{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3374", "width": "2147", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3296", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "1965", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "SKETCHES\\nWOOD COUNTY:\\nITS\\nEARLY HISTORY;\\nAs embraced in and connected with other\\nCounties of West Virginia.\\nALS(\u00c2\u00bb\\nBriet accounts of\\nFIRST SETTLERS;\\nAND THEIR DESCENDANTS.\\nIncluding accounts of its\\nSoils, Timber, Minerals, Water,\\nAND\\nMATERIAL WEALTH.\\nin\\nS. C. SHAW.\\nI\\\\irt First. Price 50 Cents.\\n(JKOUrrE ELLETSON. Pibi.ishkk.\\nParkershnr^^. W. Va.", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "SKETCHES\\nW0^D :](5,UNTY:\\n^ARL^^-HlSJTORY;\\nAs embraced in and connected with other\\nCounties of West Virginia.\\nALSO\\nBrief accounts of\\nFIRST SETTLERS;\\nAND THEIR DESCENDANTS.\\nIncluding accounts of its\\nSoils, Timber, Minerals, Water,\\nMATERIAL AVEALTH\\nS^C. ^SHAW.\\nPart First, Price 50 Cents.\\nPAKKEKSBUKG, WEST V.\\\\.:\\nGeorge Elletson, Job Printer, Court Square.\\n1.S7S.\\n7r", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": ".VIzSs-\\nEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year li T^,\\nBY\\nS. C. SHAW,\\nIn the Clerk s OflSce of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. D. C.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nForty-six years ago, the author of these Sketches, then a young\\nman, became a permanent citizen of the town of Parkersburg, in\\nWood county, Virginia. At that time, Parkersburg, the seat of jus-\\ntice in the county, was a small town on the southern banks ot the\\nOhio river, above antl adjoining the Little Kanawha, and contained a\\nj)opulation of al out two hundred inhabitants Up to that time and\\nafter, the territory of Wood county had remained the same as when\\nthe county was first organized embracing an area of about fourteen\\nliundred square miles, and contained a population of between six\\nand seven thousand inhabitants.\\nSince tliat date, by the formation of new counties from the origi-\\nnal territory of Wood, the area of the county has been greatl} les-\\nsened, and now contains only about one-fourth of its original boun-\\ndaries, and yet such has been the increase of its population, that it\\nnow contains upwards of twenty thousand itdiabitants. He might\\nhere add that the territory which has been taken off, in the formation\\nof new counties, has probably increased in population and material\\nwealth, in like proportion. This permanent increase of inhabitants\\nand wealth, speaks volumes for the social and commercial advantages\\not our. new State. It carries upon its face the evidences of affluence,\\nprosperity and social happiness.\\nChanging the form of expression from the past tense, to the present,\\nwe will say, that during the first seven years of our citizenship m Par-\\nkersburg, we were employed and performed the duties of Clerk of the\\nCounty Court of Wood county; and for several years was Deputy, under\\nthe late Jajnes II.XeaKEsq., Clerk of its Circuit Superior Court. Be-\\ntween the years of 1845 and 1855, for seven years, we held the office and\\npersonally perf(M-med all the duties of Assessor and Commissioner of\\nthe county. Also during those years, as Surveyor, we became well\\nacquainted with the lands of the county, in their various localities.\\nllaving closely and carefully stu lied and improved these sources", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "of iiiibrmation, arising from these several positions occupied by us,\\nr Q became familiar with the history of the county, its early settle-\\nments, and many ot its hardy, bold and enterprising inliabitants.\\nAlso we acquired a general knowledge of its lands, waters, water-\\ncourses, soil, productions and natural advantages. The diversified\\nscenery of its mountain slopes and valleys, with its salubrious cli-\\nmate, and health-restoring and invigorating agencies, being such as\\nto add to the length of our years, we have taken pleasure in penning\\nthese sketches, and thus complying with the oft-expressed wishes of\\npersonal friends, by presenting them to the public. They are the re-\\nsults of many hours of reflection, toil and research, and have been\\nrevised and corrected from a series we published in the Parkersburg\\nSentinel.\\nIn conclusion, permit us to say, that in the opening paragraph\\nabove, we referred to our forty-six years of residence in Parkersburg.\\nAt its commencement, that length of time then appeared long, yet it\\nhas been past. Now, in the review, it appears but a step. Yet along\\nthe way we have had sunshine and shadows hours of pleasure and\\npain broken shrines of affection and love are in dust and ashes at\\nour feet footprints upon the sands of time have been made and\\nwashed away mounds covered with the green grass have been mois-\\ntened with tears, covering forms that cannot be effaced from the tab-\\nlet of memory. In penning these pages, we have labored to bring\\nback, and converge some of the rays of sunshine and joy, which\\nonce illuminated our pathway, and gave hope and happiness to call\\nback the associations of other years, and other friends, and perpetuate\\ntheir memories.\\nShould this effort prove successful, and be appreciated by our citi-\\nzens, we huve the materials on hand for their continuance materials\\nwhich have not yet been published, in addition to those which have\\najipeared, which we desire to revise. If errors arc made to appear\\nin any of these pages, we will take pleasure in correcting them, when\\nI ointed out. Our object being, to present facts, as they are interwo-\\nven with the early settlers of the county. Much has been omitted,\\nowing to the uncertainty enshrouding the past. With these thoughts\\nand anxieties, we submit these pages to the consideration of the pub-\\nlic.\\nS. C. SHAW.\\nLeafy Glen, W. Va.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "WEST VIRGINIA.\\nOXIA-FTEIK. I.\\nINTROEUCTION.\\nThe bold, hardy and venturesome pioneers who first emigrate and take\\npossession of a country, and with labor, toil and privations, put forth\\nstrong and unwearied efforts to clear away the heavy primeval forests,\\nand subdue the soil to cultivation, should be held in remembrance in the\\nhistory of that country. Especially should that be the case when the\\nmultiplied incidents, scenes, adventures and sufferings connected with\\ntheir history are fading and disappearing in the dim shadows and back-\\nground of the past.\\nIt is at such a time that these varied incidents ought naturally to be-\\ncome deeply interesting to the generations that follow those who thus\\nenjoy the rewards of their ancestors adventurous toil. And yet how\\noften it is the case that but a few of those early adventurers leave their\\nnames, or a posterity behind them to record their doings their feats of\\ndaring and courage their adventures and toils their privations and\\nsufferings.\\nTime, in its ever onward flight, soon leaves the present in the past and\\nthe past is soon lost in forgetfulness. One generation passeth away and\\nanother cometh and is soon gone gone from the present to make room\\nfor tiie myriads who are crowding the earth in its onward course of years.\\nl ut a few, only a few, of the teeming multitudes the countless millions\\nof all the vast generations of the past, havepermanantly fixed their names,\\nand caused them to stand out upon the records of time, or left a memen-\\nto of the stirring events which were numbered in their generation.\\nEre the history of the early settlements made in our county, with the\\nchanges of its name, as connected with the ^^tate, as also the names of\\nthe prominent actors, together with such reflections as may arise in our\\nmind, will claim the attention of these Chapters, made up from such\\nscanty materials as wo can now command.", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "b EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS,\\nBut in doing so, we nre fully aware that many of those early settlers\\nthose first pioneers to the county, whose active energies were here spent,\\nand whose genial smiles and social bearings once gladdened the hearts\\nof many are gone, leaving no records of themselves among the living.\\n^Owing to these causes our sketches will be imperfect and incomplete, and\\nwill lose much of their interest, whicli might otherwise be interwoven iu\\nour early history as a county.\\nThe reader in forming a correct idea of the difficulties and dangers\\nattending the first settlements of Western and Xorthwestern Virginia,\\nalong the slopes of the Allegheny Mountains and on to the Ohio river, it\\nwill become necessary for him to go far back in the history of Virginia,\\nto its collonial records, and from thence to trace the slow, toilsome move-\\nments Westward amid the difficulties and dangers which then environed\\nher surroundings.\\nAgain, for the purpose of obtaining a clear and good understanding,\\nand forming correct ideas of the trials and conflicts attending the early\\nsettlements made in this then far western country, it will be necessary to\\nhave a knowledge of the character and inlluetices brought to bear upon\\nthe aboriginees then inhabiting the great Northwestern territory, as then\\nconnected with the policy of those Nations of Europe who were seeking\\nto establish and maintain their claims and authority in these Colonies, as\\nthe rightful owners of the soil, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centu-\\nries.\\nThree of those great powers viz England, France and Spain, were\\ncontending for and claiming by right of discovery, large parts and por-\\ntions of this Western Continent, and were constantly at variance with\\neach other, as to their rights and boundaries. Hence, was inaugurated\\nby two of those powers viz.: France and England what has been\\nhere known in history, as the French War, between the years 1750 and\\n17 i5. This war between the French and English governments was\\nmainly confined to, and carried on in the colonies of this country, as then\\nclaimed by each of them. In the prosecution of this war, the French\\ngovernment formed alliances with the numerous Indian tribes, then in-\\nhabiting the great Northwestern territory.\\nBy its promises of protection and rewards, that (Tovernment enlisted\\nthese tribes of the forests to enfir:iiIo in their barbarous methods of cruel-\\nty and blood upon the frontier settlements of those colonies. These\\natrocious alliances were formed and perfected through their agents and\\nemissaries, at that time extensively engaged in commercial transactions,\\nas connected with the fur trade with these Indians.\\nHence may be traced much of the hostility of the Indians, and the\\nreason for their cruel and relentless course. Much of the horrors of\\ntlieir mode of warfare may be and is justly chargeable upon the French\\ngovernment, during these years of untold sufferings.\\nIt is a well known and established fact that the disposition and gener-\\nal character of the Indian was far more amicable and reliable when the", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN. 7\\ncountry was first discovered by the Europeans, than it now is, or has\\nbeen since. lie then was in possession of more noble and generous and\\nworthy qualities of mind and heart, thereby molding his character more\\nin accordance with the great moral principles of reliance, truih and jus-\\ntice.\\nThese thoughts and considerations open a wide field for reflection\\nand should be improved by every American citizen. The law-\\nmaking power of our General Government, in all its dealings with\\nthe Indians, should carefully consider their relations to this country,\\nand then act with impartial justice.\\nAgain, during the dangers and struggles of the l\\\\evolutionary\\nWar, in which the thirteen colonies of this country contended with\\nGreat Britain for their independence, similar alliances were formed\\nliy that Government, through their agents, with these Indian tribes,\\nat and immediately anterior to 177G, which lasted during the contin-\\nuance of that bloody conflict. And again, in the war with that Gov-\\nernmen.t in 1812-15, tiie same inhuman policy was ado[ited by that\\nGovernment, in enlisting these savage tribes in the work ot barbar-\\nism, cruelty and death. Hence, as we have before said, much ot the\\nhostility and cruelty of the Indians, iu their savage and sickening\\nmode ot warfare, is justly chargeable upon those enlightened nations\\nof Europe, and for which they should be held accountable by the\\nhistorian in all time to come.\\nFrom these considerations and others which might be given, it\\nmust be apparent to the mind of the reader that the cruel hostility\\nof these tribes these denizens of the forest towards the citizens of\\ntliese colonies, in their raids for plunder for taking into captivity\\nmen, women and children, and tor their cruel and bloody acts of\\nl)arbarism upon the first settlements made in the great Mississippi\\nalley antl its numerous tributaries, are chargeable upon those en-\\nlightened Governments of the Old World.\\nConsequently, as we have before said, in making up and reviewing\\nthe history of those years of darkness and sutierings we have felt\\nand still feel, thut nmch of the sin and sorrows visited u[ioii those\\nearly pioneers, will not and should not rest upon the poor Indian.\\nIt is undoubtedly true that in feeling and disposition for protecting\\nthemselves and their posterity in their territorial hunting grounds,\\nthey felt, and to some considl rable extent carried out, their feelings\\nof Jiatred and aversion, but these had become greatly intensified and\\nmade cruel and relentless by those emissaries then acting under the\\n(hrection of these foreign Governments. Consequently, as we have\\nalready said, it well becomes the historian, in writing of these\\nearly times, and the records of those years ot bloody and iniuiman\\nstrife, he should not pass b^ and lose sight of these facts. They\\nshould be carefully considered and plead in extenuation of many of\\nthe inhuman barbarities of those years when these Indian tribes ot", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 FRENCH WAR, REVOLUTIONARY WAR.\\ntlic forest went forth upon the war-path. In presentini^ these sum-\\nmary skotclies of those times, we have, tlierefore, felt tlj.at we were\\ncalled upon by the principles ot truth and justice to make this avowal\\nfor the poor Indian, when speaking ot the early settlements of\\nWestern and Northwestern Virginia and their tragic memories.\\nDuring the latter ^tart of the eighteenth century, owing to the\\nactive and controlling intluences made b} these European Govern-\\nments, through their agents, then passing from one tort or station to\\nanother, extending from the Canadas and the Northern lakes to the\\nOhio river, which they then brought to bear upon these tribes, but\\nfew attempts w cre made by the Government to colonize any parts or\\nportions of this Western and Northwestern Virginia, and those then\\nmade were wholly insufficient for tlie protection of those who had\\nsought homes in what was then known as the Far West.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ch:a.i^te:e^ ii.\\nTHS FORMATION OF COUNTIES.\\nIn our introductory Chapter, we gave to the reader, summary state-\\nments of the nature and character of the various influences brought to\\nbear upon the Indian tribes of the Northwestern territory, by the French\\nand English governments, with our reflections thereon, as interwoven\\nin and standing connected with the early settlements of the colony of Vir-\\nginia its wilderness territory and subsequent history.\\nThis was done, not only in justice to those unlettered denizens of the\\nforest, but for the purpose of placing the responsibilities and blame where\\nthey so justly belonged. Those great European governments then were\\nincluded in the enlightened and civilized nations of the earth, whose so-\\ncial and civil institutions were endowed with, and should have been guid-\\ned by the principles and precepts of the christian religion, as then\\nconnected with those governments. Hence we have held, and now hold\\nthem to the just responsibilities of their conduct and policy as enlighten-\\ned and christianized nations, and also for the results of their combined\\nacts adopted, pursued and carried out by each of them individually as\\nnations, in their efforts to support and maintain their assumed territo-\\nrial claims.\\nHaving thus briefly referred to these historic facts, 80 painfully con-\\nnected with the early settlements of Virginia, in her valleys and over\\nher mountains, lying West and Northwest of the Blue Ridge, we now\\nturn the attention of the reader to the divisions and sub-divisions of its\\nterritories and counties.\\nAt and prior to the Independence of the United States in 1776, the\\npopular branch of Colonial legislation in Virginia, was known as the\\nHouse of Burgesses. It enacted its laws under a provincial charter,\\ngranted by the English government, to whom its allegiance was due.\\nThe House of Burgesses by its enactments from time to time, laid off\\nthe wilderness territory into counties, as its increasing population ad-", "height": "3260", "width": "2049", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 AUGUSTA, FREDERICK DISTRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA.\\nvanced their forest settlements westward beyond the mountains of the\\nBlue Ridge.\\nIn 1738, the counties of Frederick and Augusts were formed by pre-\\nscribed metes ami bounds, embracing a large territory of land west of\\nthe Blue Kidge mountains. All the vast ami wide spread wilderness\\nterritory, lying West and Northwest of those two counties, was then\\nnamed and designated by the House of Burgesses, The District of\\nA eat Augusta, extending on the Northwest to the Ohio river, and\\nWest as far as the colonial territory extended. The lands now embrac-\\ned in the State of West Virginia, formed a portion of the territory, then\\nknown as the District of West Augusta.\\nIn 1754 the county of Hampshire was formed from parts of Frederick\\nand Augusta counties.\\nIn 1770 the county of Botetourt was formed by a division of the\\ncounty of Augusta.\\nIn 1772 the counties of Berkeley and Shenandoah were formed by\\nsub-divisions of the county of Freilenck.\\nIn 1776 the counties of Ohio and Monongalia were formed out of the\\nnorthwestern part of the District of West Augusta, and embraced the\\nterritory between the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania on the\\nnortheast and the Big Kanawha on the southwest, lying southeast of the\\nOhio river. Ohio county extending down the Ohio river, from L ennsyl-\\nvania to the mouth of Middle Island creek. Monongalia county lying\\nsoutheast of Ohio county nnd extending below and down the Ohio river\\nIrom the mouth of Middle Island creek to the valley of the Big Kan-\\nawha river, and from thence northeast to the State of Maryland.\\nIn 1777 and 1778 Montgomery and Greenbrier counties were formed\\nfrom the western and northwestern portion of the District of West Au-\\ngusta, extending west of the Allegheny Mountains to Big Sandy river\\nand down its valley and the valley of the Big Kanawha, to the Ohio\\nriver, which then formed the southwestern boundary of the county of\\nMonongalia.\\nIn 17S4 the county of Monongalia was divideil, and the northwestern\\npart was named Harrison, in honor of Benjamin Harrison, then Gover-\\nnor of Virginia. This county then extended from its division line\\nnorthwest to the Ohio river, and down the Ohio river to the valley of\\nthe Big Kanawha river, then embraced in Greenbrier county. During\\nthese years while the land in Western Virginia was embraced in the ter-\\nritory of Monongalia and Harrison counties, numerous large surveys of\\nland were entered and patented by land speculators. These entries\\nwhen surveyed, the lines of which intersected each other, causing much\\nconfusion in the titles of these lands. More of this anon.\\nIn 178t\u00c2\u00bb the county of Kanawha was formed by a division ol Green-\\nbrier county, and embraced the beautiful valley of the Big Kanawha to\\nthe Ohio river. The territory of this county then embraced one of\\nthe richest portions of West Virginia.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "WOOD COUNTY ORIGINAL BOUNDARIES, iC. 11\\nBy an Act of the Houfie of Burgesses in 17! 9, the county of Wood\\nwas set off by a division of the county of Harrison, and was named\\nin honor ot Governor Wood, of Virginia. Its northeastern boundary\\nline was Ohio county; its southeastern boundary was the line separa-\\nting it from the county of Harrison; its southwestern line was the\\ncounty of Kanawha, and its northwestern boundary was the Ohio\\nriver. Its territor} as then formed, contained about 1400 square\\nmiles. The Little Kanawha river, heading in the slopes ot the Alle-\\ngheny Mountains and running nortliwest, joined tlie Ohio river at\\nParkerslmrg, dividing tlie county into nearly two e(iual parts. Ow-\\ning to conflicting interests of its settlers, the regular organization of\\nthe county did not take place until the 10th ot March, 1800.\\nIn 1804 Mason county was formed by a division of Kanawha coun-\\nty, taking in the valley of Big Kanawha to the Ohio river. For many\\nyears thereafter this count}- formed the southwestern boundary ot\\nWood county.\\nIn 1814 Tyler count} was formed by a division ot Ohio county; it\\nwas taken from its southwestern part, and became the northeastern\\nboundary of Woj^d county.\\nIn 181(5 the county of Lewis was formed by another division made\\nof Harrison county, and for many years was the southern boundary\\nof Wood county.\\nWe have thus traced and defined the boundaries of Wo^d county,\\nas it was first formed in 1799, and as it remaine l up to the year\\n1832. The reader will perceive that its territory was embraced in, an^i\\nformed a part of that celebrated territory of Virginia, known and\\ndesignated in the eighteenth century as the District of West Augus-\\nta from the year 1738 to the year 177G. From the year 1776 to the\\nyear 1784 it was included in the territory of Monongalia county;\\nand from the year 1784 to the year ITJU it tortued the western part\\nof Harrison county, and from that year to 1832 the territorial boun-\\ndariea of the county remained unchanged.\\nThe tirst settlements made in any of the territory of this county\\nwas when it formed a part of Ilarrisiiii eonnty. Yet in all its vast\\nterritory such was the slow progress made in its settlement, that\\nin the United States census taken in 1830 it contained only a popu-\\nlation of 6,414 persons, and its taxation was f$4,257. There were va-\\nrious causes which operated unfavorably to its rapid settlement and\\nincrease of population. Of these we may have more to say hereaft-\\ner. But owing to these causes, one ot the most romantic, pictur-\\nesque, healthy and invigorating portions of our common country,\\nwhose rich alluvial soils, abounding in vast beds of mineral wealth,\\nnumerous heavy veins of coal, forests of every variety of timber, and\\nrivers and streams of water, and water power were passed l)y for\\nyears and left in their primeval solitude.", "height": "3260", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 NEW COUKTIES.\\nLeaving all those adverse circumstancea and their consideration?\\nfor tlie present, we again return to the historical sketches of Wood\\ncounty and its territory from the year 1832, down to the present time.\\nBy an act of the Legislature of Virginia in 1832. the county of Jack-\\neon was formed from the counties ot Wood and Mason. In the for-\\nmation ot this county, about one-half of its territory was taken from\\neach ot the above-named counties, taking from Wo^d all the lauds\\nlying southwest of a line running from the mouth of Pond Creek,\\non the Ohio river, in a southerly direction to the northern boundary\\nof Lewis county, Ripley, a pleasant settlement on Mill Creek, in a\\ncentral portion of the territory, was made the county seat. This\\ncounty embraces a tine body ot land for agricultural purposes, and is\\nrich in mineral wealth and prospective affluence. Ravenswood, on\\nthe Ohio river, its emporium, is beautifully situated on an elevated\\nplateau, with good pikes and roads extending to the back counties.\\nA hopeful future awaits the enterprise of the citizens of this county.\\nThe northeastern portion of the present county of Roane, taken\\nfrom Jackson county, was, prior to 1832, a portion of Wood county.\\nIn 1843 the county of Ritchie was formed from the eastern portion\\nof Wood. Ilarrisville, situated on the north fork ot Hughes river,\\nVv as made the county seat. The Northwestern Virginia Railroad, a\\nbranch of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, passes through the central\\npart of this county from East to West. On its track are many beau-\\ntiful and picturesque towns, lately sprung up as points of commercial\\nbusiness. The lands of this county are rough, broken and mountain-\\nous, yet abounding in rich minerals, oils and other substances, invit-\\ning the enterprise of capitalists.\\nA portion of the territory of the present county of Doddridge was,\\nprior to 1843, embraced in the boundaries of Wood county, in con-\\nnection with the county ot Ritchie. From these facts, the reader can\\nform some idea of the large territory of land once embraced in the\\nboundaries of Wood county.\\nIn 1848 Wirt county was formed from the southern part of Wood,\\nlying on both sides of the Little Kanawha river. The town of Eliza-\\nbeth, on the south side of the river, above the mouth of Tucker s creek,\\nbecame the county seat. On the north side of the river, eight miles\\nabove Elizabeth, are the famous Burning Springs, and the great oil\\nbasin, from which there iseX[\u00c2\u00bborted annually vast quantities of petro-\\nleum. A town by that name has there sprung up, inviting capital-\\nists. The working of these subterranean deposits of oil, in late years,\\nhas added greatly to the wealth and population of this county. Slack-\\nwater navigation, by dams, of the Little Kanawha, from Parkcrsburg\\non the Ohio, to Buruing Spritigs, is opening up a new tield of com-\\nmercial enterprise to the back counties along the valley of the river\\nand its tributaries, and should receive the fostering attention and care\\nof the government. Slack-water navigation of this river up to the", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "NEW COUNTIES. 13\\nbeds of mineral wealth which lie hid in the back mountains, would in-\\ncrease the commerce of the entire Little Kanawha Valley.\\nAt the time Dr. David Creel, who represented Wood county in the Leg-\\nislature of Virginia, about the year 1820, made an effort to have the\\nState engaged in this enterprise by improving this river by slack-water\\nnavigation. His effort met with opposition from the eastern portion of\\nthe iState, causing its failure.\\nAn Act of incorporation for this improvement was granted by the\\nLegislature of West irginia on the 28th day of January, 1806 and\\nan Act amendatory thereto, on the 4th day of March, 1868. The work\\nof improvement of the river under the provisions of these Acts, from\\nthe city of Darkersburg to Burning Springs in Wirt county, a distance\\nof upwards of forty miles, was commenced in 1870 and 1871. The\\nlate General J, J. Jackson and the Hon. J. N. Camden have been the\\nfast and firm friends in prosecuting this great work, and it is now open\\nand in active operation from Parkersburg to Burning Springs.\\nIn 1851 the county of Pleasants was formed from Wood, Tyler and\\nRitchie. In its formation all the territory of Wood between Bull creek\\nand Middle Island was taken. St. Mary s, situated on the Ohio below\\nthe mouth of Middle Island, was made the county seat. This county\\npresents a fine body of land for agricultural enterprise. It has a coast\\non the Ohio river of about twenty-five miles, embracing rich and wide-\\nspreading bottoms of the best of lands. Middle Island creek, with its\\nfertile bottoms and uplands, divides this county into nearly two ecjual\\nparts.\\nSt. Mary s, the county seat, is pleasantly located on the Ohio river\\nhas a population of about 600. A Masonic, Odd Fellow and Encamp-\\nment Lodges are by Charters in active operation in the town also sev-\\neral churches and church edifices. In the Fall of 1877 a weekly news-\\npaper was established, known as the Watch Word, edited by the Kev, F.\\nM. Yates. This county is assuming a healthy and prosperous position\\namong the Ohio river counties of the State.\\nIn the formation of the four counties named above, since the year\\n1832, the county of Woo l has lost nearly three-fourths of its original\\nterritory. Yet such has been its marvelous advancement in wealth and\\npopulation, that it now has within its circumscribed boundaries an assess-\\nable property ot about S8,000,000, and a population of upwards of 20,-\\n000. And further, it may be said, that the new counties formed from\\nher original territory have increased in like proportion.\\nFew portions of our common country laboring under so many disad-\\nvantages, can boast of a more healthy advancement in all the material\\nelements ot wealth and prosperity than Wood county. Her original\\nlarge territory has been taken away in the formation of these new coun-\\nties, until she now has only about 350 square miles.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "CKCJ^I^TEK/ III.\\nCOLONIAL SETTL3M3NTS.\\nIn the proccding Chapter we traced tlie divisions uiid .subdivisions\\nof Western and North we.sturn Virginia into eountie as its increasing\\nl)opuhition demanded, and the spirit of enterprise pushed its settle-\\nments westward and northwestward from tlie Vidlev of Virginia. The\\nHouse of Burgesses were active in their ctt orts to meet the necessities\\nof these settlements, as they arose from time to time in its colonial\\nhistory.\\nThese divisions and subdivisions of counties in Western and North-\\nwestern Virginia we traced from 1738, when the District of West\\nAugusta was I ormed, down to the present boundaries of Wood count}\\nshowing in what name the territory of Wood count} was included\\nduring those years.\\nWe now turn back, and in a brief and general way, view and trace\\nthe liistoiT of the settlements i vom the tirst decades ot the eighteenth\\ncentury onward, under the inliuences and surrounding dangers ot\\nthose times.\\nIn the early part of the eighteenth century settlements wore being\\nmade in the iShanandoah Valley and up the Eastern slopes of the Al-\\nleghany mountains, and also up the valleys of the James and Roan-\\noke rivers west of the Blue Ridge; also alx)Ut the same period of time\\nsettlements were being made up that portion of Virginia generally\\nknown as the Northern Neck.\\nThe bold and enterprising pioneers who entered these primeval\\nforests were subjected to various and adverse fortunes, hardships and\\nsufferings from the fre(pient raids and incursions ot the Indians; es-\\npecially from those inhabiting the Northwestern territory, whose\\nwar-paths extended up the two Kanawhas and Sandy rivers and\\nthrough the forests of Kentucky. Owing to these untoward circum-\\nstances the ettorts then made to pass the barriers of the Alleghany\\nmountains were failures, and were abandoned until about the year\\n17G0, at which time there was a trciity, or a partial treaty of peace\\nwith these Indian tribes.", "height": "3219", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "FRENCH \\\\TAR. 15\\nAlso, ilnring the cnrlv part of the eighteenth centun- the French\\n(jovernnioiit, under her rit;lits of discovery, was putting forth stron\\n;ind vigorous efforts to chiim and hohl her possessions in the valley of\\ntiie great Mississijipi and its trihutary waters. Under tiic fostering care\\nof that Govcriinient, stations or pos-ts of trade were estahlished amonuf\\nthe numerous tribes of Indians then inhabiting the greru Nortliwestern\\nterritory. These trading posts extended from the Canaihis and the\\nNorthern lakes to the Ohio river, and from thence onward to the terri-\\ntory of Louisiana. They also established and sustained a few settle-\\nments at different places within the territory thus claimed.\\nThe House of Burgesses of Virginia, under her Collonial Charter\\nfrom tiio English Government, rejected this rival claim put forth by the\\nFrench Government to any and all the territory of the Tpper Missis-\\nsippi. From time to time schemes were projected by the House of Bur-\\ngesses for taking, holding and colonizing the same under the provisons\\nof the grant specified in the Colonial Charter. But owing to the sparse\\npopulation and her colonial vreakness, she failed in her attempts to\\nsustain these euteprises.\\nAbout tlie year 1750, the French Government established forts on\\nthe L pper Ohio river, and one at the junction of the Monongahela and\\nAllegheny rivers, which she named Fort DuQuesne, which occupied the\\npresent site of the city of Pittsburg. At that time about si.xty miles of\\nthe western part of the territory now embraced in the State of Pennsyl-\\nvania was claimed and supposed to belong to the Colony of Virginia.\\nL nder the authority of the English Government, acting with the\\nHouse of Burgesses of Virginia in 17o-4, General Braddock, at the\\nhead of an army, marched from Winchester, Va., to within a few miles\\nof Fort DuQuesne, where, after crossing the Monongahehi river, he was\\nambushed and defeated by the Indians and lost his life. The retreat of\\nthe army was conducted by Col. Gejrge Washington. The object for\\ncapturing Fort Du \\\\)uesne from the French by the Virginia House of\\nBurgesses was to settle and establish her claim in the Northwestern ter-\\nritory, and secure her settlements on the Ohio river and its tributaries\\nagainst the devastations of the Indians and the claims of France.\\nDuring the war with the French Government in ]7o General Forbes,\\nof Fennsylvania, made a successful movement and captured the Fort\\nfrom the French and Indians, and held it until the close of that war,\\nand gave to it the name of Fort Pitt. After the close of that war in\\n17t)5, by a treaty of peace, the French Government relinquished all her\\nclaims to the lands in the Northwestern territory. But the war sj.irit of\\nthe Indians, who had been their confederates and allies during that war,\\nstill survived and manifested itself in fretiuent raids upon the Virginia\\nColony until 17G J, when a treaty of peace was concluded with them.\\nFrom thence during a comparative peace with these Indian tribes of\\ntwo or three years, the hardy and enterprising yeomanry of Virginia\\nand other Southern Colonies again pushed forward their settlements", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 INDIAN WAR.\\nXorthward and Westwanl. In 170 1770 and 1771, settlements were\\nextended further up the James and Roanoke rivers, and also over on the\\nGreenbrier and New rivers, and also on the Mononi^ahela river and its\\ntributaries, and down the Ohio river as far as Wheeling and Grave creek.\\nThe contest growing out of the dissatisfaction of the American Col-\\nonies with Great Britain, the mother country, was then rapidly approach-\\ning. The deep ground swell of discontent and rebellion was agitating\\nthe colonial legislatures in all parts of the country a full knowledge of\\nwhich was communicated to the Indian tribes of the Northwestern ter-\\nritory by British fur traders and agents who had taken the place of the\\nFrench traders, causing these tribes to become restless and warlike,\\nthereby making it necessary for the Colony of Virginia to raise troops\\nand send northwest for the safety and protection of her settlements.\\nIn the summer of 1774, steps were taken by the House of Burgess-\\nes of Virginia to raise two divisions one under the command of\\nLord Dunmore, Governor of Va., to march to Fort Pitt, the other un-\\nder the command of Gen l. Andrew Lewis, to march to the mouth of\\nthe Big Kanawhu. It was arranged that he would there be joined\\nby a detachment from Fort Pitt, with ammunition and supplies, early\\nin October. But Gov. Dutimore, at Fort Pitt, remained strangely in-\\nactive, and, for some cause not fully accouuted tor, sent no supplies or\\nammunition to Gen l. Lewis. (He however marched down the Ohio\\nriver as hir as Big Hocking. There he stopped and erected a Fort.\\nFrom there, he marched to near Chilicothe, and met the great Chief-\\ntain, Cornstock, and, concluded a partial jieace with him, and returned\\nto Virginia, on the winter following.) On the morning of the 11th of\\nOctober, 1774, Gen l. Lewis found himself and his little army sur-\\nrounded by the Shawnee Indian tribes, headed and led on by that\\ntearless Indian monarch and warrior, the celebrated Cornstalk. The\\nbattle which followed was long, tierce and bloody, lasting the entire\\nday. The great Chief was in the thickest of the fight, cheering his\\nmen by word and deed. As night came on Cornstalk called ott his\\nforces, gave up the battle, and retreated across the Ohio. Gen l. Lewis\\nbeing lett in possession of the ground, soon after erected a Fort, which\\nwas afterwards held and garrisoned tor the f urpose of intersecting\\nthe Indian war-jnith up the Valley of the Big Kanawha, and thereby\\ngiving protection to the inland settlements ot Virginia, and securing\\nits border territory.\\nThe strange course and policy pursued by Gov. Dunmore towards\\nGen l. Lewis, in relation to this battle, and the circumstances connect-\\ned with liis meeting with Cornstalk and his Chiefs in their territory\\nwithout suitable protection, and the hasty treaty of peace then made\\nwith the iShawnee mition furnish strong evidence tor the belief that\\nGov. Dunmore was in jiossession ot the policy then being pursued by\\nthe British Government in the formation of alliances with these In-\\ndian tribes, preparatory to the war theu approaching. The course", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "i:71. BATTLE AT POINT PLEASANT. 17\\nhe tlien pursued, taken in connection with his subsequent acts as Gover-\\nnor, leads to this conclusion. Viewing the approaching contest of the\\nKevolutionary War t rom this standpoint, makes the battle of General\\nLewis, at Point Pleasant, on the 11th day of October, 1774, the first bat-\\ntle fought for American independence. It removes the commencement\\nof that great struggle for liberty and independence from Lexington ami\\nConcord, in the L^tate of Massachusetts, to the valley of the Ohio river,\\nin the l istrict of West Augusta. It was at Point Pleasant, on the 11th day\\nof October, 1774, where the Virginia forces luet and comjuered these\\nsavage allies of the P\u00c2\u00bbritish Government, and thus gained the first victory\\nfor American independence. Let a monument to the memory of those\\nbrave men be there erected to commemorate that first battle for liberty.\\nAgain, in referring to the formation of the first settlements made in\\nthe District of West Augusta, between the years 17GiJ and 1774, it will\\nbe seen that those settlements swept in a circular belt, at station points\\nas centers, around a large wilderness of heavy forest lands. Commen-\\ncing at Wheeling and Grave creek, on the Ohio river, in the North, pass-\\ning over the dividing mountains to the waters of the Monongahela river,\\nthence to Clarksburg on the West Fork river, thence over to Tygart\\nalley and Buckhannon rivers in the East, from thence southward to\\nthe Greenbrier and New rivers, and from thence westward down New\\nand Big Kanawha rivers to the Ohio river at Point Pleasant. This serai-\\ncircle embraces a space of about 170 miles on the Ohio river, extending\\nback southeastward trom 50 to 125 miles.\\nOwing to the exposed condition and near approaches to the Indian\\ntowns and settlements in the northwestern territory, from which squads\\nof Indians were passing and repassing, and the fears arising from their\\ncruel and relentless mode of warfare, this vast territory of heavy forest\\nlands was left unsettled at that time, an l during the next two decades\\nit was slow in receiving emigrants, or the States in making the neces-\\nsary provisions for the protection of those who had braved the dangers\\nand privations of the wilderness.\\nThe Jjittle Kanawha river, a stream of considerable importance and\\nmagnitude, navigable in high stages of water by small boats, (and now by\\nslackwater improvements for 40 miles), heads back in the Alleghany\\nMountains, and running in a northwesterly direction, passes through\\nthis territory and empties into the Ohio river at Parkersburg, about\\nmidway between Wheeling and Point Pleasant. The borders of this\\nriver with its numerous tributaries, are lined with lands well adapted to\\nthe husbandman and farmer for developing improvements and prosper-\\nity. Beneath its valleys and mountain forests of very heavy timber are\\nhidden rich beds of untold wealth, while the surface is divided by numer-\\nous streams of water and water-power, for mills and machinery, murmur-\\ning their music in shady solitudes. Yet with all these primeval advantages,\\nso richly and lavishly bestowe l by nature, owing to their savage sur-\\nroundings and threatening dangers, it secured but few, a very few, set-", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 SETTLEMENTS \\\\l^r, TO 17\\ntiers until about the year IT In 17^0 and IT Jo the bold ami daring\\nenterprise of pioneers became more frcfjuent, tempting them to penetrate\\nthese unbroken solitudes for the purpose of opening up and making their\\nfuture homes. They have long since passed away, and but a few only have\\nleft any record of themselves and of their times behind them.\\nBefore closing this chapter we will turn back to the battle of Point\\nPleasant. Soon after that battle, as we have stated, u treaty of peace\\nwas concluded between the great Indian warrior and statesman, Corn-\\nstalk, anil Governor Dunmore, of Viririnia, in October 1774.\\nThis treaty of peace was strictly and taithfnlly observed by tliis mon-\\narch of the kShawnee Nation. Ilis sagacious mind saw no prosperity\\nand happiness for his nation only on their living on terms of amity and\\npeace with the white inhabitants of these colonies. In his defeat and\\nsorrow he luul found that the Indian could not cope with the white man\\non the battle-field. And though Great Britain had her agents and em-\\nissaries among his tribes, endeavoring to enlist them and form alliances\\nup to the spring of 1777, yet by his great influence and power he ha l\\nkept his tribes in peace.\\nIll the spring of 1777 this great chief and monarch of that Nation,\\nwith two otliers of his tribe, came to the fort at Point I leasant for the\\npurpose of making the authorities of Virginia acquainted with the ef-\\nforts then being made among his tribes to enlist them against the colo-\\nnies. This condition of mind in hira undoubtedly grew out of the fjict\\nin some way connected with the treaty made with Governor Dunmore\\nin 1774. lie and those with him were detained at the fort as hostages\\nuntil the information brought by them could be conveyed to the Govern-\\nment of a. In consequence of the long absence from his tribe, his son\\nEUinipsico, a chief of one of his tribes, came to Point Pleasant to ascer-\\ntain the cause of his long stay. On the following day after his arrival,\\ntwo of the soldiers of the garrison crossed over the Big Kanawha on a\\nhunting expedition, and while thus engaged one of these men was shot\\nand murdered by some wandering Indian. Of the presence or who these\\nwandering Indians were, EUinipsico declared he had no knowledge and\\nwas in no way connected with them. In that hour of tumult, of fren-\\nzied passions, the soldiers of the garrison determined that they would at\\nonce avenge the death of their companion by shooting the great chief\\nand son and those with tlu-m\\nIn that sad hour of revengful hatred, of danger and of death, the un-\\ndaunted courage, coolness and greatness of this warrior chieftain did not\\nforsake hira. In his innocence he faced the sentence of death boldly\\nand endeavored to sustain and cheer his son by words of kindness and\\nsympathy. Facing the mob whose leaden missiles were pointed at him,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0without a word he fell pierced with many balls. Thus ended the career\\nof this, one of the noblest of the Indian chieftains one whose oratory\\nhad made classic the eloijuence of nature, one whose boldness and he-\\nroic bearing on the battle-field was the pride and glory of the fc hawnec", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "cornstalk s death. 19\\nNation, ami whose tniiiic de.itli was the signal of gloom arnl iiorror to\\nthe settlements in Virginia and elsewhere.\\nThis overt acL of treachery, arising from a sudden and momentary pas-\\nsion, prompted and immediately executed under a spirit of inconsiderate\\nlevenge upon these innocent persons, then held in custo ly as hostages\\nfor the safety of others, wns an nnpardonahlc indiscretion an act of\\nl)ad faith, which even civilized nations would not overlook or fail to pun-\\nish. As it might have been justly expected it served to incite all the In-\\ndian tribes of the northwestern territory in deadly hostility and war\\nagainst the white settlements of the colonies, which lasted not only du-\\nring the Hevolutionary War, but long after that sanguinary struggle was\\nendtMl A\\\\ith the British Government. The thinly and exposed position\\nof the whole country in Virginia, west of the Alleghany Mountains,\\nmade -its slopes and valleys the theatre of savage vengeance and deeds\\nof untold sufferings. In consequence of this heart-sickening and cruel\\nwar, and the exposed condition ot these irontier settlements, this whole\\nvast territory of Western and Northwestern Virginia was slow in be-\\ncoming settled. Many were the thrilling tales of adventure and heroic\\ndaring here enacted by these early pioneers, who sought to make homes\\nfor themselves and their families. Not until near the year ISOO did the\\nthinly inhabited settlements of the Ohio river and its tributaries feel that\\nthey were free and safe from savage revenge. Yet there were those\\nwhose limited means and love of adventure caused them to seek homes\\nand settle in these forest wilds.\\nAs a general rule these courageous and hardy men were persons of\\nthe most generous impulses. Though many of them were uneducated,\\nand possessed a rough exterior, yet they possessed hearts of generosity,\\nand enjoyed happiness in sympathizing and making those happy around\\nthem. The hoarding of the almighty dollar was not the object of\\ntheir ambition and love. In their daily intercourse they were social,\\nkind and generous, imparting or bestowing their hospitalities with cheer-\\nfulness. They were kind, generous and considerate to those around\\nthem and thereby enjoyed happiness in the happiness of others. They\\nwere kind for kindness sake.\\nThe huntsmans camp, and the ru(le log cabins of the pioneers, with\\ntheir few articles of rough furniture, were the abodes of genuine good feel-\\nings, and honest open handed hospitality. A common sympathy was\\nfelt and shared by neighbors, in the social amities of life. Toils, priva-\\ntions, and common dangers endured, became a strong bond of attach-\\nment, mutual kindness and gooil will. It w.is thus, in the opening and\\nearly settlements ot these mountain fastnesses of West Virginia. A new-\\nera a new world is opened out before the present generation, begotten\\nby the rapid advancements in the arts and sciences, and the manner in\\nwhich they were communicated. Owing to these courses, the present\\ngeneration can form but an imperfect idea of the hardships and dangers,\\nendured and overcome by the first inhabitants of Western X ir^inia.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "CH:A.:pa?EK; iv.\\nPOLICY OF THS COLONY AS TO HER PUBLIC LANC2,\\nIn preparing tliese Chapters on Wej tern, and North Western Vir-\\ng inia, for the pnrpose of enabling the reader, to form clear and cor-\\nrect ideas of its early history, Ave devote each chapter, to certain facts\\nin that history, as thor\u00c2\u00bbu facts were connected with, and had an in-\\nfluence in shaping the formation of these settlements. All of these\\nseparate and distinct facts, we desire to photograph upon the mind\\nof the reader, for the purpose of enabling liim to see, and have cor-\\nrect conceptions of the nnineron.-^ obstacles, which had a tendency to\\ncripple and retard its rapid settlements, during the latter part of the\\neighteenth, and the first part ot the present century.\\nIn former chapters, we presented a general outline of its territory\\nwith its divisions and subdivisions into counties, as its settlements\\nfrom time to time, made it necessary. Pursuing the same course, in\\nthis chapter, we shall notice the policy of tlie colony in surveying out\\nits public lands.\\nIt must be remembered, that the colony of Virginia, was under the\\nlaws, and dependant on tlie English government. Large grants of\\nland had been made to many of her nobility, for the purpose of col-\\nonizing her poorer classes, and furnishing them with homes in this\\nNew \\\\Vorld, under tiie same i)olicy, wliich had obtained under her\\nhome regulations. Hence the actual tillers of the soil, were poor,\\nand the })olicy pursued by the House of Burgesses, was shaped Ijy the\\nEnglish government in the grants and surveys of her public lands.\\nThus it will be seen, that the landed policy of the colony, was\\nforced upon her by the Mother country, and owing to the dangers\\ngrowing out of the hostile character of the Indians, and the limited", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "SURVEYS OF LAXDS. 21\\nresources of her territory, the same general [tolicy was continued; es-\\npecially was this the condition of the colony at the close of the Revo-\\nlutionary war.\\nA person who will reflect upon the condition of tliis countr}-, at,\\nand prior to that war the liostile attitude of the Indians, who had\\nbeen in alliance, first, with the French, and then with the English\\ngovernment, will at once see the nature and character of these diffi-\\nfulties, and the enforced reasons whicii caused Virginia, as a State,\\nto pursue the landed policy which liad been entailed upon her, by\\nGreat Britain.\\nTherefore, in this Chapter, we shall treat of the surveys of lands,\\nmade in Western and North Vv estern Virginia, as the same arise un-\\nder that policy, and the effects thereof upon the future settlements of\\nthis portion of the State. Yet in doing so, we do not intend to cast\\nany reflections upon the men of tliose colonial years, who labored to\\nperform their duties under the embarrassing circumstances of those\\ntimes.\\nIt is a well known fact throughout the entire country, that the ti-\\ntles to lands in Western, and IS^orth Western Virginia are uncertain\\nand unsatisfactory. Courts of justice within its territory have had\\ntheir dockets crowded with suits in which these titles have been the\\nsubject of litigation for the purpose of settling these conflicting claims.\\nThe doubts and insecurity of these titles has had a very damaging in-\\nfluence upon the settlements as well as upon the business enterprise\\not the country. And yet these diflSculties are not all settled. Suits\\ntor settling the title to lands in the State, are yet upon the dockets of\\nour courts. Soon, however, these claims will be finally settled.\\nThe first survey made ot land in the Ohio valley, of which we\\nhave any record, was those made tor Gen. Gorge Washington, in the\\nsummer of 1771, for services rendered the colony ot Virginia, as col-\\nonel during the French and Indian war. These surveys for him\\nwere made in that summer under his personal su[)ervision, by Col.\\nWilliam Crawford (who was afterwards captured by the Indians and\\nburnt at a stake in 17! 3.) The tirst ot these entries and surveys Avas\\na tract of 2314 acres of land situated five miles below the mouth ot the\\nLittle Kanawha river in this county, and made in June, 1771. This\\ncounty was then a part of the District of West Augusta. Several oth-\\ner surveys were made l)y him on the Ohio and the Big Kanawha\\nrivers, during that summer, and were claimed to be the first made in\\ntliis valley, under the authority of the colony of Virginia.\\nIn the spring of 1771, Col. Geo. Washington with his surveying\\nparty embarked in small boats at Fort I itt, and slowly descended the\\nOhio river, making notes of their journey and of the country as they\\npassed down the river to the mouth of the Big Kanawlia, and also in\\ntheir ascending that river to the falls. A full account of this voyage\\nwas published some years since in Eastern newspapers, and was made", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "-2 r-iEN. U ASHINGTON s SURVEYS.\\nvery intsrosting, as showing tlie condition of tlie country at that tinu\\nThe tract of 2314 acres in this county, surveyed and patented to\\nliini, has, since that time, been known b\\\\- tlie name ot ^VVashincrton\\nBottom. It is a tine body of hind situated, in a bend of the Ohio,\\nimmediately below Bhmnerhassett s Ishmd. It was first settled in\\nthe fall ot ISOfJ, by emigrants trom Louchjn county, Va. No portion\\nof our county Avas first settled by more noble, generous and worthy\\ncitizens, than Washington Bottom. They brought with them their\\nold Virginia bearing and ho |\u00c2\u00bbitality, and a most cordial welcome was\\ngiven to those who visited that portion of our country. The early\\nsettlement of Washington Bottom and sketches of its citizens and\\nfamilies is reserveJ for a future Chajiter in this series.\\nIt will be noticed by the reader that General Washington in 1771\\nbecame a large land holder in the District of West Augusta, And dur-\\ning the Indian war he had become acquainted witli the character of\\nthe early pioneers of Western, and Nortli Western Virginia. Proba-\\nbly it was owing to these facts that during the dark days of the Rev-\\nolution, when the liberties antl independence ot these States trembled\\nin the balance of social, political and religious freedom, that caused\\nliim to look to the District of West Augusta, as liis place of retreat, in\\nthe event of a failure of the American cause and from here he would\\nmaintain the struggle and continue the war for national indeiiend-\\nence. During tlie French war he had become acquainted with these\\nmen, and couhl rely u] on them as aiding and sustaining him in the\\ncause of freedom against the government of Great Britain. Gen.\\nWashington in early life formed a very correct idea of the importanee\\noi the Western country and of the necessity of having inland commu-\\nnications with the Eastern portion of the State. Other large grants\\nand surveys were nuide about the same time. One (Opposite Parkers-\\nIjurg, of 28,000 icres was made to Van Strobo and others, for military\\nservices.\\nFor the purpose of increasing emigration and furnishing homes on\\na cheaf scale to the young, adventurous and enterprising yeomanry\\nof those early years in Virginia s history, and to cause tliem to colonize\\nand settle upon her trausallcghany domain her wide spread wilder-\\nness territory, tlie House of Burgt;sses, by colonial enactments and\\nlaws, presented and gave to the actual settlers of these lands, great\\ninducements. Among the laws thus enacted, was that of a settle-\\nment rigiit and preemption claim. This legislative enactment or col-\\nonial law secured to the individuals, who might take up, occupy,\\nclear and cultivate a few acres of land and erect a cabin thereon, a\\npatent for 400 acres ot land around and including the improve-\\nment, with the further right of preempting by entry or treasury war-\\nrant, 1000 acres adjoining the said settlement right of 400 acres,\\nwithin a specific limited time. There were many persons who made\\nefforts to avail themselves of the liberal provisions of these laws of", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SETTLEMENTS, RIGHTS, AC. 23\\ncolonial lejjislation, but owing to the trouble arising from predatory\\nbands of Indinns, then infesting the country, many of these settlers\\nabandoned their claims thus made. Vet under the provisions of these\\nhxws a few settlements were successfully made in Western, and North-\\nwestern Virginia, while it was embraced in the District of West Augusta,\\nprior to the \\\\ear 1776. Also like settlements were made between the\\nyears 177*) and 1784, when it was included in the counties of Monon-\\ngalia and Ohio, and also, when this valle} was included in Harrison\\ncounty, between the years 1784 and 1799, when this (Wood) county\\nwas formed, like settlements were made.\\nThe first actual settlements made in the valley of the Ohio, and\\nin this county, were made under the provisions of these settlement rights\\nand preemption laws of the commonwealth. And further we may add,\\nthat it was under the provisions of these laws, arose what was once gen-\\nerally known in this country as the Tomahawk,* right or title. A\\nTomahawk claim or right was generally made by selecting some prom-\\ninent place or situation, and making a deadening of the growing timber,\\nand marking his name and date of his claim on prominent trees, as his\\nentry. By this mode of proceeding he gave notice to all land adventur-\\ners of his settlement right to 400 acres and pre-emption claim, to 1000\\nacres of land surrounding the deadening thus made, and the rights claim-\\ned thereby. The first settlers in this country recognized these Toma-\\nhawk entries, and the rights growing out of them, and they were fre-\\nquentl} sold and transferred to persons who afterwards settled upon them\\nand perfected a title.\\nFrom the year 1769 the date of the treaty of peace with the Indians,\\nunder Governer Dunmore, of Virginia, to the year 1795, the date of\\nthe treaty of peace made after the victories of General Anthony Wayne\\nover the Indians inhabiting the Northwestern territory, there were in this\\nvast wilderness territory, but a few inhabitants, scattered in settlements\\nfar apart from each other, who had here secured homes. Yet this wide\\nwildernes domain invited the enterprise of land speculators from the\\nEastern and Northern states. These speculators procured from the\\nLand Office of Virginia, at a nominal price, land warrants for large en-\\ntries anotracts of land, to be located in this unbroken forest wilderness.\\nA large proportion of these entries and surveys were made in this coun-\\ntry, between the years of 1785, after the close of the Revolutionary war.\\nand 1795, after the close of the Indian war under General Wayne\\nDurinii: these twelve years, numerous In lian bands, from various tribes\\nwere on the war path, passing through and infesting and carrying onj|a\\nsickening war upon these frontier settlements of VVesteni and North-\\nwestern Virginia and the Districts of Kentuck\\\\\\nThe colony of Virginia had adopted no correct and sure system for\\nhaving her wild, unsettled lands surveyed and divided off into sections\\nof any given quantities, by which persons might and could enter their\\nland warrants. But instead of pursuing such a ssytem, her policy was", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 SURVEYS OF LANDS.\\nto let the owner of a land warrant locate and make his own entry and\\nsurvey wherever he chose, leaving the rights to the land thus acquired\\nby the landholder subject to the rights ot any prior claim or patent.\\nI nder this policy distant lan l speculators or land companies procured\\ntheir land warrants for a definite number of acres. The number of acres\\nnamed in these warrants, the holdor of them entered, independent of oth-\\ners, who may have entered lands or without any correct knowledge of\\nthe lands he was entering.\\nOwing to the many dangers arising from predatory bands of Indians\\nthen infesting this wilderness and lurking in ambush to wreak their ven-\\ngeance, only a few surveys of these wild lands were made at the time of\\ntheir being entered.\\nThe course most generally pursued by the surveyor in those years was,\\nto select some very noted or prominent point and mark a beginning cor-\\nner, and run and mark the line for some little distance, and then in his\\ncamp protract a chain of surveys many times, not even knowing where\\nthey might end, leaving the entire chain of surveys dependent upon the\\nfirst survey and beginning corner. In after years when these protract-\\ned surveys were run out, the lines would be found to cross the Ohio river\\nor would frequently intercept and cross the lines of other surveys, so\\nthat in some instances the lands would be covered by two or three dif-\\nferent patents, bearing difterent dates. This insecure and equivocal pol-\\nicy, adopted when Virginia was a colony under the British Government,\\nhas caused immense trouble in the land titles of Western and Northwest-\\nern Virginia. These troubles are not all yet ended. In past years they\\nhave hindered and retarded its settlements by the uncertainty connected\\nwith her land titles, causing many to leave or pass by and seek homes in\\nthe far West, where a more safe policy obtained.\\nChapter upon chapter might be written in reviewing the past history\\nof the early settlements of Western Virginia, thereby disclosing many\\nof the causes and considerations which acted as hindrances to the growth\\nand population in all the essential elements of material wealth. Among\\nthese might be noticed the fact that the Legislature of the ^State was\\nslow to award to her any material aid in the opening up and developing\\nher resources and advantages. In the early years of her history she\\nwas made to feel her dependei^ce upon the clemency of the Eastern mem-\\nbers composing that august body of legislation.\\nThis and the preceding chapters will furnish the inquiring mind with\\na key which will unlock, open and disclose many of the adverse causes\\nwhich in the past has held in check the tides of emigration to her lofty\\nmountains and beautiful valleys, and the reasons why the development\\nof her internal wealth was not sooner made. They also furnish the rea-\\nsons why the prosperity, health and happiness enjoyed by persons in\\nher pure mountain air, her mineral waters and invigorating climates were\\npassed by.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "RESULTS. 25\\nBut her past history discloses the fact that amid all these adverse con-\\nditions she has held on her way, and though her external wealth and in-\\ncreasing population has not been rapid as compared with many other\\nStates of the Union, yet it has been healthy and advancing. And not-\\nwithstanding all these varied conditions, she can look with pride upon\\nher native-born citizens and feel that she has contributed her full share\\nof great men men whose names brightly adorn the history and fame\\nof our common country.\\nIn closing this chapter the numerous and health-restoring springs of\\nmineral water which abound in these mountains should not be lost sight\\nof. Their reputation is fast becoming world-wide. The invalid is made\\nto rejoice and look forth upon life with renewed hopes. Again, while\\nclosing, we turn and with gladness of heart contemplate her mild and in-\\nvigorating climate: the salubrious and health-restoring atmosphere ot\\nher grand, majestic mountains; her picturesque and lovely valleys in all\\nthe splendor of their scenery; all all conspire to give breadth and\\nstrength to the mind, and force upward the intellectual and moral growth\\nof character; to energize, e.xpand and elevate the moral perceptions, and\\ncall forth the generous emotions of the heart. The contemplation of the\\nwild, majestic scenery of these lofty and picturesque mountains, are well\\ncalculated to enlarge and give force and power to thought and strength\\nof purpose to its inhabitants. Again, the soft, mellow tints of her flushed,\\ngolden sunsets, as they fade into azure loveliness and deepen into the\\nshades of night, awaken within the soul tlie purest emotions of grateful\\nadoration and praise to that infinite Being who has piled up these sub-\\nlime ranges and overshadowed them with such gaudy vestments. And\\nyet for years past, this majestic mountain scenery this Switzerland\\nof America has been passed by for the unvarying monotony of the\\nplains of the farther West, where health and happiness have been sac-\\nrificed.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "OH:A.FTE:Ee; v.\\nINDIAN HOSTILITIES.\\nAmong the present inhabita\u00c2\u00bbit8 of Western :in l North wt snern irginia\\nthere are but a few, a very tew, it any, to be found who know of the fre-\\nquent alarms, the sufferings and privations, incident upon its early set-\\ntlements. Even the present frontier life along oar far Western border\\npresents but a faint idea of the many hardships, adventures and tragedies\\nof the early pioneers into the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. What a\\nvast and mighty change has come over the world of mankind during the\\nlast one hundred years, especially in our country, under the fostering\\ncare of our republican institutions. The dark, impenetrable forests\\nwhich secreted the Indian in his acts of barbarism, cruelty and bloo l,\\nhave with him faded, and are disappearing like the mist upon the moun-\\ntains, as the sunlight of civilization ond earnestenterprise has gone forth\\nand opened up the treasures of wealth in our wide spread country, from\\nocean to ocean. The prouil and haughty spirit of the bloody and re-\\nvengeful Indian has been broken, anil the years of his dominion are clo-\\nsing upon the great drama of time. Soon all the traces of his dark and\\nbloody empire will have passed away, and the vast realms ot his wilder-\\nness home will be lost in the noontide glory of American greatness.\\nWe propose devoting this chapter to giving accounts of these raids\\nand depredations made by Indiiins, within the original limits of Wood\\ncounty as far as they have come to our knowledge.\\nAfter the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783, and the treaty of\\npeace with the English Government, the war spirit and hostility of the", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "GEX. HARMAR AND OTHERS CAPT. CARPENTER.\\n27\\nIndians, who had been in alliance with them, did not cease. From that\\ntime to 1795 small parties of Indians would make raids upon the white\\nsettlements of Western and Northwestern Virginia and Kentucky for\\nthe purpose of plunder, taking captives and scalps from the victims of\\ntheir inhuman barbarity. The treaties made with a few of these North\\nwe.- tern tribes wore but of little worth, soon violated on either side, af-\\nfording and giving no quiet security to the settlements.\\nOwing to these causes it was not until 1785 that any permanent set-\\ntlements were made in any part of the territory embraced in the origi-\\nnal boundaries of Wood county, of which any definite knowledge can be\\nascertained at this time There were, however, in 1783, and prior thereto,\\npre-emption rights or tomahawk claims made by Samuel and Joseph\\nTumlinson, the three Briscoe brothers, Robert Thornton and others, in\\nthe rich bottom lands of the Ohio river. But no accounts of any Indian\\ndepredation being made upon any of them have come down to us.\\nFrom the year 1785 to 1795, all the tribes of the Northwestern terri-\\ntory, excepting the Moravians, were engaged in a united war upon the\\nwhite settlements of this great valley. Early in the fall of 1791, Gen-\\neral Harmar started with an army made up of militia and 300 regular\\ntroops from Fort Washington (now Cincinnati) for the Indian towns in\\nthe Miami and Scioto Valleys, and in two engagements with the Indians\\nwas badly defeated each time. In November following. General Arthur\\nSt. Clair raised an army of about the same number and started from the\\nsame Fort, for the same valleys, but met a very signal defeat and great\\nloss of life. These successes of the Indians gave them great conlidence\\nof final succe.ss and caused them to reject all otters for negotiations lor\\npeace. In December following. General Scott raised a volunteer regi-\\nment at Louisville. Ky., and invaded the Miami Valley and defeated the\\nIndians and recaptured much .)f the army property lost by General St.\\nClair, and returned to Kentucky. This expedition inspired the frontier\\nsettlements with hope.\\nIt was during the year 1790 that the first Indian raids were made\\nupon this county. In September 1791 a party of Indians crossed the\\nOhio river and eaptureil a bright mulatto boy belonging to apt, James\\nNeal, of Neal s Station, named Frank Wycott while on their way to\\nWest Fork river (a branch of the Monongahela). But on their way there\\nthey came across the trad made by Capt. Nicholas Carpenter, of Harri-\\nson county, in driving a drove of cattle to Marietta. They turned their\\ncourse and followed the trail, supposing it to be that of emigrants. Capt.\\nCarpenter, with hn son and four persons with him, had crossed Bull creek\\nwith his drore and encamped on a run. On the next morning the In-\\nlian8 surprised and made an attack and killed him and his son, and three\\nof the men with him. Mr. Jesse Hughes, one of the men, by his tieetness\\nmade his escape and returned to Harrison county. The Indians after\\nscalping those they had killed, returned to where they had tied Frank,\\nwho, whilst thev were absent, had released himself and made safe his es-", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 .IAS. KELLEY, MR. WOOD s SONS,\\ncape back to his muster. That run has since been known in the county\\nby the name of Carpenter s run. Mr. Isaac Williams headed a party\\nand made pursuit after the Indians, but failed in overtaking them. They\\nreturned and buried the mutilated bodies of Capt. Carpenter and the oth-\\ners. They then returne l home and made their defences against the In-\\ndians more secure.\\nDuring the fall of the year, Mr. James Kelley, wlio, with his family\\nresided at Belleville, on the Ohio river, in this county, eighteen miles\\nbelow I arkersburg, while out at work was surprised, shot and scalped\\nby a party of Indians on their return home. His ohiest son, .Joseph, who\\nwas with him, then six years old, was captured and taken off by them to\\na Shawnee village in Ohio, where he remained until after the treaty of\\npeace at Crreenviile in 17i 5, when he was surrendered to Com. K. J.\\nMeigs, and returned to his widowed mother, then residing at Marietta.\\nHe had been adopted by an aged Indian warrior (who had lost his live\\nsons in battles), named Merhalenic, and received great kindness at his\\nhands; and indeed he had become so much attached to his foster Indian\\nfather that he parted with him in sorrow. Mr. Kelley finally settled and\\nmarried in Marietta, raised a large and respectable family of children,\\nand died there some years since, respected and beloved f )r his many vir-\\ntues. In other years we have heanl him speak of the kindness mani-\\nfested for him by his Indian father, and the p:iinful regrets he had when\\nhe parted with him and his Indian friends.\\nSomeiime during the summer of 17 0 a party of Indians crossed the\\nOhio river below Parkersbnrg, for the purpose of destroying Neal s Sta-\\ntion and capturing Capt. Jas. Neal. They had secreted themselves in\\nambush a short distance up a run from the station for the purpose of as-\\ncertaining its stren^sjth. Whilr thus secreted, two boys of \\\\Ir. Wood,\\naged twelve and fifteen years, were sent out in the evening to hunt the\\ncows, came upon the Indians, who at onee seized and tomahawked them.\\nTheir screams were heard by .Mrs. Neal at the Station. The Indians\\nfearing the alarm thus made, scalped the boys and then left, thus aban-\\ndoning their attack upon Mr. Neal and the force at the Station.\\nIn the fall ot 1702 Mr. Daniel J\\\\o\\\\vell, a son-in-law of Capt. James\\nNeal, and his son Henry Neal, and a Mr. Triplett, left Neal s station\\nand ascended the Little Kanawha river in a canoe, some torty miles, to\\nthe mouth of Burning Spiings run, now in Wirt county, on a hunting\\nexcursion. On the evening of their landing they built a camp, while Mr.\\nI-iowell took off the lock of his gun to examine the spring. .Just at that\\ntime they heard what they supposed to be the clucking ot wihl turkeys\\non the opposite or south shore of the river. Thinking of the tine repast\\na good turkey would make for a supper, they sprung into their canoo,\\nMr. Neal ami Mr. Triplett standing, and Mr. Rowell seated in the stern,\\nworking and steering the canoe across the river. As it struck the\\nshore they were fired upon by the Indians in ambush, and Mr. Neal and\\nTriplett fell dead into the river. Mr. Rowell sprang over the stern", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "IIEVRY NEAL .t MR. TRTPLETT AND PARCHMENT, 29\\nof the canoe with his gun in his haml ami swam back to the northern\\nshore, while a shower of bullets fell arouml him but failed to do execu-\\nt on. On reaching the shore he saw that the Indians were iiursuini; him\\nin the canoe, and to facilitate his escape hid his frun (as he always said)\\nunder a red oak log in Burning Spring run. From thence he passed\\nout a short distance from the river, through a low gap, and the better to\\nelude his pursuers, changed his course and recrossed the river a few\\nmiles below where they had been surprised, and returned to the station.\\nHere he raised a party and retiirneil and pursued the Indians. But so\\nmuch time had intervened that the pursuit was unavailing, the Indians\\nhaving made good their escape. The bodies of Mr. Neal and Mr. Trip-\\nlett were found in the river, unscalped, and were interred, the Indians\\nhaving failed to find them.\\nThe probabilities are, that this party ot hunters had been discovered\\nby the Indians while ascending the river, and were decoyed from their\\ncamp by the Indians imitating the cry of the wild turkey. It has also\\nbeen supjiosed that this was the same party of Indians that were killed\\nsoon after at Wheeling, as they took a course in that direction.\\nMr. Daniel Kowell, with his family, moved from here many years ago\\nand settled in the West. lie, however, lied at the residence of his son,\\nDr. Noal Kowell, in Florence, Alabama, in 1851, aged 93 years.\\nIn 1858 the gun was found at the place whore it had been hid, in a\\nstate of preservation, so as to be identified; although it had been sixty-\\nseven years, arid the remains of the red oak tree were then to be seen.\\nJ he muzzle of the gun had become fast in a young dogwood, about six\\ninches above the ground. The barrel, trigger, guard, thimble and brass\\ncover, with the words iJberttj or Death engrave\u00c2\u00abl upon it, were for-\\nwardLHi to ])r. Neal Kowell, his son, then residing in Florence, Alabama,\\nin 18. )9.\\nAfter the occurrence of this mournful tragedy in our county, great\\nvigilance was used by the few inhabitants during the remainder of the\\nIrnlian War to its close-in 1795.\\nMr. Jacob Parchment, a young man, left the garrison at Belleville in\\ntliL tall of 1790, to h int deer on tlie South Branch of Lee creek, about a\\nmile back of the station, was shot and scalped by a party of nine Indians.\\nMr. John Coleman was within a short distance of him when it occurred,\\nbut owing to the number of Indians was unable to render any assistance\\nto his comrade. This was the lirst death by the Indians which had oc-\\ncurred to the inhabitants of this settlement, and had a tendency to cast\\na deep gloom ovei them, causing them to e.xercise great caution in all\\ntlitir future movements and operations.\\nLate in the spring of 1792, Mr. Stephen Sherrod, who had left the\\nirarrrison, at Belleville, and after feeding his hogs had gone to the woods\\nto cut an oxgad, was surprised and captured by a party of ten Indians\\nand taken off a prisoner. His wife, a Itold and courageous woman, had\\nleft the garrison soon after to milk the cow, a short distance off, was", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 MR. SIIERROD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 MR. COLEMAN.\\nseized by two of the Indians, who intended to make her a prisoner also.\\nShe, however, resisted them with so much force, and screamed so loudlv,\\nthat one of the Indians knocked her down, while the other proceeded to\\ntake herscalp. Her screams brought Mr. Peter Anderson from the garri-\\nson, who shot the Indian and wounded him in the arm, causing them hastily\\nto retreat. Mrs. Sherrod was senseless for a long time from the stun-\\nning blow of the tomahawk, which had gashed her head in a shocking\\nmanner. Mr. Joshua Dewey immediately proceeded to Marietta, Ohio,\\na distance of thirty miles, in a light canoe, for a physician. lie made this\\ntrip in about forty hours and returned with Dr. Jabez True, who suc-\\nceeded in her recovery.\\nThe garrison at this time contained but five men, and it was consi l\\nered unsafe to pursue this party of Indians. They crosseil the Ohio on\\na raft, with Mr. Sherrod as prisoner, at the narrows above Belleville bot-\\ntom, and took up the valley of the Big Hocking. They bound Mr. iSher-\\nrod s hands securely behind him with thongs of bear-skin, and in this\\nmanner he was hurried on until night, five of the Indians marching be-\\nfore him and five behind. While on their way tliey informed him that\\nthey had killed an old woman at the garrison. At night they made him,\\nwith his hands tied behind him, lie down on his back while they cut slen-\\nder saplings and laid them across him from his head to his feet. On the\\nends of these the Indians spread blankets and laid down to sleep. As\\nsoon as Mr. Sherrod discovered that they were all asleep, by their heavy\\nbreathing, he quietly released his hands and slowly worked himself from\\nunder the saplings, and took down the valley of the river. He soon en-\\ntered it and by wading and swimming passed down a considerable dis-\\ntance, and came out on the opposite shore. He pursued his way to the\\nOhio, and early the next morning he bailed the garrison, who at once\\nwent to his rescue in a boat. He at once learned the sad condition of\\nhis wife, yet in time was enabled to rejoice in her discovery.\\nMr. Sherrod was a native of New Hampshire, and in early life had re-\\nmoved to the Wyoming Valley of PennsylvaniiK While there he had\\nbecome well acquainted with the Indian mode of warfare, and was re-\\ngarded as an excellent frontiersman. After the treaty of peace of 1795,\\nhe, with his family, removed to the Mississippi V^alley.\\nFor the purpose of procuring a supply of meat in the month of Feb-\\nruary, lli^ i, a party left the garrison at Belleville on a liunting expedi-\\ntion. The party was composed of Mr. Malcomb Coleman and his son\\nJohn Coleman, Elijah I ixley and James Ryan, They descended the\\nOhio in a pirogue to the mouth of Mill creek (now in Jackson county),\\nand ascended that creek about four miles. Here they built a comforta-\\nble camp, to which they retreated at night after spending the day in hunt-\\ning. Here Mr. Coleman and his party passed several days very pleas-\\nantly, meeting with success, filling their pirogue with venison and bear\\nmeat. The weather, which had been fine, set in cold, with a light fall\\nof snow. During this time the water in Mill creek had fallen so as to", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "MR. MALCOMH COLEMAN. 31\\nprevent them getting back their craft over a fall, above which they were\\nlying. While in this condition, John Colenaan and Elijah Pixley re-\\nturned to the garrison for flour and salt. The third morning after their\\ndeparture, Mr. Miilcorab Colt-man rose very early and prepared their\\nbreakfast, anxiously expecting their return. While invoking a l)lessing\\non their simjde meal, the sharp oraek of a rifle was heard, and a shot\\npassed throii^di his slioulder. So little fear had lie of the Indians,\\nthat lie said: Can John have returned and shot me by accident?\\nP.ofore ho could learn the fact a second shot passed through his head\\nand he fell dead by the side of his companion. Mr. James Hyan made\\n(lis escape from the Indians and regained the garrison. On the day\\nthat Mr. Coleman was murdered, Mr. Joshua Dewey made a visit to\\nthe camp for the purj)ose of seeing his friends, but to his horror he\\nfound his old friend murdered, scalped, stripped of his c othing, and\\nthe camp {.lundered. He was the first to reach the garrison at Belle-\\nville an(l give the painful intelligence. At once a part\\\\ of seven men\\nleft the garrison and descended the Ohio in a (;anoe, for the camj* on\\nMill creek, but the Indians had taken the pirogue and its load with\\nthe caiu[ equii)age and made safe their retreat. After interring Mr.\\nColeman at that place they returned. This calamity was severely felt\\nand sjtrcad a deep gloom over the entire settlement. He had been\\nlong regarded as u putriarch in the community, blending the gaaees\\nof the Christian with the fultillment ot all the active duties of life.\\nMany of his descendants reside in the lower part (\u00c2\u00bbf this and Jackson\\ncounty. The Uev. H. R. Coleman, ot the Kentucky Conference of the\\nM. E. Church, South, is one ot his great-grandsons and a worthy rep-\\nresentative ot this heroic family,\\nMr. Peter Anderson, of whom we have spoken, married one of his\\ndaughters and became the head ot a large family of children, and\\nmany of Ins descenilants still reside in that vicinity. Mr. Anderson\\nwas born near Cumberland. Md., in 1757. In his early youth his pa-\\nrents removed over the mountains and settled near West I^iberty on\\nlintlalo creek in this State. At the age of twenty-nine he and his\\nbrother Andrew settled at lielleville, where he resitled until his death\\nin 1838. His generous bearing and social qualities, combined with\\nhis suj)eriorJiHlgment, caused him to ()C(;u[\u00c2\u00bby a i)rominent jilace in\\nthat community. Soon alter the formation of Wood county, lie was\\neommissioned, 4th May, 1801, and tilled the othce of Justice of the\\nPeace accej tably, tiutil his great age caused him to resign.\\nIn the summer ot 17W1 a small gari ison of Virginia troops were\\n-tationed at Belleville and another one at Parkersburg, under the di-\\nrection ot Col. Glendeneii. These two garrisons of troops were de-\\nsigned for the protection of these frontier settlementP, ami check the\\nraids of Indians from the Northn estern territory, who at that time\\nwere conmiitting many dejiredations on these frontiers, aiul in the\\nback settlements ot Virginia. We have no means at hand to as-", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 MOSES IIEAVETT.\\ncertain the number of men sent to either of these garrisons, nor are\\nwe in possession of the results of their operations. We have stated\\nthe tact of their being here with the hope that some one else will fur-\\nnish further information.\\nSome time in the month of Ma}-, 1702, while living at Neal s Sta-\\ntion, on the Kanawha river, Mr. Hewett rose earlv in the morning\\nand went out of the garrison in search of a stray horse, little expect-\\ning Indians to be near, as none liad been in the vicinity for some time.\\nWhen sauntering along at his ease in an obscure cattle i atli, about a\\nmile from the station, all at once three Indians sprang uj\u00c2\u00bbon him from\\na large tree with their tomahawks raised. So sudden had been the\\nonset, and so completely was he in their grasp, that resistance was\\nvain, and probably would have cost him his life. He therefore quietly\\nsurrendered, thinking that in a icw days he would tind some means\\nof escape. Tlje Indians immediately made their retreat for their towns\\nin Ohio, crossing the Ohio river below Belleville to the dividing ridges\\nbetween Hocking and Shade rivers. On their way the Indians treat-\\ned their prisoner with as little harshness as could be expected, sharing\\nwith him in their daily meals. After they had reached a place ot\\ncomparative safety from pursuit, near their villages, they made a halt\\nto hunt and left their prisoner at their camp, having placed him on\\nhis back, contining his wrists with stout thongs of raw hide to saj)-\\nlings, and his legs raised at a considerable elevation and tastened to a\\nsmall tree. After they had been gone a short time, by his great\\nstrength he released himself from their contiuement, took the twt\\nsmall pieces of venison then in the camp for his supply ot food, and\\nwithout any weapons he started for the Big Muskingum settlement.\\nThe Indinr.s pursued him, but he evaded tlieir search, and after nine\\ndays of wandering he came to the garrison of Wolt creek mills on\\nthe Big Muskingum river, nearl} luiked and famished. He soon re-\\ncovered his strength and returned to his tamily.\\nAbout the year 1797, he, with his family, removed from this county\\nand settled in the valley of Big Hocking, Ohio, near the town of Ath-\\nens, where he became a valuable and useful citizen, respected for his\\nmoral worth and good practical judgment. He was elected to and\\ntilled the office of trustee in the College of Athens with ability. For\\nmany years he was a member of the M. E. Church and zealous in the\\ndischarge of Christian duties. He there ended his days in 1814, aged\\n47 years. His widow died at that place on the 15th of September,\\n18o4, aged 70 years, 7 months and 7 days.\\nThe nine children born to them, we understand, are all dead. Ot\\ntheir descendants, we are wholly uninformed. Thus it is many times\\nthat the descendants of a generation are lost in the onward course of\\ntime.\\nIn the spring ot 1794 a party of Indians surprised the family of Mr.\\nArmstrong, residing in the narrows opposite to the head ot Blenner-", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ARMSTRONG, CAPT. JAMES NEAL. 33\\nhassett Inland, then known as Backus Island, in this county. Mr.\\nArmstrong and his wife and two children were murdered and scalped\\nand three of the children were carried away prisoners. What he-\\ncame of them we have never heen able to ascertain. The attack upon\\nthis family and the blocKly tragedy attending the same was the last\\nof the Indian depredations in this county of which we have any cor-\\nrect knowledge. Yet during the Indian war upon the frontier settle-\\nments, many tragic scenes of cruelty and suffering were enacted, of\\nwhich no accounts have been given so as to tix with certainty the\\nnames of the sutferers or the dates of their occurrence.\\nIn closing this chaj)ter we would state that much has heen omitted,\\nowing to not having proper data tor the statements to rest upon as\\ntacts.\\nBefore any permanent settlements were made in this county,or in the\\nterritory which composed it, Capt. James Neal, witii a [larty of men,\\ndescended the Monongahela and Ohio rivers in the fall of 1785, to\\nthe Little Kanawlia river. Their purpose when starting was to go to\\nKentucky. But having landed on the soutli side of the Little Ka-\\nnawha, about a mile from its mouth, and likeing its location, they con-\\ncluded to encamp there. During the winter of 1785 and 1786 they\\nerected a block-house, which was afterwards known in the history of\\nthis county as Neafs Station. This was the first block-house and sta-\\ntion built in this county. Between that date and 1796 several block-\\nhouses were built in this county, as well as on the opposite side of\\nthe Ohio river in the county of Washington. These houses became\\nthe place of rendezvous of the few iidiabitants who liad settled here,\\nwhile the Indian war was qarried on, up to the year 1795, when the\\ntreaty of peace was made at Greenville, Ohio, after the victories of\\nGeneral U ayne.\\nAs intimately connected with and forming a starting point in the\\nhistory of the first settlement made in this county, before its organi-\\nzalion, we will here state that Capt. James Neal, as a deputy survey-\\nor of Samuel Hanway, the surveyor of Monongalia county, in the\\nspring of 1783, surveyed the settlement right and pre-emption claim\\nof Mr. Alexander Parker, of Pittsburg, Pa., assignee of Mr. Robert\\nThornton, to the land on which the city of Parkersburg is nowToca-\\nted, as also other settlement rights within the boundaries of this coun-\\nty. Being thus acquainted with the surveys and titles to the lands\\non the northeast side of tlie Little Kanawha river, is probably the\\nreason why he afterward made his settlement and erected his block-\\nhouse and station on the south side of the river, as above stated.\\nIn the preceding chapters of these historic sketches we took the\\nreader far back in the eighteenth century, to the House of Burgesses\\nand its colonial records, at the city of Williamsburg, Va., in the year\\n1738 the time when, in answer to the wants and demands of the peo-\\nple, the counties of Augusta and Frederick were set ofi and formed,", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 L RIEF REVIEW,\\nfrom its vnst wilderness territory, and the residue of that vast western\\nwilderness territory was dechired to be the District of West Augus-\\nta. Then, l)rietly, we sketched tiie shnv progress of settlenioiits west-\\nward, amid dangers, privations and suUerings, as the years passed on;\\nwith the divisions and sub-divisions of this vast wildernessiuto coun-\\nties, up, through and over the Allegheny Mountains, and down their\\nwestern slo[)es, to the waters leading to the great Mississippi Valley,\\nas the unfoldini^ necessities of tliosc years demanded. Also we briefly\\nreviewed the trouble arising from the claims of the European Govern-\\nments in this country, and the policy pursued by them for- maintaiu-\\ning their rigbts ot discovery, by alliances made with the Indians in-\\nhabiting the then vast wilderness; together with tlie policy adopted by\\nthe House of Burgesses, under colonial re})resentatives, in settling and\\nsurveying these heavy, dense forests of her western domain.\\nOur object being to group hi the miiid of the reader the slow pro-\\ngress made, the many dangers, difficulties, privations and sufferings\\nendured b}- those bold, hardy and enterprising pioneers ot the eight-\\neenth century, who penetrated and passed these mountain fastnesses\\nand made liomes tor themselves and tlieir posterity in the wilds of\\nthis great inland world, known as the J^istrict of West Augusta.\\nHa^ving thus presented this bird s-eye view, and tiie many troubles\\ninterwoven along the pathway, Ave now come to the tirst individual\\nsettlers and settlements in this, which, years afterwards, became Wood\\ncouuty. To go back and get the names of many of the first settlers\\niu what is now VVood county and the exact dates of their settlements,\\nis a task which cannot now be fully accomplished. Even those whose\\nnames and posterities have come down to us, it will be a ditlicult un-\\ndertaking to be exact and do them full justice. They have long since\\npassed from earth away to that undiscovered bourne, their history un-\\nwritten, and the daily struggles through which they passed, to remain\\nuntold. These difliculties are further enhanced by the fact that the de-\\nscendants of these early pioneers, to a great extent, have lost the dates\\nand the traiiitiooary traces of their progenitors, which go back to those\\ndistant years, in the history of our county or its first settlements. In\\naddition to these difficulties we may also add that many of the tirst settlers\\nhave passed away, leaving no descendants to perpetuate their names, or\\nchronicle the events in their earthly pilgrimage. The stirrinij events in\\nin their lives, with their sympaties and cherished hopes are gone to the\\ndark shades of forgetfulness.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CIEIiL^ TEK/ VI.\\nFIRST SETTLEMENT.\\nWhile ensTajjed in revising these sketches and reviewinsr the brief out-\\nline pages of our history, with many of the names of friends of other\\nyears, we have felt how unreal are the remembrances of earth. The\\never-present is fading and forever disappearing in the past, and the past\\nis soon buried and forgotten in the charnel-house ot oblivion the dream-\\nless abode of the untold and unnumbered myriads of earth; those whose\\ndays have been spent, and whose active energies no longer appear upou\\nthe theatre of time, but have passed beyond its curtains to the shoreless\\nunknown.\\nOwins to these circumstances and considerations, our best efforts (o\\nmake up and present a history of those early years of the settlements\\nhere made, and give faithful mementoes of those who broke through the\\nbarriers of the wihierness and opened up homes for themselves, and as-\\nsisted in the formation of settlement?, will of necessity be im] erfeet and\\nmay in some cases subject the writer to errors. These deficiencies and\\nerrors will most cheerfully and readily be corrected when pointed out.\\nAgain, in speaking of, and referring to those early settlers and the me-\\nmentoes we may give of them, dates will not always follow in chronolog-\\nical order. VV^e shall speak of thera generally as associated together in\\nneighborhood^, thus parsing from point to point in these early settle-\\nments, madf from time to time. Tlie original boundaries ot Wood county\\nbeing very large at the time ol its first formation, in 1800, and remained\\nso tor upwards of thirty years, causing us in these chapters to speak of\\nthose whose residences are now outside of our present county bounda-\\nries, though during their lives they were included in and were citizens ot\\nthis county. The present inhabitants of this county, many of them,\\nhave but a limited idea of the territory once embraced in Wood county.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 THE FAMILY OF CAPT. NEAL,\\nThere were no permanent settlements made in what was or now is\\nWood county while the same was embraced in and formed a part of Mo\\nnongalia county, thou;;h in those years several tomahawk rif*hts were\\nmade and entered. The peraons making tomahawk claims were gen-\\nerally hunters and trappers, and generally sold their claims or tomahawk\\ntitles. After the devision of Monongalia county and the formation of\\nHarrison (named after J3enjamin Harrison, then Governor of Virginia),\\nout of its narthwestern portion, numerous entries and settlement were\\nmade on the Ohio river.\\nFrom the best information we have been able to obtain of the first set-\\ntler in the county is that of Capt. James Neal. He had been a citizen of\\nGreen county, in that portion of Pennsylvania which had been supposed\\nto belong to the colony of Virginia. Capt. Neal had served his country\\nfaithfully during the War of the Revolution, as a captain, and had re-\\nceived an honorable discharge from the Continental :irmy, and had been\\npaid for his services in the Continental currency of those times and re-\\nturned to his home in Greene county.\\nThe lirst knowledge we have of Capt James Neal being in any portion\\nof this county is in the spring of 1783, when, as a deputy-surveyor for\\nSamuel Hanway, surveyor of the county of Monongalia (which at that\\ntime included all the territory of this county), he surveyed for Alexan-\\nder Parker, Esq., of Pittsburgh, the tomahawk entry and pre-emption\\nright, made by Mr. Robert Thornton, which had been sold and assigned\\nto said Parker, of the lands on which the present city of Parkersburg is\\nnow situated. This tomahawk entry was made by Mr. Robert Thorn-\\nton in 1773, while the territory of this county formed part of the District\\nof West Augusta. (A more full account of this entry, c., will be given\\nin a future chapter on Parkersburg).\\nIn relation to Capt. James Neal, we are informed by his descendants\\nthat he was of Irish descent, and that the original name was O Neal. At\\nthe commencement ot the Revolutionary War, for reasons satisfactory\\nto himself, he dropped the from his name, and ever after wrote his\\nname and was known as James Neal.\\nCapt. James Neal finding himself, as others who had served their coun-\\ntry in that day, comparatively poor, and being a man of great energy of\\ncharacter, he, for the purpose of bettering his condition, in the fall of\\n1785, with a party of men, left that county tor the purpose of looking\\nout and securing a home in the State of Kentucky. In a flat-boat he\\nand his party descended the Monongahela and Ohio rivers to the mouth\\nof the Little Kanawha, and ascen4ed that river a short distance and\\nlanded on the south side of that stream. He here encamped and exam\\nined the country around, and being well satisfied, concluded to make it\\nhis future home. During that fall (1785), he and his party erected a\\nblock-house, which was afterwards known in the history of VVestern Vir-\\nginia by the name of Neal s Station. For many years thereafter, this\\nstation became an important place of safety from the raids of the lu-", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THEIR SETTLEMEN^T, I 37\\n(lians while on their [jredatory war-paths against the settlements of West-\\nern and Northwestern Virginia. Ilere the early settlers to this county,\\nduring the Indian War, recreated and took up their residence and dwelt\\nin safety, while the traveler, passing throug^i or visiting the county,\\nsou ^ht it also as a place of safety and protection. After clearing some\\nland an l m iking other necessary improvements at the station, he, in the\\nspring of I78t), returned to Green county, in Pennsylvania.\\nFor the purpose of giving the reader a clear idea of Capt. James Neal\\nand his family, we shall here insert a portion of his private history. Early\\nin the winter of ITS-i-o (before his coming to this county as stated above)\\n8oo!i after the birth of his youngest son, the late James II. Xeal of this\\ncounty, Capt. Xeal was made to mourn the death of his excellent wife.\\nHer maiden name was Hannah Harden (a sister of the late Col. John\\nHarden of Kentucky, who lost his life by the treachery of the Indians,\\nwhile engaged as a Cmnmisssioner of the United t^tates Government in\\nnegotiating a treaty of peace with them). By this marriage he was the\\nparent of six children, three sons and three daughters. The names of\\nhis sons were Henry, John and .Tames Harden his daughters names\\nwere Hannah, who intermarried with Col. Hugh Phelps, late of this\\ncounty; Nancy, who intermarried with Mr. Daniel Rowell, who, with his\\nfamily, reside i in this county for many years, and then removed to the\\nfar West; and Catherine, who intermarried with Mr. Joseph McCoy.\\nThey, after residing in this county a few years, removed to the territory\\nof Indiana. Of them and their descendants we have no definite knowledge.\\nOn the return of C apt. James Xeal to Green county, Pennsylvania,\\nin the summer of 178G, he sometime during that year, married his second\\nwife, Miss Mary Phelps, a sister of Col. Hugh Phelps, his son-in-law.\\nEarly in the spring of 1787, Capt. James Neal, with his family and all\\nhis children, both single and married, moved to the station and became\\npermanent settlers in this county. Under these circumstances we have\\nplaced Captain James Neal as the first permanent settler, and the one\\nwho openeil up the way for the future settlements in this county to be\\nsuccessfully commenced during the troubles attending the Indian war.\\nHis life showeil him to be endowed with great energy and enterprise,\\npossessing a noble and generous disposition, courteous in liis bearing,\\nand charitable in the bestowment of favors. His great experience caus-\\ned him to be looked up to as counsellor and leader in the settlement.\\nHe held the oflice of Justice of the Peace while this territory was cm-\\nbraced in Harrison county, \\\\vith a license to solemnize the rites of mat-\\nrimony among those desiring to form that sacred relation in life. Also,\\nin addition to the above, he was commissioned Captain of the Frontier\\nRangers, for the defense and safety of these border settlements. He\\nsoon had his children with their families severally settled around and\\nnear him, so as to be in reach of the station in times of danger. On the\\nItUh of January, 17t l, a daughter was born to him l\u00c2\u00bby his second wife,\\nwhom he named after her mother, Mary, being among the first white", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 JOHN NEAL.\\ndiiltlren born between Grave Creek and Point Pleasant, in *he State of\\nAiririnia. In ITiH) he mourned tlie death ot his second wife, who wa3\\nburied near the station, on the banks of the Little Kanawha river.\\nAfter this sad and mehincholy event in his liistory, he measurably re-\\ntired from the active duties of public life. He took no active part in\\nthe organization of the County Count, in 1800. The early records of\\nthe Court show that he was appointed Commissioner for the examina-\\ntion of surveyors, as to their qualifications for that oflice, and he was\\nalso appointed to the performance of other important duties in the\\ncounty. From what we have been able to learn, he devoted much\\ncare and attention to the raising and education of his infant daughter,\\nMary. She inherited an active, itiquiring mind, and its mental unfoM-\\nings gave him pleasure On the 25th of March, 1811, slic was uniteil\\nin marriage wiih Mr. Scarlet Q. Foley,, and became the mother of a\\nlarge family of children. She died at the home place which her father\\nhad given to her, two and a half mil^s South of Parkersburg, on the 1st\\nday of September, 1870, in the eightieth year of her age. The author\\nof these sketches is indebted to her tor much information, as to the early\\nsettlers of this county.\\nIn closing this brief notice of Capt. James Neal and his eventful life,\\nmuch might be said and written of him as filling up a wide space in the\\nearly settlement of this county. His active energies and enterprise in\\nmeeting the wants and overcoming the difficulties and privations attend-\\nant upon the first settlement of this county, then known as the wilder-\\nness of the far West, surrounded with a savage foe. secured for him the\\nrespect and esteem of his fellow citizens. In February. 1822, he died\\nat his residence, on his place, at Neal s Station, honored by a large cir-\\ncle of relations and friends, in the 85th year of his ago, and his remains\\nwere interred in what is now known as Tavenner s graveyard.\\nIn the preceding chapter we gave a brief account of the tragic death\\nof Captain James Neal s eldest son, Henry Neal, by theTndians, on the\\nLittle Kanawha river, opposite the Burning Spring s, then in this coun-\\nty. His death, and that of Mr. Triplet, at that time, and under such\\ncircumstances, caused a deep gloom to fall over the settlement, and led\\nto greater caution on the part of the few inliabitants. His memory has\\nbeen perpetuated by the descendants of Captain Neal, by honoring them\\nwit}i his name.\\nMr. Neal Rowell, a son of Daniel Rowell, remained in this county for\\nsome years after the removal of his father and family to the Western\\ncountry. He studied medicine under the late Dr. Creel, of this county.\\nAfter completing his medical studies he married in Kentucky,and settled\\nnear Florence, Alabama. In the practice of medicine he was successful,\\nand he has accumulated a iiandsome fortune. He resides at his country\\nresidence, three miles from Florence, which he has named Alban\\nWoods, where he is spending the evening of a well spent life, in peace\\nand tranquility.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "FAMILY OF JOHN NEAL. 39\\nThe late Mr. John Neal, (the father of several of the Neal fiimilied in\\nParkersburT;), was the second son Df Capt. James NeaK He was born\\nin Green county, Pa., the lOtli of May, 1776. At tU.e time his father,\\nwith his family, settled at NeaTs Station, in this county, he was a youth\\nof eleven years. Like others born amid the stirring events of the War\\nof the Revolution, he inherited the self-reliant spirit of those times,\\nwhich gave to him firmness of purpose and decision of character a self-\\nreliance in his own energies and enterprises in meeting the vicissitudes\\nof life. In 179(3 he was united in marriage with Miss Ephlis Hook, a\\nhalf-sister to the late Mr. Charles Bryant, of Wood county. (She was\\ngenerally known by the name of Aunt Eva Neal), To them thirteen\\nchildren were born; one of them died in infancy. The others lived to b?\\nmarried and settled in life and have tamilies.\\nWe will append the tollowiiiii; hriet record of these several children\\nFirst, Hannali, horn 31st May, 1797, was married to Abram Sam-\\nuels, Esq. To them twelve children (eeven sons and live daughters)\\nwere born; all married aud have families, excepting the two young-\\nest daughters. The oldest of these daughters is the wite of T. J.\\nCook, Es(j. Mr. Abranj Samuels died in the summer of 1852. His\\nwidow died on tlje 1 1th of July. 1873.\\nSecond, Elizabeth, Ijorn the 7tli of January, 1799, married 13th of\\nFebruary, 1815, to Mr. Uei rick Pennybaker, who dieil tiiat year.leav-\\nmg one child. She remained his widow until her death, the 12th of\\nMarch, 1875. Miss Hannah, their daughter, was united in marriage\\nto Geo. W. Kincheloe, Esq on the 13th ot June, 1837. To them\\ntwo daughters vveix* born. He died in the Spring of 1840. Miss Lu-\\ncy, the ehlest, is the present wife ot the Hon. J. M. Jackson, and Miss\\nlone is the wife of P. D. Gambrill, Esq.\\nThird, Henry Hartlin Neal, vva; born the 20th of October, 1800.\\n1)1 his 3 oun.g manhood he settled at Gallipolis, Ohio, where he mar-\\nried Miss Safford, a sister of the hite Dr. E. T. Saliord. Ot this fam-\\nily we have no delinite knowletlge, exce[)tingone son, the Hon.IIen-\\nI v Sattbrd Neal, now a member ot Congress from the Irontoii Dis-\\ntrict, in the State of Oldp. Mr. Henry Xeal still resides in Gallipolis,\\nOhio, and is aUo engaged in active buftinese.\\nFourtli, Cincinnatus James Neal, born the 1st of January. 1803,\\nwas nnii ried to Miss Mary Ann Collins, daughter of Mr. Thomas\\nCollins, of Cumberland, Md., on the 24th ot February, 183ti. To\\nthem seven children have been born, and all are married excepting\\ntJie youngest. He died on the 25th of Auo;ust, 1809.\\nFifth, Daniel Rowell Neal, born the 18th ot May, 1805. llisiirst\\nwife was Miss Caroline Kiger, by whom he had live children, now\\nliving and married, with families. His second wite was Miss Eliza-\\nbeth Beeson, only daughter c^f the late Jonas Beeson, Esq., by whom\\nhe has one son, named in honor of himself, and who is a practicing\\nlawver in this citv. We will here add that Mr. Daniel R. Neal has", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 JOHN SEAL.\\nbeen frequently honored by the citizens of tlje county with a seat in\\nthe Legishiture of Va., and from 1856 to 1860, lie represented this\\ndistrict in the Senate of the State. He is still engaged in active bus-\\niness in the city of Parkersburg.\\nSixth, John Neal, born the 2d of October, 1807, was married and\\nsettled in the Big Kanawha Valley, and is now a resident of Lynch-\\nburg, Va.\\nSeventh, Hugh Phelps Neal, born the 11th of December, 1809, was\\nmarried to Miss Fetzer, to whom three children have been born. The\\neldest is the wite of C H. Shattuck, Esq., the present Sherifif of this\\ncounty.\\nEighth. Orena, born the 1st day of April, 1812, was married to the\\nlate Mr, James D. Woodyard, on the oOth of January, 1834. To\\nthem several sons and daughters were born. He died some twenty\\nyears ago, and the family has settled in the Western States.\\nNinth, Lawrence Perry Neal, born 24th of April, 1814, was mar-\\nried to Miss Mary Hall falbott, on the 9th of December, 1841. To\\nthem five children have been born, three of whom are married. His\\neldest son, Lawrence Talbott Neal, studied law, and settled in Chili-\\ncothe, Ohio, and has been highly honored by the people of that coun-\\nty and Congressional District. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney,\\nalso to the House of Representatives, and twice elected to a seat in\\nthe Congress of the United States, being at the time the youngest\\nmember of the House. For several years past, Mr. L. P. Neal has\\ntilled the ofiice ot Clerk of the Circuit Court of this county.\\nTenth, George B. Neal, born the 2d ot February, 1816, was united\\nin marriage with Miss Caroline McKiuley. To them six children\\nhave been born. They still reside in the city of Parkersburg.\\nEleventh, Lucy Harriet, whose first husband was Mr. Abraham\\nTruman, a nephew of the late Wm. Tefl:t. To them three children\\nwere born. Her second husband is Elias Waym^n, of Bel lair, in the\\nState of Ohio.\\nTwelfth, Mary Catherine, born on the 25^th of June, 1823,was mar-\\nried to Elihu Reed, of Jackson county, where she has since resided.\\nFrom the foregoing, it will readily appear that the children,gracd-\\nchildren, and great grand-children ot Mr. John Neal and liis wife,\\nAunt Eve, are very numerous. But we return to our account of him\\nas connected with this county in its early history:\\nOn the 12th of May, 1800, he took his seat upon the bench of the\\nCounty Court, under a commission granted by his Excellency, James\\nMonroe, Governor of the State of Virginia, and ablv filled that office\\nuntil his death. From 1807 to 1809, He was High Sheriti of the\\ncounty. Li 1809 he was elected a Representative of the county to the\\nHouse of Burgesses of Virginia, and served the county in that oflBce\\ntwo consecutive terms. He was esteemed for his practical good\\nsense and integrity of purpose, in all the transactions of life, whether", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "JOHN NEAL. 41\\nthe same wa? of ;i piirate or public nature. He is remembered as a man\\nof great energy and J urce of character, of a sound, discriminating judg-\\nment, exerting a healthy iniluence in the community. In the full me-\\nridian of his maidiood years, during the sickly season, on the 14th of\\nOctober, 1823, he died, hearing his large family of children to the care\\nof his widow. She faithfully performed her duty, and raised her chil-\\ndren to habits of industry and economy, and educated for the active\\nduties of life. On the 27th of June, 1^02, sue died, in the 73d year\\nof her age. Their honorable remains repose, side by side, beneath a\\nmonument erected to their memory, by their children, in the city ceme-\\ntery, on the banks of the Little Kanawha river.\\nThe voungest child of James Neal, bv his first wife, was the late James\\nHardin Neal, Esq. He was three years of age at the time his father\\nmoved his family to Neal s iStation, in 1787. Here, in the wilderness of\\nthis county, he spe.fit his early years. Here, his youth, his manhood, down\\nto old age, was spent, honorably filling a wide space in the early history\\nof this county, and in this portion of the State. By studious habits and\\nunwearied application he had become well educated, and acquired a good\\nknowledge of the general literature of his day. Possessing a fine critic-\\nal turn of mind, he was appreciated us a mau of culture, taste, and gen-\\neral information.\\nHaving spent some years in the Clerks oflice of Wood County, as\\ndeputy for Mr. John Stokeley, he was elected Clerk of the County Court\\nin 1806, and continued in that office until September, 1831. He was al-\\nso appointed Clerk (if the Sujterior (uiurt ot this county, and continued\\nin that office until his death in 1850. Occupying these responsible and\\nhonorable positions in the county for nearly half a century, in its ear-\\nly history, gave hiui :i wide reputation among the eav\\\\y settlers of\\nWestern Virginia. Owing to the position he thus occupied, and the\\nability he brought to bear in the performance of his official duties,\\ncaused iiiia, duriuii those early years ot our history, to be extensively\\nknown among gentlemen of the legal profession, and the leading men\\nof the western country.\\nDuring his life he was made to mourn|the death of three companions.\\nHe was united in marriage with his first wife. Miss Harriet Ncale\\nlaughter ot the late Thoma.s Neale, on {ho Uth of May, 1810. At\\nher death she left to his care four children. His oldest (huightcr.\\nMiss Virginia, became the first wife of the late John R. Murdoch.\\nEsq. She left at her death, in 1848, to the care of her husTiand, sev-\\nen children. Dr. James N. Murdoch, of Parkersburg, (h uggist, being\\nthe eldest. His eldest son, Tliomas, settled and married at Mt. Ver-\\nnon, Ohio. At the time of his death, in 1852, he left tliree children.\\nAs a local preacher iri the M. E. Church, he acquired considerable\\ncelebrity. Miss Harriet, his second daughter, was the first wife of\\nMr. Arthur Kelly, of Marietta, Ohio. S he died in 1^38. The late\\nMr. Harden Neal, his youngest son by his first wife, was unite l w", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 JAMES HARDIN XEAL, COL. Uir.U PilELPS.\\nuiari iajgc to Miss ElizuUotli Collins, of Md. At the time of his deutb,\\nin 185r he left to his wife five children.\\nOn the 21st of Januitrv, 1828, Mr. Neal was married to his second\\nwife, Miss Marv Ann U ells, daughter of the late Robert Wells, one\\nof the early settlers of this county. At the time of l)er death she\\nleft to his care three sons, James, Richard and Hobert. Richard died\\nwhile a youth. James becam(! the successor of his father, in the\\n(Jlerk s OtHce of the Circuit Superior Court, in this county, and dis-\\ncharged its duties until his death in 18f)2. Robert has settled in Jja-\\nfayette county, Mo., where he inarriel a daui^liter ot the late Mr-\\nW yatt Lewis, formerly ot tliis county.\\nThe third wife of Mr. James H. Nenle was Miss Ann Beard, eldest\\ndaughter of Joseph and Mary Beard, of Loudon county, Va. She\\nwas a lady ot suj erior mind, of fine educational endowments, possess-\\ning by nature quick perceptive powers and strength of intellect, well\\ncalculated to adorn the highest positions in society. At tlie time of\\nher leath she wasjthe mother of seven cliildren, only three of whom\\nare now living Mr. Joseph B. Neal, of Parkersburg. and his two\\nsisters. The mortality among the children of Mr. James H. Neal has\\nbeen great. Ot the fourteen, only tour are now living, and their de-\\nscendants are not very numerous in this county.\\nAmong the enterprising young men witli families, who first came\\nand sought homes in this county, few, if any, exerted a more salutary\\nand controlling influence and commanded more universal respect\\nthan Col. Hugh Phelps. Of his parentage, we have no delinite in-\\nformation, but he is repoi\u00c2\u00abted as being a native of Pa. He was born\\non the 14th of February, 1766, and was united in marriage with Miss\\nHannah Neal, daughter of Capt. James Neal, on the 15th of March,\\n1787. She was born on the loth of November, 1768. Li company\\nwith Captain James Neal and family, he settled at Neal s Station, in\\nthis county, early in the Spring of 1787,\\nIn person. Col. Hugh Phelps was tall, well built for activity and\\nstrength, with fine features, and intellectual expression of counte-\\nnance, naturally social and urbane in liis general intercoui se and hab-\\nits. To tiiese he united a generous disposition, and a benevolent\\nheart. Possessing tiiese (qualities of mind and heart, he was calcula-\\nted to be a representative man, and to exercise a contruUinginfluence\\namong his associates in a new country,\\nHissjiirit of enterprise was active and continually exercised in put-\\nting fortli efforts to advance the imblic interests and welfare of the\\nvarious settlements in the county, for the purpose of develoj^ing its\\nnatural resources, and securing their advantages. He filled the office\\nof Presiding Justice at the time the county was organized, on Marcli\\n10 h, 1800. As such he labored to give disfuity and character to the\\nbench in all their proceedings. Li 1802 ho filled the office of High", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HOT,. iii\u00c2\u00ab;ii PiJELPS, _ 48\\nSherift of the county, aijd tlu- late Col. Thomas Taveniier was liis dep-\\nuty. During seveial sossioiis of the Ilou^ie of Burgesses he represented\\nthe comity in the Legislature of the I ^tate. In all of these otlices he\\nproved himself efficient and worthy of the contidence of the puljlic. He\\nwaa also the tirst Colonel of the militia of the county. In organizingthe\\nsame, he inspired in the breasts of the tpilitia a spirit of emulation and\\npatriotic devotion to their country. J hese labors were not lost. Con-\\nsidering the sftarse population of the countiy, no portion of Virginia\\ncontributed more men in the war of 1812-15, and did more active ser-\\nvice in that war than men froqi VV^ood county. Her citizens are found\\nfrom Norfolk, in the East, to the Lakes in the Northwest, battling with\\nGreat Britain and her Indian allies lor the rights of American free-\\ndom.\\nTo Col. Hugh Phelps and his amiable wife ten children were born in\\nthis county, three of whom died in infancy. Their eldest daaghter,Miss\\nBriscilla, was united in marriage with Mr. Thomas Creel, on the 14th of\\nOctober, 18U4. (An account of this family will be found in our sketches\\nof the descendants of the late Mr. George Creel, of this county.) Their\\nsecond daughter, Miss Ilarmah, was united in mariiage with the late\\nMr. Mason Foley, Esq., of this county, on the 20th day of September.\\n1810. To them thirteen children were born, of whom only fi/earenow\\nliving. Many of the descendants of Mr. Mason Foley are now living\\nin this county, and some of them in Doddridge county. (Of the Foley\\nfamily, who came to this county from Loudon county, Va., in 1807, we\\nmay hereafter give an account.) Their eldest son, the late Mr. John\\nPhelps, was iinited in marriage with .Miss Eleanor Kincheloe, daughter\\nof the late Major Robert Kincheloe. To them thirteen children were\\nborn; seven of whom died while vouns, tlie reriiaitjing si.x are still living,\\nmarried, and have families; four of whom reside in this county,and two\\nin the iState of Ohio. Our townsman, Mr. Bobert K. Phelps, on the\\n6th of Sept., 1838, was united in marriage with Miss Minerva Parken-\\nson. To them seven sons and two daughters, now living, have .been\\nborn; four of whom are married and^have children. Mrs. Elizabeth, the\\nsecond child of Mr. John Phelps, was married to Geo. L.IIarwood on 7th\\nApril, 1836. To them six children were born. He died in 1877. Mr.\\nGeorge Phelps; of Claysville, the second son living, was united in mar-\\nriage with Miss Sarah Creel, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Creele.\\nA notice of them is given in the account of that family. Miss Mary, the\\nsecond daughter living, was united in marriage, on tiie 3d of February,\\n1848, to Thomas H. Creel, son of Thomas Creel, deceased. They re-\\nside at the old homestead place of his father, and his grand-father, the\\nlate Mr. George Creel, known in the early history of this county as\\nBacon Hall. To them nine children have been born, and at this time\\nall reside with their parents. Lewis and James married sisters. Miss\\nJulia and Miss Louisa Tavlor. Thev reside at this time in the State of\\nOhio.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 COL. HUGH PHELPS.\\nMr, John Phelps was a man of gentlemanly bearing, and highly re-\\nspected as a citizen, neighbor and friend. He died in 1\u00c2\u00a354. His wid-\\now died in the winter of 1875.\\nMr. Jetierson Phelps, the second son living, of Col. Hugh Pliolps,was\\nborn the 26th of March. 1801. He wa.s united in raarriaore with Miss\\nHarriet Armstrong, of Harrison county, on the 27th of May, 1824. Af-\\nter completing his law studies, he settled in Covington, Ky., where he\\nbecame an eminent practitioner at the bar, and tilled an honorable po-\\nsition in the history of that State during his life. He died in 1843. Of\\nhis family we have no definite knowledge.\\nMr. Henry Phelps, another son, was married to a lady in Kanawha\\ncounty, Va. During his life he was subject to fits, .c. Of his family\\nwe have no knowledge.\\nMr. Hugh Henderson Phelps, the youngest son of Col. Hugh Phelps,\\nwas born on the 7th of July, 1803. He was united in marriage with\\nMiss Mary Ann Kincheloe, daughter of Major Robert Kiiicheloe, on the\\n12th of August, 1824. To them five sons and three daughters were born,\\nwho lived to be grown and settled in life. They have all removed from\\nthis county, and of their present condition our knowledge is very limit-\\ned. Mr. Phelps died at Claysville, in the winter of 1875, and his widow\\ndied in Jackson county, in the summer of 1876.\\nMiss Delilah Phelps, the youngest daughter of Col. Hugh Phelps, was\\nborn on the 16th of March, 1^6, and was married to Mr. John J. Suth-\\nerland on the 15th of May, 1826. She died about the year 1844, leav-\\ning several children, of whom we have no definite information. (The\\nSutherland family were among the early settlers of this county, and at\\none time were quite numerous. The mother of John Sutherhuid was a\\nsister to Col. Barnet H. Foley, of this county. They resided on Worth-\\nington Creek about three miles East of Parkersburg.)\\nIn closing this sketch of Col. Hugh Phelps, we would say that in his\\nlife time he extensively engaged in land speculations, and had accumula-\\nted a large landed estate in the various parts of the country. Dying\\nsuddenly, during what has been termed the sickly season, on the 6th\\nof September, 1823, and leaving his estate in an unsettled condition,\\nand no one assuming the necessary care and oversight of the same, it\\nwas nearly all lost to the heirs of the estate. His widow soon followed,\\nflying on the 15th day of September, 1824. Their remains repose in\\nthe family graveyard, on tlu^ farm, which soon after their deaths, be-\\ncame the property of the late Col. Thomas Tavenner. Before closing\\nthis brief account of Col. Hugh Phelps, we would say that among the\\nearly settlers of this county he had two brothers, named Elijah and\\nJohn, who left numerous descendants,, of whom we have but a limited\\nknowledge, also two sisters, the second wife of Capt. James Neal, and\\nMrs. Barnes. The descendants ofMrs. Barnes are very numerous in\\nthis and Wirt counties. But we have not the. means of getting the nec-\\nessary information for furnishine: a correct record of them. In the on-", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "COL. HUGH PHELPS. 45\\nward tlii -ht ot yeai the records of tlic families of the past generation\\nheeanie lost and forgotten among their descendants.\\nWhile trying to review the hi.story of the early settlers ol thiscoim-\\ntv, and finding how few mementos have been made ot those who\\nonce were active upon life s great theatre, a feeling of melancholy\\nand sadness comes over our spirits. Like bubbles passing down a\\nstream, we are seen for a short time, then burst and sink away into\\nthe vast ocea i ot the past. The anxious, throbbing heart of to-day\\nis soon stilled in death, and is lost in forgetful n ess like a shadow,lie\\ndeclineth, and is gone forever; and the few who treasured his niemo-\\nry will soon sink beneatii the same oblivious wave, leaving but few,\\nif any, traces behind them. Such is and has been the histor} of our\\nrace along thepatliway of time.\\nIn the excitement in this county arising from the unsuccessful ex-\\npedition of Burr and Blennerhassett. in the fall and winter ot 1806,\\nthe first efforts for their arrest was made by Col. Hugh Phelps. At\\nthat date fie was Colonel of the regiment in this county, and under\\nthe proclamation of President Thomas Jefferson, he called out a por-\\ntion of the militia of the county tor the purpose of arresting them.\\nin the Life of Blennerhassett, written and published by the Hon. W.\\nH. Safford, in 1850. we copy tiie folhnving paragraph, m relation to\\nCol. Hugli Phelps: (Blennerhassett will form a future chapter.)\\nDuring the course of the evening Col. Hugh Phelps returned from\\nhis tour across the country. (From Pt. Pleasant to ParkersburgV\\nLi tliis unexpected arrival, the young men, (Morgan Neville and VV.\\nRobinson, Jr.,) had new cause for anxiety and alarm. They had con-\\ngratulated tliemseives upon their successful defeat of the functiona-\\nries of law, whicli they attributed mainly to their superior tact in\\nmystifying their judges and intimidating tlieir accusers; but here was\\none who could not be duped by sophistical reasoning, or swerved\\nfrom his duties by fear of consequences. Although dressed in the\\nusual style of the backwoodstnan of that day, the careless manner in\\nwhich he wore his garl), added gracefulness to a form both attractive\\nand commanding. They recognized in him an individual ot physical\\nas well as intellectual superiority, and, therefore, wisely concluded to\\nassume a different bearing from that they before had observed before\\ntheir captors and Judges.\\nLi a thoughtful and classic attitude, he surveyed the destruction of\\nthe premise s, and the evident marks of bacchanalian revelry with\\nwhich the party under his command had disgraced theniselves; then,\\nturning upon them a look of withering rebuke, he spoke in such terms\\nof indignation as caused them to shrink with fear and trepidation.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Shame, men I he exclaimed Shame on such eondwir You have\\ndisgraced your district and the cause in which you are concerned.\\nTo these young men and to Mrs. Blennerhassett he was courteous\\nand obliging; assisting them in their departure from the Island..", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "CEC^IPTER. VII.\\nFIRST SETTLEMENT,\\nIII the beautiful valley ot the Ohio there are but few, if any, river\\nbottoms of laud which excel in richness of soil the one known a.s\\nBelleville. It is pleasantly ^situated on the south side of the river in\\nthis county, commencing some sixteen miles below the city of Park-\\nersbufg, opposite the mouth of the Big Hocking river, and extends\\ndown about live miles, and contains some two thousand acres ot land.\\nLee, the largest creek in the county, and draining its southern\\nportion, empties into the Ohio through this bottom dividing it into\\nnearly equal parts. The lands upon the creek are valuable for all\\nfarming purposes, heading in the limestone ridge, separating this and\\nJackson counties. Much might be written and said in favor of tiiis\\nportion of our county, as to the richness of its soil, and its adoption\\nto all agricultural purposes.\\nIn the year 1771, the time when Gen. George Washington descend-\\ned the Ohio and located his lands in the District of West Augusta, Jie\\nlocated and partially surveyed, and afterwards had patented to him\\na part of this rich and beautiful bottom. In after years, when hi.-\\nsurvey was made according to its calls in the patent, it was found\\nthat the back lines of the survey passed through the central part of\\nthis bottom, below Lee Creek. This creek was named after Mr. Da-\\nvid Lee, a trapper and hunter, wlio before this time had his camp up-\\non this creek. He afterwards became a permanent citizen ot this\\ncounty, married and settled on Tjgart Creek, raised a tamily and died\\nthere, some forty years ago, leaving numy worthy descendants.\\nIn the year 1782, when the iirm ot Wm. Tilton Co., of Philadel-\\nphia, Pa., located and made their entries of large tracts of land in this", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH WOOD. 47\\n(then Monongalia) county, amounting to upwards of ninety thousand\\nacres, this bo tom was iiiciu le l in their surveys, by a junior patent to\\nthat of Gen. Washington s.\\nIn the summer of 1785, while Mr. NVm^Tjiton was at Fort Pitt, (now\\nthe city of Pittsburg, Pa.,) he formed the acquaintance of the late Hon.\\nJudge .Ja ep h Woo d, ot Marietta, Ohio, then a young man from the\\nState of New Jersey. Mr. Wood had by his industry acquired a good\\nEnglish education, and by study bad OjUaHfied himself for the profession\\nof surveyor and civil engineer. He had left his native town and came\\nWest for the purpose of joining a company of surveyors, then assem-\\nbling at Pittsburg, to survey the public lands Northwest of the Ohio riv-\\ner, and South of the Western boundary line of the State of Pennsylva-\\nnia, under the Geographical Surveyor of the United States.\\nAt that period in the history of our country, the Indian tribes of the\\nNorthwestern territory had begun to show hostility to the frontier set-\\ntlers, and had killed and plundered several white traders residing among\\nthem. Among these was Mr. Martin, a brother-in-law of the Tomlin-\\nsons. These hostile proceedings of the Indians rendered the sending of\\nsurveyors into the wilderness hazardous and inexpedient on the part of\\nthe Government, Consequently, the surveying expedition was post-\\nj)oncd to a future day.\\nIt was at this time, while Mr. Wood was residing at Pittsburg, with-\\nout any permanent employment, that he made the acquaintance of Capt.\\nWm. Tilton, of the firm of Tilton, Gibbs Co., heavy landholders in\\nU estern Virijinia. Mr. Tilton entered into arrangements with him as\\nagent, surveyor, kc, for the colonization and sale of the lands of Tilton,\\nGibbs Co. Under this agreement the large tract of land at Belleville\\nwas selected as the place to commence their settlement.\\nDuring the fall of 1785 a suitable boat was built, and under the direc-\\ntion of Mr. Wood, was freighted with cattle, farming utensild, etc., with\\nsuch other articles as rai jht be needed in commencing a new settlement\\nat some two hundred miles from where supplies could be procured at\\nthat time.\\nIn this boat, Mr. Tilton, with his agent, Mr. VVopd, and four Scotch\\nfamilies, as emigrants, with several men hired for the year, left Pitts-\\nburg on the 28th day of November, and landed at Belleville on the H3th\\nday of December, 1785, (having stopped at Fort Harmar, at the mouth\\nof the Big Muskingum, then in course of completion by Major John\\nDaughty, of the U.S. Army.)\\napt. Tilton and his party having landed and secured their boat against\\ndangers from ice, c., their next effort was to select a place and arrange\\nfor mailing a permanent settlement. A high, dry bottom, on the bank\\nof the river, was chosen, and a clearing commenced. From the timber\\ncut down they erected a block-house, forty feet by twenty, two stories\\nhigh, convenient to water. Loop holes for musketry were cut in the\\nlocrg^ thus making the building offensive as well as defensive in times of", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 Joseph wood.\\ndatifjer from Indian attack?. Early in January, 1786, the building ^aj-\\ncompleted, and the entire company moved from the boat and took pos-\\nsession of it a3 their future iiorae. Mr. Wood then laid out a town by\\nsurvey, and gave to it the name ot Belleville. Lots in the town were do-\\nnated to actual settlers. The clearing of the lands in and around the\\ntown was continued, and during the first year about one hundred acre?\\nwas prepared for cultivation. In the spring of 1786 Capt. Tilton re-\\nturned to l^hiladeli)hia, leaving the settlement in charge of Mr. Wood, as\\nthe sole agent of the company, and the manager of the settlement. Sev-\\neral log houses, for the residence of individual families were erected near\\nthe block-house, also convenient out-houses for stock, etc. The whole\\nwere enclosed by pickets, eight or ten feet high, securely planted in the\\nearth, thus making it a regular stockade garrison, suthcient for the ac-\\ncommodation of about two hundred persons, forming an oblong square of\\nabout three hundred feet along the river front, and extending back al oat\\none hundred teet. Gates at either end for the admission of teams, etc\\nwere securely erected, and a wicket gate in front for descending to the\\nriver for water and return, was also erected.\\nOf the Scotch emigrants with families who first came to Belleville\\nwith Mr. Wood, and those who came the following spring, we have been\\nable to gather onh the following named persons, viz Messrs. McDon-\\nal, Grreathouse, Tabor, James Pewthewer, Wm. Ingals, Jemerson, An-\\ndrew McCash, and two single men, F. Andrews and Thomas Gilruth.\\nWe are not aware that any of the descendants of these families are now\\nresiding in this country.\\nIn the year 1787 this settlement was joined by the following persons\\nviz Joel and Joseph Dewy, from near Wyoming, Pa.: Stephen Sherod\\nand family, from the same place, Malcomb Coleman, with his wife and\\nfamily of sons and daughters, from Carlisle, I a.; I^eter and Andrew Aii-\\nderson, irom above Wheeling, Va. Descendants from these last named\\nfamilies are still living in the lower part ot this and Jackson county.\\nWe made mention of some of them in the fifth chapter.\\nIn the spring of 1785, a company of hunters and trappers from the\\nvicinity of Wheeling, but formerly trora the Susquehanna river, Pa., took\\npossession of an abandoned Indian improvement of about twenty acres,\\nabove the mouth of Lee Creek, erected a station house and cultivated\\nthe improvement in corn. This was then known as Flinn s Station. It\\nconsisted of old Mr. Flinn, a widower, and his two sons, Thomas and\\nJames, and their families, Mr. Parchment, with his wife and two sons,\\nJacob and .lohn, Mr. John Barnett. \\\\\\\\ho married a daughter of Flinn s.\\nand Mr. John McCessack, a single man. The principal occupation of\\nthese men was hunting and trapping. In 1787 the inhabitants of this\\nstation moved down to the station at Belleville, thus adding strength,\\nsafety and protection to the inhabitants of that station against the Indi-\\nans, who had commenced being troublesome by their stealing of horses,\\netc., and threatening the safety of the settlement.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH WOOD. 49\\nWe have already spoken of Mr. I oter Anderson. Soon after the\\nformation of Wood oonnty, he was commissioned, on the 4th of May,\\n1801. and tilled the office of Justice of the Peace, acceptably, until\\nhis orient aire caused him to resisijn. On hisresiornation, the Rev. Ben-\\njamin Mitchell, an able local minister of Belleville, was comrnission-\\n(1 and filled that office in tliat vicinity nntil his death in 1834. Mr.\\nJohn Kincheloe, ot Belleville, was the successor of Mr. Mitchell, and\\ntilled that office in tliat community nntil the adoption of the constitu-\\ntion of 1851.\\nMr. Joseph WWd, the agent of the Tilton lands, was united in mar-\\nriage with Miss Margaret Pewthewer, a Scotch lady, a daughter of\\nJames Pewthewer, one of the first emigrants to that settlement, in\\nummcr of 1790. Owing to tlie fiict that no person in that.settle-\\n)ncnt was authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony, they came\\nup to ^Farmer s astle, in Belpre. Ohio, where the marriage cere-\\nmony was performed by Gen. Betijamiu Tupper, a magistrate of that\\nState. In 1791 he moved to Marietta, Ohio. In that place and vi-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2inity he resided until his death in 1851, in the 93d year of his age,\\nhaving filled with credit and honor many important offices. His\\ndangliter, Miss Agnes, still resides at the homestead place in that city,\\nwho is in possession of her father s papers.\\nHaving thus very Ijriefly sketched these facts which have come to\\nour knowledge relative to the first settlement made at Belleville, in\\n1785, and traced the same down to 1795, the year of the treaty of\\npeace with the Indians ot the Northwestern territory, which resulted\\nfrom the victories of Gen. Wayne, in some future chapter we will\\nl)riefly notice the individual settlers wdio came to that portion of (Kir\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ounty after that date. In doing this, we presume that many per-\\nons will be omitted for the want of information. We find in tlie\\nrecords of our county many naraes that furnish no data of their com-\\ning, or when they left, or of their pursuits while here. This want of\\ncorrect information we meet with frecjuently while ouleavoring to\\nmake nj\u00c2\u00bb these sketches.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "CH^P^TEK. VIII.\\nFIRST SSTTLSMSNT,\\nAmong the citizens and inhabitants of the county, at the present day,\\ntliere are but few, if any, remaining, who can rightly appreciate the\\nrude character, heroism and worth of many of those noble and fearless\\nfrontiersmen, who, from the condition of those early times and the sur-\\nrounding circumstances of the country and its settlements during the\\nlast half of the eighteenth century, were employed by the Province\\nof Virginia as Rangers, for the purpose of giving notice to, and protect-\\ning the inhabitants of the settlements which were then being extended\\nfrom the Valley of Virginia, west and northwest, to and over the Alle-\\ngheny Mountains, to the tributary streams ot the Ohio river. The In-\\ndian tribes of the great northwestern territory, from the influences then\\nbrought to bear upon them by the French and English Governments,\\nwere a cruel and dangerous foe, then hanging about the skirts of these\\nsettlements.\\nIt frequently taxed the wisdom and the limited resources of the House\\nof Burgesses of Virginia to successfully provide for the safety and de-\\nfence of her citizens who were then making settlements along the front-\\nier boundaries of her counties. The Rangers thus employed by them\\nhad to be men who could discover and identify the traces and courses\\n()f these Indians in their raids, their manner of attack, their mode of\\nwarhire, and successfully turn them back, or punish them for their ag-\\ngressions.\\nAmong those employed by the Colonial Government of Virginia as a\\nRanger, tor the protection of her frontier settlements, was Mr. Isaac\\nWilliams, who spent the last of his years as a citizen of this county.\\nBeing one of its first settlers, and for many years occupying a promi-", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ISAAC WILLIAMS, 51\\ntient position in this county, we will here give a brief notice of hirn and\\nhis family, as well as a brief notice of those who succeeded to his estate\\nin this county.\\nIn doing so, however, we iiere acknowledge our indebtedness to the\\nsketches made by the bite Dr S. P. Ilildreth, of Marietta, Ohio, for\\nmany of the facts herein stated.\\nMr. I^SiisLC ^iilJ4iii3_was born in Chester county. Pa., on the 16th of\\nduly, 1737. When quite a youth his parents removed with him to\\nWinchester, Va., where he grew up to young manhood. He early in\\nlife displayed great love and aptitude for hunting and trapping. When\\nat the age of eighteen years, the Colonial Government of Virginia em-\\nployed him as a Ranger and spy to watch the movements of the Indians\\non the frontier, and ward oft the dangers from their attacks upon the\\nwhite settlements. In that capacity he served Virginia in that disas-\\ntrous campaign of Gen. Braddock, in the year 1754. He was also one\\nof the liangers who assisted in guarding the first convoy of provisions\\nand ammunition to Fort Duquesne, after it had been captured by Gen.\\nForbes,of Pennsylvania, in 1758,an(l who had changed its name to Fort\\nPitt. At that time the western part of the present State of Pennsylva-\\nnia was supposed to belong to the Colony of Virginia. The completion\\nof the survey of the Mason and Dixon line gave it to that State.\\nThe following ten years atter, he spent in hunting and trapping on\\nthe western waters, having descended the Ohio to the Mississippi, and\\nascended the Mississippi to the Missouri river and returned. In\\n1768 he conducted his parents over the mountains from Winchester, and\\nsettled thom on Buttalo Creek, near West Liberty,in what is now Brooke\\ncounty. West Va. In 1769 he accompanied Ebenezer and Jonathan\\nZane in their explorations of the country around Wheeling, Zanesville,\\nand other locations, west of the mountains. By his hunting and trap-\\nping excursions he became well acquainted with the topography of the\\nOhio river and its tributaries, and entered several tomahawk rights,\\nwhich he sold. In 1774 he accompanied Governor Dunmore in his In-\\ndian expedition against the Shawnees, then at war with the Colonies, un-\\nder the leadership of the celebated chieftain. Cornstalk, and was with\\nhim when he concluded the treaty of peace near Chilicothe, after the\\nbattle at Pt. Pleasant, under Gen. Lewis, in that year.\\nIn 1775 he became acquainted with Mrs. Rebecca Martin, at Grave\\nCreek, whose husband had been killed by the Indians, on Big Hocking,\\niti 1770, and after a short acquaintance, they were united in marriage.\\nShe was a daughter of Mr. Joseph Tomlmson, born at Wills Creek, on\\nthe Potomac, in the State o f Maryland, on the 14th day of February,\\n1754. After the death of her first husband, in 1771, she accompanied\\nher two brothers, Samuel and Joseph, to Grave Creek, on the Ohio riv-\\ner, and was their housekeeper for several years. In 1783 her brothers\\nwhile engaged in trapping at and near the mouth of the Big Muskingum,\\npreempted for her a tract of 400 acres of land in Virginia, opposite the", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": ")2 ISAAC WILLIAMS.\\nmouth of the Big Muskingum river, and cleared four acres and erected a\\ncabin thereon, and raised a crop of corn during that year. This tract\\nof land, owing to its locatien, and the fertility of its soil, has become\\nvery valuable. The beautiful village of Williarastown forms a part of it.\\nwhile the.residue has been divided into small farms, now in a high state\\nof cultivation.\\nIn 178G, Fort Ilarmar, at the mouth of the Muskingum river, having\\nbeen established and garrisoned by United States troops, on the 26th\\nday of March, 1787, Mr. Isaac Williams, with his wife and family, mov-\\ned to and settled on this 400 acre tract belortging to his wife, under the\\npreemption laws of V^irginia. Soon after their arrival at the place, his\\nwife gave birth to a daughter, whom they named Drusilla. She was the\\nonly child by this marriage. She lived to become a woman, and was\\nunited in marriage to John G. Henderson, a son of Alexander Hender-\\nson, of Dumfries, Va. By him she became the mother of one child,\\nwhich died in infancy. Soon after the death of this child the mother\\ncjied, being about twenty years of age. Mr. Jolin G. Henderson came to\\nthis county in 1797, in company with the late Robert Triplett. Mr.\\nHenderson filled important positions in this county for many years after\\nits organization. A notice of him and his brothers, who settled here at\\nan early day, is reserved for a future chapter.\\nAfter the removal of Mr. Williams to this wilderness farm, he aban-\\ndoned hunting and trapping as a means of support (only seldom taking\\nan excursion as a pastime), and devoted hit; time and attention to this\\nfarm, making all necessary improvements. Situated opposite to and\\ncommanding a full view of Marietta and the Big Muskingum river, ir\\nsoon became a noted and interesting place of retreat, and is now known\\nby the name of Williamstown.\\nHonesty, industry, prudence and economy gave him prosperity as a\\nfarmer, and secured for him the respect and esteem of all the early pio-\\nneers. Thoughtful and considerate of the welfare and happiness of\\nothers, his benevolence extended a helping hand to any in want. After\\nliving on this plantation for thirty-three years, and making it one of the\\nmost pleasant and productive farms in the country, surrounding himselt\\nwith the necessary comforts of those early times, making his home the\\nmansion of hospitality for his neighbors and friends, as also a resting\\nplace for the stranger, he died on the 25th of September, 1820, aged\\n8-4, having spent an active life, full of years, made up of good deeds, and\\nin the enjoyment of a ho[)e of a blessed immortality.\\nThe first half of his manhood years was mostly devoted to the pro-\\ntection of the frontier settlements against the inroads and attacks of the\\nIndians in their savage mode of warfare. As a ranger and spy upon\\ntheir war-paths, he had but few, if any equals. lie had made himself\\nwell acquainted with all their modes of pursuit, attack und retreat. In\\nthese dangerous expeditions he was frequently the associate of Lewis", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ISAAC WILLIAMS. 5o\\nWetzel, Kerr, and otliers of great notoriety in those years. He was\\neool, thouichtful and courai^eous, and so watchful of his foe as never\\nto permit him to gain an advantage or inflict on him a wound. His\\nwife possessed tlie same iieroic i:()uratrc and dauntless spiilt, and shar-\\ned with him in the full s\\\\nipathy of his nature.\\nIn person he was of the medium size, with an upright trame and\\nmuscular liinhs, features well formed and marked, a niild e.xpresions\\nof countenance, with taciturn and quiet manners, securing confidence\\nand respect. He with his family, weie huried in a heautiful spot, on\\nliis plantation, shaded hy the trees he dearly loved in life.\\nAfter the death of Mrs. Uehecca Williams, this heautiful planta-\\ntion descended by devise to the late John A.Kinnard,who luul married\\nMiss Mary Tomlinsou, tlie sixth child of Joseph and Elizabeth Tom-\\nlinson, late of Grave Creek, and a niece of Mrs. Williams. Mr. Jolin\\nA. Kinnard, with his young wife, moved to Wood county in 1807, aiul\\nsettled on this farm. Here they raised a family of six children, wlu^\\nattaiiied to man and womanhood, and who -are now all dead but one.\\nMrs. Mary (lardner.\\nIn January, 1827, he was commissioned a Justice of the Peace of\\nthe county, and served the county acceptably until his advanced age\\ncaused him to resign. In the discharge of public duties, he was\\nthoughtful, considerate, and faithful. In private life he was highly\\nesteemed for his uprightness of character and manly bearing.\\nHaving rnade a disposition of his property among his cliildren, he\\nremoved to Parkersburg, and for some time before his death, lie and\\nhis wife resided with their youngest daughter, Mrs, Gardner. He\\ndied at Parkcr burg, on the 2d of May, 1850, in the 73d year of his\\nage. His esteemed and venerable widow, Mrs. Mary Kinnard, sur-\\nvived him until the Uith of March, 1873, when she died at Parkers-\\nburg, at the residence of her daughter, at the age of 87 years. They\\nlilled up the measure of tlieir years with usefulness to tliciiiselves\\nand society, and died respected and beloved.\\nWe will give a brief notice of their children in the order of their\\nbirths\\nFirst Alfred Little Kinnard, who was born in the summer of\\n1808. He graduated at Athens College, Ohjo studied law for his\\njirofession, and commenced practice in Parkersburg in the fall of\\n18oo. But not liking it, he soon abandoned that profession, aiul com-\\nmenced merchandising in Ripley, Jackson county: but not meeting\\nwith success, he returned to this county, where he resick-d until his\\ndeath. On the 3d of January, 1831), he was happily united in mar-\\nriage with Mi.ss Julia A. Nixon, of J arkersburg. No children were\\nijorn to them. He itied at Parkersburg, on the fith of Manh, 1872.\\naged 03 years, 10 months and 3 days. After a long and painful ill-\\nness from^cancer, she died at Parkersburg, on the 24th of June, 187^^.\\nThey were zealous and active members of the M. E. Church, South,", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": ")4 JOHN A. KINNARD.\\nSecond Louisa Kiiinanl, who married the late Hoti. Jolui F. Snod-\\n;^rass. She died at Parkersbnrfc.oti the 22d day of October, 1843,aged\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0M years, 11 months and 22 days, leaviii four ehihlren. Mr. Snod-\\nLjrass was a native ot Berkeley county. N a., emiij^rated to l^arkersburg\\nin 1830, and entered successfully upon the practice of the law; was\\nelected and served in the Convention of Virginia in 1851-2, and was\\nre-elected, and took his seat in Congress in 1853, and died at Park-\\nersburg, on the 5th ot Jane, 1854.\\nThird Rebecca Kinnard was united in marriage to Alexandar\\nMiirdodi, of Washington, Pa.; died 23 of January, 1841, aged 27 years\\nand 12 days.\\nFourth Drusilla Kinnard died unmarried at the home residence\\ni\u00c2\u00bbf her parents, in Williamstown, the 21st day of August, 1841, aged\\n25 years, 6 months and 15 (hiys.\\nFifth Rev. Kufus Kinnard, a worthy local minister in the M. E.\\nChurch, was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Cook, eldest (hiuglitor\\nof the late Tillingl)ast_AjjCook, died at WiTliamstown, the 24th day\\nof March, 1871, aged 51 years, 6 months and 19 days. He was a\\nrominent, active and useful citizen, respected by all, filling up the\\nmeasure of his years with usefulness. At his death he lett a widow\\nwith seven children, who reside at the homestead place, in Wiilliams-\\ntown. His widow lias been united in marriage with John A. Hen-\\nderson, of that town.\\nSixth Tlie youngestchild and daughter, Mary, was united in mar-\\nriage to Wm. S. Gardner, on the 5th of November, 1844. He was a\\nnative of the State ot Pennsylvania, and settled in this couuty in 35,\\nand was married to Miss Ann S. Beeson, the youngest daughter of the\\nlate Col. Jacob Beeson, (wlio occupied a promment position in the ear-\\nly history of this county.) He was engaged very cxtensivel} in mer-\\nchandising. He died the 31st day of October, 1849, aged 37 years, 4\\nmonths and 14 days. His widow still resides in Parkersburg, and it\\nwas at her home that her venerable parents closed up the eventful\\n{)eriods of tlieir lives.\\nWhile penning the foregoing sketches of John A. Kinnard and his\\nonce interesting family, our mind has frequently turned back, and\\nwith mournful pleasure reviewed the days of other years, when these\\nparents with their children,formed an uubrokcn,happy family around\\nthe domestic hearth of home, and we were permitted to share in their\\nhospitality. Intelligence and refinement, blended with cheerfulness\\nof heart, in kindred sympathies, made the hours pass smoothly and\\npleasantly^,and imparted to memory a rich legacy of remembrances,\\nof jo}s and happiness. We can almost see again the watchful pride of\\nparental love, as then bestowed upon those children of their future\\nhopes. Now, all except one has passed in hope to the joys of that bet-\\nter, brighter, happier world.\\nOn the Souther!! banks of the Ohio, upon an elevated plateau of", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "JOHN A. KINNARD. 55\\nland; fronting Mariett;i. and witliin the original boundaries of this plant-\\nation, is situated the pleasant village of Wiljiamstown. Several years ago\\nit was made an incorporated town by an Act of the Legislature of Vir-\\nginia, and contains a population of about five hundred inhabitants. A\\nturnpike extends back through this county from this town over fine ara-\\nble lands, and intersects the Northwestern Turnpike, fifteen miles East\\nof Parkersburg. Above and below the town, the bottom lands on the\\nOhio are wide and of the best quality, giving not only fine views of the\\nOhio Valley, but also of the Muskin^jjum. The railroads terminatinij at\\nMarietta add greatly to the lan(le l estate of this portion of the county.\\nA charter was obtained from the Legislature of Virginia for a railroad\\nfrom this town to intersect the Northwestern Virginia Railroad at the\\ntown of Kllenl)oro, thirty-seven miles East of Parkersburg, but failed in\\nbeing made for want of capital.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "ch:a.:ptei^ ix.\\nBellevills in 1795,\\nfn Chapter Seven, we presented to the reader an account of the first\\nr^ettlement made at J3elleville, in the lower part of this county, in 1785,\\nand followed its history down to 1795, the date of the close of the Indi-\\nan war in the then Northwestern Territory, and the treaty of peace re-\\nsulting from the victories of General Anthony Wayne, made at Green-\\nville, Ohio.\\nWe made our sketch of that settlement in those years from 1785 to\\n1795, as perfect and complete as the limited materials at our command\\nwould admit. The information was gathered from several sources, of a\\nreliable character. As that settlement soon thereafter assumed a lead-\\ning position in this vicinity, we will continue the same from that year,\\n(1795.)\\nJ he treaty of peace made with the Indians in the summer of 1795, at\\n(xreeneville, Ohio, opened up a new chapter in the settlements on the\\nOhio and its numerous tributaries, arising from the comparative safety\\nfelt by the inhabitants then occupying the country, from fear of Indian\\nraids and their cruel barbarities, so common in former years.\\nIt also iiwitcd new emigrants from among the; young and enterprising\\nfamilies of the South, East and North, to here select and open up homes,\\namidst the rich and fertile lands of this great valley. This desirable op-\\nportunity was hailed and improved, and the tide of emigration became\\ngreat as the country became more gonerally and perfectly known. Un-\\nder these auspices, in this chapter we shall further trace the settlement\\nmade at ]ielleville and its vicinity.\\nWe have learned that Mr. David Lee, a hunter and trapper, some\\nyears prior to 1785, had encamped on Lee Oeek, forthe purpose of\\nprosecuting that business, and consequently the creek took its name", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "OtEORGE h. AVKRY. 57\\ntVoni liiui. lie continued liis residence and occupation in tliat vicin-\\nity, and in one of those years he married a sister of Mr. Peter Ander-\\nson, and iinally purchased land, and settle^! on Tvgart creek in this\\ncounty, and raised a family of five sons and three daughters. The\\nlast ot his sons, of whom we have any knowledge, was Mr. Stephen\\nLee, who died some years since in this cour.ty. Several of the de-\\nscendants ot Mr. David Lee reside in fhis county. He was a native of\\nthe IState of Pennsylvania,~ajid in early life had the reputation of he-\\ning one of the most successful hunters and trajjpers of his time.\\nAbout the year 1796 or 1797, the settlement at Belleville received\\na most important addition hy emigrants from the State of Connecti-\\ncut. The leading man of this emigration was Mr. George I). Avj.M y.\\nHe commenced, and for several years carried on merchandizing in\\nconnection with ship-building, at that place. Man} ships in those\\nearly years were built tliere, and descendcnl the Ohio and Mississippi\\nrivers to the Ocean. He was a man of fine educational attainments, a\\nprofessed surveyor and civil engineer. Of some of his services in this\\ncapacity, we will hereafter speak.\\nHis wife had been tlie widow of Mr. Chamj)lin, of Connecticut, a\\nlady well educated and ot tine culture. By him she was the mother\\nof three sons, viz: Lodwick, Samuel and Guy Champlin. B} Mr.\\nAvery, she was the mother of one son, who was named after his fath-\\ner. These orphan children of Mr. Champlin were under the guidance\\nand supervision of Mr. Avery, wlio acted a generous part hy them.\\nThe estate ol Mr. Champlin was invested in land for his children and\\nheirs, by Mr. Avery, (mi the upper ])art of Belleville J^ottom, and is\\nincluded in the lands now belonging to Mi Daniel R. Neal.\\nAfter the tornmtion of Wood county, Mr. Avery was commissioned\\nand ably tilled the othce of Justice of the Peace, taking a rominent\\npart in the reviewing and establishing i)f county roads, and looking\\nafter the general welfare of the county.\\nUnder the direction of William l\\\\obin8on,Jr., and Dr. Joseph Spen-\\ncer, (who were litiirating their titles to Pai kersburg), on the 7th of\\nDecember, 1810, Mr. Avery completed his survey of the town of Par-\\nkersburg. tlu; streets df which are ma(h; to intersect eacli other at\\nriglit angles, running from the Ohio river in a Southeasterly (hrection,\\nand from the Little Kanawha northeasterly. The town then contained oSie\\nhundred and seventy acres of land. The [tlot and survey as then made\\nby Mr. Avery, was put upon record in the Clerk s Otlice ot the coun-\\nty at the February term, 181G, and will be found in Deed Book No.\\npage 337, and 838. Avery street, the fifth from the Ohio river,\\nruns from the Little Kanawha river, at the East end of the old Fer-\\nry, formerly kept by Col. Otis L, Bradford, in a Northeasterly direc-\\ntion, passes on the Northwest side of the passenger depot of the B. i\\\\:\\n0. Railroad, was named in honor of him.\\nAfter doing a large and extensive business at Belleville, for manv", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 Tin; i ukntiss family\\nyears, lie finally failcl financially, and having ha-l the rai sfortune to bury\\nii.s wife, he removed, and hia 9ubse(|uent history, as well a3 that of the\\nMiainplin fiiiiily, is unknown to tiic writer. It is thus that many of\\nthe early citizens of the county, who filled jMomineiit and responsible po-\\nsitions, have been los*. sight of, and have passed away.\\nAmong the ^migrants to Belleville with Mr. Avery, was that of Mr.\\nPrentiss and family. His wife was a sister to Mrs, Avery. He pur-\\nchased and settled on a farm on the Ohio river, immediately above and\\nadjoining Ijce Creek, iind also purchased other lands or lots in Bele-\\nville. Soon after settling; there he (iied, leaving a widow and two sons,\\nJonathan and Henry L. I rentiss.\\nMr. Jonathan Prentiss inherited the farm on Lee creek. Attersorae\\nyears, he emigrated and settled in Monongalia county, and finally sold\\nrhe farm to Caleb Wells, and it now belongs to his heirs. Henry L.\\nPrentiss married Miss Hebecoa Mayberry, daughter of Mr. Geo. .Slay-\\nberry, deceased, and sister of the late Hon. John P. Mayben-y, of Park-\\nersburg. He sold his land at Belleville, and purchase l and settled in\\nParkersburg. For many years he filled jirominent positions in the\\ncounty. On the 28tli of February, 1^2 2, he was commissioned a Jus-\\ntice of the Peace, which otlice beheld until 1837, when he removed to\\nthe West, He was eh cted and served this c )urity several times in the\\nHouse of Delegates of Viri^irua. He finally settled in C^uincy, Illinois,\\nwhere he died many years since. His eMest son, (.Jen. lienjaiuin .\\\\1.\\nPrentiss, resides in that city. Many of our old citizens will remember\\nHenry L. Prentiss, and the quaiiitness of his address, ami the burlesq-\\nueness of his manners.\\n[n the year 1797, two brothers with their families, by the name of\\n-John and Michael Simms, came, purchased and settled on the South\\nFork of Lee Creek, about a mile and a half back of Belleville. Here\\nthey opened fine farms, and resided until 1816, when they sold to Elisha\\nTimms and Benjamin Mitchell, who, in the fall of that year emigrate l to\\nthis county, from (Culpepper county, Va. The two Simms families em-\\nigrated to Ohio, and settled on Shad river Under the ministry of the\\nRev. Benjamin Crouch, .Mr. .Mitchell j)ined the M. E. Church, aud soon\\nafter was licensed as a local minister in the church, and olHciatedas such\\nsuccessfully, until his death, in 1884. He was abundant in labors and\\nuilefulness. At the time of his death lie left a large family of children.\\nThese were raised and educated for asel ulness in society^ and several of\\nthem still reside in this county.\\nAmong them is our active and worthy City Sargeant, John W. Mitch-\\nell and Henry S. Mitchell, a merchant at Beiloville. The Rev. Elish.i\\nT. Mitchell, some yeir^ sirmj reinovivl to Huntington, in Cabell county,\\nwhere he is enira^ed in raerchaiidisini;. The eldest son. James W,\\nMitchell, for many years past has resided at Ashland, Ky. I hese four\\nsons of Rev. Benjamjn Mitchell all have large families, and occupy prom-\\ninent positions in tlie communities in which they reside.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "PHILIP WIOAL, SR. )9\\nIn the year 1707, Peter Derenberger, (a Gertuan), emigrated with hi^\\nfamily from the State of Pennsylvania, anfl settled on Lee ereeU, baek\\nbaek of Belleville Bottom. He was a worthy, industrious citizen, raised\\na large family. Many of his numerous descendants are living in this\\ncounty, and are respected for their uprightness of character.\\nAlso, (luring the same Spring, (1797), .John Boso, with his family,\\ncame to this county, and settled on the South Fork of Lee Creek. There\\nare numerous doscen(hints of this family, residing in the lower part pf\\nthis county, respected for their integrity and uprightness of character.\\nIn the year 1787 Jacob Kiems settled thei e and married a sister of\\nJoseph Dewey. Some of the descendants of this family are still resid-\\ning in that vicinity. We are conscious that in our ettbrts to gather up\\nthe names of these first settlers in that portion of our county, the names\\nof many will be omitted for the warit of information.\\nIt is to be regretted that during the first years of the settlements made\\nin this county, that there was found no person to keep a record of those\\ntimes and the events then passins:. Sucli a liistory would be highly ap-\\npreciated by the inhabitants of the county at the present day.\\nAmong the early pioneers of this county, there were few, if any, who\\nhave left among us a larger, better, and more industrious posterity than\\nMr. Philip IVigal. lie, with his wife and seven small children, emi-\\ngrated from U estmoreland county. Pa., early in the Spring of 1799,and\\nsettled at the mouth of Lee Creek, some three miles from the Ohio riv-\\ner, where he opened up a farm and surrounded himselt with the comforts\\nof a home, raised his family, to which Jour more children were added,\\nand there ended his earthly pilgrimage in 1817. His children received\\nsuch an education as the country and times furnished. They were\\ntaught to be industrious, persevering and self-reliant, thus making them\\nthoughtful and considerate.\\nHis eldest daughter, Margaret, was married to Hichard Fortner, of\\nthis county. They raised a large family ol children, many of who mare\\nstill residents of this county.\\nThe son, Jacob Wigal, was united in marriage to a Miss Quigler, and\\nremoved to Indiana. Also, the .-ocond (hiutrhter, Hlizabeth, was united\\nin marriage to Peter Sheets, and moveci to and settled in Indiana.\\nHis third so[j, Vrilliam Wigal. remained at the horaestea(i place, on\\nthe farm on Lee Creek. He is now eighty three years of age. aud is one\\nof the few who has chosen to spend a life of single blessedness.\\nCathoriiii the tliird daughter, was married to Henry Brockheart, and\\nmoved from this county. She was tlu mother of seven children, and was\\nburied at Hoekingport, Ohio.\\nHis fourth son, George Wigal, (an infant three months old when\\nbis parents came to this county), settled on the North Fork of Lee\\neek. His first wife was Miss Rebecca Sams, who, at her death, left\\nhim with one child. His second wife was Miss Sarah Gill, who has giv-", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 georgl; wui al.\\nen to hitu eight chiMren. These cliiMren are ;ill settled near him, with\\ntheir families, an l are in good easy circumstances. George Wigal ig\\nnow in the eightieth year of his age, and has continued to reside in this\\ncounty. During his past life he has witnessed the great and wonderful\\nchanges which have taken place in this country in the present century.\\nHe is a man well read in the history of his country, and has a vast fund\\nof useful information relative to the many changes and improvements\\nmade in his timp. Patient industry, frugality and economy, has enabled\\nhim to provide homes and settle his children around him, and in their\\nprosperity and happiness he is enjoying the blessings of a happy old age.\\nThe fifth son of Philip Wigal, is Daniel Wigal, born at Belleville. He\\nmarried Matilda Joseph, daughter of Joseph Joseph, late of this countv.\\nThey have eight children. He resides on Lee Creek.\\nBarbara Wigal. the fourth daughter, was married to James Sams, of\\nTvgart Creek, and has three children. He died about twenty years ago.\\nPhilip Wigal, Jr.. the sixth son, married Miss Nancy Sheets. They\\nhave thirteen children, all reading in the lower part of this county.\\nMiss Sarah Wigal, the youngest child and fifth daughter, married John\\nCongrove. and moved to and lives in the State of Oliio.\\nIt would form an interesting chapter to trace the families ot each of\\nthe descendants of Philip Wigal. Sr., deceased. This would require much\\npatient toil, as well as expense.\\nIn closing this brief sketch of the elder Philip Wigal and his family,\\nand numerous descendants in this county, it is a remarkable occurrence\\nthat all of his descendants are in comfortable and easy circcmstances.\\nand are honored and respected by their fellow citizens. Honesty, indus-\\ntry and economy are their prevailing characteristics.\\nThis brings our notice of Belleville down to the year ISOO, the tlate of\\nthe formation of Wood countv.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "oi3:^:pa?Ei^ x:.\\nPeter Q\u00c2\u00bb VanWinkls.\\nThe first recognition of any mnierial importance which Parkersburj:\\nand Wood county received from the State Legishiture of Ohl Virginia in\\nthe way of improvement, and bringing them into public notice, was thf\\nestablishment and completion of the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike\\nroad, leading from Winchester, in the Valley of Virginia, over the Alle-\\ngheny mountains, westward to Parkersburg. on the r)hio river, u dis-\\ntance of two hundred and thirty miles. At that time, (183(5), Parkers-\\nburg was a small town of about two hundred inhabitants, pleasantly sit-\\nuatetl on the Southern bank of the Ohio river, at and above its junction\\nwith the Little Kanawha river, a stream of considerable importance,\\nlieading in the Allegheny mountains, and running in a northwestern di-\\nrection about one hundred and fifty miles. The country extending from\\nthe Ohio, eastwardly to the Allegheny mountains, was a vast wilderness,\\nwith a few towns and settlements interspersed here and there, of long\\nstanding. Its vast, heavy timbered forests, majestic mountnin ranges,\\nof arable lands, rich, fertile valleys, abounding in numerous streams,\\nwith its salubrious climate, and grand scenery, werethe common heritage\\nof wild beasts, pursued by and became the sport of hunters. Such was\\nthe brief outline of Western Virginia, when tliis NorthwestiMii Turnpike\\nwas projected and completed.\\nIt was about this time in the history of Parkersburg and Wood coun-\\nty, that Mr. Peter G. VanWinkle came, and completed his law studies\\nin the otHce of the late Gen. John .1. Jackson, and after carefully sur-\\nveying the relative position of Parkersburg in its connection with the\\nseaboard cities of the East, and the unfolding cities of the great inland\\nWest, he determined on making it his future permanent home. This\\nijuestion of his citizenship being thus permanently settled, he untiringly", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "2 HON. PETER G. VANWINKLE.\\nlevotetl liis mind and cnerifies to the work of develo})ino; tlie resour-\\nces and advantages of Western Virginia. In this employment his pen\\nwas never idle, wlien an opportnnity ot advancing the conimon in-\\nterests presented itself. lie lived long enough to personally realize\\nmany of the hright day dreams of his imagination. He lived long\\nenough to not only command the })ersonal esteem and liomageofthe\\ncitizens of his adopted cc^unty and home, hut vt the citizens of our\\ncommon country.\\nThe standard of a pure morality had in him a hright living eX[\u00c2\u00bbo-\\nnent, and was exemplified in tlie pri^-afe walks ot life, in the counsel\\nchamher.^ of the State, and in tlie Senatorial Halls of Congfress. We\\nhave here introduced this chai)ter on the life and character of onr\\npersonal friend, to give the reader some cc^rrect knowledge of the\\npast, as well as the present condition of this county in its advanced\\nhistory.\\nWe will here say, that the city ot Parkershurg is situated at the\\nlower, or southern extremity ot a high and wide hottom of land, ex-\\ntending down the Valiey of the Ohio, from Briscoe s Run to the Lit-\\ntle Kanawha river, a distance of six miles, and contains an area of\\nabout five tliousand acres. Two miles South of Parkershurg, Worth-\\nington Creek enters the Little Kanawha from the East. The hottoms\\nof this river and creek, in the vicinity P]astand South of Parkershurg,\\ncontain an area of about five thousand acres, well adapted to city im-\\nprovements. An elevated ridge separates these lands, and presents\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ommanding views as sites for suburban residences.\\nWe close tliis chapter, devoted to our friend, the Hon. Peter G.\\nVan Winkle, by inserting a biographical sketch of him, which we pre-\\nl)eared and })ublished in the Odd Fellows Guardian, of Chicago, III.,\\not which Order he was an honorable and worthv membei*\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.\\nTlie iiiernon of the just is blessed. Solomon\\nIn this dark world of sin and sutiering, there are oasis springing i))i\\nin the desert ot man s mortality. Among these, the memory, linger.\\nand delightH to dwell, as the warm affections of the heart cluster\\naround them, whis|)ei ing through all its silent cluunbers, of a better\\nworld, brighter home and purer life, it is thus, amid the impress-\\nive emblems, dressiMJ in the haliilaments of mouining, wcareniadeto\\nlook back upon the life and character of our worthy Brother, the late\\nHon. Peter Godwin Van Winkle, who departed this life on the morn-\\ning of the 15th of April, 1872, aged 63 years, 7 months and 8 day.s.\\nOn the paternal, as also on the maternal (Godwin) sides of his pa-\\nrentage, his family records went l)ack to the early settlement of the\\ncolonies of this countr\\\\ Me was the third son of Mr. Peter Van Win-", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HON. PETER C. VANWINKLE. 63\\nklo iiiul his wito, Mrs. Pliebo Godwin, born in the city of Now York,\\ntilt 7tli of Soptoniltcr, 1808. Being endowed by nature with stiidiou.\\nhabits and an enquirin 3: mind, ho in early life laid the basis ot a good\\netlucation: and in all his after years, by his un\\\\vearie l diligence and\\nclose apidication, he studied to improve, until he became a ripe schol-\\nar, a correct thinker and an able writer, with a wide sweep of practic-\\nal knowledge. liis love ot letters was so great, that in all the active\\nduties and claims of life, and the laborious studies of the law, (his pi O-\\nfession), he found time to improve his talents in the higher walks of\\nliterature, and his mannscripts grace the pages of many literary jour-\\nnals of the day.\\nOn the 21st of September, 1831, at Paramus, Bergen (^luiity, New\\nfcrscy, he was most hap[)ily united in marriage with Miss Juliet Kath-\\nlionc, daughter of the late Judge W. P. Rathl one, a lady of finished\\naccomplishments and refined manners, social in intercourse, with a\\nmost amiable disposition and warmth of affection. By her he became\\nthe father of six children; three of whom died early in infancy. His\\nfiMirth, the late Hon. Ratlibone Van Winkle, died at liis residence in\\nthis city, in 1^70, thus leaving at the time of nis death his youngest\\nson, Godwin, and his youngest daughter, Mrs Blackford, to mourn\\nhis loss. His loving and accomplished wife, after a long and painful\\nillness, died in 1844.\\nMr. VanWinkle came to this cit} early in the year 1835, andcom-\\njiletcd his study of law in the otiice of the late Gen, John J. Jackson,\\nand was admitted to practice in our Courts. At that time this coun-\\ntry was comparatively new, and Parkersburg was a small town, sur-\\nroun led by woods, with a vast undeveloped country, stretching away\\nto the East and Sf)ut]i against tlie Allegheny mountains. Yet from\\nits relative position, geograiihically, lying in direct line between the\\nsea-board cities and the far off, and outspreading West, became totiie\\nconclusion tiiat it Inid a britrht futiHv, and determined to make it hi\\nfuture home. He tormed a co-partnersliip in the practice of law\\nwith Gen. J. J. Jackson, and gave the energies ot his miinl in leisun*\\nhours to the develo[iment and growth of this place and the sursound-\\ning country. X)iir cotmt} papers, both editorially and otherwise,\\nteemed with articles from his able pen,. setting forth its local and com-\\nmercial ailvantages. These weekly contributions in our [lapers un-\\nfolded to the en(puiring mind the vast, rich resources of wealth, hid-\\nlen in our mountains and valleys, the music; of its water power pass-\\ning through the unbroken solitudes (jf one of the most salul)rious cli-\\nuuites on c.irth, inviting the enterprise of the cajiitalist ;ind tlu strong\\neni rgy of the woodsman s a.v.\\nThe puldie spirit and enterprise of his mind, thus seen in and thro\\nthese articles from his pen, allied him with the council of ourgrow-\\ning town, and made him President of its Board. This relation he\\nstistained for many years; and, itideed, until a wider sphere of use-", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i4 HON. PETER G. VA.NWINKLB.\\nniliiess t)[ oiit- il out bt- toro liiin to till. Wliercvc-r and wlieDever enter-\\nprise, public or privjiti. lookc*! to the advancement of onr town or\\ni.Mjunt; it at ail times found in liim a triond and advocate; and lie be-\\ncame an able co-wcrker iti securing its advantages to our city. He\\nwas for the tirst seven years President of the Little Kanawha Bridge\\nComi^any; also Secretary for several years of the Nortliwestern Va.\\nKai!r(jad Company, and then its President; and then President ot the\\nParkersbui-g Brand) Railway Company. To the faithful j\u00c2\u00bberfurmance\\ni t the duties of all these offices, lie brought his untiring energies, and\\ndischarged the same with entire satisfaction to all interested in\\nthem.\\nIn 1850 fie was elected and served with distinguished honor and\\nability in the State Convention of Virginia, for revising the Constitu-\\ntion. His labors upon committees were arduous yet he found tinu\\nto assist our representative, and contributed largely in setuiring the\\n[tassage of the Act incorporating our I-Jailroad. lie w^s a [irominent\\nand working meaiher of the VVheeling onvention of 1861 also of\\nthe Convention of 1862, wliich formed tlie Constitution of West Va.:\\nand was a member of the Legislature of this State, from its organiza-\\ntion to June, 1863. In August of that year he was elected a Senator\\nin Congress from this State, for the term ending 4tli of Marcli, 1869.\\nfn all tliese responsible and high positions ot trust, as a statesman, he\\nfulfilled the arduous duties with marked al)ility, coascientious exact-\\nness and unwavering devotion to the best interests of his country.\\nThe same conscientious regard for truth and justice, which markctl\\nall tfie acts of his private life, he brought into the political\\narena of his public life, as his guiile in the performance of duty.\\nNo base or private prejudices, or unholy passions ever marked or\\n)narred his career in all his intercourse with his associates in public\\nand private life. During the late unhappy war, when the passions of\\nmany ran riot with tlie spirit of revenge, there was no individual case\\nwhere the finger of anger or resentment couM lie pointed at liini\\nas being unjust and unmerciful. J lis nature rose above the an-\\ngry passions of vindictive hate, jr the malignant policy and purpose\\nof carping demagogues. His carefully foiMued and n-ell balanced mind,\\nresting upon the golden rule of right and justice, at all times felt its\\nresi onsibility. and never swerved from a conscientious purpose of\\nmoral rectitude.\\nIt is witli the greatest pleasure we can look over and view the life\\nand character of our honored friend, as a citizen in [\u00c2\u00bbrivate life, and as\\nan officer in his public career, giving, (as he has nobly done), to tin-\\nworld a bright example of a life ^f unwavering effort, which lias cul-\\nminated in an honored and honorable repose, liut in closing this\\nsketch to his memory and virtues, we teel and mourn the loss of a\\nBrother Odd Fellow, wliose voice once cheered u in our counsels, and", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HON. PETER O. VANWINKLE. 65\\nvhosc life and character was a living exposition of the holy ritual of our\\nbeloved Onlcr. Teter (Godwin VanWinUle w:i8 the Senior I ast Grand ot\\nrarkersinir^ Lo lge, No. 7. I. O. F., and no member in life and char-\\n:.cter ever retiecteil more honor upon that office, or gave brighter evi-\\nlence8 to tlie claims of Odd-Fellowship. For years past he made dona-\\ntions annually of fifty ilollari*, for the benefit of widows and orphans of\\nthe Lod^e, thu;^ causing the l)Iessings of the bereaved to light up the\\npathway along life s closing journey. But he has passed from the. liv-\\ning of earth, full of years and full of honors, to the rest of the Patri-\\narchs/\\nIt is at such a moment we realize the gathering darkness of the tomb\\nover the days of our mortality we realize the loosening of the silver\\ncord the breaking of the golden bowl the dropping ot the pitcher at\\nthe fountain the wrecking of tho wheel at the cistern, for man goeth to\\nhis long home. Our friend and brother has passed the years of his\\nappointed time, the days of the years of his pilgrimage arc numbered.\\nWith the evergreen as an emblem of immortality, his remains were\\ncommitted to the silenee of the grave, for the memory of the righteous\\nshall be in remembrance forever and ever.\\nTo the; Readers\\nThis iHst Chapter of the foregoing, is that rnucdi addeil to the origjna!\\ndesign when we commenced these pages. They are presente*! as a trib-\\nute to the memoiy of a personal frien l, whose manhood years were\\nspent among the citizens of this community one whose pen added\\nlargely to the material wealth \u00c2\u00bbnd position of the county and State.\\nShouhl these pages be appreciated by my feUow citixens, so as to be-\\ncome partially remunerative for the time, toil and expense in their prep-\\naration, they will be followed by a continuation of the history of the\\ncounty, with its first settlers and their descendants, with descriptions of\\nhinds and sources of wealth.\\nThe city of Parkersburg, with its various changes of names, etc., will\\nform the opening Chapter of this continue 1 work.\\nS. C. SHAW.\\nLeafy Glenn, West Virginia,\\nNovember, 1878.", "height": "3250", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "The SEASIDK T.IBRARY.\\nOut to-day in Clear, Bold, HandHome Type,\\nHIGH SHALL IT HE?\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By Mkh. Alexande\\nLATK IssrES.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a600 W hicli Shatl It Be? by Mrn. Alcximder 2 X|3\u00c2\u00bbi Vivigi, (Jriry, by Beiijaniiu Di-raull SOc\\n39\u00c2\u00bb Tho LuAy of I auriay. by Anthony Trollo- e.lOc 3\u00c2\u00bbl The I rimroHP Path, by Mr Oliphant 80c\\n39H Victor U\u00e2\u0080\u00a2!^c^^, by Author of -un-Maid. 20cl39ii The Marriascof Moirk Fergus\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. Blark.lOr.\\nS9T Uorothv Fox, bv author of H w it All Hap- U-W9 Idaliu, by Otiidi. 20\u00c2\u00ab-\\npcned 10c 3-\u00c2\u00bb Fred Vernon, by J. P. Smith 80r\\n396 Jane Eyr.-, by t^harlotte Bronte (dear, bold 3ST Jet; Her Face or her Fortune,-.\\\\. Edwartin 10c\\ntype) 80c 386 Siena, by )nid i\u00c2\u00bbc\\n3\u00c2\u00bb.% Fair Women, bv Mrs. Forrester aOc HflS Wooed and .Married, t)y N.Carv aOc\\n304 ThroBllelhwaite. bv Snsan Morley 10c 384 Baclv to the Old Home. l v Mnrr Cecil Hav.. 10c\\n393 Mclly Bawn, by the Autlior nf Phylliw 20c iS3 TheSan-.Mai.l.by Mari .M. 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In Boccacio s Deiaiueron. a number of friends retire\\nfrom Florence and the plague to a safe retreat and tell stories to each other. In this\\ncotmtry, at this time, more novels are read than ever before. The people find one ref-\\nngo from their business worries and other calamities in wholesome works of fiction.\\nMr. George Munro, the publisher, of this city, .vaa the pioneer in furnishing cheap,\\ngood novels. His Seaside Library comprises hundreds of the choicait rom inces of\\nforeign authors, at from 10 to 20 cents apiece. Some of these, which had a large aale\\nat the old rates, are in immense request, proving that hosts of readers are anxious fco\\nobtain such literature at reasonable prices. \u00e2\u0080\u0094.V. V. Jmrnnl of Commerce.\\nNEW YORK \\\\V 1i:KKI.Y HKRALO.\\nO^E DOI.I.AK A 1 KAR.\\nThe circulation of this popular newspaper has more tbsn trebled during the past\\nvear. It contains all the leading news contained in the Daily Herald, and is arranged\\nin handy departments. The Foreign News embraces special dispatches from all quar-\\nters of the globe. Under the head of Amfr-can News are given the Telegraphic Des-\\npatches of the week from all parts of the Union. This feature alone makes the Week-\\nI LT Herald the most valuable chronicle in the worM, as it is the cheapest. Every week\\nis given a faithful report of Pomtical News, embracing complete and comprehensive\\ndespatches from Washington, including full reports of speeches from eminent politi-\\ncians on the questic)iis of the hour.\\nThe Farm Department gives the latest suggestions and discoveries relating to the\\nduties of the farmer; hints for raising cattle, poultry, grain, trees, vegetables, etc.\\nThe Home gives recipes, hints for making clothing, and latest fashions.\\nThe interests of Skilled Lasor are looked after, and everything relating to nie-\\nchanics and labor saving is carefully recorded.\\nSroRTiNO News, at home and abroad, together v\u00c2\u00bbith a story every week, a sermon\\nby some eminent divine. Literary, Musical, Dramatic, and Sea Notes.\\nTHE NEW YORK HER.\\\\LD, in a weekly form, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.\\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Remit in drafts on New York or Post Office money\\norders, and whore neither of these can be procured.seud the money in regiHtcred\\\\v \\\\Xax.\\nAddress, New Vork Herald, Broadway A Ann Sts., New York.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "1879. Announcement Twelfth Volume. 1879\\nPotter s American Monthly.\\nTie Popniar Illnstrateil MagazlDe of inierlca.\\nStrictly an American Monthly: Devoted Mainly to American Topics: Aiviing\\nto promote. American Interentoi Employing Friiici\\npdlly American Talent.\\nIn variety of Subjects stands nnexcelled aud it always miiiutaius that\\nentertaining j^Tiiot- so pleasant to the reader.\\nIts Contributors i^d women of broad views, representing the best\\nminds, ripest enlture and most graceful writers in the country.\\nIts Illustrations designs of the best artists, and in point of execti-\\ntion. as well as in nuniher and variety, will compare favorably with the best.\\nIts Typographical work is superior in every respect the type being new\\nand attractively ea.sy to read.\\nIn style and form it superior to most other periodicals, in this that the\\npage is broader and more open and when bonnd makes a more imposing aud accept-\\nable Volunie for the Parlor or Library Table.\\nits low price* t^-^. a year, places it within the reach of every intelligent read-\\ner; being $1 to 2 less than other tirstclass illustrated periodicals.\\nIt constantly aims to provide a Literary Entertainment of a refined atid varied or\\nder. together with the most recent information and soundest views on all subjects of\\ngeneral interest, and at all times maintains those distinctive features that are most at-\\ntractive in Magazine literature.\\nAs an Instructor invaluaV le to the Hi -toriau, Teacher, Scholar and the\\nLiterateur.\\nAs a Monitor guide t the Politician, Economist, ami man of husi-\\nnens.\\nAs a Moralist is calculated to elevate s ciety aud refitie the Family ami\\nHonie.\\nAs au Emltodimeiit of the (i i *iiit aud Ourions it cannot fail tn satisfy the mo,t fus-\\nti lious.\\n.\\\\s a Source of .\\\\musentent, its thrilling Stories and sparkling Wit and Humor are\\nalways captivating.\\nTue PuMishers. conscious that their efforts during the past year to improve aud add\\nto its attractiveness have gained for themst-ive-; and their Magazine the hearty appro-\\nbation of their miiny readers; fee! happ ly encouraged to renew their efforts in mak-\\ning additional improvements from tinie t i time, aciil uddiug sur!h f. itnresss shall ren-\\nder it more attractive than ever. They l eg leave to c.ill sth-ntion to the fact that with\\nthe January number commences, under the most f.tvoralile auspices, the Twelfth Vol-\\nume of the American M \u00c2\u00bbuthly, and that\\nNOW IS THE TIME TO SIBSCKIRE.\\nThe January numWer commences with the first installiU -nt ot a most captivating\\nand thrilling novel, entitleti.\\nTOM TUriXiE, OR ONLY TKAMl\\nFounded on Facts. Py Prof. W. A- Henry, one of America s must gifted Novelists.\\nPublisheci for the first time, from the .\\\\uthor s manuscript.\\nTKKMS -YEAULY Sl BSCmiPTION. *:S.(Ki. -iV, Cknts a NtMHKh.\\nSpecimen Copies Mailed on receipt of J. i (Vnts.\\nJOHN E. POTTER CO., Publishers, Philadelphia.", "height": "3255", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "To Magaziae Club-Getters!\\n:{-KiittoiiKII)(;L()VES.\\nFRENCH and ENGLISH Cashmeres\\n\u00c2\u00bbn.l KI.K(;.\\\\N7 SII.K DUKSS l A l l KKN.-:,\\nGIVEN IN PREMIUMS\\nllll- SllhM-!ilnT lit lull I nil f. to\\nARTHUR S\\nllOMK\\nMAGAZINE!\\nI KKMS fi. irt K Year, witU ;i Ihi^ic rcdiiclifii lor\\nilubn. SiM c.linpn Nnml)er,\\nSeuil for C liih-Oi-ttprs Special Circiilnr, rnntaiii-\\ning fn!l partlnilnrB ol this splaiidid offer.\\nT. 8. ARTHUR 80\u00c2\u00bb. 287 S. Sixth 8l. PhiU.\\nTHEY ALL WAITTIT.\\nHecaiiNe it is a family newspaper of Fnre,\\nSound renfJit)^ for old and young, and it\\ncontains a it-liiihlt- and conipreheiihivp\\nHiuumary of all tin- important News.\\nTHE\\nNew York OBSERVER,\\nThe lU st F;uiiily Xews{)5iper,\\nPiiblisheH l)otb tlie religions an^ secular\\nnews that is desired in uuy family, while\\nall that is likely to do harm is shiit out.\\nIt devotes fonr pages to religious news,\\nand four to secular.\\nThe New Yobk Obsebvek was tir.st pub-\\nlished in IHT.h and it i\u00c2\u00bb, believed to be the\\nonly instance of a Keiigious Newspaper\\ncontinuing its even course for years,\\nwithout a change of name, doctrine, in-\\ntent, jjiupose, or pledge from the date of\\nits birth.\\nTHK :/iTII VOLUME\\nwill contain all the important news ihat\\ncan interest )r instruct so .that any one\\nwho reads it will be thtiroughly posted.\\nWe do not run a benevolent institution.\\nand we du not ask for the support of\\ncharity. We propose to make the Best\\nNewsvapeh that is published. and propose\\nto sell it as cheaply as it c;in be afforded-\\nLet those Who want pure, sound, sensible\\ntruthful reading, subscribe for it, and let\\nthem induce others to do the same. We\\nare now publishing in the (Observer the\\nstory of\\nJOAN, THE MAID,\\nby Wis. Ohahi.es. the author of hroni-\\ncles of the Schonberg t olta Family\\nWe send no Premiums. Will send the\\nJ^ew York Observer\\n(Mil- year, post-jaid, for !jj(3.|. S. -Vny\\n(Uie sending with his own subscription the\\nnames of New subscribers, shall have\\ncommission allowed in proportion to the\\nnumber sent. For particulars see terms\\nin the Observkk.\\nS.\\\\MPLE COPIES FUEE.\\n.\\\\\u00c2\u00abldress,\\nNEW YORK OBSERVER,\\n\u00c2\u00bb7 Park flow. New York.", "height": "3229", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "sketchesofwoodco00shaw_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "VII)5;AWAKKfor IS79!\\nAiiIlliistraMMaEaz iieforttieYo;il.\\nELLA FAIt.ll.4.\\\\, Editor.\\nTlnee Jollv Sciials.\\n1 -THE doghf:kky iniNCH.\\nThe Story of Seven Merry C^iiiMreii. By\\nHartwell ATHEIlWOOn.\\nII\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ROYAL l.OWHIES L\\\\ST WINTER\\nXV ST. t LAVES.\\nA Stor3 of School-lioy Life. By Macnhk\\nMeUUINVKA lUER\\nHI -DON QIIIX.0 IE. .Ik.\\nA Enmiy Serial for the Liltle Boys of\\nAmerica. By John Bkow.n.tohn.\\nIV\u00e2\u0080\u0094 OUR AMERICAN ARITSIS.\\nFir.st Series. With Foitrait Studio Inie-\\niiors. luiil Eiigruviiif{s of pHintiiig.\\nBy S. G. W. IJriNJAMiN.\\nV-SOME NOVEL SCHOOLS.\\nComprising many importimt Eilncationiil\\nExperiments, l oth in .\\\\Mieneii\\nand Europe.\\nFunny Donblf Ptige UluKtrtitfil Poems.\\n1 THE MINCE PIE PniNCC.\\nBright Short StorieM.\\nPutnruil Ponnx.\\nSketrhes nf Trnci-l.\\nMm\\\\ History Siiplcinciits.\\nPuzzhx, (iiiiiit .t for CliHilnii, Mi/nir, d C.\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J.OOa Year, Free of Postage.\\nSi nd your name ami ii oney to\\nD. Lotlirop Co., Boston.\\nBABYLA\\\\I\u00c2\u00bb, f(ir IS7\u00c2\u00bb\\nWILL HE\\nPrettier and Funnier tluiD ever.\\nSJX Little TWO-CHAPTER STORIES,\\nEaoh with lots of wt!e, wi e I icttiies I\\nJuBt such StorieH hh uiotbers like to read.\\nand little folks like to ht-ar.\\nSI.V-.T I ll Tl WKS f..r Knbv to Ilr.iw.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IlMil.KS to lliiiriii Hiibv K,ir.\\nHM I ll TlKKs lo i.n^o FJiihyV K.\\\\p.\\nFunny .storic toniiiki- \u00c2\u00abHt)\\\\ I aii^rli.\\nPriiitfd on tliirk, otrmL ptipir. B.\\\\HVt..\\\\NI) in\\njust wluityoii ncul to put in K.MJY S hand when\\nyon wi.\u00c2\u00abti to loavunini ulonc a few uiinntcx.\\n.VltKNTs a ye\u00c2\u00bbk, frrt ol I oHtn e\\nSi-inl T urniinii- iinil mono to\\nI I.OTIII: t 1- A CO 1 I iii.i.-iir.i.-. I?o r\\nFOR 1879.\\nEdited by W. D. IIOWELLS,\\nAuthor of ,-l Chance Arquaintanee,\\nTheir Wedding Journey, Ve-\\nnetian, Life etc., etc.\\nThe Atlantic Monthly ains to give\\nit-i reailiTs the liest Mag i/.mi^ liier^itnre in\\nthe worl 1; the con nldi ions f the lievt\\nwriters of Pot-try, Novels, Sliort Stories,\\nCriticism, and on Politics. So ial Science,\\nEducation, Art. Indnsrry. and nil suhject.s\\nthat most interest the American pnlilic.\\nIts progritnme for isT .l includes.\\nSEUIAL STORIKS l,v T. B. Aldrich,\\nMi-^s E W. Olney. Bjorstjern Bjokn-\\nsEN (the emiui iit Norwegian author). W.\\nI). HowtLL.s, and a writer who coi.trib-\\nnies Irene, the Missionary. a story of\\nAmericans in Syria.\\nSHORT STORIES l.y Harriet Beeci^er\\nStowe, CoNsrANCE Fennimore Woolson.\\nSarah O.JKWETT.aiithor of Deephaven,\\nRo^E Terry ooke. and ot ers.\\nSOCIAL. POLITICAL, and ECONOMIC-\\nAL AR rlCLES. by the author of Cer-\\ntaiii Dangerous Tendencies in American\\nLife, Hon. J. Watts Kearney, A. G.\\nSedgwick, and other-!.\\nTRAVELS AND DESCHlPTIONl.y has.\\nEliot Norton. Hknry .Jami:s, Jr..W. H.\\nBishop, and Col. (teoroe K. Warin j, Jr.\\nPOETRY AND ESSAYS l.y H W. Lono-\\nFFLLOW, J. G. Whittikr, Dr. Holmes.\\nRiiHAitn Grant Whiti.. E. C. Stedman,\\nR. H. Stoddard, H. E Scudder. Mark\\nTwain, (Charles Di dlev Warner. Miss\\nH. W. Preston. H. H.. 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