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OHIO ANNALS.
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HISTORIC EVENTS
in the
TUSCARAWAS AND MUSKINGUM VALLEYS,
AND OTHER PORTIONS OF
The State of Ohio
Adventures of Post, Heckewelder and Zeisberger.
Legends and Traditions of the Kophs, Mound Builders,
Red and White Men.
Adventures of Putnam and Heckewelder, founders of the State.
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Local History Growth of Ohio in Population, Political,
Power, Wealth and Intelligence.
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In One Volume, 367 Octavo Pages, on Tinted Paper, English Cloth.
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Edited By
C. H. Mitchener
Of the New Philadelphia (Ohio) ___
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Dayton, Ohio:
Thomas W. Odell, Publisher
1876.
CONTENTS:
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Pages |
| CHAPTER I. |
- Theory of the geological
structure
- A molten mass
- Sea of fire
- Sulphurous gas
- Crust and Crevices
- Air and Moisture
- The first rain enters the crevices
- Explosions
- Upheavals
- Continents
- Oceans
- Mollusks
- Fishes
- Plants
- Reptiles
- Animals
- Man
- Plains and bottoms
- Hills and Mountains
- Names
- The water-shed of Ohio
- Legend of the Kophs and Israelites |
1 - 16 |
| CHAPTER II. |
- Story of the cave-dwellers
- Mound builders in Stark, Tuscarawas, Coshocton, Muskingum,
Morgan and Washington
- Forts and mounds in Licking and other localities
- Legend of the Northmen, Welshmen, &c.
- La Salle at the Muskingum two hundred years ago
- Ohio part of France
- Gist's trip down the Muskingum, 1750
- Washington and Gist
- Braddock, &c. |
17 - 44 |
| CHAPTER III. -
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- Capture and captivity of
James Smith and John McCullough in the valleys, 1755-1756
- Their adventures
- Christian F. Post's visit to the Tuscarawas, 1761
- Heckewelder, 1762
- Traditions of the Lemape, Mengue, Mahiecani
- Their first acquaintance with liquor. |
70 - 82 |
| CHAPTER IV. -
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Boquet's military expedition
into the valleys, 1764
- Recovers 206 white men, woman and children |
70 - 82 |
| CHAPTER V. -
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- The Moravian Germans settle
on the Tuscarawas, 1771-2
- Schoenbrunn
- Code of Laws
- Zeisberger and Heckewelder, 1773
- Gnadenhutten
- Rev. Jones sets out to convert the heathen
- They drive him away with mock devils
- Indian feast at New Comerstown
- Events there in 1774
- Legend of the white woman
- Pipe and White Eyes
- Settlement near Coshocton, 1776
- Netawatwes
- Cornstalk
- Geo. Morgan
- 1777
- Monsey Conspiracy
- Dunmore's war of 1774
- Legend of Abraham Thomas |
83 - 125 |
| CHAPTER VI. -
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- Legend of Cornstalk at
Gnadenhutten
- Erection, investment and abandonment of Fort Laurens
- Incidents and adventures thereat
- Death of White Eyes, 1778-9
- Col. John Gibson kills "Little Eagle"
- Forts in Ohio
- Number of Indians
- Buckskin Currency |
126 - 145 |
| CHAPTER VII. -
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- Heckewelder's great ride
- Lichtenan settlement, near Coshocton, abandoned
- Simon Girty after Zeisberger's scalp
- Salem settled in 1780
- Indians massacred at Coshocton, 1781
- British and Indians capture Schoenbrunn, Gnadenhutten and
Salem
- Drive off the inhabitants to Sandusky
- Trial and acquittal of Heckewelder, Zeisberger and
Senseman, as spies. |
146 - 158 |
| CHAPTER VIII. - |
- Legend of the bloody valley
- The Gnadenhutten massacre
- Capture and death of Col. Crawford
- Ann Charity, the witch
- Capture and death of Charles Builderback
- David Williamson, 1782. |
158 - 176 |
| CHAPTER IX. -
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- The ancient Seneca capital,
"Tuscarawas"
- Gehelemukpechuk, Goshuckgunk, &c.
- Fifty miles of ruins along the ancient river
- Legend of the "Big Spring"
- Story of the white squaw's revenge
- Legend of the white captive girl at New Schoenbrunn
- Legend of the Conner family
- First settlers in eastern Ohio
- Congress gives the valleys to the revolutionary soldiers,
1785
- The Indian fighters, the Zanes, Poes and Wetzells
- Logan, the Mingo chief
- Sketch of Simon Girty |
177 - 207 |
| CHAPTER X. -
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- Traditions of the Senecas
- A legend of slaughter
- Sketch of Shingask
- Death of his queen at "Tuscarawas"
- Legend of Heckewelder's love
- Narrow Escape
- Delaware barons and lords of the forest on the Tuscarawas
- Indian food
- Cookery
- Dress
- Courting and Marriages
- Kindness, &c
- The Indian's heaven
- Sketch of Black Hoof
- Legend of "Three Legs Town, &c. |
208 - 224 |
| CHAPTER XI. -
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- First settlement at the mouth
of the Muskingum
- Marietta
- Erection of the North-west territorial government, 1788
- Erection of Washington and other counties
- Marietta settlers named and described
- Indian war
- Scenes in the days of her danger
- Harmar and St. Clair
- First court in Ohio
- Indians kill the first settlers in Morgan County
- Wayne's victory
- Organization of the State
- Recapitulation of events in the lives of Rufus Putnam and
John Heckewelder, the founders of Ohio
- Adventures of Hamilton Kerr, the Indian fighter
- Legend of Louisa St. Clair
- Joe Rogers, the ranger
- Louis Phillippe, Burr and the Mariettians
- The Blennerhassetts and Burr, &c.
- Zeisberger returns from seventeen years exile
- Founds Goshen and dies
- Last of the missions and red men in the valleys |
224 - 271 |
| CHAPTER XII. -
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- The last Indian war
- Was with England
- Tecumseh's conspriacy
- His death
- Elliott family
- Killing of Robert Elliott
- Growth of Ohio by counties for seventy years
- Progress of parties and their names
- Names of, and votes for all the Governors
- Presidential votes since 1852
- Increase of wealth by counties for twenty-four years
- Coal and its formation
- The bible narratives and geology
- Members of the three constitutional conventions of Ohio
- Newspapers in the valley
- First salt works in the valleys. |
272 - 293 |
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CHAPTER XIII. -
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Early settlers in Morgan and
Muskingum - pg. 294
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Early settlers
and Incidents in Coshocton County - pg. 297
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Incident of slavery - pg. 300
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Early settlers and prominent men in Stark County
- pg. 301
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First houses and mills in the valleys
- pg. 302
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First births in Ohio
- pg. 303
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First christian burying grounds in Ohio - pg 304
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Oldest inhabitants in the Tuscarawas valley, and the first
preachers - pg. 305 - 310
- Sketches of Early Settlers, and Anecdotes - pg. 311
--Christian Deardorff,
- pg. 311
--John Judy, Sr.,
- pg. 311
--Philip Correll,
- pg. 312
--Peter Williams,
- pg. 313
--Jacob Blickensderfer,
- pg. 313
--John Knisely,
- pg. 314
--Henry Laffer,
- pg. 314
--Abraham Shane,
- pg. 315
--Walter M. Blake,
- pg. 316
--Alexander
McConnell, - pg. 317
--John Coventry,
- pg.318
--George Sluthour,
- pg. 319
--James Patrick,
Sr. - pg. 320
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Death roll of four hundred early settlers
- pg. 321
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Sketch of Zoar
- pg. 323
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Model will
- Pg. 323
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Largest land holders
- pg. 327 - PARTIAL
- List of early lawyers and county officers - pg. 330
- Elk fight - pg. 333
- Wolves and wolf hunters - pg. 335
- Henry Willard's bear fight - pg. 337
- John Mizer's catamount fight - pg. 339
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John Henry's panther fight
- pg. 340
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Adam Reamer and the "mad woman"
- pg. 341
- Canals in Ohio - pg. 343
- Railroads in Ohio - pg. 345
- Funston, the murderer - pg. 348
- Front men from Eastern Ohio - pg. 349
- Governors, U. S. Senators, Supreme Judges - 349 - 351
- Development of intelligence in Ohio - pg. 351
- The newspaper and periodical press in Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Zanesville, and all the
county towns in Ohio, &c. - pg. 351 |
294 - 358 |
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LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS |
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The Legend of fire and water |
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The story of animals, mastodons
and elephants in Ohio |
3 |
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The story of hills and valleys |
6 |
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The legend of the Kophs |
13 |
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The legend of the island
Atalantis and Israelites |
14 |
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The story of the cave dwellers
in Ohio |
17 |
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The legend of the mound
builders in the valleys |
20 |
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The ancient race in Coshocton
County |
21 |
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The mound and fort builders in
Muskingum, &c. |
23 |
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Legend of the Northmen and
Welshmen |
31 |
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Legend of La Salle at the
Muskingum |
33 |
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Traditions of the Delawares or
Lanape, Iroquois of Mengwe, Mohicans or Mahiecani, and
Monsey or Minsi |
62 |
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Legend of their first
experience under liquor |
65 |
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Legend of the White Woman's
river |
106 |
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Legend of Cornstalk in
Gnadenhutten |
126 |
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Legend of Ogista sacrificing
his son |
208 |
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Legend of the bloody valley and
the witch, Ann Charity |
158 |
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Legend of the Big Spring |
179 |
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Story of the white squaw's
revenge |
180 |
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Legend of the captive girl at
New Schoenbrunn |
182 |
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Legend of the Conner family |
184 |
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Legend of Heckewelder's love |
210 |
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Legend of the Indian's heaven |
217 |
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Legend of Three Leg's town |
219 |
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Legend of Marietta in the days
of her danger |
247 |
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Legend of Louisa St. Clair, the
governor's daughter |
252 |
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Legend of Burr and the
Binnerhassetts at Marietta |
267 |
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Story of the wolf bitten made
woman |
341 |
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