The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-02-17
IMPORTANT FACTS IN OUR
EARLY HISTORY.
BY JOSIAH Q. KERN.

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The northwest qTarter of section 20 in
Green township, formerly belonging to
Stark county, but now to Summit, on
land purchased by Cornelius johnson of
of the United States in 1918, appeared
to have been a favorite hunting ground
of the Indians, as arrow-heads, hatchets,
skinning- knives and other implements
have been found there in great abund-
ance. From the numerous flint chips
found on that quarter of the section, it
seems to have been place for manu-
featuring their stone hatchets and arrow
heads. Where they found the stone is
unknown.
This spot seems to have been selected |
on account of its being light-timbered,
clear from underbrush, and elevated a
little above the surrounding lands Scat
tered over this elevated plateau were
foand piles of stone varying in size from
mans fist to his head, and arranged in
heaps of from four by six feet to a little
larger or smaller. Tradition assigned to
them the honor of holding the ashes of
some warrior or chief but as no bones or
human remains have ever been found in
them, they are thought, by some people,
to have been sacrificial affairs. Among
all the tribes sacrifices were common.
The Jewish custom was similar, except |
in the thing offered, as appears from their
records. See the 28th and 3lst chapters
of Genesis.
Among the celebrated Indians who |
used this township for hunting-ground
was chief called by the whites Beaver
Hat" He had a settlement in the sou.h |
part of the village of Wooster, where a
Baptist burying,ground has since been
established. His Indian name was Pau |
pelham, and his settlement he called |
"Apple ChauqueCake, c /" or Apple Orchard. |
He was bitter enemy of the whites, and |
when drunk he would take out string
with thirteen white mems tongues on it,
dried, and exhibit them with much pride.
One day he got out his string of tongues
and began to shake them, when George |
Harter took his rifle and started after
him, saying he was going to kill buck.
The report Of rife was soon heard, but
he brought hack no game, nor was
Beaver Hat heard Of Of more.
A chapter in Hennepin's Discoveries is
devoted to lake Erie, the name of which
lake is written with an accent on the last
letter, and appears to have been pro-
nounced in three syllables. Hennepin
says the lake was called Erie TeioCharon-
tiong, and extends itself from east to
west hundred and forty leagues in
length. But he beautifully adds, mo Eu-
ropean has ever surveyed it at all; only
|, and those who accompanied me in this
discovery, have viewed the greater part |
of it. This lake encloses, on its southern |
bank, tract of land as large as the king
dom of France. 1t divides itself at cer-
tain place into two channels, because of |
a great island enclosed between them."
IT'S said that travellers tell strange stories, |
and the one above is certainly more Gu
rious and amusing than it is valuable in
point of geographical information
The following are the dates of the prin-
cipal treaties with the Indians relating |
to the lands and other matters in what |
was once the Northwestern Territory : |
At Fort Mcintosh, January q, 1885; at |
Greenville, August 3, 1895; at Fort |
Wayne, June 7, 1903; at Vincennes, Au-
gust 13, 1S, 81, 1903; at Fort Industry, |
July 4, 1905; at Grouseland, near Vincen-
nes, August 81, 1905; at Detroit, Novem-
Der II, 1907; at Brownstown, November |
25, 1908; at Fort Wayne. September 3d.
1S09 at Vincennes, December 8, 1909; at |
Washington, February %, 1881, and |
April 6, 1882; at Wapaghkonnetta, Au.
gust 8, 1881; McCutcheonville, January |
10, 1881; and at Tippecanoe, April II,
1886.
The following statement, prepared by |
Colonel j. Johnson, of Piqua, formerly |
an Indian Agent in Ohio, shows the num- |
ber of Indians of all ages and sexes with !
in the limits of the State of Ohio, i'll |
the year 1915; Wyandots, on the San
dusky river and it's waters, 695; Shaw
nees, on the head of the Auglsize river,
and on the upper waters of the Ohio,
their principal village being Wapaghkon-
META, twenty-seven miles north of Pi- |
qua, $40; Delawares in Ohio, on the head |
waters of the Sandusky and the Mus |
kingum or Tuscarawas, ISL; Senecas, who |
reside between Upper and Lower San
dusky, at and near Seneca town, 450; Sc
necas, Munsey and Delawares, on the |
head waters of the Miami of the Ohio, at |
and near Lewis town thirty miles north
east of Piqua, 434; 0ttawas, who inhabit |
the south shore of lake Erie, about Mi
ami or Maumee bay, near Fort Meigs, |
and on the Auglazie river, their number |
not being stationary, about 450, making
total of 3,036 Indians living in Ohio |
ahout sixtv wears AGO.