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FORT PITT
AND
LETTERS FROM THE FRONTIER
Mary C. Darlington, Editor.
J. R. WELDON & CO., PITTSBURGH, 1892.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1: Pages* 5-83
Preface
Journal of Captain Celeron
Campaign of 1758.‹Letters of Generals Grant,
Forbes and Bouquet
PART 2: Pages 84-148
Journal and Letters of Captain S. Ecuyer
Part 3: Pages 148-199
Orderly Book of Captain S. Ecuyer
PART 4: Pages 200-220
Sketch of the Life of General O'Hara
PART 5: Pages 221-307
Letters from Officers of the Continental Army, from 1776-1799
Erection and Organization of Allegheny County, by William M. Darlington
Index, Pages 309-312
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*Page numbers will appear in the text in brackets.
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece Portrait of James O'Hara.
Portrait of Mrs. James O'Hara.
Guyasuta's Grave.
MAPS.
Fort Pittsburgh (Du Quesne) and its Environs, January,
1759. (p. 64/65)
Hutchins' Map of Indian Towns and Bouquet's Route, 1764.
(p.84/85)
Fort Pitt, 1795. (p. 300/301)
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[309] INDEX
Alarms, orders relative to, 153
Allegheny County, Organization of, 301
Allegheny County, Members of Legislature, 301, 305
Alliquippa, 27
Amherst, General, Orders, 155, 187
Andrews, an Indian Express from Detroit, 108, 109
Atlee, Samuel, 210
Baillie, Lieutenant, 133
Baird, Mr., Orderly Book, 148-199
Barnsley, Captain, Orderly Book, 148-199
Bassett, Captain, 122, 132, 133
Bedford, Fort, Letter from, 138, 140 142
Bedford, Army from, 168
Block-house, orders to construct, 213
Bouquet, Colonel, Letter to General Amherst, 75-81
Bouquet, Colonel, Letter to Major Gladwin, 144
Bouquet, Colonel, thanks to garrison, 169
Brackenridge, H. H., 218
Brodhead, General, Letters of, 235, 236
Bullock Guard, 110
Burd, James, Letter to Colonel Bouquet, 81
Burd, Fort, 127
Burd, Colonel, 157
Burent, Captain, 119, 122, 128, 134
Bushy Run, Battle of, 107, 127
Butler, Richard, 241
Calhoon, Mr., 87, 127
Campaign in the South, 207
Campbell, Captain, arrived with provisions, 108
Campbell, Captain, commands militia on march, 179
Carson, Joseph, 216
Carson, William, 208
Carre, Capt., Orderly Book, 148
Celeron, Captain, Journal of, 1
Celeron, Captain, lead plates, 15, 24, 39, 40, 52
Chatterbox, Speech to McKee, 97, 98
Clarke, George Rogers, General, 202
Clapham, Colonel, 85, 125, 184
Collier, Daniel, 126
Commission as Quartermaster-General, 212
Conference, Indian, 17, 30, 32, 36, 37
Cornwallis, General, 207
Corn to cut, 164
Council held with officers, 14
Court-martial, 178
Cowpens, 207
[310] Cows, order to sell, 163
Craig, Major, 216
Crawford, Hugh, 86
Croghan, George, 123, 124, 130, 135
Cuyler, Lieutenant, 89, 130
De Butts, Captain, 286, 293, 295
Deerskins, 161
Deserters, 139, 141
D'Troit, Ecuyer, Journal of, 84
Dogs to be tied up or killed, 152, 179
Donelon, Captain, and Lieutenant Boyd fight, 120
Douglas, Ephraim, 201
Ecuyer, Captain, Journal, 84
Ecuyer Orderly Book, 148-199
Ecuyer Letters, 110-144
Ecuyer Wounded, 105
Elliot, Robert, death of, 214
Ellis, Letter, 174
Firelocks, 167
Flour, 164
Forbes, General, Letter to Colonel Bouquet, 71
Fort Recovery, Wayne's Letters, 263, 282
Forts, names of forts supplied by O'Hara, 211
General Hospital, 206
Gladwin, Major, Letter from Bouquet, 144
Glassworks, 216
Grass to cut, 156
Grand Glaize, 215
Grandidier, Mr., 133
Grant, Major, Letters, 63
Grant s Hill, Indians on, 92, 93, 97-99
Greenville, Fort, 214
Greene, General, 208
Hamilton, Alex., 299, 300
Hand, Ed., General, Letters of, 223-227, 230-233
Harmar, General Josiah, Letters, 211
Harmar's Defeat, 212
Heckwelder, John, Letters, 204-206
Hodgdon, S., Letters to O'Hara, 249
Hopkins, John Henry, 218
Horseshoe Plain, 202
Horses and Cows, 160
Hudson, John, 134
Hulings, Marcus, 132
Hutchins, Ensign, 125, 144
Indian Conferences, 17, 30, 32, 36, 37, 45, 53, 56, 57, 63, 221
Indian Letter, 287
Indians drive off cattle, 136
Inundation, March 12, 1763, 114
Indian Corn, price of, 155
Indians on river shore, 102 103
Inventory of provisions, 173
Irvine, Wm., General, Letters, 237-241
Kaskaskie, 202
Kanawha, 201
Keys of the gates, 159
Kirkpatrick, W., General, 215
Kiashuta, 221
Knox, Henry, General, 245‹247
Kuskusky, 201
Lead plates buried, 15, 24, 39, 40, 52
Le B¦uf, Fort, Ensign Price's escape from, 93, 94
Lee, Arthur, Letter, 241
[311] Letter to Philadelphia, 26
Ligonier, 146
Lochry, Colonel, Letters to, 224-229, 231-233.
Louis Phillippe, 219
Miami Villages, 202
McIntosh, Fort, 210
McIntosh, General, letters, 234
McMasters, John, 213
McKee, 90, 91, 133, 135, 136
Militia to march to Bedford, 179
Mifflin, Governor, 213
Miller shot, 90
Mingoes sell skins, 124
Moreau, General, 219
Moravian town, 203
Neville, John, General, 215
North Carolina, 207
Nourse, Jos., Register, Letters, 212, 245
Notes by General O'Hara, 219
O'Hara, James, General, Life of, 200
O'Hara, James, General, Letters, 203, 210, 245, 260, 264, 268, 275-281, 285, 290
O'Hara, William Carson, 217
Ourry, Captain, 121
Orderly Book, Fort Pitt, 148-199
Philadelphia, Letter to, by Celeron, 26
Pickering, Timothy, Letters, 292-293
Pipe, Captain, 201
Pitt, Fort, Ecuyer's Journal, 84
Presidential Elector, 217
Price, Ensign, escape of, 93, 94
Presbyterian Church, 217
Putnam, Brigadier-General, 212
Rations reduced, 171, 172
Redstone, Fort, 89
Ross, James, 218
Roche De Bout, Fort, 214
Sick and wounded, 179
Salt, 217
Sandusky, report of destruction of, 89
Saw-mill in Allegheny, 216
Sentinel, orders to, 156, 180 181
Ship, General Butler, 216, 217
Smith, Devereux, 200
Smallpox, 93, 182
Simeral, Alex., 223
Spanish schooner, 217
Spelt field, 100, 153
Stagg, Jos., 212
St. Clair's Defeat, 213
Steele, Letters, 297-298
Stewart, Captain, orders to march, 199
Summons made to the English, 61
Tarleton, General, 207
Thompson, James, killed, 92
Trent, Major, 129
Troops to march for Ligonier, 171
Turtle's Heart, Speech to McKee, 92
Venango in ashes, 94, 130
Vincennes, 202
Washington, Fort, Wayne's Letters, 262, 263, 273, 274, 283, 288, 289
Wayne, General, 208, 264, 267, 270-272, 282-285, 288-290
[312] Whiskey Insurrection, 215
Wilkins, John, 215
Wilkinson, General, 273, 296
Women, orders about work, 153-155, 158, 160
Wood, orders relative to, 158, 162, 177
Written rocks, 28
Yellow Bird, a Shawnee Chief, 104
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