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    1. [EVANS-RICHARD] Joshua Robinson
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    3. Just sent the following to the Robinsons Message Board.... Sending it to you too in case someone 'out there' can help me figure it out. The following is from Elsie Johnson Ayres book "Highland Pioneer Sketches".... I need helping identifying Joshua Robinson... his family and home "address" "While Gen. Wayne was negotiating a treaty with the Indians, Rogers joined Rev. Robert Finley, Amos Evans and a party of some forty men who set out to hunt homes in the new land. They left Manchester on the Ohio and after traveling for several days, saw definite signs of Indians. The red men were encamped on Paint Creek at a place now known as Reeves Crossing. The Indians resented the attempt of the white men to settle in their territory and a skirmish followed. Joshua Robinson, brother-in-law of the early Judge Richard Evans of our county, died of wounds received in the battle. Five or six Indians also were killed in what has been termed, 'The last Indian battle in Southern Ohio.' [page 454] I'm trying to figure out if Ayres has this wrong because I can't figure out how Robinson was Richard's brother in law. So it would help me to know more about Robinson and just how he relates to my Evanses. Thanks

    05/13/2010 11:04:33