Captain Nathaniel King Captain George W. Hawley Captain Martin Smith Captain Solomon Griswold Captain James A. Harper Captain Charles Parker Captain Josiah Cleveland Captain Lorenzo Carter Lieutenant Seth Harrington Lieutenant Stephen Brown Lieutenant David Randall Lieutenant Thomas Martin Lieutenant Ebenezer Hewens. Lieutenant Joel Paine Lieutenant Jedediah Baird Lieutenant Nathaniel Drane Ensign Daniel Sawtell Ensign John Henderson Ensign Zopher Case Ensign Skene Sackett Ensign George Caldwell Ensign Ela S. Clapp Ensign Lyman Benton Ensign Samuel Jones

Captain Homer Hine Captain eli Baldwin Captain John Struthers Captain Barnabas Harris Captain George Todd Captain Samuel Tylee Captain James Applegate Captain George Phelps Captain William Bushell Captain Henry Rodgers Captain Thomas Wright Captain Ezra Wyatt Captain John Oviatt Lieutenant Aaron Collar Lieutenant Josiah Walker Lieutenant John Russell Lieutenant James Lynn Lieutenant Moses Latta Lieutenant Edward Schofield Lieutenant Henry Hickman Lieutenant James Heaton Lieutenant Daniel Humison Lieutenant John Diver Lieutenant William Chard Lieutenant Gersham Judson Lieutenant Aaron Norton Ensign Jacob Parkhurst Ensign Nathaniel Blakesley Ensign William Henry Ensign James Struthers Ensign Henry Hull Ensign John Smith Ensign John Elliott Ensign John Ewalt Ensign Ebenezer N. Combs Ensign John Campbell Ensign David Moore Ensign Thomas Kennedy Ensign James Walker

     The county of Trumbull was constituted one brigade.  The second brigade consisted of the then regiments from Columbiana and Jefferson counties.  Martin Smith and Lorenzo Carter were chosen majors for the first and second battalion respectively of the first regiment, and James Applegate and Henry Rodgers of the two battalions of the second regiment, all being promoted from the captaincy.  Between 1804 and 1812, owing to increase of settlement, the fourth division was divided into four brigades, commanded by Generals Miller, Beall, Perkins, and Paine.  The third brigade, commanded by General Simon Perkins, embraced the present counties of Mahoning, Ashtabula, and Trumbull; the fourth brigade (General Paine's) embraced all the Reserve west of the third.
     In 1812 Cleveland, Mansfield, and Urbana were the frontier towns in Ohio.  There were a few scattered settlements west of the Cuyahoga
in the Reserve, but they were totally unable to make defense, even against the Indians.
     General Perkins' brigade consisted of three regiments, commanded by Lieutenant-colonels William Rayen, J. S. Edwards, and Richard Hayes.  The Ohio militia before the War of 1812 followed the example of the Continental establishment after the Revolution, and had no colonels, the command being vested in lieutenant-colonels, who by courtesy were generally called, except in official correspondence, colonels.  The regiment numbered about five hundred men. Congress, anticipating war, passed an act in February, 1812, increasing the United States army.  It provided for a regiment of volunteers from Ohio and Kentucky, of which Samuel H. Wells was commissioned colonel, and John Miller, of Steubenville, lieutenant-colonel.  George Tod was subsequently appointed major of the regiment, which was listed as the Seventeenth United States.  Tod previous to his commission in the regular army had been brigade-major and inspector to General Perkins.  The news of the war preparations caused considerable apprehension on the frontiers on account of the open hostility of the Indians.  General Perkins' first significant document was the following:

BRIGADE ORDERS,

Third brigade, Fourth division, Ohio militia, issued 28th of April, 1812, to Lieutenant-colonels William Rayen, Richard Hayes and John S. Edwards.

     SIR: You are hereby required to cause to be raised within the regiment over which you have command, if they can be raised by voluntary enlistment, twenty-three good and able bodied men, to serve in the service of the United States as a detachment from the militia of this State.  If that number of men cannot be attained by voluntary enrollment, you are required to cause to be raised by draft and on your regiment thirteen men of the above description, to be taken from the respective companies composing the same, in proportion to the numbers in each. In whatever way the detachment from the Third brigade, Fourth division, Ohio militia, may be raised, it is to be officered in the manner as the law directs.  On the execution of this order, you are to make the brigadier of the aforesaid brigade a return of the men enrolled or drafted by the 9th day of May next.  The above order is issued in consequence of recent and pressing orders from the President of the United States, through the major-general of Fourth division of Ohio militia.  The detachment from your regiment shall rendezvous at some convenient place in your regiment, as you shall order, on the 14th of May next, when it will receive further orders.
     The above orders are to be executed with the greatest possible promptitude and dispatch.
     For information you are referred to a statute of the United