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From: "George Pat Hofmann" <>
Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] Draper Manuscript docs.
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:35:19 -0500
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Thank you for the translation of the Draper Manuscripts. I can't tell you
how much I enjoyed them. Where did you find them? Where they at the
Hamilton County Library?
Thanks again
Pat
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From: "Adina Watkins Dyer" <>
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Subject: [OHHAMILT] Draper Manuscript docs.


> I have a connection with the Bailey family mentioned in these documents.
My
> ancestor, Mary Bailey, who married Elijah Mills, was a daughter of
> Groombright Bailey, and sister to the Jas. Francis and Reason Bailey, who
> are mentioned in the following documents.
>
> Would like to hear from other descendants of Mary Bailey and Elijah Mills.
>
> Not sure what some of the notations below mean, just transcribed it as it
> reads.
>
> Adina Dyer
> ___________________________________________
>
> Kentucky Papers, Roll 13CC, Draper Manuscripts
>
> No. 14. Capt. Nathn. Kelly at Deerfield, Warren Co., Ohio
>
> Landed at Columbia, Mar. 15, 1790. People had made a settlement there the
> year before. Went back in June; about middle. The spring I came down,
> Covalt's Station, now Milford, was settled. 1791 came down again.
HUBBARD
> TAYLOR, bro. To Genl. Taylor of Newport, now of Bourbon, if living, was
> agent for his father in Virginia, and laid off a town at Newport this
> summer. There were one or two plank shanties; but I built the 1st house
> that was built there this spring. It was pretty early. Lived at Newport
> till 1797, March. I then moved up within a mile of Deerfield.
> GANO.
> MAJOR STITES.
> ELIJAH MILLS was one of the 1st settlers there.
>
> Naval Biography, consisting of memoirs of the most distinguished officers
of
> the American Navy: to which is annexed the life of Genl. Parker late pubsh
> by Morgan, Williams, & co. June 1815." Pp. 296?
>
> Worcester's Bible News, late 1826
> Refutation of the doctrine of total hereditary depravity By Aylette Rains,
> V.D.M." Dayton, 1833.
> ________________________________________
>
> Kentucky Papers, Roll 13CC, Draper Manuscripts
>
> No. 20, Benj. Stites - 1842
>
> JOHN B. STITES formerly lived at the Scotch plains, near Elizabeth Town,
New
> Jersey. From which he removed into Va. Where I was born, now 70 years
ago,
> in Berkeley Co., near Middletown, and live there some 4 or 5 years. I was
3
> years old when they left there. The he removed to the Redstone country,
on
> 10 miles, in Fayette County, on the waters of the Monongahalia (mouth 10
> miles above Brownsville. Brownsville named after Judge IGNATIUS BROWN's
> father.) That would be 67 - 1842 = 1775. We used to call it 20 miles to
> Washington, the county seat of Fayette. Called Catfish for sometime. Old
> King Catfish had a great Indian camp there. Not laid out for sometime
after
> we came, but then called Washington.
>
> Old uncle JOHN STITES. Mayor of Elizabethtown, a man of wealth and
> influence, recommended him to JUDGE SYMMES. In the Red-Stone country he
was
> captain of a company of militia, rangers, and occupied Jackson's old fort
> (right by where Waynesville now is), 3 months at a time. In 1786, he
> brought down a load of castings and iron and flour to Limestone. While
> there he went with a volunteer party in pursuit of some Indians that had
> been about Washington, stealing horses. He went so far, they crossed a
> creek in which the men had to join hands to get over. The water came up
to
> their necks, and they had to hold up their guns over their head. While
thus
> out he heard of the Miami country.
>
> JUDGE SYMMES, then a judge in the supreme court in New Jersey.
> My father did not wish purchase with SYMMES, but for his information, and
> becoming associate, he was to have as much as he could pay for without
> assuming any of the responsibilties, as the same that SYMMES gave for it,
> which was 5 shillings per acre, in liquidated certificates, which was
agreed
> to ___?___
>
> The latter part of August we landed at Limestone. When we started, old
> JUDGE SYMMES stood on the bank. He had advised my father not to go till
he
> got ready. Thought we were too weak.
>
> My father sent on from a good ways up, 4 men in a canoe, to see if there
> would be no Indians there, waiting there for him & he kept out on the
> Kentucky side, till he should see them standing on the point. They got
> there perhaps an hour before we did, and found the bottom clear of
Indians.
>
> Arrived in 1788, 18th Nov., Sunday; we landed, cleared away paw-paw
bushes,
> stood sentries, sung a hymn, went to prayer, and then to work. My father
> and myself had _ ?_ out clap-boards at which he was a first rate hand,
> beside a steep hill, with a very narrow strip of bottom land, just about a
> mile below Maysville, and had our little flat just by, where we put them
in.
> We rived the old side, and put in the hearts for chinking, was to have all
> things ready when we got there. We put in a log for a sled, and made it
(to
> draw logs) as we went down.
> BENJ. STITES, professor
> ELIJAH STITES, brother
> GROOMBRIGHT BAILEY, professor &
> ABEL COOK, his son-in-law, were the first 4 families.
> THOS. C. WADE, prof.
> JOHN S. GANO, prof.
> JOHN S. GANO was one of my father's surveyor. Left his family
> JONATHAN STITES, brother to NEHEMIAH, in Indiana. His father, HENRY
STITES,
> died in Redstone. The boys came on with us (and wife went back to New
> York).
>
> REASON BAILEY, 2d son, bro. of JAS. FRANCIS BAILEY. I saw his capp where
it
> was tore as the Indians caught him when he jumped.
>
> JAS. FRANCIS BAILEY was out under HARMER. Went out painted as an Indian,
to
> try to take prisoners. He and 4 others. I was at Covalt's Station when he
> came along, while HARMER was laying at Fort Washington, before his
campaign.
> (Bailey's Company: LEWIS WHITSELL, CAPT. JNO. VANCE, MATTHEW FOWLER, JACOB
> FOWLER, and BAILEY their leader). I had raised 4 men to go to protect
> Covalt's Station, the Indians had killed so many there. Old MR. COVALT,
and
> one HINKLE, right in sight of the Fort. LIEUT. McPHERSON was stationed
> there, but was his business to guard the fort. He wouldn't go out to
guard
> the men while they planted, so we came. BAILEY's father & mother were at
> Covalt's Station, and he came after night to see and spend the night
there,
> and hallooed first. Next morning went out and waylaid their path, but
> returned at night, after perhaps a week without any prisoners. He died of
> the wound he got in the campaign under HARMAR, as one of BENHAM's pack
> horsemen. Was taken while under CAPT. BENHAM, who was packhorse master
> General.
>
> I bought a capp of Blackfish, that I had to freeze to get the lice out.
> Broadcloth.
> While I was on to Ct. , and after REASON BAILEY's escape, the Indians came
> along, and stole all JOHN SMITH's bed-clothes, which were left out at
night
> to dry. CAPT. KIRBY and CAPT. HALL from Garrard's Station, pursued as far
> as Muddy Creek, or Turtle Creek. They thus parted and all went over the
> other side of the Miami. KIBBY went on down till he fell on to HARMER's
> t(racs?). On this they heard a gun, and knowing it to be Indians, they
took
> the indian plan and waylaid the tracs. Presently 2 Indians, great big
> fellows, came along, loaded as heavy as they could carry. 9 took aim.
All
> fired. And all hit, though one of the Indians saw some distance. When
> KIBBY came up to him, he said brother! But KIBBY soon sunk a tomahawk
into
> his head. They had killed a raccoon for something to eat.
>
> (Who told me?) Where JOHN SMITH's bed clothes got back, they put them up
to
> sell. He was not one of the party. They however got some other plunder,
> which they got something for, and he got his things for little or nothing,
> &c.
>
> The small pox was prevailing, and they had had it at SMITH's; and had
washed
> out all their bed clotes, and hung them out. They were boiling sugar, and
> had left a kettle of sugar water over the fire. The Indians came along,
and
> threw a couple of frogs into the water & then came round by our house, but
> finding nothing, went on up by SMITH's, and took off the bed clothes.
CAPT.
> KIBBY pursued.
>
> REASON BAILEY was to drive pack horses, and was going down to (WAYNE's
army)
> late, when he was intersepted at the forked elm by 2 Indians. BAILEY
could
> have managed this but they threatened if he didn't give up, they would
stick
> their knife in him. They tied his arms behind at the elbow, and carried
him
> on top of the hills, back from the river, but being afraid of meeting
> whites, they cleared away the leaves clear from a place, and staid the
> remainder of the day. When night drew on, they told him he must strip,
and
> loosened his arm & run a belt round his waist to hold him while he did so.
> BAILEY suddenly thrust out his hand from his bosom, as if in the act of
> giving something to the Indians, who deceived by the abruptness of the
> movement, let go of one end of the belt & BAILEY sprang and run. It being
> dark, he had only to stop, and throw himself flat at the distance of about
> 100 yards, till the Indians passed & returned unable to find him. Towards
> midnight, when all appeared security he returned, and came to our cabins -
> Came to where there was a dead cow - He & I went down next morning to
where
> he had the tustle at the Elm. Didn't go to SMITH's, came right to our
> house. Hallooed at the door, & after we talked awhile, we got up & let
him
> in. He was go? down all alone, early in the morning. Going to start out
> that day from town with the pack horses. Father was poor & they had to
stir
> about to make a living. = BAILEY tussle with them Indians ½ an hour up
> that hollow. Said the place was all worried round, as if horses had
trodden
> there. I knew all the BAILEY's and STITE's in the Redstone country,
before
> I came here.
>
> ***Seems to be some missing here. Next page I have same roll and no. -
>
> Early one morning REASON BAILEY started to go to late, when he got to the
> elm. Indians started out and took him, and carried him back on the hills.
> He was there tied till night. The Indians: these wanted to secure him
> better for the night, and untied him, when BAILEY put his hand into his
> bosom, and stretched it out quickly towards the Indians, who supposed as
it
> was intended he should, that he was going to hand or give him something.
He
> let him go, and BAILEY jumped away. It being then dark, he could soon get
> out of the way. The other Indian caught him by the capp, and tore off a
> great slit. Between HARMER's and ST. CLAIR's Campaigns, I think. Only 2
> Indians. 3 hollows in the tree. Perhaps a dozen could hide in it. Off
the
> side half. They then thought of their guns, and he run. As he passed
> along, he came to a log, and threw himself into the fork of it. His capp
> being of the same color, he heard the Indians run along and back without
> seeing him. Made of grey cloth. I saw the capp, and where it was torn
and
> sewed up. Know nothing of his being stripped made him to gag over some
> carcass.
>
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