Dominican Sisters of Peace

Crown Point | Bath, OH

Land-history research for3320 Ira Rd. | Bath, OH 44210

“A general map of the middle British colonies, in America,” by Lewis Evans, James Turner, and Robert Dodsley (1755)

Settler Colonialization

The Treaty Period

“Signing of the Treaty of Green Ville” by Howard Chandler Christy (1945)

Protect.

“If any citizen of the United States, or any other white person or persons shall presume to settle upon the lands now relinquished by the United States, such citizen or other person shall be out of the protection of the United States; and the Indian tribe, on whose land the settlement shall be made, may drive off the settler, or punish him in such manner as they shall think fit; and . . . the United States shall be at liberty to break them up and remove and punish the settlers as they shall thing proper, and so effect that protection of the Indian lands[.]”

Treaty of Greenville with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoes, Otttawas, Chipewas, Potawatimes, Miamis, Eel-river, Weea’s, Kickapoosm Piankashaws, and Kaskaskias (Aug. 3, 1795)

Portrait of Edwin Tiffin, President of the 1803 Constitutional Convention and first Governor of Ohio by George W. Hoffman (1868)

Property.

“That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. . . .”

Constitution of Ohio, Art. VIII Sec. 1 (1802)

“Third president, 1801–1809,” oil on canvas portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Mather Brown (1786)

Swarm.

“The picture which you have drawn, my son, of the increase of our numbers, and the decrease of yours, is just; the causes are very plain, and the remedy depends on yourselves alone. . . . The new swarm are continually advancing upon the country lick flocks of pigeons, and so they will continue to do so. . . . You see, my children, that it depends on yourselves alone, to become a numerous and great people. Let me entreat you, therefore, on the lands now given to you, to begin to give every man a farm. . . . It is not the keeping of your lands which will keep your people alive on them, after the deer and buffalo shall have left them. It is the cultivating them alone which can do that.”

President Thomas Jefferson to Captain Hendrick and the Delawares, Mohiccons, and Munsies (Dec. 1808)

“Tecumseh,” by unknown artist (c. 1860)

Scattered.

“Unless every tribe unanimously combines to give a check to the ambition and avarice of the whites, they will soon conquer us apart and disunited, and we will be driven away from our native country and scattered as autumnal leaves before the wind.”

Tecumseh to assembled tribal leaders (Sept. 1811)