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Maxwell being appointed by the legislature to CONDITIONS. I. The Laws will be printed with a legible Type, on Good Paper, in Quarto. Marginal notes will be given. 2. This Edition will come out by Authority, and under the correcting hand of a proper person appointed by the Legislature, to see that the impression is letter for letter with the Original Records. 3. It is presumable the whole may be comprized within 300, perhaps even 200 pages - The price, in Boards, to Subscribers, will be at the rate of Nineteen Cents for every 50 Pages, and to the Non Subscribers, Thirty Cents. 4. The work will in a few days be put to Press, and delivered to the Subscribers with all possible dispatch. SUBSCRIBERS of the TERRITORY. They will much Are requested to call for their Copies. oblige the Printer if they provide themselves with the necessary change, (which will be 86 cents) — as he is determined on the present occasion to keep no books. EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO BY B. F. PRINCE, Professor in Wittenberg College. The contest for the lands west of the Ohio river began centuries ago. It was a goodly land in the eyes of the savages as well as those of the white man. A short survey of the Indian occupation will help us to understand the fierce contest between the French and English for domination in this region. There is a conflict of opinion as to conditions in that territory from about 1650 to 1740. A great war of many years' duration between the Iroquois and the Algonquin tribes arose about the middle of the seventeenth century. The war was fierce and devastating and resulted in a complete victory for the Iroquois. It was impossible for many years thereafter for any tribe to make a home within what is now Ohio. This region became as much a debatable ground as was the region of Kentucky in the days of Daniel Boone and his brave companions. Other writers who seem well informed on the prevailing conditions of the west during the period mentioned do not admit the lack of Indian settlement in this territory but speak of French traders visiting there for the purpose of traffic. It is quite probable that for some little time the Indians who had been living here were driven out, but when the smoke of battle had cleared away, and the enemy were far distant they soon returned to their former possessions, and hunted over their land as in the days before the war. The Miami tribes were the real masters of this region. They were perhaps in the zenith of their power about the middle of the eighteenth century. They held the country from the Scioto to the Wabash and had numerous towns in this wide and fertile district. Its fine meadows, noble forests, many rivers and abundant game met every want of these occupants. Perhaps no region in our whole country has been so hotly contended for by the natives both formerly and latterly as was this. The many wars and forays between 1755 and 1795, during which period thousands of whites lost their lives and thousands more were carried into captivity, were consequences of the purpose of the savages to hold the Ohio territory at any cost. No more thrilling, yet harrowing narrative was ever written than Wither's Chronicles of Border Warfare, which show the persistence of the whites to encroach on the Indian lands and the determination of the Indians to maintain their rightful hold. In the first half of the eighteenth century various other tribes of Indians were crowding into this territory. The Wyandots, the Shawnees, Mingoes, Delawares and others found it a goodly land for their future abode. They had been disturbed in their own native place either by white men or by some of their own forest people whose ill will they had provoked by their insolence or by rivalry in trade. The Indians were somewhat divided in their sympathies. The Iroquois during most of their history favored the English while the Algonquins or Hurons, in which great family the Miamis were included, for a long period bestowed their friendship upon the French. For some time the English had endeavored to win by gifts the Miamis to their support but were unable to accomplish their purpose. Near the beginning of the 18th century the Miami tribes divided in their allegiance between the French and English. By 1715 the English had won their way for a short time to the friendship of some of them and were permitted to carry on trade with them. However, few English traders invaded the region beyond the Ohio, the traffic was mostly consummated at some point in western Pennsylvania or at Fort Harris or Logstown, or Lancaster. This continued until 1744 at which time the Miamis entered into a |