The Pioneers
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“It cost me every effort”: Ibid., 77.
“To Ephraim Cutler, more than any other man”: Ibid., 266.
“considerable”: Ibid., 89.
“There was no other means”: Ferris, Dawes and Allied Families, 227.
“These trips over the mountains”: Julia Perkins Cutler Journal, 1809, MCSC.
“droves”: Ephraim Cutler Journal, August 14, 1809, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 94.
“This was a strange introduction”: Cutler and Cutler, Life, Journals, Vol. 2, 33.
Marietta a “city”: Putnam, The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam, 216.
“American University”: Manasseh Cutler to General Rufus Putnam, June 30, 1800, Cutler and Cutler, Life, Journals, Vol. 2, 28.
“the intellectual wants of the neighborhood”: Ephraim Cutler, 1802, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 50.
“Coonskin Library”: Knepper, Ohio and Its People, 189.
“choice books”: Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 51.
“It is painful indeed to reflect”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, January 29, 1806, Ephraim Cutler Papers, MCSC.
“He is in great spirits”: Ephraim Cutler to Manasseh Cutler, March 18, 1802, MCSC.
“no man in the territory more entirely deserved and enjoyed”: Ephraim Cutler Journal, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 81.
Ohio became the seventeenth state: Knepper, Ohio and Its People, 92.
On the evening of September 13: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 41, 380–81; Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 30, 1803–August 24, 1804, 81–82; Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, With Related Documents, 1783–1854, 124.
“He was quick and restless”: Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol. 2, 1904, 484–86. See, generally, Williams, Johnny Appleseed in the Duck Creek Valley.
6. The Burr Conspiracy
“Your talents and acquirements”: Aaron Burr to Harman Blennerhassett, April 15, 1806, Safford, The Life of Harman Blennerhassett, 65–66.
“floating house”: Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, 293; Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805–1836, 58.
“bold enough to think”: Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, 388.
five feet, six inches: Parton, The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 395.
“He succeeded best with young men”: Ibid., 163.
His lineage was highly distinguished: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 2, Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958, 314–21; Lomask, Aaron Burr, 4, 3, 24–30.
“Tho’ small his stature”: Isenberg, Fallen Founder, 129.
“with such animation”: Stewart, American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America, 15.
“Burr conspiracy”: Isenberg, Fallen Founder, 272.
“How long will it be”: Stewart, American Emperor, 107.
“an evil hour”: Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 506.
“the usual hospitality of the island”: Lomask, Aaron Burr, 63.
“That’s an ill-omen!”: Melton, Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason, 76.
“I hope, sir”: Harman Blennerhassett to Aaron Burr, December 21, 1805, Safford, The Blennerhassett Papers, 118.
“utmost pleasure”: Aaron Burr to Harman Blennerhassett, April 15, 1806, ibid., 119.
“I immediately made a contract”: Dudley Woodbridge, Jr., in Robertson, Trial of Aaron Burr for Treason, Vol. 1, 583.
“Letters from Marietta in Ohio”: See letters published in Massachusetts Republican Spy, MCSC.
“a laudable undertaking”: Robertson, Trial of Aaron Burr for Treason, Vol. 1, 309.
“under the auspice”: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 10th Congress, 1st Session, October 26, 1807—April 25, 1808, 480.
“quite the most attractive figure”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the Hildreth Family: From the Year 1652 Down to the Year 1840, 184.
“Not one of all that number”: Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 509.
“The Querist”: Swick, An Island Called Eden, 40; Stewart, American Emperor, 154.
“That he [Burr] has formed, and that he is now employed in executing”: Richmond Inquirer, MCSC.
“From information recently received, we have been induced to believe”: New York Commercial Advertiser, MCSC.
“Sir, Personal friendship for you”: Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, December 1, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress; Meacham, Thomas Jefferson, 662.
“Colonel Burr who was here”: Cabinet Memoranda, October 22, 1806, McCaleb, The Aaron Burr Conspiracy, 101.
“Burr is unquestionably”: President Thomas Jefferson, note, November 3, 1806, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vols. 17–18, Bergh, ed., 250.
“a propensity for intrigue”: Burr, Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Matthew L. Davis, ed., Vol. 1, 89.
“This is indeed a deep, dark”: James Wilkinson to Thomas Jefferson, November 12, 1806, McCaleb, The Aaron Burr Conspiracy, 162–63.
“We trust that public rumor”: Lomask, Aaron Burr, 187.
“When the act of the Ohio legislature was passed”: Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 509.
“take forcible possession”: Safford, The Blennerhassett Papers, 157.
“hubbub and confusion”: Stewart, American Emperor, 179.
“There appeared to us”: Hulbert, The Ohio River, 304.
“sparkled like diamonds”: Parton, The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 444.
“bare,” “dingy”: Lomask, Aaron Burr, 228.
“Is he esteemed a man of vigorous talents?”: Robertson, Trial of Aaron Burr for Treason, Vol. 1, 587.
“could not be levied without”: Marshall, The Writings of John Marshall, 1890, 63.
“It is not proved by a single witness”: Ibid., 108.
“Misfortune having marked him for her own”: Safford, The Blennerhassett Papers, 585.
7. Adversities Aplenty
“Town property, as well as farms, sunk in value”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 198.
“resembling very nearly the yellow fever”: Waller, “Dr. Samuel P. Hildreth, 1783–1863,” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Vol. 53, 1944, 327.
“pain in the head”: Hildreth, “Remarks on the Weather and Diseases in Some Parts of the State of Ohio,” The Medical Repository, Vol. 5, 1808, 347.
“Maj. Lincoln is dead”: William Woodbridge to Dudley Woodbridge, September 5, 1807, Backus-Woodbridge Collection, item #380, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, Ohio.
“paid considerable attention”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 138.
“extravagantly fond”: Ibid., 83.
“passionately fond” of amusement: Ibid., 144.
“very fine music”: Ibid., 144.
“a perfect model in dress and manners”: Ibid., 150.
“I generally read”: Ibid., 153.
“The last year of the pupilage we were allowed to ride”: Ibid., 153.
“a severe task”: Ibid.
“cast my lot”: Ibid., 155.
“the beds most wretched”: September 25, 1806, ibid., 173.
“the beautiful Ohio”: October 1, 1806, ibid., 177.
Dr. Jabez True: See biographical sketch of Dr. True in Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 329–37.
“New England lady”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 184.
“Marietta may be considered”: Schultz, Travels on an Inland Voyage, Vol. 1, 143.
“Shipbuilding will be a capital branch”: Cutler and Cutler, Life, Journals, Vol. 2, 401.
Commodore Whipple: For background on Abraham Whipple, see biographical information in Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 120–64; and Cohen, Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy: Privateer, Patriot, Pioneer.
“This part of th
e country”: Hulbert, The Ohio River, 247.
“the workmanship and timber”: Cutler, A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana, 21.
“Shipbuilding was carried on with considerable spirit”: Cramer, The Navigator, 54.
“bear testimony against the cruel policy of Jefferson”: Bible of Abner Lord in Archives of Campus Martius Museum, Marietta, Ohio. Many thanks to Bill Reynolds of the museum for bringing Lord’s notation to the attention of the author.
“retrograded”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 198.
“in the full vigor of health”: Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 240.
“Physician and Surgeon”: Ohio Gazette, April 20, 1808, MCSC.
“new responsibilities”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 187.
“Marietta, at present”: Hildreth, “A Concise Description of Marietta, Ohio,” The Medical Repository, Vol. 6, January 17, 1809, 359.
Congregational church: The author is grateful to the Reverend Linda N. Steelman, pastor of the First Congregational Church in Marietta, and Scott Britton of the Castle Historical Museum for a tour of the church.
“Whoever pursues the healing art”: Hildreth, “The Pleasures and Privations of Physicians,” originally printed in The Medical Counselor, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 8, 1856, 219. Copied from a bound volume from the Hildreth Cabinet Library, held by Marietta College Special Collections, entitled “Contributions to Magazines,” 36.
“notching stick”: Hildreth, “Manners and Domestic Habits of the Frontier Inhabitants in the First Settlement of Ohio,” originally printed in The Medical Counselor, Vol. 2, February 16, 1856, 36. Copied from a bound volume from the Hildreth Cabinet Library, held by Marietta College Special Collections, entitled “Contributions to Magazines,” 36.
“The roads were deep and muddy”: Ibid., 33.
“the blessed means of rescuing”: Allen, Dudley P., “History of Early Legislation and Medical Societies in the State of Ohio,” Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 8, Albert R. Baker and Samuel W. Kelley, eds., 1893, 603, Hildreth, May, 1839, Cleveland Medical Convention Speech, in Cleveland: Buell & Hubbell.
“During the spring, as he traverses the woodlands”: Hildreth, “The Pleasures and Privations of Physicians,” 220–21.
“He observed and noticed”: Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol. 2, 814.
“terminated”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 197.
“I have not language to express”: Ibid., 95.
“a never failing source of enjoyment amidst the perplexities of life”: Ibid., 99.
“decided symptoms”: Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 85.
“We feel extremely anxious about her”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, April 20, 1807, MCSC.
“It is with great diffidence”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker, March 11, 1808, MCSC.
“awkward predicament”: Sally Parker to Ephraim Cutler, March 15, 1808, MCSC.
“She is a person of excellent character”: Ephraim Cutler to Manasseh Cutler, April 4, 1808, MCSC.
“The heart when full to overflowing seeks a vent”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker, April 4, 1808, MCSC.
“I have no hesitation in advising you to do it”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, May 6, 1808, MCSC.
“a perfect stranger”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, May 6, 1808, MCSC.
“She is tall and of a very agreeable figure”: Ephraim Cutler to Manasseh Cutler, June 7, 1808, MCSC.
“She not only superintended and participated”: Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 263.
“absorbed all my means”: Ibid., 88.
“A free hospitality characterized the early settlers”: Ibid., 263.
“Travelers, or persons visiting Marietta”: Cutler, “Annals of the Homestead,” Ephraim Cutler Collection, MCSC.
“There is now on foot a new mode”: Hulbert, Waterways of Westward Expansion, 137–38.
“The first shock was at half-past two”: Ephraim Cutler to Manasseh Cutler, February 19, 1812, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 108.
“On the 3rd of February”: Ephraim Cutler to Manasseh Cutler, February 19, 1812, ibid., 109.
“unprovoked, unnecessary”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, March 23, 1813, ibid., 105.
“Our Manifesto”: Western Spectator, July 6, 1812, MCSC.
“No sir, nothing that is generous”: Rufus Putnam to Caleb Strong, September 15, 1814, MCSC.
“Indian menace”: Knepper, Ohio and Its People, 108.
“The savages may now be expected”: Western Spectator, August 29, 1812, MCSC.
“a fine, gentle river”: Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 110.
“In twenty-four hours”: Hildreth, “A Brief History of the Floods in the Ohio River from 1772–1832,” Journal of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, 1838, 55–56.
“The rise was rapid beyond any before known”: Ephraim Cutler Journal, January 24, 1840, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 111.
“We have met the enemy, and they are ours”: Knepper, Ohio and Its People, 107.
“GLORIOUS NEWS!”: Western Spectator, September 18, 1813, MCSC.
“Shall we repose in apathy”: Ibid., September 3, 1814, MCSC.
“PEACE”: Ibid., February 14, 1815, MCSC.
“The house was brilliantly illuminated”: Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 107.
“I reached my father’s house”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 204.
“We reached Marietta”: Ibid., 207.
8. The Cause of Learning
“If ignorance could be banished from our land”: Ephraim Cutler Speech, October 20, 1829, American Friend and Marietta Gazette, December 5, 1829, MCSC.
“one of the especially great thoroughfares”: United States War Department Engineers Office, Ohio River: Report on Examination of the Ohio River, Doc. 492, January 13, 1908, 72.
By 1815 Ohio’s population: The approximation of 500,000 in 1815, a noncensus year, was estimated from the rise in population for Ohio in 1810, which was some 230,000, to about 581,000 in 1820. Source: U.S. Census. See also Knepper, Ohio and Its People, 109.
steamboat Washington: See newspaper coverage in American Friend, Marietta, Ohio, June 7, 1816, June 14, Commercial Advertiser, New York, New York, June 13, 1816, New-Bedford Mercury, June 21, 1816, MCSC.
“commodious”: Kotar and Gessler, The Steamboat Era: A History of Fulton’s Folly on American Rivers, 1807–1860, 59.
“It was terrible beyond conception”: Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History, 283.
“Several friends called on me”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, December 7, 1819, Ephraim Cutler Papers, MSCS.
“every feeling of your heart”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, December 7, 1819, Ephraim Cutler Papers, MCSC.
“on the whole there is an unaccountable procrastination”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, December 22, 1819, MCSC.
“I am appointed on a very important committee”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, December 24, 1819, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 120.
“thick-headed mortals”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, December 29, 1819, ibid.
“I am not without hopes”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, January 9, 1820, ibid., 121.
Among those who spoke: Catherine Barker Memoir, October 25, 1880, Vol. 1, 11, MCSC.
“I am oppressed with the responsible situation”: Ephraim Cutler to Sally Parker Cutler, January 21, 1820, Ephraim Cutler Papers, MCSC.
“As to the frequent use”: Sally Parker Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, January 23, 1820, Ephraim Cutler Papers, MCSC.
“I can truly say I am tired of it”: Sally Parker Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, January 26, 1820, MCSC.
“The act for regulating schools, which I originated”: Ephraim Cutler, January 28, 1820
, Cutler, Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler, 123.
“We seek no further proof in favor of schools”: Cincinnati Inquisitor, February 1, 1820.
“total neglect”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, August 27, 1818, Cutler and Cutler, Life, Journals, Vol. 2, 321.
“Her death was as surprising to me”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, December 6, 1815, MCSC.
“I am just going off the stage”: Manasseh Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, August 27, 1818, Cutler and Cutler, Life, Journals, Vol. 2, 323.
“This day it is fifty years”: Manasseh Cutler Journals, September 11, 1821, ibid., 369.
“a pioneer in a new country”: Humphrey, “Manasseh Cutler,” The American Naturalist, Vol. 32, 1898, 80.
“Drowned on Thursday the 30th”: Item contained in Marietta, Ohio, newspaper extracts 1808–1827 compiled in MCSC.
“Whereas my wife Eliza”: Marietta Gazette, August 31, 1833, MCSC.
“Reader!!! I WILL STATE”: Marietta Gazette, September 21, 1833, MCSC.
“abscounder”: Item contained in Marietta, Ohio, newspaper extracts 1808–1827 compiled in MCSC.
“Run so long, and run so fast”: Ibid.
“noxious”: Hildreth, “Epidemic Fever,” The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 9, 1824, 106.
“No obstacles obstructed their course”: Ibid., 108.
“a terrible visitation of burning fever, wild delirium”: Julia Perkins Cutler, “The Annals of the Homestead,” Ephraim Cutler Papers, MCSC.
“our dear departed son”: Sally Parker Cutler to Ephraim Cutler, January 20, 1823, ibid.
“My father concluded to make a visit to Ohio”: Hildreth, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, 58.
“His health was generally firm”: Ibid., 59.
“the fast friend of Washington”: Massachusetts Spy, May 26, 1824, quoted in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 11, April 1896–April 1897, 233.
“He did honor to human nature”: Vermont Gazette, June 8, 1824, MCSC.
“such goods as she shall choose”: Andrews and Hathaway, History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, 95.
“surrounded his modest, but commodious dwelling”: Flint, Recollections of the Last Ten Years, 33–34.
“possessing a rich fund of anecdote”: Hildreth, Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 118–19.