CHAPTER VIII 



The Frye Elm-^The Logan Elwr-Old Elm Tree Corner— Elm off the 

 Colony of Transylvania — Daniel Boone's Judgment Tree — Con- 

 stitutional Elm of Indiana — The Morse Elm — The Tappan Elm. 



The Frye Ei.m 



In 1725, Jonathan Frye, who had graduated from Harvard two 

 years before, left his home in North Andover, Mass., to serve under 

 Captain Lovewell, the famous Indian fighter. The party was bound 

 for the wilds of New Hampshire and Maine, and young Frye went 

 along as chaplain. Before going away, he planted an elm in front 

 of his uncle. Col. James Frye's house at North Andover, charging 

 the family to take good care of it during his absence. 



The tree lived to bear, for over one hundred and fifty years, a 

 family name of note, Jonathan being a coiinection of Elizabeth Frye 

 of England, the great prison reformer. He never returned to see his 

 elm, and his fate was never known, though easily surmised. He 

 received honorable mention in the story of the much famed battle with 

 the Indians at Pequawket, where, with other unfortunates, he was 

 left in the woods, badly wounded. The elm of his planting flourished, 

 and descendants of the Frye family have come from far to visit it. 



The only pieces of the old elm known to be still in existence, are 

 a frame containing the original copy of the Frye Coat of Arms, owned 

 by Miss E. Frye Barker, of New York, historian of the family; and 

 the frame of the steel engraving from which the accompanying cut was 

 made. This engraving has been presented by Miss Barker to the 

 New England Historic Genealogical Society. 



The Logan Elm 



One of the valued landmarks of Pickaway County, O., is the 

 fine old tree about seven miles from Circleville, known as the Logan 

 Elm. Under its branches the Mingo Chief, whose name it bears, 

 made his famous speech which Thomas Jefferson later incorporated 

 in his "Notes On Virginia," pronoimcing it equal to any passage in 

 the writings of Demosthenes or Cicero. 



Logan, one of whose names was Tah-gah-jute, meaning "short 

 dress," was also christened in honor of James Logan, Penn's Secre- 

 tary, who was a great friend of the Indian boy's father, Skikellimus. 

 This chief was always friendly to the white men, entertaining the first 

 Moravian missionaries in the section of Pennsylvania about his home, 

 and conducting many negotiations between James Logan and the 

 native tribes. 



Brought up in this peaceable atmosphere, his son followed in his 

 footsteps, earning the title of "Friend of the White Man"; it was 



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