OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 163 *********************************************************************** 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 163 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: John C. WICKHAM ["Maggie Stewart" To: Subject: Fw: John C. WICKHAM Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:16:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 -----Original Message----- From: Ken Carrion To: Maggie Stewart Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:45 PM Subject: John C. WICKHAM Maggie, can this be submitted to the OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com? History of Hancock County, page 382 John C. WICKHAM and family came from Ross County, Ohio, to Findlay in 1827, and he taught the second school in that town. He was clerk of the first county election held in April, 1828 (at which he and his son Minot T. voted), and also the second postmaster of Findlay. In October 1828, he was elected sheriff of Hancock County and served on term. In 1832 his son William removed from Findlay to Section 13, Blanchard Township, and in 1833 the parents and son, Minor T., also settled on the same section. Mr. Wickham taught the second school in the township and, in 1835, was elected as its second justice of the peace. He died soon afterward while on a business trip to Wayne County, Ohio, but some of his descendants yet reside in the county. Submitted by: Linda Carrion California Email: kcarrion@ix.netcom.com ______________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_0346_01BFC1EF.C650ECC0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment From: To: Subject: SANDUSKY, O. TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTS; LAND GRANTS TO ELIZ. WHITAKER AND OTHER'S Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:42:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTS, SENECAS, DELAWARE, SHAWANEES, PATTAWATAMIES, OTTAWAS, AND CHIPPEAWAS. Article of a treatY made and concluded at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie, between Lewis Cass and Duncan McArthur, commissioners of the United States, with full power and authority to hold conferences and conclude and sign a treaty or treaties with all or any of the tribes or nations of Indians within the boundaries of the State of Ohio of and concerning all matters interesting to the United States and the said nations of Indians, on the one part, and the sachems, chiefs, and warriors of the Wyandot, Seneca, Delaware, Shawanee, Pattawatamie, Ottawa and Chippewa tribes of Indians Article 8. At the special request of the said Indians, the United States agrees to grant by patent in fee-simple to the persons hereinafter mentioned, all of whom are connected with the said Indians by blood or adoption, the tracats of land herein described. To Elizabeth Whitaker, who was taken prisoner by the Wyandots, and has ever since lived among them, twelve hundred and eighty acres of land on the west side of the Sandusky river below Croghansville to be laid off in square form, as nearly as the meanders of said river will admit and to run and equal=20 distance above and below the house in which the said Elizabeth Whitaker now lives. To Robert Armstrong, who was taken prisoner by the Indians, and has ever since lived among them and intermarried a Wyandot woman, one section to contain six hundred and forty acres of land aon the west side of the Sandusky River to begin at a place called Camp Ball and to run up the river with the meanders there of one hundred and sixty poles and from the beginning down the river with the meanders thereof, one hundred and sixty poles and from the extremith of these lines west for quantity. To the children of the late William McCollock who was killed August 1812 near Maugoagon and who are quarter-blood Wyandott Indians, one section to contain six hundred and forty acres of land on the west side of the Sandusky river, adjoining the lower line of the tract hereby granted to Robert Armstrong and extending the same manner with and from said river. To John Vanmeter who was taken prisoner by the Wyandots and who has ever since lived among them and has married a Seneca woman and to his wife's three brothers, Senecas, who now reside on Honey Creek one thousand acres of land to begin north, forty-five degrees west, one hundred and forty poles from the house in which the said John Vanmeter now lives and to run thence, south, three hundred and twenty poles thence and from the beginning, east for quality. To Sarah Williams, Joseph Williams and Rachael Nugent, late Rachael Williams, the said Sarah having been taken prisoner by the Indians and ever since lived among them, and being the widow and the said Joseph and Rachael being the children of the late Isaac Williams, a half blood Wyandot, one quarter section of land to contain one hundred and sixty acres on the east side of the Sandusky River, below Croghansville and to include their improvements at a place called Negro Point. To Catharine Walker, a Wyandott woman and to John R. Walker her son who was wounded in the service of the United States at the battle of Mauguagon in 1812, a section of six hundred and forty acres of land each to begin at the northwestern corner of the tract hereby granted to John VanMeter and his wife's brothers and to run with the line thereof south, three hundred twenty poles, thence from the beginning west for quality. To William Spicer who was taken prisoner by the Indas and has ever since lived among then and who married a Seneca woman, a section of land to contain six hundred and forty acres, beginning on the east bank of the Sandusky river, forth poles below the lower corner of said Spicers corn field thence up the river on the east side with the meanders, thereof, one mile, thence and from the beginning east for quality. To Nancy Stewart, daughter of the late Shawnee chief Blue Jacket, one section of land to contain one hundred and fortry acres on the Great Miami river below Lewistown, to include her present improvements three quarters of the said secton to be on the southeast side of the river and one-quarter on the north west side thereof. To the children of the late Shawnee chief Captain Logan or Spa-ma-ge-la-be, who fell in the service of the United States in the late war, one section of land to contain six hundred and forty acres on the east side of the Great AuGlaize River, adjoining the lower line of the grant of ten miles at Wapaghkonetta and the said river. To James Mc Pherson who was taken prisoner by the Indians and has ever since lived among the, one section of land to contain six hundred and forty acres in a square forth adjoining the northern or western line of the grant of forty-eight miles at Lewistown at such place as he may thing proper to locate the same. To Horonu or Cherokee Boy, a Wyandot chief, a section of land to contain six hundred and forty acres, on the Sandusky river to be laid off in square form and to include his improvements. To Alexander D. Godfroy and Richard Godfroy adopted children of the Pattawatamie tribe and at their special request, one section of land to contain six hundred and forty acres in the tract of country herein ceded to the United States by the Pattawatamie Ottawa and Chippewa tribes to be located by them, the said Alexander and Richard after the said tract shall have been surveyed. To Saw-en-de-bans or Yellow Hair or Peter Minor and adopted sun of the Dog and at the special request of the Ottawas out of the tract reserved by the treaty of Detroit in 1807 above Roche de Boeuf at the village of the said Dog a section of land to contain six hundred and forty acres to be located in a square form on the north side of the Miami at the Wolf Rapids. dated: 1847 Lewis Cass Duncan McArthur Commisssioners Contributed by: Judy Cassidy 117 Evergreen Court Blue Bell, PA 19422 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #163 *******************************************