In 1791, Rev. James Kemper was escorted by a dele

The First Church in Cincinnati.

gation from the first. Presbyterian society of Cincinnati, "from beyond the Kentucky river to Cincinnati; and after his arrival a subscription was set on foot" to build the church shown by the engraving. This subscription paper bears date January 16, 1792, the same year in which the church was erected. In the spring of '47 the building was taken down and the material used in the construction of dwellings in that part of Cincinnati called Texas.

In 1776, Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary, with a band of Indian converts, came from Detroit to the mouth of the Cuyahoga in a vessel called the Mackinaw, and located on the river about ten miles above the present site of Cleveland, at a place which they named Pilgerruh, i. e. Pilgrim's Rest. The pagan Indians compelled them, after a few months, to leave. From there they went to the Huron river, and commenced a settlement on the east

bank, to which they gave the name of New Salem. The persecutions of the Indians, however, soon compelled them to abandon this place.

In 1804, Christian Frederick Dencke, a Moravian Missionary, established a mission at an Indian village called Petquatting, where Milan now stands. The mission was abandoned in 1809.

The first Indian mission formed by the Methodists in the Mississippi Valley was at Upper Sandusky. John Stewart, a mulatto, commenced preaching at that place in 1816. A few years later a

Wyandot Mission Church, at Upper Sandusky.

church was orga-
nized, and a
school establish-
ed, under the di-
rection of Rev. A
James B. Finley.
"The mission
church building
was erected of
blue limestone

about the year
1824, from gov-
ernment funds,
Finley having
permission from

Hon. John C. Calhoun, then Secretary of War, to apply $1,300 to this object. Connected with the mission was a school house, and a farm of one mile square"-640 acres.*

Questions-What mission was established in 1761? In 1771-2? What is said of the massacre of the Moravian Indians? What action was taken by Congress? What is said of the first church at Cincinnati? Of Zeisberger and the missions established by him? Of Dencke? Of the mission at Upper Sandusky?

CHAPTER VII.

STRUGGLES WITH THE INDIANS-ORGANIZATION OF COUNTIESNAMING OF CINCINNATI-ORGAIZATION OF THE FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE-ADMISSION OF THE STATE INTO

THE UNION.

In the year 1789, the Indians, who for a number of years had been peaceably disposed, engaged in acts of hostility toward the white settlers near the mouth of the Muskingum and between the Miamis,§ and in the month. of June of that year Major Dougherty constructed Fort Washington, at the present site of Cincinnati. Soon after, General Harmer, with three hundred men, took command of the fort.

*His. Col. of Ohio, by Howe.

The Maumee river was formerly called the Miami of the Lake.

In September, 1790, with thirteen hundred men, Gen. Harmer marched against the savages, but was defeated. About one-fourth of his force were regular soldiers and the rest consisted of militia. All the regulars except nine, and more than a hundred of the militia were killed. Soon after this, Governor St. Clair, with a force of two thousand three hundred regulars and about six hundred militia, marched against the Indians. He was, however, unsuccessful, and General Butler and upward of six hundred men were killed.

In the spring of 1794, the American army, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, assembled at Greenville, in what is now Darke county. This army consisted of about two thousand regular troops and fifteen hundred mounted volunteers from Kentucky. On the 20th of August of that year, Wayne met the Indians at the foot of the rapids of the Maumee, a short distance south of the present site of Maumee City, and after a short and deadly conflict defeated them. Shortly after this a treaty of peace was made at Greenville.

In 1788 Washington county was formed, being the first organized within the limits of Ohio. It was bounded as follows: "Beginning on the bank of the Ohio river where the western boundary line of Pennsylvania crosses it, and running with that line to Lake Erie; thence along the southern shore of said lake to the mouth of the Cuyahoga river; thence up said river to the portage between it and the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum; thence down that branch to the forks at the crossing place above Fort Laurens; thence with a line to be drawn westerly to the portage on that branch of the Big Miami on which the fort stood that was taken by the French in 1752, until it