Benjamin Franklin translated works in German and French

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[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually Germans are the biggest immigration group ever, from colonial all the way through at least c. 1900. I don’t know why no one notices such a huge population, maybe partly what you mention, but Germans never seemed to make much over themselves. Never made waves, per se.

My family is very German both sides. Mother again recounted today how anti-German people were from WWI, but not so much WWII. Her family had a local meat-packing plant and they experienced much more boycotting, etc in WWI than the latter. Mom lived through the latter albeit very young, and never felt prejudice.

[Tainan]

Pigeon Roost Scottsburg Indiana

[muawiyah]

The Collings Richie book quotes one of the settlers as stating that Little Buck, a Shawnee, was getting into a warlike mood ~ that settler is, himself, most likely a member of the Oneida tribe ~ and one of the Collins sisters is married to another identifiable Oneida, and another Collins sister married a well known Virginia-Kentucky woodsman named Simon Kenton. He, in turn ran with a group made up of Daniel Boone, Simon Girty, Spencer Records, Thomas S. Hinde, Dr. Thomas Hinde, and Isaac Shelby. All together they were known as THE LONG KNIVES OF THE SKIN HOUSE.

The Boone family split over the idea of settling Indiana, so the local Boones in this area are not Daniel Boone descendants, but most of them also have an ancestor among a competing settlement company operated by James Harrod.

These folks were on the rawest of the raw frontiers in America during wartime and found themselves fighting the British ~ along the Ohio and its tributaries. As part of the treaty ending the Revolution the Brits had been allowed to maintain forts in the Indiana territory for the purpose of protecting their interests in the fur trade. Here they were using the forts to provision the Indians to attack women, children and other civilians as part of a war.

You go anywhere in that area and you can easily dig up a modicum of sheer hatred for the British and disgust for their ways. Really stands out too.

[Tainan]

I grew up in the Oxford Ohio area, Butler County. The Miami, and the Little Miami, River flows through there. It s very ripe with history - both Indian settlements and the early colonists and land grants for their service. The county seat is Hamilton, Ohio. Originally Fort Hamilton. Right on the banks of the Miami river. Named after the Miami tribe of Indians.
Simon Kenton is a well-known name. Not always in a good way.
Ohio and Indiana was heabvily populated by various Indian nations.
My alma mater, Miami University, used to be, not sure anymore, a big repository of early settler and Indian lore and memorabilia.
There is state park just outside of Oxford which used to have a group of paintings on loan from the University depicting early Indian and settler scenes. Each was accompanied by background information.
One I remember quite well was of a Lacrosse game. It was something the Indians had learned from the French fur traders they came in contact with. Of course, the Indians added their own twist to the game. Their tossing sticks were made to resemble their war clubs and they used this to beat the crap out of their opponents (usually French, British or settlers) without being penalized by the 'white man.'
In my youth I, and other of my young buddies, became quite the artifact collectors during our time out in the fields and woods. It was, maybe still is, very rich with Indian camps and settlements in certain areas.