Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . aiding them with theircounsel. This was the situ-ation confronting the Mari-ettians in less than twoyears from their parties of thesavages were The travel down the Ohio became perilous by reasonof the attacks on the emi-grants. In the autumn of1790, General Harmar with1400 men met with a dis-astrous defeat. The newsstruck terror to the heartsof the Mariettians and howit was increased may wellbe imagined when hard onthis came across the frozensnow from Big Bottom, theescaped, from the terrible massacre at their ver
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . aiding them with theircounsel. This was the situ-ation confronting the Mari-ettians in less than twoyears from their parties of thesavages were The travel down the Ohio became perilous by reasonof the attacks on the emi-grants. In the autumn of1790, General Harmar with1400 men met with a dis-astrous defeat. The newsstruck terror to the heartsof the Mariettians and howit was increased may wellbe imagined when hard onthis came across the frozensnow from Big Bottom, theescaped, from the terrible massacre at their very doors. Thecolony was put into a state of defense and while no depreda-tions again occurred within the Ohio Companys Purchase therewere constant signs of alarm. St. Clair had met a terrible defeatand not until General Wayne had crushed the Indian power andconsummated it at the Greenville Treaty did the colonistsbreathe easier. The five years of bloodshed and military campaigns hada decided tendency to check the growth and development of the. Frof. H. G. Williams,Dean Normal College. 418 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. Northwest Territory. The able bodied men were taken from theclearing and the fields. * * * The women and chil-dren, with the men who remained at home, were paying moreattention to the block-houses and stockades than to the corn-fields. Governor St. Clair had promulgated an order that thepractice of assembling for public worship without arms may beattended with the most serious and melancholy consequences. The period of the Indian wars was one of fear and anxiety tothe settlers and we do not wonder that they did not think oftheir proposed university. But the clouds of war had hardlypassed before they emerged from their forts and took up thework where it had left off. A reconnoitering committee was ap-pointed to locate the college lands. General Putnam remainedthe man in authority among the colonists. As surveyor-generalhe usually led all reconnoitering
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