SETTLERS land at the site of Marietta and set to work. Return Jonathan Meigs is their leader. According to Charles Coffin:
His mother named him Return Jonathan, because when she was a maiden in Connecticut, and Jonathan Meigs came to ask her to be his wife, she said, “No,” but the next moment was sorry, ran after him, and cried, “Return, Jonathan!” and he went back and she became Mrs. Meigs, and was so glad that she married him she named her first baby Return Jonathan. He had been to Yale College, was a lawyer, and now Governor of this new settlement.
Early Marietta.
Settlers celebrate July Fourth.
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