UNDER the treaty of Washington, made on the 28th day of
February, A. D., 1821, the Senecas ceded their entire
reservation of forty thousand acres to the United States.
By the eighth article of this agreement the United
States are bound to sell all this land, deduct from the
proceeds certain expenses and six thousand dollars, advanced
to the tribe, and to hold the balance of the purchase money
until the same shall be demanded by the chiefs, and in the
meantime pay them five per cent interest on the same.
The agreement was signed by James B. Gardiner,
in behalf of the United States, and by Coonsitck, Small
cloud Spicer, Hard Hickory and Captain Good Hunter,
in behalf of the Senecas, the Indians making their marks.
The witnesses were Henry C. Brish, sub-agent,
George Herron, interpreter, W. H. Lewis, Henry Tolan
and P. G. Randolph.
In offering the public lands for sale, it was so
usual for the presidents in issuing their proclamations to
that end, to except the school sections, sixteen, that
General Jackson, in his proclamation of November, 1832,
putting the Seneca reservation on the market, made the same
exception, which was an error, simply because the general
government had agreed to sell the whole tract. (See
chapter x)
Section sixteen, in Adams, was, therefore, not sold,
and whenever the same shall be sold, the proceeds belong to
the Senecas, if any of them still exist.
This was the only section sixteen embraced in the whole
reserve in this county, and for want of a school section in
Adams, the government granted to this township the west half
of seciton twelve (12). This was done in 1827, and
four years before the Senecas sold out. In Pleasant,
section sixteen is on the west side of the river, and not in
the reserve. The south and east lines of
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teen in Clinton and Scipio. For further particulars
the reader is referred to the subjoined documents which
explain themselves.
MORE TO COME
PREAMBLE AND JOINT RESOLUTION.
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JOHN NOEL
Was born October 15, 1777, in Adams county,
Pennsylvania. He was married to Elizabeth Beamer
(who was born in the same state, July 21st, 1780,) on the
15th day of June, 1801. They moved to Ohio in 1822,
and located near Massilon, Stark county, and in April, 1830,
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located in this township, on the farm where their son
Nicholas now lives, fifty years ago.
Joel Noel and his wife were the parents of
fifteen children, seven boys and eight girls, of whom four
boys and three girls are still living Joel Noel died
October 29th, 1863, aged eighty-six years and fifteen days.
Mrs. Noel died in September, 1847, at the age of
sixty seven years, three months and twenty-seven days.
DANIEL RULE.
The sketch of this
veteran pioneer is given in his own words, as nearly as
possible:
My grandfather was a soldier in the revolutionary war.
He returned from the army and died from an abcess in his
side, leaving my father. Albert A., his only
child. They lived in the southern part of
Pennsylvania, where my father was raised, and where he
married Elizabeth Tivens. My parents moved to
near Liverpool, in Perry county, Pennsylvania, onto a farm.
Here I was born, on the banks of the Susquehanna river.
They lived here about nineteen years, and when I was about
twelve years old, we moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, and
settled on a farm near New Lisbon, in 1816. My father
had two children by his first wife, and four by his second.
My two sisters, Barbara an Catharine, were married;
the former to Luke Stage, and the other, who was
married twice, died, and left two daughters and one son, who
live in Illinois. Two years after we moved to
Columbiana county, we moved to Bloomfield, in Trumbull
county, near Warren. My father had bought a farm here
and we settled on that. Here, on the 7th day of June,
1821, I was married to Jane, the daughter of farmer
Grosscost, in this township of Bloomfield. I
have also a brother, Samuel Rule, making four of us
children, two boys and two girls. Samuel lives
in Illinois now.
In 1824, in the spring, and after my brother Samuel
was married, he and his family, with father and mother,
moved to Scipio township, in this county, and about six
years thereafter they sold out and bought on section
thirteen, in Clinton township, where brother Samuel
opened a nice farm. Father and mother lived with him
until they died, but in a separate house. Father died
in 1846, and mother two years thereafter.
When brother Samuel, father and mother left
Trumbull county. I was married and could not go with
them that spring, but I followed them to this county in the
next fall. Here I bought an eighty acres piece in
Scipio, at the land office in Bucyrus. It is the land
now owned by Philip Miller. I built a cabin
here and cleared about forty-five acres. My family
were sickly nearly all the time we lived here, and I sold
the place to buy land in Adams. My first purchase in
Adams was one hundred and seventy-three acres. When I
raised my cabin here I had to bring nearly all my help with
me from Scipio, there being but very few settlers on the
reserve. About one year after I moved here I bought
ninety-seven acres from Joseph Culbertson, and soon
after eighty acres more from Dr. Stevenson.
Afterwards I bought
ninety-three acres more from Mr. R. R. Titus, admin-
Daniel Rule
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istrator of Earl Church, deceased. I let my two
sons, Isaac and Byron, have one-half section of this
land.
I still remain on the old homestead. My wife died
on the second day of December, 1879, aged seventy-seven
years, nine months and eighteen days. Since she is
gone I feel lost, and as if I were of no account to the
world. We had ten children, viz.:
Lucy, who is the wife of Jeremiah Egbert;
Elizabeth, the widow of Isaac Stillwell; Samuel,
who died in 1850, when twenty-four years old: Albert A.,
who died a few days after Samuel, both of
small-pox; Byron, who married Matilda York, of
Clyde, Ohio; Matilda, who died when six years old;
Mary wife of David W. Dudrow; Isaac P., who was
wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, and died next day; he
was lieutenant of Co. I, 101st regiment O. V. I., and
leading his company when he received the wound; and
Daniel C., who married Eleanor, daughter of
Earl Church, whose widow is still living. Our
youngest child was still-born. Five of my children are
still living. My two sons, Byron and Daniel,
are living near me, and doing well, and so are also the
daughters I have left.
I knew Small Cloud Spicer well. He was a
half breed, tall, slender, well proportioned and good
looking. He had sandy hair, but dressed like the other
Indians. His wife was a Crow, and a clean, pleasant
woman. When I came onto the reserve here the white
settlers were but few, James Crocket lived on the
Watson farm; Mr. McEven lived on the McMeens
place; Squire Rider raised a cabin on the place that
Jacob Holtz bought afterwards; Slike Clark
lived near the river.
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