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| 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. - |
- 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. - |
Boquet's military expedition
into the valleys, 1764
- Recovers 206 white men, woman and children |
70 - 82 |
| CHAPTER V. - |
- 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. - |
- 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. - |
- 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. - |
- 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. - |
- 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. - |
- 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. - |
- 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 |
1 |
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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 |
