Troy Township (part 2 of 10)

Some time after this, his Indian wife and two children are reported to have visited Him in Reaver county, to induce him to return to the IVyandots. He declined to do so; but visited Pittsburgh and purchased a number of blankets and such other articles as would be useful in their wigwam, and presented them to the squaw with a horse to bear them to their home on the Sandusky, which she accepted and never returned.

Mr. Foulks -had a fine mill near Darlington, and after- ! wards became quite wealthy. He was a man of fine | native abilities, and was often spoken of as a suitable | person to be elected to the legislature or to fill any of j the county offices. He, however, refused to accept any j office, and steadily continued in business. During his captivity, he passed over the most valuable parts of what is now Richland county, and became acquainted with all the good agricultural locations. After the war of 1812, when the lands, in what is now Blooming-grove township, came into market, he entered eight or ten j quarter sections, and induced his father-in-law, Mr. UP j. lery, to invest largely in lands. About tire year 1830, : Henry and George, sons of George Foulks, located near [ Rome, in Richland county. He- had several daughters, some of whom yet survive. Jacob and William, brothers .of George Foulks, also located in Blooming-grove. Jacob resided two or three miles northwest of Olives- ; bu gh. George I'oulks died in Beaver countv, Penn- i sylvan ia, July 10, 1840, aged seventy-one years, and sleeps quietly in the cemetery near Darlington, where he lived many years, an influential and reputable citizen. Mrs. Foulks died at the residence of one of her sons in Richland county some years after his decease.

It may be interesting to the reader to learn the history of Elizabeth Foulks, who was captured with George, on the banks of the Ohio river. As before stated, she was : taken to Lower Sandusky, where she was adopted by a kind squaw. As she grew to womanhood she 'became acquainted with a young man by the name of James Whittaker, who had been captured by the U\a-:dt-fs when a child in Virginia, and adopted by them. A!! his friends were killed. He had lost nearly Ml recollection of his parentage, and had become thoroughly initiated among the Indians, and had no desire to leave them. Whittaker became- much attached to Elizabeth, and she to him. They were finally married after the Wyandot custom. Whittaker became an influential trader and interpreter among the Indians. On one occasion a number of Cherokee, Shawnee, and Wyandot warriors captured an emigrant boat on the Ohio river with a number ot pioneers, among whom were a Mr. Skyles and Johnston, with one or two others who were brought to Upper Sandusky. A French trader, M. Duchonquct, purchased Johnson of the Indians, and Skyles finally escaped.

A few days afterwards, the Chcrokees appeared with a Miss P lemming, who had been captured at the same time, and made preparations for her execution. The French trader took an interest in the fate of Miss Flemming, and invited Whittaker to accompany him to the Cherokee camp. He did so, and Miss Flemming recognized him as an old acquaintance. Whittaker had often visited, with the Indian hunters, her father's tavern, near Pittsburgh. He was, tnerctore, very desirous of aidin,r her. Miss Flemming implored him to save her from death by torture, which was then impending. Whittaker tried to induce the Chcrokees to release her for a consideration. They sternly refused. Whittaker determined to have Tarhe or King Crane, who was then the great Wyandot chief, intervene. Tarhe was at Detroit, and Whittaker took a small boat and hastened to see him. When he landed, Tarhe, with deep interest, heard Iris story. Whittaker said Miss Flemming was his sister, .and was about to be killed by torture. He asked Tadic to interfere for her rescue. The chief admitted that the enterprise was humane, and at once started for Sandusky and hastened to the Cherokee camp. The Chcrokees were inflexible, and would not consent to release the prisoner, and heaped upon Tarhe charges of cowardice for interfering. The chief ret Minted on the Chcrokees for the inhuman attempt to torture a woman, and withdrew. The Chcrokees v.-ere alarmed, and determined to kill their prisoner without delay. She was striped of her clothing, tied to a stake, and faggots placed around her, and left to suffer the. horrors of impending death. She was to be burned early the next morning. Fa: he expected this, and to avert the tragedy took a number of young warriors, and at midnight entered the Cherokee camp. Pie found Miss Flemming tied to a stake, painted black and in a state of insensibility, moaning over her condition. Tarhe at once released her from her painful situation, re clothed her and set her at liberty. An Indian whoop was then given, when the Chcrokees were awakened and hurried to the spot. Tarhe told them he had rescued the prisoner, and that by the laws of conquest she was his property. Tarhe's warriors were the most numerous, and the Chcrokees quietly admitted that he had the advantage. They then expressed a willingness to accept the offer of the day before fix hundred silver brooches. Tarhe consented and by the aid ol the traders, furnished the hrou< he>, and Miss Flemming, clothed as a squaw, was ' -. to hei parents at Pittsburgh by two faithful l ')<///,.' .-' warriors.

Mr. and Mrs. W hittaker were employee! as interpreter, at the treaties of i S t _i - 1 7 and at several other interviews between the whites and Indians. They are often mentioned for their humane acts by the Wyandots and Ddmoans. They remained in the Indian country about Malden, Detroit and Upper Sandusky long after the war of 1812. They had several children, sons and daughters. Some thirty years since a Miss Whittaker, daughter of Elizabeth, visited an uncle (Jacob Foulks) near Olivesburgh, and is said to have been a young lady of good education and fine address. The relatives treated her kindly and her visit was a pleasant one. Whittaker and his wife died many years since at Lower Sandusky, and their descendants are presumed to have gone west with the civilized Wyandots in 1842-3.

Such is the story of George and' Elizabeth Foulks, as we have been able to glean from his acquaintances in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. The larger part of the narrative was obtained from Mrs. Robert Starr, formerly of Washington county, Pennsylvania, now a resident of Blooming-grove township, Richland county, Ohio, two miles west of the village of Lafayette, and aged about eighty-seven years. Her mind is quite dear. She was intimately acquainted with Mr. Foulks in his lifetime, and has heard him repeat the story of his adventures a great many times. Mr. Foulks also related many hunting exploits, the outlines of which have escaped recollection. All in ail, he was an extraordinary character - a bold woodsman - a thrifty business man and a noted pioneer.

A sketch of his iife was originally published in the Wooster Democrat, March 9, 1843, and which gives a good many interesting items of history. We republish it entire.

"To render the tribute of approbation to the merit and worth ot departed friends, and indulge in expressions of regret at the bereavement we experience in their death, has, in some form or other, been a custom i from the earliest ages. Independent of the incentive to noble actions which such a practice holds forth to the minds of youth, there is, on the part of those who may be called to the performance of the service, a kind of pleasing melancholy, which almost seem for the tune to bring them again into the society of tire friend whose final exit it is their misfortune to deplore.

"General Reasin llealt, who died at Wooster, Ohio, on the twentieth day of February, 1843, was born in Montgomery county, in the State of Maryland, on the third of December, 1769, and a few years thereafter accompanied his parents to Washington countv, in the State of Pennsylvania, where they made a permanent settlement. The exact time of this settlement is not known, but it must have been some y ars before >782 for in that year the father, Major Zephaniah Beall, w,.s an officer in the unfortunate campaign made by a body of volunteer militia from western Pennsylvania, under

" At the age of fourteen years, Mr. Beall entered the office ot the Hon. Thomas Scott, at one time a member of Congress, a gentleman of considerable note in the public affairs of Pennsylvania, and then prothonotary of , Washington county. W ith that gentleman he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, and on quitting bis employ, received the most flattering testimonials of i good conduct.

"The privations and sufferings which were experienced by the hardy and intrepid pioneers who first undertook to tame the forests west of the Alleghany mountains, has- no parallel in anything of trie kind that has ever existed. Favored with no government aid or protection, and without roads, other than such as they opened by their individual efforts, they had to scale a rugged mountain wilderness, of more than a hundred miles in extent; and when" arrived on the western waters they, for a long time, had to subsist mainly by the chase. But this was not all; the treaty of peace, which acknowledged American independence, brought no peace to them. The Inj dian nations, who espoused the cause of the British during i the war, were not content to desist from their depreda- | tions upon the western settlements, and such was the ini efficiency of the government under the confederation, j that it was net until the new organization under the present constitution, that measures were taken to repel their incursions. In 1790 an expedition was fitted out, and marched against the Indians on the heads of the two Miamis. The command cf this corps was given to General Hanuar. Mr. Beall served in the expedition as an officer in the quartermaster's department, and was with the army when a severe action was fought between a dej tachment under Colonel Harden and the Indians near ; Fort Wayne, in 1791. That expedition having failed of i its object, the troops returned to tile Ohio river, near to | where the city of Cincinnati now stands, and Mr. Beall returned to his friends in Pennsylvania.

"Subsequently to this, General St. Clair marched a second force on the same route, and unfortunately met with an entire defeat. These repeated disasters determined the government to put forth all its energies in order to secure peace by the chastisement of the savages. On General W ayne s being appointed to the command of 1 the northwestern army, Mr. Beall recmved a commission 1 as ensign ; and after some lime spent in the recruitin ' service, repaired to headquarters, then at 1 .egionviile, cn the north bank of the Ohio, near the site of the present town of Economy, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. It i was in the campaign which succeeded that Mr Beall j became acquainted with Geneml, then Captain Hairij son, the late lamented President of the United States ; j an acquaintance in which the mutual friendship of the 1 parties seemed to be increased rather than diminished by separation and lane.

"Mr. Beall lemaiimd with the army until some time in the yea 1 1703, when he resigned end returned to his 1 friends in Pennsylvania to t snsuinmate a matrimonial engagement of long standing. Soon alter In', return, he married his late wife, then Y [ iss Rebecca Johnston, and with whom he continued to live in the enjoyment of the greatest connubial happiness, until her death, which happened in the latter part of 1S40. To the many excellent qualities and Christian virtues of that estimable lady he was, no doubt, mu< h indebted for those Christian impressions which softened the death-bed pillow, and served as an effectual solace to his mind when looking to an eternal separation from all things here below.

"Like many enterprising men of his age, Mr. Beall fell in with the current of emigration which has constantly set to the west, and, consequently, several times j changed his place of residence. In 1S01 he removed ,j with his family Irom Pennsylvania and settled for a short time in Steubenville, from which place he removed, in the fall of 1803, to New Lisbon, where he remained until 1815, in which year he removed to his late residence near Wooster.

"On his settlement at New Lisbon he received the appointment of clerk of the supreme and common pleas courts, which offices he held nearly the whole time he remained in the county. Although Mr. Beall had served but a few years in the regular army, it was sufficient to give his mind a military bias, and, previous to the late war, he took much pains to infuse into the militia of his county a military spirit, confidently anticipating that the difficulties then existing between this country and England would ultimately end in war. Soon after his settlement at New Lisbon he was chosen colonel of a regiment (being at that time the entire militia of the county), and, in a few years thereafter, a brigadier general. The : war of 1812 found him in that capacity. On the surren- ; der of General Hull at Detroit, a general panic seized ! upon the people of the sparsely settled counties to the [ west of Columbiana, and many were inclined to abandon ! their homes and seek places of greater safety. In this slate of things all eyes were turned to General Beall for relief, and, to his great honor be it said, they were not in the least disappointed. Immediately on the receipt of the unwelcome news, which was communicated to him by express from Canton, he set about the organization of a detachment, and, in a very few days put himself at the head of several hundred men, and marched to the support of the frontier inhabitants of Wayne and Richland counties, and, ultimately, continued his route to Camp Huron, where he joined the troops from the Western ' Reserve, under General Wadsworth and General Perkins. At that place they were visited by General Harrison, the commander-in -chief, who attended in person to the reorganization of the corps, and, as the whole was not more than sufficient for a brigade, the command devolved on General Perkins as the senior officer. After this General Beall returned home, with the consolation of having done a good service by the promptitude of his march, which was a means of inspiring confidence among j the people almost ready to surrender all hope of protection. Those who have never witnessed scenes like these can form a very imperfect idea of the difficulties which surround those who undertake to ward off such j evils as were then impending. A frontier of more than

I a hundred miles was perfectly defenceless, abounding i with all the facilities for an attack by a savage foe. Not a single company of government troops in the State; and no means either in money, provisions, or munitions of s war within the reach or control of any officer who was called to the field.

In the spring of 1813, President Madison issued his ; proclamation for a special session of Congress, and the j seat for the northern district being vacant by the death of Mr. Edwards, the member elect, General Beall was, at 1 a special election, chosen to fill the vacancy. He served | in Congress during that and the succeeding session, j assisting to the full extent of his abilities, in providing ! ways and means for a vigorous prosecution of the war, then rendered extremely difficult by the prevalence of a ; reckless party spirit in various portions of the country.

But a congressional life did not suit his taste. He j was naturally of a domestic turn of mind, and he longed | to rid himself of a trust which compelled him to a sepa- | ration, for so large a portion of his time, from his family.

capacity, for his old friend and military associate, Gcnj eral Harrison. No incident of his life seemed to give ! him so much pleasure as this; and with an ardent hope : that in the performance of this last trust, confided to ; him by his fellow citizens, a foundation was laid for the I lasting prosperity of Pi is country, he considered his ac- 1 count closed with the public forever. How illusory arc

Alex Ynder Finley

Alexander Finley was born in Hartford county, Maryland, in the year 1770, of Scotch Irish parents. His father was descended from one of -even brotheis who emigrated to the north of Ireland during: "King William's 1 war." They subsequently emigrated to the State of New Jersey, from whence one of the brothers migrated to Hartford county, in the State of Maryland, about a | century and a half ago. Here Alexander Finley was ' born. He attended the schools of Iris native county, and obtained a knowledge of the English branches. Upon reaching manhood, he located in Green county, Pennsvlvania, where he married Miss Mary Smith, a relative of the Hon. Resolve Smith, president of the first bank organized in Philadelphia. In the f.T of 1803, lie emi grated, with his little family, to Fairfield i ounty. < I'nio, then including the counlies of what are now Licking,

Knox, Richland and Ashland, and stopped the winter of 1803- 4 in the cabin of Thomas I fell Patterson, on the present site of Mount Vernon. In the spring of 1804, he erected a cabin, about half a mile northwest of Mr. Patterson, on what is now the I'rederT ktown road, and resided there until April, 1809. On the fifteenth of April, 1809, he landed on the west bank of the Take fork of Mohican, on the present site of Tylertown, where he quartered a few months in a camp cabin.

In May, Benjamin Bunn and family, William and Thomas Eagle and family arrived. These were the settlers in what is now Mohican township, in 1S09. When Mr. Finley arrived, lie was soon visited by the Indians of what was then known as Jerometown, a village on the Jerome fork of the Mohican, some five miles northwest of his cabin. The inhabitants of the Indian village were generally friendly. Mr. James Finley, of Marquand, Madison county, Missouri, from whom was obtained these particulars, says:

"As near, as I can recollect, the Indian village contained per mips about thirty bark and pole huts or wigwams. The names of the heads of families were, Aweepsah, Oppetete, Catotawa, Neshohawa, Buckanddohee, Shias, Ground-squirrel, Buckwheat, Philip Canonicut, and sometimes Thomas Lyons, Billy Montour, and Thomas Jelloway." The chief, Captain Pipe (Hobacon), resided some distance from the village. "He was a tall, dark, scowling old Indian, and seemed hostile to the whites. I seldom saw him. He did not associate with tire whites of the neighborhood, but did his trading abroad. I learned that he and Armstrong, of Greentown, often made expeditions to attack emigrants on the Ohio river, on their way 10 Kentucky." "John Jerry Bettis Jerome had a cabin on the present site of Jeromeville, near the stream, when we moved to the country. He had been a trader among the Indians seventeen years in die northwest, and was a Frenchman; and, like most of the traders of that nation, married a squaw. He had a daughter ten year old, named Aweepsah. Fie had cleared some twenty-five or thirty acres - had horses, cattle and hogs, and often entertained the pioneers. After the declaration of war, his wife and daughter accompanied the Jerometown Indians to Piqua, where they died. Jerome sold his land and married a German woman, and removed to the mouth of Huron, on tire lake, where he died some years afterward."

In 1809 the region along the Lake and Jerome forks of Mohican, was an unbroken forest. Jerome, and Benjamin Mills, who resided on tire present site of Wooster, as Mr. Finley supposes, were the only white people in that part of Wayne county. He became quite intimate with Jerome, and exchanged many articles of food with him, and was indebted to him for many acts of friendship. The Indian village was about one mile southwest of Jerome's cabin, and surrounded on three sides In almost impenetrable marsht , filled with alder and other swamp growths. The emigrants of jSio it, state, "that the wigwams or huts were scattered over a space of eight or ten acres, with the undergrowth cut awav, and a smooth play-ground in the center, which was much used

I as a bowling ground. Here the hunters and .warriors | amused themselves. The council house was located j northwest of the village, and was some twenty-five feet | wide and fifty feet long, covered with clapboards and bark. It was of poles and split timber." Years before | the arrival of Mr. Finley, this village was conspicuous in I the annals of the border wars. It was located near the ancient trail leading from Pittsburgh to Upper Sandusky,

! and many trembling captives ran the gauntlet in passing through it, on their way to the Indian towns in the northj west. This was the headquarters of those warriors of the Wolf tribe that, still followed the fortunes of Captain | Pipe. At that period, the Green town Indians seemed ! quite intimate with the Jerometown branch of the Delawares, and often associated with them in celebrating their feasts.

In 1810, Mr. Finley was joined by Vachel and Wil- |v liam Metcalf, Thomas and Joshua Oram, Benjamin and I John Mackerel, James and Joseph Conelly, Flisha Chil- | cote, John Shinnabarger, and their families.

When the war of 1.8x2 came, and the Indians ecu', rnenced hostile demonstrations, Mr. Finley, and some of 1 his neighbors, forted in Wooster. In xSiy, he joined | families and forted with his neighbor, John Shinna- ! barger, who had a strong cabin with port holes, one mile j northwest of tire present site of Tylertown. Save the affair at Cclyer's, elsewhere alluded to, the settlement remained undisturbed. James Finley relates a number of amusing incidents connected with the flight of the pioneers to Wooster, and other places of safety. Alter proceeding some distance along a circuitous path, with his family, his father remembered that he had left some young calves in pens, and, fearing they would starve, returned to let them to the cows, and then attempted to i you didn't know it." The little daughter was speedih ; replaced, survived the war, and, upon arriving at woman hood, became the wife of the late Justus S. Weatlicrbce.

After the close of the war, Mr. Finley continued l< reside on his farm until Per m her, 1825, when he deceased, aged about fifty nine years. 1 >1111114 tire early prut of his residence on the Lake for k, it was navigable for small craft .<> tire present srn of Tylertown, known a-

His family consisted of James, Benjamin, John, Hannah, Sarah, Abnes, Rachel, Elizabeth, and Mary. James resides in Madison county, Missouri; Benjamin and John are deceased; Hannah (widow Glenn,) resides in Urbana, Illinois; Sarah, wife of Daniel Focock, resides near Ilayesville; Abner lives near Flympton, Holmes county, Ohio; Rachel, wife of Sparks Bird, near Mohii canville, Ashland county, Ohio; Elizabeth, wife of James | Focock, in Hayesviile, Ohio; Mary, wife of Elijah Po- ! cock, died near Hayesviile.

I was absent when your letter arrived, which accounts for not being answered sooner. Jerome settled on Mohican. When v.-e came to the country, he was living at Jeromctown, in a small cabin, a short distance from the Indian houses, fie cultivated some six or eight acres of land, kept a few horses, cattle, and swine, He and the Indians did not get along well. They wished him to divide the products of his farm with them. This he refused to do, and the consequence was, when they got bad whiskey they whipped him. He built a cabin near the trail, on the east side of the stream, at the foot of Main street, in the- present village of Jeromeville, having bought the laid where Jeromeville now stands, where he kept a house of entertainment. In 1812, when the Indians were removed, he said he gave hi.s squaw the privilege of going or staying with him. She chose to go with the j Indians, fie afterwards married a white woman. He sold his farm to | Mr. Dcardcrff, and settled at Huron, in Huron county, and shortly - | after died. He commenced trading with the Indians when seventeen j years old; but how long be continued a trader, 1 do not know. He. ] was with the Indians in Wayne's campaign, but whether he was with | them in Harmar's and St. Ciairs, I do not know. The Indians did j not have much cleared land. I never saw their field, but it was situated j out of sight of the village. I think they had only a few small patches.

- The cleared land around the village was a lawn, well set with blue | giass, and contained an occasional tree and a few shrubs - perhaps I amounting to eight or tea acres. I was in the village during the resij deuce of the Indians, some three or four times. It consisted of some j fine cabins, about sixteen by eighteen feet, one story high, and a nutnj her of smaller luits or wigwams. The council house, I think, was a j temporary building, built lodge fashion. I do not recollect of having I seen it. I saw the wigwam of Captain Pipe. It was within the j cleared space of the village. I have no recollection of wife or children, j He appeared to be upwards of fifty years old. Was a tall, dark, and straight Indian. I never talked with him, perhaps father did, bur I think not much, as Pipe was a surly, unrelenting enemy of the whites, and had little intercourse with them. I think he left early in the stimj tner of i8<2. I have no knowledge oi Captain Pipe, jr. The Captain j other Pipe - -perhaps a son. I know that the Captain 1'ipe I describe [ resided in Jeroraetown in the years 1809-10 ti. I believe there were I more Captain Pipes than one. I think Jerome said, the Indians had

* The above is a letter from j antes Kinky, in answer to one add re. d him by the author, on the subject of the Indian settlement at Jei'cmctmvii, asking him to lie more definite concerning Jerome anil Captain Pipe It sei ms that Jerome had at first a cabin in or n nr the Imb.-n vi I lug.-, but in vs uisi-i pn-noc of bail win k - v . failed to agree v. ith his red la thn-n Mt. Killin' rememliers the wigwam of old ('.plain Pipe, bat tails' to recollect his wife or children. It is probable that Pipe lived alone Captain Pipe, jr., of (ireentow.i, was undoubtedlv his

William And Thomas Eagle

The following sketch was written hy Dr. Thomas A. Eagle, jr., of Macon City, Missouri, in reply to a letter making certain inquiries concerning the first settlers of Mohican. It differs, in some degree, from the recollection of others, but, from his standpoint is, no doubt, reliable. Fie places the location of the Eagles in 1810. They were, undoubtedly, in Mohican in May, 1809. The forts alluded to were, probably, the Buren or Metcalf, and Shinabarger block-houses, and stockade.

"The whites commenced their first settlement in Mohican township in the spring of tSio. In that spring; four families emigrated and settled in the rich and fertile valley of the Mohican. The first settlement was made on the west side of the stream, generally from onehalf to one mile front it. Alexander Finley and family were the first emigrants. They arrived about two weeks before the families of Thomas Eagle and my father, William Eagle, who were met and cordially welcomed by Mr. Finley. Mr. Finley and family brought with them, for the use of father and family, a bucket of butter-milk j and a fine corn-pone, which was quite i thankfully received. 'Ibis was their first meeting and \ acquaintance. It was very pleasant and cordial, and ; ripened into an attachment that grew stronger from day ! to day, and was never chilled by jealousies or broils.

| Their limited means, dangers, and dependence upon each | other, had the effect to cement the friendship. Their j families imbibed the same feeling, and, to-day, the dei scendants of these pioneers look back to their childhood | days, on the banks of the Mohican, with feelings of de- 1 light. Surrounded by dangers and enured to hardships, they learned to think for themselves, and acquired courage ! to accomplish the task they had undertaken. It was no ! place for faint hearts or irresolution. They were forty j miles from the settlements and in the midst of red men,

, who generally treated then; kindly until the war of 1812. i The first settlers were, religiously, cf the Methodists and j Presbyterians. The Finleys and Eagles were exemplary : members, and their children became members of one or i the other of these churches. My father, William Eagle, j remained in Mohican township, on the farm on which he j settled, until the spring of 185s, when he removed to j Iowa, and from thence to Missouri, and died in Kirksville,

"In the winter of 1862 my mother died in Her ninctvsecond year. They were natives of Virginia. They had seven children- -four are dead, and three living; one, Elizabeth Culbertson, resides in Iowa She was the first white child born in Mohican, February 20, tSi 1, - Man Montgomery, wife of Jonathan Montgomery, of Macon, Missouri, and myself.

"The Del. '.ware Indians inhabited Mohican at the time of the opening of the war of iSt2, and were regarded as hostile and treacherous. At that time the white settlers had become pretty numerous, and ivcii much annoyed at the presence of the Indians. 1 he alarms wore frequent, sometimes well founded, and at others false. When the murders on the Black fork took iila-.e, by the Indians, the inhabitants of the Jerome sought safety in the block-houses and stockades. The - Indians were tampered by a Frenchman by the name of ; Jerome, who was married to a squaw. He had been trading with them several years, and had a post at what is now Jeromeville. The place was named after him. j During the Indian troubles it was agreed that there ! should be no shooting at the block-houses unless in case | of alarm, for the benefit of those at work on their im- ! provements. Late one afternoon the citzens heard shoot- - ing at Hollar's block-house. They hastened to depart i to General Beall's army at Wooster, as it was thought I un practicable to reach the fort. Father, with his family, started. Mother Eagle was sick in bed, unable to travel i on foot. Sometimes she was held on a horse,, and at \ others carried on the route. My oldest si. ter (Mary) was then a small child, and also had to be carried. When they arrived at the Mohican, the canoe was on the opposite side. Mr. Finley had arrived and crossed, and concealed his family on the opposite side of the stream, supposing that the fleeing families were Indians in pursuit ! of him. Finding it impossible to cross, father went down j the stream and the family secreted south of what is now j Finley's bridge, for the night. 1 have often heard father | relate this adventure while my childish fears were aroused, j The family were not molested, and reached their destina- I tion in safety.

"After the close of the war, the settlers of Mohican were compelled to undergo many orivations. For sev- ! eral years they had to go thirty or forty miles to mill, on I pack-horses, following the Indian trails as best they could, j or- in canoes, down the Lake fork of Mohican and up ! Owl cieek to Shrirnplin's mill, and by-paths to Apple i creek in Wayne county. Some may conclude that the not the fact. . Amidst toil and dangers they would ha\e J their sport. On one occasion, when there was an alarm, ; it was thought the Indians were approaching. The citizens convened at James Colver's, about one mile east of the Mohican. In the night they heard a noise which they imagined to be the Indians. In great haste, each seized his gun and took position to be ready for the ! bloody contest ; but one of then number, on attempting to place Ae guards, was found <.o be missing. The miss- !

ing youth had professed great anxiety to meet the savage foe. Search was made, and the brave (?) bov was found secreted beneath a bed, half frightened out of his wits; when asked what he was doing, he said he was in search of the short gun. The gun. was noted for its extreme \ shortness, ar.d the brave young man was afterwards j known as the "short gun hero."

As for myseif, 1 was born April 5, 1 S 1 9, in Mohican township. Bead medicine in YAiland, under George W. How, M.. ! >. 1 prac ticed eveml years in Mohican,

Iowa, one year in California, two years in Fairfield, and in r 85 7 moved to Macon county, Missouri. ! made, that year, the first "free soil" speech ever made

1865 I was elected sheriff and county collector for two years. Since that time 1 have been engaged in die practice of medicine. I was the youngest of the family of William Eagle."

The Coulters

Thomas Coulter was born August 9, 1766, in the State of New York. His father, John Coulter, was a native of Ireland, and came to America when a youth, and married Abigail Parshall, a native of the State ot New York. His paternal ancestors, .therefore, were Scotch-Irish, and those on his mother's side were Hollanders, and were among the early settlers of New Amsterdam. The home of John Coulter and his wife, after leaving New York, was near Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, but in a short time they were driven thence by the Indians, at the time of the Wyoming massacre (177 9), their house and grain being consumed by fire and their cattle driven away bv the Indians and tories. The father of Tom jelloway, since a Greentown Indian, was then living in the Wyoming valley, and, being friendly to the whites, warned them of their danger ; and among the number saved was the Coulter family. As soon as the perils of the times were over they turned their faces toward the West, and made a home near Ginger Hill, in Washington county. Pennsylvania. In 178S, Thomas Coulter, and his father, John Coulter, took a cargo of flour, fruit, etc., down the Ohio river to Mavsville, then Limestone, Kentucky, where they disposed of their load. While there, they were both attacked with small-pox, which proved fata! to the father. After Thomas was sufficiently recovered, he started for home, on foot, having previously sold the boat. One day, as he was pursuing "his solitary wav," he was overtaken by the notorious renegade, Simon Girty, armed with all the weapons peculiar to the savage Scnecai, with whom he then lived as an adopted member of the tribe. Mr. Coulter knew him, and not relishing or desiring his company, resolved to get rid of him bv stratagem. Under some slight pretext he stepped behind Girty, cocked his 1 i tie, and told him if he moved either to the right or left, or offered any resistance whatever, he would he a dead man. Girty was taken by surprise, and obeyed orders ; and they marched all that day along the paths through an unbroken wilderness, until they reached a settlement, when Mr. Coulter gladly gave up his prisoner. Some time after Iris return he joined a volunteer company under Colonel Mr rgan, and went to White River, Indiana, to aid in subduing die Indians who were committing depredations upon the white inhabitants of the frontier settlements in Kentucky. After an absence of a few months lie again re turned home, and it. a short time married Mi - Nance Tannahill, the marriage occurring August, 178.). In 17 97 he moved to Butler county, IVunsyUania, "here he remained until about the year 1S06, when he settled : in leffeison county, Ohio. After remaining there a few } years he finally emigrated to Richland county, then a | part of Knox county, and settled near the present site j of Perrysviile, in Ashland county. The1 town of Perrysville was laid out by Thomas Coulter, June 10, iSij, with the intention of naming it Couiterville ; but after Perry's victory on Lake Erie, he changed his intention, and called the village Periysviile, in honor of tic- naval achievement of Commodore Perry. When Richland county was organized, he was appointed one of the associate judges by the general assembly of Ohio. Mr. Coulter was a member of the Presbyterian church of Perrysviile, and one of the first elders. He died as he lived- - a consistent Christian, and zealous for the growth and prosperity of the church of his choice. He died October 24, 1844. and was buried in Perrysviile cemetery, aged nearly seventy-nine years. He was the father of seven children, viz.: John, Rachel, Abigail, David, Melzer, Nancy, and Thomas.

John Coulter was born September 13, 1790, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was the oldest son of Judge Thomas Coulter. HI is education was obtained principally in the common schools of the time. He frequently spoke in the highest terms of one of his teachers, the Rev. Mr. McMillen, one of the pioneers of Presbyterianism in western Pennsylvania, and particu- j larly in Washington county. Among the pupils of this | good man was Rev. John Coulter, brother of Judge j Coulter, who was pastor of the church of Concord, in the presbytery of 1 Sutler, more than forty years. Also, of Walter Lowrie, of blessed memory. John Coulter came to Richland, then a part of Knox count} , in the fall of 1 S10, in company with Edward Haley, a young man employed by Judge Coulter to accompany him. They began their labors upon a farm a little southeast of the present site of Perrysviile, in October, and continued their work until they had made several thousand rails, built a cabin, cleared out ten acres of ground, set out fruit trees, etc . after which they returned to their homes in Jefferson county. Ohio. In the following spring, ,101 r, John Coulter, and the rest of his father's family, removed to the cabin in the wilderness which rad been erected the fall before. This cabin afterwards became the Coulter block-house, and, while used as such, John Coulter acted as one of the scouts to watch the proceedings of the Indians. Early in the fall of 18 r 2 he went with a surveying party to open a road from Cleveland to Mansfield. This road is now known as the Harrisville and Cleveland road, and passes through the town of Ashland. On Saturday evening, after having commenced the survey, they had reached Chippewa lake, in Medina county, and were encamped for the night. Mr. McArthur, one of the commissioners to locate the road, ! was also captain of an independent company, and while there a messenger rode into camp with orders for Cap tain Me Arthur's company to return immediate!, to Cleveland, at the same time bringing the news of the surrender of General Huh at Detroit, this being the first intimation they had of the event, although it occurred on the sixteenth of August, 1812, some weeks prior to the survey. The surveying party was, therefore, disbanded, a part of which returned to Cleveland, and a part to the Black fork of the Mohican. Every one of the few settlements they passed on their way home was deserted, the cabins standing silent and tenantless. How their hearts must have sunk within them when they thought of the possible . fate of their loved ones. But when they reached the block-house they found the several families of the settlers gathered there for safety, and learned that tire Zimmer family had been murdered by the Greentown, or other Indians, the night before. While they were encamped at Chippewa lake, they heard the noise of chopping on the other side, and, as they afterward found -the Harris settlement deserted, from which they supposed the noise to proceed, Mr. Coulter was strongly of the opinion that the Indians who killed the Zimmers were encamped there. The details concerning the great flight to the block-houses at Clinton's, I :wis', Beam's, Oliver's, Coulter's, Jerome's, Priest's, Eagle's, and Metcalf's, are given in the sketch of the war of 1 8 1 2, where Mr. Coulter's experiences are referred to.

In the fail of 1S13 Mr. Coulter and Captain Ebenezer Rice took the job of continuing the survey and opening of the same road, from Trickle's cabin, the late location of the Mark ley brick residence, just east of Ashland, to the Black fork. While thus employed, Mr. Coulter killed a large black wolf. After the completion of the contract, early in the year 1814, Captain Rice walked to Chillicothe to receive the money, ninety dollars, which was due them, also, four dollars which the law of Ohio allowed for each wolf scalp.

On the seventh of April, 1814, John Coulter was married by Rev. James Scott, a Presbyterian minister of Mount Vernon, to Betsey Rice, eldest daughter of Captain Ebenezer Rice. In September, 1814, the young couple moved to their own home, a cabin on a quarter of land which joined Captain Rice's. In the summer of 1 S 1 5, Mrs. Coulter taught the first school in Greer, township, and. we believe, in what is now Ashland county, and took spinning and weaving as ho nay for tuition. She said it was a great accommodation to her, as she did not understand spinning and wear ing as well as teaching. Mrs. Coulter (Betsey Ric e) was born January 27, 1797, in New Salem, Worcester township, Hampshire county, Massachusetts. She came with her father's family, Captain Ebenezer Rice, to Newark, Licking j county, Ohio, in 1810, and, in February, iSti, he set- I tied near the present site of Perrysviile, in Ashland j county, then part of Knox county. Mrs. Coulter is now I (1S7 8) a resident of Congress, Wayne county, and although far advanced in years, possesses perfectly all her mental faculties arid a fair degree of physical force.

In June, 1814, John Coulter and ids brother-in-law, James Moore, descended the Black fork, Walhonding. and Muskingum, in a canoe, to Zanesville, on ashopping expedition; and from the bill ot goods we learn tha' si\ small dinner plates cost one dollar and I'.fiy cents; six cups and saucers, one dollar and seventy five cents; an earthen teapot, one dollar and twenty-five cents; a litt'e

Mr. Coulter was a man of sterling intergiiv, sound j judgment, warm and true in his friendships ; and in con- j sequence of these qualities the people often honored him I with office. When the project of erecting the new county j of Vermillion was agitated, Mr. Coulter was sent to Co- \ lumbus some two or three sessions of the legislature, to j work up the claims of the new county. He afterwards i served on the State board of equalization for real estate, | and was the first assessor of personal property of the j eastern half of Richland county, and was the first ccro ! rier. He was twice elected justice of the peace in Gieen i township, Ashland county, and twice in Washington j township, Richland county, besides to many minor offi- | ecs, all the duties of which he discharged with fidelity and j honor.

In November, 1817, lie and his wife united with the j Methodist Episcopal church, under the ministry of Rev, John Summerville, and Mrs. Coulter and their eldest child, j Kuinina, were baptized the same day. A few years after- ! ward they united with the Presbyterian church, in com- J m union and fellowship of which they walked together !

until the death of Mr. Coulter, which occurred in Perrys- ! ville, October 2, 1873. He had reached the ripe old ! age of eighty-two years and seventeen days, and had ; lived with the wife of his youth nearly sixty years. The i purity of his acts ceitified to the sincerity of his professions, and his long and busy life closed calmly and peacefully. His grave is made in Perrysville, where he spent the strength of his early manhood.

Mr. Coulter was the father of ten children, only four of whom survive, viz,.: C. C. Coulter, of Perrysville, Captain J. N. Coulter, of Glidden, Carroll county, Iowa, Elizabeth R., wife of A. D. Zimmerman, of Shi c-ve, Wayne county, Ohio, and Nancy L., wife of Rev. Franklin Eddy, of Congress, Wayne county, Ohio. The names j of the deceased are: Cyrenius M., Eumina, wife of Dr. j J. H. Register, Sebastian C, and Martha R., all buried ' at Perrysville, and I.ucina, wife of David Ewing, of j Havesville, Martin VaR Buren, who died at Milikerfs \ Bend, Louisiana, in the One Hundred and Twentieth j Ohio volunteer infantry, in 1S63.* was bom near Black Rock, Baltimore county, Maryland, ! May 20, 1798, and came with his parents to Jefferson ! county, Ohio, in iScp, where he resided a short time, | and removed to Tuscarawas county, and settled near the village of New Philadelphia, and having purchased a piece of wild land at the office in Canton, lie came lo

* Not?.. WuaroimloUvilto Mrs Rev. Kilcly. of Congress, Wayne county for most of tlx- items 01 tin.- pcn-omi! Vo-tch. It i, -able as a family reminiscence, anti lor the liylu it sheds upon tit. pio- 1 neer trr.iisaetions of i?u.

Perry township, then in Wayne, .but now in Ashland county. He came with his father, Joseph Chandler, sr., and his brothers, Thomas and Robert. F., to improve it, in the spring of rSi2. The farm was situated about two miles north of the Indian village, then known as Mohican Johnstown. The village contained a council house and about sixty or eighty pole lodges or wigwams, and was located near the old Wyandot trail, and about one mile southwest of the present site of Jeromeville, and on the west side of the stream. At the same time he found a Frenchman named John Baptiste Jerome living with a squaw, a sister of the chief, George Hamilton, in a neat log cabin near the site of the present gristmill, at the west end ot Main street. Mr. Chandler, in the summer of 1812, worked occasionally for Jerome, and considered him an impulsive, clever Frenchman. He had taught his wife to cook and keep house like the white women, and Mr. Chandler regarded her as a good 'housekeeper, considering her opportunities. Jerome seemed much attached to his Indian wife. He formerly lived as a trader in the village, but stated that the warriors got fire-water, and frequently abused him, hence, he cleared a small farm and raised horses and other stock, and cultivated a cornfield on the bottom. He entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, where Jeromeville now stands. Pie bad great numbers of swine, horses and cows running in the forests. In fact, his stock ranged in the woods in great numbers. Jerome had a daughter, aged about fifteen years, named Mary or Moliie, who had received her name from a Catholic priest at her baptism, near Detroit. Michigan. Jerome repeatedly rehearsed his military exploits in the campaigns against Harmar, St. Clair and Wayne, in the presence of the whites, and stated that Captain Pipe and his ZWawares had been in all those battles and glutted their vengeance against the white invaders.

Mr. Chandler thinks there is no doubt of the return of Captain Pipe to Jerome's village, one mile west of tbc stream, and of his having a wigwam at that point, where it was pointed out in iSiz. Pipe, he thinks, went to the British in the spring of 1S12, as he was not seen after the war began. His son resided at Greentown, until removed by Captain Douglass. After the assassination of the Zimmer. Ru finer, and Copus families or. the Black fork, Jerome's wife and daughter were sent with the Greentown Indians to Urbana, where, during the winter of 1812-13, she and her daughter died from exposure, and Jerome was imprisoned for a short time in the block-house at Wooster. Jerome sold the village site, and married another wife, and removed to the mouth of the Huron river, where he died shortly afterwards.

In the fall of the year iSi2, Joseph Chandler, sr., and sons returned to Tuscarawas county, where the) remained until the close of the war, and then re-occupied their cabin in Perry, where his father deceased, May, iSic;, aged sixty years, leaving a widow and six sons: Thomas, Robert F., Joseph, Shadrac, Jacob, and John; and four daughteis: Rebecca, Eleanor, Henrietta, and so;i of Daniel Carter, sr,, was born in Montgomery township, on the old homestead in section twenty-eight, March i8, 1815. Me was the first white child born in the township. It has been heretofore stated, on what should have been good authority, that the first white child born in Montgomery township was Lorin Andrews, but this is a mistake, as he was not born until 1S19, four years later than David Carter. Sarah Carter was born in 1816, and William Sheets in the early part of 1819, so that Lot in Andrews was the fourth instead of the fust child born in the township.

Daniel Carter, sr., was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, December 25, 1776, and was married in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, to Ann Snyder. They came to Ohio in 1806, and she died in the block-house at JeromeviUe in 1813. leaving eight children: John, William, Daniel, Rachel, Elizabeth, James. George, and Anna. Mr. Carter subsequently married Ruth Warner, March 9, 1S14. She came with her parents to Mohican township in i8to or 1811. Seven more children were the result of this marriage - -David, Sarah, Mary, Samuel, Miranda, Milton, and Charles.

| at the Norwalk seminary, after which he became a : teacher for one term. On December 26, 1S37, he was | married to Miss Elizabeth Griffith, of Fayette county,

| lie was afterwards sergeant-major of the regiment, and j finally became quartermaster. He was for some three ! years aide-de-camp to General Meredith, who corn- | manded the First brigade of the Eleventh division of I Ohio militia, of Richlano county, in which capacity lie | served until the brigade, was divided. In iS6t he volj unieerecl as a private soldier m company I, of the Sixty- ! fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until ; Match, 1862, when he was ordered home on a discharge | furlough, and was never ordered back to his regiment,

Mr. Carter and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he abides by the doctrines of Andrew Jackson. He now lives on the old homestead, within a f . w rods of the place when stood the old log cabin in which he was born. He has never known !. any home other than this.

| death, on the old homestead. He often alluded to the I wonderful change that had occurred in Perry township ! since ('is arrival in 18x2, now sixty-eight years ago.

First, states that the first grist-mill was erected by } John Raver, in Row sburgh ; second, the first schoolhouse of round legs was in the- west part of Perry; third, the first teacher was John G. Mosier, who diced near Ashland in 1856; fourth, the first dry goods store, Michael Row, in Rowsburgh ; fifth, the first | blacksmith, Adam Tener ; sixth, the first carpenters, j Isaac Smalley and James Scott; seventh, the first carding machine, at Rowsburgh, by Mr. McCotiayha ;

[ eighth, the first tanner, George McKadders ; ninth, the first wagon -maker, Andrew Casebeer, at Buchanan's corners: Tenth, the first church at Mt. Hope on Mud- , dy fork; eleventh, the first Presbyterian preacher, Rev. Mr. Brown.

Mr. Chandler has always been a practical farmer, and resided on ids father's old homestead. He was an exemplary member of the Methodist church for a period of over forty years,' was a good citizen, and noted for his frugality and integrity. His family have all grown, and are much scattered. He saw the country when a w ilderness, and has noted its wonderful changes, its wealth and prosperity, and trusted that the descendants of the pioneers would remember the hardships of their parents, and live frugal, moral and useful lives, and preserve the institutions of their fathers, untarnished by corruption and tyranny.

| John, Marion. Joseph, Farnham and Elizabeth. In 1S52 1 he married Margaret Beattie, of Vermillion township, l The children were Orin, Mitchell, and Franklin. His j last wife still survives to mourn his ioss

Mr. Chandler suffered but a short time. He had grown I greatly in flesh, and would weigh nearly three hundred j pounds. lie had been afflicted for several years with a chronic trouble, that finally cut short his days. He became a member of ;he Ashland County Historical Society in 1875, and took especial interest in rehearsing the early j times and occurrences in the county. It will be difficult to fib his place in the society, as well as in the community, where he resided. He was a good man, and v iil be much lamented. Peace to his ashes and rest to his soul.

Daniel Carter, Sr

was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and moved, when young, with lus mother to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1774. lie- emigrated to near Canton, Stark county, Ohio, in 1806, and then to what is now Montgomery township, Ashland county, in January, 181?, stopping a few days with John Carr, w! > had a cabin adjoining the farm of Baptiste Jerome, mud the erection of his cabin, and entered it with his family in February, 1812. The circumstances attending the erec- tion of bis cabin, and its first and second abandonment; Ids flight to New Philadelphia; his return, and his seeking safety, for several months, for himself and family, at the blockhouse at Jerome's place, now Jerome vibe,

; have been described in former chapters. The death of - his wife and son James, has also been spoken of in con- 1 nection with his residence at the block-house. About ; the. time he left the block-house he sold the tract of land i northeast of the present site of Ashland, to Conrad Kline and John Heller, and purchased four quarters, some two miles south of his original purchase, upon | one of which he located, having, in the meantime, marj ried Miss Ruth Warner. Mr. Carter continued to reside on the new purchase until February 7, 1S54. when, after a brief illness, he died at the advanced age of eighty years. Mrs. Carter, his second wife, survived ; him eight cr nine years. Mr. Carter was an industrious,

: Daniel, Rachel, Elizabeth. James, George, and Anna; ' by his second - -David, Sarah, Mary, Samuel, Miranda, Milton, and Charles. Daniel, David, arid Samuel, are , residents of Montgomery township, and three daughters j reside within the county. All the rest have moved elsewhere.

Daniel Carter, jr., is a citizen of Ashland. Elis pio- 1 neer experiences are as exciting and interesting as those | of any settler of that period. When about eleven years ! of age, he states his father dispatched him with a sack of shelled corn, on horseback, through the forest, to Odell's mill, in the south part of w hat is now Lake town- ! ship, to have it ground into meal. This was early in the spring of 1812. Pipe and his Delenvares had not v\c left Mohican Johnstown. On his return in the evening, being belated by the difficulty of winding his way along : the Indian paths, he reached the Indian village a little after dark, and seeing a number of Indians collected for a sort of council at the council house, he stopped to witness the performances. It was at this "pow-vow' that trie "red-stick," of Tecumseh was rejected by "Old Captain Pipe." He returned to his father's cabin, however,

1 without molestation by the Indians, who, at that time, were on friendly terms with them white neighbors. Mi. Carter relates many adventures, amid the forest, in his youthful days, of a thiiling character, lie married Miss Eliza Slocum, daughter of another leading pioneer of a 1 later period.

David Carter was born March 18, 1815, on the homestead in section twenty-eight, Montgomery township. He is believed to be the first male child born in Monf- 1 gomery township. He married Miss Elizabeth Griffith,

, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1S37. He resides on the oid Carter homestead, anti is a farmer by occupation. His children - three-- deceased in infancy. lie is a man of good natural attainments, and possesses a fund of pioneer experiences.

John Greenlee was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, near French creek, in 1804. William Greeniee, his father, visited Ohio in the spring of 1S11, and located a farm near James ],. Priest, in that part of Lake township subsequently annexed to Washington township, Holmes county. In making that trip on horseback, he passed down the banks of the Ohio river to Wellsburgh. Virginia, crossed at tire ferry, and traveled west to Cadiz, thence to Cambridge, thence to Zanesville, thence up the banks of the Muskingum river to the village of Coshocton, thence up the bank of the White-woman to the Lake fork, and thence through an unbroken forest, by Indian paths, to the cabin of James L. Priest. Mr. Priest had been a neighbor in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and had located near what is now "Priest's Prairie," in the summer of 1809. After a stay of ten or fifteen days. Air. Greenlee became so pleased with the country that he resolved to select and locate upon a tract of land near Mr, Priest. He returned to Pennsylvania, and arranged for removing his family to Ohio. By the first of October, 181 r, he had completed his arrangements, and commenced his journey through the forests with one two-horse and one four-horse covered wagon, loaded with household goods, provisions, grain, and his family, consisting of his wife and seven children - six girts and one boy, John. Lie also brought a few head of cows. He crossed the Ohio river, and came by the trail through Canton, Massillon, and Wooster, all mere villages, the trail being narrow and - but little traveled. There were hut few cabins along the route, and he was compelled to camp by the way-side, pretty nearly the entire distance. When ire arrived at the village of Wooster, he found no opened path to tire Priest cabin, and hence preceded his teams with an ax, cutting the undergrowth and prepared a wagon road. Tn this way his progress was slow, and it took the major part of one month to perform the entire journey. He finally arrived safely, and was assisted by his old friend, and eight or ten friendly Indians, among whom, were Thomas Jelioway, Tom Lyon, Billy Dowdee, Thick-necked John, Monos, and Billy Montour, and a few white men, in putting up a cabin.

The pioneer families within a circuit of six miles are believed to have been, at that time, Mr. Finley, Mr. Eagle, Samuel Marvin, William and John Hendrickson, Elijah Bolling, William Greenlee, and James 1.. Priest. The cabins of Messrs. Priest and Greenlee were near the old Huron trail, and great numbers of Dc/aicans, from Sandusky, Green and Jerometown, passed on their way to and from the old Indian settlement on the Tuscarawas during the fall of iSii and the spring of 1812, hut all remained quiet and friendly until after Hull's surrender at Detroit, in August, 181a This was followed by the removal of the Green and Jerometown /.l/ayivrs, and the assassination of ku fiber, Uv Zim liters, and James Copies, by the hostile Indians from

| and enclosed by pickets about one-fourth of an acre of ground around it. The fort was a few hundred yards west of the Lake fork, and near where the railroad ! crosses that stream. The settlers near Odell's lake i joined those of the Priest settlement, in the erection of the stockade, and came there for safety. The families ! who entered the fort were those of James L. Priest, William Greenlee, William and John Hendrickson, Elijah Bolling, Samuel Marvin, Nathan Odell, Joshua ! and Thomas Oram, and Elijah Chilcoat. The settlers remained in the fort but a short time, and returned to their cabins. The fort, however, remained a sort of headquarters for the little colony during the continuance of the war, although the red rnen of the northwest | failed to put in an appearance. While the war pro- - grossed, in 1813. Mr. John Greenlee relates that on the | tenth of September he distinctly heard the roar of ait:l- ! lery in the naval engagement between Perry arid tire | British commodore on J,ake Erie ; but, although the | day was clear, supposed at first it was a heavy storm or j hurricane in the northwest. In a few days the news of j Perry's triumph was heralded over the country.

In a short time, the settlement was increased by the I arrival of John, Henry, and Reuben Newkirk, James i Gray, Thomas Baker, Mr. Ellsworth, John, Jacob, Alexander, and George Emrich, Peter Wycoff, John Smith,

1 George Marks, Jabez Smith, and Robert Chandler. In i 1824 William Greeniee sold his farm to Calvin Hibbard, i and purchased the homestead on section fourteen, south- I west Quarter. Here William Greenlee died in 1834, j aged eighty-two years and three and a halt months, and at his decease John Greenlee came into possession of. ! the homestead. John Greenlee married Miss Susannah | Warner, of Lake township, August jo, 1836, and resided I on the homestead about sixty-three years. He was a i successful and thrifty farmer, a good citizen, an upright ! and honest man. He did his full share in improving ' highways, building school-houses, erecting churches, am!

j illness, deceased on the eighteenth of June, 1877, and 1 was followed to the grave, his final resting place, by a i lar<re number of his old neighbors and friends.

When he entered Lake township, that part of the j county was covered with its native forest, and ai oundeii ! in wolves, bear, deer, and in othei wild animals. The i as he passed up and down the ancient trails. These have long since disappeared, for new men and new ideas. Civilization, with school-houses, villages, churches,

1 railroads, and other improvements, has taken, possession of the land. How great the change, even in a life-time i of sixty-four years! The Indian has gone tow aid tire setting -'tin to find his last retreat; the leu -t md the hunter's sport have gone, in exchange fin the delightful pursuits of agriculture, and the independence ot a Linn- 1 el's home.

Robert F. Chandler

ROBERT F. CHANDLER was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, September a, 1795, and removed with his father's family to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1810, and shortly after, to Tuscarawas county, where he remained until the spring of 1812. At this time the father, Joseph Chandler, sr., and his sons Thomas, Joseph, jr., and Robert F., went to Perry township, then in Wayne county, to improve lands previously entered at Canton land office. The location is now where Joseph Chandler, jr., resides, about two miles north of Jeromeville, on the east side of Mohican. When the Chandlers landed, the Dilarviires were quit -

| numerous, but harmless. They had a village about one mile southwest of the present site of Jeromeville, on the west side of the stream, known as Mohican Johnstown. The village contained a council house and about sixty or eighty pole lodges or wigwams, and was located near the old Wyandot trail. The village was a common resort of hostile WyamMs on then warlike excursions to western Pennsylvania and Virginia, in the days of the border wars. Many white captives had been led .up the old trail, by the village, from 17S0 to 1795. The Indians had cleared some fifteen or twenty acres of bottom land, which the squaws cultivated in corn, after the Indian manner. The village was west of the stream, on : lands now owned by Dr. Yocum. About one mile northeast of the village, a Frenchman by the name of John - ; Baptiste Jerome, resided in a comfortable cabin, having an Indian wife and a daughter aged about fifteen years, j He also had horses, cattle and swine, and had cleared j about thirty or forty acres of bottom land along the j stream at the west side of what is now Jeromeville, on j which he raised corn, and .supplied many of the eailv pioneers with seed corn. When Mr. Chandler landed, the Indians, mostly Delawares, were quite friendly, and often came to see him in his cabin and clearing. He was a Quaker in dress and faith, and the Indians manifested a good deal of interest in his safety and success. The Chandlers immediately set about clearing. a piece of land on the bottom, (near where they erected a cabin,)

About the time of Hull's surrender at Detroit, August I 16, ill:, the friendly Indians notified Chandler of approaching danger, and he and his sons deemed it prudent to leave. They returned to Tuscarawas countv, to near where New Philadelphia now stands, where they rej mained with the family until the close of the war. In the meantime, Robert F. returned to Jefferson countv,

, where he remained until about 1 8 r 5, when he again rejoined his father's family and returned to the Mohican, and continued improvements on their old homestead. In May, 1S15, the Chandler family, father, mother and sons, removed to their wilderness home. Two years afterwards his father, Joseph Chandler, sr., sickened and died His mother , survived until r S 5 2 , and died at an ad- { vanced age. Robert h. contmued to reside near Jornme- ! ville until 1 834, when he purchased and carried on what [ was then known as Smith's mill, near Mohican'. ille.

j purchased the farm where he deceased, and turned far- ! mer. Mr. Chandler was a friendly, genial pioneer, and in ms primal days delighted to dwell upon the incidents I of pioneer life sixty-eight or seventy years ago. Being a : miller for many years, and possessing good conversa- I tiorial powers, he became acquainted with nearly all the j eatly settlers ot the south part of the county, and, when j in the humor, a very interesting talker. He was never a ; member of any church, regarding it his duty to treat all i men justly, and believing that when his career should I end on earth, that the Supreme Ruler of the universe would reward such a life. He looked kindly upon all j men, and desired to so live that he might have a conscience free of offence when called home.

He married young, when about twenty years of age, j Miss Charlotte Jones, April 25, r S 1 6. This lady deceased j September 19, 1819: and in January, 1825, he married Miss Hannah Winbigler, who died February 25, 1875. j His family consisted of Charles and Eleanor, of his first ! wife, and Robert, William, Joshua, Shadrac, Hannah

Joseph, Charlotte, Sarah, Rebecca, John, and Jasper, by his second wife. All these were living when this sketch was written, in 1876, except John and Jasper. His family are much scattered, and many reside in the far west.

! formerly from Greentown, upon the Black fork. At a ! hilarious gathering, near Goshen, in Tuscarawas county, i a number of Deltm-ares joined in t'nc- sport of wrestling, running and hopping. A tall, powerful Indian, former!) from Greentown, by the name of Philip Kennotchy, challenged Mr. Chandler to wrestle at arms-length Indians never taking back-hold. Mr. Chandler being ali ways full of conceit, and very ambitious and atheiedc,

I and weighing at the time about two hundred pounds, j accepted the banter. The parties selected the ground, j and took hold as agreed, Mr. Chandler supposing him- J self superior to ali rivals at anns-'ength: but the giant j grasp of the big Ddro.'are soon convinced him that he j had a full match. They twisted, tripped and strugg! :d ! for thirty or forty minutes, until nearly exhausted, with J out apparent advantage to either. Mr. Chandler be- came very much enraged and quite desperate, while 1 Kennotchy remained calm and resoiute, and finally com I pelied him to ask a cessation of the struggle, which i Kennotchy was willing to do. Mr. Chandler said that j at one time, that he was so much enraged that he felt i like striking the Indian; but, in his calmer moments, he j is now satisfied that he refrained from all violence, because the Indian would have undoubtedly overpowered ! and severely punished him. In connection with this j Indian, he gave a very interesting detail of the RulTr.er J Zimmer assassination.-,, on the Black fork, in the fall ( f ! 1812. Kennotchy was very fond of fire-water, and whiie ' under its influence', gave full particulars of the Black fo;k murders, lie slated 'hat he was one of the number i that killed Martin 1< ; . line t , Frederick Zimmer, the eld lady, and Kate. Alter leaving the cabin and passing up the ravine, the Indians held a council, when Kennotchy returned and dispatched the white squaw, meaning " Kate," with 'his tomahawk, the other Indians protesting, when he claimed to have "brave heart." This is the most valuable information ever obtained concerning the particulars of that fearful tragedy.

Sparks Bird

Sparks Bird, son of John and Cassandra Bird, was born at Redstone, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1797. His parents removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, about the year 1803, which, at that time, was very sparsely settled. The Delawares vet remained along the Tuscarawas river, in large numbers, and ranged the forests in quest of wild game. They often visited the cabin of the parents of Mr. Bird, but offered no threats or intimidations. In the spring of 1814. at the age of eighteen, young Bird left the parental roof in search of employment and fortune, and stopped a short time near the present city of Massillon. In the spring of 1815, he visited his uncle, General Beall, at Wooster, and obtained employment of him; and in 1S16, in company with the general and the late Hon. Levi Cox, passed up the trail and visited the village of Loudonviile, which at that time, contained but few cabins. They traveled over a good deal of the townships of Hanover, Green, and Lake, and he made choice of the southeast quarter of section seven, in Lake township, when he returned to Wooster and entered. He then entered the employ of General Beall, and worked at clearing and farming for some time. The farm of the general occupied most of the present site of Wooster, and Mr. Bird says he has plowed over the ground upon which some of the best residences of Wooster now stand. The old Wyandot trail, just at the south margin of the present city of YGroster, was then quite plainly marked by Indian travel. Tire trail was at that time much used by the Delawares and JVyandots , on their trading excursions to "Old Pitt." as the city was then called. It was not uncommon to see hundreds of red men, from the northwest, pass and re-pass the settlement about the block-house, every week, for four or five years after the war of 1812; but the spirit of the red man had been completely broken, and the hostiles had generally removed to Canadian soil, while the Montours, the Armstiongs, the j onacakes, the I towdees, and the Lyons still continued to range the forests of what is now Ashland county, in search of game.

During the period of his employment by General Beall, he became acquainted with the notorious John 1 >riskcl, who afterwards became the leader of a gang of desperadoes in Green township, of what is now Ashland county, that were the terror of law-abiding people. When Driskcl first came to the settlement at Wooster, he was not considered a bad man, otherwise than somewhat quarrelsome when under the influence of corn whiskey, j -Associations and sprees with his gang of outlaws soon j made him a dangerous man; and so rapid was his prog revs in crime that law abiding citizens w- compelled, to 1 defend themselves against the incursions of the villainous thieves and land pirates headed by him. The leading crimes of this bandit consisted in horse-stealing, incendiarism, and house-breaking. Driskel and his gang originated in Columbiana county, whence they gradually collected in Wayne county, and spread to Green township, in what was then Richland county. The boldness of their crimes created terror wherever they appeared. Driskel, the head of the banditti, is said to have been maimed by an encounter with Andrew Toe - having had the end of his nose bitten or cut off, which, added to his crimes, rendered him exceedingly repulsive in appearance. While residing in Wayne county, several of the gang were detected, convicted and sent to the penitentiary. Driskel was finally captured and sent to State prison; but, by some means, escaped, and, by the aid of I his son John, and the two Brawdys, relations, and proj fessional highwaymen and thieves, for a long time escaped ! recapture. Repeated acts of incendiarism in Green township, in which many barns, other buildings, hay and stock were consumed, and horses and cattle stolen, the indignant pioneers speedily organized a band of regulators, or a black cane company, to compel the Driskel gang to leave the country or suffer retaliation from an indignant and outraged community. The Driskel banditti, learning the state of public feeling, prepared to rejoin John Driskel, the head of the gang, who had been,, in the meantime, captured, and on his way to Columbus had escaped arid fled to Illinois, where his desperadoes hastened to rejoin him and renew their desperate vocations as a banditti, and where the Driskels finale, expiated their crimes by being shot or hung by the regulators.

In September, 1820, Sparks Bird accompanied a surveying party to Michigan, as a chain carrier, and was employed in surveying several counties around Saginaw bay. On the return of the company, they were driven ashore in a violent snow storm; but ail escaped from the wreck, suffering dreadfully from cold and wet. Tney finally reached Cleveland, almost exhausted, where they were kindly cared fot. From thence he returned to Steubenville, and, in 1823, returned to Lake township,

; and commenced clearing and improving his farm, and put up a cabin. In 1824 he was joined by his brother William and family. He then commenced pioneer life in earnest - clearing, making rails, fencing, log-rolling, and laising cabins among the new settlers, being the chief employment. At this time wild game was quite abundant on Little Lake, and it was not uncommon tor the pioneers to be serenaded by wolves. On one occasion, the Bird brothers had purchased a lot o! chickens from a neighbor about one and a half miles distant, and, for convenience, had gone for them in the evening. After capturing them upon the roost, they had gone but a short distance along the winding paths in the di.erton of their own premises, when they were saluted by the unpleasant howl of wolves rapidb advancing upon trail. The Bird brothers quickened their gait from a vapid walk to a run. as the' wolves neared them in their llight. William Bird, being quite large ami lit s!«v. Apt up with Sparks, who was much lighter and more active, I with difficulty, They hastened along the path, making j all the speed of which they were capable, until Sparks j caught Ids foot, tripped, and fed in some brush, but held his fowls, and finally escaped the wolves. He is of opinion that he must have made excellent time, for the : voracious howlers remained about ids cabin all night, m the hope of dining on his favorite poultry.

Mr. Bird was a good shot, and a successful hunter, and kept his table well supplied with both venison, turkeys, bear, and wild honey. His experiences as a hunter are much like other rangers of the forest in Ashland county. He often met Jonacake, Billy Dowdee, and other Indian inhabitants of Greentown, as they ranged over the hills of Lake.

He has -lived continuously on his pioneer farm since he began to improve it in 1823-4. He has frequently been honored, by his fellow citizens, with township offices, having been elected trustee- in 1S3S-9 and again 1 from 1849 to 1S55.

He married Eliza, daughter of the late Jacob Long, in 1832. She 'deceased in 1835. He married Char- ; ictte Austin, of Jeromeville, in 1S40. She died in i860.

In 1832 the parents of Mr. Bird located in Clearcreek j township, and his mother, Mrs. Cassandra Bird, was one j of the first organizing members of the Presbyterian ! church of Clearcreek, then a branch of " Old Hope- ; well," in Montgomery. John Bird, father of Sparks, re- j sided near Savannah, from 1S32 to 1839, and was a soldier under General St. Clair, in his disastrous expedition against the S/iawiees and their confederates, on the j Miami, November 4, 1791,' but was so fortunate as to escape that massacre.

Sparks Bird, although far advanced in years, possesses a good deal of mental and physical vigor, and may survive to relate his pioneer experiences for many years.

Billy Dowdee

The old Delaware hunter, Billy Dowdee, visited the cabin of Allen Oliver, father of Lewis, in the spring of 1812, a few months before the removal of the Greentown Indians. Dowdee, with his squaw and six or seven children, en. .imped at the mouth of a rivulet, half a mile above Mr. Oliver, where it empties into the Black fork. The old warrior had hunted for some time, over the hills and along the valleys of Green township, but with ill success. His squaw and children lived meagerly on hominy and venison. Dowdee was a humane Indian, and was much attached to his squaw and children. In his distress, He concluded that Mr. Oliver would be likely to sympathize with the "red hunter." He had met his new neighbor several times, and rightly conceived t'ne true elements of his character, lie hastened lo the cabin of Mr. Oliver, when the following dialogue took pla< e :

In the meantime, Mrs. Oliver prepared a two-gallon pot of mush, and it was steaming hot when Dowdee and his family appeared at the cabin. On entering, " Billy" desired the pot to be placed in the middle of the floor, which was done; and the Indian family surrounded it, seating themselves on the floor. Tins, spoons and milk were provided, and Dowdee and his dusky family commenced their meal. The little Indians were remarkably voracious. The mush gradually disappeared. Finally the glossy skinned little fellows, with distended stomachs, began to hesitate. " Billy," talking to them in the Delaware tongue, urged them to " eat more." It was in vain, for their appetites had been fully glutted.

There they sat, nearly nude, with their yellow skins expanded almost to the point of explosion. One by one, they began to become drowsy, and nodded. The scene was exceedingly ludicrous. It was well worthy some native artist, and excited a smile from those who beheld it. The mush was at last consumed, and "Billy" produced the buckskin, and handed it to Mr. Oliver. He then reused his pappooses from their torpor, bade adieu to Mr. Oliver, and returned to his wigwam. The rivulet upon which he encamped, has since been known as " Dowdet's run."

A year or two after the war Dowdee returned to the Greentown settlement to hunt, and re-visited thaf region, annually, for several years, for the same purpose. The characteristic love of the Caucasian for mental culture existed among the early settlers of Green township. The children of the pioneers were gathered into a rude log school-house, and the services of a young lady secured as teacher. This was probably the first school ever taught in the township. The young lady who taught the young idea how to shoot still survives, and has nearly reached four score of well spent years. She informs me that, one drowsy, summer afternoon, when the little urchins under her charge were sleepily perusing choir A B C's, and feeling perfectly secure, a large, coppercolored warrior stepped into the school-ioom and looked gravely at the children. Profound silence prevailed. The little fellows could almost feel their scalps disapapearing. The teacher looked enquiringly at the Indian. The little ones trembled in expectation of capture or the tomahawk. It was Billy Dowdee. He took in the whole scene at a glance Looking gravely at the teacher, he said: "Much pappoose-- vc'ly much pappoose."

The young teacher blushed, visibly, at the insinuation, and felt greatly embarrassed. The point was, " I fill) intended to compliment her on possessing so large a family of pale-faced pappooses.

At the treaty at the Maumee rapids, in 1817. William Dundee, or Dowdee, is named as one of the proprietors in a reservation three miles square, south ot I'pper San

Hilly Dovvdee was a harmless old Indian, and is well remembered by the pioneers of Green township. He and his family accompanied the Delay ires to their new reservation, west of the Mississippi, in 1S29.

Abel Bailey

was born in Westmoreland count)-, Pennsylvania, July 24. 1799. In 1806, his father, in company with otheremigrants, came down the Youghiogheny on a small flatboat to Pittsburgh. The family of Mrs. Bryte, mother of John and the late David Bryte, were also in the company. On departing from Pittsburgh, they attached the flat-boat to one of the river boats, and descended the Ohio ro Steubenville, and located about eight miles northwest of the village, where they remained until 18.09, when Jolva Bailey and family located near New Lisbon and remained until 18:6, and removed to Green township, Richland county, and settled near Honey creek, Here the family remained until iStS, when John Bailey, father of Abel, purchased the southeast quarter of section fourteen, in Clearcreek township, and located upon it. John Bailey and his son, Abel, visited and selected the quarter in 1817, one year prior to the removal. John Bailey, sr., father of John Bailey, jr., who was the father of Abel Bailey, was of English descent, and served during the Revolutionary war, from Rhode Island, and located with his family in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he deceased. John Bailey, father of Abel, died in Richland county, whither he had removed, about 1850. Mrs. Bailey died in Clearcreek at an advanced age. Abel married Miss Acsah, daughter of John Murphy, of Creep township, in 'S21, and in 1S30 purchased the homestead in Clearcreek township of his father, and still resides thereon. When the Baiieys removed to Clearcreek in 1S18, they found the following pioneers in the township: Nathaniel Bailey, a brother of John, who located in 1817, Abraham Huffman, John McWilliams, David Barnes, Isaac Vanmeter, Peter YanoMrne.d, Robert McKeth, James Haney and hi . sons, Richard, John and Thomas, Richard and John Freeborn, Thomas Munhoib.nd, Patrick Elliott, Jacob Eoulk, 'Thomas; Ford and iris sons, Elijah, Elias, 'Thomas and John, and John Bryte. 'Those settlers were much scattered. The roads were mere paths, ill-worked, and, in wet seasons, difficult to travel. There were no churches or school -houses There were a few Baptists and Methodists. I iieir meetings were held in the cabins of the pioneers for several years. 'The forests of Clearcreek were very dense, and the timber very tall and of unusual si. to. The first settlers performed a prodigy of labor in its removal. Mr. Bailey says, "The task was absolutely disheartening'.' By perseverance, however, fine farms wet; prepared, and many of the pioneers, now .well advanced in age, are living in comfort and plenty, lie refuemlkis so idly the scenes, ludicrous and . :t!iorwiv:, that occurieil at the early cabin raisings, log roll i ings, and making roads. Fired by corn whiskey, and an I exuberance of animal spirits, the rugged pioneers were I ambitious to excel in all that tested physical endurance | and courage. Very few of the first settlers remain.

| Many of them have long since been gathered and garnered by the remorseless reaper. Mr. Bailey has long been a member of the Baptist denomination, and assisted in the erection of the first church in Savannah, in 1S40. It is a neat frame, and in a good state of preservation, j Upon the introduction of the reform of Alexander Cainp- ! bell, the church was greatly weakened, manvof the rnembers having connected with the new church. The Baptists have no regular minister at present. The members : number about thirty. The family of Mr. Bailey consists of Eli, of Van Wert, Ohio, and John, of Savannah.

Mr. Bailey relates that when he came to the township in 18x8, deer were very plenty, and the hunters could i easily procure an abundance of wild meat. The most | noted hunters of what is now Ashland county were Edj. ward Wheeler, Elias Ford, James Kuykendall, Chris- 1 topher Mykrants, Solomon Urie, John McConnell, and Jacob Voting, most of whom are now deceased. They hunted along the Vermillion river, the Black river, and on the Fire Lands of the Reserve. At that time, large i encampments of Wyandois and Delawares hunted an- 1 tsually along these streams, and frequently met and n- ! versed with the white hunters. The last deer was killed ; as late as 1845, within the present limits of Troy township.

David Bryte

Mr. Bryte was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1806, and it; 1.807 bis parents leti.ovec! to Jefferson county, Ohio. In 1S21, when sixteen years ot age, he arid a younger brother walked to (Mean. reek ; township, in Richland county, and passed through the then village of Uniontown, now Ashland. At that time, fifty years ago, it contained but a few log cabins ami 1 one or two small stores. For a number of years he fol- 1 lowed the occupation of teaching school. At that period he taught several terms in Milton and Monti gomery townships. Fie then located in Mansfield, where he continued to teach until about the year r8.je About this time he became deputy under Sheriff Mu Cnllough, and served two terms, and was elected sheriff one term. Upon the erection of YsTland county in 1845- 6, he removed to his farm three miles south of Ashland, and in 1850 was elected a justir e of the pe n e. In 1855 iie was elected infirmary director, and resigned to remove to .'lien county, where he remained a few years.

Mr. Bryte had been twice married, and hi set end ] wife and five c hildren, till grown, survive him. lie was an acccj (able and zealous member or the Christian church. He was a man of nervous temperament, and ; aiming 'his prime, a very ardent J lemocrut. His long j iresidence in this vicinity enabled him to become ac- j .qtiamted with most of the pioneers of the county. He J look great pleasure in recounting the exploits and ad- j ventures of the early settlers and their families. He lived to see great changes in men, and the general appearance of the country. He was buried in die cemetery in Ashland on Thursday, March 28, 1872.

John Scott

was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1793. He continued to reside in that county until he was about twenty six years of age. He attended the neighborhood schools until he had obtained a fair know'- j edge of the English branches. His father was a. farmer, j [and had located in the wilds of Washington county after j jt he close of the Revolution, and was of Scotch -Irish j [extraction. Mr. Scott grew- up an active, robust, and j intelligent young man, and evinced an inclination to lo- j Jcate amid the forests of the Ohio country, as this State was then called.

| In October, 1818, he married Miss Matilda Weakley, J of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1819 removed to the west part of Vermillion town- j . ship, Richland (now Ashland,) county, to the land now | known as the Joshua Campbell farm, where he purchased j some two hundred and twenty acres, erected a cabin, ; 'and commenced the arduous task of cutting away the j forest to prepare fields for cultivation, and his future ; home. When he arrived the settlements in Vermillion 1 were very sparse. When a cabin was to be erected, it ! required a circuit of many miles to procure hands suffi- ; jcient to accomplish the task. When he commenced his 1 pioneer home, it is believed that Peter and John Van- - gilder, Joseph Strickland and his sons, William S. and ; Joseph, William Reed, Mr Harlan, Mr. Lattimer, , [George Eckley, Ezra Warner, Ephraim Eckley, Mr. j jc'rabb, Mr. Beabout, Mr, Beck, Mr. Wallace, and a few !

. others, were the only residents of the township. These J jf until' *s were very much scattered, and the only inter- | course was in assisting each other in preparing cabins, ! j rolling logs and the like. Mr. Scott continued active i j operations as a pioneer farmer about twelve years, and [then located at Hayes' Cross Roads, where the town of [ Hayesiville now stands, in the winter of 1831, and open- i ed a small store. The store-room was in a log cabin on ( what is known as Armstrong's corner. Pie subsequently j erected a more substantial building, and entered into | partnership with Mr. Daniel Porter, in the dry goods 1 business. The new firm was remarkably prosperous, \ and did an active trade for that day.

Mr. Scott was a quiet, clear-headed, far-seeing man, j and gave his energies full scope. A want of suitable ! markets for the surplus products of the pioneer farmers greatly embarrassed them. Mr. -Scott became convinced that he could great!) relieve these embarrassments by purchasing the surplus cattle and horses, and driving them to 1 a suitable market. He entered largely into that enterprise, and by his promptness, fidelity and shrewd management, not only relieved the fanners - to their profit - of such stock, but greatly benefit ted the firm. At a subsequent date, when Pittsburgh, Portland (now Sandusky City), Cleveland and Milan were the only market for the surplus wheat of the township, which had to be hauled over rough roads at great expense, Mr. Scott came to the rescue of the farmers by erecting a mill in 1847, and converting a large quantity of wheat annually into first-class flour. In this, as in ail otb._r enterprises, fortune favored the brave. Fie continued in trade and the mercantile business about thirty years. In the meantime he sold his Armstrong corner to Jacob Kinnaman and purchased, in 1840, what is known as the Francis Graham brick building on the opposite corner south, and continued in business until 1846, when he sold to Messrs. Cox & Higbee, and practically retired from -active mercantile business. In 1857 his son Weakley W. entered into business at the old stand and continued several years. Mr. Scott died in 1864, aged seventy-two years, and was buried on a beautiful Indian mound within the corporation of Hayesviile, where Mrs. Scott and other members of the family were subsequently interred. Mr. Scott was a large man, full six feet high and of fine appearance. He was calm and dignified in his deportment. He was noted for his business integrity, good judgment, prudence and shrewdness. Yety few men have accomplished as much, and none have distributed more benefits m this county. While he regarded business as a business man, and insisted upon promptness and integrity at all times, he was sympathetic and charitable to a remarkable degree; and while in business never distressed the poor. This excellent trait was rewarded by great fidelity on the part of those whom he befriended, so much so that he was ac customed to state "he rarely lost a cent by trusting a poor man."

Mr. Scott left three sons and one daughter at Ins decease - Mr. W. W. Scott, who resides near Hayesviile, John Scott,' a lawyer, who resides and practices his profession in Cleveland, Dr. David Scott, who married the only daughter of Governor Allen, and who resides at Fruit Hill, near the city of Chillic.othe, and Miss Sidney Scott, of Hayesviile.

William Scott, a brother of John, sr., emigrated to Vermillion township in 1822, and resided on what is known as the Michael Helbert farm.. He married Miss Edwards, of Mifflin, and died in 1S54, aged sixty years. He was distinguished among the pioneers as a fine marksman and a very successful hunter. Many anecdotes arerelated concerning his adventures.