This Day in Goodlove History, October 30

This Day in Goodlove History, October 30
By Jeffery Lee Goodlove
jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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The William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove is available at the Farmer's Daughter's Market , (319) 294-7069, 495 Miller Rd, Hiawatha, IA , http://www.fdmarket.com/

Birthdays on this date:Nicholas Taliaferro, frank smith, Emmaline Smith, Martha M. Reeves, Jean A. Montgomery, Richard C. Marugg, John H. Kirkpatrick, Angeline C. Harrison, Scott C. Gray, Oliver C. Godlove, Ernest Godlove, Emma Godlove, Luann Agnew

Weddings on this date; Rachel Crawford and Nathaniel Silvey, Lenora A. Mack and Forrest C. Godlove

George Washington Diaries of canoe trip with William Crawford (6th great grandfather) and William Harrison (5th greatgrandfather).
October 30, 1770. Incampd Early just by the old Shawna Town distant from our last no more than 15 Miles.
Shawnee Town appears on Lewis Evans’s i 766 map of the middle colonies just north of the confluence of the Ohio and the Great Kanawha rivers.


October 30th, 1770—We set out about fifty minutes past seven, the weather being windy and cloudy, after a night of rain. After about two miles, we came to the head of a bottom, in the shape of a horse-shoe, which I judge to be about six miles round; the beginning of the bottom appeared to be very good land, but the lower part did not seem so friendly. The upper part of the bottom we encamped on, was exceedingly good, bitt the lower part rather thin land, covered with beech. In it is some clear meadow land, and a pond or lake. ‘This bottom begimis just below the rapid at the point of the Great Bend. The river from this place narrows very considerably, and for five or six miles is scarcely more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards over. The water yesterday, except the rapid at the Great Bend, and some swift places about the islands, was quite dead, and as easily passed one way as the other; the land in general appeared level and good.
About ten miles below our enc3mpment, and a little lower down than the bottom described to lie in the slmape of a horse-shoe, comes in a small creek on the west side, and opposite to this on the east, begins a body of flat land, which the Indians tell us runs quite across the fork to the falls in the Kenhawa, and must at least be three days’ walk across ; if so, the flat land contained therein, must be very considerable. A mile or two below this, we landed, and after getting a little distance from the river, we came, without rising, to a pretty lively kind of land, grown up with hickory and oak of different kinds, intermingled with walnut. We also found many shallow ponds, the sides of which, abounding with grass, invited innumerable quantities of wild fowl, among which I saw a couple of birds in size between a swat) amId a goose, and in color some what between the two, being darker than time young swan, and of a more sooty color. ‘The cry of these birds was as singular as the birds themselves ; I never heard any noise resembling it before. About five miles below this, we encamped in a bottom of good land, which holds tolerably flat and rich for some distance

October 25, 1771; Assisting Capt. Crawford with his surveys until October 30.


October 30, 1781

“Account of salt due the following persons for beef, flour, pork, etc., purchased by Colonel John Gibson’s orders for the use of the troops in the western department since the first of August, 1781, to the 20th of October,
following: Bushels. Pecks.
“To David Rankin, for three beef cattle. (Three bushels paid by
Gen. Irvine) 5 2
Edward Cook, for 16 hundred weight flour 4
Mr. Wells, for 1.000 weight flour 2 2
Col. Carman and Company, for 8 hundred do 2
Henry Spear, for 1,000 weight of do 2 2
“ Richard McMachan, balances for beef 2 2
Van Camp, for 4 hundred of flour 1
B. Cuykendall, for 2 hundred weight of do 2
“ Thomas Roberts, for one bullock 1 1
Mr. White, for one hundred weight of flour 1
Jacob Bausman, for 4 hundred pounds beef 2
Mr. Moore,(Husband of the 5th great grandaunt) for one bullock 1 3
Sam’l Sample, one bullock 2 2
Mr. Downing, for one bullock 2
“ Robert Lawdon, for 2 hundred weight flour 2


“I do certify that I have purchased, received and delivered the above quan¬tity of beef and flour to John Irwin, D. C. Gen’l of Issues, and as my receipts are given to the different persons to be paid in salt; and as there is no conti¬nental salt here, I beg that Gen’l Irvine will use his influence, if possible, to obtain the quantity of salt, so as I may be able to pay off the debts according
to contract. SAM’L SAMPLE.
“I do certify that I received of Mr. Samuel Sample beef and flour to the full amount of the within account for the use of the continental troops.
“ForT PITT, October 30, 1781. GE0. WALLACE, A. C. I.”

October 30, 1806
In 1806, on their way to the Falls of the Ohio and then Washington after the expedition, Lewis and Clark stopped in Vincennes; Lewis wrote from Vincennes on October 30 to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. The expedition explored lands of the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest, 1803-1806.

1807
Cutlope, Francis: 1-1

1807 Lower District of Hampshire County-John Slane
Hampshire County, Virginia (WV) Personal Property Tax Lists 1800-1814 by Vicki Bidinger Horton =
(Is this “Francis Gottlob” on the 1807 Personal Property tax lists for Hampshire County? JG)

Eliza FOLEY, b. 1807 was one of early births in Clark Co.


A brief history of Moorefield Township where Conrad settled appeared in “The History of Clark County “Ref. 9.4). Reference is made herein to the Newlove’s in Harmony Township which is adjacent to Clark on the South. I find no link to Goodlove at this time. Simon Kenton and George Rogers Clark are the heroes of Clark County and Moorefield Township.

Conrad would have learned from Caty’s brother, Theophylus, of the great Indian-White Council held in 1807 at Springfield (Ref 9.5) which we discovered in an old newspaper article at the Springfield Library. Conrad would have remembered George Washington as he was just seven years old when Jefferson became second president in 1803.

In 1807, two men named Bowyer and Morgan, brothers in law, had settled in the southwestern part of the county, and made a clearing. As the country was open, the Indians, in their hunting expeditions, built lodges near by, which Morgan one day burned. This exasperated the Indians, who sought revenge in shooting Bowyer, whom, by accident, they had mistaken for Morgan. The killing was done in sight of the wives of the two men, who, with their children, fled and hid in a thicket. Five Indians passed close by them and approached the body, and finding thay had shot the wrong man, passed on without carrying off any plunder or committing any depredations. It gave geat alarm to the country. Morgan left the country, and many returned to Kentucky. Henry Weaver, long an old resident of Urbana, then a mere lad, was among the few who refused to leave. A deputatuion from Urbana, among them Joseph Vance, went down to William Lemon’s to make note of matters and bury the body. They reported that the killing indicated a prvate grudge, and that there was no cause for general alarm. Mary Lemon rode to Urbgana on horseback behind Joseph Vance, as was the custom. In December of that year (1807), Joseph Vance and Mary Lemon were married. Joseph(4), Joseph Coleville(3), David(2), Andrew(1).
The killing of Bowyer caused very general alarm, and brought in messages of peace from the Indians. A general meeting of the Indians was held at Springfield, and some of the chiefs stopped at Urbana to talk the matter over. Col. Ward and Simon Kenton were present. Ward exhibited great excitement in talk and manner, while Kenton, throughout, remained composed and silent. His knowledge of the Indian character made him take this course and gave an effectiveness to his words when the time came for him to speak.

1807
Springfield was Scene of Great Indian-White Council Held In 1807
Most import of the historical happening that have occurred in the confines of Springfield and one that may have averted an Indian war that would have blotted Springfield, from the map was the great council held in fall of 1807 on ground at the northwest intersection of Main and Spring st., now occupied by the Springfield Rug and Furniture Co.

Local historians have disputed over this council and there are different accounts of what transpired. It is agreed that Tecumseh and McPherson, the two Indian chiefs of the day met there with leaders in the western part of the state to discuss Indian outrages that had driven the settlers around Springfield into a state of terror, sent families flying southward to Kentucky while others had taken refuge in Springfield and stronger houses like the Foos Tavern and a building at the southeast corner of High and Main sts. Had been fortified as citadels

The cover page of the historical section of this issue depicts the scene of the council with Tecumseh disdainfully rejecting the pipe of Governor Edward Tiffin and using his own tomahawk pipe.

Simon Kenton, noted pioneer of the west, present at the council, wanted to kill Tecumseh, arguing that he would cause trouble in future, but his proposal was rejected, according to the Draper manuscripts.

The outrages referred to included killing of a man named Myers near Urbana, the threatening demeanor of an Indian who had called at the Elliott home west of Springfield, close to what was later the Peter Sintz farm. The Indian driven away from the farm, is supposed to have been the one whom a few days later, fired at Mrs. Elliott, the bullet passing through the front of her sunbonnet and grazing her throat.

All accounts agree that Tecumseh, McPherson, Roundhead, and other Indian chiefs led parties of warriors to the council and were met there by representatives of the whites that after three days, the Indians left, having satisfied the whites that as a people they were not responsible for the outrages.

Local historians differ as to the precise location of the council. The Daughters of the American Revolution have placed the tablet commemorative of the event on the Tuttle Bros. Store, which stood where the double log tavern of Griffith Foos then was.

Dr. John Ludlow in the Ludlow papers written in the 70’s, largely relied upon R.C. Woodward, an historian, who wrote in 1852 when the early settlers were still living, and is said y Albert Slager, curator of the Clark County Historical Society to have supplemented his story by talks with the father of Cooley McCord, great grandson of Simon Kenton, now resident in Springfield. Beers in county history follows Ludlow and places the council in the sugar grove across the street from the Foos Tavern. Old residents locate the sugar grove also on the slope the hill north of Main st.

Ludlow an Beers speak of General Benjamin Whiteman, Maj. Moore, Walter Smallwood, Captain Ward and Simon Kenton, John Daugherty, Dr. Richard Hunt and Griffith Foos as being at the council, but do not mention Governor Tiffin. The Ludlow and Beers accounts say Tecumseh threw away the pipe of Dr Hunt, and Hunt shrank back in consternation before Tecumseh’s fierce disgust at the dirty, cheap looking pipe.

Theophilos McKinnon, a resident of London in 1880 sent to the Piqua Battle a paper stating he came to Springfield in 1803 and that Gov. Tiffin had called the council, and when it was seen the Indians were armed, had asked that they remove their arms. Tecumseh refused to part with his tomahawk, which was later seen to be his pipe also. Then Hunt offered his pipe to Tiffin, who offered it to Tecumseh, with the result that Tecumseh hurled it over his shoulder into the bushes behind him with such a fierce ejaculation of disgust that Hunt retreated hurriedly.

It may have been at this juncture that Simon Kenton advised the killing of Tecumseh on the ground that he would later make trouble. Albert Slager has this information relative to Tecumseh in response to inquiries made of the Wisconsin Historical Society, which quotes the number of the Draper massacre.

McKinnons account upon which the presence of Tiffin is based was published in the Springfield Republic of Aug. 12th 1880 and is a well written article. How the presence of Tiffin, the governor could have escaped mention in the other local historical accounts is a puzzle. It would have seemed to have been from the viewpoint of that day the outstanding feature of the council.
McKinnon’s account seems plausible since outrages would be reported to the governor, would cause him concern and he would e the natural party to call the council and the Indians would respond far more readily to a call from the governor than from a body of citizens. The fact that many of the Indians came from as far as Fort Wayne, show it was taken seriously. The governor having called the council and brought the chiefs that far could hardly disregard either the Indians orthe fears of the whites and his proper place would have been at the council as McKinnon says he was.

How the fact should have slipped the memory of the men who talked to Woodward and those who handed down traditions to Ludlow is a mystery. The latter dwell upon Hunt offering the pipe. Tecumseh seems to have filled the eyes of the assemblage to the exclusion of all else and if Tiffin was there no better measurement of the natural power of Tecumseh can be found than that he obscured Governor Tiffin who was among the most ( ) governors of the state.


The Account of Theophilus Mckinnon

Aug. 6, 1880,

To the Members of the Pioneer Association:

"When I learned of the proposed
meeting of pioneers to be held near Springfield this month, my
great wish was that I might be one of the number there
assembled: but circumstances are such as will prevent my
attendance. I have some recollections of the early days and
doings in this region, which I will give to the meeting on
paper, if I cannot give them in person. I was born in Harrison
Co., Ky., in Nov., 1795. My father, with part of his family
came to Ohio in the fall of 1802, and settled on Buck Creek
north of Springfield. At that time I was sick and unable to
come, so father left me with my mother and younger children in Kentucky
until the next spring, when he returned and brought us to Ohio.
Thus, it will be seen, my residence in Ohio is as old as the
State itself. On our way up to where my father had selected a
home, we passed through Dayton, then a small town; through what
was called Tapman's Prairie, and crossed Mad River at old Indian
town. This river my mother said, was certainly rightly named,
for it was such a rapid stream. Three men -- David Lowry,
Jonathan Donnell and John Denny -- lived near there. We stopped
overnight with My. Denny. Donnell afterward hung himself. We
again crossed Mad River, and continued on our way up to Buck
Creek. The first man we met was Robert Renick, and soon
afterward we met Col. William Ward, a leading man of that day,
and afterward Clerk of the Court at Urbana. One day, soon after
we settled on Buck Creek, and father and the older boys were
away from the house, four Indians -- two young men and two old
ones -- came to our house and called for their dinners. Mother
provided a dinner for them, and while they were eating she asked
one of the young men if they were at the burning of Col.
Crawford. He said that the two of the older ones were. She
then told him that Col. Crawford was her grandfather. When he
notified the other ones of that fact they all immediately
stopped eating and appeared somewhat alarmed; but she told them
to go on with their eating and not be uneasy. She then asked
them if they could tell her about the death of Maj. Harrison.
They told her that he had been squibbed to death with powder at
Wapatomica, near Zanesfield, Logan Co. She then told them that
Harrison was her father. This report fully corroborated one
given by a man named Trover, I think, who was a prisoner at the
same time with Maj. Harrison. He said he had seen Harrison's
body black and powder-burned.
Another Indian trouble was in the time of Gov. Tiffin. He was advised of coming trouble and he sent word to Tecumseh at Wapakoneta to meet him at council at Springfield, with eighty warriors. The picked men of the (Sha---) tribe. I remember one of them in particular, a man by name of Goodhunter who had formerly camped near our house, when on a hunting expedition. He was a fine a specimen of perfect physical man as I ever saw. The council was held and the pipe of peace was smoked. The following incident occurred in connection with the smoking: A Dr. Hunt had a clay pipe and Gov. Tiffin used it for the occasion. When he had filled the pipe and started it, he passed it to Tecumseh who looked at it a moment, and then throwing it away he brought forth his tomakawk-pipe, and after starting it handed it to Gov. Tiffin. I heard Tecumseh's speech as he made it through an interpreter, and I never heard a finer orator than he appeared to be. The first merchants in Springfield were two Frenchmen named Dubangh and Lucroy. They had their goods in a log cabin between what is now Limestone and Market streets, an Main streets, on Main street. Their goods were better suited to the Indian trade than to any other. When they left, a man by the name of Samuel Simington came on with a stock, and he built the first frame house in Springfield, on the southwest corner of Limestone and Main streets, where Baldwin's building now stands. Siminton afterward sold out to Pierson Spining and went to New Carlisle, and built mills on Honey Creek. The first tavern-keeper was Griffith Foos, who kept on the corner of Main and Spring streets. He had one border for several years that I remember very well. He owned a great deal of land around there. He was a fine looking man, wearing very heavy black side whiskers, but having a head of hair as white as snow. He always took special pains to keep his hair and whiskers in order. The first camp meeting held in that region, and the first one I ever attended, was held about where the County Infirmary now stands. It was conducted by two brothers named Thomas and Richard Clark. They were nicknamed "Newlights." Their hearers got the jerks, both men and women, and kept on jrking until they were exhausted. One Jack Eeles, said to have been the wickedest man in that county, went to one of their meetings drunk, making fun of them and claiming that their jerking was all a sham. But the jerks got hold on Jack and got him down and would not let fo of him. He became so exhausted that his friends had to carry him home. Jack afterward went into the army, was in the war of 1812, and was killed at the battle of Lundy's Lane, in July, 1814. My father was the first settler on Buck Creek, (---) Lagonda. He planted the first apple orchard in that part of the country, and some of the trees
were still standing a year or two ago
James Shipman was the first tailor in Springfield. Walter Smallwood was the first blacksmith. Cooper Ludlow was the first shoemaker. James (---), the proprietor of Springield, lived in a double log cabin which stood on the hill opposite Barnett's mill, near where the public school building now stands.
I never saw but two deformed Indians. One of these had no under jaw. The other one, called Bateast, had a monster of a nowe. If you wish to see how his nose appeared, just take a common-sized turnip, cut it in two, and place a half on each side of a large raddish, and then you can see Bateast's nose.
He and his brother-in-law, Roundhead , and Goodhunter all went off and joined the British army and never came back. Roundhead lived at a little town now called Roundhead, in the southwest corner of Hardin County. Bateast's home was at a place a few miles west of Roundhead, then called Bateasttown. In 1803 or 1804, Congress passed a law donating 3 per cent of all money received from sale of lands for use on roads. This donation was called the 3 per cent fund. One Capt. Moore and his brother Thomas, in 1805 took a contract to open a road from Franklinton to Springfield. When they got within a few miles of Springfield with the road, they made a frolic of the job, and invited all the people around to come and help tem, so they might go into Springfield in one day. The people turned out and put the road through in one day and that night they had a big super and ball at Foos', which was a grand affair. There was great rejoicing that the road was done.
Thomas Moore drove the first hogs East from this region. He bought (--) drove from the people on credit. He bought some from one lady named Nancy Reed, promising to bring her a silk dress patten from Baltimore as payment for her hogs. He drove his hogs to Baltimore, but as his expenses on the trip were more than the original cost of the hogs, he lost money, and could not pay in full for the hogs when he got home. But he brought Nancy her silk dress and she had the honor of wearing the first silk in this part of the country, and at the same time, the satisfaction of getting payment in full for her hogs, a thing which nobody else could say. But Moore paid all a proportional part, and promised the remainder as soon as he could get it. It was several years before he made payment of these debts, but he did it after he got back from serving with Hull in his campaigns. He had saved enough out of his wages to cancel his hog debts. Moore lived and died on the farm where he first settled.
During the first years of our life there, there was only one company of militia in all that region now comprising Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties, so thinly was it populated. My fathers's place was the usual drill ground and I knew every man in all that territory. By 1812, the country was so well settled that there were nine companies, commanded by the following Captains: Black, McCord, Vance, Barrett, Lemon, Cox, Kiser, Stewart, and one other whose name I have forgotten. Nearly sixty years ago, I helped to survey
all the islands in the Mississippi River from the mouth of the
Des Moines River to the mouth of the Illinois. In my early
days, I crossed the Alleghany Mountains twelve times on
horseback. In my early days, I crossed the Alleghany Mountains twelve times on horseback. As may be known from a statement of my birth, I am nearly eighty-five years of age, and was four years old at the death of George Washington. My health is tolerably good. At times I feel very well, and at other times somewhat feeble. Some years ago, my eyesight began to fail, and for the last ten years I have been entirely blind. I claim to be the first man who named "Honest Old Abe" for President. I lacked but a few days of being old enough to vote at James Monroe's first election in 1816. My first vote was for Monroe in 1820, at his second election, when he received the entire vote of the Electoral College, less one.
My votes for Presidents have been as follows: 1824 Adams; 1828 Clay; 1832 Clay; 1836, Harrison; 1840, Harrison; 1844, Clay; 1848, Taylor; 1852, Scott; 1856, Fremont; 1860, Lincoln; 1864, Lincoln; 1868, Grant; 1876, 1872, Grant; 1876, Hayes; and in 1880 I hope to vote for Garfield, which would make me sixteen Presidential votes.
Respectfully, Theophilus McKinnon."
London Ohio.

1807

The first steamboat by Robert Fulton in 1807.


Sun. October 30, 1864
In camp all day looked at the town
Had inspection quite a nice day