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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
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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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