The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-03

of streams.
 Our little company of travellers passed through New Haven and Strat- ford, were ferried across the Hudson at Dobb's, then wended their way through New Jersey and central Penn sylvania to Pittsburg, or better known then as Fort Pitt spending their n1ghts and getting most of their meals at the way-side inns. From Pittsburg they journeyed to Mcintosh, now known as Beaver, and up through Darlington 10 Poland, altogether journey of twen- ty-seven days, and the expenditure Tor seven persons and six horses was just $111.19.
 What must have been this pioneer mothers feelings when contrasting her new home with the beautiful one which she had left in the east? An amending wilderness, peopled with Indians and wild beasts, with here and there d house and clearing, sometimes connect ed by cosduroy roads, but more oIten only by blazed or Indian trails.
 Youngstown even was a hamlet ln 1903. Historians have stated: The precise time of the purchase of Youngstown we are not able to learn. The contract cannot be found and no public record so far as we know exists of the contract or purchase"
 But amongst these old papers is an agreement dated February Il, 1796, from the trustees of the Connecticut Land company to John Young and his brother-in-law, Philo White of Whites town, N. r., granting them sixteen thousand acres of land at five shilllngs per acre, providing they shall select lands that contain mo harbors on the Great Lakes or on the Great Portage of the Cuyahoga nor on the Coneat river nor shall they contain any Salt | Springs, nor such lands as might be picked upon for future capital ot the state," and they must promise to bring l out ten workmen to the town the fol- lowing summer and to build eight log houses and to clear two acres to each house, and the following sumner twelve additional log houses and clear ings were to be made and twenty fam lilies were to be actually settled here within two years.
 I This would show that the township was sold before the reserve had been l even surveyed or equalized since thu first surveying party did not start out until April of 1796, and as the first dis l tribution of land by draft amongst the lproprletors of the company was not un- til 179S, John Young indeed had the picq of the reserve.
 That he made an early settlement here is gleaned from the old diary Grand River, 179S"-sent a man tc Youngstown for intelligence and sent to Youngstown for provision" So even in those early days the city had made it's impress. Quoting again from the Diary; Poland, Sunday, September l 1799, Il went to Young's Town to al tend public worship. The Rev. Will liam Wick from Washington county lpreached, it being the first sermon ever delivered in New Connecticut Again in 1900: T went to Young Town to meet to agree on the place where the county should be estab- lished," and later 1t tells of the county being divided into eight townships anc a constable appointed for each town ship. The Indians had appropriated al
 this section of the country, especially about Mill Creek, for hunting, whicf explains the large number of arrow heads found, and that these savages
 were often in evidence can be readily
 believed.
 The Diary tells us July, 1900: I wen
 to Youngstown, found Joseph McMa'
 hon and the people of Warren hat
 killed two Indians at Salt Springs or
 Sunday in a hasty and inconsiderat
 manner, and that they had sent off af
 ter a number of Indians in order tt hold a conference to settle the unhapp.
 and unprovoked breach; they hat
 agreed on Wednesday, the 30th, to hol' 1.-the conference at Esquire Young's, ant
 had sent for an interpreter to attend
 who this day arrived in company witt
 one Indian chief and his lady ol
 horseback" July 90th, "I went t
 Young's Town to attend the conferenc
 with the Indians; we assembled abou
 three hundred people and ten Indians
 Had very friendly talk and agreed t
 make peace and live as friends wit
 their brethren."
 But the matter did not end there, bu , lied to the first law suit on the Reserve { for we read, August 18th, informatio
 was lodged by the state attorne
 against Joseph McMahon for the mur
 der of two Indians at Salt Springs, and on September 14th, "This day Mi
 Sample, the counsel for Joseph McMa
 hon, arrived here and went on Young's Town; he informed me tha the prisoner was on his way fror
 (Fort) Mcintosh" Gin lieu of neal
 CT iaiD" with the sheriff and an escol of twenty-five troops from the garriso at Pittsburg to guard him to Youngs town, where court is to be held 0
 Thursday" A detailed account of tn law suit is given, and it is needless
 say the prisoner was acquitted. That John Young lived up to hl bond in the number of settlers for hi new town is proved without questio Hoy the numerous documents left to hil , when he quilted Youngstown in 1S( 1 for his former home in Whites Towl , N. Y. These papers show that in tha year about forty families comprised tn
 town. Amongst them the Gibson Klines, Hillmans, Baldwins, Scots, Wi sons, Ravens and many more we , known names are noted. All the lei a ters from Judge Young dating to 1S1 . are purely of business character e2 l oept this one, which may be of intere' 3 only because written by the city
 founder
 "Whitestone, Dec. IS, 1913.