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Identifier: ohioarcholog07ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical publications
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: Archaeology History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by F.J. Heer
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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twenty feet, and the girth of its body twenty feet. The monument seen in the rising ground, measured by esti-mation only, is, at its base, ten feet square; hight of base, sixfeet; hight of shaft, fifteen feet; and square of shaft, at base,five feet, tapering to three at the top. It bears the following inscriptions and memorials on its sev-eral sides as follows: NORTH SIDE. Under the spreading branches of a magnificent elm treenear by, is where Logan, the Mingo chief, made his celebratedspeech, and where Lord Dunmore concluded his treaty with theIndians, in 1774, and thereby opened this country for the settle-ment of our forefathers. SOUTH SIDE. Erected by John Boggs to the memory of his grandfather,and father — soldier, scout and pioneer. WEST SIDE. Major John Boggs, born near Wheeling, Virginia, 1775,Moved to Ohio with his father, 1789. Married Sarah McMechan,1800. Raised eight children, all born in a cabin that stood onthis spot. His wife, Sarah, died 1851. He died 1863. 22 50- z
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364 Ohio Arch, atid His. Society PublicatioJis. EAST SIDE. Captain John Boggs, born in Western Pennsylvania, 1738.Married Jane Irwin and raised a large family on the frontier,near Wheeling, W. Va. One son, William, was taken prisoner by the Indians inview of his fathers cabin, which is here represented. Another,James, was killed by them near Cambridge, Ohio. Immigratedto Ohio, and touilt his c^bin on this spot 1789 and died 1820. The representation of the capture of William by the Indians,mentioned in the inscription, is one of the most exquisite speci-mens of mural art anywhere to be found on any private monu-ment. It is a bronzed tablet, two feet six, by fourteen inches, in-serted in the granite base. The picture of the capture is executedin bas relief, and of high relief, the figures one-half to one inchhigh. It represents a beautiful landscape intended to be, and is,almost an exact representation of the cabin and its surroundings.In the left-hand corner is the log cabin, at the co

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