Both pension applications for Michael and Peter Fulp describe their participation in the 1776 Cherokee Expedition. The Cherokee Expedition was the combined efforts of militias from multiple colonies to exterminate the Cherokee and open up land for Euro-American settlers. At the end of the Seven Years’ War (commonly known as the French and Indian WarContinue reading “Michael and Peter Fulp | 1776 Cherokee Expedition”
Category Archives: Removal of Indigenous People
John Barkuloo | of the Narrows
1n 1799, John Barkuloo married Catherine Lott in Jamaica, Long Island and the newspaper reported that they were both of the Narrows. In 1800, John “Barkulow” is listed in the census for New Utrecht, Kings County, New York with a household of four members: The Narrows The Narrows is a strait of water between StatenContinue reading “John Barkuloo | of the Narrows”
James Hamilton | Frontier Regiment
Europeans and Euro-Americans designated the Red River as boundary for a long time. The French and Spanish viewed it as dividing line in the 1700s, the US and Spain continued its use as a border in the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty in conjunction with Mexico. The Republic of Texas used it as a boundary. The SouthernContinue reading “James Hamilton | Frontier Regiment”
Moses J Baker | Civil War
Samuel Rickner married Permelia Baker in 1832. Rickner, an immigrant from Switzerland, married into a slave-holdinng family that had migrated to Missouri from Kentucky and who in previous generations had migrated from the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina, all slave-holding states. In the mid 1830s, the Rickner family and Permelia’s brother, Moses J BakerContinue reading “Moses J Baker | Civil War”
Samuel Rickner | Crawford Seminary
In 1850, Samuel and Jacob Rickner were living in Jasper County, Missouri in the southwest corner of the state, along the border of the Indian Territory that would become the Kansas Territory in 1854 and the state of Kansas in 1861. Samuel was working the land as a farmer. His real estate was valued atContinue reading “Samuel Rickner | Crawford Seminary”
Andrew Van Slyke | Gone to Texas
Andrew Van Slyke chased the frontier. Born in New York in 1797, he first went to Illinois, where he met and married his wife, Electra Norton in 1824. Leaving the Northwest Territory in the 1830s, he traveled with his family to southwest Missouri. Then in the early 1840s, he moved south into Arkansas and thenContinue reading “Andrew Van Slyke | Gone to Texas”
William Garrison | America, Liberty, Wabash
William Garrison (about 1810-1858) with his brothers, helped to establish a small Euro-American town in Wabash County, Indiana in the 1830s. A series of treaties in the early 1810s and 1820s displaced the Miami and Delaware peoples, allowing Euro-Americans to settle Indiana, migrating from the southeast border of Ohio farther north and west to theContinue reading “William Garrison | America, Liberty, Wabash”
Levi Garrison | Symmes Purchase
After the Revolutionary War, Levi Garrison emigrated from New Jersey into Pennsylvania and into Ohio. In 1798, he received 108 acres from John Cleves Symmes in the Colerain Township as part of the Symmes Purchase in southwest Ohio (C1, 4) Symmes Purchase John Cleves Symmes was the father-in-law of William Henry Harrison (9th President inContinue reading “Levi Garrison | Symmes Purchase”
Asa Lake | Prisoner of War
In his grandson’s biography, a few sentences describe the role of Asa Lake in the Revolutionary War. In a previous post, I recount the land purchases Asa Lake made after the war in northwest Ohio on the Lanape land; the Lanape, or Delaware Indians, had been removed by the US Government to Kansas and Oklahoma.Continue reading “Asa Lake | Prisoner of War”
Asa Lake | Western Reserve of Ohio
Asa Lake (d. 1843) lived in Vermont during the Revolutionary War, migrated to Ohio around 1800, first in southeastern Ohio in Jackson County, before traveling to Hancock County in northwestern Ohio, where he died. In the History of Hancock County, Asa Lake was recorded as the first settler in Delaware Township, purchasing land in SectionContinue reading “Asa Lake | Western Reserve of Ohio”
Finding the Yellow Bricks 