Individual Details
Daniel Page
(12 Sep 1769 - 18 Jul 1829)
The Last Will and Testiment of Daniel names all his children.
Some genealogists believe that Dan Page (2H4N-6RV) and Daniel Page (KLL5-6YM) are the same person, apparently without evidence. He may also be (LTZY-BTS).
Daniel studied medicine, but was at different times a surveyor, a farmer, and a tavern keeper. In 1795 or 96 he moved to Cazenovia, New York, where he laid out the present village of DeRuyter and was one of the proprietors of the town plat. In 1811 he removed to Dover, Cuyahoga, Ohio and there kept a kind of tavern. In 1815 he bought a farm from Reuben Piley in second section of Ridgefield Ohio and moved his family there in the same year. These facts are recorded on pages 100-103 of vol. 5 of "The Fire Lands Pioneer" Published by the Firelands Historical Society; this article written by Amos Felt, above, includes a detailed account of the capture by Indians of Hannah D. Page when she was about 11 years old.
There is a good basis for belief that Daniel Page Sr was descended from one of the brothers of Phoebe Page Cutler (1624 - 1694) who was a great grandmother of Abigail Russell (1718 - 1791), the wife of Ebenezer Perry (1708 - 1790), married 19 Dec 1741 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, (21), great grandfather of Cyrus Perry. Another descendant of this same family, Charles Nash Page, compiled a History of the Page family (published 1911, at Des Moines, Iowa) in which Daniel Page Sr is mentioned.
I am a DAR Registrar and can prove that Daniel Page was a Revolutionary War Soldier. -- Brenda Page Hare. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/BrendaHare
From “Blockhouses and Military Posts of The Firelands�?by Marjorie Loomis Cherry, 1934.
About 1813:
At this time Castalia, then called Cold Creek, had only three families. Mr. Snow lived on one bank of the creek and Mr. Butler on the opposite one. Mr. Putnam built his cabin about a mile north also on the bank of the creek.
When Hull surrendered in 1812 the families all fled, but in the spring of 1813 they came back to plant their crops. They hired some young men to come in and help them, among them William Pollock, son of Elijah Pollock, who lived near Fort Avery. Horace and Samuel Markham were keeping bachelors hall in an Indian hut at Cold Creek, and working for the farmers in the neighborhood, as was also Richard Fowler, and a young Canadian boy named Henry Grass.
In writing of it afterward William Pollock said they planted wheat with their guns strapped to their backs. Early in June, Mr. Butler went to Cleveland on business. On his way home he stopped at the Page home near Dover and stayed overnight.
The Page family had several children, their oldest daughter, Amanda, being engaged to Henry Dillingham, the bold express rider from Bloomingville. The family records say that Hannah Page was ten years old at this time.
Mr. Butler wanted Hannah to go home with him to help his wife, and after assuring Mrs. Page that they hadn't seen any Indians since they all went to Malden in February, she consented to let Hannah accompany him.
[It is more likely that Hannah was 15 or 16 at this time; Amanda married Henry Dillingham in 1816 when she was 18. Hannah married Ezra Herrick in 1819.]
When they arrived at Butler's, Mrs. Butler declared she was sure she had heard Indians calling to each other in the woods. Her husband just laughed at her, but Mrs. Butler was right, for one of Pontiac's war parties of about sixteen Indians was in the neighborhood and at that time watching the settlement for a good opportunity to attack.
The Butler family consisted of father and mother, Horace, who was in his teens, Smith, ten years old, George, eight years, Julia, four, Charles two, and a baby.
The Putnam family consisted of Mary Putnam, her husband Uriel, Daniel, Uriel, Jr., Ira, Mary about twelve years old, Ezra ten, Frank eight, and Orlin four.
Mr. And Mrs. Snow had sons Alanson, Henry, daughter Electa fifteen years old, Laura ten, and Willard about four. Robert was two, and Mrs. Snow was ill in bed, and about to give birth to a child.
On June second, Dan Putnam and Horace Markham went about a mile east to plow some land. Uriel Putnam and his oldest sons Uriel and Ira, and Mr. Snow and his sons Alanson and Henry were planting corn one and half miles south.
Richard Fowler, Samuel Markham and William Pollock were planting corn one mile north-east of the settlement. Henry Grass, who was an apprentice at the tanner trade, was working with some hides some distance up the creek.
After the men had gone to work, Mrs. Butler sent her boy George to get Mrs. Putnam, who lived a little distance north. Mrs. Putnam taking Orlin, but leaving Mary, Ezra and Frank together with George Butler, went up to Butler's cabin. Mrs. Butler took her baby and they went over to Mrs. Snow's where the two women cared for the sick woman and did up her work.
Later Hannah Page, with Julia and Charles Butler joined them. Electa, Laura, Willard and Robert Snow went with their guests to another building where there was a loom. Here Mrs. Butler began weaving, while Mrs. Putnam held her baby, and the other children played on the floor.
Suddenly above the clatter of the loom and the chatter of the children Mrs. Butler became conscious of a pounding noise. She thought Mrs. Snow wanted something and was taking this way to call them so she told Hannah to go and wait on her.
As Hannah reached the door, an Indian grabbed her by the hair and yanked her into the yard. Here she saw the Indians carrying furniture from the Snow cabin, and Mrs. Snow in her nightclothes, her teeth chattering clutching a blanket about her shoulders. Hannah ran to her and they clung together as the Indians emptied feathers from the beds and used the ticks to pack what they wanted to carry away.
A few moments later the Indians brought Mrs. Putnam and Mrs. Butler out of the weaving room. Mrs. Putnam said the first she knew the room was full of Indians, one of whom grasped her by the hair and hustled her into the yard. Said Mrs. Putnam, "He asked me if I would go, and I said yes."
Then Hannah saw Smith Butler, who had been turning hides soaking in the creek, running up the bank toward some bushes. She looked away so that the Indians would not notice him. Mrs. Butler also saw him, and closed her eyes and prayed fervently that he might reach the bushes and hide.
A moment later Mrs. Butler looked again. She saw that Smith had not hidden in the bushes, but had gone beyond them, and was running for the woods. Again she closed her eyes and prayed. A shot rang out. She opened her eyes, saw her son throw up his hands, and fall on his face. At the same moment, an Indian unsheathed his knife and ran toward the spot to scalp the boy.
Mrs. Butler turned away and saw Julia and the other children running toward them. She picked up Charles, as an Indian came from the weaving room, carrying her baby by its feet. He swung it in a side arc, and dashed its head against a tree.
Hannah was now sick with fear and horror. Three Indians came in with Henry Grass in their midst. They loaded a saddle and some clothing taken from the Snow cabin in one of the ticks and strapped it on Henry's back. Then they turned the prisoners toward the northwest.
Mrs. Putnam was fifty years old at this time, and Mrs. Butler thirty. Mrs. Putnam carried Orlin, her four year old son, and Mrs. Butler carried her son Charles, aged two. Weak as she was, Mrs. Snow picked up Robert and started to march.
Mrs. Butler motioned Hannah to carry Julia. Hannah knelt down and said "Picky back Julia." The little girl laughed and climbed on her back and clasped her soft hands under Hannah's chin. Electa Snow carried her brother Willard some of the time, and some of the time he walked.
They had gone but a short distance, when Mrs. Snow sank down on the ground and the Indians tomahawked her and the baby. The others were some distance ahead and did not see it. The Indians then scalped them and stripped the bodies of clothing.
Try as she would, Hannah could not keep up, but began to fall farther and farther behind, for Julia was heavy. She was struggling bravely on when an Indian stopped her, told her to put Julia down and go on and not look back. Reluctantly Hannah obeyed. She did not look back, but she heard the sickening thud of the tomahawk as it struck little Julia's head.
About five in the afternoon, the children left at Putnam's cabin, Mary, Ezra and Frank Putnam, and George Butler, came up to Snow's and found the feathers from the beds blowing about the yard, all the crockery smashed in the middle of the room, and the body of the dead baby by the tree in the yard.
They ran to where Dan Putnam and Horace Markham were working and told them the Indians had come. Horace Markham went with the children to where Putnam and Snow were with their sons, planting corn, and Dan Putnam went for Richard Fowler, Samuel Markham and William Pollock.
Daniel Putnam and George Butler then hurried to Bloomingville Blockhouse where they got Captain Seth Harrington, Captain Sam McGill, and James and John McCord, who went back with them to stay that night with the bereaved families.
Early the next morning all the available force from Bloomingville Blockhouse joined them, and they set out to trail the Indians. They found the bodies of the dead, but at the shore where the Indians had taken to their canoes the trail was lost.
Sadly the party turned back to bury the dead. They were not able to find the body of Smith Butler, although his blood stained trousers were picked up along the way. It was a year later that the little boy's remains were found in the woods and buried.
After crossing the bay, the Indians disembarked at the carrying point. Here it took two Indians to carry each canoe, and the ten others drove their prisoners across the lake. Mrs. Putnam said this was the hardest part of the flight, as she had to run and carry her son Orlin, who was fat and heavy.
Those brave women never relinquished their children. Hannah Page helped Electa and Laura Snow carry Willard, and later Henry Grass, even though burdened like a pack horse, helped the older women.
Some genealogists believe that Dan Page (2H4N-6RV) and Daniel Page (KLL5-6YM) are the same person, apparently without evidence. He may also be (LTZY-BTS).
Daniel studied medicine, but was at different times a surveyor, a farmer, and a tavern keeper. In 1795 or 96 he moved to Cazenovia, New York, where he laid out the present village of DeRuyter and was one of the proprietors of the town plat. In 1811 he removed to Dover, Cuyahoga, Ohio and there kept a kind of tavern. In 1815 he bought a farm from Reuben Piley in second section of Ridgefield Ohio and moved his family there in the same year. These facts are recorded on pages 100-103 of vol. 5 of "The Fire Lands Pioneer" Published by the Firelands Historical Society; this article written by Amos Felt, above, includes a detailed account of the capture by Indians of Hannah D. Page when she was about 11 years old.
There is a good basis for belief that Daniel Page Sr was descended from one of the brothers of Phoebe Page Cutler (1624 - 1694) who was a great grandmother of Abigail Russell (1718 - 1791), the wife of Ebenezer Perry (1708 - 1790), married 19 Dec 1741 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, (21), great grandfather of Cyrus Perry. Another descendant of this same family, Charles Nash Page, compiled a History of the Page family (published 1911, at Des Moines, Iowa) in which Daniel Page Sr is mentioned.
I am a DAR Registrar and can prove that Daniel Page was a Revolutionary War Soldier. -- Brenda Page Hare. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/BrendaHare
From “Blockhouses and Military Posts of The Firelands�?by Marjorie Loomis Cherry, 1934.
About 1813:
At this time Castalia, then called Cold Creek, had only three families. Mr. Snow lived on one bank of the creek and Mr. Butler on the opposite one. Mr. Putnam built his cabin about a mile north also on the bank of the creek.
When Hull surrendered in 1812 the families all fled, but in the spring of 1813 they came back to plant their crops. They hired some young men to come in and help them, among them William Pollock, son of Elijah Pollock, who lived near Fort Avery. Horace and Samuel Markham were keeping bachelors hall in an Indian hut at Cold Creek, and working for the farmers in the neighborhood, as was also Richard Fowler, and a young Canadian boy named Henry Grass.
In writing of it afterward William Pollock said they planted wheat with their guns strapped to their backs. Early in June, Mr. Butler went to Cleveland on business. On his way home he stopped at the Page home near Dover and stayed overnight.
The Page family had several children, their oldest daughter, Amanda, being engaged to Henry Dillingham, the bold express rider from Bloomingville. The family records say that Hannah Page was ten years old at this time.
Mr. Butler wanted Hannah to go home with him to help his wife, and after assuring Mrs. Page that they hadn't seen any Indians since they all went to Malden in February, she consented to let Hannah accompany him.
[It is more likely that Hannah was 15 or 16 at this time; Amanda married Henry Dillingham in 1816 when she was 18. Hannah married Ezra Herrick in 1819.]
When they arrived at Butler's, Mrs. Butler declared she was sure she had heard Indians calling to each other in the woods. Her husband just laughed at her, but Mrs. Butler was right, for one of Pontiac's war parties of about sixteen Indians was in the neighborhood and at that time watching the settlement for a good opportunity to attack.
The Butler family consisted of father and mother, Horace, who was in his teens, Smith, ten years old, George, eight years, Julia, four, Charles two, and a baby.
The Putnam family consisted of Mary Putnam, her husband Uriel, Daniel, Uriel, Jr., Ira, Mary about twelve years old, Ezra ten, Frank eight, and Orlin four.
Mr. And Mrs. Snow had sons Alanson, Henry, daughter Electa fifteen years old, Laura ten, and Willard about four. Robert was two, and Mrs. Snow was ill in bed, and about to give birth to a child.
On June second, Dan Putnam and Horace Markham went about a mile east to plow some land. Uriel Putnam and his oldest sons Uriel and Ira, and Mr. Snow and his sons Alanson and Henry were planting corn one and half miles south.
Richard Fowler, Samuel Markham and William Pollock were planting corn one mile north-east of the settlement. Henry Grass, who was an apprentice at the tanner trade, was working with some hides some distance up the creek.
After the men had gone to work, Mrs. Butler sent her boy George to get Mrs. Putnam, who lived a little distance north. Mrs. Putnam taking Orlin, but leaving Mary, Ezra and Frank together with George Butler, went up to Butler's cabin. Mrs. Butler took her baby and they went over to Mrs. Snow's where the two women cared for the sick woman and did up her work.
Later Hannah Page, with Julia and Charles Butler joined them. Electa, Laura, Willard and Robert Snow went with their guests to another building where there was a loom. Here Mrs. Butler began weaving, while Mrs. Putnam held her baby, and the other children played on the floor.
Suddenly above the clatter of the loom and the chatter of the children Mrs. Butler became conscious of a pounding noise. She thought Mrs. Snow wanted something and was taking this way to call them so she told Hannah to go and wait on her.
As Hannah reached the door, an Indian grabbed her by the hair and yanked her into the yard. Here she saw the Indians carrying furniture from the Snow cabin, and Mrs. Snow in her nightclothes, her teeth chattering clutching a blanket about her shoulders. Hannah ran to her and they clung together as the Indians emptied feathers from the beds and used the ticks to pack what they wanted to carry away.
A few moments later the Indians brought Mrs. Putnam and Mrs. Butler out of the weaving room. Mrs. Putnam said the first she knew the room was full of Indians, one of whom grasped her by the hair and hustled her into the yard. Said Mrs. Putnam, "He asked me if I would go, and I said yes."
Then Hannah saw Smith Butler, who had been turning hides soaking in the creek, running up the bank toward some bushes. She looked away so that the Indians would not notice him. Mrs. Butler also saw him, and closed her eyes and prayed fervently that he might reach the bushes and hide.
A moment later Mrs. Butler looked again. She saw that Smith had not hidden in the bushes, but had gone beyond them, and was running for the woods. Again she closed her eyes and prayed. A shot rang out. She opened her eyes, saw her son throw up his hands, and fall on his face. At the same moment, an Indian unsheathed his knife and ran toward the spot to scalp the boy.
Mrs. Butler turned away and saw Julia and the other children running toward them. She picked up Charles, as an Indian came from the weaving room, carrying her baby by its feet. He swung it in a side arc, and dashed its head against a tree.
Hannah was now sick with fear and horror. Three Indians came in with Henry Grass in their midst. They loaded a saddle and some clothing taken from the Snow cabin in one of the ticks and strapped it on Henry's back. Then they turned the prisoners toward the northwest.
Mrs. Putnam was fifty years old at this time, and Mrs. Butler thirty. Mrs. Putnam carried Orlin, her four year old son, and Mrs. Butler carried her son Charles, aged two. Weak as she was, Mrs. Snow picked up Robert and started to march.
Mrs. Butler motioned Hannah to carry Julia. Hannah knelt down and said "Picky back Julia." The little girl laughed and climbed on her back and clasped her soft hands under Hannah's chin. Electa Snow carried her brother Willard some of the time, and some of the time he walked.
They had gone but a short distance, when Mrs. Snow sank down on the ground and the Indians tomahawked her and the baby. The others were some distance ahead and did not see it. The Indians then scalped them and stripped the bodies of clothing.
Try as she would, Hannah could not keep up, but began to fall farther and farther behind, for Julia was heavy. She was struggling bravely on when an Indian stopped her, told her to put Julia down and go on and not look back. Reluctantly Hannah obeyed. She did not look back, but she heard the sickening thud of the tomahawk as it struck little Julia's head.
About five in the afternoon, the children left at Putnam's cabin, Mary, Ezra and Frank Putnam, and George Butler, came up to Snow's and found the feathers from the beds blowing about the yard, all the crockery smashed in the middle of the room, and the body of the dead baby by the tree in the yard.
They ran to where Dan Putnam and Horace Markham were working and told them the Indians had come. Horace Markham went with the children to where Putnam and Snow were with their sons, planting corn, and Dan Putnam went for Richard Fowler, Samuel Markham and William Pollock.
Daniel Putnam and George Butler then hurried to Bloomingville Blockhouse where they got Captain Seth Harrington, Captain Sam McGill, and James and John McCord, who went back with them to stay that night with the bereaved families.
Early the next morning all the available force from Bloomingville Blockhouse joined them, and they set out to trail the Indians. They found the bodies of the dead, but at the shore where the Indians had taken to their canoes the trail was lost.
Sadly the party turned back to bury the dead. They were not able to find the body of Smith Butler, although his blood stained trousers were picked up along the way. It was a year later that the little boy's remains were found in the woods and buried.
After crossing the bay, the Indians disembarked at the carrying point. Here it took two Indians to carry each canoe, and the ten others drove their prisoners across the lake. Mrs. Putnam said this was the hardest part of the flight, as she had to run and carry her son Orlin, who was fat and heavy.
Those brave women never relinquished their children. Hannah Page helped Electa and Laura Snow carry Willard, and later Henry Grass, even though burdened like a pack horse, helped the older women.
Events
| Birth | 12 Sep 1769 | New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut | |||
| Marriage | 19 May 1795 | Pownall, Bennington County, Vermont - Rebecca Moon | |||
| Census (family) | 1820 | Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio - Rebecca Moon |  |  | |
| Death | 18 Jul 1829 | Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio | |
Families
| Spouse | Rebecca Moon (1770 - 1831) |
| Child | Amanda Page (1798 - 1880) |
| Child | Electra "Lexey" Page (1799 - 1865) |
| Child | Hannah D. Page (1803 - 1841) |
| Child | Sophia Page (1805 - ) |
| Child | Daniel L. Page (1807 - 1841) |
| Child | William G. Page (1813 - 1876) |
| Father | Jonathan Page (1721 - 1802) |
| Mother | Mary Foster ( - ) |
| Sibling | David Page (1753 - 1802) |
| Sibling | Samuel Page (1755 - ) |
| Sibling | Stephen Page (1758 - 1819) |
| Sibling | Timothy Page (1760 - 1847) |
| Sibling | Ephraim Page (1761 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia Page (1763 - ) |
| Sibling | Hannah Page (1765 - ) |
| Sibling | Johnathan Page (1767 - ) |
| Sibling | William Page (1772 - ) |
| Father | Ephraim Page (1730 - 1784) |
| Mother | Martha Norton (1727 - 1803) |
| Sibling | Timothy Page (1760 - 1847) |
Notes
Census (family)
M 0-9 one [son, William 7]M 10-15 one [son, Daniel L. 13]
M 45+ one [head, Daniel Page 50]
F 10-15 one [daughter, Sophia 15]
F 45+ one [wife, Rebecca Moore 49]
Death
Daniel and Rebecca (Moore) Page were originally buried out on their family farm plot, but the bodies were moved to the large cemetery in town.The Last Will and Testament of Daniel names all his children.
Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1820," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XHGS-YGP : accessed 06 Jul 2014), Daniel Page, Ridgefield, Huron, Ohio; citing "1820 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com; p. 72, NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 88, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 0181394..