Thought I'd start an new thread for you...an hope it gives you some insight on some
of the people involved...befoer you make that trip you mention in the other thread..
Here goes...The Symmes Purchase (family related)...often called the Miami Purchase
also, i slocated in teh SW corner of the state of Ohio..and runs..approx. 24 miles NW, between the Great Miami and Little Miami Rivers. The total area is 311,682 acres incluing reserves. On Sept 30, 1754 President George Washington signed the
U.S. Patent (deed) conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres plus an surveying township
(23,040 acres in trust for an academy. It was also reserved Fort Washington (15 acres), one square mile near the mouth of the Great Miami River. Symmes Purchase was privately surveyed. William Henry Harrison, introduced the legislation that became the act on May 10, 1800. The "Act" opened up the frontier to a "land office business" and land offices were opened in Stuebenville, Cincinnati, Chillicothe, and Marietta.
(Note...this is what most likey started Tuchumeh's hatred for Harrison...as most the Shawnees were living in the general area. Harrison at this time was an surveryor for my Lawson's also in Kentucky supposedly also. This land is most likley the WAshington holdings of land from thier "Land Company" also...of which
the Gist family explored for Washingotn back then also...and John Lawson family
married into via an "Susannah Lawson" kinship)
My Larkins m. Reed(READ)anscetor's also married intot he Purcell family...and they
say in Virginia that the Purcell's are an half brother of the Symmes (Simm's)
family. After leaving Somerset Co, Pa..at one time an part of Lancaster Co., Pa.
my Larkisn settled near Perry County,. Ohio..with her relatives...whom later
joined the "Methodist" church having opened up the first in their area...it was
on some land called an "reclamation area"..and this is what I found out about that..
Teh refugee TRact (lands) located in parts of FRnklin, Fairfield, Licking, and Perry Counties in central Ohio, extends 42 miles from the Scioto River, along the south line of the U. S. MIlitary District. This tract of land contains 103,527 acres..they were granted for people aiding the United States during the Revolutionary War whom gave up their British sympathies. Ohio is the only state
in the union where Congress gave land for the support of religion..this was later
given over to the formation of schools. Perry Co., Ohion was named after Commador
Oliver Hazzard Perry of the 1812 war..Ross County, Ohio was named by territorial
Govenor Authur St. Clair for his friend James Ross of Pennsylvania..U. S. Senator
1794 to 1803. James Ross family roots came from Lancaster Co. Pa. also..later parts of it became Somerset Co., Pa. (Note...last I left off St. Clair was in Chalkey's
living in what would become "Bath Co., Va but was at this time Augusta County, Va.)
Ross County, Ohio is directly across the Ohio River from Kentucky. From the "Pioneer
REcords of Ross Co., Ohio..by thier historical society was sent to me this information from this book page 34 and 35 on FRanklin TownshipCol. Foster's father
came to Ohio the year 1796, on an exploring expedition. He first went to Kentucky to see his brother in-law, whose name was Chenoweth. Col. Foster's father were the first whitemen to row up the Scioto River, later they built an cabin on it's bank.
(note...William E. Larkins eldest son, Jereimiah m. first Sarah Ann Davis, kin of
Elizabeth Davis m. REV. James Bruce Chenoweth as his second wife. Recent history give as family information (Rosalie Pleis) leaves out an host of people of the Chenoweth association...that I have documents to by prior family and historian researchers...sent ot Mrs Frank Larkins, whom sent it to me. The now destroyed
Chenoweth cemetary where this family resided in Illinois belonged to an Rev. Edward
Chenoweth m. Mary Wilson in Berkley Co., Va (now West Va.)..Rosalie has also
left out of her data the, daughter of Rev. James Chenoweth...by his first wife.
The Foster Farm is one of the stopping "station houses" now historical, along the Barlow Toll Gate Road over Mt. Hood. here in Oregon. My anscetor William E. Larkins
two duaghters m. two brothers of this Barlow family. William E. Larkins left his
eldest son, Jeremiah R. Larkins his "dray-line" (wagon) business and left for Oregon in 1847. After his first wife died, he remarried Ketruah Hailey (Handley)
and they moved the family down near the Kansas-Nebraska line. Jeremiah's only sister Elizabeth m. John Riley and he survived her. Their sister named "Nora" died in infancy. WE have that Sarah Ann DAvis died of lung ailment, possibly TB and there
is an "suggestion" of possible child birth also...as "Nora" was the last child.
Here is what we know on William E. Larkins...faterh said James by land deed records
in Oregon, of whom his paid his 1812 military pension to, he was born in Tenneesse in 1794 (thought to been of the James larkin(s) of Smith Co., possibly)..he was in the 1812 war..and from what we can find out several times, but was discharged(proably from supplying the building of Ft. Meigs) and left the area just four days prior to the Battle there. He was the rank of an col. supposedly by the time he filed for an pension. He married Racheal Reed (REad) in somerset Co., Pa. in 1814
she was of Lower Turkeyfoot township of New Jersey which later became Someset Co. Pa. They belonged to an OLD JERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH that came from near Princeton
College in New Jersey to Somerset Co., Pa....they then moved to Perry County, Ohio
and to what would go from Putnam to Marshall county, Illinois to Oregon in 1847
before it was an "state'. William E. Larkins is listed as an church elder with the
REv. James B. Chenoweth in Marshall county, Ill...though other family seem to think he was an Methodist Circuit-rider also. He died in Oregon in the year of 1850.
Racheal and William E. had 12 children. Racheal Reed's father is Jeremiah Reed m. Jerusha Strawn (Strawhen)(father Jacob/Hunderton co., New Jersey))..Jeremiah's father was John Reed(Read) m. Thankful Honowell or Honeywell..Rev, war Soldier..an liet. by rank and part of Layfette's Divison. He also has some military in the western area of Pennsyvania mainly Fayette County. The Strawn family were of Bucks Co, Pa. and her family were of the Purcells that married into George Washington's family. Our family is well noted in their lineage records...on-line...through John Purcell/Thomas Purcell. George Washington travelled through Somerset County 11 times in his life, highlights include..his first time as an young explorer with Indian guides in 1753..in 1754 he returned to the area near Turkeyfoot to resume trying to find the the Forks of the Ohio River...in 1755 he fell ill under the command of Braddock and recouperated near the great crossing, in 1758 he was with the Forbes Expedition in command of the 1st Va. Regt., in 1770 he again wen over BRaddocks' Road over to the Ohio River, (by now he most likley owned much of the land he was tranversign on)...1784 made his last trip after the close of the Rev. War....much of this was in connection of establishing "Forts" along the frontier regions from Pennsylvania also..to North Carolina as an military officer Commander of our American Forces. The Turkeyfoot area of Pennsylvania were some of the earliest settlements of Quakers..and indeed the Strawn relationship includes those from Sussex, England aboard the ship WElcome with William Penn in 1682..and settled near Bucks Co., Pa. I might add that they shared this area with the later called "Delaware" Indians. Their Chief Tammany was inspirational to our ideas of "Democracy" in its early days in many ways. Our historian that looked up the family said that unlike many areas, thier churches and homestead had never been attacked an/or burned. The Delawares were an christainized tribe, that never went on the "warpath" until some whitemen took them for Shawnees and slaughtered them in Virginia...what few were left joined Tecumseh. Surprisingly it was the biography of
the Genenal Lewis family in Virginia that did not forget them for their sufferings
in this ordeal. I do think our family had an strong relationship with the Indians,
besides John Lawson's in-law "Gist" family. I would like to remeber the Native Americans whom suffered also at the hands of the white people, whom were good to
those pioeneers that were good people, not by what I have to say, but by another persons rememberances of the Wagon train trip as told by an ancestor of the Allen-Bird family in that 1847 wagon train trip to Oregon..of which Willian E. Larkins and his kin were riding. "One day west of Fort Laramie, one lone Indian appeared. He shook hands with everyone and said "how" they only word he knew..he rode on the lead wagon for many days. On one occasion he made notions to circle the wagons, and put their stock in the center of them, as they secured the animals an band of indians appeared..they did not attack but much wanted the stock. To give it to them meant certain starvation or death, let alone no transporation of the wagons. After they reached Blackfoot territory the lone Indian left". While they saw many indian wagons enroute, which had been attacked and burnt, their wagon train never was...and I am trying to understand if this was "protetion" for that particular
wagon train...whom was it by..it had to been someone with "influence" amoung the tibes...I would think amoung the Indians themselves. Indeed my ancestor homesteaded
on the winter-lands of the Mollala and sub-division unit of the Nez perce tribe earlier...they later became part of the Warm Springs Reservation Indians. I leave
this for now.
of the people involved...befoer you make that trip you mention in the other thread..
Here goes...The Symmes Purchase (family related)...often called the Miami Purchase
also, i slocated in teh SW corner of the state of Ohio..and runs..approx. 24 miles NW, between the Great Miami and Little Miami Rivers. The total area is 311,682 acres incluing reserves. On Sept 30, 1754 President George Washington signed the
U.S. Patent (deed) conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres plus an surveying township
(23,040 acres in trust for an academy. It was also reserved Fort Washington (15 acres), one square mile near the mouth of the Great Miami River. Symmes Purchase was privately surveyed. William Henry Harrison, introduced the legislation that became the act on May 10, 1800. The "Act" opened up the frontier to a "land office business" and land offices were opened in Stuebenville, Cincinnati, Chillicothe, and Marietta.
(Note...this is what most likey started Tuchumeh's hatred for Harrison...as most the Shawnees were living in the general area. Harrison at this time was an surveryor for my Lawson's also in Kentucky supposedly also. This land is most likley the WAshington holdings of land from thier "Land Company" also...of which
the Gist family explored for Washingotn back then also...and John Lawson family
married into via an "Susannah Lawson" kinship)
My Larkins m. Reed(READ)anscetor's also married intot he Purcell family...and they
say in Virginia that the Purcell's are an half brother of the Symmes (Simm's)
family. After leaving Somerset Co, Pa..at one time an part of Lancaster Co., Pa.
my Larkisn settled near Perry County,. Ohio..with her relatives...whom later
joined the "Methodist" church having opened up the first in their area...it was
on some land called an "reclamation area"..and this is what I found out about that..
Teh refugee TRact (lands) located in parts of FRnklin, Fairfield, Licking, and Perry Counties in central Ohio, extends 42 miles from the Scioto River, along the south line of the U. S. MIlitary District. This tract of land contains 103,527 acres..they were granted for people aiding the United States during the Revolutionary War whom gave up their British sympathies. Ohio is the only state
in the union where Congress gave land for the support of religion..this was later
given over to the formation of schools. Perry Co., Ohion was named after Commador
Oliver Hazzard Perry of the 1812 war..Ross County, Ohio was named by territorial
Govenor Authur St. Clair for his friend James Ross of Pennsylvania..U. S. Senator
1794 to 1803. James Ross family roots came from Lancaster Co. Pa. also..later parts of it became Somerset Co., Pa. (Note...last I left off St. Clair was in Chalkey's
living in what would become "Bath Co., Va but was at this time Augusta County, Va.)
Ross County, Ohio is directly across the Ohio River from Kentucky. From the "Pioneer
REcords of Ross Co., Ohio..by thier historical society was sent to me this information from this book page 34 and 35 on FRanklin TownshipCol. Foster's father
came to Ohio the year 1796, on an exploring expedition. He first went to Kentucky to see his brother in-law, whose name was Chenoweth. Col. Foster's father were the first whitemen to row up the Scioto River, later they built an cabin on it's bank.
(note...William E. Larkins eldest son, Jereimiah m. first Sarah Ann Davis, kin of
Elizabeth Davis m. REV. James Bruce Chenoweth as his second wife. Recent history give as family information (Rosalie Pleis) leaves out an host of people of the Chenoweth association...that I have documents to by prior family and historian researchers...sent ot Mrs Frank Larkins, whom sent it to me. The now destroyed
Chenoweth cemetary where this family resided in Illinois belonged to an Rev. Edward
Chenoweth m. Mary Wilson in Berkley Co., Va (now West Va.)..Rosalie has also
left out of her data the, daughter of Rev. James Chenoweth...by his first wife.
The Foster Farm is one of the stopping "station houses" now historical, along the Barlow Toll Gate Road over Mt. Hood. here in Oregon. My anscetor William E. Larkins
two duaghters m. two brothers of this Barlow family. William E. Larkins left his
eldest son, Jeremiah R. Larkins his "dray-line" (wagon) business and left for Oregon in 1847. After his first wife died, he remarried Ketruah Hailey (Handley)
and they moved the family down near the Kansas-Nebraska line. Jeremiah's only sister Elizabeth m. John Riley and he survived her. Their sister named "Nora" died in infancy. WE have that Sarah Ann DAvis died of lung ailment, possibly TB and there
is an "suggestion" of possible child birth also...as "Nora" was the last child.
Here is what we know on William E. Larkins...faterh said James by land deed records
in Oregon, of whom his paid his 1812 military pension to, he was born in Tenneesse in 1794 (thought to been of the James larkin(s) of Smith Co., possibly)..he was in the 1812 war..and from what we can find out several times, but was discharged(proably from supplying the building of Ft. Meigs) and left the area just four days prior to the Battle there. He was the rank of an col. supposedly by the time he filed for an pension. He married Racheal Reed (REad) in somerset Co., Pa. in 1814
she was of Lower Turkeyfoot township of New Jersey which later became Someset Co. Pa. They belonged to an OLD JERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH that came from near Princeton
College in New Jersey to Somerset Co., Pa....they then moved to Perry County, Ohio
and to what would go from Putnam to Marshall county, Illinois to Oregon in 1847
before it was an "state'. William E. Larkins is listed as an church elder with the
REv. James B. Chenoweth in Marshall county, Ill...though other family seem to think he was an Methodist Circuit-rider also. He died in Oregon in the year of 1850.
Racheal and William E. had 12 children. Racheal Reed's father is Jeremiah Reed m. Jerusha Strawn (Strawhen)(father Jacob/Hunderton co., New Jersey))..Jeremiah's father was John Reed(Read) m. Thankful Honowell or Honeywell..Rev, war Soldier..an liet. by rank and part of Layfette's Divison. He also has some military in the western area of Pennsyvania mainly Fayette County. The Strawn family were of Bucks Co, Pa. and her family were of the Purcells that married into George Washington's family. Our family is well noted in their lineage records...on-line...through John Purcell/Thomas Purcell. George Washington travelled through Somerset County 11 times in his life, highlights include..his first time as an young explorer with Indian guides in 1753..in 1754 he returned to the area near Turkeyfoot to resume trying to find the the Forks of the Ohio River...in 1755 he fell ill under the command of Braddock and recouperated near the great crossing, in 1758 he was with the Forbes Expedition in command of the 1st Va. Regt., in 1770 he again wen over BRaddocks' Road over to the Ohio River, (by now he most likley owned much of the land he was tranversign on)...1784 made his last trip after the close of the Rev. War....much of this was in connection of establishing "Forts" along the frontier regions from Pennsylvania also..to North Carolina as an military officer Commander of our American Forces. The Turkeyfoot area of Pennsylvania were some of the earliest settlements of Quakers..and indeed the Strawn relationship includes those from Sussex, England aboard the ship WElcome with William Penn in 1682..and settled near Bucks Co., Pa. I might add that they shared this area with the later called "Delaware" Indians. Their Chief Tammany was inspirational to our ideas of "Democracy" in its early days in many ways. Our historian that looked up the family said that unlike many areas, thier churches and homestead had never been attacked an/or burned. The Delawares were an christainized tribe, that never went on the "warpath" until some whitemen took them for Shawnees and slaughtered them in Virginia...what few were left joined Tecumseh. Surprisingly it was the biography of
the Genenal Lewis family in Virginia that did not forget them for their sufferings
in this ordeal. I do think our family had an strong relationship with the Indians,
besides John Lawson's in-law "Gist" family. I would like to remeber the Native Americans whom suffered also at the hands of the white people, whom were good to
those pioeneers that were good people, not by what I have to say, but by another persons rememberances of the Wagon train trip as told by an ancestor of the Allen-Bird family in that 1847 wagon train trip to Oregon..of which Willian E. Larkins and his kin were riding. "One day west of Fort Laramie, one lone Indian appeared. He shook hands with everyone and said "how" they only word he knew..he rode on the lead wagon for many days. On one occasion he made notions to circle the wagons, and put their stock in the center of them, as they secured the animals an band of indians appeared..they did not attack but much wanted the stock. To give it to them meant certain starvation or death, let alone no transporation of the wagons. After they reached Blackfoot territory the lone Indian left". While they saw many indian wagons enroute, which had been attacked and burnt, their wagon train never was...and I am trying to understand if this was "protetion" for that particular
wagon train...whom was it by..it had to been someone with "influence" amoung the tibes...I would think amoung the Indians themselves. Indeed my ancestor homesteaded
on the winter-lands of the Mollala and sub-division unit of the Nez perce tribe earlier...they later became part of the Warm Springs Reservation Indians. I leave
this for now.