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HISTORY !
POSEY COUNTY -
INDIANA.
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT ; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC .; TOGETHER WITH AN EXTENDED HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST, THE INDIANA TERRITORY AND THE STATE OF INDIANA.
ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO : THE GOODSPEED PUBLISHING CO., 1886.
1. 6. UNIVERSITY EUKARY
A708474
CHICAGO: JOHN MORRIS COMPANY, PRINTERS 118 AND 120 MONROE STREET.
PREFACE.
O UR history of Posey County, after months of persistent, conscientious labor, is now completed. Every important field of research has been minutely scanned by those engaged in its preparation, and no subject of universal public value has been omitted save where protracted effort failed to secure trustworthy re- sults. The impossibility of ingrafting upon the pages of this volume the vast fund of the counties' historic information, and the proper omission of many valueless details, have compelled the publishers to select such matters as are deemed of the greatest importance. Fully aware of our inability to furnish a perfect history from meager public documents, inaccurate private correspondence, and numberless con- flicting traditions. we make no pretension of having prepared a work devoid of blemish. Through the courtesy and the generous assist- ance met with everywhere, we have been enabled to rescue from oblivion the greater portion of important events that have transpired in past years. We feel assured that all thoughtful people in the counties, at present and in future, will recognize and appreciate the importance of the undertaking and the great public benefit that has been accomplished.
It will be observed that a dry statement of fact has been avoided, and that the rich romance of border incident has been woven with statistical details, thus forming an attractive and graphic narrative, ' and lending beauty to the mechanical execution of the volume and ad- ditional value to it as a work for perusal. We claim superior excel- lence in our systematic manner of collecting material by workers in specialties; in the division of the subject matter into distinct and ap- propriate chapters; in the subdivision of the individual chapters into topics, and in the ample and comprehensive index. We also, with pride, call the attention of the public to the superb mechanical execu- tion of the volume. While we acknowledge the existence of unavoid- able errors, we have prepared a work fully up to the standard of our promises, and as accurate and comprehensive as could be expected under the circumstances.
December, 1885.
THE PUBLISHERS.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
HISTORY OF INDIANA.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE.
PREHISTORIC RACES.
17
Antiquities.
19
Chinese, The ...
18
Discovery hy Columbus.
33
Explorations by the Whites. 37
Indians, The .....
31
Immigration, The First ..
18
Immigration, The Second. 20
Pyramids, etc., The .. 21
Relics of the Mound-Builders 23
Savage Customs
34
Tartars, The.
23
Vincennes
39
Wabash River, The. 39
White Men, The First.
37
CHAPTER II.
NATIONAL POLICIES, ETC ... 41
American Policy, The 46
Atrocity of the Savages. 47
Burning of Hinton.
48
British Policy, The
Clark's Expedition.
46
French Scheme, The.
52
41
Gilhault, Father .. 65
Government of the North west
67
Hamilton's Career.
64
Liquor and Gaming Laws. 74
Missionaries, The Catholic. 42
Ordinance of 1787
70
Pontiac's War ..
46
Rnse Against the Indians.
64
Vigo, Francis
66
CHAPTER III.
OPERATIONS AGAINST THE INDIANS. 75
Battle at Peoria Lake 104
Campaign of Harrison 92
Cession Treaties ... 93
Defeat of St. Clair
79
Defensive Operations 76
Expedition of Harmer. 75
Expedition of Wayne. 79
Expedition of St. Clair. 78
Expedition of Williamson 78
Fort Miami, Battle of ..
80
87 Harrison and the Indians Hopkins' Campaign 105
Kickapoo Town, Burning of .. 78
Maumee, Battle of ..
75
Massacre at Pigeon Roost. 103
Mississinewa Town, Battle at. 106
Oratory, Tecumseh's .. 100
Prophet Town, Destruction of.
Peace with the Indians ... 106
Siege of Fort Wayne .. 101 103 Siege of Fort Harrison Tecumseh 111
Tippecanoe, Battle of 98
War of 1812 101
War of 1812, Close of the
108
CHAPTER IV.
PAGE.
ORGANIZATION OF INDIANA TERRITORY .....
82
Bank, Establishment of.
120
Courts, Formation of .... 120 County Officers, Appointment of. 119
Corydon, the Capitol ...
117
Governor Posey.
117
Indiana in 1810.
84
Population in 1815 118 Territorial Legislature, The First 84
Western Sun, The
84
CHAPTER V.
ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE, ETC. 121
Amendment, The Fifteenth 147
Black Hawk War 126
Constitution, Formation of the ... 12I Campaigns Against the Indians 198
Defeat of Black Hawk
130
Exodus of the Indians ... ....
General Assembly, The First 122
Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Treaty of. 142
124
Indian Titles
132
Immigration .. 195
Lafayette, Action at. 127
Land Sales
133
Mexican War, The
136
Slavery
144
CHAPTER VI.
INDIANA IN THE REBELLION. 148
Batteries of Light Infantry 182
Battle Record of States. 188
Call to Arms, The .. 149
Colored Troops of Indiana. 182
Calls of 1864.
177
Field, In the ..
152
Independent Cavalry Regiment. 181
Morgan's Raid 170
Minute-Men
170
One Hundred Days' Men .. 176
Regiments, Formation of. 151
Regiments, Sketch of ...
153
Six Months' Regiments. 172
CHAPTER VII.
STATE AFFAIRS AFTER THE REBELLION ... 189
Agriculture
209
Coal
207
Divorce Laws 193
Finances
194
114 Geology 205
Internal Improvements 199
Indiana Horticultural Society 212
Indiana Pomological Society .. 213
Special Laws
190
State Bank 196
State Board of Agriculture. 209
State Expositions.
210
Wealth and Progress.
197
721
Harmony Community
vi
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VIII.
PAGE.
EDUCATION, STATE OFFICERS, ETC ... 215
Auditors of State .. 246
Attorney Generals .... 247
Blind Institute, The. 232
City School System. 218
Compensation of Teachers
220
Denominational and Private Institu- tions ..
230
Deaf and Dumb Institute .. 236
Enumeration of Scholars .. 219
Free School System, The. 215
Funds, Management of the ..
217
Female Prison and Reformatory .. 241
Governors of Indiana Territory. 245
House of Refuge, The. 243
Insane Hospital, The. 238
Judges of the Supreme Court ....
Lieutenant-Governors ... .... 245
Northern Indiana Normal Sohool. 229
Origin of School Funds. 221
224
Purdue University 248
Repesentatives in Congress
218
School Statistics.
State University, The 222
228
Secretaries of State. 246
245
State Governors 239
State Prison, South. 240
State Prison, North.
Treasurers of State. 246
Territorial Delegates .. 248
Total School Funds 220
United States Senators.
247
PORTRAITS, VIEWS, ETC.
Early Explorations of Indiana. 25
Gen. George R. Clarke .. 53
Hunting Prairie Wolves 191
Hieroglyphics. 29
Indians Attacking Frontiersmen 43
Opening an Indiana Forest. 123
PART II.
HISTORY OF POSEY COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
GEOLOGY 251
Alluvium
263
Archaeology
260
Harmony Township. 278
Industries 300
Incidents, etc 303
Cut-off, Section at the
253
Drainage.
251
Drift, The.
264
Eminent Scientists.
257
Fossils, Characteristic. 253
254
Lacustral Epoch, The
263
Marrs Township
311
Markets 309
306
Mounds, Relics, etc ... .
281
Section of the County. 251
Sandstones, Shales, etc 256
Section at Calvin's .. 254
Officers, etc ... 304
Pioneer Industries
267
Trees, Fossil 255
Valuable Specimens 256
260
Water Supply
CHAPTER II.
SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY 265
Asylum, The Poor ... 289
Anecdote, An 312
Black Township 265
Block-houses, The .... 285
Black Township Schools 269
"Book Larnin" 287
Bethel Township. 323
"Bone-bank" 319
Benevolent Institutions 324
Customs, The Early 293 Comers, The First. 294
Centre Township 307
Conuty Seminary, The. 270
Churches of Black Township 273
Cut-off, The ..... 281
Cemeteries 289
Churches, The ... 288
Distilleries, etc. 308
Elections, etc 312
Entries of Land 284
Education, Teachers, etc 286
Fossil Fields 322
Farm Implements. 290
Boundary 25L
Coals, The .. 253
Immigrants, the First. 265 Incidents of the Indians 285
Kidnapers, The
300
Lynn Township
304
Land Entries
268
Mills, The Early
289
New Harmony, Section at 255
New Harmony's Importance. 258
Rash Coals .. 254
Mount Vernon Schools. 272 Manufactures 312
286
Purchasers of Land.
311
Pedagogues
309
Railroads, The ... 291
Religious Institutions
296
Robb Township
282
Religion in Mount Vernon 275
320
Subsidies 302
Stories, etc .. 326
Sales of Land 318
Smith Township.
292
Settlers of Point Township
318
Slaves in Indiana .. 266 Settlers, The First 283
Squatters, Names of. 266
Township Officers ... 291
Timber, The.
293
Teachers, etc., The 294
Tragedies, etc .. 310
Tippecanoe, Soldiers of. 265
Tree, A Large 320
Valuable Forests 328
Voters in 1833. 305
Wild Game. 267
Pionoer Dwelling, A. 179
Shawnes Prophet, The .. 89
Scene on the Wabash River 145
Scene on the Ohio River 233
Tecumseh.
109
PAGE. 247
Section at Blairsville 255
Point Township
Pioneer Schoolhouse, A. 317
Robinson Township .....
Militia Musters.
Limestones and Sandstones
State Normal School.
vii
PAGE.
Present Business of Mount Vernon. 377
Panther, Story of a ..... 358
Present Business of Poseyville 407 Prica's Station .. 419
Presa of Mount Vernon 370
Plank Road, The .. 373
Religion at New Harmony .. Rappitas, The
379
Rapp's Purchase of Land. 380
Residents of Mount Vernon 360 Secrat Societies at New Harmony 402
Survey of Poseyville 404
St. Waodal 416
Springfield 411
Statistics of Mount Vernon 375
Stewartsvilla ... 413
Secret Societies of Mount Vernon 369
Time Store, The .... 396
Workingman's Institute, The 398
Wadasvilla
412
Worshipers, The 382
Wast Franklin 414
Wagoner's Plat of Mount Vernon. 359
Winfield
419
Williams' Plat of Mount Vernon 360
CHAPTER V.
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR 419
Attorneys Admitted 426
Alvin P. Hovey. 434
Bar, Members of the 423
Courts under the New Constitution 436
Common Pleas Court ... 437
Circuit Court, The First. 420
Character of Attorneys 428
D'Aruamoot Case, The ... 440
Divorce Case, The First 428
Demand for Law 419
Georga S. Green 432
Grave Robbing .. 425
Goodlat Fined for Contempt 432
Grand Jury, The First 420
Hogs, Killing of ... 421
Indictmanta, The First 421
422
Jail Strengthened, The. 428
John Doe vs. Richard Roe 437
Local Practitioners 431
McClure Will Case, The
438
Murder of Park ......
426
Oath Concerning Dwelling.
429
Pitcher and the Judge. 431
Professional Fitnesa. 434
Poisoning of Gibbons, The. 427
Revolutionary Soldiers, The .. 430
Slandar, Cases of. 424
Whipping Post, Tha. 422
CHAPTER VI.
MILITARY HISTORY. 441
Aid Societies .. 458
Bounty and Relief. 463
Close of the Rebellion. 464
Casualties 457
Draft of 1862, The .. 459
Eightieth Regiment, The. 460
First Cavalry, The. 447
Field Service. 449
Hospital at Home, A .. 458
Later Volunteers 460
Militia System, The. 441
Military Appropriations. 443
Mao for the Field. 444 Number of Volunteers 450 Ninety-first Regiment .. 461
Officers, Etc ....
445
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regi- ment 463 Public Sentiment in 1861 442
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER III.
PAGE.
ORGANIZTION OF THE COUNTY. 327
Act of Creation 327
Auditors ..
346
Boundary Alterations 328
Blackford Laid Out.
332
Buildings at Springfield.
336
County before Formation, The
327
County Buildings, The First 332
Clerks .... 345
County Business Transacted 341
Elections. 348
Finances
347
Later Buildings. 343
Medical Society, The. 356 340
New Townships. 333
Officers, The First. 330
Origin of the Nama " Posey" 329
Proceedings of the County Board. 330
Population 346
Ralocation, The First. 335
Relocation, The Second 339
Representatives 345
Recorders
346
Railroada .... 354
Special Acts .. 328
Son of George Washington 329
Springfield Founded. 336
Senatora
345
Sheriffs
346
Surveyora. 346
Township Boundaries, etc. 331
346
CHAPTER IV.
TOWNA OF THE COUNTY 357
Additiona to Mount Vernon 366
Business at New Harmony 400
Blairsville 409
Banks of Mount Vernon 372 Black ford 414
Comparison of the two Communities 391
Cynthiana ....
407
Community of Equality, The 390
Caborn Station ...
415
Cholera, Visitation of the 373
City Charter, Adoption of the. 374
Conflagrations .. 377
City Offices of Mount Vernon 376 Larceny by Brown .. 427
Customa of the Rappites.
386
Corn and Pork Shipments
364
Enlargements of New Harmony.
388
Entries of Land
359
Farmersville ...
410
Grafton ..
416
" Harmonie "
381
"Hoop-pole Township"
365
Incidents at New Harmony 395
Incorporation of New Harmony. 397
Industries of Mount Vernon 358
Incorporation, The First .... 362 Incorporation, The Second. 367 Labors of the Community 381 Lot Owners at Mount Vernon. 360 Later Residents of Mount Vernon 363 Liet of the Raaidents of Mount Vernon .. 367 Merchants of Poaeyville. 405 Manufacturers of Cynthiana 408
Mount Vernon
357
Merchants, etc .. 361 Legion, The. 450
"McFaddin's Bluff" 357
Mount Vernon Company, The 361 Nashoba Community, The ... 394
Newapapers at New Harmony. 403
New Baltimore ...
416
New Harmony 379
Naw Harmony Under the Owenses 389 Officers and Statistics of Mount Vernon 368 Posey County Agricultural Society, The 403 Poseyvilla 404
392
Distinguished Scientists 398
Enormous Land Sale
Judge Blackford
401
Mount Vernon, Lots at.
Treasurers
vi
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VIII.
FAGE,
EDUCATION, STATE OFFICERS, ETC. 215
Auditors of State. 246 Attorney Generals .. 247
Blind Institute, The. 232
City School System. 218
Compensation of Teachers
220
Denominational and Private Institu- tioos ... 230
Deaf and Dumb Instituts 236 Enumeration of Scholars. 219
Fres School System, The. 215 Funds, Management of the .. 217
Female Prison and Reformatory .. 241
Governors of Indiana Territory 245
House of Refuge, The. 243
Insane Hospital, The. 238
Judges of the Supreme Court. 247
Lieutenant-Governors .... 245 Northern Indiana Normal Sohool. 229 Origin of School Funds .. 221
Purdue University
224
Repesentatives in Congress 248
School Statistics ..
State University, The. 222 228
State Normal School
Secretaries of Stats 246
State Governors. 245 State Prison, South 239
240
State Prison, North ..
246
Treasurers of State ..
Territorial Delegates. 248
Total School Funds 220
United States Senators
247
PORTRAITS, VIEWS, ETC.
Early Explorations of Indiana .. 25
Gen. George R. Clarke. 53
Hunting Prairie Wolves 191
Hieroglyphics. 29
Indians Attacking Frontiersmen 43
Opening an Indiana Forest. 123
Pioncer Dwelling, A. 179
Shawnee Prophet, The. 89
Scene on the Wabash River. 145
Scene on the Ohio River .. 233
Tecumseh.
109
PART II.
HISTORY OF POSEY COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
GEOLOGY 251
Alluvium
263
Archaeology. 260
Boundary . 25L
Coals, The.
253
Cut-off, Section at the
253
Drainage
251
Drift, The
264
Eminent Scientists.
257
Fossils, Characteristic
254
Lacustral Epoch, The
263
New Harmony, Section at. 255
Markets
309
New Harmony's Importance 258
Rash Coals .. 254
Section of the County, 251
Sandstones, Shales, etc 256
Section at Calvin's 254
Section at Blairsville 255
Trees, Fossil
255
Valuable Specimens 256
260 Water Supply
CHAPTER II.
SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY 265
Asylum, The Poor .... 289 Anecdote, An 312
Black Township 265
Block-houses, The ... 285
Black Township Schools. 269
"Book Larnin" 287
Bethel Township 323
"Bone-bank"
319
Benevolent Institutions 324
Customs, The Early 293 Comers, The First 294 Centre Township 307
County Seminary, The. 270
Churches of Black Township
273
Cut-off, The .. 281
Cemeteries. 289
Churches, The .. 288
Distilleries, etc ...... 308
Elections, etc 312
Entries of Land 284
Education, Teachers, etc 286
Fossil Fields 322
Farm Implements. 290
Harmony Township ... 278
Industries 300
Incidents, etc 303
Immigrants, the First .. 265
Incidents of the Indians 285
Kidnapers, The
300
Lynn Township 304
Land Entries 268
Mills, The Early 289
311
Militia Musters.
306
Mounds, Relics, etc ....
281
Mount Vernon Schools. 272 Manufactures 312
Officers, etc .... 304
Pioneer Industries.
267
Point Township
317
Pioneer Schoolhouse, A. 286 Purchasers of Land 311
Pedagogues .. 309
Railroads, The. 291
Religious Institutions 296
Rohb Township 282
Religion in Mount Vernon 275
820
Subsidies ...
302
Stories, etc ..
326
Sales of Land. 318
292
Settlers of Point Township
318
Slaves in Indiana. 266
Settlers, The First ... 283
Squatters, Names of. 266
Township Officers .. 291
Timber, The. 293
Teachers, etc., The 294
Tragedies, etc .. 310
Tippecanoe, Soldiers of. 265
Tree, A Large 320
Valuable Forests. 328
Voters in 1833 305
Wild Game .. 267
Limestones aod Sandstones .... 253
Marrs Township
Robinson Township ....
Smith Township.
PAGE.
218
vii
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER III.
PAGE.
ORGANIZTION OF THE COUNTY 327
Act of Creation
327
Auditors ...
346
Boundary Alterations ..
328
Blackford Laid Out.
332
County before Formation, The 327
County Buildings, The First 332
Clerks .. 345
County Business Transacted. 341
Elections. 348
Finances 347 .
Later Buildings. 343
Medical Society, The 356
Mount Vernon, Lots st .. 340
New Townships. 333
Officers, The First. 330
Origin of the Name " Posey " 329
Proceedings of the County Board. 330
Population 345
Relocation, The First .. 335
Relocation, The Second 339
Representatives. 345
Recorders
346
Railroads .. 354
Special Acts . 328
Son of George Washington 329
Springfield Founded .. 336
Senators
345
Sheriffs
346
Surveyors ..
346
Township Boundaries, etc. 331
346
Treasurers
CHAPTER IV.
TOWNS OF THE COUNTY 357
Additions to Mount Vernon 366
Business st New Harmony 400
Blairsville 409
Banks of Mount Vernon 372
Blackford
414
Comparison of the two Communities 391
Cynthians ... 407
Community of Equality, The 390
Caborn Station .... 415
Cholera, Visitation of the 373
City Charter, Adoption of the. 374
Conflagrations. 377
City Offices of Mount Vernon. 376
Customs of the Rappites ... 386
Corn and Pork Shipments 364
Distinguished Scientists 392
398
Enormous Land Sale 388
Entries of Land 359
Farmersville.
410
Grafton.
416
"Hoop-pole Township"
365 395
Incidents st New Harmony
Incorporation of New Harmony 397
Industries of Mount Vernon 358
Incorporation, The First .. 362
Incorporation, The Second 367 Labors of the Community 381
Lot Owners at Mount Vernon. 360 Later Residents of Mount Vernon 363
List of the Residents of Mount Vernon .. 367 Merchants of Poseyville. 405 Manufacturers of Cynthiana 408
Mount Vernon 357 Merchants, etc ... 361 "McFaddin's Bluff" 357 Mount Vernon Company, The. 361 Nashoba Community, The ... 394
Newspapers at New Harmony. 403
New Baltimore .... 415
379
New Harmony Under the Owenses. 389
Officers and Statistics of Mount Vernon 368 Posey County Agricultural Society, The 403 Poseyville 404
Present Business of Mount Vernon ........ 377
Panther, Story of a .... 358
Present Business of Poseyville 407
Price's Station
419
Press of Mount Vernon
370
Plank Road, The ..... 373
401
Religion st New Harmony .. Rappites; The ..
379
Rspp's Purchase of Land 380
Residents of Mount Vernon. 360 Secret Societies st New Harmony 402
Survey of Poseyvills 404
416
Springfield 411
Statistics of Mount Vernon 875
Stewartsville ... 413
Secret Societies of Mount Vernon 369
Time Store, The ..... 396
398
Workingmen's Institute, The Wadesvills. 412
Worshipers, The 382
West Franklin. 414
Wagonsr's Plat of Mount Vernon. 359
Winfield 419
Williams' Plat of Mount Vernon 360
CHAPTER V.
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR 419
Attorneys Admitted .... 426
Alvin P. Hovay 434 Bar, Members of the 423
Courts under the New Constitution 436
Common Pleas Court .... 437
Circuit Court, The First. 420
Character of Attorneys 428
D'Arusmoot Case, The ... 440
Divores Case, The First 428 Demand for Law 419
Georgs S. Grøen 432
Grave Robbing. 425
Goodlet Fined for Contempt 432
Grand Jury, The First 420
Hogs, Killing of ... 421
421
Judge Blackford
422
Jail Strengthened, The ..
428
John Doe vs. Richard Roe
437
Local Practitioners 431
427
McClurs Will Case, The
438
Murder of Park ... 426
429
Pitcher and the Judge. 431
Professional Fitness. 434
Poisoning of Gibbons, The. 427
Revolutionary Soldiers, The. 430
Slander, Cases of. 424
Whipping Post, The. 422
CHAPTER VI.
MILITARY HISTORY 441
Aid Societies. 458
Bounty and Relief. 463
Closs of the Rebellion 464
Casualties 457
Draft of 1862, The 459
Eightieth Regiment, The. 460
First Cavalry, The. 447
Field Service. 449
Hospital at Home, A. 458
Legion, The. 450
Later Volunteers. 460
Militia System, The. 441 Military Appropriations. 443
Men for the Field. 444 Number of Volunteers 450 Ninety-first Regiment ... 461
Officers, Etc ....
...
445
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regi- ment ... 463 Public Sentiment in 1861 442
New Harmony
381
"Harmonie "
Indictments, The First.
Larceny by Brown.
Osth Concerning Dwelling.
Enlargements of New Harmony.
PAOE.
St. Wendel
Buildings at Springfield
336
viii
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Rebel Raids.
453
Texan Wer, The
442
Sixty-fifth Regiment ...
458
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Sketch of the Twenty-fifth
446
Twenty-fourth Regiment.
454
Sixtieth Regiment. 455
Volunteers, Call for
444
Sumter, The Fall of 444
Tenth Cavalry, The.
462
-
War with Mexico.
442
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Bethel Township ..
691
Marrs Township ..
678
Black Township.
465
Point Township.
693
Centre Township.
665
Robb Township
581
Harmony Township ..
544
Robinson Township. 687
Lynn Township.
642
Smith Township.
618
PORTRAITS, VIEWS, ETC.
Black, Milton .... 297-298
Brinkmann, Henry. .417-418
Rosenkrans, E. W .553-554
Cartwright, V. M .. .349-350
Sparks, Albert A .571-572
County Map. 261-262
Trafford, W. W. 661-562
Catholic Church. 697-698
Thomas, G. W. .315-316
French, James W. 501-502
Tente, C. F ..... 607-608
Weckesser, 'Vincent. .625-626
Williams, A. C. 279-280
Weever, Charles. 643-644
Montgomery, D. B.
679-680
Naas, George .589-690
Fretageot, A. E .. .519-520
Green, George S .. 451-452
Lockwood, John M. .383-384
444
War of 1812 441
HISTORY OF INDIANA:
FORMER OCCUPANTS.
PREHISTORIC RACES.
Scientists have ascribed to the Mound Builders varied origins, and though their divergence of opinion may for a time seem incom- patible with a thorough investigation of the subject, and tend to a confusion of ideas, no doubt whatever can exist as to the compar- ative accuracy of conclusions arrived at by some of them. Like the vexed question of the Pillar Towers of Ireland, it has caused much speculation, and elicited the opinions of so many learned antiquarians, ethnologists and travelers, that it will not be found beyond the range of possibility to make deductions that may suffice to solve the problem who were the prehistoric settlers of America. To achieve this it will not be necessary to go beyond the period over which Scripture history extends, or to indulge in those airy flights of imagination so sadly identified with occasional writers of even the Christian school, and all the accepted literary exponents of modern paganism.
That this continent is co-existent with the world of the ancients cannot be questioned. Every investigation, instituted under the auspices of modern civilization, confirms the fact and leaves no channel open through which the skeptic can escape the thorough refutation of his opinions. China, with its numerous living testi- monials of antiquity, with its ancient, though limited literature and its Babelish superstitions, claims a continuous history from antediluvian times; but although its continuity may be denied with every just reason, there is nothing to prevent the transmission of a hieroglyphic record of its history prior to 1656 anno mundi, since many traces of its early settlement survived the Deluge, and became sacred objects of the first historical epoch. This very sur- vival of a record, such as that of which the Chinese boast, is not at variance with the designs of a God who made and ruled the universe; but that an antediluvian people inhabited this continent,
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HISTORY OF INDIANA.
will not be claimed; because it is not probable, though it may be possible, that a settlement in a land which may be considered a portion of the Asiatic continent, was effected by the immediate followers of the first progenitors of the human race. Therefore, on entering the study of the ancient people who raised these tumu- lus monuments over large tracts of the country, it will be just sufficient to wander back to that time when the flood-gates of heaven were swung open to hurl destruction on a wicked world; and in doing so the inquiry must be based on legendary, or rather upon many circumstantial evidences; for, so far as written narra- tive extends, there is nothing to show that a movement of people too far east resulted in a Western settlement.
THE FIRST IMMIGRATION.
The first and most probable sources in which the origin of the Builders must be sought, are those countries lying along the east- ern coast of Asia, which doubtless at that time stretched far beyond its present limits, and presented a continuous shore from Lopatka to Point Cambodia, holding a population comparatively civilized, and all professing some elementary form of the Boodhism of later days. Those peoples, like the Chinese of the present, were bound to live at home, and probably observed that law until after the con- fusion of languages and the dispersion of the builders of Babel in 1757, A. M .; but subsequently, within the following century, the old Mongolians, like the new, crossed the great ocean in the very paths taken by the present representatives of the race, arrived on the same shores, which now extend a very questionable hospitality to them, and entered at once upon the colonization of the country south and east, while the Caucasian race engaged in a similar move- ment of exploration and colonization over what may be justly termed the western extension of Asia, and both peoples growing stalwart under the change, attained a moral and physical eminence to which they never could lay claim under the tropical sun which shed its beams upon the cradle of the human race.
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