OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 191 *********************************************************************** 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 01 : Issue 191 Today's Topics: #1 Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Cat ["Bakers" ] #2 Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Cat ["Bakers" ] #3 Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Cat ["Bakers" ] #4 Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Cat ["Bakers" ] #5 Fw: Know Your Ohio -- Ohio's Front ["Maggie" ] #6 Fw: Know Your Ohio -- Ohio's Front ["Maggie" ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:08:16 +0200 From: "Bakers" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <018201c15b02$ff4d4200$7004bfc3@iu5k3> Subject: Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Glandorf, Putnam County, Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have some baptisms for subject church. If you'd like a scan please give me the category number and name of person. I will show baptism date here. Thanks. Kathy Baker 74. Brinkmann, Francis, 27 Oct 1852 Weis, John, 8 Nov 1852 Bohrer, John Henry, 15 Nov 1852 Kemper, Maria Elisabeth, 21 Nov 1852 75. Gisken (I think), Maria Catharine, 19 Nov 1851 Winkler, Elizabeth, 29 Nov 1851, died 27 Mar 1852 76. Rokfeller, William, 28 Jul 1850 Moorman, John Henry, 29 Jul 1850 Rieman, John Henry, 11 Aug 1850 Diehriede (that is what it looks like), or perhaps Diekriede, Anna Maria, 12 Aug 1850 77. Brinkmann, Anna, 1849 perhaps Sep Mathei, Philip Jacob, 1849, perhaps Sep ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:27:50 +0200 From: "Bakers" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <020101c15b0e$1d188320$7004bfc3@iu5k3> Subject: Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Glandorf, Putnam County, Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have some baptisms for subject church. If you'd like a scan please give me the category number and name of person. I will show baptism date here. Thanks. Kathy Baker 78. Twins: Kerner, Joseph Henry, 25 Sep 1848 Kerner, Elisabeth, 25 Sep 1848 Mooreman or Moorsman, Marianna Theresia, 26 Sep 1848 79. Karhof, Gerhard Henry, 23 Jan 1848 Riemann, Anna Maria Bernardina, 27 Jan 1848 80. Reckfelder, Anthony Henry, 23 Jan 1841 Riemann, John Francis, 25 Feb 1841 Kohl, Anthony Bernard, (partial) 1841 81. Stephan, Bernard Herman, 13 Aug 1844 Ru?embauer, John George, 1844 (possibly Sep) 82. Uphaus, John Joseph, 15 May 1872 Hagemann, John Francis, 21 May 1872 Kerner, John Theodore, 26 May 1872 Kruse, Catharine, 21 May 1872 83. Meyer, A. Elisabeth, 10 Apr 1873 Feldman, Jos. Henry, 14 Apr 1873 Rocker (I think), Elis. Louisa, 19 Apr 1873 Fortmann, A. Catharine, 20 Apr 1873 Schmit, J.Francis Henry, 29 Apr 1873 Stephan, Amalia Cath., 4 May 1873 Edelbruk, A. Helena, 8 May 1873 Gerdimann, Bernard, 11 May 1873 84. Hartmann, M. Carolina, 14 May 1871 Mormann, J.F. Henry, 21 May 1871 Richer or Ricker, Bernard, 29, May 1871 Stephan, William John, 4 Jun 1871 Friedrich, Maria Catharine, 8 Jun 1871 Klemann, Cath. Theresia, 8 Jun 1871 Unfervert, M. Phulomena, 2 Jul 1871 Schwarzengreber, M. Catharine, 4 Jul 1871 Gerding, J.W. Ferdinand, 6 Jul 1871 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:08:30 +0200 From: "Bakers" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <02c701c15b14$033d3120$7004bfc3@iu5k3> Subject: Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Glandorf, Putnam County, Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have some baptisms for subject church. If you'd like a scan please give me the category number and name of person. I will show baptism date here. Thanks. Kathy Baker 85. Frey, John Henry, 11 Jan 1870 Elerbruk, M. Elisabeth, 12 Jan 1870 Moeng, John William, 16 Jan 1870 Redecher (I couldn't read it well), M. Gertrude, 18 Jan 1870 Meyer, Gerh. Bernard, 19 Jan 1870 Kahle, M. Wilhelmina, 20 Jan 1870 Alt, Joanna Cecilia, 23 Jan 1870 Klemann, Bernard, 23 Jan 187086. 86. Wanecker, Ber.Henry, 11 Apr 1869 Blemer, Elis. Catharine, 19 Apr 1869 Geckler, Aug. Anto. John, 22 Apr 1869 Stephan, Maria Anna, 22 Apr 1869 Manle, Maria Cath., 2 May 1869 Meyer, M. Theresia, 7 May 1869 Gerdimann, Mathias Carolus, 9 May 1869 Wortmann, Joseph Hen., 15 May 1869 87. Flatz, Maria Susana, 30 Mar 1868 Niermann, Maria Catharine, 31 Mar 1868 Winkler, Maria Lusia, 22 Apr 1868 Gulker, William, 29 Apr 1868 Meyer, John Theodore, 1 May 1868 Waneker, John H?, 7 May 1868 Schumacher, Anthony, 11 May 1868 Fenbert, Bernard Herm., 11 May 1868 Edelbruk, M. Gertrud, 14 May 1868 88. Kemper, Bernard Hei., 14 Jan 1868 Stechschute, John Hei., 16 Jan 1868 Ald(Alt), Maria Anna, 19 Jan 1868 Kottenbruk, Joseph Hei., 4 Jan 1868 Heising, M. Anna, 20 Jan 1868 Hohenbring, Aug. Wilhelm, 21 Jan 1868 Westbele(not sure about this surname), M. Anna, 22 Jan 1868 Fiest, A. Ottilia, ? Jan 1868 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:04:02 +0200 From: "Bakers" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <032501c15b1b$8cfe3880$7004bfc3@iu5k3> Subject: Baptisms, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Glandorf, Putnam County, Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have some baptisms for subject church. If you'd like a scan please give me the category number and name of person. The date seems to be missing from the microfilm copies I made. But the year is either 1867 or 1868. Thanks. Kathy Baker 89. Groshiracht(I think), M.Magdalina Rechtng, John Henry Selhorst, Francis Kleemann, Joannes Gerh. Frey, John Math. Kohlhof, A. M. Cath. Baahl, Charles 90. 1867 Rampe, John Peter Klemann, John Hei. Huber, Ferdinand Carolus Heising, Cristina Josephine Stephan, Elisabeth Margaretha, 8 Jul 1867 Birkenmeyer, A.M.Elisabeth, 11 Jul 1867 Walter, Maria Henreta, 12 Jul 1867 Brokmann, Maria Emilia, 16 Jul 1867 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:01:29 -0400 From: "Maggie" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <018701c15b8a$16d421a0$1400a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Know Your Ohio -- Ohio's Frontier -- Part 5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 2:29 PM Subject: Know Your Ohio -- Ohio's Frontier -- Part 5 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Oct 6, 2001 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley Ohio's Frontier -- Part 5 Western Reserve Article by S.L. Kelly Plains Dealer *********************************************** Know Your Ohio Ohio's Frontier -- Part 5 Western Reserve -- Before the second wave of Indans on the Cuyahoga, the first wave of white settlers arrived. Although Brady's leap is only an episode, it was part of the buildup to the major Indian War which was brewing. The story of Tecumseh's rising confederation built around the Wyandots, Shawnees, Miamis, and the Delawares is not part of the Cuyahoga story, except that when it came to climax in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, against General Anthoney Wayne, in western Ohio, the Greenville Treaty resulted. The treaty established the western boundary of the United States as a line from the mouth of the Cuyahoga upstream to the big bend, south across Portage Path to the head of the Tuscarawas to Fort Laurens, then southwest staunchwise across Ohio to Greenville, and southwest across the bottom of Indiana country. But this treaty directly affected settlement of the Cuyahoga valley this way. With the Indian title to eastern Oho now extinguished, the area was finally available to white settlement. The settlement of the Cuyahoga was unique. Connecticut people traveling to northern Ohio were always startled to find themselves at home. The towns and streets have Connecticut names. The houses had Connecticut architecture. The towns had Connecticut type governments. Cayahoga County and northeast Ohio was settled as they were because Connecticut men wanted good schools, in Connecticut. Today they owe their good schools to the Cuyahoga. East of the Alleghenies, the random shapes of the towns and farms and meandering roads reflected colonists beating paths to where they needed to go and shaping their farms to hug the streams and shun rocky hills. Some of the Ohio frontier was also settled in a scatter pattern as Revoluntionary War bounty land warrent holders found their way across the Alleghenies into the Ohio county and settled where they wanted. However, the Cuyahoga Country was settled with a graph paper calaulation by plotting Connecticut men. It was a three million acre real estate venture, which began with Connecticut's conviction that she owned what was northern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. And she had very able attorneys. who partially proved it. They referred back to their Charter. On March 19,1631, Earl Robert conveyed for Charles I to Viscount Say amd Sele, the patent of Connecticut. This document the King signed said that Connecticut would begin at the Western boundry of Providence Plantations ( Rhode Island ), its south and north boundries would be the 41st and 42nd parallels. Not knowing a good landmark for the boundry, and not believing the continent could be very wide anyway, he wrote with a flourish that Connecticut would then extend west to " the great south sea." Connecticut attorneys naturally interpreted " the great south sea " as the Pacific Ocean. So they came out in their view as a strip of land about 67 miles deep, but 3,000 miles wide. Other colonies had equally pretentious claims. Naturally these claims all overlapped. After the Revolution, when the young Republic was trying to organize itself, it became important to get settlers onto those lands to hold them. The question was who, and who owned the land? Each colony or state, expected to start by granting lands in its western parts to its Revolutionary War veterans as payment for service. Virginia began this practice immediately. Hence the conflict came quickly to a legal battle. The small landlocked states, which had no claims to western lands ( Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey ), maintained that the war was won by the common blood and that the lands thus won, belonged to the Republic, not merely to the large states. The colonies' lawyers were holding up America. Finally Virginia, with some practicality and a lot of patriotism, gave up its claims. New York followed. Pennsylvania was not so gracious, and she and Connecticut came to gunfire and bloodshed over it. But Pennsylvania finally ceded. Connecticut was the holdout, and she was able to drive a hard bargain, for two reasons. First, the nation was eager to get on with it, and willing to stretch a point. Second, Connecticut had great sympathy on her side because of the brutal massacre of Connecticut men by Pennsylvanians in a land war. On September 14,1786, Connecticut therefore drove her bargain. She finally ceded her claims through Pennsylvania, then her claims beyond Lake Erie to the Pacific, but reserved to herself a 120 mile strip of her original claim from the Pennsylvania border, west between the 41st and 42nd parallels along the south shore of Lake Erie. The Republic agreed to this, and the land came to be called the Connecticut Western Reserve, or New Connecticut. With that settled, the United States established a government over the territory north and west of the Ohio River, seated at Cincinnati, called the northwest territory. The question now arose of the 120 mile strip along Lake Erie containing the Cuyahoga. Connecticut's plan was to sell the land and use the money as the investment capital for a public school system, which was to be supported on the annual yield from the money. She tried two methods of selling the land which did not work. Finally in 1795, the General Assembly in Hartford appointed a committee of eight men, representing each Connecticut county, and enpowered them to sell the land at a certain price. It was estimated that the Reserve contained in excess of three million acres, not counting a half million set aside for the Connecticut fire victims. (During the Revolutionary War, British raiding parties, inflicted severe damage on several towns in Connecticut, burning and pillaging. In 1792, the legislature of Connecticut granted to the sufferers, their heirs, and assigns 500,000 acres, consisting of ranges 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 of the Connecticut Western Reserve, in Erie and Huron counties.) Connecticut insisted that the three million acres produce one million dollars in revenue, an average price of 33 cents per acre. But the Assembly insisted that the committee sell the entire tract before they could issue papers on a single acre of it. Anything the buyers of the land could make on it over and above what they paid was fine with Connecticut. She eschewed later, high profit in favor of a quick million for seed money to start her " perpetual school fund," the interest from which would be used only for schools. ********************************************** to be continued in Part 6. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:13:22 -0400 From: "Maggie" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <018801c15b8a$18902980$1400a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Know Your Ohio -- Ohio's Frontier -- Part 6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 6:38 PM Subject: Know Your Ohio -- Ohio's Frontier -- Part 6 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Oct 8, 2001 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley Know Your Ohio Ohio's Frontier -- Part 6 Western Reserve Article by S.L Kelly Plain Dealer ********************************************** Ohio's Frontier -- Part 6 Western Reserve In my last article I tried to explain how Connecticut had acquired the frontier land of The Western Reserve and to whom the land belonged to,and how it was divided, in which the Connecticut Land Compay was formed. Its purpose being to support Connecticuts public schools. By September 2, 1795, the action was fast, the eight man committee had sold the land for $1,200,000. But they had not sold it in small plots. Thirty five Connecticut men had banded together to buy the entire three million acres. They did not pay cash, they had given bond, and a mortgage against the property. Some of them of the 35, however, were representing not only themselves but others, so that actually 57 men were involved with the purchase. These men did not plan to work together after the purchase was complete as each intended to develop and resell his own portion. But before the could do that, it was necessary to give each man his land. This was not done by dividing from a map and was not assigned simply in appropriate areas, but in the quality of the land. A system for distributing the land fairly was necessary, and before a system could be invented, somone would have to go west and explore, classify, and measure the lands. Someone must remove from the tracts the Indians not party to or not acknowledging the Greenville Treaty. Connecticut had sold the land to the purchasers on an as is basis. The buyers had chosen seven men as their directors and from these directors they appointed General Moses Cleaveland of Canterbury, Connecticut, as superintendent of an exploration and surveying party. Augustus Porter, as deputy superintendent and principal surveyor; Theodore Shepard, as physician; Joshua Stow, commissary; Seth Pease, as astronomer-surveyor; and Amos Spafford. John Holley, Richard Stoddard and Moses Warren, surveyors. These men in turn hired some 37 men for boatmen, chainmen, packmen, polemen, blacksmith, cooks, axemen, and general labor. They were to measure off the Reserve into townships, five miles square in vertical ranges, with survey beginning at Pennsylvania's west border, and numbered east to west from one to 24. While Cleaveland led the party west, Seth Pease, the astronomer-surveyor, traveled to Philadelphia to purchase special instruments and get instructions from the distinguished astronomer, David Rittenhouse. Pease had done considerable surveying for the large land jobber, Oliver Phelps, who was also a director of the Connecticut Land Company and its largest shareholder. But surveying in New England, Pease had been working with existing boundary lines and corners, while out on the Connecticut Western Reserve, there was not a mark on the land save square of blazes outlining the salt lands purchased by Moses Warren, and those marks related to nothing. So Pease had to start with the stars. If the party was fortunate, they might find the western boundary of Pennsylvania well marked, but they would have to check it, and there had been talk that Mr. Ludlow, who had laid it off many years before, had favored Pennsylvania some. In 1796, there was no settlement at Buffalo or Black Rock, nor any between the mouth of the Cuyahoga and the Ohio River. Erie was the nearest settlement to the mouth of the Cuyahoga. Now the map that Cleaveland was using was made by John Heckwelder, an Indian Missionary. It was quite accurate in relating the Cuyahoga to lake Erie and shaping the shoreline. Otherwise it was nearly blank. In a paper which included the map, Heckwelder, had written, " Cujahaga will hereafter be a place of great importance." It is my admission that Historians dismiss Moses Cleaveland kindly and lightly. he made no ringing pronouncemets, fought no wars, and once a city had been amed for him, went back to Connecticut and stayed. Historian accustomed to documenting the actions of soldiers and statesmen, are not always accustomed to evaluating a suberb executive. Moses Cleaveland was that. His assignments was not to settle in the west, but to survey 120 miles of it accurately, and then bring his men home safely. Few have noticed that in doing these jobs for the Connecticut Land Company, Cleaveland was also required to extinguish the Indian titles as he proceeded. He performed that major and very ticklish chore smoothly and at a good price, gaining not only title but good relations. If it may be said that his deal with the Indians was a little too canny for good grace, it must be added that he stuck strictly to the terms and bounderies and forced all other white men to do likewise. He faced a strike on the part of his crew, and handled it in a way to give advantage to the men without damaging the Connecticut Land Company. Moses Cleaveland graduated from Yale in law and after two years accepted a Captaincy in the sappers and miners in te Army of the United States. He resigned to enter the Connecticut Legislature and was later appointed general officer in the Fifth U.S. Brigade. He was a heavily muscled man, dark in complexion that he was frequently taken for Indian by Indians, especially when dressed in his usually forest stained clothes. While Cleaveland had made his satisfactory bargain with the Indians at Conneaut, the surveyors set out to find the west boundary of Pennsylvania, finding it not hard. The boundary monuments had been well preserved, and because the Penns had cut such a wide path through the timber on the border, even the second growth identified it clearly. From the diaries of the surveyors, they were quite impressed to locate the first marker. The plan was to move south on this boundary to the 41st parallel, then run their own southern boundary west from it for 120 miles. Seth Pease, the party's astronomer, who was responsibe for the instruments, made use of the trip south over the Pensylvania border to check the variation in his compass. At the 41st parallel, the party ran the Western Reserve's south line, not the full 120 miles, but just far enough to give them a line in which to get started on a few vertical range lines. They split into four crews, then drove these range lines north to the lake, but soon became concerned about the disparity in their compasses. Were they converging seriously as they went north was their concern. they would not know until they ran their parallels , which would slice the ranges into square townships. While the surveyors woried about this, Moses Cleaveland, who made good use of his limited manpower, left a supply installation at Conneaut, Elijah Gunn and Joshua Stow, while he took th rest of the party west along the coastline by boat to find the Cuyahoga River. He had several reasons. First, he anticipated that he should establish the headquarters for the region on its banks. Second, Cuyahoga was about in the middle of his 120 mile Western Reserve. Third, it was officially the western boundary of the entire United States. He should demonstrate to the Indians that would go to the east bank of it exactly, and would not cross it, so he established his storehouse for supplies on the east bank. Job Stiles was in charge of it. While he was exploring the Cuyahoga valley and establishing a headquarters, Cleaveland planned the area. The four surveying crews completed running the four vertical ranges and began now to run parallels to slice the ranges into townships exactly five miles square. However, as the surveyors cut their way through the forest, they found the tops of the townships were not exactly five miles wide. Those compass variations which had worried Pease and Holley were making the north-south lines converge and diverge. Now these small diffeneces in the size of townships at the south end of this wide land would not be serious, of course, but as the surveyors worked their way north to the Lake Erie, the differences would increase. How bad would they be to the tops? So they continued the survey. Back in Connecticut there were growing interest in the inaccuracy. The Heckwelder map of the Cuyahoga country, now being used by Moses Cleaveland, showed about three-million acres in the Western Reserve. But there was extant another map of the area made by an explorer named Lewis Evans in 1755. This was a much more exciting map, a more promotional map. It placed the Cuyahoga River with accuracy, the Portage, and the Tascarawas. It showed the salt springs near Youngstown. Perhaps then, Evans map was equally accurate in other matters. Mr. Evans map showed Lake Erie running more nearly east and west and less of a southwest slant to it, and this meant less water and more land. Possibly there were a lot more than three million acres in the Western Reserve. Suddenly the men of the Connecticut Land Company keenly interested in map collecting. They found another map made by another man, named Henry Popple, made about 1730. It showed Lake Erie much larger, but again set squarely east west in the continent and not cutting an enormous bay out of the Western Reserve. So while the Moses Cleaveland surveying party was rapidly becoming heartsick in the west from ague, hunger, dysentery, and low pay, the men then were beginning to wonder why they had accepted this work at three dollars a week., the 57 stockholders were impatient for the men to return with completed survey. A small splinter group of these 57 were getting a special flinty eyed look of greed. They began to feel they had bought far more than three million acres. Then they unrolled an old map made by Thomas Hutchins, a map by the highly regarded surveyor, later to become the national geographer. His map was believed to be quite accurate, and, as they studied it, they found again that Lake Erie did not tilt so sharply as Heckwelder had mapped it. They began to believe there was not only land in excess of the three million acres, but vastly in excess. ********************************************* To be continued in part 7. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V01 Issue #191 *******************************************