The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-04-17

candles (myTtcu ceTuuui ehlsol
H. plenty, tho pursuit Of which is
uninterrupted by wolves, foxes, lions
or tigers. A couple of swine will
multiply themselves an hundred
fold in two or three year without
taking any care of them. Notaxes
to pay, no military sersices to be
performed" With these proposals
was exhibited a map of lhe com.
pany's lands; it represcqed their
grant as covering almostlihe entire
territory embraced withiY the pres
ent limits of the State d ohio, and
including large portions South
western Virginia and Northern Ken
lucky. 1t represented dsa country
as cleared and inhabitedn vhen in
fact it was n dense Wilderness. On
the margin of the map we're the
words "Scpt rangs dc mtnieiiilite aq,tis
par des ialiudnes ct ocet depuiS,
l7S6,"-seyen ranges of tognships
acquired by individuals, md occu-
pied since 1856. These sownships
were represented as lying nerth Of
the Ohio, and more base misrepre-
sentation could not have been made,
for the settlement at Nlasietta was
the only one within the above named
townships at that time, A colony
was soon made up. The iattering
proposals, the glowing descriptions
given of the country by French tray
olers who had visited the banks Of
the Beautiful river and the war
cloud then hanging over France
which was soon to burst forth with
the force of the pent-up volcano to
culmina!e in the French Revolution
and shake Europe to itsrentre, all
tended encourage emigration. The
company proposed to take the emil
grant to their lands, pay all expen-
ses and the latter was to work three
years for the company aud for such
services he should receive fifty acres,
a house and a COW. (J.P,aRs Bureau
quoted in history of Ohic) Five
hundred Frenchmen left their native
land and sailed for the Snow Can
aan" to be found in the heart Of tho
North American continent They
landed at Alexandria, Virginia, and
wended their way through The viii.
derness to the OhioriyerS Kilbqrn's
Gazette says that ethe agents Of the
company direetedth Fer settlsrs
to the mouth of the Great kana@ha,
supposing it to bo Tcstof the Ohio
company's purchase, though it prov
ed not to be-" The colony reached
its destination in 1791 and the "Pfo-
miere Vale" (tirst town. was laid ont
on the bank Of the ohm opposite the
mouth of the Great Kanawha, but
flood in the Ohio the same year over
flowed the site of the new town and
the colonists removed four miles
farther down the river and founded
GALLlPoLGs.
This location had ben made just
before the arrivalo of the French. Col.
Rufus Putnam sent Major Burnham
with about forty men to make an
improvement, build a block-house.
and erect cabins. Col. Robert Saf-
ford, for many years resident of
Gallia county, was one Of the COM
pany and cut the FIRST tree on the
site upon which the city OIL Galllpolls
now stands. The name "Gallipolis'
is compounded of two Latin words,
Gaiiia-meaning FrenCh-and polis,
settlement, 1t was named ut an
early mectingof the French colonists.
We continue the history of the colo
ny by subjoining u communication
writtenby WaldNerard Menlettc, one
Of the colonists, and published in the
Pioeecr.
To DE CONTINUED.
A clergyman in one Of the Hudson
River towns, united a German couple
in marriage. When the knot was