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History & Genealogy

History of Marietta
&
Washington County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens.
Edited and Compiled by
Martin R. Andrews, M. A.,
Douglas Putnam Professor of History and Political Science.
Marietta College.
"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples."
1700-1900
Published by
Biographical Publishing Company
George Richmond, Pres., S. Harmer Neff, Sec'y.; c. R. Arnold, Treas.
Chicago, Illinois
1902

CHAPTER XXX. -
SKETCHES OF PIONEERS
pg. 860

- The First White People in Ohio
(From the address of Hon. R. M. Stimson, April 7, 1899.)

     It is asked were there no white people in what is now the State of Ohio, before the settlement at the mouth of the Muskingum, 1788?  Certainly.  Passing the French, already noticed, there were white captives and traders and missionaries among the Indians.  As early as 1770, Richard Conner, a trader from Maryland was living with his wife in the Pickaway Plains, with the Shawanese, and a son was born to them in 1771 in that region.  This, I think, was Col. John Conner, the founder of Connersville, the county seat of Fayette County, Indiana.  He and a younger brother, also of the same origin, were prominent citizens of Indiana in its early history.  I had the facts from the family record at Connersville in 1881, but the communication to me from the descendants has been mislaid.
     Mr. Henry, from a prominent family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was also at the same period, and in the same quarter, living as a gunsmith with the Shawanese.
     John Lewis Roth was born at Guadenhutten, July 4, 1773; and Joanna Maria Heckewelder was born at Salem, Apr. 16, 1781 - children of Moravian missionaries, at the afore-named stations, on the upper Muskingum, or its main branch, the Tuscarawas.  After the massacre at Gnadenhutten, in 1782, and the breaking of the missionary stations, on the Tuscarawas, they were taken to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and both lived and died there at an advanced age.
     There were also "Squatters" along the upper Ohio River, in the present counties of Jefferson and Belmont, perhaps elsewhere, who were in 1785 warned and driven off the Congress Lands by United States officers.
     All that is claimed is that at Marietta was the first permanent settlement in Ohio, by owners of hte land, with the forms of law.

GEN. RUFUS PUTNAM
REV. MANASSEH CUTLER, LL., D.
GEN. BENJAMIN TUPPER
COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHITTLE
COL. ROBERT OLIVER
MAJ. HATFIELD WHITE
COL. EBENEZER SPROAT
COL. RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS
ARTHUR ST. CLAIR
ICHABOD NYE
- MRS. REBECCA IVES GILLMAN
- MRS. MARY LAKE
- ISAAC AND REBECCA WILLIAMS
- COL. WILLIAM STACY
MAJ. ANSELM TUPPER
COL. BENJAMIN TUPPER
GEN. JOSEPH BUELL
REV. DANIEL STORY
JOHN MATHEWS
EPHRAIM CUTLER
DAVID PUTNAM
NAHUM WARD
 


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