Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . onsiderable num-bers. The Indians continued to trade at Franklinton and Colum-bus and to maintain their hunting camps along the various streamsof the county, being at peace with the white settlers. About theyear 1820 game had become scarce and the Indians ceased to 94 Ohio Arch, and His. Society Publications. hunt much so far south as FrankHn County. In 1830 the Con-gress and Senate of the United States adopted a poUcy for theremoval of the Indians to the west of the Mississippi River andpassed a law entitled: An act to provide for an exchange ofla
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . onsiderable num-bers. The Indians continued to trade at Franklinton and Colum-bus and to maintain their hunting camps along the various streamsof the county, being at peace with the white settlers. About theyear 1820 game had become scarce and the Indians ceased to 94 Ohio Arch, and His. Society Publications. hunt much so far south as FrankHn County. In 1830 the Con-gress and Senate of the United States adopted a poUcy for theremoval of the Indians to the west of the Mississippi River andpassed a law entitled: An act to provide for an exchange oflands with the Indians residing within any of the states or terri-tories, and for their removal west of the River Mississippi. This was approved by the President of the United States May28th, 1830, and pursuant to its general provisions all the Indiantribes were removed from Ohio to the west of the Mississippiwithin the next few years, and the state of Ohio after centuriesof occupancy by the red race ceased forever to be the home of THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. COMPILED BY W. H. HUNTER.^ STEUBENviLivE gazette;. I. Who were the Pathfinders f — The Scoth-Irish Exerted PotentInfluence in Winning the Ohio Couyitry from the Wilder7iessarid the Indiaris — Ohio History from the Pen7isylva7iia-Virgiyiia Point of View— The Third Race Divisioji notnoted by Historiajis — The Scotch-Irish and 7iot the Purita7isand Cavaliers Tnade Ohio. By means of the ever busy and facile pens of the descendantsof the noible Puritan fathers, the behef has taken deep root in theeastern states, and it is not without adherents in the west, thatthe pre-eminent position Ohio maintains as an element of theRepublic, is wholly due to the remarkable fecundity, mental andphysical, of the eight families from New England who locatedat Marietta in 1788. Until very recent years no one had thetemerity to dispute in the least degree the claim that Ohio issolely the product of Puritan forethought
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