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" Those who witnessed the flood of the spring of 1818 in the Maumee never forgot it. The floating ice gorged at the Big Island at night, and water soon covered the flats a number of feet deep. The inhabitants of Orleans were awakened by the rushing and surging of the flood and crushing of the ice cakes, and, hasten- ing to look out, found themselves surrounded by an angry sea. The neighbors came in a boat, and I was handed out of the window. While everyone was busy, the cradle, which had been floating about with the baby in it, started out of the door, and would have soon gone sailing down the river, had it not been quickly caught. We, with others who had been rescued in a similar manner, found shelter in the house of Mr. Mc- Ilrath, on the hill-side. Sixty or seventy years ago the few inhabitants of this section of the Valley were very social in their intercourse with each other, and no great formality was used in becom- ing acquainted. Where similarity of tastes were found between families, the strongest friendships were formed, which (although they afterward be- came widely scattered) have lasted throughout a lifetime. Charming evening gatherings were held around the glowing fire, of which those early settlers retained the fondest memories, through- out succeeding years fraught with wonderful changes and startling events. Young people did
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not hesitate to marry in those days because they had not yet secured a competence: it was to be a helpmeet in making their united future one of prosperity and happiness. From 1818 to 1826, the young men, or the 'big boys,' as the little folks called them, of the Fort Hill school, left home and friends to seek their fortunes. Some wandered south, while others entered the lake service, many of whom subsequently became ex- perienced sailors, and noted as the commanders and owners of some of the finest lake craft. My eldest brother, Freeman, at the age of eighteen, went to Portland (now Sandusky City), appren- ticed himself to a ship builder, and became a inaster builder. One time when I was visiting at Port Lawrence (Toledo) my attention was called by Mr. Baldwin to a beautiful ship lying at anchor in the river, named the .Eclipse.' This was the first large vessel which my brother had built, and the family were naturally proud of his success. He soon afterward went on a voy - age to Europe, visiting the shipyards of Amster- dam and Liverpool. At this time it was a great distinction to go abroad on business or pleasure. Afterward he drifted southward, establishing shipyards on the Mississippi, and died at the early age of thirty-five. Two other schoolmates, John and Richard Craw, found early graves in the South. Among the boys of the Fort Hill school, who left Orleans in their early manhood to battle with the world and carve out their fame and fortune, are the following: John and Richard Craw, nephews of the Spafford brothers; Edward Wilkinson, brother of Capt. David Wilkinson, who had already become an experienced sailor; James Thomas; Anson and Truman Reed, broth- ers; Freeman and Harvey Wilkinson, brothers.
" It did not take many years to demonstrate that Orleans was never going to be the 'Queen City' of the North, as was fondly anticipated by those who established it. Other points down the river were more accessible as a landing for the large boats which were beginning to ply be- tween the Maumee river and lake cities, and it was found that the town was liable to be flooded at every spring freshet. One by one, the Orlean- ists pulled up stakes and located at the rival town of Perrysburg, or elsewhere. By the winter of 1825-26, I think they were all gone but two fam- ilies; from that time until 1830, my father and Aurora Spafford, with their families, were the only permanent residents, although people cou- tinued to move to and fro, stopping at Orleans for the purpose of taking a rest, a long breath and a new start.
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1830), the late Mrs. Miranda Crane (a step- daughter of Judge Spafford), and the writer were the only young ladies in Orleans. The girls of that. time were taught to help their mothers, from the days of early childhood being employed at anything useful that their little hands could do. As years rolled on they were taught to knit, spin, sew and do all manner of housework; at fifteen they were usually capable of taking entire charge of household affairs, when required. A large por- tion of the cloth used for wearing apparel was spun at home, especially men's clothing. After cotton goods came into the market farmers ceased raising flax for their wives and daughters to_ manufacture into cloth. As a matter of course, all were rejoiced when their daily lives were relieved of this drudgery, and the old spin- ning-wheel was set aside, consigned to future generations as an interesting relic of the past. When calico was first introduced into the Orleans market, it ranged in price from 40 cents to 75 cents a yard."
Mrs. Hester Green's Story .- Mrs. Hester (Purdy) Green, who was here as early as the year ISIO. makes the following references to the persons and incidents of the time and place: "I moved to the Maumee Rapids, in ISIo, with my father, Daniel Purdy, from the State of New York. There came with us, from the same place, with their families, Wm. Carter, Andrew Race (son-in-law of Carter), Mr. Hopkins, Ste- phen Hoit and Mr. Porter. David Hull (a nephew of Gen. Hull) kept a store and tavern. Being a bachelor, his sister kept house for him, and I lived with them part of the time. Hall had a clerk by the name of Antoine LaPoint, a pretty shrewd fellow who could speak English, French and Indian. Among the names of the French who were there, when we came, were M. Beaugrand, Minor, Lorengy, M. Emell. Bap- tiste Momeny, M. Guilliam, and Peter Williams (half French). Among the others remembered were Spafford, a man of very fine appearance, who was port collector, receiving four hundred dollars a year salary for collecting tax on goods brought on boats; his son Aurora; Amos Hecock (son-in-law of Spafford); Mr. Blalock, who lived about a mile south of us, a gunsmith, and who was said to make counterfeit money; John Woods; Jesse Skinner: Mr. Carlin, a blacksmith; Mr. Scribner; John Kelly, who taught our school: James Ruling, silversmith; Peter Momeny: John Carter; and two or three families south of Bla- locks.
"Our town was at the Foot of the Rapids, and my father lived about eight rods from the
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river, opposite an island. Fish were very plenty. Large ones could be caught in abundance with the hook and line. We would throw them on the bank as we caught them, and then selecting the finest for the table we left the remainder for the hogs to eat. Among the fish caught were sturgeon, muskalonge, pickerel and bass. We gathered huckleberries about two miles from home. It was amusing to see the squaws gather- ing; they would hold a kettle or pan under the bushes, and beat the berries off with a stick. I have seen forty or fifty lodges of Indians en- camped here; they were on their way to Malden to get their presents. We got our milling done at the River Raisin, about thirty miles away. Game was abundant, live stock was easily raised on the prairies, and we enjoyed a free and easy life until the mutterings of war began to fill us with alarm; then the arrival of Gen. Hull, and his splendid army, reassured us. He left a small command here who built a fort, or block-house, for our protection. Thus we lived in security until a messenger arrived informing us that Gen. Hull had sold his army, and that we would have to leave. Then all was fright and confusion. We, and most of the others, excepting the sol- diers, gathered what we could handily, and left. We stopped at Blalock's a short time, and an In- dian messenger arrived telling us to come back as they would not kill us, but only wanted some of our property; looking around until he found Bla- lock's gun, he took it, went out and got a horse my mother had ridden to this point, and de- . parted. We went back and remained three days, in which time the Indians were pretty busy in driving off our live stock (we lost sixteen head), and plundering the houses of such as had not come back. Mr. Guilliam was one who fled, leaving everything behind, and had not the pres- ence of danger filled us with alarm, we would have been anused to see the Indians plundering his house. The feather beds were brought out, ripped open and the featliers scattered to the winds, the ticks alone being deemed valuable. But our stay was short, only three days. when the commandant of the fort informed us that he would burn the fort and stores and leave, inviting us to take such of the provisions as we might need. Consternation again seized upon us, and we hastily reloaded our wagons and left. We stayed the first night at a house eight or ten miles south of the Rapids. In the black swamp, the load became too heavy, and they rolled out a barrel of flour and a barrel of meat, which they had obtained at the fort. Mr. Hopkins, John Carter, Mr. Scribner and William Race went
back the next fall to gather their crops, and they were all killed by the Indians. John Carter was attacked while in a boat on the river, and they had quite a hard fight before they got his scalp. After many years the government gave the Pur- dys four hundred dollars for the crops and stock left behind them in their flight."
Reminiscences of Mrs. Philothe Clark. In the reminiscences of Mrs. Philothe (Case) Clark, she speaks of her coming with her father, two young men named Scribner and Lapeer, and a number of others, who arrived at the Maumee settlement May 1, 1811, and raised some crops that -season. Continuing, she says : "Several heads of families died before the next winter. My father's sister died on the roth of August, and his mother died on the 12th. There were no boards to be had, so he took his broad-axe, and with two other men went into the woods and felled a basswood tree, from which they split out puncheons. These he hewed and planed, and with his own hands made the coffin, and helped to bury their dead, where Fort Meigs was after- ward built. My father's own family suffered very much. He was sick with fever and ague, and many days, and for hours at a time, there was not a member of the family able to help himself. All the water that we could have for twenty-four hours was two pails of river water, brought in every morning by a kind neighbor. His little child, two years old, died soon afterward. In the spring of 1812 my father planted potatoes and corn on the island in the river. The army made use of it, and he got his pay for it from the government. There was a company of soldiers stationed near us; but they left immediately after we heard of Hull's surrender. A British officer. with a few soldiers and a band of Indian warriors, came to take possession of what public stores there were at that place. The Indians plundered a few houses, took all the horses and mules they could find, and left. The inhabitants had to leave, -some of them in open boats. Our family, in company with twelve other families. left by land. We took the road to Urbana, cut through by Gen. Hull's army. After a toilsome journey of two weeks through the mud of the Black Swamp, nearly devoured by mosquitoes. sometimes with no water except what stood in the cattle tracks, we arrived safely at Urbana, where we drew government rations until we separated for our several destinations."
The late Hezekiah L. Hosmer, who knew Peter Minor, an actor in the early settlement.
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and wrote down the pioneer's recollections of Perrysburg, speaks of Sac-a-manc, an Indian warrior, giving Peter Minor notice of British in- tentions, of the flight of the Spafford family, and of the advance of the British and Indians under the notorious Col. Elliott. The story varies but little from the relations already given.
In the history of Rice township, Sandusky county, written by Hon. Homer Everett, is an account of a French colony from the Maumee, which located near Lower Sandusky in 1812-13, as follows: "After peace had been restored in 1815, this township became the home of many of the French families of the colony, which left. the Maumee and came to Lower Sandusky three years earlier. The original settlement of these people, after coming to America, was at Monroe, Mich. They afterward established themselves on the Maumee, where they settled down to hab- its of industry. But the opening of the British and Indian hostilities, in 1812, compelled an- other removal, and doomed them to four years of migration and unsettled life. In January, 1813, by direction of the government, about twenty families packed their possessions and started for Lower Sandusky. It was a fortunate circumstance that heavy ice, well covered with snow, gave them an easy course of travel, and at the same time made it possible to avoid the sav- age enemies of the forest. All being in readi- ness, a French train was formed. This con- sisted of a procession of one-horse sleighs, the runners of which were made of boards. The train was placed under direction of a Frenchman named Peter Maltosh, who had been an Indian trader. The journey to Locust Point, over the ice, was made in one day. On the following day, Portage (Port Clinton, as it was then called) was reached, and, the third day, Lower Sandus- ky. The colony was given quarters in the gov- ernment barracks until spring, when cabins were built for them. In August, 1813, they were, by order of the government, removed to Upper San- dusky until the conclusion of the war, when they were moved back in government wagons. They had been wards of the government during the war, and the able-bodied among them bore their parts bravely in the lines of soldiery." The names of these refugees, some of whom returned to the Maumee at the close of the war, so far as can be learned, were Joseph Cavalier and wife, who died at Fort Stephenson; Albert Cavalier, their son, Mrs. Jaco, Gabriel O'Dett de La Point, Thomas De Mars, Bisnette, Joseph, John and Peter Momeny, Peter Minor's family, Charles Fountaine, Christopher Columbo, and the Devoir
family, consisting of five brothers, and Maltosh, the guide. This concludes the broken threads of the story of the destroyed settlement on the Maumee.
Men of 1839 .- In 1839, an enumeration of all male citizens over twenty-one years of age, in the township was made by County Assessor Samuel Matthews. In February, 1877, the Sentinel copied the lists and published them, and from that paper the following names are taken: Seneca Sterling, Edward Hotchkis, Allen Hills, Isaac Stetson, Addison Smith, Henry Mandell, R. L. McKnight, Willard V. Way, Henry Ben- nett, Joseph Cornell, James F. Stubbs, Gilbert Beach, Aaron B. Banks, Horace Hall, Jolin Hall, .Horatio Hall, James Mecham, D. Wilkinson, Wm. Irwin, David Allen, R. B. Nichols, Charles Rus- sell, Phillip Hahn, Barnet Kenedy, James Bell- ville, Peter Cranker, Thomas Child, Loomis Brigham, Thomas L. Webb, Henry Ross, Reuben Sawyer, John Fay, Daniel Lindsey, Jolin C. Kellogg, A. Coffinberry, John Bates, Henry Cook, Jarvis Spafford, Jeremiah C. Crane, James M. Spafford, Amos Spafford, Otis Wheelock, W. WV. Wheelock, Abraham L. Fowler, Samuel B. Campbell, Walter W. Slason, John Kridler, Ed- ward Bissel, Edward Freeman, E. D. Peck, W. P. Griswould, Abner Brown, John Webb, Jacob Regle, C. G. Minkler, W. W. Covey, H. L. Hosmer, J. B. Lewis, Andrew Burns, L. R. Austin, D. C. Doan, William Nettle, Jonathan Perrin, Phillip Loup, Cyrus Darling, Peter Laney, William Crook, S. M. Beach, James Birdsall, Pearl Simons, Christian Houtz, John Birdsall, Worling Bradford, George Hopper, Joseph Creps, Joseph A. Creps, George Creps, David Creps, Shibnah Spink, C. C. Roby, Will- iam Houston, Eber Wilson, Charles Wilson, Harry Ewing, Samuel Burke, Samuel Wilson, Jacob Mark, Hiram Pratt, Benjamin Thornton, Isaac Bloomfield, J. W. Turner, William Zieg- ler, John Hollister, B. F. Hollister, John W. Smith, Josiah Miller, George Chollette, S. P. Johnson, Christian, William Earl, James Brown, Abraham Carter, J. T. Purvis. Rob- inson, David Johnson, J. L. Crane, James Coffin- berry, Charles Donnelley, Thomas Bloomfield, Abram Gray, Thomas Pheatt, David Perrin, Elijah Huntington, Joshua Chappel, Hiram Davis, William P. Reman, William Russell, Levi C. Lock, Benjamin Russell, William Kelley, Har- vey T. Smith, E. M. Knight, C. T. Woodruff, Theodore Clark, John Smith, Wieck, Adam Mitts, Jonas Bishop, Samuel Bishop, James T. Rey. Benjamin Rathbone, Jolin Elliott, Edward Bon- nell, Laban Radway, Solomon Thompson, Fletcher Joy, Elial Bacon, Simon Teeple, Benj.
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Minor, John R. Kelley, Joseph Clary, H. H. Courser, John C. Smith. Joseph Winters, C. W. Norton, Asahel Paine, Daniel H. Wheeler, William Crook, William L. Cook, James Blinn, Nelson Talmage, Adam Bates, Robert Davidson, Charles Bowsprit, Charles Lambert, Christopher Hetching, Robert Shaw, Luther Jackson, William Findlay, John Shepler, William B. Tillotson, William Weddle, Baty, Robert Reed, William Mack, Benjamin Gill, T. Rudsill, David Ross, C. D. Woodruff, Westcott Smith, Robert Miller, William Deyo, Charles Shepard, Henry Thorn- ton, John Ziegler, Seth Bruce, Wright, T. Free- man, Joshua Chappel, Elijah Herrick, Perry Curtis, Jairus Curtis, Uriah Piersons, Walter Buel, Alonzo Rogers, Darius Harris, William L. Cook, Joshua Rolf, Jedediah Loup. Christo- pher Perrin, J. W. Ferrell, Nathaniel Dustin, Henry Darling, John C. Spink, George Drewry, Alexander Decker, Victor Jennison, George Firdig, John Bishop, Ralph Ogle, John Van Hel- len, Henry Van Hellen, Henry Waggoner, Bar- nabas Allen, Abel Leach, Mark Havens, William Loup, James Conaway, David Staler, Jacob Kline, William Kline, McMichael, Abraham Beaver, Ora Abbey, Charles Abbey, J. H. Thurs- tin. J. McGrain, J. Hoover, Ruda Lusher, Thomas Kinsley. Jonathan Jenkins, Patrick Carl, Thomas Farlin, John McGee, Patrick Cauington, John Hollis, Silas Burk, Edward Burk, H. La- droist, George Fox, Felix Casper, Francis Powers, Augustus Cook, H. Turrel, J. S. Sabin, J. A. Hancock, George House, Peter Rible, Nor- man Zimerer, George Price, W. S. Haskins, W. O'Brien, John Brownsberger, Jacob Lusher, A. F. Striker, David Johnson, Benjamin McIn- tire, John Riley, S. Belongy, Lary Sutton, Frank Bushel, Henry Roberts, John Beninger, Jaines Barber, James Kelley, John McCoy, John Perrin, George Longel, Darius Budges, Stephen Phillips, Michael Rhom, John Hetsinger, Henry Lusher, Daniel Klinger, Phillip Croove, Phillip Croove, Jr., Conrad Seymour. F. B. Rowley, Aaron Hig- gins, Nathan Russell, George Coleman, John Shaver, John McKey, James Hollington, Moses Higgins, A. M. Thompson, Gideon Hord, John Harvey, Chester Blinn, George Powers, J. M. Hall, and Geo. Flack.
The following are names of those employed on steamers " Wayne" and " Perry": N. Gard- ner, J. Matthews, S. Pierce, W. Watkins, Sandy. Archy, Thomas, Wilbour, Stewart, Rogers, Mallory, Hathaway, Joles, Williams, Russell, Dimick, Westcott, Smith, Printis, John McKee, W. Watts, J. F. Stubbs, C. Harrison, P. Allen,
J. Green, W. Nukols, O. Whitmore, R. Louncy, and T. Watts.
This list shows the names of 331 adult males, against 1, 153 souls enumerated in the whole county, so that Perrysburg township of 1839 represented the great majority of the bread-win- ning population of the county. Within the en- suing ten years, many immigrants located in the township. The tyranny of class government in Ireland and Germany, and the political troubles of Europe in 1846, 1847 and 1848, drove large numbers of the people to the shores of the United States, whence they spread out westward. Such families as the Hayeses, who came in 1848, and own Fort Meigs, and the Germans, named in the history of Perrysburg village, who came fromn Hesse Darmstadt and Rhenish provinces, have taken a most important part in the development of the township, and the building of the village.
The Old and New Hamlets .- The town of Orleans on Tracts 65 and 66, in the United States Reserve of twelve miles square, was founded in 1817, shortly after the return of the refugees to the Maumee, and surveyed by J. J. Lovett. It was re-surveyed in December, 1825, by Seneca Allen, for Frederick A. Stuart, and Lots :38 and 139 set apart for public buildings, on condition that the seat of justice should be fixed there. The effort was a useless one, for, with the exception of part of the Wilkinson family, Mrs. Omans, and. perhaps, one other family, theresidents moved down to Perrysburg, in 1823. To-day, the site of this first settlement of English-speaking people in Wood county, is clothed in grass, like Fort Meigs. The Hayes family located there in 1847 or 1848. while yet the old Hollister building was standing. and, for the succeeding forty-eight years. Mi- chael Hayes and his brothers have seen to it that the site of the old town, and of the fort above it. have not been subjected to the plow, or exposed to the vandals. In 1816, David Hall opened the first tavern in the new town, and a year later, Joseph Vance established a store under the fort. Both houses were open on April 17, 1817. when Joshua Chappel arrived at that point. Down to 1830 a few of the first settlers made the place their home. The history of the rise and fall of that village is told elsewhere.
Lime City, on Road Tract 13, T. 4, of the U. S. Reserve, was surveyed by C. H. Judson in October, 1887, for C. H. Sawyer. It received its name in July, 1885, when a post office was established, which, at the request of the petition- ers, was named Lime City, and L. S. Warner ap- pointed master. In January, 1895, Anna Pelton resigned the office, and a sister of the first post-
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master was appointed. A reference to the chap- ter on Roads, and also to the chapter on Troy township, will inform the reader on the building and history of the Western Reserve road. Down to 1852, Stoneburner's tavern, where Lime City now stands, was a well-known hostelry. In the "forties," particularly, "Stoneburner's " was a famous hotel, approaching the " Exchange," at Perrysburg.
The lime works were established in 1883 or 1884 by C. H. Sawyer, near the two old Mc- Monigle lime-kilns. Mr. Sawyer operated the quarry until 1888, when the first kilns were built. In 1891 the Lime City Company was organized, with C. H. Sawyer, president; W. B. Scott, vice- president; John B. Bronson, secretary and treas- urer; and George Brecd. superintendent. This company added four kilns to the two established in 1888, the capacity of which is about 100,000 barrels annually. The company quarry a fine building stone, and also operate a stone-crusher, with a capacity of about 1, 500 car-loads annually. The works employ from thirty to eighty men.
James J. Smith, with Hitchcock and Fink, were the principal farmers of the place before the town was surveyed. Shover & Warner opened the first store, and within a short time a few more business houses were started.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, of Lime City, may be said to be contemporary with the establishment of the village, when a frame meeting-house was erected. Among the mem- bers at that time, and in 1890, were: John, Thos. H. and Jane Tinney, J. M. Deams, Albert Brownsberger, Mary S. and Jos. Perkins, Mellie Warner, Maggie, Mary and Emma Creps, John and Annie Greiner, Julia Bench, Mrs. D. Sim- mons, Anna and Sarah Trowbridge, Maud and Ida Hamilton, George L. and May Meek, Frank Schumaker, Cordelia Pelton, Annie Pelton, Or- lando Edelman, Alma Warner and Louis Laney. John Bench and John Greiner have been class- leaders in recent years. In January, 1895, John Bench was elected superintendent of the Sunday- school; E. E. Kerns, assistant superintendent; F. A. Cox, treasurer; G. L. Wheeler, secretary and librarian; and Frances Lusher, organist.
Linson was surveyed for Elliott Warner, A. D. Stewart, R. V. Chamberlain and George Kimberlin, by David Donaldson, in July, 1875. Like Marengo, Manhattan and Orleans of the North, Linson is only a memory.
Hobart was the name borne by a post office on the extreme northeastern corner of the town- lup. It was discontinued in November, 1895. Schools .- The township school record dates
back to May 21, 1853, when Eber Wilson. Jerome Smith, Lorenzo Blackman, John Shaner, WV. W. Morse and Horace Hollister, with James Hood, secretary. were present. The sum of $400 was appropriated for a school building in District 9, on Road Tract No. 24; small sums for repairs on school houses in Districts 5. 7. S and to, and $400 for a new house in District 5. In April. 1354, the sum of $400 was appropriated for a house in District 10. Nathaniel Strickland was one of the trustees or directors in I854. while the names of W. A. Lanigan and Henry M. Morse, with J. P. Thompson, clerk, appear in 1855. School buildings were authorized for Districts 6 and 3, and repairs on the other houses ordered. In 1858, there were 321 children en- umerated; in 1879, there were 377 male and 318 female children enumerated; in 1880, 697; and in 1881, 719. The State apportionment was $541. 50, and the local, $445.63-a total of $987. 13.
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