90 in squads, and planted their crops in common. While some were engaged in labor others stood guard with loaded rifles. Fully six weeks elapsed before quiet was restored in Sugar Creek Valley. Many of the settlers of Tuscarawas County participated in the struggle. Most of them were drafted into the service, but some volunteered. The terms of enlistment varied from three to twelve months. In all, perhaps more than two hundred Tuscarawas County, citizens bore arms. Their number and names are unknown, as the files are not on record and the local muster rolls are lost or destroyed. . They were stationed principally on the'frontiers of Ohio. The following account of a stirring incidental New Philadelphia is taken from How;s “Historical Collections of Ohio.” c , “Aboutthe time of Hull’s surrender, several persons were murdered on the Mohican, near Mansfield, wThich created great alarm and excitement. Shortly after this event, three Indians, said to be unfriendly, had arrived at Goshen. The knowledge of this circumstance created great alarm, and an independent company of cavalry, of whom Alexander Me.
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