Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-04-29
Something About Pioneer Ohio.

history ard settlement of Ohio, were publish
ed by the journal On the occasion Of the visi
of the Cincinnati Pioneer Association to til
Capital of Ohio:
The territory now comprised within the
limits Of this State, was formerly a part o
the immense central tract owed by the Frencl
and called Louisiana In the year 1748 ,
company of Frenchmen calling themselye:
the Ohio Company" established few fur
traiding-posts along the Msumee, although
the title to the land of the State was vet un-
settled between them and the English. In
l749 the English built clearinghouse on the
Great Miami, at place since called Jorain's
Store. Christopher Giot, an agent OF tLis
company, appointed to examine Western lands
also make visit to this river in the same
year, and called on the Twigteers tribe. The
French, hearing of the English settlers among
these Indians in 1852 sent force to route
them, in which transaction the first white
blood was shed in Ohio.
The tribes Of the Shawnees and Delawares
being hostile, Col. Bosquet, in 1894, marched
from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, into the heart
of the State, and by prudence and skill effect
ed an honorable treaty with the savages
The next war with the Indians, in l774 is
commonly called Lord Dunmore's war. A
severe battle was fought at Wapatomico, above
GAINESVILLE, on the Muskingum, and one at
Point Pleasant on the Ohio which ended the
war.
In 1779 an expedition was planned against
the native Shawnees, and their village, Chill
licoehe, on the Little Miami, near the site Of
Xenia, burned. The Coshocton Campaign"
was an unimportant demonstration on the
Muskingum, in 1870. There were several
other invasions of unimportance about this
time-in 1876, that Of Col Logan, Edwards in
1877, and Tod in 1873.
Moravian missionaries were in Ohio as earlv
as 1852. Ninety four of the Moravian In
dians were murdered in the limits of Tusca-
rawas County in 1852, by a party Of Ameri-
cans under Col williamson
By an act of Parliament, in 1774, all this
Territory, known as the Northwestern Ter
ritory, was made part of the province of Que
bee In l778 the claim Of England to the
Northwestern Territory was signed to the
United States.
The first purchase of land and settlement
in Ohio, of a permanent character, was in
1888, at Marietta, in honor of which the pres
ent anniversary is being held Previous to
this there had an attempt for settlement at
the mouth of the Socioto, by four families
from Pennsylvania, but difficulties with the
Indians defeated their enterprise.
The same year that Marietta was settled.
Congress appointed Gen. St. Clair Governor
Of the Territory The second settlement in
he State was at the mouth of the Little Nj
mi, Eve miles above Cincinnati -
A third settlement was made on the eele-
orated French Grant, at GalHpolis, early in
-79l. The Connecticut Reservation along
he Cuyahoga was partially settled in the year
800 by about l 900 inhabitants.
General Hamers unsuccessful expedition
gainst the Indians, undertaken from Fort
Washington, now in the limits Of Cincinnati,
ccurred in the year 1880 This was follow s
d by St. Clair's still more disastrous cam
aign in 1871. General Wayne, in 1894, il
5iped out these disgraceiul defeats by sue e
essful attack on the Indians at the rapids Of ).
ne Maumee. This victory was speedily fol- o
WED by peace honorable to the whites. a
Hamilton, the second county to Washing n
IN, was erected in 1890. The name of the @
,tdement opposite to the Licking, was at il
lat time called C,ncjanati In 1916 Wayne "
,unty was established, and Adams county e,
1891 p-
The first meeting of the Territorial Legisla- Il
ire was on the oath of September, 1896 al
umber Of acts passed-thirty-seven The pr
to form Constitution assembled Il
ChiIicothe, November I, 1902. Under this st
institution, the first General Assembly met,
arch l, 1903, over sixty years ago.