OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - Know your Ohio: Moses Cleavland / Western Reserve [5]
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Historical Collections of Ohio
The Kelley Family Collections
Newspaper article, Plains Dealer
compiled by S.J. Kelley-- 1925
And Then They Went West
by Darlene E. Kelley  1998
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Fifth of series-- Whn Moses Cleaveland Came To The Western Reserve.--

Peace--

     Among the relics of Moses Cleaveland's expedition in 1796, shown
recently in the window of National City Bank on Euclid Ave, was the
peace pipe and tobacco pouch given him by Chief Pawquaw at Conneaut
Creek.
     The deep pipe bowl, lined as are modern pipes, has a saw-like
handle projecting in front.  The large tobacco pouch is enbroidered with
beads in crude human figures. It must have held a several days supply.
     On July 5, the day after the party arrived, Cleaveland wrote
letters to the directors and to his wife.  He sent Capt. Tinker with two
boats to Presque Isle to fetch the remainder of stores.  On July 7, he
received word that Chief Pawquaw, living at the Indian village up the
creek wished to hold council. Cleaveland joined him, and when all were
seated took his place in the middle.
     The council was opened by smoking the pipe.  Then Cato, son of
Pawquaw,  arose and made an oration dictated by his father.  Cleaveland,
in turn, assured them they would not be disturbed, but be trusted as
friends and brothers. In the end they presented him with the peace
pipie, which he says, " was a serious one indeed." He gave them a chain
of wampum, silver trinkets, other presents and whisky, to the amount of
$25.  As a final word. the Indians said they were poor and hoped
Cleaveland would continue to be liberal.  He explained that he acted for
others who lived by industry, and to give their property to those who
lived by begging would be no act of charity.  If they were industrious
and well behaved , he would do such benevolent acts as he judged right.
This, he says, closed the business and ended their begging for more
whisky.

At Conneaut Creek --

     During the first days at Conneaut Creek the surveyors were active.
On July 5, they traversed from the stone on the Pennsylvania line in the
woods, located as marking 42 degrees north latitude, to the stone at the
north end of the state line on the lake shore.  They found that the
creek was about two miles west of the line and that it crossed into
Pennsylvania four miles southeast as the crow flies.
     The day of the Indian council, Porter, Pease, Holley, and five men
set out on the state line for the southeast corner of the Western
Reserve.  After a surveying journey of many hardships lasting about two
weeks, they reached the junction of the south line of the Reserve with
the western border of Pennsylvania.  Day and night observations were
taken. They agreedthe latitude was 41 degrees, 20" north, which was
satisfactory.  They planted a 12 by 16-inch chestnut post, the west side
of which Pease says," is the southeast corner of New Connecticut."
     In the meanwhile at the mouth of Conneaut Creek, a large storehouse
was built which Atwater's map shows as on the west side. It was called
Stow's Castle, in honor of the commissary department. On July10,
Cleaveland walked 10 miles up the beach against a headwind with Capt.
Buckland.  The latter must have been one of the many purchasers found at
the creek.
     Of Cleaveland's first journey to the Cayahoga on July 22, Amzi
Atwater, one of the surveying expedition, says:
     " While said lines were run (those toward the corner of the
Reserve), General Cleaveland and Tinker, the boatman, went up the lake
on an exploring expedition to the Cuyahoga, and up that river as far as
Tinker's Creek, which they discovered and, according to the example of
old navigators, named after the dicoverer."
     Atwater says in his notes that Joshua Stow was one of the party. As
a number of men were away on survey, and many more employed in building
Stow's Caslle. it is likely only one boat was taken.  As the Schenectady
boats of the expedition required four oarsmen, a steersmen and were
supplied with a mast  and sail, it was probable that there were seven or
more in the boat. Atwater asserts they passed the Chagrin River without
seeing it, which confused the surveyors later. Further notes found with
his account of the trip say that Stow cooked a rattlesnake for supper
the night they landed in the Cuyahoga and another for breakfast. This
concludes the record of that memorable water journey available. 
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