The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-12-25
Notes q an an Ola Settler
BIZ CHRISTIAN cAcKLER.
BRADYisLEAr.

I saw an article Ia the Pass eaki-
tied g Bradyss leap eoFFected,1 = written
BY Gen. L. v. Bierce, OF. Akron, in
| which thought there was room for
correction. There must be some error
tor Of the various scconnts thar have
seen, no two of them agree 40 to the
distance across the chasm where itl
was said that Brady leaped. Some
gave il at 27 feet, some at IS and some
ct p. II wiIlnow give VOC my view.
of the matter i ocrosse1n tho bridge
that was thrown ever the river about
ten feet below whore il was said
Brady jumped aeFoss, On the 10th day
Of May, 1854, aid st thatttinle HiWas
q dismal docking place. It wasg just
as the God Of Nature bad made is with
| the exception of the bridge. The disc
tance betw cen the shelving rocks could. !.
not vary very much ff64Ea 2ls feet. The
/ hemIockss froz1l.s either e de- uIsfn9Ied
THAR tops s0gesheE, and it, aE&sa Hh0dtl
25 feet from the bridge dQWu 90 the.
water, 1t was 3 dismal place indeed.
The Hudson people and the Ravenna
people get together and 4hreW i bridge
acrUss at thar place in thsa EalftoG 1903.
This was Ghe first bridge ever lthreHhs
across the CuyahpGa Tiyer,s They ran.
q road from Hudson to RaYenna that.
Fall, crossing on that bridge, aEld that
was the first east and EF8Be road ssxer
travelled in this section of the country
It was not all underbrushed when, 4
came through on the 10th Of May,
1904. Iwas well acquainted with the
| meuSwho baiit4h befdge, FROM. Hud-
son there were David Hndaons Esq,
joel Gaylord, George DarfoW, Joseph
4
Ravenna @Jackn Wright, Thomas
Wright, Robert Bell and som6 Others.
have heard them speak OF IL 81 great
many times and none of them ever
called it more than 81 feet between
the points Of the rocks. have never
measured it, but took their word ahd
/ should think il did not vary 3 foot
from that distance across, Twas we'll
acquainted with the place. The Hay-
makers built q mill below, whers
sKent's mill new stands, and r used TO
90 to mill there. They got the mill
running in the Fall ct 1905. Z recoI-
lect one circumstance that occurred
which made me examine the place
more particularly. The Hay yHakers
had q yoke Of oxen and one OF them
was blind Of an eye. He was feeding
along the river near the end of the
bridge, with his blind side toward the
river, aud tnmbled of the shelving
rocks into the stream below. 1t was,
as have said ah0Te, about 25 feet
down to the water, aud the Wattr MA
about s or 10 feet deep where he fell
Frederick Haymaker's wife saw him
tumble In and she gave the alarm, and
they got him.0 out. II used togo4o see
the place where he fell OF, and should
think the shelving rocks. hung over
the water on the west side ten feet of
more at the place where it was sgaid
Brady jRmped across. Gen. Bierce
can give you better history of the
Chase the Indians gave Brady than
can. But on the west side, from
where he jumped, the rocks were
about three feet higher than where he
alighted, there being . dishs or depres1
sion in the rOcks to about that Depth
feet. got more information trem
an old lady who used to live in Spring.
field, and who afterwards moved to
Streetsboro', and lived as near neigh
Dor TO me, about Samuel Brady, than
from any one else. She was . full
cousin 10 him. She was the wife OF
Abrahani DeHSVen. She said she
was well acquainted with ssSamuef,9
as she called hims that hesasea te live
above Pittsburgh, on what was called
Crumb Greek; that be was very
stout, muscular main, very active, aud
did not appear to be afraid OF. anRl
thing. She thought It was in 1880
that the indians used TO come to that
settlement, and kill family or two!
steal some horses and get what plum
der they could aud then clear OUT
Samaef Brady raised III, company of
men and followed them. ! think she
said he had three scrapes, With. thea!
1t Is d little sIngtilar Thar ID has been
stated that j John Hay ySIlaker aud Henry
and jacob Sacaghi were personally
acquainted with and personal friends
of Brady aud h@ never told them at
what period or date thia chase took |
place. L frave not seen gny ates given |
By an gone who's lIas writes tsh this |
subject, therefore think Mrs. Della |
ven is. right about the date. i aIsol
think so from other CircuTnsfances |
which corroborats her Statement.
In order.tO give y0u some idea of |
how the Indians became sohostiIe and |
savage towards cur people, i Ishould
like to take you back TO early timesI
as early a. l756, when we declared
ourselves free from our mother gov-
ernment. This 7exed England Yefy
tnuch, and in order TO quickly reduce
her children TO rubjecfion and Obbdi-
ence; she Employed the Indians TO
assist her. She encouraged them by
giving them I've dollars for every
scalp they could take from her sub
jects, and furnished them With ali inn
plements Of war. ThesImdians pitched
in with ell their fury and killed and
-scalped q great many OF our people |
for the bounty. The mother called /
herseIta civilized aud & Ghristian peo-
pie, and yet gave the Wild Indians I've
dollars for every scalp taken from her
children, just as we used to pay for
the scalps or wolves, that Killed our
sheep and calves. If that was q
Christian spiFit, God forbid ;the devil
can do ne wrong. RNtthe war lasted
seven long years, aud, BY the help of
France, we made her acknowledge our
independence in I7S3. But the In
dians still continued their warfare gill
1875, when we made q treaty Of peace
with them, and bought q large tract of
land of them which lay west of thu
Ohio River. think il extended as
far west rs the CuyahOga Watera.-
About that time there came in some
clusters of families on the east side OF
the Ohio, in Pennsylvania and Yir-
ginia. sud Gen. Putnam commenced
settlement at the mouth of the NIus.
kingaus, on the west side of ehe Ohio,
where Marietta COW stands. It was
the first settlement made in Ohio but
at that time It was called the North
Western Territory. The North West
ern Territory was eedea 20 the United
States by the State of Virginia, IN
1854. IL was situated west of the
Ohio River. and contained what are
now known IS the States OF Ohio, In
diana, Illinois Michigan and WIscon!
sin. @ ~
In the Spring of l7SS the Indians
became dissatisfied with the treaty
] and aSraft, 1nnk nm fha lnrna d MI and