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==First Death (Pre-Green)==

==First Death (Pre-Green)==

On the third day of their journey, after reaching what afterwards was made the south east quarter of section No. 5 of this township (now the farm owned by William {{Surname|Pontius}}) not having made quite half the distance of their tramp, they got into some difficulty with the Indians, when one of the young men was shot throug (''sic'') the breast and instantly died. The ball passing through his body and entering into a small sized oak tree, which the Indians for some reason or other instantly knotched (''sic'') from the ground up as high as they could reach--perhaps as a monument of their bloodshead (''sic''). With much terror and dismay the three surviving young men hastened from the scene, without witnessing what was done with the body of their slaughtered companion. Having, in view of retrace, in case they should become lost, blazed the trees along the line of their route, two years afterwards, two of these young men, in company of some others, made a tramp back on the same route. They again saw the "Knotched white oak" but neither clew nor trace could be found of the body, which, two year (''sic'') ago, they had seen fall in crimsoned carnage at its root, by the ball of the "red man"! This was the first death known to have occurred upon the soil of Green township.

On the third day of their journey, after reaching what afterwards was made the south east quarter of section No. 5, of this township (now the farm owned by William {{Surname|Pontius}},) not having made quite half the distance of their tramp, they got into some difficulty with the Indians, when one of the young men was shot throug (''sic'') the breast, and instantly died. The ball passing through his body, and entering into a small sized oak tree, which the Indians for some reason or other, instantly knotched (''sic'') from the ground up as high as they could reach--perhaps as a monument of their bloodshead (''sic''). With much terror and dismay the three surviving young men hastened from the scene, without witnessing what was done with the body of their slaughtered companion. Having, in view of retrace, in case they should become lost, blazed the trees along the line of their route, two years afterwards, two of these young men, in company of some others, made a tramp back on the same route. They again saw the "Knotched white oak" but neither clew nor trace could be found of the body, which, two year (''sic'') ago, they had seen fall in crimsoned carnage at its root, by the ball of the "red man"! This was the first death known to have occurred upon the soil of Green township.

==First Settlement==

==First Settlement==