The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-05-11
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Something About pioneer Ohio.

The following facts concerning the early
history and settlement of Ohio, were pub
hshed by the Journal on the occasion of
the visit of the Cincinnati Pioneer Assoei-
alton to the Capital of our state
The territory now comprised within the
limits of this State, was formerly a part
of the immense central track owned by
the French and called Louisiana. In the
year l748 company of Frenchmen, call
ing themselves the "Ohio Company"
established few fur trading posts along
the Maumee, although the title to the
land of the State was still unsettled be-
tween them and the English In 1749
the English built trading house on the
Great Miami at a place since called
Lorain's Store. Christopher Giot an
agent of this company, appointed to ex-
anime western lands, also made visit to
this river in the same year, to the Twig-
trees tribe. The French hearing of the
English settlers among these Indians in
1852 sent force to route them, in which
transaction the tirst blood aOaS shed IN
Ohio
The tribes of the Shawnees and Della
wares being hostile, Col Boquet, in 1854,
marched from Ft. Pitt, Pennsylvania, into
the heart Of the State, and by prudence
a4O SAIL CACGNCA dlA uOllOIdDlC llGdII WILL
the savages.
The next war with the Indians in l774,
is commonly called Lord Dunmore's war.
A severe battle was fought at Wapatom-
leo, above GAINESVILLE on the Muskingum
and one at Point Pleasant, on the Ohio,
which ended the war.
In l779 an expedition was planned
against the native Shawnees, and their
village. Chilhcothe, on the Little Miami,
near the site Of Xenia, was burned. The
"Coshocton Campaign" was an unimpor-
tant demonstration on the Muskingum in
1880. There were several invasions of
unimportance about this time. In 1886,
that Of Col. Logan Edwards, in 1887, and
Todd in 1888.
Moravlan missionaries were IN Ohio as
early as 1892. Ninety-four of the Nor
avian Indians were murdered in the lin
its Of Tuscarawas county in 1882, by a
party of Americans under Col. William
son.
BY an act of Parliament IN 1774, all
this territory, known as the North West
ern Territory, was made a part of the
province of Quebec. In 1888, the claim
of England to the North Western Terri
tory was signed to the United States.
The first purchase of land and settle
ment in Ohio of q permanent character
was IN 1888, at Marietta, IN honor of which
the present anniversary is being held
Previous to this, there had been an at
tempt of settlement at the mouth OF
Scioto, bv four families from Pennsylva-
MIA but difficulty with the Indians de-
feated their enterprise
The same year that Marietta was settled
Congress appointed Gen. st. Clair Cover
nor Of the territory. The second settle
ment in the State was at the mouth oi
the Little Miami, five miles above Gin
cinnati
A third settlement was made on the
celebrated French Grant" at Gallipolis
early in III. The Connecticut reserva-
ton, along the Cuyahoga, was partially
settled in the year 1900 by 1000 inhab-
itants.
Gen. Harmer's unsuccessful expedition
against the Indians, undertaken from Ft
Washington, now in the limits of Cincin-
natl, occurred In the year 1890. This was
followed by St. Clair's still more disastrous
campaign in 1871. Gen. Wayne, in 1874
wiped out these disgracsful defeats, by q
successful attack on the Indians at the
rapids of the Maumee. This victory wa:
speedily followed by peace honorable tC
the whites.
Hamilton, the second county to Wash.
ington, was erected IN 1890 The name
Of the settlement opposite TO the Licking
Has At that time called CEhcffnati. Il