Summary

Basically Johnny Appleseed was a guy who planted apple trees, and moved around to different places and started apple orchards. People celebrate Johnny Appleseed's life every year by, eating apples, playing games, and just having fun. Johnny Appleseed was a pretty cool guy, but i dont really like apples.

History of Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Applessed was born in 1774 in massachussets. He died in 1845. He traveled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and indianna planting seeds. he was also made into a religious figure on the frontire. he would tell the stories of the bible to anyone willing to listen.

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Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman) was a direct descendent of Edward Chapman, who came from Yorkshire, England, to Boston in the 1640s and became a prosperous farmer and miller in Ipswich. John was of the sixth generation from Edward. He was the second child of Elizabeth Simonds and Nathaniel Chapman, who were married at Leominster, Massachusetts on February 8, 1770. John was born in Leominster on September 26, 1774, and was baptized with his sister Elizabeth in the Congregational Church on June 25, 1775, the day his father and mother were received into that church. John's father, Nathaniel, was a carpenter, a farmer, and a Revolutionary soldier. So far as any records show, he was a man of little means, though there is a tradition that he lost two good farms in the service of our country. A letter from Elizabeth to Nathaniel, dated June 3, 1776, suggests that she was suffering from an advanced case of tuberculosis. At that time, Nathaniel was with a company of carpenters attached to General George Washington's headquarters at New York. In this letter, Elizabeth states that she has money for her needs, though she has not bought a cow, for cows were scarce and dear. This was a time of hardship and war-time inflation when many a colonial mother had a hard time caring for her children. On June 26, 1776, Elizabeth gave birth to her third child, a son. On July 18th, she died, and within two weeks, according to family tradition, the baby, too, was dead. Little John, not yet two years old, and his sister, Elizabeth, were cared for by relatives. After Elizabeth's death, Nathaniel continued to serve in the Continental Army until the summer of 1780 when he was honorably discharged. That same summer he married Lucy Cooley of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. To them were born ten children. We do not know if John and Elizabeth ever went to live with Nathaniel and Lucy, but we do know that John maintained close relationships with the family. Again according to family traditions, John at the age of eighteen persuaded his half-brother Nathaniel, a lad of eleven, to go West with him. This was in 1792.

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When you think of Johnny Appleseed...You probably think of the picture above.

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Who: John Chapman

What he did: loaded up appleseeds and road a horse from pennslyvania cider presses to the Territory of Ohio.

When: 1801

Where: by Licking Creek

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Some Johnny Appleseed thing i did in 2nd grade

In the second grade, we had a Johnny Appleseed day. We played games, and uh ate apples..and we also made these hats like the ones he wore. We read books about him, drew pictures, and had a lot of fun.

Who is Johnny Appleseed?

Johnny Appleseed's given name is John Chapman. He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, two years before the American Colonies declared their independence from England. His dad, in fact, was a Minuteman in the Continental Army.
As a citizen of our young nation, Chapman enjoyed the fruit of the apple trees brought to America by earlier colonists. He foresaw the need for apple trees in the west as Americans moved well beyond the boundaries of eastern towns to settle the wilderness that would become Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
At the turn of the century, Chapman ventured beyond the borders of established towns carrying apple
seeds from Pennsylvania cider presses to create nurseries in the wilderness. Fellow frontiersmen dubbed him Johnny Appleseed.
In his legendary travels, he negotiated disputes between pioneer settlers and American Indians and shared his religious beliefs with anyone who wished to listen. His purpose was not material gain. He often gave away his trees, and his peers painted a picture of austerity.
The picture of a raggedy man with a pot on his head walking barefoot as he scattered seeds may first spring to mind at the mention of Johnny Appleseed. Yet Johnny Appleseed is also remembered for his gentle nature and generous spirit.
When Chapman died in 1845 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, his name and reputation had spread far and wide.

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John Chapman packed a horse load of apple seed from Pennsylvania cider presses into the Territory of Ohio in 1801, according to a magazine article written in 1871. He planted his first orchard** there near Licking Creek. According to the author, Chapman was again spotted carrying apple seeds to the frontier by way of the Ohio River in 1806:
It was "Johnny Appleseed," by which name Jonathan Chapman was afterward known in every log cabin from the Ohio River to the Northern lakes, and westward to the prairies of what is now the state of Indiana.
This article is unique because it is from a per- spective of only 70 years removed from Chapman’s
maiden travels into the wilderness—only 26 years removed from the time of John Chapman's death.
Fortunately, a readable photocopy of the Harper’s New Monthly Magazine article has been published on the Net.

**According to a Sheffield, Pennsylvania, newspaper article, Johnny's first nursery was in Warren County, Pennsylvania, about 1796. Specifically, it was located at Brokenstraw Creek.

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Celebration of Johnny Appleseed

A number of states along the wilderness roads Johnny Appleseed traveled claim him as their own today with festivals, plaques, markers, and statues. The beginning of that road was Leominster, Massachusetts.

Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, and Leominster figures prominently in Appleseed celebrations. There is, for example, an annual parade and an annual festival. The Leominster web site has a community calendar.

A Leominster resident and Johnny Appleseed enthusiast created a Johnny Appleseed web site with lots of Appleseed information and Appleseed pictures.

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I guess a lot of people know about Johnny Appleseed, but this is just some information that I found on what people do to celebrate his life.

Johnny Appleseed Story

Johnny Appleseed in real life was one John Chapman, born on September 26,1774 near Leominster, Massachusetts. Little is known of his early life, but he apparently received a good education which helped him in his later years. By the time he was 25 years old, he had become a nursery man and had planted apple trees in the western portions of New York and Pennsylvania. Some of the orchards in those areas were said to have originated with his apple trees.

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