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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 531 Today's Topics: #1 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 49 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 DAVE PATTON BIBLE RECORDS [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 BIBLE RECORD OF DANIEL & MARY HARP [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 POWERS FAMILY BIBLE [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:45:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907231345.JAA13546@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 49 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 49 FORT FINNEY With the exception of the transient block houses built by the war parties of Kentuckians on the site of Cincinnati, the first work for human habitation built by whites between the Miamis was Fort Finney. It stood in the peninsula formed by the junction of the Great Miami with the Ohio, about three-quarters of a mile above the mouth, and near the southeast corner of the once farm of the late John Scott Harrison. As late as the winter of 1866, it is said, some remains of the fort were still to be seen. This fort was built in the late fall and early winter of 1785, when general Richard Butler, with a company comprising Parsons, Zane, Finney, Lewis and others, who voyaged down from Fort Pitt, built it, dwelt for some months therein, and concluded a treaty with the Indians. General Butler and his fellow commissioners left the fort February 8, 1786, in three large boats, with their messengers and attendants, up the Ohio on their return to civilization. The soldiers, however, remained with Major Finney, Capt. Zeigler -the Major Zeigler later commandant at Fort Washington -Lieut. Denny and others in command. The place was evacuated prior to Jan. 1, 1789, the troops going to the Indiana side of the Ohio opposite Louisville, where a small work was also erected and likewise called Fort Finney. The first was long referred to by Judge Symmes as the "Old Fort," but there is no record that it was ever garrisoned again. There is a somewhat famous ancient work called "Fort Hill," with walls now about three feet high and enclosing some fifteen acres. It stands north of the old J. Scott Harrison place, and was described by Gen. Harrison in 1838, in an address before the Historical Society of Ohio. NORTH BEND IN 1846 North Bend is situated sixteen miles below Cincinnati and four from the Indiana line, at the northernmost point of a bend in the Ohio river. This place which was of note in the early settlement of the country, has in later years derived its interest from having been the residence of Gen. Wm. H. Harrison, and the spot where rest his mortal remains. The family mansion stands on a level plat, about 300 yards back from the Ohio, amid scenery of a pleasing and retired character. The eastern half of the mansion, that is, all that part of the reader's right, from the door in the main building, is built of logs; but the whole of the building being clapboarded and painted white has the same external appearance. The wings were alike: a part of the southern one was destroyed by fire since the decease of its illustrious occupant, a memento of which disaster is shown by the naked chimney that rises like a monument over the ruins. The dwelling is respectably though plainly furnished, and is at present occupied by the widow of the lamented Harrison, long distinguished for the virtues which adorn the female character. About a quarter of a mile south of the family mansion, and perhaps half that distance from the river, is the tomb of Harrison. It stands upon the summit of a small oval-shaped hill, rising about 100 feet from the plain, ornamented by a few scattering trees, and commanding a view of great beauty. The tomb is of brick, and is entered by a plain unpainted door on its western end. There is no inscription upon it, nor is any required to mark the resting-place of Harrison. About thirty rods, in a westerly direction from the tomb of Harrison, on an adjacent hill, in a family cemetery, is the grave of Judge Symmes. It is covered by a tablet, laid horizontally upon brick work, slightly raised from the ground. On it is the following inscription: Here rest the remains of JOHN CLEVES SYMMES, who, at the foot of these hills, made the first settlement between the Miami rivers. Born on Long Island, State of New York, July 21, A.D. 1742. Died at Cincinnati, Feb. 26 A.D. 1814. Mr. Symmes was born at Riverhead, on Long Island, and early in life was employed in land surveying and in teaching school. He served in the war of the Revolution, and was in the battle of Saratoga. Having removed to New Jersey, he became chief justice of the State, and at one time represented it in Congress. As early as 1787, and at the same time with the agents of the Ohio Company, he made application to Congress, in the name of himself and associates, for the purchase of a large tract of land lying between the two Miamis. "The price was sixty-six cents per acre, to be paid in United States military land warrants, and certificates of debt due from the United States to individuals. The payments were divided into six annual installments. His associates were principally composed of the officers of the New Jersey line who had served in the war of the Revolution. Among them were General Dayton and Elias Boudinot, LL.D. His first contact was for one million of acres, made in October, 1788, but owing to the difficulty of making he payments, and the embarrassments growing out of the Indian war, the first contract was not fulfilled, and a new one was made for two hundred and forty-eight thousand acres, in May, 1794, and a patent issued to him and his associates in September following." Meanwhile, in the spring of 1789, Judge Symmes had located himself at North Bend, where he laid out "Symmes city," the fate of which has already been stated. The residence of Judge Symmes stood about a mile northwest of his grave. It was destroyed by fire in March, 1811, and all his valuable papers consumed. It was supposed to have been the act of an individual, out of revenge for his refusal to vote for him as a justice of the peace. At the treaty of Greenville, the Indians told him and others that in the war they had frequently brought up their rifles to shoot him, and then recognizing him, refrained from pulling the trigger. This was in consequence of his previous kindness to them, and speaks volumes in praise of his benevolence. On the farm of the late Wm. Henry Harrison,Jr., three miles below North Bend, and two from the Indiana line, was a settlement made at the same time with North Bend. It was called the Sugar Camp settlement, and was composed of about thirty houses. The settlers there erected a block-house, near the Ohio river, as a protection against the Indians. It is now standing, though in a more dilapidated condition than represented in the engraving. It is built of logs, in the ordinary manner of block-houses, the distinguishing feature of which is, that from the height of a man's shoulder, the building, the rest of the way up, projects a foot or two from the lower part, leaving, at the point of junction between the two parts a cavity through which to thrust rifles on the approach of enemies. -Old Edition. REMINISCENCES. In my original visit to North Bend, in 1846, I passed a day or two with the Harrison family, and was there the guest of Col. W.H.H. Taylor, whose wife was daughter of Gen. W.H. Harrison. While preparing these pages for the press, I unexpectedly got a letter from him; he learning I was living only a few days before its date -June 5, 1889. As I had saved no memoranda of my old-time visit, I thereupon wrote a request for his reminiscences of that visit, together with a ground plan of the Harrison mansion so famed in history. His reply, together with an engraving from his plan, is annexed. This gentleman is a Virginian by birth; was in civil war Colonel of the Fourth Ohio Calvary, and his two eldest sons in the Union army -one in the Eighteenth U.S. Infantry and the other on the staff of Gen. W.T. Sherman. Col. Taylor is now State Librarian for Minnesota, residence St. Paul. When he wrote me, he stated that he was in his seventy-ninth year, and was able to attend to business, although much troubled with rheumatism contracted in the army. HENRY HOWE AT NORTH BEND IN 1846. When you visited us at North Bend in 1846, Mrs. Gen. W.H. Harrison was living there, and you saw her at meal times. It was managing the farm for her. My first wife, her youngest daughter and seven children were there. You remained two nights with us. The day after your arrival, you and I walked down the Ohio river bank to an old blockhouse four miles below the Bend, of which you made a sketch; then we went a mile farther, and took dinner with the Hon. John Scott Harrison, the father of the present President, then a lad of thirteen years of age. After dinner, in company with Mr. Harrison, we visited Fort Hill, which was on his farm, overlooking the three States of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. You examined the fort thoroughly, and I think made a drawing of it, and we then walked back to North Bend. The next day you viewed the ruins of the house of Judge John Cleves Symmes on the Miami, the first settler in the Miami valley, and the father of Mrs. Harrison. You then left us and I think, returned to Cincinnati. (Yes; was carried thither by a canal boat.) I send you a ground plan of the noted log cabin of 1840, which I occupied when you visited us, and in which I was living on the 5th of July, 1858, when it was set on fire by a she-devil of an Irish woman and burned to the ground; myself and family getting out with our night robes only, leaving everything in the way of clothing, furniture, library and all the relics of 1840, of which we had a great many, and many that had been in the family for two hundred years. The widow of General Harrison is distinct in my memory. She was of rather slender, delicate figure, with dark eyes and modest, quiet manners; then seventy years of age. She was born at Morristown, New Jersey, in the year of the Declaration of Independence, and soon after her mother died. Her father, Judge Symmes, then a colonel in the Continental army, was so anxious to place her with her grandmother, then residing at Southold, Long Island, that, when she was near four years of age, he assumed the disguise of a British officer's uniform, to enable him to pass through their lines with her on his way thither, a perilous undertaking. Incidents of that journey she remembered to her last years. Mrs. Harrison lived to the advanced age of eighty-nine years, dying in 1864, and leaving the sweetest of memories. Rev. Horace Bushnell, the blind preacher of Cincinnati, long her pastor and friend, preached her funeral sermon from a text she had selected for him years before -"Be still and know that I am God." She lies buried beside her husband at North Bend. -continued in part 50 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:46:11, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907231346.JAA05682@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: DAVE PATTON BIBLE RECORDS Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1962 Vol. III No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT MARRIAGES Dave Patton, his wife Abigail married December 2nd, 1794 John Patton, his wife Jane married October 18th, 1825 Joseph H. Patton, his wife Amanda married June 4th, 1834 James Lewis Patton, his wife Lydia married August 7th, 1834 BIRTHS David Patton b. March 16, 1772 Abigail Patton his wife b. June 13, 1776 Elizabeth Patton, 1st daughter b. May 6th, 1796 John Stoten Patton, 1st son b. November 15, 1798 Christopher D. Patton, 2nd son b. June 7, 1801 Jacob M. Patton, 3rd son b. January 30, 1803 William Patton, 4th son b. November 26, 1806 Robeson M. Patton, 5th son b. October 4, 1808 J. Henry Patton, 6th son b. July 30, 1811 Sarah Ann, 2nd daughter b. April 8, 1815 Lydia, 3rd daughter b. October 2, 1818 Mary Jane Lewis, granddaughter b. January 29, 1850 DEATHS David Patton d. September 17, 1821 John Stoten Patton departed this life September 28, 1835 Elizabeth Kemp departed this life September 30, 1836 Abigail Patton departed this life August 23, 1841 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:46:08, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907231346.JAA12566@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: BIBLE RECORD OF DANIEL & MARY HARPER Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1962 Vol. III No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT BIBLE RECORD OF DANIEL HARPER & WIFE MARY (McALLISTER) HARPER Contributed by Mrs. Fred DAvis, Woodland, Washington This Bible record appears in the Revolutionary War Pension record of Daniel Harper #4221, on file at the National Archives. In July 1840 Mary stated she was 72 and they had been married at Lovell, Maine. He died August 3, 1839. Both are buried in the Orange Township Cemetery, Meigs Co., Ohio. There are no gravestones. Daniel Harper & Mary McAllister January 21, 1790 Charloty Harper born July 3, 1791 died February 20, 17-- Sallie R. Harper born February 25, 1793 in Rumford Andrews Harper born November 20, 1794 in Rumford Abigail G. Harper born November 12, 1796 in Rumford Ann Harper born March 28, 1800 in Loviel Daniel A. Harper born February 18, 1802 Ame Harper born January 12, 1804 in Loviel Lavine Harper born July 25, 1805 Betty Harper born March 25, 1807 in Loviel Ezekiel Harper born March 17, 1809 in Loviel Grenlief S. Harper born November 11, 1810 in Rumford Greely D. Harper born November 5, 1813 in Rumford Temple Harper born March 21, 1816 Abigail Castel died August 23, 1826 in the 30th year of her age. Mrs. Fred Davis (contributor) is the great-great-granddaughter of Andrews Harper who married Eliza Sawyer, Meigs Co., Ohio, March 1825 and they migrated eventually to Oregon. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:46:18, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907231346.JAA07246@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: POWERS FAMILY BIBLE Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1962 Vol. III No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT POWERS FAMILY BIBLE RECORD Contributed by Katherine K. Adams, Chicago, IL FAMILY OF WILLIAM D. AND SARAH BEEKS POWERS BIRTHS William David Powers b. September 29th, 1779 Sarah Beeks b. December 17th, 1792 Mary Hoakeland Powers b. July 30th, 1814 Arabella C. Powers b. March 2nd, 1816 William H. Powers b. March 11th, 1818 James H. Powers b. August 30th, 1819 Martin John Powers b. November 19th, 1820 Richard Peter Powers b. April 19th, 1823 Jane McKay Powers b. March 27th, 185 Richard Nelson Powers b. August 5th, 1827 Eliza Katharine Powers b. October 5th, 1830 Nancy May Powers b. December 4th, 1832 Sarah Belle Powers b. April 24th, 1835 MARRIAGES William D. Powers to Sarah Beeks, April 26th, 1810 William H. Powers to Sarah Olentine October 1st, 1844 Richard Nelson Powers to Malissa Sharp August 5th, 1847 Mary H. Powers to James A. Hume November 20th, 1834 Jane McKay Powers to Jonathan Kershner July 4th, 1847 Richard N. Powers to Frances E. Tucker July 26th, 1855 Eliza K. Powers to Daniel W. Tucker April 29th, 1867 DEATHS Richard Peter Powers - October 24, 1824 Nancy May Powers- - May 23, 1838 Sarah Isabella Powers - May 31, 1838 William D. Powers - August 27, 1857 Arabella C. Powers - December 27, 1859 Sarah Powers, wife of Wm. D. Powers - October 29, 1869 Martin John Powers- October 6, 1886 Richard N. Powers - April 7, 1896 Eliza K. Powers Tucker - August 10, 1906 Malissa Powers, wife of Richard N. Powers - March 7, 1854 Mary Powers, wife of Martin John Powers - January 25, 1887 Frances E. Powers, wife of Richard N. Powers - March 15, 1928 Unrecorded are the marriages of James H. and Martin John Powers and the death dates of William H., James H., Mary E. Humes and Jane McKay Kershner. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #531 *******************************************