Atlas of Wabash County Indiana., Part 1

Author: Paul, Hosea
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: Philadelphia : H. Paul & Co.
Number of Pages: 156


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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION


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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01787 2992


860


COUNT


INDIANA.)


From actual Surveys by and under the direction


LA PAUL CE. OF


Principal Assistant P.A. CUNNINGHAM , R. W. TWITCHELL. )


To which is added


A TOWNSHIP MAP OF THE STATE OF INDIANA " ALSO


AN OUTLINE AND RAIL ROAD MAP OF THE


UNITED STATES Published by ID SEA PAUL & CO.


Eng4 by Worley & Bracher .31 South G !! Philadelpina


31 South 6º St. Philadelphia Printed hy Fred Bourquin I South 6th St Philadelphia


Oldach & Meroenthaler Binders . K. for, of It & thery Sta Phla.


PAUL & CO


860


دقة .. شدرهـ


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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


GENERAL MAPS.


PAGE


Corv. M. C ..


43


Eby, Chris.


· 65


Fall, John


01


Farr, Mrs. M. W.


43


Hubbard, Samıl. .


05


Indiann College of Fine Arts


19.62


Knipple, J. F.


61


Lauuder & Harter


60


Lincolnville School-House


44


37 Lukens, Jonty


65


50 Mason, Warreu


64


23 = Alonzo


64


Pleasant


=


Noble


Waltz


VILLAGE AND TOWN PLANS.


America


Ashland (sce La Fontaine)


58


Belden


Dora


Ijamsville


La Fontaina


La Gro


Laketon


Liberty Mills


39


Mt. Vernon


New Harrisburg .


Holland


= Madison


North Manchester


Roann


Rock Valley P. O.


89


44


Somerset


39


Fleeter, Jacob


57


Hubbard, Samuel


57


Keller, Jonathan


56


Kindley, Fred.


57


Imkens, Jonas


44


Mason, Warren


64


= Alonzo


64


Row, Lewis


44


Scott, Jonathan


56


# Chas. R.


56


Stewart, Robert


56


Thomas, Jacob


56


Wilson, Jobn


·


57


Woodward, R. II.


57


MISCELLANEOUS.


North Manchester Cords


32


Wabnsh City


46


Religious Denomiratioos


55


PATRONS' DIRECTORY.


Chester Township


. 16a


La Gro =


164, 16b


Liberty


. 166


Maachester Village


208


Noble Township


166, 20a


Pawpaw


. 20a


Pleasant


. 20g


Wultz


20a, 20₺


Wabash City


200, 24a


STATISTICS.


Table of Distances


6


Population of Indiana by Counties


6


Population nf Principa! Cities and Towns


.


·


13


T'abic of Conaty Oficers .


. 62


Angliubanch, John


61


Table of Township Officers


Tablo of Votos for President


13


Carson, IL. & S. C


61


'J'ablu of Crop Statistics ·


240


Cochran, Henry .


52 / Tablu of Taxable Property


24a


.


52


Cory, Mahlon C.


43


E'by, Chris ..


56


Farr, M. W.


82


Hackleman, Elijah


44


South Wabash


Stockdale .


Urbana


Wabash City


HISTORICAL MATTER.


General and Descriptive ·


The Primitive Inbabitants .


7


The Wabash and Ene Canal


8


Organization of the County


Lost for a Lifetime


Murder of Edward Boyle and the French Family Pioneer Justice


10


Legend of Silver Creek


The Good Old Times .


General Surface, Soil, etc.


Manual Labor Institution


South Wabash Academy


Population, Nativity, etc.


Railroads


Table of Elevations


13


Marketa


Newspapers


Government Surveys .


Explanation of the Maps


14


TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.


Chester Township


18, 81


La Gro


81, 45


Liberty


Pawpaw 44


18


Pleasant


17


Noble =


45


Waltz


55


Wabash City


VIEWS.


Amuss, Jim M. .


44


Anderson, James


52


44-81-9 pay - paxwax


. 7777 ** *


TOWNSHIP MAPS.


Chester Township


I.a Oro


(north par:)


(south part)


Liberty


=


Pawpaw


22 Mchain, B. W.


19, 62


Row, Lowis


52


Roas, Jim P.


44


South Wabash Academy


51


Scott, Jounthan .


" C. R.


Stowart, Robert


51


Thomas, Jacob


51


Wilson. Mrs. Clara C.


19


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


Anderson, James


52


Auglinbangh, John


56


Brady, Dr. T. R. .


56


Cochran, Henry


57, 62


27


Fall, Jobn .


33


57


27


58


39


27


47


9


9


.


10


10


11 11


12


12


12


12 13


Auditor'a Report


13


13


14


45


6


Population of Wabash County


B


Brady, Dr. T. R.


61


PAOK


Railway Map of the United States


71.72


67, 68


Map of the State of Indiana


Sectional Map of Wabash County


. 15


30


36


58


27


89


20


58


38


26


27


Lincolnville


42


Ply & Nye .


54


51


51


26


Ferrce, O. S.


Holloway, Jason


Knipple, J. F.


7


52


Ross, Jim P.


45,55


Table of District, State, and U. S. Officers


·


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TABLE OF AIR-LINE DISTANCES


TOR


Buhlen


Dora


ljausville


90


12


14


Ijameville.


= = Lafontaine.


Låketon.


Liberty Mills.


10 Lincolaville.


Mount Veroon.


" New Harrisburg.


New Holland.


New Madison.


- North Maochester.


Pleasant View.


Rich Valley.


RoanD.


Somerset.


Stockdale.


Treaty.


>1 _ Wabash.


& Waltz.


. Urbans.


- POPULATION OF TON STATE OF INDIANA, BY COUNTIES. CENSUS OF 1870.


COUNTIES.


COUNTIES


Adams ..


11.382 ! Mindigon.


22,770


Allen ..


43.491' Marion


71,939


Bartholomew ..


21,133 | Marshall


20,21L


Benton.


5,615 Martio


11,103


Blackford ....


6,272 | Miami


21,052


Boone ..


22,593 |Monroe ...


14,168


Brown ..


8.681 |Montgomery.


23,765


Carroll ...


14.1.2 | Morgan ..


17,528


C'nzs ....


1670.


1860. [1850.


1840.


NAME


TOWNSHIP.


Totol.


Foreign.


Colored.


Total.


Total.


Chester


3,143


94


1


2.615


1,539


La firo.


4,066 292 : 18


3,581


2,515


La Gro Village ...


519


594


293


-


1,81G


4 1,810


1,425


Nuble"


4,145 151


17 3,650


2,52.3


Pleasant


2.5.73 60


2 137


1,312


Webusb City. ...


2.0-1 225 43 1,520


Waltz


2,361


10


2,288 .1,856


Sumnerset


371


21,305 006


24 17,547 12,13- 2.456


Jav


JeBersuo


29,711 |Warren ....


16.218 | Warrick .. 17.653


IM,3CG | Wulingtun ...


18.495


Koux


21,464 Whyor. ...


31,04H


2.3,5.31 | Wrila ....


13,563


In fisauge


14.948 White ... 10,554


Imk ..


12,339 | Whitley.


14,359


J & l'art+


27,062


Las retice


14,4241


Tutal. 1.640,637


Ligunter


POPULATION OF TOWNS CONTAINING OVER 1000 INHABITANTS. CENSUS 1870.


Anderson


3,126 | Logansport


12,001


Angola ...


1.072 Madison


10,709


Attica ..


2,253 | Marion .. 1,659


3.304 |Martinsville 1,131


1.032 | Michigan City. 3,985 j


1,131 | Mishawaka


2.017


Booneville


Brazil ..


Brookville.


Cambridgo City


Canbetton


2.441 New Albacy


l'entreville


1,077 | Newbery


1,464


Charlestown


2,204 | New Castle


1,550


l'alumbiu City


1.603 Noblesville


1.435


Columbus


3.359 | North Mailison.


1,007


Connersville


2. 196 | North Vernun.


1,438.


Covington,


1.885 | Peru. .


3,617


Crawfordsville.


3,501 | l'ierceton


Danville


Delubi


1,414 | Princeton


פפיד,1 Rising Sun


1,560)


Elkhart.


3,265 Rochester


1.522 1


Evansville


21,8330 Inekport


1.729


Fort Wayne


17,718 Rockville


1,30 Inchville


1.690


Harrison


19.913 | Switzerlandl ...


12,1:1


Ilendricka


20.277 | Tippecanoe ...


33,515


Itenry ...


22,0-6 | Tipton,


11,953


Greenfield


1.2018 Sunth Bend


7,206 1


Howard ....


15,847 |Uniun


6 341


Hootingtob


10,086 |Vanderburgh ..


33,145


Huntington


Inchunapolis


Ir.frrunville


Kendallville,


Kinghixsalle


1,071 Vinrebies.


1,524 Vorny.


Kn Kumu.


2,177


Lafayette


13, 54 | Wabash ...


2,+1


1.03M | Warmw.


1.20G


La l'ortr.


lawrenceburg.


3.159| Waterlun


1,552 | Winchester


5


14


16


8


6


16+


18


2


12


New Madison.


9


11


5


194


8


5


5


14


20


11


22}


9


16


3


Pleasaot View 15


5


6


164


5


8


8


11


18


14


10


3}


Rich Valley .. 134


15


13


13


13


10


13.


19


12}


14


14


15


16


14


RoaOD ....


10}


15


15


6


194


11


6


123


16}


64


17


10


10


11


84


Somerset


8


16


13


20


-1 13}


21


26


11


1


23


13


204


23


18}


g


13


Stockdale


20


16


16


65


20


12


7


13}


19


6


17


11


10}


12}


9


1


17


Treaty.


5


11


8


16


5


11


10+


5}


16}


8


9


15


0


11


13}


10


5


9


94


10


Waltz


7


14


104


18


6


10


18


23


84


2}


21


10}


18


20}


16


15


3


15


6


Urbaos


154


10


5


16


54


54


11}


15


10,


11


5


7


5


10


8


IG


8


12


I.afontaine


12


La Gro.


10


43


44


10


Laketon


204


13


15


Liberty Mills


21


13


16


1


13


Lincolnville


5


7


3


16


6


6


17


Mount Vernon ...... 65


15


12


20


54


13


25


64


11


21}


New Harrisburg ...


25


18


20


6


254


15}


North Manchester. 21.


12


15


4


11


1


3


17


Clarka .....


21,570 Noble ..


20,399


Clay ....


19,084 | Ohio .....


5,837


Clinton ..


13,497


Crawford


9.851 | Owen .


16,137


Daviess ...


16,747 |l'arke ...


18,166


Hearhora .


24,116 Perry


14.90!


Hlecatur


10,053| like


13,579


De Kalb ..


17,107 |Porter.


13,942


Delaware ...


19,030 | Posty.


10,185


Dobajo ..


12,597 Pulaski.,


7.801


Ethhardt


26.026 |Putnam


21,514


Fayette


10,476 |Randolph.


22.960


Floyd


23.500 Ripley


20,977 17.626


Fonota:n.


16,3-9 | Rush ....


Frankha


20,223 Scutt ..


Folton


12,726 | Shr thy ..


21.892


Clbson


זיוית יין8 1 17.371


17.098


Grant.


18,457 | Sinrke


19,514 |Steuben


12,874


20,4-2 St. Jurph


25,322


F'runkfort


Franklin City


GosIca


3.133 Srymour ..


2.37%


Greenshurg


1.278 | Shelbyville


3,237 Sullivan


1,3J;) 1,520


18,574 | Vermillion ..


10.440


.luxper ...


6.354 Vigo ......


3.4,519


48,241 Tell L'ity


1.660


2,164, L'mou tity


1,430 5,4 141 1.195


* Exclusive of Wabash City


WABISII COUNTY, IND.


NOTE .- The distance by ordinary travelled roud will often exceed the air-line distance here given.


POPULATION


OF


COUNTY BY TOWNSHIPS.


AT DIFFERENT PERIODS.


24,193 | Newton.


IPuffion


1,039 | Mitchell.


1,077


2,1-6 Mooresville


1.229 .


1,273 Mt. VerDou


2,162 Muncie ....


2,992 15,39% !


1,063 | 2.4~2 1,847 | 0.1-15 .


Greenc ...


Hamilton ...


964 Hancork ...


15,123 ! Sullivan ...


18,453


2.70% Sein.


2.105 | Thistown


21.305


Jennings.


Jul.nauD.


21


6


4}


204


8


16


19


13


8


15


5}


15


Wabash


10


10


8


E America


Amerien.


55 - Beideo.


Total


Kom inakty


6,501 ! Washington


3.901


1.969


Aurora


Bloomingico


17,330 Orange


Liberty


Kiloburg


Knigh! «town.


17


103


New Holland -1


HISTORY OF WABASH COUNTY, INDIAN.


GENERAL AND INTRODUCTORY.


THE PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS.


-


" Ye say they all have pa-inl away. That noble rade and I.T.te. That their liebt candes have ranshed Fran vit the Pre-Irl dave : That 'mid the forest where they roame.1. There rings nu buuter's shunt ; But their names are on your waters ; Y's may not wash thetu oul.


" Ye say their cone-like enlans That clusterel o er the vale, Are tied away like withered l-ares Before an antonin gale. Their memory liveth ou pour hills, Their baptistu on your shore, Your everinstinc rivers speak Their dialect of sore."


A LITTLE more than two centuries ago, at the time of its first din- covery by Enropenns, that wide expanse of country now circule- seribed within the boundary line of the State of ladioun was the ondisputed possession of nnother race of bemgs. The Miami nation of Indiuns, with their various tribes, celuisued and occupied the land from the lake and the brush-choked forests of Michigan on the north to the Ohio River on the sonth, and their scattered wigwams extended from the Scioto River on the past to the country of the Illinois snenges on the west. Their light cnnves shot down the shadoweil waters of our rirers, and the craggy bluffs resoanded with their piercing war whoop, or the searcely less wild ery of the distant wolf or overhanging cainmoont.


The wooded hille and plains which now stretch out in peaceful farias, dutted with the pleasant hines of culture and refinement, were then their richest hunting grounds. To their conncil-fire, between the head waters of the Maumee and the Wabash, they gathered from east und from west, from north and from south, to , from the date of their lint intercourse with the whites, and was deliberate upon measures of peace or wur. Here, at the portage . one of the leading causes of that deterioration which commenced between the two rivers which connected the Lakes with the Mis- at that time, and will finally result in the complete nonihilation of the entire ruce. sissippi, at n point which nature seems to hare fixed as n key 10 all the country lying helow, had been their principal village for ! generations. " O-me," as it was called in the smooth sounds of their native tongue, or "Aux Miami, " as the French in later years come to write it, was situated near the present site of Fort Wayne. Missionaries who visited their villages along the southero shore of Lake Michigan in 1672, speak of thetu at that time as being one of the most powerful uations of the west. Among their tribes the Twightwees were the largest, end forined the eastern branch of the confederacy.


The Miamis were a hospitable people, and allowed at different times rarious other tribes to dwell within the limits of their large territory, as was notaldy the ense in the instance of the Shawnees sud Kirkapoos of earlier times, and the Delawares and Potta- wattomies of later history.


The first explorations of the west were dne to the efforts of the Jesoit missionaries from Lower Canada, who sought out the distant tribes to bring them under the influence of their faith. Sooo after these carne the Voyageurs, also from Canada, and speaking the same mongrel French language. These enterprising sons of traffic pushed their pirogues and heht bateaux up every streamulet of the west, pu-sing across from the headwaters of the rivers emptying into the Lakes to the source of those flowing south into the Mississippi, gathering the valuable furs which the country afforiled, and burtering cloths, trinkets, and Grundy with the vatives in return.


Long before the mirlille of the eighteenth century, and accord- ing to some authorpies as enrly u4 1702, varion of the Miami villages situated about the head waters of the Maumee liver, and adjacent to the Wabush, were visited by the untiring French mis- sionaries and the fur truders. The-e visit, were not, however, of long duration, and the different periods at which the French founded settlements at or near the sites of these Indian villages, cannot now be stated with any degree of certainty. Sumie Tuve supposed the valleys of the Wabe-h nod Fel rivers to have been visited by them frefore the close of the seventeenth century, but neither the occasional presence of u missionary, the pericolical 1 virits of the fur traders, nor the transient snjourringy of nav -n- turons explorery of the country can hg fuiny regarded as the founding of civilizat settlements. The old Painkrshaw villige that Hood on the site of Vincennes, aml the Twichtave village of Ome, the capital of the Miami nmion, were pvntently known to the Frenet: very varly in the righteenth o maury. In n memoir, written in 1713, we are told concerning the Intter that : " The Miamiw are situated sixty kagury from Lake Ente, awl number four hundred, all well-formed inen, and welitatinned!, The women + ure nu heron4. They are hard-working, antl rare a species of . in no wie unverer tohaving the white man desery them infering4 Iniz- unlike that of our Indians ut Petro.t It is white, of the wane wrenn the other, the skin much bner, and the meel much ! op to a time within the memory of many of those now hving, large


whiter. The nation is rlad in deerskin. They love plays and i dances, wherefore they have more vernpation. Tre women nte weil clothed, but she men as arareily muy covering. and are tottword all over the Innly." Further on in this aurtent memoir we find mention of " Les Gros," one of' five Iulian village- sitn- uted lower down on the river Ouburhe, or Wal-h. This Itet- mentioned village was withont doubt the village of Le Gris, from which the present name of the town of ha Gro was derived. Arecording to the local traditions of this county, this village was situated at the mouth of the Salamonie. From the sreonuts given by these pions and self-surrificing men of God who first enme nmong these people, it would seem that they were af that time u harde and industrious race. Their principal village is do- seribed as being situated upon o high hill, surrounded by over two leagues of improved Innd, "where they raised their Indian corn, pampkins, aml melons."


With the French the Miumis, as well as nearly all other tribea with whom they held interenurse, were very friendly. The policy of that government, under the ageney of the order of Jesuits, who had their headquarters in America at Quebec, had been a peaceful one, they uiming at onee to convert the savages to the Catholic reticion, and make them good wobjects to the King of France. That their efforts to Christianize them were in the main onavail- ing was in a great measure due to the fuet Lhnt they were gone- rally followed, mul often preceded by a class of traders, who har- tered spiritnons liqnors with the savages in exchange for their furs, and the love of intoxication, which at onee sprung up, provedl then, anì is to this day, the greatest ohstnele experienced in mising theat to a higher degree of civilization. They never purchased it bot to plunge at oure into the most furious itrunkenness, and ny it was not to be obtained withnn convenient di tance, no fatigue, risk, or expense was considered ton great to be undertaken to I procare it. Its destructive influence among them was manifest


In the year 1765, the Miami nalion was composed of fonr tribes whose total number of warriors were estimated ut one thousand and fifty men. Their principal town wus situated neur where Fort Wayne now stands, and their smaller villages scattered uloog the banks of the Wabash, Ert, and Vernilion rivers. One who wrote concerning their haunts at that time, describes them as being senttered through the woods on their hunting excursions, camped in small parties, during the fall, win'er, end a part of the spring. Later, along nenr corn planting ume, they gathered at their villages, near whero they had partially cleared patches of groond, where they planted their eorn, pumpkins, and melons, which were tended by the somaws. Their dwellings were in some cases rude cabins, made of small logs, and covereit with bark, bat more generally consisting of a few pole- stuck in the ground, tied together at the top with pliant strips of hark and covered with large sheets of the same. Sometimes, though but rarely, the covering was a mot woven uf fings.


Iu their religious beliefs the Miminis, like all other =arare tribes, were exceedingly superstitions. They believed in the existence of a God who was the creator and supreme governor of eil things, hot had no idea of his will being communicated to man, except us it appeare I in the creation or in some act of special providence. They spoke of him as the " Great Manitou," and also of on evil spirit, but connectet no thought of cither with that of a future existence. They believed that at death the warr or way trans- ported at once to another country which was a more happy one, and where he experienced the same uppetites nnl enjoyments. Each tril,e, they believe, was watched over and protected by ity own particular Muniton, one tribe worshipping the maniton of the buffalo, which in their belief existed under the ground, and ani- med all buffaloes; another the deer ; others still the rattlesnake, etr. etc. Famine w.w n mon-ter, who lived upon their deml hryhier after they were buried, and the failure of a crop of eoin would frequently couve the depopulation of an entire neighbor- hood, the inhabitants třetiny away to escape the Irintry jawy which they Averred had eaten no their corn. On the breaking unt . of a med! Pourfemme in one of the northern triles why war lipped the intisle canton, a sarcitive of dogs was resolved upon, Is the only means of aptwasing the enrageil divinity, and lerty of these internt rietiins wire arrerdmgiy immolate girl carried on solemn procession around the value, blood the most mmernfal rhantings and wallit's, and eries to the Great Manitou of the bruin to o; are their lives and aflirt them no more, The Tspeht- wey Tritme lo bi the rattlesnake in great voorration, and wundfarver kill them nudler any eienmstnotes, though, mt hter pari, tjer were of tamrey were marie to pre piante these veantroy, reptiles, and


quantities of it were still to be seen, senttered uhont within the vicinity of their drus The In fian's plan was to notch a sapling, bendt it over and insert the tobarco in the split.


It was their general practice to bury their dead as more civilized untions do, returning dust to dust, each httle village having its adjarent burying ground where the bodies of the deceased were land away to rest, but the tomb of departed greatness way diller- rotly constructed. One found near & th serted village on the upper Wabash by Gen. Hurrisan's troops in 1812, containing the body of a chief, was built of logs and danbed with clay. Its silent ocenpant iny wrapped in his blanket, his gun and pipe by his side, and a small tin pan on his breast, containing a wooden spoon, and various trinkets, ull deemed necessary no doubt to the comforts of his journey to the happy hunting-grounds of another workl. At another village further worth, the tomb of a supposed sorceress was found. ller body was placed in a sitting posture, facing the east, with a basket by her side, containing the various churuis used in ineuntations by her, such as owl and hawk bills, u variety of bones, and a bunch of roots tied together.


Several similar tonihs were found ut a much later day by the first settlers in this vicinity, as was notably the case at Squirrel Village, near where Stockdale is now situated.


Up to the year 1740, the French had monopolized n'l trude in furs and peltries with the Indians west of the Alleghany Mountains, Unt nt that dute we find some of the more enterprising British traders penetrating among the tribes who dwelt on the Ohio River and its tributaries. In 1748, the first treaty of alliance und friendship was concluded, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, between the English authorities and the Miami Indians. There were pre- sent at that treaty certain Indian deputies whn represented twelve Miami villages situated " on or near the river Wahash," and that date fixes the time which introdured the first English traders into the Wabash vailes. The territory being ut that time ouder thu protection of the French government, this incursion of the British was regarded by thot power, er by its loral representatives ot Quebec, as a trespass upon their just rights aml privileges. Arts of hostility were committed on both sides, and matters nisumed a warlike aspeet Between the year: 1749 and 1754, the French furers aud their Indian allies captured e number of English trailers on the borders of the Ohio River, seized and confisrated their goods, peltries, etc., and held them as prisoners. In resent- ment to these injuries thus done to their allies, the Miamis cup- tured three French Eradiers and hunded them over to the unthorities ! of Pennsylvania. This move couseil o similar act of revenge ou the part of the French, who, at the subsequent taking of another British trading post, billed fourteen of the Miamisusa punishment for their temporary alliunce nad friendship with the English. In this way the tribe became involve'l in the troubles which for many yours followed between the two oppusing nations, each of whom was jealonsly striving for the mastery over the new territory, and the revenne to be derived from intereourse with its inhabitants. During the French and English war, the Miamis were actively engaged against the British, and aided materially in the prolonga- tion of the struggle. In combat they were brase, in defeat they were texterons, in victory they were erecl. Neither sex, nge, nos the prisoner were exempted from their tomahawk or scalping- knife. All along the frontier they waged a blomly and merciless warfare, which rendered agricultural pur uits hazardlons, and the life of the backwoodsman and his family a thing of great an- certainty. Concealing themselve, in the woods or among weeds and bushes, behind trees, waylaying the path to water or the road to the field, they would lire the gun or let ily the arrow ut the approaching victim, and retreat if necessary, or, if they dared, advance upon their killed or crippled affermacy, take his realp ur make him prisoner if possible. When he weging a fort they st blom showed themselves in forer in any quarter, but dispersed and arted im hvidually or in small partire. They aimed to ent off the var- rium.'s anpphrs hy killing the cattin, un i they watched the watering places for those who went for that article of normesity, thus cutting off one by one in detail, und with hot little risk to themselves. When their wwwk of provisions berame exhausted they wonki retire to the words and Apply themselves hy hunting, and then ugnin. return to the siege ._ They were_among the first to make. prare with the. English when the tide of fortune turned ng nnst the French (1760), though three years nfor that time they were equally ready to juin with Pontine in his Glumiy war against them. During the ensuing year they followed the fortuner of That vin- lietive rhuf of the north country, wotil sume tiene in the winter of 1761, when, deerived by the French, deserted! by his allies, und orerpowered by the British, he retired to the flinois cont. try. where he was awareusted in the year biff byn Kaskadhi Indian. Col. C'eoghat, n Britt-h officer, visited the Man villnget on Ert River, pasang through this county a priommer in the hond- uf the Kirkapoor and Mussaquatanins, in June of the year 1795. Their warriors numbered at that tune one thousand ami fifty men.


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HISTORY OF WABASH COUNTY. PRIMITIVE ING MarANTS.


During the French and English war all the British frading post- in the west had been broken up P'rom 1765 lo 1776, the French population about Vincenous and along the Maun willigen of the Waleish valley, duch pro ably and in the cojoyirent of the mest unitestrained freedom, Living. as a were, in Pu heart of the wilderness, without taxes, and in friendship with the lilians, they passed their lives away in hunting. bshing, trading in for-, and raising a few potatoes and a hit'e corn for their families Many of thems intermarried with the Wiamus, whore amity was thus more securely Twoand aund strengthened A rage of half- breeds grew up whose untures were more Imban Hlem P'rerch, and the intermingling of the two people and their languages is still to be seen in their names of per-pages and pinces. The morals uf the French topers, dever any how striet, did not im- prove by their intercourse with the aborigines. They son ientused to excel even them in habits of indolence und impros nh mer. They made no effort to become learned in Iriters, shuiful in ueri- cultural pursuits, nor ingenious in the practice of the mechamenl arts. Dancing, running foot-rares, jumping, wrestling, and shoot- ing at marks were among their favorite amusements. Their manners and enstoros carried them above n condition of barbarism ; bat left them below n stale of true civdiantion. The savage natures of the Judians were in some degree softened by this inter- course ; but their ready ndoption of all the currupting vires which such a state of society engendered, rendered them decidedly the wurse for the contact.




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