Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries

by Archer Butler Hulbert

[37] Id., p. 3, note 1.

[38] Id., vol. ii, p. 4, note.

[39] Id., p. 5, note.

[40] Id., p. 5, note. Legally John Emerson had no rights northwest of the Ohio River; but as an exponent of the American idea he had a sort of justification; see Professor Frederick J. Turner’s studies, American Historical Review, vol. 1, pp. 70-87, 251-268.

[41] The MS. Harmar Papers; St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 7, note 1.

[42] The rights to certain lands on the upper Muskingum Valley, where David Zeisberger had located the Moravian towns in 1773, were vested in the Moravian Church. Gnadenhutten, Ohio, was, technically, the first white settlement in Ohio after the French locations along the Lakes. King’s Ohio, p. 119.

[43] Hinsdale’s Old Northwest (1888), pp. 290-292.

[44] Historic Highways of America, vol. viii.

[45] The Navigator (fifth edition), Pittsburg, 1806.

[46] “Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about a foot above the surface of the water in its middling state. So firmly are they rooted, that the largest boat running against them, will not move them, but they frequently injure the boat.