Denny's Journal

1789

Dr. Allison, Capt. Beatty (paymaster), Capt. Bradford, Dr. Carmichael, Major Doughty, Capt. Ferguson, Lt. Ford, Ensign Hartshorn, Gen. Josiah Harmar, Capt. Heart, Lt. Kersey, Mr. King (a proprietor of the Ohio Company), Lt. Kingsbury, Mr. Luce, Mr. Ludlow (a surveyor), Capt. Mercer, Judge Samuel Holden Parsons (During November 1789, the Chief Justice of the Northwest Territory drowned attempting to come down Beaver Creek in a canoe while returning from a treaty with the Indians of the Western Reserve. The Presient nominated Rufus Putnam as his successor on the bench.), Lt. Peters, Lt. Pratt (quartermaster), Dr. Scott, Mr. Schuyler, Ensign Sedam, Lucy Anne Sheffield (married Capt. David Ziegler on February 22, 1789), Mr. Spear, Capt. Strong, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Tupper, Major Wyllys, Capt. David Ziegler (married Lucy Anne Sheffield on February 22, 1789).

The Treaty of Fort Harmar - an agreement between the government of the United States and a group of Indians. Signed at Fort Harmar, located across the Muskingum River from Marietta, Ohio on January 9, 1789.

1790
John Bellie (quartermaster), Ebenezer Denny (in April he states that he has spent most of the past two years at Fort Harmar), Major Doughty, Major Ferguson, Major James Fontaine (died October 22, 1790 during the Harmar Campaign), Lt. Ebenezer Frothingham (died October 22, 1790, during the Harmar Campaign), Major Hall, Major Hall, Col. John Hardin (from Kentucky, fought in Hardin’s Defeat, Harmar’s Campaign, October 1790), Mr. Kingsbury, Major M’Millen, Col. Lewis, Mr. Nesbit, Stephen Ormsby (brigade-major to militia), Major Paul, Major Ray, Dr. Slater (surgeon to Col. Trotter’s regiment), Lt.-Col. Commandant Trotter, Lt.-Col. Truby, Major John P. Wyllys (died October 22, 1790 during the Harmar Campaign). Major Ebenezer Denny’s account of the disastrous Harmar Campaign is on pages 143 – 151.