Show the story of bienner Blenner hasset hagget two miles below parkersburg Parkers burgon burlon on the ohio is sets bets island with which is connected a verl veri veritable table romance of real life herman Blenner hasset was born in hampshire Eng england iala laLA about 1769 1469 of hish parents ile he was calletto called to the irish bar but lut becoming discontented with the position of ireland alid and i indulging in no hopes of ber her emancipation he resolved on emigrating to america ile he married miss mibs adeline agenes a lady of remarkable beauty and acom accomplishments pi i ahme rits tits sold his irish estates and sailed for new york in 1797 there he remained for several mon hs 1 i el engaged aged agel in the study of the topography of the new vvo world rid and at length attracted by what I 1 be heard of the region of ohio then almost a wilder wilderness neis hs he resolved to emigrate thither ile he was a man of handsome fortune and of romantic tastes and in the cpr spring i of 1798 bhavini having spent the previous winter a at t marietta marletta he be purchased a small island n the ohio river containing acres called back is island i this spot he proceeded to c ear and call after his bis own name he lle then erected a noble mn m n sion blon upon it which he filled with rich furniture while the grounds were elaborately cultivated and adorned in the course of a few years he spent not less than sixty thousand dollars dollar s in emb amb embellishments ilis lils brents and being a man lof lot of letters of elegant mannas and genial 1 tastes his home became one of the most at i places in america the stranger who was so fortunate as to be properly intro i deuced found to his sur bur surer p r se that amid the rugged wilds of ohio he was surrounded by comforts and elegance ile he discovered in his hostess one whose commanding beau beauty ty of person was enhanced by the charms of elegant culture in her hus husband bandy lie he saw a man moan of 0 refined mind surrounded by books and philosophic il I 1 apparatus who hd had voluntary vol voi voluntarily ay sought his ronlan romantic tic seilusi n in 1805 dt during iring absence norm hom home aaron burr came to the island in company with ith a female companion os I 1 j bly to gratify his hla curiosity mrs blenner bienner 1 hasset basset descove ing who he was invited him into the house hoube and an acquaintance was thus commenced which involved the family in ruin burr having the following year engaged Blenner bienner hasset basset in his Alexi mexican can cau schemes he be invested his means largely ill in boats pro provisions arms and ammunition A proclamation having 1 been issued against him by president jeffer son bon he fled fied from the island and joined bures buns adot flot flotilla ila lia at the mouth of the cumberland the I 1 co company parly pally sent to arrest him found the island I 1 deserted and while their commander colonel phelps was temporarily absent at po nt pleasant committed the most moat wanton outrages I 1 burning the f fences ances destroying 0 the shrubbery ubbry and hacking the f furniture urn iture burrs burr s scheme schema res resil resli tirla titia in a failure he surrendered hm h m eleto the united states authorities blenner aset having been arrested I 1 waa was di discharged schart d and thinking he be had bad no nothing illig more to fear t f om the government left natchez 1807 with the intention of revisiting i I 1 his island and und examining in ino 0 his ilia shattered fortunes on his bis kay way stopped aelex in ington ton kland while there was arrested and g thrown own into prison having secured the legal services of henry clay tim ele endeavored to I 1 get his discharge by the court but this was I 1 hot not ot granted I 1 and arld he was vas forced to proceed to d to take his hla trial f r treason burr been declared i lot ot guilty bien blen ner hasset was set at liberty and returned to natchez bankrupt iri lri for fortune tuie tule his island friand had bad been seized by credio every thing U upon pon I 1 it 1 which coul be converted into had bee been I 1 sold bold F ft uit t ruinous sacrifice a d the beautiful gounds g were used for the culture of hemp comin coining into possession of a sum of money by what vb at means it is not certainly known he ri now vb ought bought a thousand acres of land near P rt miss aliss tora torn tor a cotton plan pian tati a n while ahil settle i at this pla pia cehe ephe hearl beard of the destruction st 0 n of f his former splendid mansion at ler ier the fla island n d the house hoube used as a a s ore or ehouse house for hemp h err p having accidentally been leen fired b ny by some careless n groes the war of 1812 having prostrated all co commercial enterprises becoming poorer and poorer in 1819 he removed with hiBi hibb family to but there again 0 met with ill lii fortune in 1822 2 he be sailed for ireland to prosecute a claim still existing there in this thib bewailed he be failed nor did he be meet with any success in 6 his application to the marquis of anglesey whom he had bad formerly known pursued by ill fortune he died in the island of guernsey in 1837 in the year 1842 mrs Blenner bienner hasset returned to America and memorialized congress for a grant of money for the of her former home the pet tion would doubtless have been successful but before jt it could be j acted upon she died in new york in he 6 most moat a abject poverty loverl and was burri burrl hurried eci eel by strai strangers iwers the rhe island is ia now uninhabited and fast rast st returning to its former wild condition little would the vo yager voyager J passing by it imagine that it had bad so romantic a bi history 9 tor y 0 |