Fort Pitt and Letters from the Frontier (First American Frontier) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0405028423 ISBN 13: 9780405028427

Publisher: Arno Press, 1974

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ... BOUQUET PAPERS. S. Ecuyer, Commandant At Fort Pitt, 1763. JOURNAL, LETTERS AND ORDERLY BOOK AND A LETTER FROM GENERAL BOUQUET. Fort Pitt, May 14, 1763. A number of Six Nation Indians that lived about 90 (miles distant on the) Ohio below this, came up and settled at Pine Creek and began to (plant corn). 17th, Their chiefs collected a number of horses their young men had stolen and delivered them up. From this to the 26th they continued planting their corn. 27th, Two men that went up the Ohio about 7 milts, to where the Munsies were settled, returned and informed me that all the Indians the night before had removed from their towns and carried everything with them, leaving their cornfields open: this made us suspect that some mischief about here was immediately intended. A number of Delawares with a large quantity of skins came in and dealt them; the uncommon dispatch and indifference of what they took for them, and their chief seeming to press Mr. McKee to go down the country and not to stay above four days, still gave us more suspicion of the Indian designs and caused the inhabitants to arm themselves. 28th, Two Shawnese came in from hunting. 29th, At break of day this morning three men came in from Colonel Clapham's, who was settled at the Sewickly old town, about 25 miles from here, on the Youghyogane river, with an account that Colonel Clapham, with one of his men, two women and a child were murdered by Wolfe and some other Delaware Indians, about 2 o'clock the day before. The 27th Wolfe, with some others robbed one Mr. Coleman on the road between this and Ligonier, of upwards of 5o£. The women that were killed at Colonel Clapham's were treated in such a brutal manner that decency forbids the mentioning. This evening we had two soldiers killed and ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Arno Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0405028423
• ISBN 13: 9780405028427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Darlington Mary Carson