Past and present of Knox County, Ohio, Vol. I, Part 2

Author: Williams, Albert B., 1847-1911, ed
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., B. F. Bowen & company
Number of Pages: 422


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Ohio Made a State


27


Ohio, Population of


391


Ohio Register


140


Ohio Sanitorium


394


Ohio Territory Organized


25


Old-style Apprenticeship


397


One Hundred Forty-second Home


Guards


231


One Hundred Twenty-fifth Ohio Reg. 229 One Hundred Twenty-first Ohio Reg. 22S Organization of County Seat. 48


Organization of Knox County 44


Organization of Morrow County


47


Organization of Ohio Territory


25


Organization of Townships.


292


Original Territory


46


Origin of First Settlers


55


Origin of the Delawares


30


Other Railroads


105


Owl Creek Bank


260


Owl Creek Baptist Church


172


Owl Creek Lodge No. 686, I. O. O. F. 205


HISTORICAL INDEX.


P


Palmyra


303


Parish Schools 121


Petroleum


38


Physicians of Knox County


250


Physicians, Present


257


Pike Township


368


Pioneer Customs


59


Pioneer Houses


66


Pioneers and Whisky


61


Pleasant Township 371


Population, Early


58


Population of Knox County


391


Population of Mt. Vernon 279


Population of Ohio


391


Postoffices of Knox County


397


Preglacial Channels


34


Presbyterian Church


147


Present Court House


78


Present Physicians


257


Presidential Electors


S5


Probate Judges


92


Prosecuting Attorneys 88


Prospecting and Results 38


Protestant Episcopal Church 190


Public Buildings


74


Public Library, Mt. Vernon


282


Q


Quakers Come in 58


Quindaro Lodge No. 316, I. O. O. F. 203


Railroad, A Wooden 104


Railroads, Early 103


Recorders


85


Refugee Lands 25


Religiously Insane 311


Results of First Election. 45


Roman Catholic Churches. 179


Rossville


378


S


Sad Mistake 216


St. Luke's Catholic Church


183


St. Paul's Episcopal Church


190


St. Vincent de Paul Church


181


St. Vincent de Paul School.


182


Sanitary Commission


222


School Houses, First 113


Schools, Early


109


Schools in General


120


Schools of Mt. Vernon 116


Schools, Parochial 121


Second Court House 74


Second Heavy Artillery 230


Senators, State


84


Settlement, Early 52


Settlement, First Permanent 56


Settler, First White 55


Settlers, First


52


Seventh-day Adventists 175


Sheriffs


87


Sixty-fifth Ohio Regiment 226


Smith, James


53


Society of Friends 176


Soldiers' Bounties 221


Soldiers' Monument


232


Spanish-American War


234


"Squirrel Hunters"


231


State Representatives 84


State Senators


SI


Storms


398


Streams 42


Superstitions, Early 62


Survey, Boundary, of 1812. 28


Surveyors


91


Surveys, Early


25


Sycamore Valley Lodge No. 553, I. O.


O. F.


204


T


Teachers, Early


111


Teaching Agriculture 102


Telegraph Companies


106


Texas War


212


The Press


140


The Young Guard


214


Third Court House


76


Thirtieth Ohio Regiment


225


Thirty-second Ohio Regiment


225


Thrall Lodge No. 170, F. & A. M. 199


Timber in Knox County


37


Timon Lodge No. 45, K. P.


205


Topography


35


Township Histories 292


Townships Detached from Knox 47


Treasurers, County


87


Treaties of 1817 and 1829 33


Treaty of 1785


29


Tri-County Leader


145


Twentieth Ohio Regiment


225


HISTORICAL INDEX.


U


Union Churches 177


Union Township 374


United Brethren Churches. 174


United Presbyterian Church


152


United States Military Lands.


25


Universalist Advocate


145


Universalist Churches


175


V


Village Plats 393


Violent Storms 398


Virginia Military Reservation


25


War Meetings


219


War of 1812


208


Waterford 357


Wayne Baptist Church 173


Wayne Lodge No. 303, K. P 206


Wayne Township


381


Wearing Apparel, Early 62


Wesleyan Methodists 169


West, Judge, William H. 399


Western Reserve 25


Western Watchman 142


Westminster Academy 115


Whisky and Pioneers 61


Wolf Traps


68


Wooden Railroad


104


Y


Young Men's Christian Ass'n


283


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX


A


Ackerman, Louis B. 715


Ackley, Solon B. 621


Alan, John S. 447 1 1


Allen, George


S57


1


Allen, Henry A. 576 1 1


Amos, Frederick


867


I


Amos, John F.


866


Anderson, Robert C.


830


Arndt, George D. 454


Arndt, John L.


454


B


Banbury, Harry S71


Banbury, John C. 872


Barber, Clark M. 823


Beach, Charles H.


856


1


Beal, Joseph 496


Beal, Michael 499


Beam, Frank L. 1 826


1


Beaty, John


655


Beck, Charles A. 653 1 1


Beggs, Edward C.


642


Bell, J. Edward


1 807


Bell, Lloyd M.


I 721


Bennett, Frank L. 635


Bennett, George W. 1 788


Bermont, Charles L. 695


1


Berry, Patrick A.


555


I Best, Sylvester R. 754


Bishop, Allen 583


Bishop, Charles L. 816


Bishop, Clayton H. 582


Bishop, Fred


815


Blackburn, Charles W. S94


Blue, Clem L. V. 734


Blue, Hamilton 735


1 Boggs, Coleman E. 516 1


Bone, John . H. 781


Bottenfield, John


507


Bottenfield, W. L. 507


Bounds, William A.


650


Braddock, Levi S.


874


Bradfield, Levi S. 751


Breece, Adam G.


572


Breece, Cassie


571


Breece, Ellsworth W. 681


Britton, Legrand


659


Britton, Lewis


660


Brown, Arthur W.


663


Brown, Elmer J.


784


Brown, James M.


891


Brown, James S.


892


1


Brown, John 818 1


Bryant, Jacob M.


626


Bunn, Harry S.


634


Burger, Jacob


468


1


1


1


Burger, Levi S.


468


1


Burgess, L. H.


1


1


806


Busenburg, J. B.


861


Butler, Wilson W.


577


Buxton, William T.


877


0


Callihan. J. W. SGS


Campbell, Francis W.


512


Carlisle, William M.


592


Carpenter, William N.


565


Caywood, John


772


Caywood, Leander 772


Cessna, John R.


489


1


Cessna, John W.


S65


Cessna, Newton S.


865


Cessna, William


490


1 Chappelear, Herschel J. 606 1


Clark, Samuel 840


Claypool, John R. 581


Clements, Christopher


C.


570


I


Clements, Rollin S.


670


1


1


Clutter, David P. 736


Cochran, Frank M.


691


Cochran. John M.


829


1


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Coe, Charles W. 598


Colgin, James 480


Collopy. Joseph II. SS1


Colville, Charles F. 486


Colwill, Jolm T.


S04


Colwill. Simon


S05


Conard, Charles K. 1 650


Cooksey, Uriah T.


731


Cooper, John


616


Cooper, William C.


Cover, Perry L.


543


488


Cover. Upton A.


483


Corner. Rev. David H.


442


Coyner. George 441


Critchfield. Charles E. 434


Cromley, L. Tate GG 1


Crumley, Albert W.


688


Cunningham, John


792


D


Davis, Alva B. 789


Delong, Benjamin F. 854


Delong, John


855


Devin, Henry C. 712 1


Devin, Joseph C.


743


Dial. Lee


629


Dodd, Stephen B. 460


Dowds, Alva A.


1


649


Dowds, Elijah W.


457


I


Dowds. Sheridan G.


456


1


Dudgeon. Chris. E. 464


Dudgeon. Scott


893


Dudgeon, Timothy


464


Durbin. Clement E.


833


E


Eastman. James W. 510


. Eastman. Newton R. 518


Eley, Thurman L. 646


Elliott, James 669


Elliott. Orange H. 1


1 668


Ewalt. Henry 1


5.86


Ewalt. John M.


Ewers. George J.


474


F


Farmer, Walter B. 733


Farmer, Warren 89G


Forenbaugh, Burchard B.


624


Ferenbaugh, Leo 624


Fish. Simon B. 511


Flack, Samuel


767


Frizzell, Isaiah H.


786


G


Gaines, Robert S. 472


Gaines, Thomas B. 473


Geitgey, AAlverdo 1. 902


Giflin, Robert


524


Gorsuch, William L. 812


Gray, Charles M. 652


Gray, George W.


531


Gray, James E.


530


Grubb, Charles M.


724


Grubb, Henry


810


H


Hagan, Oliver C. 703


Hamilton, Edwin F.


825


Hamilton, George S. 513


Hamilton, William


514


Harmer, Isaac S. 580


Harper, Franklin 557


Harper, Lecky


557


1


1


1


Harris, George A.


515


1


1


1


Harris, Jesse 524


Ilarris, John C. 524


Harris, Osmer J.


504


Harter, George S. 612


Hayden, Charles D. 752


Hayes, Charles W. 694


Heard, George H.


762


Hickinbotham, John A.


IS3


Hildreth, Charles M. 714


IIildreth, Washington 784


Hollister, Elmer E. 466


Holmes. Harry 596


llook, George E. 462


Horn. Benton C. 740


Horn. Josephi


1


735


Ilosack, William A. 699 I


Houck, Lewis B. 677 1


1 Howell. Edmund C. 509


Howell. Hezekiah 509


Hull. Rev. William E. 436


IIunter, Archie D. 731


HIunter. Richard 842


Hunter, Ross E.


729


Hyatt. George W.


739


I


1


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


I


Tams, Charles C. 449


Israel, James 444


Israel, Samuel 446


Israel, Samuel H. 674


J


Jackson, Charles B. 505


Jackson, Edward 790


Jackson, George


505


Jackson, VanBuren


496


Jackson, Will H.


495


Jacobs, Henry M.


591


Johnson, Isaac S.


889


Johnson, James


553


Johnson, Walter B.


552


Jones, Goshorn A.


439


K


Kerr, Scott D. 685


Kirk, Desault B. 538


Kirk, Robert C.


54S


L


LaPorte, George P. 601


Larimore, Frank C. 545


Larimore, Isaac P. 795


Larimore, Joseph M. 794


Larimore, Robert


546


Layman, Stanley A.


869


Leatherman, William T.


717


Leedy, Abraham


853


Leedy, Isaac


852


Leedy, William H. 870


Leonard, James L.


700


Lepley, Jacob 770


Levering, Frank O. 450


Levering, John Cook


452


Levering, Noah 452


Lewis, William 827


Limbaugh, Edward C. 886


Litzenberg, John E. 822


Litzenberg, John 822


Lloyd, John B.


741


Logsdon, Charles C. 602


Loney, John 537


Loney, John C. 537


Loney, William C.


535


Lytle, Mortimor E. 706


Mc


McCamment, John S. 843


McCormick, Joseph 615


McGee, William 640


McIntire, Alfred R.


697


McIntire, Rollin R.


702


McKinley, John L. 568


McMannis, Curtis E.


622


McMillan, Joseph


779


McNabb, George W. 758


M


Mahan, Loran E.


478


Marple, George L. 712


Martin, George R. 906


Martin, Milton P.


905


May, William H.


759


Meyers, Max


1


470


Mild, William


638


1


Miller, Irving C.


747


Miser, J. E.


859


1


Mitchell, Charles A.


563


Mitchell, James W. S. 862


Mitchell, John A.


563


Mitchell, Rollin C. 609


Mitchell, Torrence 481


Mitchell, William 609


Mitchell, William


HI.


783


Mitchell, William M.


525


Mizer, Alfred L. 851


Mizer, John 851


Mizer, Lloyd O. 850


Moree, Cassius B. 689


Morey, Corwin D. 465


Motz, Gottlieb


498


Motz, John M.


497


Mulhane, Rev. Lawrence W.


748


N


Neal, George D. 560


Neal, Hugh


766


Neiderhauser, Robert 897


Nicholls, Daniel


841


Nixon, Isabelle B.


654


Nixon, Michael


655


0


Oberholtzer, Dillman C.


719


Owen, Frank V.


756


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


P


Padgett, Frank O. 666


Paige, Warren T. 803


Parker, Peter J. 692 1


Parr, Silas


70S


Pelker, William P.


883


Penn, John 520


Penn, Lawrence C.


764


Penn, William


528


Pennell, William W.


431


Pfouts, John J.


1


673


Purdy, Elijah


476


Purdy, Richard D.


476


R


Ransom, Oscar S14


Reed, John A. 900


Rice, Clinton M. 604 1 1


Riley, James


527


1


1


Riley, Walter C.


527


Rine, Emanuel


726


1


Rine, Henry


727


Rine, Rudolph


728


E Robinson, William L. 1 1


684


Rockwell, William C.


745


Russell, John W.


619


S


St. Luke's Church, Danville


502


Salisbury, Charles K. 676


Sapp, Burgess E. 873


Schooler. Clark


722


Scott, Adam 522


Scott, James 485


Scott, James L. 1 485


Scott, Lewis B.


522


Semple, William F.


687


Severns, French W. 1


607


Sevits, Irven 777


Sevits, Stephen W. 627


Shellenbarger, Charles B. 844


Shellenbarger, Harry N. 848


Shrontz, John F. 493


Silcott, William A. 631


Simmons, Amaziah H. 658


Simpson, James A. 573


Singrey, Fred L. 534


Sipe, Almanza R.


644


Smith, Homer C. 661


Smith, John T. 45S


Smith, Joseph B. 459


Snyder, William 860


Sperry, George W. 500


Sperry, Peter W. 501


Stillwell, Francis M. 541


Stillwell, L. C.


541


Stinemetz, John B. 588


Stitzlein, Adam 876


Stonebrook, John E. 769


Stonehocker, John J.


521


Stonehocker, W. W.


520


Struble, David W.


632


Struble, John D. 633


Swartz, John W.


796


Swetland, Clarence D.


469


Syler, Harvey


817


T


Trogus, Rev. Otto P.


502


Tulloss, Benjamin F.


847


Tulloss, Charles R.


491


Tulloss, Ernest C.


SS8


Tulloss, George W.


837


Tulloss, Richard S.


493


Tulloss, William


492


V


Van Horn, Jasper


S20


Vannatta, Charles O.


S02


Vannatta, Samuel T.


800


Vincent, Judson


647


W


Wagner, George P. 738


Wagner, Henry


799


Wagner, William H. 798


Waight, John B.


438


Ward, Joe M. 1


595


Ward, John F.


879


Ward, Rufus


879


Ward, William L.


594


1 Welker, Andrew D. 550 1


Welker, William E. 551


Welsh, William J.


761


Wenger, Joseph 611


Wheaton, Avery 899


Williams, Rev. Albert


B.


566


Williams, Lester L.


637


J


1


1


1


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Wilson, Hodgson 864


Y


Wilson, John M. 710


Winterringer, Jesse B. 835


Winterringer, John C. 835


Wolfe, John


845


Woodruff, John F. 809


Workman, Hiram W.


590


Workman, Joseph


672


Workman, Lyman


671


Workman, Stephen


590


Wyant, Burr A.


885


Young, Charles A. 775


Young, Charles R. 832


Young, Frank E. 776


Young, Harry C.


532


Young, Silas


832


Z


Zeig, Frank B.


574


1


HISTORICAL


CHAPTER I.


ORGANIZATION OF OHIO TERRITORY AND STATE.


Ohio's history is written largely in the lines which surveyors have run across the state, over its hills and valleys. It has been many times surveyed, from the days when George Washington carried a chain across part of it. to the time when Ohio and Michigan, with rifles in their hands, glared at each other across the disputed northern boundary.


The important lines, however, are those traced shortly after the passage of the ordinance of 1787. These indicate various parcels of land which the various states claiming title to Ohio reserved for specific purposes, also the lands set aside by the federal government to care for certain important needs. Among these may be mentioned the Virginia Military Reservation, which was bounded by the Ohio river, the Scioto on the east, the Miami river on the west and a line joining the headwaters of these streams on the north. The Western Reserve was retained by Connecticut to care for its Revolu- tionary soldiers. It is marked by a line running between Columbiana and Trumbull counties on the south and extends entirely to the lake in the terri- tory just east of Sandusky, and almost to the lake farther east. The United States military lands start along the northern end of Columbus and extend east and north. To the east they extend considerably beyond Cambridge, on the north to the Greenville treaty line. This line was drawn as the result of a treaty negotiated by Gen. Anthony Wayne, after he had defeated the Indians in 1794. With the single exception of the Western Reserve and the fire lands, all Ohio to the north of that line was for many years an Indian reservation.


The Refugee Lands are a long narrow strip, striking Columbus east of the Scioto river and running just south of Zanesville to the east, set aside by Congress for the English subjects in Canada who had suffered by reason of their loyalty to the colonies.


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Students of social science delight to find in this variety of interests in Ohio the reason for its greatness. They claim that the best blood of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts and other states was invited here, because each felt sure of finding friends and congenial associations in some part of the new territory, and Ohio therefore held the flower of progressive and dependable citizenship, which accounts for its willingness and ability to take the lead in the councils of the nation and to maintain that place of prominence.


An act of Congress dated May 7, 1800, reads as follows :


"An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, into two separate governments.


"Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that from and after the fourth of July next, all that part of the territory of the United States lying northwest of the Ohio river, which lies to the westward of a line be- ginning at the Ohio, opposite the mouth of the Kentucky river, and running thence to Fort Recovery, and thence north until it shall intersect the terri- torial line between the United States and Canada, shall. for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate territory, and be called the Indiana Territory.


"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that there shall be established within the said territory a government in all respects similar to that provided by the ordinance of Congress, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to, and enjoy all and singular the rights, privileges and advantages granted and secured to the people by said ordinance.


"Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that the officers for the said territory, who by virtue of this act shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall receive for their services the same compensations as by this ordinance aforesaid and the laws of the United States, have been provided and established for similar officers in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river. And the duties and emoluments of superintendent of Indian affairs shall be united with those of governor: Provided, that the President of the United States shall have power, in the recess of Congress, to appoint and commission all officers herein authorized : and their commissions shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Congress.


"Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, that so much of the ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river


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KNOX COUNTY, OHIO.


Ohio as relates to the organization of a general assembly therein, and pre- scribes the powers thereof, shall be in force and operate in the Indiana Terri- tory, whenever satisfactory evidence shall be given to the governor thereof, that such is the wish of the majority of freeholders, notwithstanding there may not be therein five thousand free male inhabitants of the age of twenty- one years and upwards : Provided, that until there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants of twenty-one years and upward in said territory, the whole number of representatives to the general assembly shall not be less than seven, nor more than nine, to be apportioned by the governor to the several counties in the said territory agreeably to the number of free males of the age of twenty-one years and upwards which they may respectively contain.


"Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, that nothing in this act contained shall be construed so as in any manner to affect the government now in force in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river, further than to prohibit the exercise thereof within the Indiana territory, from and after the aforesaid fourth day of July next: Provided, that whenever that part of the territory of the United States which lies to the eastward of a line begin- ning at the mouth of the Great Miami river, and running thence due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, shall be erected into an independent state, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, thenceforth said line shall become and remain permanently the boundary line between such state and the Indiana territory; anything in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.


"Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, that until it shall be otherwise or- dered by the legislatures of the said territories respectively, Chillicothe, on Scioto river, shall be the seat of the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river; and that Saint Vincennes, on the Wabash river, shall be the seat of the government for the Indiana territory.


"Approved, May 7, 1800."


OHIO MADE A STATE.


By an act of Congress approved April 30, 1802, the territory of Ohio became a state of the Union. (See United States Statutes, Vol. 2, page 173.)


Among the sections of this act of Congress must never be forgotten those referring to the "school section (16) in each township which was to be used for school purposes; the reservation of the salt springs; also the section referring to the reservation of the one-twentieth part of all moneys received by the state for lands, which sum was to be expended in making suitable roads to and from the east and south to the great water courses, that com-


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merce and transportation might be aided materially in their advancement with the growth and development of the newly born commonwealth." .


THE BOUNDARY SURVEY OF 1812.


"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the surveyor general, under the direction of the President of the United States be, and he is hereby author- ized and required (as soon as the consent of the Indians can be obtained). to cause to be surveyed, marked and designated, so much of the western and northern boundaries of the state of Ohio, which have not already been as- certained, as divides said state from the territories of Indiana and Michigan. agreeably to the boundaries as established by the act entitled, 'An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the ad- mission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states. and for other purposes,' passed April thirtieth, one thousand eight hun- dred and two ; and to cause to be made a plat or plan of so much of the bound- ary line as runs from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, particularly noting the place where said line intersects the margin of said lake, and to return the same when made to Congress : Provided, that the whole ex- pense of surveying and marking the said boundary lines shall not exceed five dollars for every mile that shall be actually surveyed and marked, which shall be paid out of the monies appropriated for defraying the expense of surveying the public lands.


"Approved May 20, 1812."


CHAPTER II.


INDIAN OCCUPANCY, TREATIES, ETC.


After the Mound Builders, or prehistoric race that inhabited what is now Knox county, came the Indian tribes. These were here when white men first sought out the country to conquer and develop its vast resources, for the general good of mankind, taking a civilized and Christianized view of the matter. Hence it is that where the Indian wigwam stood down by yon river's side,


"Grinds the savage white man's plowshare, Grinding sires' bones for bread,"


as was said by an Indian poet, after looking back over the graves of his fore- fathers, even after he himself had been educated at government expense. The Mound Builder left his monuments of earth to mark his existence, but the North American Indian did nothing to preserve his history. All that is found today was the result of his touch with the race of pale faces with whom he came in contact just before the settlement of this country. Indian traditions are mere guesswork and are very unreliable, at best. When the white men first looked upon this fair and fertile domain, the Delaware Indians occupied the country. The various tribes of Ohio were generally on good terms with them, each tribe holding certain territory which it called its own for hunting purposes, yet the boundaries were indefinite and the hunters of all roamed at will over the whole country, as a general rule. Each of the tribes held lands adjacent to some important stream or lake, and considered all country through which these water courses run as their own property. Thus the Wyandots held the Sandusky river country ; the Miamis, the country drained by the Miami river; the Delawares occupied the Muskingum valley, one stream of which, Owl creek, passes through Knox county. All of the country through which this stream flows was, by common consent, considered as belonging to the Delaware Indians-or nation, as it was called.


On January 21, 1785, a treaty was concluded at Fort McIntosh, with the Wyandots, Delawares, Chippewas and Ottawa nations, by which the boundary line between the United States and the Wyandot and Delaware nations was declared to begin at the mouth of the Cuyahoga, and to extend up said river to the portage, between that and the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum,


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KNOX COUNTY, OHIO.


thence down that stream to the crossing place above Fort Laurens, thence westerly to the portage of the Big Miami at the mouth of Loramie creek, where stood Fort Loramie, taken by the French in 1652; thence along said portage to the Great Miami or Maumee river, and down the south side of same to its mouth; thence along the south shore of Lake Erie to the mouth of the Cayahoga river, to the place of beginning. The United States allotted all the lands contained in said lines to the Wyandot and Delaware tribes, to live in and hunt upon, and to such of the Ottawa nation as lived thereon; saving and reserving for the establishment of trading posts, six miles square. at the mouth of the Miami river (called sometimes the Omee), and the same at the portage on that branch of the Big Miami which runs into the Ohio, and the same on the Sandusky lake, where formerly stood the fort ; also two miles square on either side of the rapids of the Sandusky.


The southern boundary line mentioned in above treaty passed across the northern part of Knox county. The line forms the northern boundary of this county from the northeast corner to about the center of Pike township, where it enters the county, passing across the northern part of Pike township, near New Liberty, thence across Berlin township near Ankenytown, a little north of it; thence across Middlebury township, near old Haneytown. In 1795 this line was re-established and extended into Indiana, by the Greenville treaty, made by Gen. Anthony Wayne. So it will be discovered that by this treaty a large domain was ceded to the United States, including nearly all of Knox county. The Indians, however, were permitted to remain here for many years thereafter, even until after the war of 1812 with England.


As regards the origin of the Delawares, perhaps no better account can be given of them than that written by Col. John Johnston, who says :


"The true name of this once powerful tribe is Wa-be-nugh-ka, that is, 'the people from the east,' or the 'sun rising.' Their own tradition is that they originally, but remote, emigrated from the west, crossed the Mississippi river, ascending the Ohio, fighting their way, until they reached the Delaware river in Pennsylvania, in which region they became fixed. About this time they became so numerous that no record of their numbers could be made correctly. They welcomed to the shores of the New World the great law-giver. William Penn, and his peaceful followers, and ever since this people have entertained a kind and grateful recollection of them; and to this day speaking of good men, they would say, 'Wa-she-a-E-le'ne,' or such a man is a Quaker, be- lieving all good men were Quakers in faith. In 1823 I was Indian agent at Piqua, Ohio, and removed to the west of the Mississippi persons of this tribe who were born and raised within thirty miles of Philadelphia. These were the most squalid, wretched and degraded of their race, and often furnished




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