Jerry,
I don't know which Logan this is. Sorry.
Melinda
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Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Early settlement on Blue RIver
Do we know what Logan this is? I have Logans in my background. Jerry
Bennett
Melinda Weaver wrote:
> This is taken from Chadwick's:
>
> "With the intelligence being made known in Franklin County that the
Delaware
> treaty had been ratified, Jacob Whetzel started for this section
of the
> state, blazing his way through the dense forest land, from Brookfield to
> White river. This trail thus established by his ax, passed through what
is
> now Shelby County, in a northwesterly direction, and crossed the
Blue
River
> about four miles and a half north of the present site of
Shelbyville.
The
> Whetzels, Jacob and Cyrus, with their families, returned to the
bluffs
of
> White river in 1819, and permanently settled there. Richard
Thornberry
> settled at the point where Whetzel had crossed the Flat Rock, now in
Rush
> County. James Wilson, accompanied by a man named Logan, and one
named
> Hanna, followed the blazed trail to where it crossed Big Blue River, and
> became the first actual settlers in Shelby County."
>
> Melinda
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Ynf751(a)aol.com>
> To: <INSHELBY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Early settlement on Blue RIver
>
> > Melinda,
> > You referred to the Whetzel Trace in Shelby Co. What exactly was the
> Whetzel
> > Trace and how did it come about.? My ancestor, Edward Tanner owned
land
> in
> > the Whetzel Trace. He was there as early as 1819.
> >
> > Jean in Michigan
> >
> >
> >
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