Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . by the new government, this house, destined to becomemore than a hundred years later, a patriotic shrine for futuregenerations, was purchased at the government sale by RufusPutnam and was occupied by him and his family until their de-parture for the Ohio Country. Upon that memorable winter Colonel John Murray. 403 night (January 9th, 1786), within these sacred walls was bornthe idea and plan which shortly afterwards took definite formas The Ohio Company. In April, 1888, Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Sen-ator from Massachusetts, delivered the p
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . by the new government, this house, destined to becomemore than a hundred years later, a patriotic shrine for futuregenerations, was purchased at the government sale by RufusPutnam and was occupied by him and his family until their de-parture for the Ohio Country. Upon that memorable winter Colonel John Murray. 403 night (January 9th, 1786), within these sacred walls was bornthe idea and plan which shortly afterwards took definite formas The Ohio Company. In April, 1888, Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Sen-ator from Massachusetts, delivered the principal address uponthe occasion of the centennial celebration of the first landing ofthe company at Marietta, at that time he conceived the plan ofpreserving for future generations the Old Putnam House inRutland! Senator Hoar lived to witness this plan fully realized,and many thousands of interested visitors annually come to dohonor to the venerable structure now so lovingly preserved andcherished by the Rnfus Putnam Memorial THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. CLEMENT L. MARTZOLFF, B. PED.[By permission of The Ohio Teacher.] The school histories have always said much about the Meck-lenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Inde-pendence. Indeed some histories make so much of it that youdoubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up cour-age sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning, When in thecourse of human events, etc., had he not had this brave pre-cedent before him. Now, a few years ago our esteemed friend and colleague,Mr. W. H. Hunter, of Chillicothe, who has since passed overthe silent river, wrote in that fascinating, vigorous and facilemanner of his that the Mecklenburg Resolutions were not theprelude to the Declaration of Independence at all. They werea prelude all right, but when you talk about the prelude, thatdistinction belongs to the Scotch-Irish members of the HanoverPresbyterian Church in Dauphin county, Pennsy
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