Great Uprising of the Northwestern Tribes- Fort Pitt and Fort Lioff from connection with the East Capt. Isolated Situations, their Squalid Huts, Potato Misunderstood Boundaries of the Treaty of 1754 (Albany) Purchase of 1758 and Boundaries thereunder British Officers give Permits to Settlers after Forbes Campaign- Pennsylvania will not give Ti tie to Set-Īttacked by the Indians under Kyashuta, the Chief of the Senecas, and fights the Battle of Bushy Run- He Defeats and Scatters hisīedford come to the relief of Ligonier and hold the Fort Bouquet marches from the East to the relief of Fort Ligonier and Fort Pitt The Force with him Bouquet finds the Frontier overrun and the Inhabitants utterly destitute He reaches Fort Ligonier (1763) He strengthens the Post, and with his Small The Country overrun by Indians and French The Boundary Line duces Settlers to migrate hither and locate between Pennsylvania and Virginia not definitely known- Settlers

John Steele sent to them to explain the Law and request them to remove They refuse to remove- The ' Newīut passes Laws to keep Settlers off this Territory War (1764)- They locate at Redon the Youghiogheny, at the Forks of that River, and about Roads Mason and Dixon's and alongthe Great Pittsburgh, Ligonier, Line run Proclamation of the Governor of Pennsylvania warning these Settlers off- Rev. Bouquet brings the Vanguard of the Army across Laurel Hill to the Loyalhanna, where he erects a Stockade, and awaits on the rest of the Army under Washing25 ton and Forbes, who were to unite at Raystown, or Bedford Jacobs reported killed The Tramping- Ground of these Warriors The French and Indian War carried on under William Pitt John Forbes commands the New Expedition from Philadelphia against Fort Duquesne His command Col. John Armstrong's Expedition in 1756 against the Kittanning Town The Town taken and destroyed, and Capt. Mountains Forts and Block-Houses on the Pennsylvania Frontier Col. Western Pennsylvania to this date (1768)- Clamoring of Emigrants and New Settlers to have Lands granted them by the Province Special Land Titles Penn's Manorial Reservations Settlements Predominant Nationalities of the Settlers. Public Notice of the opening given -Land Office cationsin the Opening of the Land Office opened for Appli. Purchase,' under Treaty of Fort Stanwix, of 1768 Gheny, and through our part of Westmoreland to the Monongahela which River the Army, in a Defile on the South Bank above Turtle Creek, is Surprised by the French Canadians and IndianaĮnemy and their Leaders The Washington carries off and Distances of the March How the Army The found this Day Effect of Braddock's Defeat on at the Trail may be the Pennsylvania Colonists The Battle-Ground visited by Soldiers under Forbes Three Years after the Battle The Appearance of the of the

Most successful Engagement fought with the Hostiles, and Provisions into Fort Pitt 32 He comes up the Ohio Com- Opens the Road to the Youghio. Have not been altered in form or phraseology only where Mistakes in regard to dates and positive averments.ĭoubt, they are found to be verified or corrected in other portions of the history, and that either In only a very few of the first of the impressions of this edition before to correct. Work from a broken copy, but which was printed Righting the misstatement, but from a sense of duty, fully appreciating that no one The council hall at the Council of the Vatican,Īn undue and equivocal exaltation than that right reverened prelate himself. Perhaps a few inadvertencies, some of which are apparent to us on a statement which crept into the body of the

Passed through the press and the hands of the editor precluded that careful and close scrutinyĪ consequence there are some typographical errors and Which these sheets (equivalent to some four thousand manuscript COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH

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