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HISTORY OF VAN WERT

Source:
History of Maumee Valley
Publ. Toledo: Blade Mammoth Printing & Pub. House
1872.


CONTENTS:

Allen county, Indiana
 - its area
 - first officers
 - list of Justices in 1872
 - progress in population and wealth
 - officers of the county in 1872
378-381
Allen county, Ohio
 - its formation, 1820
451
Altitudes
 - Table of; [See Appendix "B"
 
 - pioneers, notes of 452-459
 - Officers in1872 - Mail building, population, &c 460-461
Arrowsmith Miller, personal sketch of 593-594
Armstrong, Captain John
 - his operations and escape near Fort Wayne in 1790
67-68
Auglaize river
 - a night bivouac on
 141
 - Military posts on 154
 - navigation of 470
Auglaize county 465
 - its organization 465
 - first term of court 472
 - taxable basis - Federal Census 474, 475
Barclay, (Captain of the British fleet on Lake Erie) 183
Bayless, Samuel - "Book of General Orders" 179-182
Bouquet and Bradstreet, campaigns of 40, 41
Bowling Green in 1872 484
Bucyrus - plotted in 1822 477
Bucyrus in 1872 480
Canal systems of Ohio and Indiana 329-347
Cass, General Lewis - letter from to the Governor of Ohio 134, 135
Clay, General Green 160
Coffinberry, Andrew - reminiscences of 306-310
Coffinberry, James M. - personal sketch of 317, 318
Conant, Horatio, Dr. - letter of, in 1822
 - personal sketch of - 571, 572
427, 428
Combs, Leslie, General - letter from
 - speech of - 213-217
205, 206
Couch, Joseph N. - letter from 135, 136
Crawford county
 - organization and origin of its name
 - early history
 - first Court
 - first and present officers
 - proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of 1831
475-480
Crawford county - population, wealth, &c., in 1872-73 480, 481
Crawford's Expedition 51-58
Croghan, Major, at Fort Stephenson 183
 - his answer to General Harrison 184
 - his heroic defence at Fort Stephenson 185, 186,
187, 188,
189
 - promoted for his gallantry, and complimented by General Harrison 190
 - at the battle of the Thames 201
Croghan, George - his visit to the Maumee Valley in 1765 46-49
 - in command at Fort Meigs 174
 - receives instructions from General Harrison 176
 - his desperate resolve 177
 - letter to General Harrison 206-208
Daniels, Willard J. - personal sketch of 559-561
De Coleron's expedition in 1749 21
Defiance county 585
Defiance (fort) erected August, 1794 87
 - troops to be collected at 140
 - General Harrison at 141, 142
 - revolt in a Kentucky regiment 142-145
 - Winchester at 148
 - Defiance threatened 176
 - Logan's death and burial 215-466
 - fort improved by General Wayne in 1794 355
 - his march to Fort Wayne 365
 - Col. Johnson at Defiance in 1813 377
 - early white history of 582-593
Defiance, (town) - early history, when laid out, its rapid growth, population, resources, &c. 599-602
Delphos - population - 1850, 1860, 1870 461
 - historical sketch of, and present business 462-465
Detroit 10-37
Dickinson, Rodolphus - commissioner to establish Crawford county seat 478
 - personal sketch of 525, 526
Dudley, Colonel, at Fort Meigs 161-170
Edgerton, Alfred P. - personal sketch of 422-424
Edsall, Wm. S. - reminiscences of 395-402
Elliott, (British Colonel) 172
Evans, Dr. John, and S. Cory - personal sketches of 402-407
Ewing, Colonel, Geo. W. - personal sketch of 409-412
Findlay, (fort) - erection of 611-612
Fort Adams erected in 1794 86
 - besieged in April, 1813 159
 - Pioneers of Findlay, population, &c. 612-615
Fort Industry (Toledo) 93
Fort Dearborn, (at Chicago) 133
Fort Jennings, (Putnam County) - erected 1812 141
Fort Stephenson - letters relating to military situation of 177-178
 - Harrison at 183
 - heroic defence of 185
Fort Meigs - military defences and operations at in the spring and summer of 1813 115
 - the post besieged 589
Fort Miami at Fort Wayne 14
 - rebuilt in 1748 by the French, under Lieut. Dubuisson 18-30
Fort Wayne - in 1680 65-68
 - Indian towns at 65-68
 - the town in 1812 133
 - the post railroad 140
 - opening of canal navigation at 346-347
 - early history of 348
 - La Balm's unfortunate expedition to 351-353
 - its military importance in the view of Generals Washington, St. Clair, Wayne and Knox in 1790-'91, '94 353-355
Little Turtle and Gen. Wayne 355-358
Little Turtle buried at 361
Indian treaty at Fort Wayne in 1803 359-361
John B. Richardville - his birth and death at Fort Wayne 362-364
General Wayne reaches the town Sept., 1794, and determines the location of the new garrison 365
 - fort completed and named 366
Fort Wayne from 17984 to 1811 367, 168
 - the old Council House 369
Major William Oliver and Logan at 36_-372
 - the fort besieged - Harrison marches to its relief - his arrival and flight of the ___ 3_5
 - situation of the fort 376
 - Colonel Johnson again at the fort 376
 - com_____ of the fort ___
 - land office established at in 1822 3__
 - municipal officers - 1810-1872 380
 - churches, newspapers, schools, benevolent institutions 382,383
 - the town in 1834 384-38_
 - business of the city in 1872 387-395
 - pioneers of the Valley, non-residents of 378-395
424
 - being threatened by the Indians, prompts the expedition against Missinsinewa 46_
 - Proctor demands its surrender - Harrison's reply 160
 - narrowly escapes destruction 167
 - second siege of 174
 - saved from a great peril 177
 - camp lite at 179-182
 - the second siege abandoned 181
 - importance of the post 191
 - the fort again threatened 377
Foot of the Rapids - capture of Captain John A. Clark, a British officer 146-147
 - Winchester at 148
 - Harrison at 152-159
 - British erect batteries on left bank 166
Foster, Charles W., personal sketch of 503-504
Fostoria 503-505
Fulton county 578
French posts - surrender of in 1761, by the French 33
Frontenac, (Count) 10
Gano, General John S. - letter of 210, 211
Girty, Simon, his family 58, 59, 60
 - a poet's view of his character 579-580
Gladwyn, commandant at Detroit 36, 37
Godfrey, Dr. Charles M. 609
Hancock County
 - Early history of pioneers, present resources, &c.
61-616
Hardin, Colonel - operations near Fort Wayne 67-70
Harmar's campaign 62-72
Harrison, General William HEnry
 - appointment of as commander-in chief of the north-western army, Sept. 17, 1812
 - instructions from the war department
139, 140
 - his defence of Fort Meigs 158-161
 - invades Canada 198
 - his official report of the battle of the Thames 198-203
Henry county 578-582
Hoagland, Pliny, personal sketch of 413-415
Holgate, Wm. C., personal sketch of 597-599
Holmes, ensign, his death at Fort Wayne 35
Hull, General -
 - appointed to command of north-western army
 - his incapacity and misfortunes
 - terms of his surrender at Detroit, and his trial for treason
126-132
Hunt, John E., reminiscences and personal sketch of 562-568
Indian naval engagement 44
Indians
 - at moral and religious condition of in 1862
1_3-12_
 - at treaties at Fort McIntosh, 21st of January, 1785 218, 219
 - at Fort Harmar, Jan. 9, 1789 219-220
 - at Fort Greenville, Aug. 3, 1795 220-226
 - at Fort Industry (Toledo) July 4, 1805 227
 - at Detroit, 17th November, 1807 227-228
 - at Brownstown, Nov. 25, 1808 228, 229
 - at the foot of the Maumee Rapids, Sept. 29, 1817 229-234
 - St. Mary's Sept. 17, 1818 234-238
 - at Saganaw, Sept. 24, 1819 238
 - at Fort Wayne, in 1803 359-361
 - last treaty with the Ohio Indians 239
Johnson, Colonel Richard M.
 - at the battle of the Thames
199
 - he kills Tecumseh 201-208
J__caire on the Maumee in 1753 26
Knaggs, Captain James -
 - his testimony regarding the death of Tecumseh
201-203
Lawyers in practice in 1872 & 1873; [see Appendix "A"  
L___ Allen county -
 - notes regarding its early and later history
453-461
 - Little Turtle and General Wayne 355-358
 - - Little Turtle a diplomatist as well as warrior 359-361
Logan, the Indian chief,) and Major Wm. Oliver 2_5
 - - Logan's family and death 465-466
L__mie, Peter, his station and his death, &c. 25, 26
L__iel, Moravian missionary 33
Lower Sandusky
 - suggestion of name for the town, in 1816
427
Lower Sandusky 140
 - General Harrison at 151
 - military situation at 153
 - " operations at in 1813 158
 - " general orders," at 14 and 22, 1813 177, 178
 - Proctor at 183
 - a bad military position 192
 - petition for relief to Gov. Meigs, from citizens of 209-210
 - letter from Gen. Gano 210, 211
Lucas county
 - its early history, pioneers, &c.
532-536
 - its history resumed 616
Mackinac, surrender of 35
Maumee Valley - first white settlement in 1680 9-14
Maumee river in 1748 known as "River a la Roche" 20
 - as a military route in 1759 30
 - military importance of, and of Lake Erie, as viewed by the French in 1761 33
Maumee river
 - its importance to the army in the war of 1812, as a channel of transportation
212
McArthur, Gen. Duncan
 - letter to Governor Worthington
212
Mercer county
 
- when formed
 - origin of its name
 - St. Clair's battle
 - Wayne's trace
 - Simon Girty
 - the fort at St. Mary's
 - letter from Gen. Wayne
 - earliest white settlement at Fort Recovery
 - the slain of St. Clair's army
438-411
 - first session of the commissioners 441
 - first  Court term 442
 - pioneers 442, 443
 - reservoir troubles 443-445
 - pioneer notes 445-450
 - county administration
 - county officers for 1781-72
 - valuation of property and population
 - Celina &c.
450-4_1
Metcalf, Judge Ben
 - anecdote by
3_1
Miller, Colonel John, at the siege of Fort Meigs _61
Miami, (Fort Wayne,) passes under control of English in 1761 32
 - captured under Pontiac in 1764 35
Miami villages at and near Fort Wayne
 - their military importance in the view of General Washington
72
Miner, Byrum D.
 - a public spirited citizen of Fort Wayne, who represented Allen county in the legislature of Indiana, and also held other responsible official and fiduciary (not, as printed, "Judiciary") positions
412
" Mohickon," John's Town 232
Moravian Missions in Ohio 49, 50, 51
Morris, his reception and maltreatment at Fort Wayne 42-44
Morrison, John H.
 - reminiscences of
326-327
Mott, Richard, recollections of, regarding Toledo 544-559
Nichols, Francis L., personal sketch of 577-578
Nicholas - his conspiracy in 1745 14-19
Ohio, United States and Michigan territory
 - boundary controversy
 - origin of the constitutional provision in 1802
 - letters from Amos Spafford and Dr. H. Conant
 - the agitation renewed in 1835
 - legislative hostilities between Ohio and Michigan
 - efforts at compromise
 - Gov. Mason, of Michigan, rejects the peace officers
 - the surveying expedition
 - explanation of a Michigan prisoner
 - Major Stickney and N. Goodsell, prisoners; their letters
 - letter from Andrew Palmer
 - meeting at Toledo
 - Gov. Lucas calls an extra session; his message
 - attempt to arrest Two Stickney
 - Noah H. Swayne, Wm. Allen and David T. Disney, Ohio commissioners to Washington
 - close of the controversy
 - peace jubilee at Toledo
240-264
Oliver, Major William
 - letter refering to siege at Fort Findlay
159-160
 - reaches Fort Meigs with message to Harrison 160
 - at Upper Sandusky 209
 - at Waupaukonnetta and Fort Wayne 215
 - again at Fort Wayne 269-372
Onatanon, (fort near Lafayette, Indiana) 35
Ottawa county 531, 532
Paulding County
 - when organized, population, &c, notes by Gen. Curtis.
602-604
 - notes by Gen. Curtis. 603
Paully, ensign, commandant at Fort Sandusky
 - his capture, romantic narrative, divorce and escape
35-37
Perkins, General Ohio Militia, assigned to command of the right wing of the army, by General Harrison 145
Perry, Commodore
 - his naval victory upon Lake Erie
193-198
 - at the battle of the Thames 201
Perrysburg (see Fort Meigs)
 - post office established at in 1810, and in 1816 the only (not, as printed, "old") post office between the river Raisin and Lower Sandusky, and between the Maumee bay and Chicago
425
 - suggestion that originated the name 427
 - the town in 1833 432
 - the town in 1838 433, 434
 - the town in 1872 434, 435
Pickawillany
 - its destruction
22-26
Pioneers
 - others in the Maumee Valley; [see Appendix marked "D."]
 
Political campaign of 1840
 - monster meeting at Fort Meigs
265-269
 - humors of later conflicts 269-273
Pontiac
 - his speech to Alexander Henry
32, 33
 - besieges Detroit 38
 - his craft fails 39
 - his financial scheme 40
 - his character and death 44
Pests
 - French, surrender of
33
Potter, Emery D., personal sketch of 285-288
Proctor, (British General) 158, 165,
183
Prentice, Frederick - personal sketch of 561-563
Presbyterian Mission on the Maumee; [Appendix "C"
Putnam County
 
- Early history, pioneers, first lawyers first physicians,
606-609
 - Population 611
Reah, Captain J. 98, 133, 184
Rice, Clark H., personal sketch of 609-610
Rice, Gen. A. V., milistary record of 610-611
Richardville, John B. - his character and death 362-364
Rogers, Major Robert, expedition of, in 1760
 - his trip from Detroit via Maumee river to Pittsburg
31-32
Rudisill, Henry 407, 408
Sandusky county
 -
early history, present resources, &c.
505-531
Sandusky (fort), surrender of under Pontiac, in 1764 35, 36
Scott, Jesup W., personal sketch of 572-577
Seneca county
 - organization
 - early history, present resources, &c
589-505
Seneca (fort)
 - Pleasant township, Seneca county
183
Sessions Horace, personal sketch of 594-597
Spink, John C. - reminiscences of 314-316
St. Clair, General Arthur - succeeds Harmar 71
 - instructions to 72, 73,
74, 75
 - his army in motion - his defeat, and explanations 77, 78,
79, 80,
81, 82
 - personal sketch of 572
St. Mary's
 - its military importannce during the war of 1812
140, 141
 - war transports for army 212
 - first settlements at 468
 - early settlers - old block house, &c. 470, 471
 - the town and its prospects in 1872 471, 472
 - formerly known as Girty's town - its situation in 1814 468
 - as a depot for army supplies 469
 - the town in 1824 and 1872 474
Suttenfield, Mrs. Laura - 408, 409
Tecumseh at the siege of Fort Meigs 163-172
 - his magnanimity 163-172
 - in peril 165
 - at Fort Stephenson 183, 192,
193
 - killed by Colonel Johnson at the battle of the Thames 199, 202,
203
 - his character and generous qualities 204, 205,
206
The old Bench and Bar
 - first Court north-west of the river Ohio
 - the territorial judiciary
 - attorneys admitted in 1802
 - Supreme Bench, 1802-1872
 - reminiscences of Judge David Higgins;
 - his views regarding the boundary controversy
 - Indian murder trial at Fremont
 - judicial circuits in North-Western Ohio under the first Constitution
 - Common Pleas Judges under the Constitution of 1802
 - the old Bar members, Judge Emery D. Potter, Judge John Fitch, and others
 - reminiscences of Hon. Thos. W. Powell; his recollections of Perrysburg and Maumee city in 1820; of the old lawyers; murder trial; trip to Defiance; notes regarding Maj. Stickney, John C. Spink, etc., etc.
 -
274-306
Toledo (Fort Industry) 93
 - prisoners and exhibition of scalps at, in 1813 172
 - General Combs' experience at 206
 - Indian treaty, July 4, 1805 held at  227
 - something of its past and present
 - Progress in taxable wealth and population
 - Imports and exports
 - railways, &c.
620-637
 - recollections of Sanford L. Collins 616-619
 - recollections of J. W. Scott 537-544
 - recollections of Richard Mott 544-559
 - recollections of Major Stickney 536
(see "boundary controversy") - public meeting at in 1835 256
 - Toledo in 1836 and in 1816 263, 264
 - other notes relating to history of 536-562
Treaties - (see Indian treaties)  
Upper Sandusky - Crawford's expedition) 50-58
 - (war of 1812) 140
 - right wing of the army at 148
 - General Harrison at 151
 - military situation at 153
 - Harrison's principal stores at 183
 - military importance of the place 191
 - letter from J. C. Bartlett, Q. M> G., to Gen. Lewis Cass 209
 - exodus of the Indians from Upper Sandusky, July, 1843 239
 - the town in 1872 488
Urbana 140
Van Wert
 - when formed and organized,
 - population, early history, pioneers first and present county officers
 - notes on the existing resources of the town  & c.
604-606
Waite, Morrison R., personal sketch of 586-571
War of 1812, declared June 12th
 - the imperilled north-western frontier
 - causes that led to the war
 - letter from General Solomon Sibley
122-126
Washington, George, President
 - his Indian policy
60, 61
Way, Willard V.
 - his reminiscences of the old bench and bar
313-318
 - personal sketch of, &c. 437
Wayne, Anthony
 - commenced his north-western campaign in 1792
83
 - erects Fort Greenville and Recovery in 1793 85
 - his march and victory 86-93
 - his death 94
 - General Hull in command - on the Maumee in June, 1812 - incapableness of Hull and the administration - complaint of army contractors - difficulty in transporting supplies - his surrender at Detroit 128-132
Waupaukonnetta - "the town of Tecumseh and of Logan" 214-215
 - Tecumseh, Logan, Bright Horn, and Capt. John 465-457
 - Col. Richard M. Johnson, Anthony Shane, D. M. Workman, David Robb, and Robert J. Skinner. 467-468
 - early history of and original proprietors 468-473
Wells, Captain William 88-100
Winchester, General J. - letter from 137, 138, 139
 - assigned, at Defiance, by General Harrison, to the command of the left wing of the army 145
 - at Defiance, at the close of 1812 148
 - at the foot of the Rapids, January, 1813 14_
 - at Frenchtown, (river Raisin) - his mistake, defeat, and massacre of troops. 149-158,
151
 - public opinion regarding his defeat 156
Wood County - in 1790, 1810 adn 1816 425
 - in 1812-15 426
 - session of the commissioners in 1820-23 428-430
 - progress in population and wealth 430-432
 - pioneer notes - Capt. David Wilkinson, Willard V. Way, William Ewing, and Aaron S. Dresser 435-437
Worthington, Gov. Thomas
 - letter to Gen. McArthur and confidential communicaiton to the lower branch of the legislature
2_3
Wyandotte County
 - formation
 - Kenton, Girty, Logan, &c.
483-484
 - Methodist Mission, early settlers, taable wealth, population, &c. 484-488
 - Wyandot Indians 33, 34, 35

 

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