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  2. List of early settlers of Marietta, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    —William Henry Venable, April 1888. [2] [9]The first 48 pioneers included the following men. [10] [11] This group of pioneers arrived on April 7, 1788, except for Colonel Meigs, who arrived five days later on April 12, 1788, [12] and Anselm Tupper, who arrived on April 25, according to Putnam's journal.

  3. Moravian Indian Grants - Wikipedia

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    The lots were surveyed in 1825 by F. Wampler, Deputy Surveyor. [11] The lots were sold at the courthouse in New Philadelphia, Ohio, and unsold lots later sold at the land office in Zanesville, Ohio. The Christian Indians received $400 per year, and the Moravians received enough to repay their debts from improvements. [13]

  4. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    It became involved in heated national disputes with southern American states in 2009 and 2010, including Georgia over National Cash Register Company and Alabama over Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where southern lawmakers were accused of misusing federal funds and influence to "steal" Ohio jobs during the Great Recession. [146] [147]

  5. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

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    The second contract was an option to buy all the land between the Ohio and the Scioto rivers and the western boundary line of the Ohio Company's tract, extending north of the tenth survey township from the Ohio, this tract being preempted by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent for themselves and others for the Scioto Company. Cutler's original ...

  6. There were few operating newspapers in Ohio: including The Western Spy and Hamilton Gazette, which published in Cincinnati from 1799 to 1822 and the Freeman’s Journal and Chillicothe Advertiser ...

  7. Indian removals in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The last Indians in Ohio were removed in 1843 via Treaty with the Wyandots (1842) by which the reservation at Upper Sandusky was ceded to the United States, and the Wyandots relocated to Oklahoma in 1843. [citation needed] As of the 20th century, there are no Indian reservations in Ohio, and no federally recognized Indian tribes in Ohio.

  8. Wayne County, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    They were overwhelmingly Congregationalists, however, in the 1810s several arrived who had become Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians during the Second Great Awakening. These groups were of English ancestry, being descended from the English Puritans who arrived in colonial New England during the 1620s and 1630s. The English-descended "Yankee ...

  9. John Rankin (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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    Beginning at the age of eighteen, John's view of the world and his religious faith were deeply affected by two things — the revivals of the Second Great Awakening that were sweeping through the Appalachian region, and the incipient slave rebellion led by Gabriel Prosser in 1800. [4]: 22–23 John's school had log walls and an earthen floor.