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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
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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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