Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-10-19
Vol. XLVmI.


ing 20 this tribe. One at the east end
Of William street, the other at the
west end In the latter, on DelaWare
Run, occurred fight between the Del
aWaFes and ShaWnees,-th former be-
ing surprised and defeated by the lat
ter. On the site Of the county seat
the DelaWares cultivated 400 acres
] Of corn. In 1920, eighty DslaWares
lived near Sandusky, and two thousand
three hundred Of the same tribe IN 1n-
diana. In 1925, persons from this
tribe, born and raised within thirty
miles of Philadelphia, moved vest Of
the Mississippi. The MingOes had q
small village four miles above Della
ware City, on Horse Shoe Bottom. -
/ They also cultivated corn. Many traces
Of the Indians remain. In their
mounds are found specimens of d0mes.
tie implements, crOekeEy, &c., imple-
ments Of war and well preserved bones
with many other indications of their
skill in bandicraft and their curious
notions Of burial. Several remains of
taacient fOrtifcatiOns are stilt to be
lseen-the most remarkable Of which is
IN Liberty township, on the east bank
of the Olenfangy, eleven miles from
Delaware and four miles from Worth
IngtOn. It Is 20 be regretted that many
of the pioneers cherished inVeterate
hatred toward the redskins, and did
not consider it criminal to even mur-
der them. They were generally bad
men, however, and did not prosper.
The first white settlement In Della
ware county was made IN Liberty town
ship, May 1st, 1901, by Captain Nathan
Carpenter, Avery Powers, Jr., and
I Thomas Power, from Chenango COun-
e, n. Y. Captain Carpenter brought
his family With him, aud built the first
cabin, near the site Of which the resi-
dence of Hiram Carpenter, Esq.-one
Of the finest in the e0uHtg-nOW stands.
La April. 1902, Thomas Cellar with
Josiah Mckinney Joined this settle
ment, from franklin County, Pa. In
the spring Of 1904, Aaron, John and
1 Ebenezer Welch, with Capt. Leonard
/ Monroe, settled in this neighbOrhOod,
| from Cheuange, N. Y. One of these
| Welch brothers was the first white man
/ buried In Delaware county. Jeremiah
/ tfillies. Of Liberty, claims to be the
/ 6rst white child born in this county
/ He was born August 9TH, 1903. In
/ 1904, Capt. Carpenter built the first
| mill where the wooden factory of James
/ Hinkle now stands. It was a saW-mill
/ with a small pair Of niger head
stones attached, for a grist mill. 1t
vas a great help to the settlers. Henry
/ Perry made clearing IN Radnor town
ship, in the fall Of 1903, near Delhi
1 He came from Wales. Returning to
/ Phi adelphiR for the remainder Of his
/ family, he left his two little boys, nine
/ and eleven years old, respectively. at
his cabin il the wilderness. Finding
| his wife sick, and being sick himself
| afterwards. he did not return until the
I fallowing june to his Western home.
/ These two little pioneers remained du-
/ ring this entire winter alone, fifteen
miles from a white settlement, and sur
rounded by Indians. Their food con
sisted OF rabbits which they caught,
| turnips, and, occasionally, some corn
meal which they obtained in the Car
| penter settlement. by following down
| the Indian trail. The winter was
a severe Que, and their cabin was open.
having neither fireplace, chimney, nor
'chinking aud daUbing.' They had no
gun, and were unused to forest life, be-
ing fresh from Wales; yet the little
/ boys struggled through, and actually
made considerable clearing" In the
| fall of 1904, Col. Byxbee settled east
/ Of Alum Greek. naming the colony
| Berkshire, IN honor of his former res
/ ;dence, Berkshire, massachusetts,
David, Isaac, and Chester Lewis made
| the first settlement in Berlin, IN 1905
/ Rev. J. @. Lewis, now of Washington,
| D. c., was the first white child born In
this colony. Before the Indian War.
| the WyandOts had encamped here
They were friendly Asa Scott and
Philo HOadley Joined the settlement,
with their families. in 1907
Roswell Caulkins, John Lewis, Sam
uel Adams, j Jonathan Thomson, with
their families and others, came in 1909.
This settlement was all Yankee
coming from Connecticut It grew in
! numbers and strength, and made prep
/ aratiOns for the expected encrOach-
ments ofthe British and Indians. The
settlers built block-hOuse into which
they all fed during the shades Ofnight,
emerging and engaging In peaceful
pursuits By day. The block house
stood until recently a pioneer relic,-.
Lt is a source of regret that this noble
structure was not Fe-FOofed and pre-
served as q land mark for future gen
eratiOns. This settlement shared IN
brakes stampede. After the war of
1912 Indians were never seen here
With the pioneers of Berkshire, Ber-
lin formed a company of militia. The
officer that ordered this company ito
arms" after brakes skedaddle" swan
Alum creek on his horse, there being
no bridge, and the food raging. Da-
vid Lewis packed a peck of salt from
Chillicothe on his back, Che went down
ST. cam in a canoe, starting on Alum
creek, when near home he fell in a
brook, in crossing, and lost nearly all
his precious burden. Other settle
ments soon followed. Que at Norton,
by William Drake and Nathaniel Wy
att, and one at West6eld, now in Nor
row county. A block-house was built
| st Norton The county seat was laid
out in 1903, by Col. Moses Byxbee and
Hon. Henry Baldwin, of PittsbuTg,
who had purchased several thousand
acres of land. They sold the lots at
the uniform price of thirty dollars each,
the purchaser taking his choice The
6rst cabin was built By JOseph Barber
in 1907. It stood near the sulphur
spring. 1t was made of poles, Indian
fashion, fifteen feet square. In it he
kept tavern. The principal settlers
were Byxbee, Lamb, Little, Drake,
II Baptist preacher,) Smith, Butler aud
Carpenter. In the spring of 1903,
| Moses Byxbee built the first frame
house, on William Street. In the en-
suing fall Elder Jacob Drake built
brick house on Winter Street. Being
unable to get but one mason, his s0ife
laid the inside walls. A bankw open
? ed in 1872. The town was incOrporat
, ed and the Court House built in 1915
! The first paper was published, in
1918, BY Rev. Jacob Drake and Rev
!. J os. S. Hughs. The Methodists COM
: menced the erection of a church edi-
. fee in 1923. It was not finished for
q several years. The same building
now serves as a market house. The
!, Presbyterians and Episcopalians built
{ churches, in 1925, on the sites on
4 which their present beautiful struc-
: lures were reared in 1845. The Lu-
theran church was built in 1896, the
I Second Presbyterian, in 1874 and the