an war. Dr. Hinde
moved to Kentucky and there the boy Thomas grew up. At one time he was a
neighbor of Daniel Boone, and later of Simon Kenton. He was in the office
of the Superior Court of Kentucky for some time, during which he became
well acquainted with Governor Madison and his nephew, John Madison,
kinsmen of President James Madison. He was well informed as to some of the
obscure movements of Aaron Burr. This led him to send copies of the
_Fredonian_, which he published in order to oppose Burr, to Henry Clay,
then secretary of state, although the copies later unaccountably
disappeared; and, in 1829, to write to James Madison, who was reported as
contemplating the writing of a political history, offering to furnish
information which he possessed at first hand concerning the conspiracy.
Madison denied any intention of writing a history, but asked Hinde to
furnish an account of Burr's transactions to be filed with Madison's
papers. This was done. In 1806, Hinde moved to Ohio to get away from
slavery.

William Beauchamp was born in Kent county, Delaware, in 1772. He became a
minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1794, but located in 1801 on
account of ill health. His ministry had been markedly successful and he
had been stationed in New York and Boston. In 1807 he settled on the
Little Kanawha River in Virginia, and in 1815 moved to Chillicothe, Ohio,
where he acted as editor of the _Western Christian Monitor_, Hinde being a
contributor. Beauchamp knew Latin, Greek and Hebrew, was a writer of
considerable ability, and was well fitted to be editor. In 1816, however,
the General Conference decided to establish a magazine, and in the
following year Beauchamp retired from the editorship of the _Monitor_,
having successfully established the first Methodist magazine in America.
Beauchamp, Hinde and McDowell were now fellow-townsmen. They resolved to
establish a town where their ideas of rectitude might be applied.

The site chosen for the town was a point on the west bank of the Wabash
opposite the mouth of the White River, and twenty-four miles southwest of
Vincennes. This point was selected because of the available water power
and of the likelihood that main roads from east to west would pass here.
The town became a railroad and manufacturing center and justified the
wisdom of its founders. An elaborate circular, called the "Articles of
Association, for the City of Mount Carmel," was issued at Chillicothe in
1817.