the mail, in the year 1795, from Marietta to Gallipolis, in a large canoe. It was made by Captain Jonathan Devol, from the trunk of a wild cherry tree, and finished as nicely as any piece of cabinet furniture. The length was forty feet and would carry twenty men; but was so nicely modeled for passing through the water, that two men could move her with poles or paddles as easily as any other canoe of half the size. The trip up and down was performed in a week, being a little over one hundred miles.

The head quarters of a company of fifty men was established at the fort, after the year 1791. The soldiers were distributed in small detachments at the different garrisons, and changed every few months, by a fresh squad. Their presence gave confidence to the inhabitants, and enabled them to devote more time to the cultivation of their fields, as they kept the guard of the garrison, while they were out at their work. Captain Haskell commanded a part of the time, and Lieutenant Morgan at another.

CHAPTER XV.

Plate and description of Marietta garrison, at "the point."- Night adventure.- Names of families and persons, with the houses in which they lived. -Anecdotes.-Schools.-Ohio company in 1793.-Donation lands. -Scarlet fever. Small pox.-Indian adventure.-Bird Lockhart.-Crops of corn, 1794.-R. Worth killed. - Packet mail boats established. - Adventure with Indians.-1795.-Ohio company acts.-College lands surveyed.Fund for preaching.-Colonists go on to their farms.-Rapid improvements. - First legislature.-Difficulties of traveling.-Delegate to Congress, 1802. -Constitution adopted, and the state of Ohio formed.

Description of the garrison at “the point.”

The first dwelling houses in Marietta were erected at "the point," in a short time after the landing of the pioneers; and at the breaking out of the war in 1791, there were about twenty houses occupied by families. These houses were generally made of round logs, and did not possess the neatness and finish of the dwellings in Campus Martius. When the war began, several families from the country moved in and erected additional houses. No block houses, or defenses of any kind, had been built. The ground was cleared of nearly all the trees from the Ohio bank up the Muskingum to Tyber creek, and east, to a little beyond the east side of First street. The center of this area was lower than on the banks of the rivers, and occupied by a small run that passed obliquely across the village, discharging its water into the Muskingum a few rods below where Cram's mill now stands. The mouth of the run was without the palisades, and crossed by a bridge close to the gate, which was placed near the Muskingum block house, and was

the outlet to the road which communicated with Campus Martius. The town plat was encumbered with stumps and some fallen timber. When the war commenced, Colonel William Stacey was employed by the Ohio company to superintend the erection of defenses, under the direction of Colonel Sproat. A line of palisades was set from the Muskingum river, easterly to the east side of First street, terminating in this direction near to where lawyer Hart now lives. From thence on the east side of First street to the Ohio river; inclosing about four acres. A piece of ground, of nearly the same size, remained uninclosed, between the northern line of palisades and Tyber creek, for corn and garden grounds. Three or four houses stood on the outside of the defenses, near the block house on the Muskingum bank, occupied by Colonel Nyghs wonger, Jacob Wiser and Isaac Mixer, as seen in the sketch of the garrison. Two or three other buildings stood in Ohio street, near the upper gate, outside the palisades.

Three block houses were immediately built: one on the Muskingum bank, at the western termination of the pickets; one in the northeast corner of the inclosure; and one on the Ohio bank. Near to the latter, and by that on the Muskingum, were strong gates, of a size to admit teams, the approaches to which were commanded by the block houses. These block houses were surmounted by sentry boxes, or turrets, the sides of which were secured with thick planks for the defense of the men when on guard. The upper room in the block house number one was occupied as a school house a large portion of the time, while the lower story contained one or two families. In block house number two, in the northeast corner of the garrison, families lived in the upper story, and the lower one was used for a guard house. A sergeant's guard of Ohio company troops, commanded by Joseph Barker, since a colonel and judge of the court of common pleas, had charge of this building for two or more years. Block house number three stood on