
in picking the fuso Of these shells, when
one Of them thought it would be "a & Jod
speculation 70 apply coal OF Ire 20 II. lie
did SO, and the tictCcncss with which It
commenced burning, Guggestcd 10 them
that they did not occupy an cnljnently safe
place from which 60 witness tho iHal result
SO they took u short recess, some over the
bank, and others behind stumps. They pm
off pretty badly scared, and had barely
reached their places of retreat before the
shell exploded, manicsting very dcstruct
i've power. One piece struck Mr.. Leavlli'E
house, some eight or ten rods distant, Icav.
iug an intention thnt demanded the aid OF
the carpenter. Another struck store near.
or the place OF explosion, with st.Il more
force, hut no person wns hurt. These
were according to omyrccollcction, siX-pound
balls and she'll have spun ont this com
munication to 4 creator length than ! H.
tended. and vet | Lave not related an Incl
dent ot Williams county experience, where
in not only paid the whole State tax o
that county in 1876, with woIl-Scalp ccrtii
Gates but lgnw heavy percentage besides
from the state treasury Ia pGyMont OF tho
balance due to the wolI-huntcrs Of William,
county, for wolves killed within the hmits
Of the county during that year. Should the
sign como rght may relate shat aud SON,
other events pertaining to the carly settle
meut of Williams county, that have never
yet appeared III any authentic history,
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