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2 news clippings- Saddler Family history (date unknown) and Native Americans in early Dover (1976)Entry/Object ID
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.1 - Date and title unknown for this clipping about earliest Dover Township Saddler settler Christopher Saddler. William F. Sadler was born in 1906 and is listed as 69 years old so it was probably published about 1976. Article spells Christopher's name as "Christopher Sadler." William F. Sadler, a descendant and the current (at the time) Service Director of Bay Village (age 69), is interviewed about him. Sadler says Christopher was told to fight for the US during the Revolutionary War or he'd be jailed. Christopher was a Hessian mercenary fighting for the British. Says Christopher was born of English parents in Germany and came to this country at the age of 18. Private under British General John Burgoyne and captured by the Americans. He was released to enlist as a dragoon in Count Casimir Pulaski's corps. which served the Colonial side. After the war, Christopher was given land in New York, married Sophia, had 10 children, one of whom was named William. Son William fought in the War of 1812 in the Battle of Lake Erie as a sharpshooter, liked the area and returned later with his family. Saddlers came over by ice in the winter of 1814 or 1815, according to family stories handed down. Christopher died at age 92 in 1848 and is buried in the Lakeside Cemetery in Bay Village.
.2 - July 2, 1976 article in The Chronicle-Telegram Bicentennial Edition "Many Indians Hunted Here: None Fought Settlers." Article claims that few Indians were around when first settlers arrived in 1807 to the northern Ohio area. Article concentrates on Lorain County, in particular. Only small numbers wandered through the forested areas. There are a few historical references to Indians hunting in the area but not a single account of Indian-pioneer warfare for this county. Battles south in Kentucky along the Black River occurred between settlers and Native Americans. States that Indians whose settlements in northern Ohio had been destroyed by the Seneca, helped the British. By then the area of Lorain County was a hunting ground to these Wyandots, Ottawa and other tribesmen. Lorain County lay well to the east of the Maumee conflict area between the Americans and British and Native Americans. Claims the Native Americans who helped the British who lost the War of 1812 as well, moved to Michigan and Canada and west of the Mississippi. By 1835, even the occasional Indian hunters once known to visit pioneer cabins in Lorain County were gone.Collection
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