Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-12
Pioneer Life and History OF
Wyandot County.
CHAPTER Vino. 81.
BY 4. w. BRINKERHOFF-

From these old documents which have
very recently come to light, the reader
will at once be enabled to see that Mar
ietta trGs net the place of the first white
settlement in Ohio, but that it was the
first place continuously occupied from
the date of its first settlement until now,
there can be no doubt. Even in that
early day. with but little around them.
settlers, in removing. met with great in
convenences and soreSt trials. Faith
between the parties to those treaties,
however, demanded that settlements be
prevented in violation Of their stipula-
lions, and hence the whites must aban-
dom their rude homes in the wilderness.
After Ensign ArnstrOng'S visit to those
early settlers and intruders. they united
in Petition to Congress, and an appeal
to Col. Harmer, as follows:
To Colonel Harmar, or the chiefest i'll
command ut Fort Mcintosh
SIR .-A~reehly to the order we ave
received Tor removing on the Lands to
the West OF the Ohio. we are preparing
to execute the utmost diligence but find
it will be imDracticabie To entirely clear
off the place. According to our engage
ments with Ensign Armstrong when we
received the ORDERS, which. ii you will
condesenI to take under your considerI-
ton. we make no douOt you will readily
grant, tor we have neither houses nor
lands to move to; have every necessary
to procure by our labor. for the support
of our families and stock, for we have
no money. Therefore ifyou can consist
ant With your Honor allow us few
weeks more to move off and prepare
dwellings to move to, we shall greatly
| acknowled re the favor.
We have sent full Representation of
| our distressed circumstances by way of
petition to Congress, and whatever Or
| ders and regulations they i'll their wis
dom may think proper to prescribe we
shall in duty bound obey.
Therefore the furthest time we request
| is till we know the resolutions of Con
gress in regard to our petition, which il
| YOU grant. we request the favor of you TO
| send us your pleasure and directions by
| the bearer, MIR. James Cochran. which
will be gratefully acknowledged by your
| humble Sery is. the Subscribers:
Thomas Tilton, John Nixon, Henry
| Cassill, John Movies. John Tilton. Jane.
Clark, Adam House, Thomas Johnson
John Fitzpatrick, Daniel Menser, Zeph-
enia Dunn, John Mcdonald, Henry
Frogs. Hand Hoagiand, Michael Raw
| lings, Thomas Da axssOn, William Shift
solomon Delong, Charles Ward. Fred'k
Lamb, John Sigdon George Atehinson
Hanes Piley. Walter Cain. Jacob Light
James Weleams, Jesse Edgerton, Ma
thanial Parremore, jesse Parremore
Jacob Clark, John Custer, Thomas Me.
| Donald, James Moves, John Casstleman
Hanamet Davis. William Wallace JOS
Reburn, John Mapins, William Mann
| William Kerr. Daniel Duff. Joseph Ross
James Watson. Abertions Bailey. CHI aries
| Chambers, Robert Hill, james Pauf
| William McNees. Archibald Harrison
| Tl.,.ln
olas Decker. John Platt, Benjamin Rec.
Joseph GODDARD. Henry Conrod. William
Carpenter john GODDARD, George Reno
John Buchanan, Daniel Mathews.
| The first continuous settlement O
Ohio-then the North Western Territory
Was made at Marietta. in the Spring o
1888. General Anthony St. Clair. ar
officer in tire Revolution, was. in til,
same year made GocernOr OF the Norti
Western Territory. The County o
Washing Gton was the first county. anu EN-
braced all the country lying East of thI
Scioto, from the Ohio 20 Lake Erie. be-
ing about one halt the present limits o
Ohio. This county was established b,
proclamation of the Governor. In Octo
Der 1888 on the 18th day the second set
tlement was commenced at the mouth O
the Little Miami. five miles above til,
present site OF Cincinnati. Other settle
|
, ed the ''Pioneer work in the great valley
| the Mississippi With these settlement
commenced the work-the bloody worl
of the tomahawk. and scalping knife il
the hands OF the Indians, west of tn
; Alleghanies! The Willy savage was no
slow in discovering the fact that tn
'.pale faces, ii lett alone, would soon de
I prive him of his cherished huntin
? grounds on the banks of the 20. HE, zUH
(Ohio). Nor were those sons of the viii
derness far wrong in their estimate,
Their mkt or first effort. then was t
save for themselves, in all their primeva
grandurc. the almost endless forests c
the West. But in this. poor Indian. wa
destined to be disappointed.
/! Little did he know of the Power be
hind the thr0ne"-the Government lie
hind those pale faces, against which h
must contend. For the actual settler
alone. he was a full equal, and much NOR
and but for the Nigor and energy of
young nation-a nation just born int
the sisterhood of the nations of til
l Earth-he would lave succeeded; but,
a battle for life, With such power, an