Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . eme to keep the peoples minds away from the idea of inde-pendence, and that the men seeing they had been duped, pro-claimed under the very nose of the royal governor their alle-giance to American liberty. 410 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. As a matter of fact it doesnt make any difference whetherthey had been fooled or not. Dunmore may have been guiltyof double dealing or he may not. It does not alter the situationone whit, anyway you consider it. There is this to be remem-bered only, that the Hanover Declaration, the Ohio Declarationan
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . eme to keep the peoples minds away from the idea of inde-pendence, and that the men seeing they had been duped, pro-claimed under the very nose of the royal governor their alle-giance to American liberty. 410 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. As a matter of fact it doesnt make any difference whetherthey had been fooled or not. Dunmore may have been guiltyof double dealing or he may not. It does not alter the situationone whit, anyway you consider it. There is this to be remem-bered only, that the Hanover Declaration, the Ohio Declarationand the Mecklenburg Declaration were the straws showing whichway the wind was blowing. They were all indicative of therapidly growing spirit of liberty and independence in the colon-ists and this spirit would manifest itself even in the presence ofa member of the British aristocracy who at the same time wasthe Kings representative. Twenty years after this period when the settler of theOhio Company took possession of their lands at the mouth of. Mouth of the Hockhocking. the Big Hock-hocking the outlines of Dunmores camping groundwas easily distinguished. A tract containing several acres hadthe appearance of an old clearing grown up with stout plowing the fields for several years afterwards, mementoesof the former occupants were often found, consisting of hatchets,gun barrels, knives, swords and bullets, brought to light in theupturned furrow. In one place several hundred leaden bulletswere discovered lying in a heap as if they had been buried ina keg or box. A tolerably perfect sword is now to be seen in themuseum of the Ohio University at Athens, which was foundon the west side of the river near the roots of a fallen tree.(Hildreths Pioneer History.) OHIO UNIVERSITY-THE HISTORIC COLLEGEOF THE OLD NORTHWEST. CLEMENT L. MARTZOLFF. Situated on the winding Hock-Hocking amid the pic-turesque hills of Southern Ohio is the little city which, accordingto Theodore Roosevelt,
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