THE OHIO FRONTIER. An Anthology of Early Writings. EMILY FOSTER Editor THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY

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1 THE OHIO FRONTIER An Anthology of Early Writings EMILY FOSTER Editor THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY

2 Contents List of Illustrations and Maps ix Series Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part One: Europeans Discover Ohio, The First English Journal of the Ohio Country: Christopher Gist's Journals, The Burning of Pickawillany: Captain William Trent's Journal of His Trip from Logstown to Pickawillany, James Smith's Captivity among the Indians: The Memoirs of James Smith, The Indians Preach to the Preacher: Charles Beatty's Missionary Trip to the Ohio Indians, A Would-Be Missionary: The Journal of the Reverend David Jones, Moravian Indians Migrate to Ohio: John Heckewelder's Diary of the Trip to Gnadenhutten, The Massacre of Chief Logan's Family: Henry Jolley's Account, Who Is There to Mourn for Logan?: Chief Logan's Speech, Trade and War: A Letter from Governor John Penn to the Shawnees, An Early Tourist: The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, Negotiating with the Indians: The Journal of Colonel Richard Butler, An Official Description of the Ohio Country: Selections from Thomas Pownall, The Rescue of Jane Stoops from the Indians: Three Accounts of Samuel Brady's Rescue of Jane Stoops,

3 vi Contents An Expedition against the Indians: Henry Wilson's Account of George Rogers Clark's Campaign against the Shawnees, The First White Child in Ohio: John Heckewelder's Memoir of the Birth of His Daughter, Colonel Crawford's Death at the Stake: William Croghan's Report on the Tragic Aftermath of the Battle of the Olentangy, Part Two: The Tomahawk, the Sword, and the Plough, Rousting the Squatters: Ensign Armstrong's Report on Destroying Squatters' Cabins, Marietta in Its Infancy: The Journal of Colonel John May, These Beautiful Shores: Descriptions of Ohio by Manasseh Cutler and St. John Crevecoeur, circa Recollections of an Early Cincinnati Settler: A Letter from Luke Foster, Growing Up Indian: The Memoir of Jonathan Alder, Early Marietta Settlers: Joseph Barker's Journal, 1795 and After 88 A Winter Journey Down the Ohio: Francis Baily's Journal of a Tour to Unsettled Parts, A Picnic in Old Chillicothe: From the Diary of the Reverend James Smith, The Pioneer Household: Thomas Ewing's Childhood Adventures, A Circuit-Riding Preacher in the Western Reserve: A Memoir of the Reverend Joseph Badger, and After 103 Work and Play in Trumbull County: Leonard Case's Memoir, 1800 and After 107 A Waynesville Quaker: A Letter from Samuel Linton, A Letter from Worthington: Ruhamah Mays Writes to Friends in Connecticut, Mahoning County Hero: Roswell Grant Remembers James Hillman, circa

4 Contents vii A German Missionary in Ohio: The Reverend Paul Henkel Preaches at Brush Creek, A Trip along Zane's Trace: Selections from Fortescue Cuming's Travel Book, A Businessman's Perspective: The Travels of John Melish, Some Pioneer Memories: Henry Curtis's Youth in Licking County, Cleveland in Infancy: Isham Morgan Remembers the Village, The Maumee Settlement and the War of 1812: Philothe Clark Recalls Her Family's Flight to Urbana, Early Child Labor: Royal Taylor Works for His Weight in Sugar, circa News from the Frontier: A Letter from Cynthia Barker to Julia Buttles, Squatters on Indian Land: A Letter from Benjamin Stickney to Major General John Gano, Part Three: The Passing of the Frontier, The Hard Life of the Small Farmer: Recollections of William Cooper Howells 143 John Stewart and James Finley Preach to the Wyandots: A Memoir by William Walker, and the Reverend James Finley's Accounts of the Upper Sandusky Mission, "Ohiomania": John Stillman Wright's Cautionary Tale, An English Farmer Follows His Curiosity: William Faux's Memorable Days Traveling in Ohio, An Unhappy Visitor: Zerah Hawley Travels from Old to New Connecticut, The Death of Charles Brady: Charity Osborn Tells of Early Widowhood, A Quaker Woman on the Frontier: Letter of Anna Briggs Bentley, An English Lady in Cincinnati: Frances Trollope's Book about Cincinnati,

5 viii Contents Otto-wau-kee Speaks for His People 170 Swiss Immigrants on the Ohio Canals: The Diary of Joseph Suppiger, The Capture of a Fugitive Slave: A Newspaper Report, The Escape of a Fugitive Slave: The Memoir of William Wells Brown, Early Oberlin: Marianne Dascomb Arrives at Oberlin College, Charles Hoffman's Winter in the West: A New Yorker Goes West, A Young Man's Travels: The Journal of Cyrus P. Bradley, A German Woman on the Ohio Frontier: The Memoir of Livvat Boke, 1835 and After 105 Following the Dream: Letters of the Thomson Family in Ohio and Indiana, Disease and Death on the Frontier: Judge Fowler Remembers the Death of His Family, The Battle of the Bridge: Oren Wiley Tells of Early Commercial Competition, Childhood in Van Wert County: Thaddeus Gilliland's Boyhood, 1835 and After 207 Ottawa Indians Leave Ohio: Dresden W.H. Howard's Memoir of the Removal of Ottawas from the Maumee Valley, News from Cleveland: Newspaper Stories from a Growing Industrial City, The Last Good-bye: The Xenia Torchlight Notes the Departure of the Wyandots, Bibliography 215 Index 221