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by A. A. Lambing, 1132-1136; "The Pioneer," by W. H. S. Thomson, 1136- 1138 : "An Instructive Yesterday, " by Albert Dilworth, 1138-1141; "The Anti-Slavery Movement in Beaver County," by Paul Weyand, 1141-1154; "The Early Teachers and Schools of Beaver County," by S. H. Peirsol, 1154- 1157; Address, by J. M. Wallace, 1157- 1161; Address, by John S. Duss, 1162- 1163; "The Evolution of the Institute," by R. Gregor McGregor, 1163-1169
Centennial of Beaver County, 1039-1084: notification to citizens, by Executive Committee, 1039; preliminary meetings of citizens and resume of proceedings of committees, 1040-1043; notice and re- quest of President of the Centennial Association, 1044; Opening day, June 19, 1044-1088; Military Day, June 20. 1088-1115; Old Settlers' Day. June 21, 1115-1171; Industrial Day, June 22, 1171-1176
Chamberlin, Brown B., 317-318; portrait facing 318: 466 E. K., 374, 465
, Wm. H. H., 373
Champion Saw and Gas Engine Co. (College Hill), 848
Chapman, Mrs. Lucretia, 426
. T. J., his Old Pittsburgh Days quoted, 294, note Charlevoix, his History of New France quoted, 18, note 1
Charms, resorted to, 777
Chartier, Peter, French Trader, 38
"Chew Tract," 187
Chiningue, see Logstown
Chippewas at Fort McIntosh, 106
Chippewa township formed, 881-882
Chocolate a beverage in pioneer times, 25
Cholera in Beaver County, 388-389
Chorus Club, 1169-1171
Chrisler's Landing, 297
Chrisler, Michael, his fort, 171
Christian (Disciples) Church, 447
Christian Church of Beaver. 652-653
Christian Church of Beaver Falls, 689
Christmas, Rev. Joseph, 838, note
Church, first in Beaver County, see Mill Creek Presbyterian
Church building at Friedenstadt, first dedicated west of Allegheny Mountains, 422
Churches, see under religious history, boroughs, and townships
Cincinnati Ice-dam referred to, 7
Citizens' Natural Gas Co., 270
City of Peace, see Friedenstadt
Civil List of Beaver County, 211-221
Clapham, Wm., his Census of Pittsburgh in 1761, 148, note 2
Clark, Captain, ambushed at Ft. Laurens, 89-90 David, his company's roster (War of 1812), 482-483
D. L., Co., 683 George Rogers, his expedition to
Illinois, 77-78 Harry O., 530
Clarke, John, 167
Walter 167 Wm. B., 343
Clearfield Creek, buffaloes on, 103, note
Clerks of Court, see Civil List of Beaver County Cleveland and Pittsburg Railway, 255- 256
Climate of Beaver County, 10-12, and notes
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Clinton, DeWitt, his Lije and Writings quoted. 18-19
Clothing, scarcity of among pioneers, 172 Coal, 285
- Companies of Darlington township. 944-945
Coburn, Alexander Young, 374 , Nathaniel, 240
Cochran, James, 374
Cocquard, Rev. Claude Godfroy, letter con- cerning Braddock's Defeat, 52, note
Coffin, Lieut. John W., 610
COLLEGE HILL BOROUGH, 846-849; churches, 847: Geneva College, 847-848; incor- poration, 847: location, 840; manu- facturing concerns, 848-849
College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Congre- gation (College Hill borough), 444
Collins, Thomas, 334-335
Collot, Gen. George Henri Victor, extract from his Map of Ohio River, facing 626: his Voyage Dans L'Amerique Septentrio- nale quoted, 627-628, and note, 1002
Colonia, 906
Colonial Land Company, 906
Columbian Magazine, description of Fort McIntosh quoted, 93; picture of Fort McIntosh, from, facing 92
Colvin, Jacob, his wife and child murdered by Indians, 166
Commercial Sash and Door Co., 681
Commissioners, see Civil List of Beaver County
of county to enumerate taxables and erect public buildings, 194
, Pennsylvania, at treaty of Ft. MeIn- tosh, named, 109
, United States, at Ft. McIntosh, their tone towards Indians, 106-107; named, 109; sent to Fort Pitt, 83
Commissioned Officers from Beaver County in War of Rebellion, 498-502
Committee of Safety of One Hundred. appointed April 22, 1861, 495; meeting of, members to take oath of loyalty, 497 Commoner (1) 464
. (2), 470
Common School, Act of 1834, and supple- mental legislation, 397, and note 2; di- rectors, joint meeting of, with county commissioners, 398, and note; movement to repeal law of 1834 and amendments thereto, 400; statistics, 409; teachers, early, with biographical data, 401-408;
text-books, early, 401
Commonwealth, The, 310; quoted, 311, 631 Company A, 162d Regiment, 17th Cavalry called the "Irwin Cavalry" after Gen. W. W. Irwin, of Beaver County, 519, 576 - B, 10th Regiment Infantry, National Guard, 606; mustered into service, U. S., 607
- B, 159th Regiment P. V. I., 575 C, 6th Regiment, militia of 1862, 523, 586
- C, 56th Regiment, militia of 1863, 525, 583 - C, 63d Regiment, P. V. I., Rochester and New Brighton, 506, 538
- C. 101st Regiment, P. V. I., 513, 551 - D. 100th (Round Head), Regiment, P. V. I., 510, 547
- E, 56th Regiment, militia of 1863, 525, 584
- E, 134th Regiment, P. V. I., 514, 560 - F, 10th Regiment, Penna. reserve vol. corps, 504, 505-506, 534
-- F. 14th Regiment, militia of 1862. 523, 587
Company F. 16th Regiment, veteran reserve corps, detachment of, at headquarters Provost Marshal, New Brighton, 605
-- F, 101st Regiment, P. V. I., 513, 554 -F, 140th Regiment, P. V. I., 517, 566 G. 78th Regiment, P. V. I., 510, 546 H. 38th Regiment, 9th reserves, first to leave Beaver County, 502-504, and notes, 531
H. 56th Regiment, militia of 1863, 525, 585
-H, 77th Regiment, P. V. I., 510, 541 -H, 87th Penna. Infantry, 521. note
- H, 101st Regiment, P. V. I., 513, 557
- H, 139th Regiment, P. V. I., 516, 564 - H, 140th, Regiment, P. V. I., 517, 569 1, 56th Regiment, militia of 1863, 525, 585
-I, 134th Regiment, P. V. I., 514, 561 I, 140th Regiment, P. V. L., 517, 573
K, 10th Regiment, Penna. reserve vol. corps, 504-506, 536
K. 76th Regiment, P. V. I., 580, 543 Congress, members of, 217, 222-226
Conn, P. B., 462
Conneaut & Beaver Railroad, 252
Connelly, H. C., 462
Connolly, John, his character, 135: his conduct in boundary controversy, 135- 137: referred to, 61
Conoquenessing Creek, 5
Conover, Charlotte Reeve, her Concerning the Forefathers quoted, 181, nole 2
Conoys (Kanawhas), 16, and nole 1
Conservative, The, 463
Constable Brothers, 702
Constables, first, 197
Constitutions of 1776, 1790, and 1784 re- ferred to, 321
Contrecœur captures Ohio Company's stockade fort, 51
CONWAY BOROUGH: incorporation. 852; Pennsylvania Co.'s freight-yards at, 852: post-office, 852
Conway's (John) Bank, Rochester, 749
Cook, Capt. David S., 510
.Henry E., 465, 624
Cook's Ferry, 297
Cooper's Battery, 504, note, 538
Co-operative Flint Glass Co., L'td, 677 Foundry Association, 671
Copper. Samuel, 425-426
Corlear, Indian name for governor of New York, 43, note
Cornplanter, 107, note; his complaint to Washington, 119-120; his party attacked, 119
Corn rights, 186, note, 191
Cornstalk, Indian chief, at battle of Point Pleasant, 62; murder of, 77
Coroners, see Civil List of Beaver County
Coscosky, see Kuskuskee
Cotton boats, 297
Coulter, Jonathan, 194, note
Coulter's Tavern, with picture, 402, 445
Count de Leon (Bernard Muller), 781
Counties erected, 307: need of new, 192, 193, and note
County buildings erected, 201-211, 617
Commissioners, joint meeting of, with common school directors, 398, and note
Home, directors, 217; physicians, 211: stewards, 210-211
- Lieutenants authorized to raise scout- ing parties, 85
- Seat Building and Loan Association, Beaver, 658
Superintendents of Schools, ser Civil List of Beaver County
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County Surveyors, see Civil List of Beaver County Court of Enquiry at Fort Pitt, letter from Col. George Morgan to, 92 Court-house, see county buildings Courts of Beaver County, early, high char- acter of men composing, 308
Covenanting churches, 441
Craft, Eliza B., 359
Craig, Major Isaac, to Secretary of War concerning killing of Indians by Brady, 118, note 1
-, Neville B., his History of Pittsburgh quoted, 137, 725, 975, 981, note 3, 986, 988, 989 990. 996: his The Olden Time referred to, 95, note 3; quoted, 16, note 2; 103, 136, 1271
-, Stephen A., 374
Cramer, Zadoc, his Navigator quoted, 295. note 2; 631
Crawford, Col., his defeat and death, 436 ", Valentine, Washington's agent, letter from, quoted, 62 Creigh, Alfred, his History of Washington County quoted, 448, note
Cresap, Michael, connection with murder of Logan's family, referred to, 25, and note 1; 61-62 Crisis, The, 455 Crisis and Beaver Gazette, The, 455-456 Critchlow, David, 468 Phoebe, 403
Croghan, George, biographical sketch of, 38. note 3; has trading-posts at Logstown and Sawkunk, 38; his journal of 1765, quoted, 17, 975, note; his report to Gen. Stanwix on number of fighting men among Delaware tribes, quoted, 20; in- tercedes with Pakanke for Moravians, 420
Crombie, J. B., 374-375 Crucible Steel Company of America, 675- 676
Crumrine, Boyd. his History of Washington County quoted, 20, 140, 143, note 1, 159, 170, 236, note, 429, 625, note 1 Cudahy Packing Co., 683
Cumberland County erected, 304
Cuming. F., his Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country quoted, 287, note 1. 625, 628-629, 833-834, 929 Cummins, S. P., 375 Cunningham, Oliver, 375 , Smith, 375 , Thomas, 345; portrait facing 352; 494 , William, 445
Cures, faithfulness of, 412 Currency, Continental, its depreciation, note, 100-101 Curtin, Andrew G., 493 Curtis, Smith, 458-459, 473 "Cuscusca Town," 15, note 2
Cuthbertson, Harry C., 607-608, 609 -, John, 467: his report to Gen. McCall on battle of Charles City Cross Roads, or Glendale, 504, note; portrait facing 504 -, W. B., 531, note
D
Daily Recorder, The, 473 - Republican, The, 473
Dairying, 279
Dams, Ohio River, 249-251
DARLINGTON BOROUGH (formerly Greers- burg): called Greersburg from George Greer, 811 ; change of name, 811 : churches, 817-822; Dr. Bernard Dustin, 812; carly
business men, 811-812; early taverns, 812; former relay station for stage coaches, 811; Greersburg Academy, 813-817; in- corporated, 811 ; laid out by Gen. Lacock, 810. 811, note 1; location, 810; militia company. 812; population, 823; post- office, 823; societies, 822-823; subject to Act of April 3, 1851, 811
Darlington Cannel Coal Co. Railway. 258- 259
-, Mary Carson, her Fort Pitt quoted, 7, 40. 41, 972, 994
- Township, Bouquet's Knob, 945; Can- nel coal, 943; Cannelton, 945; coal com- panies, 944-945; formed, 887-888; geo- logical features, 942; Half-King's hunting camp, 945; Indian relics, 945; location and drainage, 941; mill and tilt-ham- mer forge, 946: north line extended, 942; St. Rose's Roman Catholic Church, 945- 946; statistics, 941
Wm. M., his Gist's Journals quoted, 15, note 2, 21, 40, 237, note 1, 735,975, note; his draft of site of Friedenstadt, 427; to John Jordan, Jr., respecting erection of memorial at Friedenstadt, 425-426, note Darragh Foundry, Bridgewater, 775
Darragh, Hart, 229
James, 517
John S., 229 Mattison, 229
Robert, 228-230; portrait facing 228; 768 Scudder H., 229
Daugherty, Dr., 375
Edward Black, 350: portrait facing 358 family, early Catholic settlers in Beaver County. 414
DAUGHERTY TOWNSHIP: boundaries, drain- age, soil, statistics, 1032; formed, 891-892; named for E. B. Daugherty, Esq., 892; Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, 1032- 1034; Roman Catholic Cemetery, 1034- 1035
Davenport, Samuel, 457 Davidson, J. J., 226, portrait facing 226 Wm .. 768
Davis, Corporal, 102
Davis Island Dam, 250
Davisson, Daniel, 445
Dawes & Myler, 711
Dawson, Benoni, his settlement, 168, and note 2, 171 James, 375 ; Nicholas, 168
Day, Sherman, his Historical Collections of Pennsylvania quoted, 286. note, 291, 614, 620, 666, 724, note, 828, 1013-1014
De Cambray, 88 and note; 94
De Celeron, arrival of his expedition in Ohio valley, and burial of lead plates, 41. 46; compels hauling down of English flag at Logstown, 37, note, 2; results of his expedition, 41; translation of a plate found at mouth of Big Kanawha, 41 Dedication of new court-house, 208 Deeds, first in Beaver County, 198 - of lease and release, 180 poll, 187
Deerhorn buried in wood of old Service church, 916, note
Deer, large number of, killed by hunters on Ohio, 49 - township, Allegheny County. 857, and note 2; 858, note I
De Hass, his Early Settlements referred to 163, note, 1
Delamatinos, Hurons, see Wyandots
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Delaware, George, 30 --- Indians: conquer the Allegewi, 14; conquered by the Mengwe, 15: eminent chiefs of the tribe, referred to, 28; in Beaver County, 14-16; later throw off the yoke of the Iroquois, 20, sote; made wo- men of, 19: number of fighting men, 20; removal from Sawkunk to Kuskuskee, and thence to Muskingum, 29, nole; re- moval to Ohio River, 16; settle in eastern Pennsylvania, 14-15: sue for peace at fall of Fort Duquesne, 58; their chiefs offer present of land to Col. George Mor- gan, 68, note; their claims quieted, 105; their hostility to Americans recognised in treaty of Fort McIntosh, 35, note 2; their tradition as to their origin, 14
- River named from Delaware Indians, 14
Deming, J. L., 459 Democrat, The, 464 Democratic Watchman, The, 461
Denlinger, Wm., 462
Denny, Ebenezer, 193, note; his Journal quoted, 102-103, 106, 107, and note; 111, note, 1278
De Peyster, his humanity, 82
Depreciation lands, 182-184, 185, note 1; map of, 857; 1227-1283
De Tocqueville, his Democracy in America quoted, 36
Detroit, expedition against, under McIn- tosh, 84
De Schweinitz, his Life and Times of David Zeisberger quoted, 418, 420 Desertions at Fort McIntosh, 101-102 Dickey, John, 223, 228, 667, 768, 941; portrait facing 228
Oliver James, 347; portrait facing 354
Dickinson, Anna, 723 Dickson, Joseph H., 376
Diet of flesh, unhealthfulness of exclusive, 171. note 2 Dillow, Matthew, 158 Dillow's fort, 171
Dilworth, Albert, his Centennial address, 1138-1141
, Robert, 403; extracts from his Diary, 1279-1289
"Dinkey" Glass Works, 745
Dinwiddie, Governor, from Gov. of Penn- sylvania, 133-134; sends Major Wash- ington to Fort LeBoeuf, 50; to Gov. of Pennsylvania, 133-134
Discipline, sternness of, at Fort McIntosh, 99-102
Distilleries, their necessity, 172, note 3
District Attorneys, see Civil List of Beaver County
Districts, Justices, laid out, 197-198
Dittman, John C., shot at Fort McIntosh, 102
Dodd, Thaddeus, his settlement in western Pennsylvania, 438
Doddridge, Joseph, his Notes quoted, 170- 171, and note 2; 189, note I; his opinion of Col. Williamson, 435, note 2
Dogs, Indians to be hunted with, Spanish fashion, 59
Donald, John A., 516
Donation lands, 182
Donehoo, D. M., 519
Douglas & Co .. 707
, James (Fallston), 727
. Thomas, 106, and note Whisler Brick Co., 681, 850 ,Wm., 406
Drake, E. L., his discovery of petroleum, 286
Drake, S. G., quoted, 27
Dravo, John F., 251, note; portrait facing 252 Drennan, Armstrong, his company's roster (War of 1812), 485-486 . David, 326
Droughts, common in former times, 9, and wote I
Drunkenness of Indians, 425 Duey. Joel, his threshing machine, 278 Duff, Agnew, 330; portrait facing 334 Dunbarington, Daniel, permits escape of Sheets, 359
Duncan, David, life saved by White Eyes, 33 David, 111 Dunlap, Samuel R., 769
-, Wm. B., 233; 465, portrait facing 1044 Dungan, Mrs. Catherine, 1162
. Levi, first settler of Beaver County, 152, and note 1, 154; his fort, 171; in Revolutionary War, note 474-475
. Mary (Davis), 152, and note 1, 153
Warren S., quoted, 152, and note 1; 349; his Centennial address, 1120-1131 Dunham, Sylvester, 343
Dunmore, Lord John, his part in battle of Point Pleasant, and treaty at Chillicothe, 62; his relation to Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia boundary controversy, 135
Dunmore's War, 58-62; causes of. 58, 60- 62; its decisive engagement, 62
Duss, John S., 1002 note; his Centennial address, 1162-1163; portrait facing 1046 Dustin, Bernard, Sr., 376, 812
Dutch, Settlement of, in Pennsylvania, 179
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Eakin, Nathaniel, tried for murder of James Hamilton, 355-357
Early, John B., 471 East Bridgewater (Rochester), 738
EASTVALE BOROUGH: Douglas-Whisler Brick Co., 850; incorporation, 849; location, 849; population, 850; post-office, 850 Eberhart, G. L., 472
Eclipse Cycle Co., 670
Economy, of the past, 1004; of the present, 1005
Economy Savings Institution, 684
ECONOMY TOWNSHIP: boundaries, 963: churches 963-965; drainage, 963; formed, 883; location, 963; post-offices, 963-965; Remington, 963; statistics, 965; Wall Rose, 963
Ecuyer, Captain S., to Colonel Bouquet about great flood, 7; to Bouquet, 59
Edgar, James, referred to, 98, note 4
Educational history, 393-410, 1069-1077. 1154-1157, 1163-1169
Education, pioneer and colonial, 394-396 Egle, Wm. H., M.D., his History of Pennsyl- vania quoted, 19, 309
Eichbaum, Wm., 727
Eighteenth Judicial District, 307
Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment ordered to Fort Pitt, 84, 88 Election Districts, committees to care for families of soldiers appointed from each. 496-497
Electric Lighting Companies, 291-292
Ellicott, Andrew, 142
Ellinipsico, murder of, 77
Elliott, Andrew, 404 J. S., 376
Matthew, renegade, 79-81
Elverson, Sherwood & Barker Pottery, 710
Index
1 299
Emergency and State militia troops of 1863, 523-525
Emerson, Smith & Co. L'td, 674
Emigration, rush of, across Ohio River, fol- lowing Wayne's treaty, 619
Enameled Iron Co., 848
English claims to Ohio valley, 37-54
English defeats in French and Indian War, 52; victories in, 52-53
"English shore," of Ohio River, 26, and note
Erie and North East Railway, 257 Erie and Pittsburg Railway, 256-258
Erie Presbytery, see Presbytery of Erie
Erie township, Allegheny County, 857, and note 2
"Erratics" (geol.), 665, 942
Eskridge, Wm. H., 471
Ethel Landing, 911
Ettwein, Bishop John, conducts Susque- hanna Indians to Ohio, 423
Eudolpha Hall, 916-919, 1125
Evangelical Association, 447
Evangelical Association, Immanuel's Church, of Beaver Falls, 693
Evangelical Association Church of Freedom, 789
Evangelical Association Zion Church, Roch- ester, 759-760
Evans, Lewis, analysis of his map of 1755 quoted, 5, note 1; predicts canal between waters of Ohio and Lake Erie, 5. note 1
Evening Journal, The, 473 Ewing. John, 139
Exchange Bank of Beaver Falls, 684
Executions, military, at Fort McIntosh, 101-102
Explorers, French and English, 37-38, 40
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Factories, early, 290-293 Fairport (Rochester), 738 "Fallen Timbers," battle of, 130; results of, 131
Falls of Beaver, 666, note, 724, note Fallston Academy, 728
FALLSTON BOROUGH:
Academy, 728; blockhouse, 725; Brady and murder of Indians, 725; Brady's Run, 725; dams, 724, and note; deriva- tion of name, 724; famous for manufact- uring industries, 731; incorporation and acceptance of provisions of Act of April 3, 1851, 732, and note, 733; Indian occupa- tion, 724-726: newspapers, 732; pioneer settlements and industries, 726-728; population and post-office, 732; public schools, 732; situation, 724; St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, 731: water power, 724, and note Fallston Bridge, 241 Fallston and Brighton Gasette, 465 Fallston Paper Mill, 230 Fallston (steamboat), 772 Farmers' Alliance, 282-283
Farmers' Institutes, 279
Fauna of Beaver County, 7, 1195-1202 Fees, lawyers', early, 355 Feicht, Benj., 376
Female Seminary of Beaver Academy, 641-643
Fessenden, W. C., 473
Fetterman Bridge (B. F. Bridge Co.), 242 Fetterman, N. P., 259, 344, 465; portrait facing 226 Fifth Artillery (204th) Regiment, P. V .. 582 Fifth Judicial District, 307
Fifty-sixth Regiment, Penna. Militia of 1863, companies C, E, H, and I, from Beaver County, 525
Fifth Street, Beaver, width reduced, 623 Finished Specialty and Machine Co., 680 Fink, Mike, stories of, 295, note
Finley, James, 438
, John, 111
Finney, Walter, 106, and note
Fire-clay companies and products, 285, 301 302
Fisher, E. Burke, 471
Fitch, Sergeant, 102
Plax, 172-173
Fleeson, Reese C., 461
Flood of 1832, highest on record, 9, and note 2 Flood of 1884, 241
Floods, historic, in Ohio River, 7-10; in Beaver, 9-10; theory of, refuted, 8, 9
Flora of Beaver County, 7, 1193
Poley, Mistress, 403
Forbes, John, expedition against Fort Du- quesne, 53 Ford, Lieutenant, 112-113
Forest, primeval, 277
Forks, hay, primitive, 277
"Forte piano," 1282
Fort Duquesne erected by the French, 53: burned, 53
Fort Greenville, 129; treaty of peace at, 131
Port Henry (Wheeling), threat of attack on, 428-429
Fort La Fayette, 981, note 3. 982
Fort Laurens, erected, 87, 88: location, 89. note; named for Henry Laurens, Presi- dent of Congress, 89, note; sufferings of its garrison, 88-90
FORT MCINTOSH:
Built, 86; condition of, in 1788, 112; in later times, 115; decay of, 104; descrip- tions of, 94-95, 100; destruction of pro- perty of, by Kentucky "emigrators," 110-111; disposition of its materials, 112-115; evacuated, 111, 113; first military post of U. S. north of Ohio River, 86; fishing at, 102-103; in charge of Lee and McClure, 104; headquarters of Western Department, 86; military ex- ecutions at. 101-102; mutiny and de- sertions at, 99-102; order of War Depart- ment for its demolition, 113-114; recrea- tions of its officers, 102-103; re-occupied by U. S. troops, 105; road cut from Fort Pitt to, 86; strawberries plentiful at, 102-103; strength and composition of its military forces, 86 ;. transfer by U. S. to Pennsylvania, 104; treaty at, 105, 184. 1203-1213; troops sent to Miami, 112; visit of Boundary Commissioners to, 112; woods about fort fired by Indians, 101, note 1
Fort Mifflin, 93, note 2
Fort Pitt created by General Stanwix, 53; greed of inhabitants at 101, note 1; Vir- ginia's claim of, 136
Fort Randolph, massacre of Indians at, 80. and note 2: 85
Fort Recovery, 129
Port Stanwix, 105, 182, 183
Fort Sumter, fired on, 492, 493 Fort Wayne, 129
Porta, description of pioneer, 170, 171, and Hotr 1
Forward, Walter, 343, 814, 815, 816, nots
Foshay, P. Maxwell, his Centennial ad- drras, 1061-1068
Fosnought, John, 358, note
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Fossil plants, 6, 943; Hon. I. F. Mansfield's collection of, 943-944 Foster, Alexander, 335 . F. M., 444
Stephen C., 723
Foulkes's family attacked by Indians, 160 Four Mile Square, 186. note
Four Mile Square United Presbyterian Church, 641
Fourteenth Pennsylvania Militia of 1862, Co. F, from Beaver County, 523
Fourth of July celebration in 1808, 631-632 Fox-hunting, 176, note
Fox's sickle factory, view of, 290
Frankfort Springs Academy, 407, 831, 1124 FRANKFORT SPRINGS BOROUGH:
Churches, 829-831; Frankfort Academy, 831; Frankfort Springs, 828-829; Harris's Directory of, 828; incorporation, 831; location, 827; population and post-office, 832; schools, 831: subject to Act of April 3, 1851, 832; the Dungans, 827-828 Frankfort Journal, The, 450
Franklin, Benj., his opinion of Arthur Lee, 95, note
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP: churches, 968-969; drainage, 968; formed, 888; Lillyville, 968; location and boundaries, 967; post- offices, 969: statistics, 968
Frazier, Joseph, 376
Free delivery, 274-275
FREEDOM BOROUGH:
Boundary lines, 781; churches, 786-791; early merchants and manufactories, 784- 785; early settlers, 781-783; financial institutions, 792-793; incorporation and acceptance of provisions of Act of April 3. 1851, 783-784; justices of the peace, 785; manufacturing plants, 793-794: Oak Grove cemetery, 784; original plot, 781: post-office, 786; sales of lots, 782-783; schools, 786-792; St. Clair borough, united to, 784-785; steamboat builders, 784; taxes, early, 783
Freedom Casket Co., 793-794 Freedom Oil Works, 793
French, boldness of in exploration, 412; boldness of their plans, and their celerity of action, 43; claims of, to Ohio valley, 37, and note 1, 38-54: colonists and traders. 37-38; end of their empire in America, 53; extent of their territorial claims in America, 45; forts built by, at
Erie and Venango, 42; mastery of Indian modes of speech by, 43
French and Indian War, beginnings of, 37, and note 2, 52
"French town," "the old," 614, and note 3 Friedenstadt, 415-437; authorities, 415, note; draft of its site by Wm. M. Dar- lington, 427
Friends (Quakers), of New Brighton, 711
Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, The, quoted. 47, note 2, 59, 85, 94, 98-99
Fry (H. C.), Glass Co. (N. Rochester), 742 -, Joshua, his report to Hon. Lewis Burwell quoted, 21 Walter L., 529-530; portrait facing 528
Fuel Companies, 270-271 Fulkman, W. S., 472 Funkhouser, Harvey A , 609
Fur trade, cause of British animosity to- wards Americans, 128
Furniture, pioneer, 173-174
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Gaither. Samuel, 462
Galey. John, sale of water lot to, vetoed, 626 Game, plentiful in region of Beaver County, during Indian times, 23, note 2
, subsistence of garrisons on, 103, note I Garner, R. H. 610
Geary, John W., 816
Gellatly, Rev. -. 441
Genaskund, Indian convert, 420
Geneva College (College Hill boro.), 695
Geology of Beaver County, 6, 7, 942, 1187- 1192
George, R. J., 444
GEORGETOWN BOROUGH:
Churches, 835-837; Dawson family, 832- 833, note; hotels, 838-839; incorporation. 837; location, 832; Poe family, 838; population, 838; post-office, 838; Rev. Joseph Christmas, 838, note; steamboat men, 837; subject to Act of April 3, 1851. 838
Germans, their settlement in Ohio River valley, 146
Gettysburg, battle of, 517-519 Gibb family, 909
Gibson, John: biography of, 156, note 1; besieged at Fort Laurens, 89; commands Western Department, including Fort Mc- Intosh, 156, note 1; evidence for his being first settler of Beaver County, 154- 157; his kindness to missionaries, 23. 26: his trading-post at Logstown, 26, 155. note; at Pittsburg, 157, nole 1; his opinion on Moravian Indian massacre, 435; opposes and relieves Brodhead, 97: receives Logan's celebrated speech, 156, note 7
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