Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . he Muskingum and Gen-eral Rufus Putnam alightedon the virgin Ohio soil witha commission from the Na-tional Government to estab-lish an university in thiswilderness. Dr. Cutler never becamea resident of the colony,but from his Massachusettshome he continued to takean interest in and direct itsoperation as is shown bythe correspondence betweenhim and General visited the settlement in the summer of 1788, We find in hisdiary of the date, September 3d, of that year, how he and Gen-eral Putnam had crossed the Muskingum to Fort Harmar and incomp
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . he Muskingum and Gen-eral Rufus Putnam alightedon the virgin Ohio soil witha commission from the Na-tional Government to estab-lish an university in thiswilderness. Dr. Cutler never becamea resident of the colony,but from his Massachusettshome he continued to takean interest in and direct itsoperation as is shown bythe correspondence betweenhim and General visited the settlement in the summer of 1788, We find in hisdiary of the date, September 3d, of that year, how he and Gen-eral Putnam had crossed the Muskingum to Fort Harmar and incompany with Dr. Scott, they climbed the high hill north-westof the Fort and west of the city. Fine prospect. Some excellentland; fine rock for building; and it is proposed that the univer-sity should be on this hill. There is now an interregnum of several years in whichno definite steps are being taken for the establishment of theuniversity. The Western country was in the midst of a des-perate Indian war. The Indian edict had gone forth that no. Rufus Putnam. Ohio University 417 white man shall plant corn in the Ohio country. A year afterthe Marietta settlement, Governor St. Clair had invited, theIndians to a council at Fort Harmar. But the Miamis andShawanese stayed away and the Confederated tribes did notsanction the treaty. Brant, the great chief of the Six Nations,was laboring to unite the western tribes into a Confederacy and the English were supplyingthem with ammunition andaiding 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, theesc
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