Son of John and Mary Bull Smith. Husband of Rosanna Foster-Deming. Father to 15 children two of whom were John C. Smith and Martha Lorenda Smith Current.
Nathan Smith was the eldest of his parent's eight children and lived in Manchester only for the first 20 years of his life. Despite the beauty of Vermont, much of the land was satisfactory only for grazing, which may have led him to seek adventure and richer land on the western frontier known as the Northwest Territory about 1791.
Nathan was joined in the trek to what would become the state of Ohio by his brother Abraham, who was only 17 at the time. According to a family history, they made their way to Pittsburgh by covered wagon and then proceeded down the Ohio River by raft. The type of raft they used was probably one known as an Allegheny flat, which was made of heavy planks or logs, had low side rails and could carry several tons of cargo. They then traveled overland through the trackless forest to an area later designated as Morgan County, probably to a tract of land their father had purchased in the Duck Creek Allotment. (He never came to Ohio). It was located some distance northwest of Marietta (now Manchester township), where the first permanent settlement in the region had been established three years earlier.
Their arrival unfortunately coincided with the height of warfare with the Indians. Finally, in July 1794, General Anthony Wayne led an army against the natives and defeated them at Fallen Timers near present-day Toledo Sometime around 1796, Nathan Smith married Rosanna Deming, whose family had just settled 15 or 20 miles to the east in what became Washington County. By Don Faust.
Nathan Smith was the eldest of his parent's eight children and lived in Manchester only for the first 20 years of his life. Despite the beauty of Vermont, much of the land was satisfactory only for grazing, which may have led him to seek adventure and richer land on the western frontier known as the Northwest Territory about 1791.
Nathan was joined in the trek to what would become the state of Ohio by his brother Abraham, who was only 17 at the time. According to a family history, they made their way to Pittsburgh by covered wagon and then proceeded down the Ohio River by raft. The type of raft they used was probably one known as an Allegheny flat, which was made of heavy planks or logs, had low side rails and could carry several tons of cargo. They then traveled overland through the trackless forest to an area later designated as Morgan County, probably to a tract of land their father had purchased in the Duck Creek Allotment. (He never came to Ohio). It was located some distance northwest of Marietta (now Manchester township), where the first permanent settlement in the region had been established three years earlier.
Their arrival unfortunately coincided with the height of warfare with the Indians. Finally, in July 1794, General Anthony Wayne led an army against the natives and defeated them at Fallen Timers near present-day Toledo Sometime around 1796, Nathan Smith married Rosanna Deming, whose family had just settled 15 or 20 miles to the east in what became Washington County. By Don Faust.
Son of John and Mary Bull Smith. Husband of Rosanna Foster-Deming. Father to 15 children two of whom were John C. Smith and Martha Lorenda Smith Current.
Nathan Smith was the eldest of his parent's eight children and lived in Manchester only for the first 20 years of his life. Despite the beauty of Vermont, much of the land was satisfactory only for grazing, which may have led him to seek adventure and richer land on the western frontier known as the Northwest Territory about 1791.
Nathan was joined in the trek to what would become the state of Ohio by his brother Abraham, who was only 17 at the time. According to a family history, they made their way to Pittsburgh by covered wagon and then proceeded down the Ohio River by raft. The type of raft they used was probably one known as an Allegheny flat, which was made of heavy planks or logs, had low side rails and could carry several tons of cargo. They then traveled overland through the trackless forest to an area later designated as Morgan County, probably to a tract of land their father had purchased in the Duck Creek Allotment. (He never came to Ohio). It was located some distance northwest of Marietta (now Manchester township), where the first permanent settlement in the region had been established three years earlier.
Their arrival unfortunately coincided with the height of warfare with the Indians. Finally, in July 1794, General Anthony Wayne led an army against the natives and defeated them at Fallen Timers near present-day Toledo Sometime around 1796, Nathan Smith married Rosanna Deming, whose family had just settled 15 or 20 miles to the east in what became Washington County. By Don Faust.
Nathan Smith was the eldest of his parent's eight children and lived in Manchester only for the first 20 years of his life. Despite the beauty of Vermont, much of the land was satisfactory only for grazing, which may have led him to seek adventure and richer land on the western frontier known as the Northwest Territory about 1791.
Nathan was joined in the trek to what would become the state of Ohio by his brother Abraham, who was only 17 at the time. According to a family history, they made their way to Pittsburgh by covered wagon and then proceeded down the Ohio River by raft. The type of raft they used was probably one known as an Allegheny flat, which was made of heavy planks or logs, had low side rails and could carry several tons of cargo. They then traveled overland through the trackless forest to an area later designated as Morgan County, probably to a tract of land their father had purchased in the Duck Creek Allotment. (He never came to Ohio). It was located some distance northwest of Marietta (now Manchester township), where the first permanent settlement in the region had been established three years earlier.
Their arrival unfortunately coincided with the height of warfare with the Indians. Finally, in July 1794, General Anthony Wayne led an army against the natives and defeated them at Fallen Timers near present-day Toledo Sometime around 1796, Nathan Smith married Rosanna Deming, whose family had just settled 15 or 20 miles to the east in what became Washington County. By Don Faust.
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