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THE SCHEME.

SCHEME
OF A
LOTTERY
FOR
IMPROVING THE NAVIGATION
BETWEEN LAKE ERIE AND THE RIVER OHIO, THROUGH THE
CUYAHOGA AND MUSKINGUM.

     THE Legislature of the State of Ohio, having at their last Session, granted a Lottery to raise the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars, for the above mentioned purpose, and appointed the subscribers Commissioners to carry the same into effect - They offer the following SCHEME to the Public.

FIRST CLASS

12,800 TICKETS AT $5 EACH, ---- $64,000

     Prizes subject to a deduction of twelve and a half per cent.

     THE drawing of the First Class will commence at Cleveland on the first Monday of January, 1808, or as soon as three-fourths of the Tickets shall be sold; and the Prizes will be paid in sixty days after the drawing is completed.

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INDUCEMENTS SET FORTH.

     Holders of Tickets, drawing Prizes of Ten Dollars, at their election, receive the money, or two Tickets of Five Dollars each in the Second Class.
     For the convenience of the owners of fortunate numbers, Persons will be appointed in Boston, Hartford, New York and Albany, to pay Prizes, will be published in some Newspaper printed in each of those places, and in three of the Newspapers printed in the State of Ohio.  Persons will also be designated to pay Prizes in Zanesville and Steubenville.
     The subscribers have taken the Oath and given the Bonds required by Law, for the faithful discharge of their trust, and they flatter themselves that an object of such extensive importance, will not fail ot attract the attention and patronage of many, who are not allured by the advantageous prospects held out in the Scheme.

     JOHN WALWORTH, Esq., of Cleveland, is appointed Agent of Commissioners, to sign the Tickets, and transact the business of the Board in their recess.

                     Board of Commissioners

CLEVELAND, May 23d, 1807

CRAMER, PRINTER.

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THE FOURTH DRAFT.

     The drawing never came off.  Those who had purchased tickets, many years afterwards received their money back without interest.  LEONARD CASE remembered when he was the sole owner of one of those tickets.
     From a receipt of STEPHEN OVIATT, of Hudson, it also appears that he possessed one, the price of which was $5.00.  It reads thus:

HUDSON, 29th Jan'y, 1811.

     Received of Heman Oviatt a Ticket of Cuyahoga and Muskingum Lottery, to account with him or the Managers, on or before the Drawing of said Lottery.  No. 7775, Letter K.

$5,00.                                                  STEPHEN OVIATT.

     The paper on which the copy of Judge WALWORTH's letter is written, is of the old fashioned coarse brown sort, made by hand.  It bears the name OHIO, C. B. & B., in water lines, and was made within the State.

     Judge HUNTINGTON was elected Governor of Ohio, succeeding EDWIN TIFFIN, who became a member of the United States Senate.  Another large draft took place April 2, 1807, including most of the Company's land west of the Cuyahoga.

1800.

     "STEPHEN GILBERT, JOSEPH PLUMB, ADOLPHUS SPAFFORD, a son of AMOS, and Mr. GILMORE, started early in the spring for Maumee river.  They were

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RESCUE OF MR. PLUMB.

in a Mackinaw boat, with provisions and goods which NATHAN PERRY, senior, was sending to his son, NATHAN, at Black river.  A young woman named MARY BILLINGER, was a passenger for Black river.  Mr. WHITE, of Newburg, and two sons of Mr. PLUMB, were too late for the boat.  They were to go by land along the Indian trail, to overtake the party at the river, where young PERRY had a store.  When about half way there, they observed a wrecked boat on the beach, and hallooing as loud as they could, had a response from Mr. PLUMB the elder.  He was on the beach, below a cliff sixty or seventy feet high, benumbed with cold and very much injured.
     "They soon learned from him that a squall had struck their craft about a mile from shore, capsizing it, and that all but himself were drowned.
     "They were unable to reach him, down the steep rocks.  Mr. WHITE and one of his sons started off rapidly for Black river.  The son who remained getting out upon an ironwood sapling, bent it down with his weight, and dropping twenty feet or more, reached his father at the foot of the cliff.  During the night Mr. WHITE returned with QUINTUS F. ATKINS, and Mr. PERRY.  They all managed to haul Mr. PLUMB up to the top of the bank.  As he was a corpulent man, of two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds weight, and quite helpless from exhaustion, this was o small undertaking.  It was done after midnight, by the light of torches.  The

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FATALITY BY DROWNING.

bodies of GILBERT, SPAFFORD and GILMORE, were near by, and were taken to Cleveland by Major PERRY, who came along there with his boat.  They were all good swimmers, except Mr. PLUMB, who held fast to the boat after it upset, and was thus driven ashore.  GILBERT told his fellows to rid themselves of their clothing, and thus they swam towards the shore."
     "Had the weather and water been warm, they would probably have reached it.  The corpse of the hired girl MARY, was found afterwards on the shore west of the wreck, and was buried at Black river.
     "Of eighteen deaths which had occurred within this settlement, during the twelve years of its existence, eleven were by drowning.  There had been no physicians nearer than Hudson and Austinburg up to this time."  (BARR.)

1809.

     "This year JOEL THORP built a small schooner of five or six tons, and called her the "Sally," and ALEX SIMPSON built one of about the same size, christened the "Dove."  LEVI JOHNSON (now living, 1866,) and his brothers, SAMUEL and JONATHAN became residents of the place.  AMOS SPAFFORD was elected Representative in the Lower House from this place, then embraced in the County of Geauga.  He was soon after appointed collector of the new

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STANLEY GRISWOLD.

port of entry, established at Maumee, and in the spring of 1810 removed to Perrysburg.  The county of Cuyahoga being organized, NATHAN PERRY, Sr., AUGUSTUS E. GILBERT and NATHANIEL DOAN were elected Associate Judges, all residents of Cleveland Township, as it then was." - (BARR.)
     Although the project of connecting the lakes and the Ohio river with the sum of twelve thousand dollars had failed, Cleveland was attracting attention.  STANLEY GRISWOLD, of Connecticut, had been appointed Secretary for the territory of Michigan in 1805, under Governor HULL, and Collector of the port of Detroit.  On account of official difficulties he resigned, and took up his abode in this township, at Doan's Corners.  A vacancy occurred in the Senate by the unexpected resignation of Mr. TIFFIN.  Governor HUNTINGTON appointed his friend GRISWOLD to the vacancy, and on his way to Washington he addressed a letter to Judge JAMES WITHERELL, of the District Court of Michigan, in which he sets forth the condition and prospects of Cleveland.

"SOMERSET, PA., May 28th, 1809,

Hon, JAMES WITHERELL, now at Fair Haven, Vt.
     Dear Sir: - Passing in the stage to the Federal City, I improve a little leisure to acknowledge your letter from Jefferson, Ohio, of the 16th instant.  In reference to your inquiry (for a place for Doctor ELIJAH COLEMAN, ) I have consulted the principal

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PROSPECTS FOR A PHYSICIAN.

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and merchandise exported to foreign countries, (Canada) from April to October, 1809, was fifty dollars.
     At the fourth draft of April 2d, 1807, SAMUEL P. LORD and others drew the township of Brooklyn, No. 7, in Range 13.  It was surveyed under their direction by EZEKIEL HOVER, in 1809, the interior lines of which were ran with a variation of two degrees east.  The fifth and final division of the Land Company's property took place at Hartford, on the 5th of January of this year, at which the unsold lots in Cleveland were included.

LETTER FROM JOHN HARMON.

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SETTLEMENT AT NEWBURG,

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THE FIRST PHYSICIAN.

1810

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THE FIRST COURT

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FRONTIER TROUBLES.

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THE WAR OF 1812.

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PICTURE OF MAP

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SPAFFORD'S MAP.

MAP OF CLEVELAND IN 1814.

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O'MIC.

STATEMENT OF SETH DOAN, 1841.

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EXECUTION OF O'MIC, JUNE 24th, 1812.

BY THE HON. E. WHITTLESEY.

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THE MILITARY ON DUTY.

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MILITARY EVOLUTIONS.

watched everything that occurred with much anxiety.  The gallows was erected on the Public Square in in front of where the old Court House was erected.  After the religious services were over, Major JONES endeavored to form a hollow square, so that the prisoner should be guarded on all sides.  He rode backwarks and forwards with drawn sword, epaulets, and scabbard flying, but he di&not know what order to give.  The wagon with O'Mic moved ahead and stopped; but as the Sheriff doubted whether he was to be aided by the military, he proceeded on ward. Major JONES finally took the suggestion of of some one, who told him to ride to the head of the line, and double it round until the front and rear of the line met.  Arriving at the gallows, Mr. CARTER, the Sheriff and O'Mic ascended to the platform by a ladder.  The arms of the prisoner were loosely pinioned.  A rope was around his neck with a loop in the end.  Another was let down through a hole in the top piece, on which was a hook to attach to the rope around the neck.  The rope with the hook was brought over to one of the posts, and fastened to it near the ground.
     After some little time Mr. CARTER came down, leaving O'MIC and Sheriff BALDWIN on the platform.  As the Sheriff drew down the cap, O'MIC was the most terrified being, rational or irrational, I ever saw, and seizing the cap with his right hand, which he could reach by bending his head and inclining

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