From:
The Centenel
March 19, 1806 - Gettysburg, PA
Page 6
(Contributed by Nancy Piper)
Chillicothe, February 20
We understand the Governor has received an express from Mad river,
from Major Moore and Capt. McPherson, along with depositions taken on
oath, which state, that the Shawney Indians are preparing for war -
that the war belts are passing amongst them - that their tomahawks are
painted and feathered - that they are embodied at Stony Creek and at
White River, and are now in council at Greenville, where it is feared
they will stroke a war post in their council, this being the
determined signal for war - that a small settlement on Stoney creek
consisting of about 8 families, from their fears had armed for defence,
but had fled into Mad River Settlement.
It appears from this express, that the Shawneys are preparing for
war, but does not appear that it is intended against the white people;
it may be intended against the Indian tribes over the Mississippi.
Proper measures will, we have no doubt, be taken to ascertain their
intention, and such prudential means used as will quiet the fears of
our defenceless citizens, if the alarm should be groundless, and the
restless tribe of Indians be urged by any foreign emissaries, to
involve themselves in what will ultimately prove their entire ruin.
Since writing the above, we learn that a second express has arrived
from Mad river, with dispatches for the Governor, and that General
Kenton, Major Moore, Captain McPherson, and a Mr. McIlvain, went to
the Indian council, but could not get admittance; they had, however, a
conversation with about eighteen Indians, who met them at a small
distance from the council house. The Indians received a few
strings of white wampum - professed friendship for the white people,
but, at parting, manifested hostile view, by giving their left hands &
c. The above gentlemen are fearful of consequences; but nothing
appears certain as to the views or object of the Indians.
We are informed the Governor has sent a message or speech to the
Chiefs, with a large fine belt of white wampum, and has given such
instructions as will, it is hoped in a few days, bring news that will
restore the public quiet. We are also led to believe, that
orders have issued to Brigadier Gen. Whiteman, of Green county how to
prepare and act, if necessity should require it. |
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From:
National Intelligencer
Nov. 1, 1830
(Contributed by Kim Torp)
Taylor, William, aged 86, died 24 May near Bainbridge,
Ohio. He was a native of Monmouth Co., N.J. and leaves 14 children,
124 grandchildren, and 75 great-grandchildren. |
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From:
National Intelligencer
Nov. 1, 1830
(Contributed by Kim Torp)
Creighton, Mary Ann, daughter of Hon. Wm. Creighton, Jr.,
of Chillicothe, Ohio, died 7 Oct)
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Source: National Intelligencer, as
pub. in the NGSQ, vol 55, No. 1, March 1967, submitted by
K. Torp
These are all 1831.
"This city" refers to Washington
D.C. where the National Intelligencer was published
BELT, Mrs., wife of Judge BELT, late
of Chilicothe, Ohio, died May 4. (May 6)
CREIGTON,
Betsey Mead,
3rd daughter of William CREIGTON, Jr., died in Chilicothe, Ohio
July 5, in the 17th year of her age. (July 22)
The
Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, September 27, 1809
Chillicothe
,
September 1
Yesterday
evening, (25th inst.) David Smith was sentenced to TEN
years imprisonment, in the jail and Penitentiary house of
Kentucky
, for coming a RAPE on the body of Miss Jane Stewart, eleven years
of age.
The
Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, September 12, 1810
From
the
Chillicothe
Supporter, Aug. 31,
Obituary
Died,
at this place, of a bilious complaint, on the 25th
inst., after a short indisposition and in the 73d year of his age,
Col. Moses McClean, formerly a citizen of Adams county,
Pennsylvania
. On the day
following, his remains were interred in the Presbyterian burial
ground, in the borough of
Chillicothe
, in the presence of a very numerous funeral procession, whose
countenances, in sad solemnity, expressed the great loss society
sustained by his death. He
has left a numerous family of children to console their
irreparable loss. He
was a fond father, a sincere friend, a cheerful and instructing
companion, a loyal citizen, and a charitable Christian.
He was one of the few remaining heroes of the revolution
and fathers of our freedom; and was a patriot and politician, who
flushed with a love and liberty and selected by the collected
wisdom of Pennsylvania, was appointed one of the first captains in
the revolutionary army, and marched to the northward, where he
endeared himself to his soldiers and subalterns, and secured the
confidence and esteem of his superior officers; and in captivity,
endured with manly fortitude, every privation that British cruelty
inflicted, that he might give freedom to his country. In the army,
in the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and in the other various
appointments which he held, with unsullied reputation, in
Pennsylvania
and
Ohio
, both in church and state, he gave general satisfaction.
His industrious habits and moral rectitude, had preserved
to him an unusual activity of body and serenity of mind.
The
Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, November 7, 1810
Rapid
Settlements
Very
few villages in the Western country can probably exhibit so rapid
a growth as the town of
Chillicothe
. Fourteen years ago
the region where it stands was a wilderness, inhabited only by
Indians. According to
the census just taken, it now contains thirteen hundred and sixty
four inhabitants, and nearly five hundred houses. –
Chillicothe
Supporter
(submitted by Nancy Piper) |
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