Pioneer History: An Account of the First Examinations of the Ohio Valley and The Earliest Settlement of the Northwest TerritoryIn the year 1787, George Washington was President of the newly formed Government of the United States of America. The Capitol was located in New York City. The vast area west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River was acquired from Great Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1783. This area was bordered on the north by Canada and on the south by the Ohio River and encompassed the present day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. The Government of Great Britain had claimed this territory and by the signing of numerous treaties the Indians living there had given up most of their rights to this land. The British forbid white settlement there to appease the Indians. At the end of the American Revolution, the United States now claimed this territory by “Right of Conquest” over Great Britain and with the creation of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 opened it up for white settlement against the protests of the Indians who still considered it their land. The first permanent American settlement northwest of the Ohio River was Marietta in the year 1788 and soon after more and more pioneers flooded into the country. It was not an easy life for these early pioneers. They had to deal with hostile Indians, disease, starvation and the lack of basic necessities, but they made it and the State of Ohio was admitted into the union in 1803. This book chronicles the events from the earliest explorations of the territory, the purchase of lands by The Ohio Company, the early settlements and the trying times of the early pioneers who settled and tamed this original Northwest Territory. |
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... lived. —Anecdotes. — Schools. — Ohio Company in 1793 Donation lands. — Scarlet fever. — Small Pox. — Indian adventure. — Bird Lockhart. — Crops of corn.—1794. — R. Warth killed. — Packet mail boats established on the Ohio. —Adventure ...
... lived. —Anecdotes. — Schools. — Ohio Company in 1793 Donation lands. — Scarlet fever. — Small Pox. — Indian adventure. — Bird Lockhart. — Crops of corn.—1794. — R. Warth killed. — Packet mail boats established on the Ohio. —Adventure ...
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... lived in the county more than forty years, he was personally acquainted with a large number of the first pioneers, and heard them relate many of the scenes described in these pages. No regular journal, or diary, of the progress of the ...
... lived in the county more than forty years, he was personally acquainted with a large number of the first pioneers, and heard them relate many of the scenes described in these pages. No regular journal, or diary, of the progress of the ...
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... lived along its borders. All the fatigue and trouble of marching long distances by land was thus avoided; while the river afforded them a constant magazine of food in the multitude of fishes which filled its waters. The canoe supplied ...
... lived along its borders. All the fatigue and trouble of marching long distances by land was thus avoided; while the river afforded them a constant magazine of food in the multitude of fishes which filled its waters. The canoe supplied ...
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... lived, would have been published; but dying as he did by the hands of traitors and assassins, his papers were all lost. Louis Hennepin, one of his subalterns, a monk of the order of Franciscans, who accompanied him in his expedition ...
... lived, would have been published; but dying as he did by the hands of traitors and assassins, his papers were all lost. Louis Hennepin, one of his subalterns, a monk of the order of Franciscans, who accompanied him in his expedition ...
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... lived in Quebec or Paris, does not appear—and as they all contained the same amount of matter, they were probably nearly of the same size. The name of the river " Chi-noda-hich-e-tha," now known by that of Kanawha, is doubtless its ...
... lived in Quebec or Paris, does not appear—and as they all contained the same amount of matter, they were probably nearly of the same size. The name of the river " Chi-noda-hich-e-tha," now known by that of Kanawha, is doubtless its ...
Contents
CHAPTER XII | |
CHAPTER XIII | |
CHAPTER XIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTER XVI | |
CHAPTER XVII | |
CHAPTER XVIII | |
CHAPTER XIX | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER X | |
CHAPTER XI | |
CHAPTER XX | |
CHAPTER XXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
APPENDIX | |
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