127 He thought the girl was basely ungrateful. After that time she was no protege of his. The fathei’ of Johnny Appleseed, Nathaniel Chapman, with the remaining members came from Springfield, Mass., in the year 1803, and settled at Marietta. He then moved from Marietta to Dutch Creek, where he died. The Chapman family was a large one, and many of Johnny’s relatives were scattered throughout Ohio and Indiana. Johnny often returned to visit his friends throughout the oldei’ settlements. He lived the allotted three score and ten, and died in Allen County, Indiana, in the year 1815, and was bu/ried two and one-half miles north of Ft. Wayne. Many of the old orchards in Tuscarawas County were from trees furnished from this queer character’s pioneer nurseries, and many of those trees are still bearing fruit. He had his mission upon earth and fulfilled it. Legend of Cornstalk at Gnadenhutten:—The following legend is taken from Mitchener’s History of the Muskingum and Tuscarawas Valleys:—“Early in 1777 the celebrated Shawanee chief, Cornstalk, with one hundred
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