Early History of Cleveland, Ohio: Including Papers and Other Matter Relating to the Adjacent Country. With Biographical Notices of the Pioneers and Surveyors |
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AMOS SPAFFORD AMZI ATWATER arrived bank batteaux beach boat built cabin camp Capt Chagrin river Cleveland Conneaut Connecticut Connecticut Land Company corner Cuyahoga river DAVID DAVID BEARD DAVID ELDRIDGE Detroit died dollars east encamped erected Euclid feet flour French Grand river HOLLEY horse HUNTINGTON Huron Indians Iroquois JAMES JOHN Judge July June KINGSBURY Lake Erie lake Ontario Land Company LORENZO CARTER Major CARTER Major SPAFFORD meridian miles Mohawk MOSES CLEAVELAND mouth NATHANIEL DOAN Newburg Niagara night o'clock O'MIC Ohio OLIVER PHELPS PARKER Pennsylvania line PERRY Portage PORTER provisions Redfield returned road Salt Spring SAMUEL SPAFFORD Sandusky Senecas SETH DOAN SETH PEASE settlement settlers Shepard sick south line STILES STODDARD stream Superior street surveying party surveyors thence TINKER took town township trees Trumbull county WALWORTH Warren west side Western Reserve whisky
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Page 106 - Indians, together with a detachment of provincials, about a hundred and fifty in all, were therefore ordered to make their way to Niagara along the pathless borders of the lake. They accordingly set out, and, after many days of hardship, reached their destination; though such had been their sufferings, from fatigue, cold, and hunger, from wading swamps, swimming creeks and rivers, and pushing their way through tangled thickets, that many of the provincials perished miserably in the woods. On the...
Page 181 - And after many difficulties perplexities and hardships were surmounted, and we were on the good and promised land, felt that a just tribute of respect to the day ought to be paid.
Page 90 - Soon after the arrival of the rangers, a party of Indian chiefs and warriors entered the camp. They proclaimed themselves an embassy from Pontiac, ruler of all that country, and directed, in his name, that the English should advance no farther until they had had an interview with the great chief, who was already close at hand.
Page 149 - And lastly, because the principal effect which we can desire or expect of this action is the conversion and reduction of the people in those parts unto the true worship of God and Christian religion...
Page 68 - On the other hand, the united forces of the weaker tribes, now made strong by union, fired with a spirit of emulation excited to the highest pitch among the warriors of the different tribes, brought for the first time to act in concert, inspired with zeal and confidence by the counsels of the wisest chiefs, and led on by the most experienced warriors of all the tribes, the Iroquois were invincible. " Though staggered by the first desperate rush of their opponents, they rallied at once, and stood...
Page 62 - Kaukwas", who resided on the Eighteen Mile Creek, being present as friends and allies of the Eries, now invited the Iroquois party to visit them before they returned home, and thither the whole party repaired. The chief of the Eries, as a last trial of the courage and prowess of his guests, proposed to select ten men, to be matched by an equal number of the Iroquois party, to wrestle, and that the victor should despatch his adversary on the spot, by braining him with a tomahawk, and bearing off his...
Page 160 - The description in his patent is as follows : " Beginning at the north-east corner of the first township in the third range ; thence northerly, on the west line of the second range, to forty-one degrees and twelve minutes of north latitude ; thence west, three miles ; thence southerly, parallel to the west line of Pennsylvania, two miles and...
Page 150 - English miles to the league, all and siugular, the lands and hereditaments whatsoever, lying and being within the bounds aforesaid, north and south in latitude and breadth, and in length and longitude, and within all the breadth aforesaid throughout all the main lands there, from the western ocean to the South Seas.
Page 69 - Tradition adds, that many years after, a powerful war party of the descendants of the Eries, came from beyond the Mississippi, ascended the Ohio, crossed the country, and attacked the Senecas who had settled in the 'seat of their fathers at 'Tu-shu-way.' A great battle was fought near the...
Page 87 - Cayahoga, a creek that leads to Lake Erie, which is muddy and not very swift, and nowhere obstructed with falls or rifts, is the best portage between the Ohio and Lake Erie." " The mouth is wide and deep enough to receive large sloops from the lake, and will hereafter be of great importance.