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, By Rev. Hiram Smith and the late Harvey Fowler. Revised by R. F. Fowler.
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
with mineral substances, and whenever the water drips on to anything, it is quickly coated over with a substance which becomes hard as, and assumes the character of, limestone in all manner of singular and grotesque shapes and forms which are much prized as curiosities.
A spring called Rockwell spring, similar to Cold creek, but much smaller, rises in the northwest corner of section four, near the base of a limestone bluff, and runs in a westerly direction and empties into Pickerel creek, in Sandusky county. It affords sufficient power for a flouring mill with two run of stone. The water, to an ordinary observer, is precisely like that of Cold creek.
Margaretta belongs to the same limestone forma- tion as Sandusky, Kelley's Island, and Marblehead; the whole of it is underlaid with the rock, and it crops out in many places in the southern part of the township. A soft limestone is found in several places in section one, which, when burned, made a superior quality of lime, and formerly, when wood was plenty, was burned in large quantities for home consumption, and sent to the counties south of here quite exten- sively.
TROUT RAISING.
In the fall of 1870, Mr. John Hoyt, proprietor of the Castalia paper mills (sinced burned ), procured a couple of thousand eggs of the brook or speckled trout, made hatching troughs, and thoroughly tested the practicability of raising tront in Cold creek, and was entirely successful in his venture. The following year he went into the business more largely, and as a result, from one end to the other the stream is now well stocked with fine trout. Some salmon have been put in by the State, but very few of them have been seen. The Castalia Sporting Club, a company of gen -* tlemen from Cleveland, have leased the fishing privi- leges of the lower end of the stream, from Mr. R. Heywood, so far as he controls it. The State built a fish hatchery house, but were unsuccessful, from some canse unknown to the author. The upper portion of the stream, including the two ponds, has been leased for twenty years by some of the citizens of Marga- retta and the adjacent townships, and some from Sandusky, who have incorporated a stock company to protect and propagate trout to stock this and other streams in this locality. The name of the organiza- tion is the "Cold Creek Trout Club."
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
FOR explanation of the following table the reader is referred to the history of Lyme township:
MARGARETTA, TOWN NUMBER SIX, RANGE TWENTY- FOUR.
CLASSIFICATION No. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
£
S
d.
Isaac Scudder
Joh Bartram
976
7
5
976
7
5
John Rich
72
0
His heirs
. .
7 016
€
8.
d
S.
d.
Ahrahain Lockwood 2 12
0
Jesup Wakeman &
Eben'z'r Jesup, Jr. 2
12
0
Josiah Wentworth 151
16
0 Nath'l Raymond, Jr. 1
10
911
Nath'l Street
33
12
9 Sam'l Middlebrook 32
11
912
Footing of Classification No. 1, £1,344
7
0
CLASSIFICATION No. 2, SECTION 2.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
Hezekiah Hanford
328
3
8
Ebenezer Jesup, Jr., Edward Jesup & Jesup Wakeman
328
3
8
James Fitch, Jr.
343
S
6
343
8
6
Isaiah Marvin
158
10
0
44
142
13
336
Asa Hoyt
381
17
0
=
381
17
0
Ebenezer Lockwood 82
2
2
44
48
4
Footing of Classification No. 2, £1,344
7
0
CLASSIFICATION No. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees. Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't classed.
Ebenezer Lockwood 82
2
This whole class is 33
116
Thomas Fitch
387
14
516
classified by Jesup 77
10
1016
Thos. Fitch's heirs
415
3
0
Wakeman, Ebene- 31
12
616
Hannah Fitch's h'rs 141
2
7
zer Jesup, Jr., and 10
14
1137
Stephen & Hooker
30
1
6
Jesup Wakeman 4
0
0
John Rich
21
3
0
one-half & the oth- 21
3
0
Joseph Beers
90
17
0
er half hy Eben'z'r 11
1 1016
Widow Eunice More- house
68
7
0
68
7
-
Gruman Morehouse
00
11
6
6
11
Solomon Sturges
319
g
279
Jos. Sturges' heirs
339
15
2
203
Ebenezer Bulkley
20
9
20
8
Daniel Jennings
32
2
12
16
6
2
Hannah Morehouse
33
18
33
18
Joseph Wakeman
4
0
0
0
0
Francis Bradley 3d
1
5
3
1
5
3
Rnth Burr
3
19
6
3
19
6
Hezekiah Sturges
532
8
3
15
13
516
David Jennings
18
10
13
11
4
House of Peter Bulk-
91
0
0
91
00
3
Jeremiah Jennings
196
12
11
196
12
11
Francis Forgue 151
16
0
78
0
1-
Footing of Classification No. 3 £1,344
CLASSIFICATION No. 4, SECTION 4.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
£
S.
d
Abigail Wynkoop
59
13
Jesup Wakeman
38
19
5
Hezekiah Sturges
583
3
..
118
6
316
Andrew Wakeman
207
14
2
207
14
Isaac Jennings
281
1
1
46
.4
281
1
12
816
William Dimon
625
8
1
William Dimon
625
8
1
Footing of Clssification No. 4, £1,344
7
0
£
8.
d
8
£
S
d.
S.
d.
100
0
0
Col. Stephen St. John 713
6
7
32
1
Jesse Morehouse
16
10
6
10
William Thorp
3
0
0
3
ley & Jos. Sturges
Ebenezer Morehouse 83
8
3
83
Ebenezer Bartram 144
10
3
In 1811, Messrs. Jesup and Wakeman sold, by contract, the township to Major Frederick Falley at seventy-five cents per acre. Major Falley sold several farms, and introduced many settlers while the town- ship was in his possession, but failing to raise the pur- chase money, he surrendered it to the proprietors in 1820. They appointed the late Hon. Jabez Wright their agent, and he sold several farms. About 1827, Ebenezer Jesup became sole proprietor of the town- ship, and his son, Ebenezer Jesup, Jr., resided there from 1829 to July, 1831, and in connection with Judge Wright sold about seven thousand acres of land to settlers at from three to five dollars per acre. On the 25th of July, 1831, the remainder, thirteen thou- sand acres, was sold to R. H. Heywood and the late John G. Camp, at one dollar per acre. At this time there was but a small portion of the township under cultivation. It was generally supposed that the oak openings were worthless, and the land between that
£ S. 661 16
d.
0
Jesup Wakeman & Eben'z'r Jesup, Jr. 330
18 0
6 3 693
7
7
2 29
John Hicklin
Edward Jesup, say
St. John
Jesup, Jr., and Ed-
ward Jesup.
7
0
d.
S.
0
Cornelius Stratten
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and the bay too wet for cultivation. A few opening lots had been sold the year before by Mr. Jesup and small improvements begun, but Calvin Smith, who knew their value as wheat land, bought two lots at two and a half dollars per acre, put in a large crop of wheat, and the result was surprising to many, and gave the land value, with the exception of a few hun- dred acres of prairie used for grazing. The land is, at this writing, 1879, all in the hands of farmers, and under a high state of cultivation, much of it being owned by small farmers, who are mostly Germans.
NAME.
Margaretta was first called Patterson, on the map issued by the Fire-lands Company, soon after their lands were surveyed. It was so named for Hugh Patterson, a British Indian trader, who talked of purchasing the township. Rev. Joseph Badger, a pioneer missionary of the Western Reserve, who labored among the Wyandot Indians most of the time from 1805 to 1810, speaks of him as exerting a most pernicious influence in trying to prejudice them against the United States government and the mis- sionary, by telling them falsehoods, and trying to persuade them to join the British against the United States. He says: "On the 28th of July, 1805, the head chief, Crane, sent for me, to write for him. After we had taken supper, one of the women made a candle of beeswax, and I seated myself on the floor, beside a bench, and wrote as dictated by the old chief, through an interpreter. He addressed the governor at Detroit, giving an account of one Williams, and requested that Williams, and Hugh Patterson, and one other person, be removed from among them without delay, as they were constantly contriving mis- chief, and troubling his people."
At a meeting of some of the early settlers of the Fire-lands, at Huron, on the 4th of July, 1812, after contemplating the glorious union, and the stirring events of the American revolution, they resolved, unanimously, that it was wrong for a township on the Fire-lands to bear the name of so vile a man as Pat- terson, and it was referred to Major Frederick Falley (who held a contract of purchase for the township at that time) to find another name. He replied that his mother, his sister, and several neices were named Margaret, and that the name of the township should be Margaretta, and it was accordingly so named.
INDIANS.
We do not know of there having been any Indian village or settlement, to any great extent of recent date, in this township, but we have seen corn hills which would indicate that some of the land here was cultivated by them, and the mounds and forts indi- cate that at some period Margaretta was largely pop- ulated by Indians. Mr. Dan Putnam, of Iowa, in- forms us that Major Falley told him that there were forty pack horses cut off by the Indians at the spring, one mile northeast of the head of Cold creek, and that
the horses belonged to some men who came there to trade; but he does not state at what time nor give any particulars.
Upon Hull's surrender in August, 1812, the people all left the township, some going south, others east. William Andrews was preparing a field of one hun- dred acres for wheat, just east of the burying ground, at the time, and left it, but some of them returued in time to put in forty acres of it. Mr. Pollock says they harrowed in the wheat carrying their guns on their backs.
Some time in May, 1813, sixteen Indians, in three birch bark canoes, landed at Pickerel creek, some ten or more miles west of Cold creek, headed by the chief, Pontiac, on a war excursion. They looked about the settlement until the second day of June, when a favorable opportunity presented itself for the accomplishment of their purpose. There were at this time but three families and two young men, who kept bachelors' home, in town, numbering twenty- nine, men, women and children all told. There were three houses at Cold creek at the time: Mr. Snow's, a little below the head of the creek, on the right bank; Mr. Butler's, on the opposite side of the stream, twelve rods or so east; Mr. Putnam lived one-half mile down the creek on the prairie near where the C. S. & C. railroad crosses the creek. On the day men- tioned all the men were at work in different places, remote from any house and from each other. Dan Putnam and Horace Markham were plowing east of where the burying ground now is. Mr. Uriel Put- nam and his two sons, Uriel and Ira, and Mr. Snow and his two sons, Alanson and Henry, were planting corn one mile and a half south of the place last men- tioned. Richard Fowler, Samuel Markham and Wm. Pollock were planting corn one mile northeast of Cold creek (now Castalia), and Henry Grass, an apprentice to the tanner trade, was at work near the present res- idence of Dr. Luce, a little north and west of the head of the creek. While the men were thus em- ployed, and in no position for defence, the women and children, twelve in number, were assembled at the house of Mr. Snow. About four o'clock in the afternoon, says Mrs. Putnam, the first she saw was the house full of Indians, one of whom seized her by the hair and led her out of the door, while another in like manner seized Mrs. Butler. Mrs. Snow, who was confined to her bed by illness, and near to ac- couchment, was pulled out of the house in the same rough manner as the others. They were then asked if they would go, and they replied that they would. Mrs. Putnam says: "I was then satisfied that they would not kill any one who could travel." Three Indians then came in with Henry Grass, taken while at work as stated before. His account was that the first he knew he was in the hands of three Indians. The children were at play out of doors, and when they saw the Indians they tried to secrete themselves, but were soon driven from their hiding places and drove off with their mothers. They took their pris-
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oners down the creek, perhaps forty rods, and crossed on a mill dam. Immediately after crossing the creek two boys, Charles Butler and Robert Snow, about two years old and the youngest of the families, were killed and scalped, their bodies stripped of clothing and thrown into a bunch of hazel bushes at the foot of a black oak tree. A few rods farther on Julia Butler, four years old, was killed. From there they took a southwesterly course, and came out near what is known as the Moorecraft place, where they killed Mrs. Snow on account of her inability to travel. Smith Butler was also killed, but his body was not found until the next fall, and we have not learned the ex- act spot nor his age, but he must have been ten or more years old. The Indians designed to keep him a captive, but he tried to escape from them and was so turbulent that they killed and sealped him.
The party that pursued them, the next day knew that young Butler was killed, for they found his pan- taloons, which had been handled with bloody fingers.
We will now go back to the house from which the captives were driven. After the women had been taken out, a few Indians collected all the clothing and other property, including a side-saddle, emptying the beds on the floor for the sake of the tieks, and broke the eroekery on the floor. They took all they could carry, compelling Henry Grass to carry a pack load, and left for their canoes at Pickerel creek. Meantime at the house of Mr. Putnam, a half a mile down Cold creek. were Mary Putnam, aged twelve years; Ezra Putnam, ten; Frank Putnam, eight; and George Butler, eight. About an hour after the attack they came up to Snow's house, saw the situation of things and went immediately to the field where Dan Mark- ham and Horace Putnam were at work, and told them that the Indians had been at Snow's house, plundered it, and taken all the inmates captive. Markham went with the children to the place where Mr. Putnam and Snow were at work with their sons, while Putnam hunted up Fowler, Pollock and Sam Markham. Both parties repaired immediately to the plundered house, and saw the ruins. It being about sunset they imme- diately went to Pipe creek, the nearest settlement, five miles southeast, and gathered all the available force to pursue the Indians the next day. In the morning the party having been increased by Captain Seth Har- rington, Capt. Sam Magill, James and John MeCord, and three or four more, proceeded forthwith to follow the trail and found the bodies of the murdered ones as above described. After passing the high bluff near the line of Sandusky county, and getting into the woods they took a northerly course and came out on the Bay shore, near the mouth of Pickerel. There they found that the Indians had put their booty and captives aboard their canoes and taken to the water, so that they could do nothing more in pursuit, and returned to perform the painful duty of burying their slaughtered friends. The bodies of the killed were stripped of clothing, their heads broken in by the tomahawk, and scalped.
The captives were hurriedly driven along, and those who were not able, as has been said, were killed; they were quietly taken one side by an Indian, and dis- patched, so that the survivors should not be witnesses of the scene. At Pickerel, after they had put their plunder and captives aboard, they crossed the bay to a point which is a mile and three-quarters from Port- age river or one of its branches. Here the whole party disembarked, the canoes unloaded and carried overland to Portage river. It took six Indians to carry the three canoes, and ten were employed in driving the captives, and carrying the plunder. This, says Mrs. Putnam, was the hardest part of the eaptiv- ity, for she was obliged to run and carry her boy. This was about daybreak on the third of June. The names of the captives were Mrs. Mary Putnam, aged fifty years; Mrs. Butler, thirty; Henry Grass, eighteen; Hannah Page, fourteen; Electa Snow, fifteen; Laura, ten; Willard Snow, six; Orlin Putnam, four. The last named, the youngest, would, doubtless, have been killed had it not been for the resolution of his mother in keeping him with her, and the assistance rendered by Grass in helping to carry him. On the arrival of the party at Portage river, the canoes were launched, and they went down the river to the lake, and up the lake some distance where they landed, and the Indians cooked food, and ate, offering some to their captives, which was refused. They also stretched the scalps taken, on wooden hoops, and hung them in the sun to dry, remaining there over night. In the morning they took to their crafts, and went to Malden, and from there to Detroit where the captives were deliverd up to the British Indian agent by the name of Iron- side. They suffered no violenee from their captors, except to travel much faster than was comfortable.
After leaving their homes, they were three days on their way to Detroit, and during that time, took no food. They were asked by the agent how they fared, and whether they had been given anything to eat; they replied that they had eaten nothing, though food had been offered to them; "Ah," said he, "if you had been with them a mouth, you would eat with them; you have not been long enough with them." After their arrival at Detroit, they fared well, and staid there until General Harrison moved his army on to Malden in the fall, which opened communication with Detroit, and then Snow, Putnam and Butler went after them, and all the captives returned safely, except Henry Grass, who being a Canadian, went to his father's home in Canada. The friends of the prisoners frequently heard of them by deserters who left Detroit, but they could not communicate any thing to them, as Detroit was in the hands of the British.
In the spring of 1819, John Ward, of Margaretta, and George Bishop, of Danbury, were trapping in Danbury, in the vicinity of the two harbors. They had collected a few skins, and lay down, in their temporary hut, for the night. Three straggling Ottawa Indians, to obtain their little pittance of furs,
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laid their plans to kill the trappers. After complet- ing their arrangements, the two oldest, Ne-go-sheek and Ne-gon-a-ba, armed with clubs, singled out each his victim, and with a well directed blow upon the head they despatched their innocent victims. They then forced their younger companion, Ne-ga-sow, to beat the bodies with a club (as he had been merely a spectator to the tragedy), that he might think that he was participator in the crime, and so refrain from exposing them. With the assistance of some other Indians, they were arrested in a few days. The two murderers were convicted, and hung at Norwalk, June, 1819. The youngest was acquitted. Ward left a widow to mourn his untimely fate. Bishop was a single man.
SETTLEMENT.
Docartus P. Snow, a native of Vermont, we think, came from the State of New York, to Margaretta, in the spring of 1810. He felled the first tree and built the first log house, settling on lot - in the third section. It is said (we suppose it is true) that the proprietor of the township donated to him one hundred acres of land, in consideration of his build- ing a grist mill, on Cold creek, in those early days. He died in 1829. His widow (being his second wife) married Philip S. Cowell, and still resides on the lot which Mr. Snow took up. Four of his children are dead, namely: Henry, Alanson, Electa and Laura. Where his other two sons reside I do not know.
Uziel Putnam came into the township in 1810 or 1811, from the State of New York. He lived on Cold creek, below Mr. Snow's. After the return of his wife from captivity, he lived on lot number twenty- three, section one. About two years afterward he bonght fifty acres of land on the east side of Cold creek, where he lived several years. In 1821, he moved to Sandusky county, and was killed by being thrown from a sleigh, in 1822. His wife survived him but a year or two. His sons now live in the western States. Horace and Samuel Markham came here with Mr. Putnam, and afterward, with their father, settled in Groton township.
Thomas Lord came to Margaretta from Conneaut, Pennsylvania, in 1810, built a log honse on lot twenty- three, first section, in 1811, and returned to Conneant in 1812.
Israel Harrington built a log house on lot twenty- three, first section, in 1812, and moved to Lower Sandusky the next year. William Andrus built a house on the south side of the head of Cold creek, in 1811, and began preparations for putting in one hundred acres of wheat, but he and his men were driven off by the surrender of Hull, and he did not return .. Charles Butler came to Margaretta in 1811 or '12, located on the bank of Cold creek, near the head of the Venice mill-race, and moved to the head of the creek in the spring of 1813. Richard Fowler lived, temporarily, in Margaretta in 1813. He came from Massachusetts, and returned there. Charles
Wilson, a carpenter, was here in 1811. From whence he came, how long he stayed, or where he went, we cannot learn. William Pollock was here in 1811, '12 and '13. The three last were unmarried. In 1814, Mr. Fitch built a house east of the head of Cold creek, and commenced the dairy business with one hundred cows, . but did not succeed well. He had sickness in his family, and lost a little girl. He left. the same year, and it was understood that he was from eastern Ohio.
James Vanness, from the State of New York, settled on lot one. section one, in 1814, and lived there until about 1830, when he left, and died in Fremont abont 1849.
Ebenezer Hartwell came to Margaretta from Can- ada, June, 1815; settled on lot seven, section one. He died about 1850. His sons, Richard, John, and Hen- ry, now reside in Iowa. Two of his daughters, the wife of Hiram Barnes and the widow of Stephen Rog- ers, now reside in the township. One of his daugh- ters. the wife of Isaac Smith, lives in Indiana.
Abram Townsend came here from Canada in 1816; settled on lot fifteen, section one. He sold to James Duncan, and moved to Townsend, Sandusky county, in 1818.
Andrus Parker came to this township from Con- neant, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1815, and lived on the bank of Cold creek at the head of the Venice mill race one year. He then moved to lot sixteen, section two, and returned to Pennsylvania in 1828. His son Elihu now resides on lot twenty, first section. His other sons, Andrus, Washington, and Greene, have gone west.
Philip Sutton settled on the northwest. corner lot of the township, and moved from there about 1821. Peter Dunham settled on lot two, section two, in 1816, and died in 1830. Two men, named Shipy and Spencer, were early settlers in that vicinity. Jonas Lewis, same place, from 1817 to '22. Eli Hunt and John Hugh settled near the saw mill west of Venice. Thomas Morris located on lot thirty, first section, in 1816, and left for Indiana in 1823. Dougal Campbell located on lot thirteen, first section, in 1816, and died in 1852; some of his children still reside here. L. F. Allen, now a resident of Black Rock, New York, re- sided in Margaretta from March, 1818, to 1822. Har- vey Fowler settled on lot twenty-four in section one, in the fall of 1818, and resided there until his death, February 18, 18:5. Ira Barnes came here in 1818; located in the northwest part of the township. Henry Cole came here in 1815, and died in 1830. Thomas McColongh came in 1817, and died in 1850. A. M. Porter came in 1817, and died in Sandusky. Samnel Walker settled on lot seven, second section, in 1816, and died in 1831. Pliny Brown located on lot seven in section two, and lived there all his life; he died in December, 1860. His wife died three or four years after. George R. Crittenden came here from Detroit in 1814, and left for the west part of Michigan in 1828. Mr. Curdy located on lots twenty-two and six-
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teen, first section, in 1818, and James Duncan on lot fifteen, same section, at the same time. They both left for Indiana about 1821.
Richard Falley located on lot twenty, section two, in 1818, and died there in 1835. A young man by the name of Coolige came here in 1816 and died in 1817. John Cowell located in the northwestern part of the township in 1818, and lived there until his death, in the summer of 1871. Philip S. Cowell came about 1820, and located at Castalia, and lived there until his death, in 1869. Major Frederick Falley erected a frame for a house and raised a large barn in 1818, the first frame building built on farms in the township. Both were standing until quite re- cently.
Joshua Pettingill and his son Samuel came here about 1816, and about half a mile below Mr. Snow's, on Cold creek. They were natives of Vermont, and lived on the Cove east of Sandusky during the war of 1812. Both died in Townsend, Sandusky county, several years since.
Of these first settlers, the following took part in the Revolutionary War and 1812: Major Frederick Falley, when but eleven years old, accompanied his father as fifer in the company of which his father was captain, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. After General Washington came into the command of the army, he returned home with his father, who was em- ployed by the government in the manufacture of fire- arms during the war. He died in Margaretta, July 3, 1828, aged sixty-four.
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