{"1": {"fulltext": "If 483\\nC9\\nCopy 1\\nW", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\nBook^\\n1\\n4(o\\na", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO\\nBRIEF SKETCHES\\nFORTY-EIGHT PIONEERS\\nWHO, UN^DER COMMAND OF GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM\\nLANDED AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM RIVER\\nSEVENTH OF APRIL, 1788\\nAND COMMENCED THE FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT IN\\nTHE NORTH-WEST TERRITORY\\nCINCINNATI\\nROBERT CLARKE CO\\n1888", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "I\\nTHE FOUNDERS OF OHIO\\nBRIEF SKETCHES\\nFORTY-EIGHT PIONEERS\\nWHO, UNDER COMMAND OP GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM\\nLANDED AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGU3I rIVER\\nSEVENTH OF APRIL, 1788\\nAND COMMENCED THE FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT IN\\nTHE NORTH-WEST TERRITORY\\nrv, ^w.^ Cv-ci^\\nCINCINNATI\\nROBERT CLARKE CO\\n1888", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "In E^xch.\\nIn the preparation of these sketches the author has freely used the ex-\\ncellent historical works of Dr. S. P. Hildreth, Pioneer History and Lives\\nof the Early Settlers of Ohio. Some facts were obtained from the History\\nof Washington County, Ohio, some from the History of Danvers, Massa-\\nchusetts, and many from unpublished manuscripts.\\nCorYKIGIIT, 1888, BY IvOBEIlT ClAKKE Co.", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE FOUNDERS.\\n[The Founders of Ohio landed from their boat, the Mayflower, at Marietta, April\\n7, 1788, and established the first English settlement in the NQrth-%vestern Territory.\\nOyo was the Indian name of the Ohio.]\\nThe footsteps of a hundred years\\nHaA e echoed, since o er Braddock s Road,\\nBold Putnam and the Pioneers\\nLed History the way they strode.\\nOn wild Monoiigahela s stream\\nThey launched the Mayflower of the West,\\nA perfect State their civic dream,\\nA new New World their pilgrim quest.\\nWhen April robed the Buckeye trees\\nMuskingum s bosky shore they trod;\\nThey pitched their tent, and to the breeze\\nFlung freedom s star-flag, thanking God.\\nAs glides the Oyo s solemn flood\\nTheir generation fleeted on\\nOur veins are thrilling with their blood,\\nBut they, the Pioneers, are gone.\\nThough storied tombs may not enshrine\\nThe dust of our illustrious sires,\\nBehold, where monumental shine\\nProud Marietta s votive spires.\\nOhio carves and consecrates\\nIn her own heart their every name;\\nThe Founders of majestic States\\nTheir epitaph immortal fame.\\nW. IT. Ven.akt.e.\\n(iii)", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nBarlow, Jabez,\\nBushnell, Daniel,\\nCoburn, Phineas,\\nCooper, Ezekiel,\\nCorey, Ebenezer,\\nCushing, Samuel,\\nCutler, Jervis,\\nDan ton, Israel,\\nDavis, Daniel,\\nDavis, Jonas,\\nDevol, Allen,\\nDevol, Gilbert, Jr.,\\nDevol, Jonathan,\\nDodge, Isaac,\\nDodge, Oliver,\\nFelshaw, Samuel,\\nFlint, Hezekiah,\\nFlint, Hezekiah, Jr.,\\nFoster, Peregrine,\\nGardner, John,\\nGray, William,\\nGriswold, Benjamin,\\nIvirtland, Elizur,\\nLearned, Theophilus,\\nLincoln, Joseph,\\nMartin, Simeon,\\nMason, William,\\nMathews, .John,\\nMaxon, Henry,\\nMeigs, Return Jonathan,\\nMiller, William,\\nMoulton, Edmund,\\nMoulton, William,\\nMunro, Josiah,\\nPorter, Amos,\\nPutnam, Allen,\\nPutnam, Jethro,\\nPutnam, Rut us,\\nShaw, Benjamin,\\nSproat, Earl,\\nSproat, Ebenezer\\nTupper, Anselm,\\nWallis, David,\\nWells, Joseph,\\nWhite, llalheld,\\nWhite, Josiah,\\nWhite, Peletiah,\\nWhitridge, Josiah,", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OE THE FOUNDERS\\nOF OHIO.\\nA FLEET of boats arrived at tlie month of the Muskingum\\nApril 7, 17S8, consisting of the Union Galley, of forty-\\nfive tons burden, designed to pass and repass between this\\n(Aluskingam) and Buflalo, or Short Creek, to bring down\\nsettlers; the Adelphi ferry boat, burden tliree tons, for the\\nuse of the settlers at the Post; and three log canoes of\\ndifferent sizes. The fleet was under the command of\\nGeneral Rufus Putnam, and conveyed to this point the\\nbrave and energetic band of pioneers, forty-eight in num-\\nber, wbose mission it was to plant a Christian civilization\\nin the midst of a savage wilderness, where they expected\\nto make their homes. The directors of the Ohio Com-\\npany, under whose auspices they came out, had pur-\\nchased of Congress a million and a-half acres of land, and\\nproposed to begin the occupancy of their territory by plant-\\ning a city at the mouth of the Muskingum. To effect this\\npurpose a body of picked men was engaged. The first\\ndetachment of these left Danvers, Massachusetts, Decem-\\nher 3, 1787; the second went from Hartford, Connecticut,\\nJanuary 1, 1788. They were to meet at Sumrell s ferry,\\non the Youghiogheny river, and then proceed by water to\\ntheir destination.\\nMany of these first adventurers were share-holder s in\\nthe Ohio Company, and wisely desired to see the country\\nbefore removing with their families into a i-egion so far in\\nadvance of population, and where danger might well be\\napprehended. Great care was taken to admit none but\\nrespectable characters, who would make valuable members\\nLetter of Gen. Putnam to Dr. Cutler.", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nof the community about to be established. Tu a memo-\\nrandum book of Dr. Manasseii Cutler, one of the directors\\nof the Oliio Company, is a list of thirty-seven men engaged\\nto go into the Ohio Country, if wanted. Twenty of\\nthose who came were selected from this list; among them,\\nthree carpenters and two blacksmiths, a class of men best\\ncalculated to build up the projected city, and without whom\\nno civilized community could long exist. Dr. Cutler writes\\nto Major Sargent, on September 29, 1787 More than one\\nhundred and fifty have applied to me to go this autumn on\\nthe terms we agreed on at the last meeting. They have\\nalmost refused to take a denial. The men I have engaged\\nare equal to any I would have chosen.\\nThe winter of 1787-8 was one of uncommon severity,\\nand the snow on the mountains they were obliged to\\ntraverse was of such unusual depth that the men who\\nleft Dan vers in charge of Major Ilaffield AVhire had to\\nabandon their wagons and construct sledges to transport\\ntheir tools and baggage over the Alleghanies, and it was\\nnear the last of January, after a most fatiguing march,\\nthat they arrived at Sumi-ell s ferry. The party from\\nHartford, conducted by Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, found\\nthe mountain roads incumbered by a recent heavy fall of\\nsnow, three feet deep. They also left their wagons, and\\nwith their horses in single file, attached to stout sleds, pre-\\nceded by the men on foot to break a ti ack for the teams,\\npassed the mountain ranges after two weeks of inces-\\nsant labor and a march which for hardy endurance and\\nheroic fortitude has not been often equaled. They reached\\nthe Youghiogheny on the 14th of February. General Put-\\nnam found of the first party a number ill with small-pox, and\\nthe saw-mills frozen up. It was six weeks before the flotilla\\nwas completed that was to carry them to the Muskingum.\\nWho were these men who made their way across the\\nmountains through the pathless snow in midwinter, and\\nfound themselves, without a roof to shelter them, that\\nApril morning one hundred years ago on the spot where\\nMarietta now stands? Are not their very names forgotten\\nby the present generation Aiul yet the records of the", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 7\\npast give evidence tliat many of them are worthy of being-\\nheld ill lasting remembrance. The following items, gleaned\\nfrom authentic sources, give an epitome of the personal\\nhistory of the forty-eight as far as a careful investigation\\nof historical records at hand will afford. Doubtless other\\ninteresting facts may be added.\\nGeneral Riifas Patnam, the leader of this band of pioneers,\\nwas ap})ointed b} the directors of the Ohio Company No-\\nvember 23, 1787, Superintendent of all the business re-\\nlating to the settlement of their lands in the Territory\\nIsTorth-west of the Ohio. His military record is thus\\ngiven b} the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, of\\nwhich he was a member. liufus Putnam. Born Sutton,\\nMassachusetts, April 9, 1738 died Marietta, Ohio, May 4,\\n1824; a mill-wright; a private soldier in the campaigns\\n1757-60, in Canada; then settled in New Braintree, Massa-\\nchusetts; Lieutenant-Colonel in Brewer s Regiment May,\\n1775 employed as an engineer in constructing the siege\\nworks around Boston chief engineer of the defenses of\\nNew York in 1776 Colonel August 5, 1776, and com-\\nmanded the 5th Regiment until commissioned Brigadier-\\nGeneral January 7, 1788 distinguished himself at Sara-\\ntoga aide to General Lincoln in quelling Shay s rebellion\\none of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, in 1788; appointed\\na judge in the North-western Territory, 1789 re-appointed\\nBrigadier-General May 4, 1792 United States Surveyor-\\nGeneral 1793-1803; Member of Ohio Constitutional Con-\\nvention, 1802. His military record, his services as a Judge\\nand Surveyor-General of the United States, his bravery,\\ngood judgment, and unquestioned integrity are too well\\nknown to require comment. He was a director of the\\nOhio Company, in which he owned live shares of laud. He\\nlaid the foundations at Marietta, where he spent the re-\\nmainder of his life honored and beloved. In his eighty-\\nseventh year he was called to his reward, and his remains\\nwere i-everently laid to rest in the Mound Cemetery. He\\nleft numerous and worthy descendants. The Life of\\nRufus Putnam, prepared by Mary Cone was published\\n1886.", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 The 31emory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nMajor Haffield White was appointed by the directors of\\nthe Ohio Company commissary and conductor of the first\\nparty of pioneers who left Danvers, December 3, 1787, and\\nshared with them the hibor and suffering attending the\\nlong march over the snow-clad mountains of Pennsylvania.\\nHe was a soldier of the revolution, and served as a Lieu-\\ntenant in Hutchinson s Regiment and as Captain in Put-\\nnam s (5th) Regiment, and rendered distinguished services\\nat the battle of Lexington, at the crossing of the Dela-\\nware, at Trenton, Hubbardtou, and at Saratoga, and was\\nmade a Major at the close of the war. He was a member\\nof the Society of the Cincinnati. Mnjor White owned\\nthree shares in the Ohio Company. He was robust, active,\\nand prompt in the execution of business. During the first\\nyear after his arrival at Marietta he continued to act as\\nsteward for the company, and also built for himself a\\nhouse in Campus Martins. The next year, with Colonel\\nRobert Oliver and Captain John Dodge, he erected mills\\non Wolf Creek, which were the first ever built in Ohio.\\nOn the breaking out of the Indian war, these mills being\\nin a very exposed situation, were abandoned, the owners\\ntaking refuge at Marietta. On the return of peace he set-\\ntled on land he owned near the mills. These also eventu-\\nally became his property. Major White was a useful citi-\\nzen noted for his industry and integrity. He died Decem-\\nber 13, 1817.\\nPeletiah White, son of Major Haffield White, came to\\nMarietta April 7, 1788. He married Susan Wells, the sis-\\nter of Joseph Wells, a fellow-pioneer. During the latter\\npart of the Indian war Mr. White served as a ranger or\\nspy. He inherited his father s estate, was an elder in the\\nPresbyterian church, and a most estimable, christian man.\\nJoseph Wells was one of the forty-eight. His father,\\nJames Wells, with a large family, soon joined him at\\nMarietta, where the parents and a sister died of small-pox.\\nThe family were in Campus Martins during the war. They\\nall married respectably, and remained in the country.\\nCaj)tain Ezekiel Cooper, horn. Danvers, Massachusetts, was\\na share-holder in the Ohio Company, and came on in", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 9\\nMajor White s party. He was an Ensign in Tlntcliin-\\nson s regiment at the siege of Boston; Lieutenant in Put-\\nnam s (5th) regiment, 1777-82 commissioned Captain in\\nSproat s (2d) regiment, January 7, 1783; removed to Ohio\\nin 1788; living in Warrentown, Olno, in 1807. Cai)tain\\nCoo})er was in command of the galley sent the Ohio\\nriver to bring to Marietta the families who arrived at that\\nplace August 19, 1788. He was a member of the Society\\nof the Cincinnati.\\nJosiah Whitridge, a carpenter, was also from Hanvers.\\nHe served under Captain Samuel Flint at the battle of\\nLexington, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.\\nHe was one of the forty-eight.\\nAmos Porter^ born in Danvers, February 20, 1769, was\\none of those who landed at Marietta on the 7th of April,\\n1788. His name is found on the list of share-holders of\\nthe Ohio Company. After two years residence in the Ter-\\nritory, he returned on foot to his eastern home, and in 1795\\ncame back with his father s family. He married Sabra\\nTolman, and his was the first family that settled in Salem\\ntownship, where he became a prosperous farmer. Mr. Por-\\nter was a man of much energy, benevolence, and integrity.\\nHe was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian church.\\nThe last survivor of the pioneer band, he died November\\n28, 1861, aged ninety-two years.\\nAllen Putnam, from Danvers, Massachusetts, was also\\none of the pioneer party, and a share-holder in the Ohio\\nCompany. He married Anna Porter, the sister of his\\nfriend Amos Porter. He owned a farm near Stanleyville,\\nin Fearing township, where he settled about 1797. Mr.\\nPutnam was a ship-carpenter by trade, and met his death\\nby falling through a hatchwa} while at work at Ma-\\nrietta.\\nCaptain Jethro Putnam, of Danvers, had performed\\nmeritorious services in the Revolutionary army, and en-\\ndured the hardships and losses incident to the war, and\\nnow turned his attention to tiie new west. He owned a\\nshare in the Ohio Company, and came on with the tirst", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\npai ty of emis^rants. Captain Putnam and Captain\\nWilliam Gray fnrnished a pair of oxen and two horses for\\nthe use of the Companj for which service they were to be\\npaid in lands, if agreeable to the Directors, or the teams\\nto be appraised and purchased, AVhen that party started,\\nCaptain Putnam had charge of the wagons and men. He\\nis mentioned as one of the grand jnrors at the court held\\nat Marietta, September 9, 1788, after which we have been\\nunable to trace him.\\nCaptain William. Gray was born in Lynn, Massachusetts,\\nMarch 26, 1761. He entered the army as a private soldier\\nat the age of seventeen years, and was promoted for good\\nconduct. At the storming of Stony Point, he was one of\\nthe iirst to scale the walls of that fortress. He was the\\nnephew of William Gray, one of the richest merchants in\\nBoston, for whom he was named, who always manifested a\\ngreat interest in his success in life. He married Miss\\n^lary Diamond, of Salem, Massachusetts, and in the au-\\ntumn of 1787, he joined the Ohio Company and came west\\nwith the first pioneer band that left ITew England, having\\none of the fam.ous wagons labeled For Ohio, in his par-\\nticular charge. His family did not come to Marietta until\\n1790, when he established himself at Waterford.\\nAt the beginning of the Indian war, he was chosen com-\\nmander of Fort Frye, which had been erected for tl^pe se-\\ncurity of the inhabitants of that place, and into which they\\nwere then compelled to take refuge. The situation was\\npeculiarly exposed, as the savage war parties could descend\\nthe Muskingum, silently and swiftl} in their light canoes,\\nand thus elude the rangers who daily patrolled the woods\\nto discover signs of their presence. This remote out-post\\nwas repeatedly visited by the enemy, horses were stolen,\\nand cattle wantonly slaughtered, and on one occasion, the\\nfort was attacked with great vigor, but the assailants were\\nrepulsed, and only one of the inmates, Wilbur Spragne,\\nwas wounded, who recovered after a long and painful ill-\\nness. The members of the garrison had many narrow es-\\ncapes, and one of their number, Daniel Convers, was taken", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 11\\nprisoner and carried into captivity. It was in a irreat\\nmeasure due to the prudence and vigilance of Captain Gray\\nthat this post suffered no greater loss during the war. On\\ntlie return of peace, he settled on a farm near the town of\\nBeverly, where he reared a large and respectable famil}\\nand died there in 1812.\\nAnother of Major Ilaffield White s party, was John Gard-\\nner, a young man from Marbloheiid, who was the son of a sea\\ncaptain, and had been bred a sailor. lie came west, as did\\nmany others, in search of fortune and adventure. In the\\nspring of 1789, he joined the Waterford association and\\ndrew his lot on the fertile peninsula, where Major Dean\\nTjder and Jervis Cutler s lots were located. He and Jer-\\nvis Cutler agreed to assist each other in clearing their land,\\nand were making good progress when one day, while the\\nlatter was absent at Marietta, Gardner was seized by a\\nparty of Shawnees, who took his gun, and hurried him\\ninto the woods, where at some distance their horses were\\nconcealed. They were all mounted but one, who walked\\nand led the prisoner by a rope around his neck; in this\\nthey took turns. At the close of the lirst day they gave\\nhim a little jerked meat, juid having carefully secured him\\nby making him lie upon a stout sapling which they bent\\ndown and fastened to the ground, with his hands tied be-\\nhind him with leather thongs, while another cord bound\\nhim to the trunk, his captors laid down to sleep. He made\\nno attempt that night to escape, but after the next day s\\nweary march, finding themselves beyond the fear of pur-\\nsuit, they encamped early, shot a bear and a deer, built a\\nlire, roasted the fi.esh with which they regaled themselves,\\nand gave him a plentiful repast. They endeavored to per-\\nsuade him to remain quietly with them, painted his face\\nand cut off part of his hair, and promised to make him a\\ngood Shawnee, but were not unmindful of the necessity of\\nsecuring him as before. That night the rain fell gently and\\nmoistened and made more pliable the thongs with which he\\nwas bound, and he determined, if possible, to escape. By-\\ncautious and long continued effort, he succeeded in releas-\\ning himself, without one of the bells which they had fast-", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nened to the limbs of the sapling sounding the alarm. Tak-\\ning his gnn from the side of one of the Indians sleeping\\nnear him, he stepped out into the dark forests and walked\\ntill morning in the direction of home, then taking an east-\\nerly coarse, he came to a branch of Wolf Creek, which he\\nfollowed down to the mills, where he was joyfully wel-\\ncomed, as his four days absence had occasioned serious\\nalarm for his safety. The next morning, he and Cutler,\\nwho had returned the same evening from Marietta, renewed\\ntheir woodland labors with renewed spirits. Mr. Gard-\\nner, like most sailors, when land-bound, longed for the\\nsea; he went back to Marblehead, and was soon in his\\nfather s ship afloat on the ocean, doubtless preferring to en-\\ncounter the ills he knew, than those he knew not of.\\nJervis Cutler was the son of Dr. Cutler, one of the Di-\\nrectors of the Ohio Company. Dr. Cutler s published\\njournal sa^ ^s, Monday, December 3, 1787. This morning\\na part of the men going to Ohio met here (at his house in\\nIpswich Hamlet), two hours before day. I went on with\\nthem to Danvers. The whole joined at Major White s.\\nTwent}^ men employed by the Company, and four or five\\non their own expense, marched at eleven o clock. This\\nparty is commanded by Major White. Captain (Jethro)\\nPutnam took the immediate charge of the men, wagons,\\netc. Jervis went off in good spirits. The Rev. G. W.\\nKelly, who for sixteen years filled the pulpit at Hamilton,\\nformerly Ipswich Hamlet, in a recent letter, says An es-\\nteemed lady, Mrs. P. Roberts, often informed me about the\\ncompany which left Hamilton an hundred years ago to\\nmake a settlement in the wilderness west of the Ohio river.\\nA wagon appeared in the highway in front of Dr. Cut-\\nler s house, covered with black canvas, but it had on both\\nsides of it painted in white letters, For Ohio. As the\\nhome of Mrs. R. was directly opposite that of Dr. Cut-\\nler, she coujd see all that took place. The wagon was\\ndrawn by oxen, a team most likely to be useful when snow\\nfell on the way. Temple Cutler stated his recollections\\nthus The little band of pioneers assembled at Dr. Cut-\\nler s house, and there took an early breakfast. About the", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "21ic. Me^nory of the Founders of Ohio. 13\\ndawn of diiy, tliey piiraded in front of the bouse, and after\\na short address from him, the men being armed, three vol-\\nleys were tired, and the party went forward cheered\\nheartily by the by-standers. Dr. Cutler accompanied them\\nto Dan vers.\\nJervis Cutler had, at the age of sixteen, made a voyage\\nto France, and now, at nineteen, he joined this company of\\nadventurers, and was the first of the forty-eight who leajjcd\\non shore at the mouth of the Muskingum, April 7, 1788.\\nHe was one of the associates who begun the settlement\\nat Waterford, in the spring of 1789, and remained in the\\nwest until 1790, when he returned to New England and\\nmarried Miss Philadelphia Cargill in 1802 he settled at\\nBainbridgc, Ohio, as a fur-trader. He was chosen Mnjor\\nof Colonel McArthur s Ohio regiment in 180G, and en-\\nlisted a company for active service, of which lie was ap-\\npointed Captain. This company was ordered to New Or-\\nleans in the spring of 1809. Soon after his arrival there,\\nhe was prostrated by yellow fever, and the United States\\nSenate having refused to coniirm his appointment as Cap-\\ntain, because of a charge that he had made speeches at-\\ntacking the administration, he returned to New England.\\nIn 1812 he published a book entitled A Topographical\\nDescription of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and\\nLouisiana, with a Concise Account of the Indian Tribes\\nWest of the Mississippi. In 1818, he again came west,\\nand settled as an engraver of plates for hank notes, in Nash-\\nville, Tennessee. His first wife died in 1822. In 1824, he\\nmarried Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler, of Evansville, Indiana.\\nHe died in Evansville, in 1844. His only sou, now living,\\nis Dr. George A. Cutler, of Chicago.\\nIsaac Bodge was the representative in the pioneer band\\nof the large and respectable Dodge family who have for\\nmany generations resided in Essex county, Massachusetts.\\nHe came from Wenham, but of his fate, history has made\\nno record.\\nOf Simeon Martin, of Chebacco, Massachusetts, another of\\nthe forty-eight, only this is known lie owned a share", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nill the Ohio Compan}^ and was to go into the country, if\\nwanted, on his own hook.\\nHenry 3Iaxon came to Marietta April 7, 1788, and went\\nto Waterford at its first settlement. He and his wife occu-\\npied a block-house on the west side of the Muskingum,\\nwdiich Major Dean Tyler had erected for the security of\\nthe settlers while engaged in cultivating their land. It\\nwas on the peninsula, one mile from Wolf Creek Mills.\\nMajor Tyler, a brave, intelligent, and worthy man, re-\\nsided \\\\\\\\\\\\i\\\\\\\\ the Maxons. When the Indian war burst upon\\nthem, so unexpectedly, on the long to be remembered night\\nof January 2, 1791, wheu the settlement at Big Bottom\\nwas destroyed, they retired to Fort Frye, on the east bank\\nof the river. Mr, Maxon eventually settled in Fearing\\ntownship, and was an active and useful citizen.\\nWilliam Iloulton, of Newburyport, and his son, Edmund\\nMoulion, weve members of Major White s party. Mr.\\nMoulton owned a share in the Ohio Company, and subse-\\nquently removed his- family to Marietta. During the In-\\ndian war they dwelt in the garrison at the Point. When\\nCaptain Joseph Rogers, a noted ranger, was killed in 1791,\\nand the alarm-guns were fired, the scene at this garrison is\\nthus described by an eye witness. Col. Joseph Barker:\\nThe first person for admittance into the central block-\\nhouse was Colonel Sproat with a box of papei s, then came\\nsome young men wnth their arms, then a woman with her\\nbed and children, then old Mr. William Moulton, aged\\nseventy, with his apron full of old goldsmith s tools and\\ntobacco. Close at his heels came his daughter Anna, with\\nthe china tea-pot, cups and saucers. Lydia brought the\\ngreat Bible. But when all were in, their mother was\\nmissing. Where was mother? She must be killed! ISTo,\\nsays Lydia, mother said she would not leave the house\\nlooking so she would put things a little more to rights, and\\nthen she would come. Directly mother came, bringing the\\nlooking-glass, knives and forks. Mr. Moulton died dur-\\ning the war, in 1793. His son Edmund died in Marietta,\\nAugust 26, 1822.\\nOf Mr. Moulton s daughters we learn that Anna married,", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "JVie Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 15\\nlate in life, to Dr. Josiah Ilart, a graduate of Yale College\\nin 1762. lie was a sorgeou iu the Revolutionary army,\\nand came with his family to Marietta, in 1796. On the\\nformation of the Congregational Church here, he was\\nelected a deacon, and was an intelligent. Christian gentle-\\nman. Dr. Hart died in August, 1812, and his wife died a\\nfew hours after, and they were buried on the same day.\\nHis descendants are numerous and respectable.\\nLydia Moulton married, in 1802, Dr. William B. Leonard,\\nborn in London, in 1737, and bred a surgeon, in which ca-\\npacity he served in the British navy. He came to America\\nabout 1797, and to Marietta in 1801, where he died in 1806.\\nHe was very eccentric in dress and manners.\\nJonas Davis, from Massachusetts, was an intelligent and\\nhighly esteemed young man. Several of the forty-eight\\nwere, at times, in great peril from the savage foe, but Mr.\\nDavis was the only one of the number who actually lost\\nhis life. He was an inmate of Stone s garrison in upper\\nBelpre, was engaged to be married to a daughter of Cap-\\ntain Isaac Barker, and had his wedding suit prepared,\\nwhen one morning in February, 1795, he was killed by\\nthe Indians near the mouth of Crooked Creek, three miles\\nfrom the garrison. His death occasioned the deepest sor-\\nrow. Four of his young friends, led by John James, one\\nof the bravest and most skillful of their number, pursued\\nthe enemy for more than an hundred miles through the\\nforest, and wounded one of them, whose war-whoop brought\\nout more than a score of warriors encamped near the spot.\\nJames and his party finding themselves so far out-num-\\nbered, were obliged to retreat. They were pursued by the\\nIndians and their dogs, but favored by the darkness of the\\nnight, they eluded their pursuers and reached the garrison\\nin safety to the great relief of their friends.\\nColonel Ebenezer Sproat. The Massachusetts Society of\\nthe Cincinnati, of which he was a member, thus gives his\\nrecord Born at Middleborough, Massachusetts, 1752\\ndied at Marietta, Ohio, Fehriniry, 1805 Major in Cotton s\\nregiment May, 1775, at the siege of Boston in Francis\\nregiment in 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel of the 12th regi-", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nmeiit January 1, 1777 and September 29, 1778, Lieuten-\\nant-Colonel commanding in Glover s Brigade at Trenton,\\nPrinceton, and Monmouth Inspector of Brigade under\\nSteuben; emigrated to Ohio in 1788. When stationed\\nat Providence, in 1778, with Glover s Brigade of four regi-\\nments, he was said to be the tallest man in the Brigade,\\nbeing six feet and four inches high, with limbs formed in\\nnature s most perfect model. In the duties of his station\\nhe excelled as much as m size, being the most complete\\ndisciplinarian in the Brigade. His social habits, pleasant,\\nagreeable manners, and cheerful disposition, rendered him\\na general favorite with the oflicers, as well as with the\\nprivate soldiers who always followed with alacrity where\\nhe led. He performed many valuable services, and shared\\nlargely in the perils of the war. He married Catharine\\nWhipple, daughter of Commodore Abraham Whipple.\\nCongress appointed Colonel Sproat Surveyor for Rhode\\nIsland on the seven ranges of townships west of the Ohio\\nriver, which were to be placed in the market for sale, and\\nhe was engaged in this duty during the autumn of 1786.\\nHe was appointed a Surveyor for the Ohio Company, a\\nservice for which his hardy frame and great resolution\\neminently fitted him. He owned three shares in the Com-\\npany, and conducted those of the forty-eight adventurers\\nwho left Hartford, Connecticut, on the 1st of January, 1788,\\nin their winter march across the Alleghanies. General\\nPutnam was obliged to go to jSIev^ York on business for\\nthe Ohio Company, but joined them on the way, and at\\nSumrell s Ferry took command of both this and Major\\nWhite s party, who all came down and landed at the mouth\\nof the Muskingum, and pitched their tents in the woods,\\nApril 7, 1788.\\nColonel Sproat was the first sheriff of Washington\\nCounty, which at that time extended from the Ohio river\\nto Lake Erie, and westward to the Scioto. He filled\\nthis office with great dignity and propriet}^ for fourteen\\nyears, until the state government was formed. During the\\nIndian war he had control of the military affairs in the\\ncounty for the United States. He appointed the rangers,", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 17\\nor Indian spies, and enrolled a company of soldiers for the\\ndefense of the colony. He was a liberal and active citi-\\nzen, and his memory was held in grateful remembrance\\nby all who knew him. His daughter married the Hon.\\nSolomon Sibley, of Detroit, Michigan.\\nJabez Barlow, one of the forty-eight who came with Put-\\nnam, and one of the associates that began the settlement at\\nWaterford, in 1789, was a brother of Joel Barlow, the\\npoet and diplomatist, who owned several shares in the Ohio\\nCompany. The Barlows were what is known in Con-\\nnecticut as good stock that is, they were respectable\\nland-holders, paid their tithes promptly, and gave no one\\noccasion to speak ill of them. Jabez Barlow was un-\\nmarried, and lived alone in a cabin on his clearing, a mile\\nbelow Fort Frye, where he declined to take refuge after\\nthe Big Bottom massacre, because, he said, as he had\\nnever harmed the Indians, they would not injure him. A\\nnarrow escape, on the 11th of March, 1791, when an as-\\nsault was made upon the Fort, led him to change his mind\\nand resort to it for safety during the war, after which he\\nreturned to New England.\\nPeregrine Foster, Esq., from Brookfield, Massachusetts,\\none of the forty-eight, was born in 1749. He owned a share\\nin the Ohio Company, and was employed by them as a sur-\\nveyor. Previous to the Indian war he went East lor his\\nfamily, but while on his way to Marietta he heard of the\\noutbreak, and took refuge with them in ]\\\\Ioriranto\\\\vn, Vir-\\nginia, until 1796, when he removed to Belpre, Ohio, and\\nestablished the first tavern and the first ferry across the\\nOhio at that place. He was a judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas prior to 1802, and died in 1804. A man of\\neminent worth, and a great loss to the community.\\nEbenezer Corey came with the first compau}-. He was a\\nman of much enterprise and industry. It is recorded the\\nfirst season that, a piece of bottom land on the bank of\\nthe Ohio, belonging to Mr. Corey, had been harvested, and\\nmeasured one hundred and four bushels of corn to the\\nacre. He was the architect of the bridge over Tyber\\nCreek, which was twenty-five feet high, ninetj^ feet lono-,", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 The. Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nand twenty-four feet wide, covered with hewn planks four\\ninches thick. Colonel May writes, It is called Corey s\\nbridge, in honor of the master workman. There is not so\\ngood a bridge, or any thing like it, betwixt it and Balti-\\nmore. Mr. Corey and his wife were in Campus Martins\\nduring the war, but afterward went to VYaterford.\\nHezeldah Flint, of Reading, Massachusetts, was employed\\nby the Ohio Company as the chief carpenter. His son,\\nHezckiah Flint, Jr., was to go if room could be made for\\nhim. They both came in that pioneer company, but it is\\nuncertain if both remained. The name of one Ilezekiah\\nFlint is given as being in Fort Ilarmar dnring the war.\\nHe went to Cincinnati.\\nEarl Sproat, one of the first pioneer band, was a relative\\nof Colonel Ebenezer Sproat. He was a share-holder in the\\nOhio Compan} and remained in the country as a settler.\\nHe was one of the petitioners to the Territorial Legisla-\\nture for an act of incorporation for the town of Marietta,\\nwhich was granted, and approved by Governor St. Clair\\nDecember 2, 1800, and Marietta was the first incorporated\\ntown in the ]^orth-west Territory. He was a director of\\nthe Marietta Bank, chartered February 10, 1808, of which\\nGen. Rufus Putnam was President, He was a subscriber\\nto the fund for erecting the Muskingum Academy, and\\nheld the position of major in the Ohio militia.\\nDavid Wallis, one of the original [doneers, was from\\nIpswich, Massachusetts, and was a man of a respectable fam-\\nily and character. A letter writer says of him David\\nWallis told me that on reaching Marietta he was attacked\\nby small-pox, and he removed at once from the camp, and\\nmade his bed beside a log in the woods where food was\\nbrought to him until he was cured. He then concluded to\\nreturn to Massachusetts, and he and another man crossed\\nover the Ohio river and walked up to Pittsburg through a\\nwilderness, where hostile Indians used often to hunt. Mr.\\nWallis then worked at a smelting furnace until he earned\\nmoney to buy food, Avhile he made the journey on foot to\\nhis old home. Another writer states that he did not long\\nremain there, as the charms of a sister of one of his late", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "The Memory of fhr Foiuule.rs of Ohio. 19\\ncomrades, wlio in the meantime had emigrated westward,\\nhad made an im[)ression npon his mind tliat he could not\\nforget; and so he again sliouldered his riHe and a second\\ntime visited Marietta, hut only to he rejected and he re-\\nturned the way he came, a wiser, if a sa(hler man. He\\nsettled in Ipswich hamlet, and with ids family about him,\\nwould often, in his old age, tell of his long pedestrian tour\\nto Ohio in search of a wife.\\nSamuel Felshav) and Theophilus Learned were young men\\nfrom Killingly, Connecticut, who joined the company\\nfrom a roving disposition and a desire to see the world.\\nThese were doubtless the two men from Muskingum, be-\\nlonging to Killingly, that Dr. Cutler met in the street of\\nBethlehem, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1788, when on his way\\nto Ohio, as mentioned in his published journal. They wei e\\nnot share-holders, but were engaged to the Company for\\nsix months from the 1st of January, 1788; and the time\\nbeing out, and their curiosity satisfied, they returned home.\\nMr. Learned belonged to one of the best families in Kill-\\ningly. Mr. Felshaw w^as the son of Captain John Felshaw,\\nwho kept a noted tavern in Killingly, and was long prom-\\ninent in town and public affairs, and died leaving a large\\nlanded estate to be divided among liis children. The tav-\\nern became the property of his son, Samuel Felshaw.\\nPhineas Coburn, one of the first company of emigrants\\nto Ohio, was the eldest son of Major Asa Coburn, a gallant\\nofiicer of the Massachusetts line, who, with two brothers,\\nentered the army at the opening of the revolutionary w^ar.\\nHe retired from the conflict at its close with the raidc of\\nnuijor; his brothers both died on the battle-field. Major\\nCoburn owned three shares in the Ohio Company, and re-\\nmoved with his family to Marietta August 19, 1788, and\\nwas a valuable acquisition to the settlement. Phineas, his\\nfather, and family, joined the Waterford association, and\\non the commencement of Indian hostilities w cre domiciled\\nin Fort Frye, where Major Coburn died during the war.\\nEarly in 1795 the Coburns, with a few others, built a block\\nhouse, and began to clear their farms on the fertile alluvial\\nbottoms which border the Muskingum in Adams township.", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 The 31cm,ory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nPhineas made his permanent home in Morgan County,\\nOhio. The gallant General Dumont, of Indiana, an officer\\nin the Union Army, claimed descent through his mother\\nfrom Major Coburn.\\nThe ancestors of Ca ptain Josiah 3Iunro, with several\\nother emigrants, came from Scotland at a very early date\\nand bought a large tract of land in Lexington, Massachu-\\nsetts, and settled there in company. They were from the\\nhighlands of Scotland. At the breaking out of the revo-\\nlution Captain Munro, then recently married, was living\\non a farm in Peterborough, ll^ew Hampshire. The battle\\nof Lexington was fought on the common in front of his\\nfather s door. Immediately after this battle he left his\\nfarm and joined the forces of the Colonies, and continued\\nin the New Hampshire line during the war. He was at\\nthe capture of Burgoyne, and the surrender of Cornwallis.\\nHe was in 1783 one of the signers of the officer s petition\\nto Congress for an appropriation of western lands in pay-\\nment for their services. On the formation of the Ohio\\nCompany he became a share-holder, and leaving his family\\nat Amherst, ISTew Hampshire, he was one of the forty-eight\\nwho first came to Marietta. Before the Indian war his\\nfamily came west, and during that calamitous period lived\\nin the garrison at the Point. Captain Munro was a talented\\nand useful man. He was the second post-master in Mari-\\netta, succeeding Hon. R. J. Meigs in that office, and hold-\\ning it from 1795 to 1801. He was also appointed a Judge\\nof the Court of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace in 1796.\\nHis family settled in Muskingum County. His daughter\\nmarried Colonel Daniel Convers, of Zanesville, Ohio. Cap-\\ntain Munro s monument in Mound Cemetery, at Marietta,\\nbears this inscription Captain Josiah Munro; born at\\nLexington, Massachusetts, February 12, 1745 died at Mari-\\netta, August, 1801. He was an officer in the Revolution-\\nary Army, and became the fi-iend of Lafayette, wlio recog-\\nnized his services in the war by the gift of a sword. He\\nwas one of the original Ohio Company who landed at\\nMarietta, April 7, 1788, and was appointed post-master at", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "The 31emory of the Founders of Ohio. 21\\nMarietta, 1794, which office he held at the time of his\\ndeath.\\nBenjamin Shaw was another of the first party. He\\nserved in a Danvers company of minute men, under Cap-\\ntain Israel Hutchinson, at the battle of Lexington, and after-\\nward as a regular soldier in the Revolutionary Army. He\\ncame from Hampton, New^ Hampshire, and at a later date\\nremoved his family to the west. They were in Fort Frye\\nduring the war, and afterward settled on the rich Round\\nBottom. This farm next came into the possession of Boyl-\\nston Shaw, his son, who was one of the most successful\\nand enterprising farmers in this region. Sally Shaw, a\\ndaughter of the pioneer, married Benjamin Dana, whose\\nhighly cultivated farm of fourteen hundred acres was per-\\nhaps the linc st in the county. The lamented General Ben-\\njamin D. Fearing, of the Union Army, and the Hon. James\\nW. Dawes, late governor of Nebraska, are among their de-\\nscendants.\\nSamuel Cashing, one of the forty-eight, came from New\\nBedford, Massachusetts. He was the brother of Mrs. Ben-\\njamin Shaw, and was related to the well known Sumner\\nand Gushing: families of Massachusetts. He was a member\\nof the Waterford Association, and one of the young men\\nwho remained during the war to aid in the defense of the\\nsettlers. He afterward married a daughter of Judge Gil-\\nbert Devol, and settled on a farm on Round Bottom, where\\nhe died October 9, 1823. His was the first death in the\\nMount Moriah Masonic Lodge; and the members, as a\\ntoken of regard, wore a blue ribbon about the left arm\\nfrom the time of his death to the next regular communi-\\ncation.\\nCajytain Daniel Davis, from Killiugly, Connecticut, came\\non with General Putnam. He was a man in middle life,\\nand was of a very respectable family. He had rendered\\nuseful and patriotic services during the Revolutionary War,\\nand had suffered severe losses. He owned a share in the\\nOhio Company, and came to make a home for his family,\\nwho after their arrival lived at Fort Frye until the savage\\nwarfare ended, when his sons opened farms on the rich", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 The Blemory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nsoil of Adams township. Captain Davis was a man of\\nwisdom and ex[)ei ience, and his counsels were held in hio-h\\nesteem.\\nMajor Joseph Lincoln came to Marietta, April 7, 1788\\nHe was born in Massachusetts in 1760, and had served in\\nthe Revolutionary army. While in garrison at Farmer s\\nCastle, Belpre, he married Fanny, daughter of Capt. John\\nLeavens, from Killingly, Connecticut. After the war he\\nremoved to Marietta, vt^here he established himself in bus-\\niness. He at one time owned all the land on Ohio street,\\nbetween Post and Front, and several lots on Front. In\\n1807 he erected, on the corner of Front and Ohio streets,\\nwhat was then the finest building in town. It was origin-\\nally a large, square brick house, with ornamental mantels\\nand stuccoed ceilings. The building was arranged both for\\na dwelling and business house, but Major Lincoln died\\nabout the time it was finished. He was always known as\\nMajor Lincoln, but we have not the date of his commis-\\nsion. In 1797, he subscribed twenty dollars toward build-\\ning the Muskingum Academy. He soon became one of\\nthe most successful merchants in Marietta. He was a\\nmost excellent man. Tradition says that his daughter,\\nSusan Lincoln, educated at the celebrated Moravian school\\nat Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was one of the most attractive\\nand accomplished girls of her time.\\nCaptain William Mason was a native of Massachusetts;\\nhe belonged to the Forty-eight, and was one of the first to\\nland at the mouth of the Muskingum, April 7, 1788. He\\nmarried, March 14, 1790, Susanna, daughter of Major Asa\\nCoburn, and they w^ere in Campus Martins during the war.\\nIn the first organized militia at Marietta under Colonel\\nSproat, Mr. Mason was an orderl^^ sergeant; in 1797, Win-\\nthrop Sargent, acting governor, commissioned him lieuten-\\nant, and under a reorganization. Governor Arthur St. Clair\\nappointed William Mason, gentleman, a lieutenant in the\\nFirst regiment, 1801. When the new state government\\nwent into operation, he received a Ca[)tain s commission\\nfrom Governor Edward Tiffin. He settled about 1797, in\\nAdams township, and was prominent in the early conmiu-", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "The Mem.ory of the Founders of Ohio. 23\\nnity. Ilis fine farm was on the bottom and plain nearly\\nopposite Upper Lowell, on the Muskin^rnm. Here he\\nlived with his family of twelve children, and died there\\nSeptember, 26, 1813. Among his descendants was the late\\nColonel William B. Mjison, of Marietta, who entered the\\nUnion army, as private, in 1861, and returned in 1864, Col-\\nonel oi the 77th Ohio regiment.\\nOliver Dodge, one of the original pioneer party, came from\\nHampton Falls, l^ew Hampshire. He owned a share in\\nthe Ohio Company, and was, during the war, at Campus\\nMartins. He joined the colony in Adams, in the spring\\nof 1795, and in company with the Coburns, Davises, and\\nothers, began to level the heavy forests which then covered\\nthe land. He lived one year alone in a large, hollow syc-\\namore tree. In 1800 he married Mrs. Kancy (Devol) Man-\\nchester. He left, at his death, a valuable farm to his\\nonly son, Richard Hubbard Dodge. Oliver Dodge s only\\ndaughter, Mary Manchester, became the wife of the Hon.\\nPerley B. Johnson, M. D., of McConnellsville, who, in\\n1843-5, represented his district in Congress.\\nAmong that body of sterling men who were bold and\\nhardy enough to make the first settlement in the wilder-\\nness where Ohio now stands, there was no more remark-\\nable or useful man than Captain Jonathan Devol. He was\\nborn in Tiverton, Rhode Island, in the year 1756. His\\nbiographer states that his whole education was embraced\\nin one year s schooling, but this was supplemented by his\\nfather s library of choice books, which he eagerlv read.\\nWhen quite young he learned the trade of a ship carpenter,\\nand became noted for his skill in constructing boats of a\\nbeautiful model, and famed for rapid sailing. One of these\\ntook a purse of fifty guineas in a race between some gen-\\ntlemen amateurs of Newport and Providence. When the\\nrevolutionary war commenced he entered the army before\\nhe was twenty years old, and performed many daring,\\nheroic services, which are on record, and were of o-reat\\nvalue. On the formation of the Ohio Company he became\\none of the associates, and came with Colonel Sproat s party\\nto Sumrell s Ferry, where General Putnam expected to find", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nthe boats ready to descend the river. The first party, un-\\nder Major White, were to build the boats, but the mills\\nwere frozen up, and lumber not to be easily procured. In\\nthis juncture, Captain Devol s services were of the utmost\\nimportance; he surmounted the difficulties, and under his\\ndirection the Union Galley, or as it was later called, the\\nMayflower, was built and the adventurers committed\\nthemselves to the current of the river and were conveyed\\nsafely to their destination. Here his ingenuity, skill, and\\nindustry, were invaluable to the new settlement.\\nCaptain Devol was soon actively engaged in the con-\\nstruction of Campus Martins, an imposing structure, de-\\nsigned for a fortress and for dwellings. He erected a house\\nfor himself in one of the curtains of the fort. It was forty\\nfeet long, eighteen feet wide, and two stories high, and the\\nnext winter it sheltered, not onlj^ his own family, who had\\njoined him, but, in all, seventy persons, old and young,\\nwere under its roof. In February, 1790, he settled on a\\nsmall farm in Belpre, but in less than a year the Indian\\nirruption drove the settlers into garrison, and Captain De-\\nvol was called upon to plan, with the advice of other ex-\\nperienced officers, the necessary defenses. This resulted in\\nthe erection of Farmer s Castle in an incredibly short time.\\nIn this garrison, which contained thirteen large block\\nhouses, thirty or forty families were sheltered during the\\nwar. The inhabitants had been obliged to grind tlieir\\ncorn on hand-mills, a most fatiguing and slow process; to\\nremedy this inconvenience, he constructed a floating mill,\\nwhich was anchored in the Ohio near the Castle. He also\\ninvented a mill to grind and press out the juice of corn-\\nstalks to make molasses.\\nIn 1792 he built a twelve-oared barge for General Put-\\nnam entirely of red cedar, which he procured a few\\nmiles up the Little Kanawha, at the hazard of his life, in\\nthe midst of the Indian war. This boat, for beauty of form\\nand workmanship, was said to excel any other ever seen on\\nthe Ohio.\\nIn 1797 lie purchased land in Wiseman s Bottom, on the\\nMuskingum, five miles above Marietta, wiiere he made him-", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 25\\nself a comfortable and pleasant home. Here, again, he\\nerected mills and engaged in ship-building. In 1801 he\\nbuilt for a merchant in Marietta a ship of four hundred\\ntons, all of the wood of the black walnut. The next year\\nhe built two brigs, and in 1804: the schooner Nonpareil\\nwas built. Always anxious to aid the destitute colonists.\\nCaptain Devol purchased and put jn oiieration the ma-\\nchinery for carding wool, and also erected works for dressing\\nand fulling cloth both oi crations believed to have been\\nthe first in this part of Ohio, if not in the State.\\nAmid all his enterprise and works of usefulness Captain\\nDevol found time at the age of fifty years to study the\\nFrench language, and with no aid but Boyer s Dictionary,\\nlearned to read and translate with fluency any book in\\nthat language. He entered upon the study of mathematics,\\nof which he was very fond and his knowledge of geogra-\\nphy was unusually complete he also made himself familiar\\nwith astronomy, in which he took great delight. He was\\nremarkable for his conversational powers, his kindness, and\\nhospitality. He died in 1824, aged 68 years, greatly\\nlamented.\\nAllen Devol, from Rhode Island, was a nephew of Cap-\\ntain Jonathan Devol. He came with the first company to\\nMarietta in 1788, and in the following winter he drew a\\ndonation lot, and joined the Waterford Association, who\\nbegan their settlement in April, 1789. He married Ruth\\nJennings, and lived in the garrison until the close of the\\nwar, when he removed to his land on the productive al-\\nluvial soil of Round Bottom, and settled on a farm near\\nto those of Samuel Cushing and Benjamin Shaw.\\nGilbert Devol, Jr., one of the forty-eight, was the son of\\nHon. Gilbert Devol, a Judge of the Supreme Court of\\nRhode Ishuid, who soon came out with his family to the\\ncolony, and was a person of much influence and prominence\\nin the community. Gilbert Devol, Jr., married Polly,\\ndaughter of Major Asa Cohurn. There were a number of\\nDevols who came from Rhode Island in the early years of\\nthe settlement, and planted families in Washington County,\\nto which they have given many respectable and valuable", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\ncitizens; among whom maybe mentioned General H. F.\\nDevol, of the Union Army, who was promoted from Cap-\\ntain to Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General for gallant\\nand meritorious services during the war.\\nMajor Anselm Tupper, son of General Benjamin Tupper,\\nwas born at Easton, Massachusetts, October 11, 1763. In\\n1779, at the age of sixteen, he was appointed Adjutant of\\nColonel Ebenezer Sproat s regiment, which was engaged\\nat Trenton, Princeton, and Monniouth. He served through\\nthe war, and was a member of the Society of the Cincin-\\nnati. In 1786 he was with his father in the survey of the\\nseven ranges, and when the Ohio Company was formed he\\nbecame a share-holder, and was engaged by them as a\\nsurveyor, and arrived at Marietta in the company of forty-\\neight, April 7, 1788. At the organization of the military\\ncompanies at Marietta, in 1789, under Colonel Sproat,\\nAnselm Tupper was appointed Post Major,, and had com-\\nmand of Campus Martins during the war. That winter\\nhe taught school in one of the block-houses of the fort.\\nHe was secretary of the Union Lodge of Free Masons, be-\\nfore whom he delivered an address on St. John s day, 1790.\\nMajor Tupper was a brilliant man and a favorite in society.\\nHe died, unmarried, at Marietta, December 25, 1808.\\nJohn Mathews was a ne[ hew of General Rufus Putnam.\\nHe Avas em}.)loyed in the survey of the seven ranges in\\n1786. He was appointed a surveyor for the Ohio Company,\\nand joined the expedition that landed at Marietta, April 7,\\n1788, and was himself a share-holder in the Company.\\nWhile engaged surveying in the lower part of the pur-\\nchase, in Lawrence county, his camp was attacted by a\\nparty of hostile Shawnees, early in the morning of Au-\\ngust 7, 1789. He had with him a guard of seven soldiers,\\nall of whom were killed, except the corporal. Mr.\\nMathews assistant was shot dead at his side, and he es-\\ncaped almost naked, and succeeded, with three or four of\\nhis party, Avho wei e unhurt, in reaching Colonel 1\\\\. J.\\nMeigs, who was in a boat with a party surveying the Ohio\\nriver. This was the most serious disaster experienced by\\nany of the surveying parties. Besides the loss of life, all", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "The Memory of lite Founders of Ohio. 27\\nthe clothing, gnus, survej-ing instruments, and camp equip-\\nage were lost. In 1792, Mr. Mathews was appointed su-\\nperintendent of affairs at Gallipolis. In 1796, he married\\na daughter of Judge Dudley Woodbridge, of Marietta,\\nand settled in Muskingum County, and became a success-\\nful farmer on a large scale. He was one of the most use-\\nful, active, and clear headed men Ohio ever claimed for a\\ncitizen.\\nColonel Return Jonathan Meigs Avas one of the surveyors\\nemployed by the Ohio Company. lie was a Colonel in the\\nRevolutionary army, born at Middletown, Connecticut,\\nDecember, 1740, died at the Cherokee Agency, Georgia,\\nJanuary 28, 1823; distinguished for exploit^at Sag Harbor,\\nand at the storming of Stony Point; served to the end of\\nthe war. He w^as one of the first settlers at Marietta, Ohio,\\nm 1788. He was commissioner of clothing under General\\nWayne, in 1795. In 1802, Jefferson appointed him agent\\nfor Indian Affairs. The Indians called him the White\\nPath. He was a member of the Society of the Cincin-\\nnati. On his removal to Georgia, the inhabitants of Ma-\\nrietta parted with him very reluctantly, holding his person\\nand virtues in the highest estimation. His upright, manly\\nconduct, dignified manners, and kind heart, had enlisted\\nall in his favor. During a long life of activity and useful-\\nness, no man ever sustained a character more irreproachable\\nthan Colonel Meigs. He was a pattern of excellence as a\\npatriot, a philanthropist, and a Christian. His eldest son,\\nR. J. Meigs, Jr., remained a citizen of Marietta he be-\\ncame a supreme judge, United States Senator, Governor of\\nOhio, .and Postmaster General of the United States.\\nSix more names are found on General Putnam s list,\\nthese are Benjamin Griswold, Elizur Kirtland, William Mil-\\nler, Daniel Bushnell, Israel Danton, and Josiah White, which\\nnames probably belonged to men as good and true as the\\nothers, but which we have been unable to trace, and, there-\\nfore, leave them to some more fortunate investigator. As\\nto the actual number of men in the first parU% JoseiJi", "height": "3339", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "foundersofohiobr00cutl_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.\\nEuell, orderly sergeant in Captain Strong s Company, at\\nFort Harmar, writes April 7 (1788). General Putnam\\narrived at this place with fifty men, to begin a settlement\\non the east side of the Muskingum. John Mathews, a\\nsurveyor, who had been with the party but a short time,\\nwrites on the same date Our whole party consists of\\nforty-two men, surveyors and all. But General Putnam,\\nwho was the superintendent and responsible business man-\\nager of the Company, states The whole number of men,\\nincluding myself, who arrived at Marietta, April 7, 1788,\\nwas forty-eight, among whom were four surveyors, viz\\nColonel Sproat, Colonel Meigs, Major Tupper, and Mr.\\nJohn Mathews. His list of names, forty-eight in all, is\\nfound in Dr. Hildreth s Pioneer History, and General Put-\\nnam s statement has been accepted for an hundred years.\\nEach share in the Ohio Company entitled the owner to\\neleven hundred and seventy-three acres of land, and a town\\nlot. Members of the party of forty-eight pioneers, held in\\ntheir own right, twenty-six shares, or about 30,000 acres of\\nland, while some other men in the Company represented\\nfamilies, who, in the aggregate, had 20,000 acres more.\\nThey had, therefore, personal interests in the settlement,\\nand came to look after their own property. One-fourth of\\nthese men held commissions in the Revolutionary Army,\\nand had distinguished themselves in the service, and were\\nnow equally at home in civil life, as judges, or in other\\npublic offices, others were skilled artisans, successful mer-\\nchants, and intelligent farmers. 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