PICKETED POINT OCCUPANTS Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday March 22, 2004 14:56:21 Extracted from The Marietta Daily Times Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition - Pg. 12 col. 1 & 2 FIRST DWELLINGS PLACED NEAR JUNCTION OF RIVERS WITH FIELDS BEHIND THEM About Twenty Houses Were In Use In 1791 When Indian War Broke Out and Palisade Defense Was Built for Protection of Occupants First dwelling houses in Marietta were built at “The Point,” where the Muskingum River joins the Ohio, shortly after landing of the Marietta pioneers. when the Indian War broke out in Ohio in 1791 about 20 houses were occupied. These were built generally of round longs, roughly fitted. They did not have the neatness and finish of the dwelling built in Campus Martius stockade. No block house or defense of any kind was built until the war made it necessary to protect the settlers. The ground back of the houses had been cleared of nearly all trees from the Ohio River bank to what was named Tiber Creek and from the Muskingum to the east a little beyond what is Front Street. The center of the area was lower that the banks of the rivers. When the war broke early in January of 1791 the Ohio Company employed Colonel William STACY to erect a palisade defense around the houses. Colonel Ebenezer SPROAT assisted Colonel STACY in building the palisades which entirely surrounded the settlement. The cleared ground to the north was left for corn growing and vegetable gardens. ---Blockhouses at Corners Blockhouses were built at the corners of the fortification and were two stories high. Near two of the blockhouses strong gates were built, wide enough for the entrance of wagons. The blockhouses were surmounted by sentry boxes or turrets of thick planks. The upper room of one of the blockhouses was used for a school room for the children in the garrison. A guard house was in the lower room of one of the blockhouses. A sergeants guard placed by the Ohio Company directors, commanded by Colonel Joseph BARKER, had charge of the guard duty at the fortification. Sentries were on duty every night. The largest of the blockhouses was 28 feet square in the lower story and the upper story, which extended outward, was 30 feet square. The timbers were eight inches thick, hewed smooth. There were good floors and bullet proof doors and window shutters. ---Under Military Law After the defeat of General ST. CLAIR and the slaughter of his army on the banks of the Maumee River, fear of the settlers grew. Captain Jonathan HASKELL took charge of the “Picketed Point” and put the inhabitants under military law. Gates were closed at sunset, sentries placed in the block house sentry boxes, and on one was allowed to pass in or out of the stockade. The palisades were built of large logs, set vertically and deep into the ground. Several families built houses of the outside of the palisades, taking chances on Indian molestation, but feeling themselves reasonably safe so near the fortification. These families had cornfields and cultivated areas which at times kept them employed until after the gates were closed for the night. The occupants of the fortified enclosure had to feed themselves and cultivation of their fields was the chief occupation of the settlers. The fields extended to where is Putnam Street and as far back as Marietta College campus. ---Signal With Cannon Firing of cannon was the signal for everyone to hurry to the fortification from the fields when the rangers reported Indians around. Several alarms were not well founded and no Indian depredations occurred in the immediate settlement. Families which lived in the garrison at the “Picketed Point” included William MOULTON, his wife, daughters, Anna and Lydia, and son, Edmund. The father and son were among the 48 Marietta pioneers. William MOULTON was a goldsmith in Massachusetts before coming to the Ohio country. Dr. Jabez TRUE, Marietta earliest physician, boarded with the MOULTONS. Captain William MILLS, grandfather of the late John and William W. MILLS, lived in the garrison with his wife and son, John MILLS. He died soon after the end of the war and his widow married Dr. Jabez TRUE. ---Organized Defense Captain Jonathan HASKELL, who severed under General Josiah HARMAR at Fort Harmar, put the “Picketed Point” garrison under military law and lived for a time in a house at the point. Hamilton KERR, the ranger, and his mother, who was widowed when Indians killed her husband Matthew KERR, at the head of KERR’S Island, lived in a small blockhouse. Colonel Ebenezer SPROAT, high sheriff in the Marietta settlement, his wife and daughter and Commodore Abraham WHIPPLE, wife and son, lived together in a small house near the banks of the Ohio. Colonel SPROAT’S wife was the daughter of Commodore WHIPPLE. ---First Frame House Joseph BUELL, wife and two children lived in what was the first frame house built in the Northwest Territory at Front and Greene streets. The house was known as “Munsell’s Tavern” and was enclosed in the garrison. William SKINNER and Joseph McKINLEY lived in the garrison and conducted a small store. After the close of the Indian War, SKINNER moved to the Harmar side of the Muskingum and engaged in merchandising as the earliest merchant in Harman. Return Jonathan MEIGS, wife and child lived in the Picketed Point during the greater period of the war. MEIGS and Charles SKINNER, who lived in Campus Martius, had a store in the “Picketed Point” fortification. ---Was Hat Maker Captain PRINCE, wife and two children lived in a house where Captain PRICE worked at his business as a hat maker. He came here from Boston. He moved to Cincinnati after the war. Peter NYGHSWONGER, wife and several children occupied a cabin on the Muskingum side of the point. The wife was a sister of Hamilton KERR. Dudley WOODBRIDGE, wife and children lived in a block house near the Ohio River. Between this house and river he built a frame house on the site of what was later “Boiler Corner” and operated a store there after the Indian War, his business associate being Harman BLENNERHASSETT. ---Other Stockade Occupants Captain Josiah MUNROE, one of the 48 pioneers, and wife and two children lived near the center of the stockade. William STACY, wife and children Joseph STACY, wife and children James PATTERSON, wife and children, Nathaniel PATTERSON, wife and children Captain Abel MATTHEWS, wife and six children Thomas STANLEY, wife and four children Eleazer CURTIS, wife and children, Simeon TUTTLE wife and four children, lived at the garrison at the point. The STACY families and Captain Abel MATTHEWS moved to the Rainbow neighborhood after the war. Thomas STANLEY and family moved to Fearing Township as the first settlers, and Stanleyville is named for them. A number of Ohio Company laborers occupied a row of cabins on the Ohio River side of the fortification. Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 (Surnames were typed as shown in the article, but captialized for easy identification) FAVORITE LINK Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday March 29, 2004 05:23:42 LINKPENDIUM Linking People and Information A 176,192 link directory of American genealogical resources http://www.linkpendium.com/ (Copy & paste this link in your browser) BLENNERHASSETT LAWSUIT Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday April 11, 2004 02:30:24 ATTACHMENT INDICATIVE OF BLENNERHASSETT'S DECLINE Tucked away in an obscure column of a newspaper published here more than 130 years ago is a memento of the wrecked fortunes of Harman BLENNERHASSETT, ruler of an island paradise--actor in one of life's most pathetic dramas. Misfortunes followed fast upon his entertainment of Aaron BURR in his island mansion on that April day of 1805. And this pampered son of Irish parentage finally died in penury--as did also his wife, the belle of many a brilliant social assemblage in early Marietta--the accomplished Margaret AGNEW, daughter of the governor of the Isle of Man. Here is a copy of an attachment issued at the instance of one Robert MILLER, Lexington, Ky., on lands and chattels to satisfy a claim of $15,000 by the Kentuckian. It is from a copy of the Ohio Gazette and Virginia Herald, published in Marietta, and is dated September 9, 1807. STATE OF OHIO Washington County ss Court of Common Pleas, April term, 1807. Robert Miller, Plaintiff (Foreign attachment) vs Harman Blennerhassett, deft. WHEREAS a writ of foreign attachment hath issued from the court of common pleas for said county, returnable at April term A. D. 1807 against the lands, tenements, goods, chattels, rights, credits, monies and effects of the said Harman Blennerhassett, late of the county of Washington, aforesaid gentleman at the suit of the said Robert Miller of Lexington, in the county of Fayette and state of Kentucky, a merchant, in a plea of the case to the damage of him the said Robert Miller as he saith, in the sum of $15,000. NOTICE is therefore given to the said Harman Blennerhassett that unless he appears and enters special bail to the action aforesaid, and receives a declaration, judgment will be entered against him by default, the property attached and sold for the benefit of his creditors. (Signed) Edward W. Tupper, Clerk Marietta Ohio, Times, Thursday, April 7, 1938 Section 5; Pg. 10; Col.5 Extracted by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche April 2004 HISTORY OF BEVERLY-WATERFORD AREA Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday April 13, 2004 00:46:54 BEAUTIFUL AND FERTILE MUSKINGUM VALLEY OCCUPIED EARLY SECOND COLONIZING PARTY FROM MARIETTA SETTLED IN AREA ABOUT BEVERLY First Allotments in “Donation Tract” Made to Thirty-Nine Families; Fear of Indian Attacks Resulted In Building Of Fort Frye on Muskingum Second settlement of Marietta pioneers who colonized outlying areas near Marietta made in a “Donation Tract” in what is Waterford Township in 1789, shortly after the Belpre settlement was made. The entire area of what is Waterford Township was in this tract in the original Ohio land subdivisions for Revolutionary War soldiers. The tract was not included in the Ohio Company Purchase, but was set apart by act of Congress for military bounty settlers. The Ohio Company surveyed and allotted the lands to the settlers. Thirty-nine families were in the group that made the Beverly-Waterford settlement 20 miles up the Muskingum. Requirements for the settlers in the tract were that they build houses within five years, set out fruit trees, clear meadows and pastures for stock raising and generally cultivate the soil on their 100-acre tracts allotted them. They were also required to have fire-arms. BLOCK HOUSE AT BEVERLY Danger of Indians lurking about made it necessary for the new settlement to be compact. Cabins were built on both sides of the Muskingum and a block house was built on the Beverly side for protection. The men organized themselves into “militia,” without much fear until the news came for the Big Bottom massacre, a few miles above, in January of 1791. The terror spread and the men of the colony began at once to build fort Frye on the Waterford side of the Muskingum. It served as the principal fortification for the pioneers of the Muskingum Valley during the Indian War. FORT FRYE TRIANGULAR Fort Frye was constructed in the shape of an irregular triangle with its base extending 200 feet along the Muskingum River and not far back from the river. Three substantial two-story houses were built of logs at the angles of the triangle and these served for block houses with sentinels. Log houses were built along the sides connecting with the block houses and their outer walls served for walls of the fort. Less than an acre of ground was covered by the fort. Fort Frye was named for Colonel Joseph FRYE, who served as a drummer boy at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the Revolutionary War. He was principally responsible for building Fort Frye, and for the abandonment of the earlier inadequate block house. During the Indian War the settlers in Fort Frye worked in their fields in groups and were always armed. Their guns were stacked in the middle of the fields, guarded by sentinels. They were harassed by the Indians who came occasionally and drove off the cows which ranged in the woods. The fort was so substantial and the settlers so cautious that they escaped without depredations. OLIVE GREEN COLONY The opening of the donation Tract brought many people and the garrison at Fort Frye became too small to accommodate them. This led to the formation of the Olive Green colony a few miles above Beverly. It included Abel SHERMAN, who just before the end of the Indian War, was treacherously killed by the Shawnee Indian, “Silverheels.” After the war the 100 acre donation tracts were quickly applied for and there was rapid progress in the development of agriculture in Waterford Township. Many of the prominent residents of the lower Muskingum Valley are descendants of pioneers who lived in Fort Frye. The fort was dismantled a few years after the Indian War, when the settlers began home building in a substantial way, and without fear of molestation, cultivated their acres. FORT FRYE FAMILIES Families which lived in Fort Frye included those of Captain William GRAY, Major John WHITE, Major Phineas COBURN, who was one of the 48 Marietta pioneers, Judge Gilbert DEVOL, Benjamin SHAW, Joshua SPRAGUE, William SPRAGUE, Noah FEARING, Harry MAXON, Daniel DAVIS, David WILSON, Benjamin BEADLE, Jeremiah WILSON, George WILSON, Andrew STORY, Daniel CONVERS, Allen DEVOL, who was one of the 48 Marietta pioneers, Wanton DEVOL, Colonel Joseph FRYE, Asa COBURN, Dean TYLER, Andrew WEBSTER, Neal McGUFFEY, Andrew McCLURE, William McCULLOUGH, William NEWELL, Samuel CUSHING, Jabez BARLOW and Nathan HINKLEY. Ephraim CUTLER, son of Dr. Manesseh CHTLER, on of the Marietta pioneers lived in Fort Frye in the cabin of Daniel Davis for a short time. Others lived in the fort for short periods. The site of Fort Frye many be visualized by the traveler on the highway a short distance below Beverly corporation line who looks across the Muskingum directly into the break in the range of the hills. Near the river bank, in the foreground, stood Fort Frye. PEOPLE MOVE IN Work on Muskingum River improvements made by the state of Ohio between 1837 and 1842, when the stationary dams were built between Zanesville and Marietta, brought to Beverly-Waterford communities many workmen. Beverly at once developed into a village with houses, stores and industries. John DODGE laid out the plat of what was the beginning of Beverly village and named the place Beverly, in honor of his native home, Beverly, Mass. The village was incorporated in 1845 and is the oldest incorporated village in Washington County at the present time. Beverly postoffice was established a century ago, when John KEYHOE was appointed the first postmaster in 1838. The first bank in Beverly was opened in 1863. OPERATES FIRST STORE The first store in Beverly was opened in 1837 by Colonel E. S. McINTOSH. Oliver TUCKER opened a hardware store in 1855. Dr. A. S. CLARK established a drug store in 1856 and Dr. Joseph PARKER on in 1865. J. B. BAIN opened the first shoe store in Beverly in 1850. A woolen mill was built in 1849, known as the Beverly Woolen Mills. A foundry and machine shop was opened by John DODGE in 1852, and this was the nucleus for the later W. F. ROBERTSON Company. this concern moved to Marietta in later years and after reorganization became the Marietta Manufacturing Company which went to Point Pleasant, W. Va., about 20 years ago. Grist mills have been numberous in the Beverly and Waterford communities. A valuable feature in the economic geology of Waterford Township was the heavy coal seam in what is the Coal Run area. BEVERLY ACADEMY Beverly Academy as one of the outstanding educational institutions of more than a half-century ago. Beverly High School is one of the older village high schools in Washington County school system. Earliest Beverly churches were the Methodist, organized in 1852, and the Church of the Disciples. Waterford, which is not incorporated, has its own churches, a high school in the Washington County school system, a bank and other commercial enterprises. Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 37. Free and Accepted Masons, was established at Waterford in 1816 and has its Masonic hall in Beverly. Other fraternal organizations were organized later. Waterford Grange is one of the flourishing early granges in Washington County. Beverly has had a newspaper for the greater part of the time since 1852. The Beverly Dispatch has been in existence since 1879. The Marietta Times, Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition Section 6; Pg. 9 Col. 1-4 Extracted by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net April 2004 Names have been capitalized for easy identification. FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON CO., OH Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday April 28, 2004 12:40:22 Since the last newsletter, more photos have been added to the website: *Aug. 13, 1942 - Group Of Men In Front of Peoples Bank *Beverly School & Students - 1912 *Sarah "Sallie" Hazel Johnson *The "CAIN" Clan *Desk built by William Bond Mason *William Bond Mason's Cup *Salmon PARKE *Sophronia (Mason)PARKE *Sophronia Parke's Headstone *Solomon Van Buren & Elisha Almon PARKE *PARKE Brothers - James Harvey, ???, & Elisha Almond *Susana Sophronia PARKE *Solomon Van Buren & Clarissa Jane (Roberts) PARKE You can view these pics at this site: http://hometown.aol.com/familiesofwashco/index.html (Copy & paste this link into your browser) If you have any "OLD" photos you would like to have added to the site, please email me. OLD PHOTO'S OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO - PART 3 Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday April 28, 2004 12:50:14 New Photo's have been added to OLD PHOTO'S OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO - PART 3 *MAIN STREET - CUTLER, OHIO *1913 PUBLIC SCHOOL - BEVERLY, OHIO *FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (The oldest church in the orginal Northwest Territory) *INSIDE VIEW OF THE OHIO COMPANY LAND OFFICE (circa 1788) *MUSKINGUM ACADEMY COLLEGE (circa early 1800's) *MARIETTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Circa 1959) *ICE SKATING ON THE MUSKINGUM RIVER 1907 OLD PHOTO'S OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO - PART 3 http://hometown.aol.com/washcopics/index.html (Copy & paste this link into your browser) WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday April 28, 2004 13:01:46 There has been so many "LINKS" added to the website, that is too numberous to mention in this newsletter. To make the site easier to view, I have add the word "NEW" to most LINKS added since the last newsletter. The site is now indexed by catagory. The newest addition to the LINKS pages is the Selected Ohio Counties Marriage Index 1789-1850. I have been extracting those from Washington, County, Ohio (only) by surname, as some have requested. NEW "LINKS" are on pages 4 & 5. The newest surnames added the the Surname Registry Index include: BAKER BENNETT CROSS CUTSHAW DOUGHERTY FARNSWORTH FERRELL GLASGOW GUTSHALL HUTCHISON MARTIN McKENNA McNASPY/McANASPIE PEGG POLEN PORTER ROBINSON SMITH SUDER Carolyn Westberry COLVIN HAWK PORTERFIELD SIMPSON Amanda D. Ratliff SKIPTON BEEBE BICKFORD BROWN CARLIN CORNS DEVORE LAMB NEISWANGER NEWBANKS WILLS ZEARING David Skipton WOSTER MOORE HALL MEEK Susie Worster McQuaide http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/Intropage1.html (Copy & Paste this link into your browser) Surnames from Little Hocking Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday April 28, 2004 13:25:31 If anyone is researching the following names from LITTLE HOCKING, WASHINGTON CO., OHIO--I have some sketches and genealogy info. If intrested, plese email me with the name and 'LITTLE HOCKING" in the email. I will be happy to do a look-up for you. Nathaniel Sawyer Ebenezer Porter James Lewis Coggeshall Zadok Foster James Bellows Reuban Allen John Allen John Bartlett Joseph Marion Miller Horance Curtis Arthur McGirr Dr. Jesse Vickers Thomas C. Collins Isaac Shotwell Levi Brewster Eugene Brewster Andrew Cornes Edna Sutton (Ex-Slave) George Dunfee Joseph Riggs James Deucher Amos Biss Edwy Brown Josiah Holdren GOOD RESEARCH BOOKS Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday April 28, 2004 14:01:21 If anyone has ancestors that migriated from Watertown, MA., the book "Henry Bond’s Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts" is a MUST HAVE!! Visit Stephen M. Lawson's website to get the EVERY NAME INDEX to the book. Stephen's site is: http://kinnexions.com/kinnexions/bond/bond.htm I have access to it through ancestry.com, and would be glad to do a look-up for you. Send me the name and add 'BOND'S HISTORY' to the email. Here is a little info about the book; Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to Which is Appended the Early History of the Town, With Illustrations, Maps and Notes, by Henry Bond, MD (popularly known as “Bond’s Watertown”), was published by the Society in 1860, shortly after Bond’s death in Pennsylvania. Another excellent site is A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND BEFORE 1692 by James Savage (AKA) SAVAGES GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY) Vol. 1, 2, 3,& 4. This site is located at: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/