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In conversation with an Indki’kniikht man the other day, Mr. T. It. Richmond, among other interesting stories of early lite in this vicinity, told .the following:“A year or two after Thomas and Charity Rotch came to this townships from York Htate, my father and mother arrived, in 1815, I believe. Mr. and Mrs. Rotch had raised my mother, and I was named after Thomas Rotch. Father bought qne hundred acres of”land fromthem, part of the farm now owned hfMr. Thomas Volkmor, and you will ba surprised when I tell you the price. He was to deliver one cord of hickory wood annually to the Quaker church in Kendal, during the life Thomas Rotch and his wife, Charity. That was all he ever paid for it, and some time after the death of Mrs. Rotch, who survived her husband, he sold it for twelre hundred dollars. Very few, if any, tea* provements had been made on the land when father took possession, and the youngsters of to-day can scarcely real tea what a wild country it was. An Indian trail passed through the farm, down to • ford in the . river near the Warthosst stone quarry of to-day. Some four er five rods from our barn, and close to this trail, was a large mound which we always supposed was the burial place of some noted Indian, at any rata, the Indians, parties of whom frequently passed it, always raised a great shoot when they reached that spot. It was not an uncommon thing for a dosen or more redskins to sleep in our barn at night, and father always gave them their breakfast. I have seen my father stand in the doorway and shoot wild turkeys, and smaller game was plenty. The wolves were very troublesome, and our sheep pen was built close to the house, so we could protect it at night.**
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Massillon Daily Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 03, 1887
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