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 2010 wrhsms05121 Indians, account by Julius C. Huntington of his personal experiences with Native Americans Huntington, Julius July 10, 1857 Cleveland, Ohio and the Western Reserve Digital Text Collection 2 pp. handwritten 22 cm x 36 cm

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 first-indent(1) Description of how the tag is used English Library of Congress Classification Ohio -- Cleveland Western Reserve Statement of Julius C. Huntington PainesvilleJuly 10 1857--

8 B,1,185J P,93 No. 8 My father Gov. Huntington came to Ohio on horseback in 1800. He kept a diary which I have and travelled through the North Eastern part of the North Western territory. He married in Norwich Connecticut there a few years before they moved to Ohio in 1801. I was born at the East. In 1809 I was sent here to school with Abraham [name]. After the Indian passed here on horseback and . A couple of white men said they would go through the woods and kill them. There was an old deadening ([--- ties]) and as the Indian came along one of them fired and him. The Indian [Wheeler] back to this place. The whites ran away. Four Indians here for on horses. There horses came back but the riders were never heard of.

I saw Big [name] Bill [name]. It was I think later than 1801.

The whites agreed to give his friends a gallon of whisky but [name] was so busy that day he did not want it.

My mother was a daughter of [name] Huntington of Norwich Connecticut.The Indians were very mad. My father and Carter [pacified] them by the promise of [dollars] to be delivered the next day. It was them and they threatened to murder all the whites but on the following day it was given to them. They took up the body of their medicine man and started for [Oh--] where they buried him and had a good drink. [name] came with my father as a teacher. We stayed four or five months at Youngstown before coming to Cleveland. No Indians carried off horses [name] and myself as we were sliding down hill here. I think they did it for fun. One day a drunken Indian came to our house for whiskey. My mother and my father were there and would not let him in so he got a stick of wood and battered the door. He was very drunk and got on his horse but pushed him off and he lay there.