Che-le-co-the, Glimpses of Yesterday: A Souvenir of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of Chillicothe, Ohio, April 1896L. W. Renick, Mary Probasco Nipgen |
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... Virginia with colonists , were the Massies of Chestershire . About 1690 , three brothers of that name came from the Mersey to the James , and settled in New Kent County , where they had grants of land . In 1760 , Nathaniel Massie , Sr ...
... Virginia with colonists , were the Massies of Chestershire . About 1690 , three brothers of that name came from the Mersey to the James , and settled in New Kent County , where they had grants of land . In 1760 , Nathaniel Massie , Sr ...
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... Virginia ceded to the United States her claims to the territory northwest the Ohio River , she reserved the lands lying between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers , for the purpose of paying her Revolutionary veterans . As she had lands ...
... Virginia ceded to the United States her claims to the territory northwest the Ohio River , she reserved the lands lying between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers , for the purpose of paying her Revolutionary veterans . As she had lands ...
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... Virginia Military District , and is the fourth oldest place in Ohio . It is gener- ally admitted to have occupied the most dangerous position of them all , for it was in the centre of a region inhabited by hos- tile Indians , and ...
... Virginia Military District , and is the fourth oldest place in Ohio . It is gener- ally admitted to have occupied the most dangerous position of them all , for it was in the centre of a region inhabited by hos- tile Indians , and ...
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... Virginia Military District , fighting Indians , and enduring constant exposure and often hunger , but receiving handsome compensation , chiefly in land . In 1795 , Massie decided to found a town on the Scioto near the mouth of Paint ...
... Virginia Military District , fighting Indians , and enduring constant exposure and often hunger , but receiving handsome compensation , chiefly in land . In 1795 , Massie decided to found a town on the Scioto near the mouth of Paint ...
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... Virginia party at once sent Worth- ington and Baldwin to Philadelphia , where Congress then sat , to oppose the proposed change of boundaries , a measure which Paul Fearing of Marietta , the representa- tive of the Territory in Congress ...
... Virginia party at once sent Worth- ington and Baldwin to Philadelphia , where Congress then sat , to oppose the proposed change of boundaries , a measure which Paul Fearing of Marietta , the representa- tive of the Territory in Congress ...
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Page 163 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 198 - Oh what has caused this great commotion Motion, motion — our country through? It is the ball a-rolling on For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. And with them we'll beat little Van, Van, Van is a used up man And with them we'll beat little Van.
Page 169 - And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Page 4 - A lusty plain, habundaut of vitaille, Ther many a toun and tour thou maist behold, That founded were in time of fathers old, And many another delitable sighte, And Saluces this noble contree highte. A markis whilom lord was of that lond, As were his worthy elders him before, And obeysant, ay redy to his...
Page 235 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber 's chain hath bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me...
Page 53 - But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave.
Page 61 - So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on, o'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till the night is gone; and with the morn those angels faces smile which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
Page 31 - Massie, who contested the election of Meigs, on the ground that "he had not been a resident of this State for four years next preceding the election, as required by the Constitution," and the General Assembly, in joint convention, declared that he was not eligible.
Page 77 - Divine Providence, was effected by you and the troops under your command, of Fort Stephenson, at Lower Sandusky, on the evening of the 2d inst., the ladies of the town of Chillicothe, whose names are undersigned, impressed with a high sense of your merits as a soldier and a gentleman, and with great confidence in your patriotism and valor, present you with a sword. Mary Finley, Mary Sterret, Ann Creighton, Eliza Creighton, Eleanor Lamb, Nancy Waddle, Eliza Carlisle, Mary A.
Page 28 - ... but none go quite so far as to claim for the people absolute power, freed from all control by king or president or governor. The first to reach that goal were the founders of Ohio, led by the Chillicothe statesmen, who had been trained in their backwoods struggles with savage men and rugged nature to rely upon themselves alone, and to allow no man to dictate what was best for them and theirs.