48 recognized than the one above named. Miss , Maria Heckewelder who was born at Salem, April 16. 1781. and who was living at Bethlehem as late as 1843, is generally said to have been the first white child born in Ohio, She was the daughter of the famous missionary of that name. In 1785 her parents sent her to Bethlehem, where she was educated. She became a teacher in a ladies’ boarding school at Litiz, Pa., but at the end of five years was obliged to give up her position on account of the loss of her hearing. The belief that she was the first white child born^Ohio made her the object of unusual attentions.. Visitors from great distances came to see her and converse with her. and she received numerous requests for her photograph and autograph. She died Sept. 19, 1868 at the age of eighty seven years. Fort Laurens.—Comparatively few persons, especially among our pupils, are acquainted, with the history of Fort Laurens, and fewer still with the object for which it was built. In 1778, the Colonial Congress, by resolution, appropriated 8900,000 to fit out an expedition to march into the Indian country and punish
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