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she lived a life of piety, and died lamented, a few years since. 

 Her biography has been published by the Methodists, to whom 

 she belonged. 



John lived, some four years in an Indian family, at Browns- 

 town, but finally left the Indians, and now resides in Licking 

 county, Ohio. Jeremiah was recovered by his elder brother 

 from Billy Wyandot, with whom he then lived. He now keeps 

 a tavern, in Columbus. The two boys, had not their relatives 

 taken them from the Indians, by force, at the end four years', 

 captivity, never would have left the savages, so enamoured 

 were they, of the Indian's mode of living. 



In the meantime, from the 7th of April 1788 to the 3d of 

 August 1795, during these Indian depredations and wars, the 

 settlements on the Ohio Company's lands, increased gradually 

 in numbers, and even in 1790, these settlements could muster 

 four hundred and forty seven men, one hundred and three of 

 whom, had families. As these heads of families were all young 

 people, they had many children, who have made respectable 

 citzens of the state, in which they were born. 



At the commencement of the Indian war, these settlements, 

 at times, suifered severely for the want of provisions. The 

 war broke out before the settlers had cleared land enough on 

 which, to raise their bread, which had to be procured at Pitts- 

 burgh. It was a very hazardous business to navigate the Ohio 

 river. Often were the boats taken by the enemy, and every 

 one on board, destroyed by the Indians. And if the settlers 

 attempted to clear new fields, they did it at the peril of their 

 lives. Guarded by sentinels and carrying their arms, they 

 hoed their corn fields. These dangers very nearly produced 

 a famine, but, by the kind interposition of a benevolent Provi- 

 dence, many of these men were preserved, to see Ohio, become 

 a great, populous, powerful, and wealthy state; outnumbering, 

 in population, all the states from whence they came. Sur- 

 rounded as they were by numerous savage nations; settled as 

 they had, in a spot far from the abodes of civilization, they 

 were preserved from destruction, and formed a nucleus, around 

 which, has grown up, this great and flourishing state, of one 



