George Kerr

George Kerr settled on a farm near Bedell Station, the the "advance frontier" in what is now Warren County, Ohio, not many miles northwest of the present town of Lebanon, the county seat. He sold this entry and removed to Miami County, entering a section of land about three miles due west of where he led Gen. Wayne's army across the Great Miami at its first crossing, at which place he ever after made his home, reared his family, and founded the Family of Miami County Kerrs.

George Kerr, while acting as a guide and scout for the army of Lieutenant General Wayne in his campaign against the Indians in the Northwest Territory, culminating in the complete and final defeat of the Indians at the battle of Fallen Timbers. On this occasion George Kerr, in connection with others, accompanied Gen. Wayne from Fort Washington, where Cincinnati now stands, as a guide to pilot the army through the forest, and as a scout to prevent a surprise or ambush of the troops. In the course of the march up the west side of the Great Miami River from where Dayton now stands to near the site of the present village of Cowlesville, at which point he led the column to the east bank of the GreatMiami and piloted the army to where the former town of Staunton (now a crossroads), the first town in Miami County, was laid out. From Staunton-site the army was piloted back to the west side of the Great Miami, recrossing that stream at the present site of the town of Troy, the county-seat of Miami County. From the Troy-site a bee-line was taken from what is now Troy by way of the present towns of Covington and Bradford, to what is now Greenville, in Dark County, where a stockade-fort was erected and General Wayne made his headquarters. It was here that the treaty of the Indians of the Northwest Territory -was made and signed in 1796. A road was cut through the heavy forest, from Troy to Greenville, to enable the transport-train, and such field-artillery a! s accompanied them, to pass.

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