New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier

by McCormick, Virginia E.; McCormick, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9780873385862
• ISBN10: 0873385861
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

In New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier, Virginia and Robert McCormick examine the founding and development of Worthington to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the western frontier. Despite Indian alarms during the War of 1812, failure to secure the seat of the state capital, and the economic depression that followed the banking collapse of 1819, Worthington prospered and grew. This case study of one community provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii	(2)
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
WESTWARD MIGRATION, 1802-1804	5	(58)
1. A Company to Make Settlement Northwest of the Ohio	7	(8)
2. To Explore Said Territory and Report to the Company	15	(13)
3. A Place Most Favorable for Our First Improvement	28	(11)
4. If You Calculate for Smooth Roads Free from Hills You Will Be Disappointed	39	(11)
5. In Perfect Health and Much Pleased with Our Situation	50	(13)
WILDERNESS SETTLEMENT, 1804-1812	63	(68)
6. A Just and Legal Land Division	65	(15)
7. An Elderly Gentleman Passed Through with All His Posterity	80	(10)
8. A Tolerably Comfortable Cabin	90	(18)
9. Squires with Muskets and Rifles	108	(10)
10. Apprentice Wanted-Of Steady Deportment and Industrious Habits	118	(13)
BOOM AND BUST, 1812-1821	131	(74)
11. If Elected I Shall Not Disappoint Your Confidence or Shame Your Favor	133	(13)
12. From Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic to Greek, Latin, and Moral Philosophy	146	(13)
13. All Kinds of Manufacturies which Experience May Advise	159	(20)
14. Main Street Wide and Free of Mud and Many Buildings Handsomely Built with Brick	179	(14)
15. To the Dough Faces of the Last Congress	193	(12)
A PLEASANT AND THRIVING POST TOWN, 1821-1836	205	(72)
16. Runaway Negro Taken Near This Place and Set at Liberty	207	(13)
17. Leghorn Bonnets, Horn Sided Corsets, and German Silver Teaspoons	220	(11)
18. So Much Boast of Succession Handed Down from the Apostles	231	(17)
19. Correct Mental and Moral Habits and Amiable Manners	248	(10)
20. That Dead Animals or Nuisances of Any Kind Be Buried in Some Vacant Place	258	(9)
Epilogue	267	(10)
APPENDIXES	277	(10)
A. Land Ownership of Worthington Proprietors	277	(2)
B. Scioto Company Extended-Family Networks	279	(4)
C. Migration of Worthington Proprietors	283	(4)
Notes	287	(38)
Selected Bibliography	325	(10)
Index	335