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In conversation with an Indki’kndkht nan the other day, Mr. T. It. Itilt; htimnd, nnong other interesting stories of early ite in this vicinity, told .the following:'A year or two alter Thomaa andCharity Rotch came to this township, Yom York Htate, tny father and mother irrived, inl816,1 believe. Mr. and Mia. ftotch had raised my mother, and I wal lamed after Thomas Rotch. Father nought q»e hundred acres of’land from-hem, part of the farm now owned bfMr. Thomas Volkmor, and you will be surprised when I tell you the price, lie was to deliver one cord of hickory wood annually to the Quaker churchin Kendal, during the life Thomaa Rotch and hia wife, Charity. That waa all he ever paid for it, and some time after the death of Mrs. Rotch, who snr-vived her husband, be sold it for twelre hundred dollars. Very few, if any, las* provements had been made on the land when father took possession, and the youngsters of to-day can scarcely realise what a wild country it waa. An Indian trail passed through the farm, down to • ford in the . river near the Wartimes! stone quarry of to-day. Some four ev 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 rate, 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 dozen or more redskins to sleep in our barn a! 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 thehouse, 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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