OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 831 Today's Topics: #1 Seneca County - Part 6 [Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991206205356.00947380@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Seneca County - Part 6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Historical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe, LL.D. SENECA COUNTY - Part 6 INDIAN AMUSEMENTS All the hunters and warriors continued in town about six weeks after we came in. They spent this time in painting, going from house to house, eating, smoking and playing at a game resembling dice or hustle cap. They put a number of plum-stones in a small bowl, one side of each stone is black and the other white; they then shake or hustle the bowl, calling "hits, hits, hits, honesy, honesy, rego, rego;" which signifies calling for white or black, or what they wish to turn up, they then turn the bowl and count the whites and blacks. Some were beating the drum (described elsewhere as "a short hollow gum closed at one end, with water in it, and parchment stretched over the end thereof, which they beat with one stick") and singing; others were employed in playing on a sort of flute, made of hollow cane, and others playing on the jews-harp. Some part of this time was also taken up in attending the council and as many others as chose attended and at night they were frequently employed in singing and dancing. THE INDIANS PREPARE FOR WAR. Towards the last of this time, which was in June, 1756 they were all engaged in preparing to go to war against the frontiers of Virginia. When they were equipped they went through their ceremonies, sung their war songs, etc. They all marched off from fifteen to sixty years of age, and some boys only twelve years old, were equipped with their bows and arrows, and went to war, so that none were left in town but squaws and children, except myself, one very old man and another about fifty years of age, who was lame. The Indians were then in great hopes that they would drive all the Virginians over the lake, which is all the name they knew for the sea. They had some cause for this hope, because at this time the Americans were altogether unacquainted with war of any kind, and consequently very unfit to stand their ground with such subtle enemies as the Indians were. SMITH'S TALK WITH TWO OLD INDIANS. The two old Indians asked me if I did not think that the Indians and French would subdue all America except New England, which they said they had tried in old times. I told them I thought not; they said they had already driven them all out of the mountains and had chiefly laid waste the great valley betwixt the North and South mountain from Potomac to James river, which is a considerable part of the best land in Virginia., Maryland and Pennsylvania, and that the white people appeared to them like fools, they could neither guard against surprise, run, nor fight. These, they said, were their reasons for saying that they would subdue the whites. They asked me to offer my reason for my opinion, and told me to speak my mind freely. I told them that the white people to the east were very numerous, like the trees, and though they appeared to them to be fools, as they were not acquainted with their way of war, yet they were not fools, therefore after some time they will learn your mode of war and turn upon you, or at least defend themselves. I found that the old men themselves did not believe they could conquer America, yet they were willing to propagate the idea in order to encourage the young men to go to war. SMITH GOES A HUNTING. When the warriors left this town we had neither meat, sugar or bear oil left. All that we had to live on was corn, pounded into course meal or hominy -this they boiled in water, which appeared like well thickened soup, without salt or anything else. For some time we had plenty of this kind of hominy; at length we were brought to very short allowance, and as the warriors did not return as soon as they expected, we were brought to very short allowance, and as the warriors did not return as soon as they expected, we were in a starving condition with but one gun in the town and very little ammunition. The old lame Wyandot concluded that he would go a hunting in the canoe and take me with him, and try to kill deer in the water, as it was then watering time. We went up Sandusky a few miles, then turned up a creek and encamped. We had lights prepared, as we were to hunt in the night, and also a piece of bark and some bushes set up in the canoe, in order to conceal ourselves from the deer. A little boy that with us held the light. I worked the canoe, and the old man who had his gun loaded with large shot, when we came near the deer in part of one night. We went to our fire, ate heartily, and in the morning returned to town, in order to relieve the hungry and distressed. When we came to town the children were crying bitterly on account of the pinching hunger. We delivered what we had taken and though it was but little among so many, yet it was divided according to the strictest rules of justice. We immediately set out for another hunt, but before we returned a party of warriors had come in and brought with them on horseback a quantity of meat. PRISONERS RUNNING THE GAUNTLET. Those warriors had divided into different parties and all struck at different places in Augusta county, Virginia. They brought in with them a considerable number of scalps, prisoners, horses and other plunder; one of the prisoners was one Arthur Campbell, who was eventually taken to Detroit; his company was very agreeable and I was sorry when he left me. When the prisoners were made to run the gauntlet, I went and told them how to act. One John Savage was brought in and a middle-aged man about 40 years of age. He was to run the gauntlet and I told him what to do. After this I fell into the ranks with the Indians, shouting and yelling like them, and as they were not very severe with him, as he passed me I hit him with a piece of pumpkin, which pleased the Indians much but hurt my feelings. KINDNESS OF THE INDIANS. About the time the Indians came in, the green corn was ready, so that we had either green corn or venison and sometimes both, which was comparatively high living. When we could have plenty of green corn or roasting ears, the hunters became lazy and spent their time in singing, dancing, etc. They appeared to be fulfilling the Scriptures beyond those who profess to believe them, in that of taking no thought of to-morrow; and also in love, peace and friendship, together. In this respect they shame those who profess Christianity. Sometime in October, another adopted brother, older than Tontileaugo, came to pay us a visit at Sunyendeand, and asked me to take a hunt with him on Cayahaga. As they always used me as a freeman and gave me the liberty of choosing, I told him that I was attached to Tontileaugo -had never seen him before, and therefore asked some time to consider this. I consulted with Tontileaugo on this occasion, and he told me that our old brother Tecaughretanego (which was his name), was a chief, and a better man than he was, and if I went with him I might expect to be well used, but he said I might do as I pleased, and if I stayed he would use me as he had done. I told him he had acted in every respect as a brother to me, yet I was much pleased with my old brother's conduct and conversation, and as he was going to a part of the country I had never been in, I wished to go with him. He said that he was perfectly willing. A TALK UPON THE WHITE MAN'S RELIGION. I then went with Tecaughretanego to the mouth of the little lake, where he met with the company he intended going with, which was composed of Caughnewagas and Ottawas. Here I was introduced to a Caughnewaga sister and others I had never seen before. My sister's name was Mary, which they pronounced Maully. I asked Tecaughretanego how it came that she had an English name. He said he did not know it was an English name; but it was the name the priest gave her when she was baptized, and which he said was the name of the mother of Jesus. He said there was a great many of the Caughnewagas and Wyandots that were a kind of half Roman Catholics; but as for himself he said, that the priest and he could not agree, as they held notions that contradicted both sense and reason, and had the assurance to tell him that the book of God taught him these foolish absurdities; but he could not believe that the great and good Spirit ever taught them any such nonsense, and therefore he concluded that the Indian's old religion was better than this new way of worshipping God. THE TENTS OF THE OTTAWAS. The Ottawas have a very useful kind of tents which they carry with them, made of flags, plaited and stitched together in a very artful manner, so as to turn the rain and wind well -each mat is made fifteen feet long and five feet broad. In order to erect this kind of tent they cut a number of long straight poles, which they drive in the ground, in the form of a circle, leaning inwards; they then spread the mats on these poles, beginning at the bottom and extending up, leaving a hole in the top uncovered -and this hole answers the place of a chimney. They make a fire of dry split wood in the middle, and spread down bark mats and skins for bedding, on which they sleep in a crooked posture all round the fire, as the length of their beds will not admit of their stretching themselves. In place of a door they lift up one end of a mat and creep in and let the mat fall down behind them. These tents are warm and dry, and tolerably clear of smoke. Their lumber they keep under birch bark canoes, which they carry out and turn up for shelter, where they keep everything from the rain. Nothing is in the tents but themselves and their bedding. After remaining here several days the party embarked in their canoes, paddling and sailing along the shore until they came to the mouth of the Cayahaga, which empties into Lake Erie on the south side betwixt Canesadooharie and Presque Isle. -continued in part 7 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:07:13 -0500 From: "Linda Dietz" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000a01bf40ab$bd9f9240$4e73bfa8@default> Subject: Pioneer Marriages in Allen County 1860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Taken from Lima Democratic News Jan 1860 By Jno. Mall JP, William ASH to Bertha VAN WEY By same, Joseph THOMAS to Sarah JONES By Alexander LaRue, James CARMEAN to Mary HUNSAKER By Daniel Richardson, Jacob BAKER to Susannah SUNDERLAND By Geo. McPherson, Samuel GOULD to Elizabeth SHAFFER By (Blank), Absalom WILKINS to Rebecca CARNAHAN By M. Krestch, Michael GALLAGHER to Bridget FARVEY By Rev. A.R. Krebs, Charles CHURCH to Sarah HALL Feb 1860 By Wm. Rockhill JP, William YANT to Barbara MILLER By Rev. A.R. Krebs, Amos REESE to Mary BARR By same, Andrew BELL to Lydia SYFORD By same, B. OSBORN to Sarah MUMAUGH By same, Ezra LENNON to Rachel PATTON By same. Jacob CRITES to Emily SELLERS By Rev. P. Greding, Ulrich TOGGENBURGER to Mrs. Katherine HUNTER By J. Hughes JP, Daniel KENNEDY to Delilah REEVES By Elijah Grubb JP, Alexander HUGHES to Martha RUDY By Wm. Wright, Edmund BLAIR to Eliza WILLIAMS By Rev. b. Powell, S. HUBER to Amanda REED By Daniel Brower, Joseph BRENNEMAN to Nancy HILYARD By same, Joseph NORMAN to Sarah SHAFFER By F. Marriot. John FOGLE to Sarah HOOD By same, J. HUMMELRIGHT to Louisa PANGLE By G . Stevens, R. MAXWELL to Rachel SMITH By Geo. McPherson, W. YOAKUM to Deborah HALL By Thos. Johnston, John CALDWELL to Jane McKEE By P. Henneberry, Michael ENNIS to Frances EISENBICE By E. Hartshorn JP, Nelson LOVE to Martha SUNDERLAND Mar 1860 By Lewis Herring JP, William CREMEAN to Matilda ADAMS By Michael Martz, William WOOD to Alice GRAY By Jas. Downing, E. WILKY to Nancy LEATHERMAN By same, Daniel BUTTERBOUGH to Nancy DODGE By Jno. Shaffer JP, John FOFT to Margaret MASON By same, Isaac HALL to Melissa COOK By Rev. A.R. Krebs, Samuel FAIRFIELD to Angeline ANTHONY By same, George KESLER to Catherine HERRING By same. Albert WOOD to Mary TRICE By Charles Gibbs, Fraley FINK to Lucinda SHAFFER By E. Williams, John BATES to Susan BOOP By Rev. B. Powell, Richard THOMPSON to Mary FERGUSON By Rev. W. Brice, James WOOD to Lucinda LOGAN By Geo. Shepley JP, Charles SOTELL to Louisa DULLA By J. Hughes JP, Henry BECK to Mary SCHAEUBLY By R.M. Badeau, James COTNER to Caroline HOVER By Henry Morris, William CLEVINGER to Rachel MYERS By E. Foster, Solomon BOWERS to Louisa PALMER By Jas. Davis, Richard OWENS to Hannah WATKINS By Hiram Protsman JP, Michael WHISLER to Lucinda CORNS By Geo. Schooler JP, Silas BRENTLINGER to Mary REAM Dec. 6, 1999 Submitted by Linda Dietz Proud Rootsweb Sponsor VP Allen Co,Oh Genealgy Soc ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:39:49 -0500 From: "Linda Dietz" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001301bf40b0$3f594520$4e73bfa8@default> Subject: Allen County Probate Court Notices 1884 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Taken from Allen County Democrat 1884 The following accounts have been filed in the Probate Court of Allen Co., Ohio, and will be for hearing on Monday April 7,1884 First account of John H. BLAINE, guardian of Daniel W., Jessie S., Elizabeth M., and Zorah M. MILLER, minors Fifth and Final account of Ruben WHITE, guardian of Charles HISKINS, late a minor Third account of Reuben WHITE, guardian of John F. STANDIFORD, minor First Partial account of Isreal McJUNKIN, assignee of EAST & LEWIS, insolvents First and Final account of Jacob M. HALLER, asignee of Fred N. KEGLER, insolvent Fifth and Final account of Henry I. ROMEY, admr. of John TSCHAN, dec'd First account of Thomas ARTHUR, admr. of Peter A. BUSSERT, dec'd First and Final account of Anna R. HOVER, guardian of Kennard C. HOVER, minor Second and Final account of Theodore D. ROBB, admr. of James A. ARMSTRONG, dec'd Second account of S.D. CRITES, guardian of Richard E. SMITH, minor Sixth account of David HARSHE, guardian of William BINKLEY, minor First and Final account of Christina HERMAN, executrix of Francis HERMAN, dec'd First account of Jacob KILLIAN, guardian of Ida, Alice, Rosa K., James and Samuel H. KILLIAN, minors Third and Final account of Alexander SHENK, guardian of Louis DELTERMAN, minor First account of George MORT, guardian of Sylvester S. MORT, minor Third and Final account of Daniel FRANTZ, guardian of Elsie, Daniel and Lydia FRANTZ, minors; final account for Elsie Eighth and Final account of A.W. BROWN, guardian of William R. HARRISON, minor First and Final account of Silas A. SWISHER, guardian of Levi and Eli WAGNER, minors Third account of George STEIGER, guardian of George W. WEIN, minor Eighth account of John S. STEINER, guardian of Daniel STEINER, minor First and Final account of J.W. BRANSTETTER, guardian of John BRANSTETTER, an imbecile First account of Tamsen E. BURDEN and Enos BECHTOL, admr's. of George W. BURDEN, dec'd First and Final account of Christina MACK, executrix of Christian MACK, dec'd S.S. Yoder Probate Judge Dec 6,1999 Submitted by Linda Dietz Proud Rootsweb Sponsor VP Allen Co,Oh Genealgy Soc ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:17:38 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <057701bf40c6$336013a0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Submissions to the Ohio Archives Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER - Contains the current USGenWeb Archives Submissions in the last week. http://www.usgwarchives.net/newsletter December 6, 1999 issue http://www.usgwarchives.net/newsletter/1999/dec/dec6.htm [NOTE: For those without browser access we have USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of new updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. 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