C HISTORY OP THE STATE OF OHIO. BY JAMES W. TAYLOR. FIRST PERIOD. 1650-1787. CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY & CO., PUBLISHERS. SANDUSKY: C. L. DERBY & CO. EO US25597.87 7267 OCT 21 19.0 Да E, FASS By Exchange, Cincinnati Pu!!! Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1854, by H. W. DERBY & Co., In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. BOL DEC 30 1910 FRANKLIN PRINTING CO. PREFACE. THE History of that region of North America, which constitutes the State of Ohio, may properly be divided into four epochs. The First Period, or the ante-territorial epoch, engrosses the present volume. Commencing with the obscure memorials and traditions of the early Indian tribes, which are preserved in the faithful relations of Jesuit adventure upon the inland lakes and rivers of the continent-tracing the rise and progress of the fearful struggle for the Ohio and St. Lawrence valleys, between those European powers, that the lapse of a century finds in zealous alliance and with apprehensive gaze turned in an opposite direction-dwelling, once more, upon fragmentary relics of that Indian occupation in Ohio, which the first European settlers found in the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa and Shawanese successors of the almost mythical Eries of the seventeenth centuryrepeating the simple chronicles of Moravian zeal and courage, which, not unfruitful of beneficent influence upon the children of the forest, are also recognized by an intelligent reader to have been an agency |