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. John Bannister, 335, and note. 336- 337: portrait facing 344
John (teacher), 404
Robert, 443
Gillis, Admiral James H., 530, note
Gilmore, Robert, 525
Girard Locks, 246, note 2
Girty, James, 295-296
Simon, becomes renegade, 79-81; his kindness to James Lyon, 630, note 1; leads mob at Hannastown, 136
Gist, Christopher, Agent of Ohio Company. 39-40
Glacial drift in Beaver County, 6-7
Gladwin, Captain, saves Detroit, 56 GLASGOW BOROUGH;
Boat - building at, 300, note; churches, 840-841; incorporation, 840; location. 839; population and post-office, 842; secret orders, 841-842
Glasgow, Rev. Ezekiel, 645
. W. M. 444
Glenn, James, 667
Glikhickan, Indian convert, 418, 420
Globe Advertiser, The, 472
Globe-Star, The, 464
Gnadenhütten, 426; monument to martyrs at, 437
Gobin, J. P. S., his Centennial address, 1097-1100
Goff-Kirby Coal Co., 945 Goodrich, Jesse, 377
Gordon's Gazetteer of Pennsylvania quoted. 247. 769
"Gouging," in fighting, 177, and note
Gould, M. T. C., 704, 739-740; his map of Falls of Beaver, facing 234; his portrait facing 738; his prediction of future greatness of Beaver valley, 303, note
Government buildings, 275
Goschgoschunk, 417
Grace Greenwood (Sarah Jane Clarke), 723; portrait facing 722
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Grand jury, first, 197; later, 204 Grange, The, 282-283
Grant, Major, 413, note 2 "Great Arrow." sec Monakatoocha
Great Britain, violates treaty with U. S., by retention of posts in N. W. Territory, 116, 131
Greathouse, Daniel, connection with mur- der of Logan's family, 25, note 1, 61
Great Western Band, see Centennial section, 1039-1084
Greenbriar Company, 40
GREENE TOWNSHIP: boroughs of Georgetown and Hookstown, 898; churches, 889-905; formed, 877-881 : location, 898; Shipping- port, 899; soil and drainage, 898; statis- tics, 898
Greer, George. 810
-, Guion, the first Treasurer of Beaver County, 196, and note
Greersburg, Lacock's plot of. 811, note I Greersburg Academy, its history, 813-817: land given to, 396, note
Grim, Wm. H., 377 -- , Louis Edwin, 353-354
Grimshaw. Wm., 927
Griswold, S. G. (Peter Parley), his descrip- tion of railroad, quoted, 263, note
Groveland, site of Shingo's town, 3, note 2; 614, note 3
Guthrie, Joel, shot at Fort McIntosh, 102
Guyasutha, the "Big Cross," defends Sam. Brady, 726, note; Pontiac's fellow-con- spirator, lived on present Darlington estate and buried there in Indian Mound, 17, note 4
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Hague, John W., 514 Half-King, see Tanacharison
"Half-way houses," Moravian towns on Tuscarawas suspected of being, 430
Hall, A. S., & R. W., Carriage Works, 679- 680 ", James, his Report, P3, referred to, 6 Hamilton Bros., Pottery. 775
Gail, her Biography of James G. Blaine referred to, 1009, note
Governor Henry, his character, 149; his proclamation of amnesty, 149-150; his treatment of American prisoners, 81. and note 1; nicknamed the "hair-buyer," 81 James, murder of, 355-357 S. T., 377
Hamtramck, Captain, 101, note I Hand, General Edward, commands Western Department, 76; his military ability, 78; his proposed expedition against Sandusky 77; his recall, 83; his "Squaw Cam- paign," 78; suspected of disloyalty, 79 Hand-bill, issued by Pittsburgh Gasette, on declaration of War of 1812, 478
Hanna, Captain Jason R., 504, note, 506 Hannastown, first Pennsylvania Court wort of Alleghenies, held at, 305
Hanne, suffix in Delaware tongue, meaning stream 2. note 2
HANOVER TOWNSHIP:
Drainage, 893; carly taxables, 804; for- mation, 877-881; Frankfort Springs bom., 894; Hanover United Presbyterian Church, 895-896; Harshaville, 894-896; King's Creek United Presbyterian Church, 896-897; location, 893; Mt. Olivet Pres- byterian Church, 897-8ON; original for- mation. 893: post-offices, 800; statistics of, 894
Hanover township, Washington County, 859-860
Hanrahan, W. F., 472
Harbison, Massy, her capture referred to, 128
Harmar, Josiah, biographical sketch of, 110, notc; his defeat in 1789, 116: to Presi- dent Dickinson, 9, note 1, 106, 185, note 1; to Col. Johnston, 102-103: to Knox, 111, note, 112; to Gov. Mifflin, 193, note; portrait facing 110
HARMONY SOCIETY. THE:
Burial rules, 1013; celibacy, 1016-1017, 1019-1020; contracts of, 1007-1008, 1010; Count de Leon and his secession, 1017-1026; lands of, 1008, 1011; list of names of seceders from, 1023-1024; liti- gation against, 1026-1030; manufactur- ing interests, 1008-1009, 1011. 1014, 1015: and see under Beaver Falls, 668, 669-670; pledges funds for Federal Gov't. 495; re- ligious movements in Europe fostering, 1005-1006. 1007; sketch of, by Agnew Hice, Esq., 1007-1009; trustees of, 1009. 1010, note; warehouses at Stone's Point, 772
HARMONY TOWNSHIP:
American Bridge Co .. '1030-1031; drain- age, 970; Economy, 1004-1005; formed, 888-889; Harmony Society. 1005-1030; Legionville, 980-1003, and notes; location, 969; Logstown, 970-980, and notes
Harn, Ow & Co., 682
Harness, primitive, 277
Harper family, 895
Harris, Isaac, his Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Business Directory quoted, 635, 668-669, 729-730, 738-739, 769-770, 774, 785, 801, 823, 828, 837, 932 Harris (Wm. Tell), his Remarks quoted,'834 Harrows, primitive, 277
Harsha, John, 408; portrait facing 406
-, family, 894-895 Harsha ville, 894-896 Hart, Deborah, 229 Harter, Caroline Roberts, 1115
, Richard, 1097
Hartman Manufacturing Co.,L'td, 674
Hartman Steel Co., L'td, 674
Hartshorne, Joshua, 404 Hartshorne vs. Sprott, 355
Harvesting in pioneer days, [278
Haslet, H., 337
Hassler, Edgar W., his Old Westmoreland quoted. 78. 135
Hatch. John, 377
Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania quoted, 738
Hazel, Edward, 149, and note Hawkins, Alexander L.,[219, note, 607-609 -, Rev. - , 705 Hay, R. L., 607
Hayes, David, 339; note in favor of, 355 Hays, Christopher, to General Irvine, 141 . G. A., 460
J. B., 468 . J. C., 468
Heckewelder, John, biography, 422, note 2; his comments on character of Logan, 28, note; his History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations quoted, 14-15, 32. and note, 81, note 1, 420; referred to. 20, note, 68, note; his life saved by an Indian, 32-33; his usefulness to Amer- ican commanders. 82, note; joins Zeis- berger at Friedenstadt, 422; relates anec- dote of Indian honesty, 108, note; to Brodhead describing murder of an Amer- ican prisoner by Indians, 82-83 2dl
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Helvedi, Francis, 797, and note 1
Hemphill, Joseph, 325-327. 771 Henderson, James S., 959
Henrici. Jacob, portrait facing 1014
Henrici & Lenz Coal Co., 944
Henry, A. G., 456
-. Hon. Thomas, 325, 456; his com- pany's roster (War of 1812), 485; por- trait facing 332
Major. Thomas, gallant conduct at the Chancellor House, 517; his article on Depreciation lands, 1227-1233
Patrick, to Morgan and Neville. 73-74
William, first sheriff of Beaver County, 196, note; portrait facing 196
William (Editor), 456; portrait fac- ing 456
Herald, The, 473
Herald of Gospel Liberty, The, 452
Heron, Andrew, 919, and note 1 Herrnhut, 416
Heth, Richard M., 812, and note
Hice, Agnew, his sketch of the Harmony So- ciety, 1007-1009
. Henry, 318-319; portrait facing 322; his Centennial address, 1052-1061
R. R., on the geology of Beaver County, Appendix I., 1187-1192 Hildreth, S. P., his Pioneer History quoted, 101, note, 971, note, 1277
"Hill Folk," 443
Hillman, David H., 377
"Hill Men," 441
Hinds, George, 768
Hines, John, 404
Historical Magasine, The, referred to, 103, note
Historical sketches of regiments in Civil War, to which Beaver County contrib- uted men, 502-525
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, MSS. letters of Conrad Weiser quoted, 47, et seq .; MSS. letters from its Dreer collec- tion quoted, note, 70. 71; 79, note 1; from its Wayne collection, 60, note
History of Allegheny County (Warner) quoted. 78, 173
History of the Presbytery of Washington quoted. 644. 818
Hoge, John, his District and Stokely's to forin Beaver township, Allegheny County. 857. note 2. 858
Hoge's District, 186, note
Holland Land Co., 187
Holmes, Geo. S., 445
Home Guards, organized, 497-498
Hood, Robert, 173
HOOKSTOWN BOROUGH:
Churche . 825 826; early merchants. 823; early namie of, 826: "Hookstown fever." 825; hotels, mills, etc . 827 : incorporation and sulnection to Act of April 3. 1851. 821; location, 823; population and post- office, 826: schools, 824
"Hookstown fever," 389-390 Hoopes. David. 666, 667
-, Edward, portrait facing 722
-. John S., 464
-. Joseph, 526
-, Town ,end & Co., erect furnace at Falls of Beaver, 291, 666 HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP:
Boundaries, 907; churches, 909-911, 912; coal, oil, and gas, 908: drainage, 908: formed, 877-881; name of, 907, note; pioneer settlers, 908-909; roads, 908: statistics, 908: villages and post-offices, 911-913: Woodlawn Academy, 912-913 Horse races, 282
Hospitals, 391-392
"House of Nature," 295, notc 2 Houston, Samuel, 487
Howard, John, his expedition in Western country referred to, 21; small number of Indians seen during his expedition, 21 Howard Stove Co., 677
Howell, Reading, his map of 1791 cited, 15. 856 Hoytdale, 926-927 Hughes, Thos. E., 403, 813, 819
Hunter & Code, 302
Chaplain, J. L., 610
Margaret, 403
Robert T., 378
Hunters, hired to kill game for garrison, 103, note
Husbandry, sce Agricultural
Huss, John, Moravians his successors, 416 Hutchins, Thomas, quoted, 17
Hutchinson, Ed., 473
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Imbrie, David, 938, and note De Lorma, 230, 458
Robert, his company's roster (War of 1812), 486-487
Imlay, Gilbert, his A Topographical De- scription of the Western Territory of North America quoted, 9, note I
Imperial Glass Co., 677
Incorporation of a town not relieving from taxes in parent township, 875, note INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP:
Drainage, 923: formed 888; geclogy, 923; New Bethlehem United Presbyterian Church, 923; post-offices, 923; statistics, 923; villages, 923
Independence village, 923
"Indian country." 167-168 Indian Occupation, 13-36
"Indian side" of Ohio River, 87, 167- 168
Indian traders, character of, 37-38 INDIANS:
Aided by British, 128, 129, note: at- tack Isaac Wiseman and Wm. Langfitt. 154, Wm. Anderson, 159. Foulkes fam .. y. 160. Wallace family, 429; carvings at Smith's Ferry, with four plates, 933- 934: defeated at Bushy Run. 56; depre- dations of, in 1791. 123: drunkenness of. 24. 425; honesty of, 108, not; how they judged quality of land. 49: hunting- grounds, 22; incursions of, 96, and role I; inevitableness of their dispossession by the whites. 36; injustice of treaties toward. 110; jealousy of. about their lands, 69: kindness of, to captives, 150- 151 ; last murder by. in Beaver County, 166-167: mediator, office of among. de- spised. 19. note 3; Moravian Mission to. 415-437: names, various spelling of. 2. note 3; number of, in Ohio River coun- try, 20; in United States, 20-22. si note on 1; Ohio River tribes generally allies of British in the Revolution, 34-35; outrages upon by whites. 58, 59; Plug- ky's band of, 72-76: rewards offered for Scalps of, 59, note, 607; rights on north side of Ohio River guarded by guvern- ment, 168. and note 1. " "squaw settle- ment" on Big Beaver. 418, note 3. their lands bought for trinkets, IS1; to be in- feeted with small-pox and hunted with dogs, Spanish fashion. 59: trade with, 133; trails, 235-237, and notes; tribes on
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INDIANS (Continued) :
Ohio River at coming of the whites, 13: usual route in marauds south of Ohio River. 125; warriors visit American trading-posts in guise of friends, 116- 117; white and negro captives to be re- stored at treaty of Fort McIntosh, 109; wish to limit western boundary of United States by the Ohio River, 129, and note 1 Industrial development of Beaver County,
hindrances to, and factors favoring, 291- 292, note
Industry, boat-yards at, 297, 300. 947-949 INDUSTRY TOWNSHIP:
Boundaries, 946: churches, 947-949; drainage, 496; formed, 889-890; location, 946; salt well, 946; soil, 946; statistics, 947: village of Industry, 947
"Influence of Early Catholic Missions, The," by A. A. Lambing, 1132-1136
Ingram & Co., 709
Ingram-Richardson M'fg. Co., 848
Inns, early, 197
Innkeepers, early, 197; list of prices to be charged by, 306, note
Institutes, Farmers', 279
"Instructive Yesterday, An," by Albert Dilworth, 1138-1141
Irish immigration, 146
Iron and steel industries, 301, 1265-1269 Iron, scarcity of, 173
Irons, John, 462
J. D., his Centennial address, 1069- 1077 -. J. H., 473
Iroquois, lords paramount in western Penn- sylvania, 22, and note 2; number of, 22; origin of name, 18, note 1; understood doctrine of "balance of power," 55, note I; see also Six Nations
Irvin, Joseph, 328; portrait facing 336
Irvine (Gen.) William, assumes command of Western Department, 97; his attitude toward the massacre of Moravian In- dians, 435-436, and notes; his biography. note, 79; his instructions to Lee and McClure, 104; his order concerning In- dian lands, 168. note 1; his report on Donation lands, 249, note; his report to President Dickinson, 16, note; petition to, from borderers, 98; to Washington concerning condition of his Department, 97; to Secretary of War about same, 99; to his wife about Indian troubles, 98; portrait facing 98
Irvine township, Allegheny County, 857. and note 1
"Irwin Cavalry," 519
Irwin, Gen. W. W., 519
Jackson, President Andrew, quarrel with Abner Lacock, 323 Esther. 425-426
Jackson, James E., 378 Jackson Grays." 498
"Jack the Ripper." track record of, 282 Jail. see County buildings
Javens, John. 487, note
Jeffers, Lieut., 124 Jennings, Obadiah, 337
Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, The. quoted. 413. note 2; 970-971, notes
Johnson, David, 196; first prothonotary of Beaver County, 341, note, 403
-. Col. John, quoted. 16, note 2; his views on Indian question, 181, note 2 -, Nathan M., 443 Sir William, his estimate of number of Northern Indians, 21; prevents Indian war, 182
Johnston, Francis, letter to, from Harmar quoted, 102-103, 183
, James Patterson, 378
Thomas G., 339
W. G., his Life quoted, 95, note
Johnston & Stockton, 727
Jollification at opening street railway, 267 Jolly, Henry, his weather observations quoted, 11; on massacre of Logan's fam- ily, 61
Joncaire. visits Ohio River Indians, 38, 41- 42 Jones, Ezekiel, first coroner of Beaver County. 196, and note, 957 -, Isaac, 345
-, Margaret, 359
Jordan, John W., 981
Journals, Bouquet's, Croghan's, Post's, Weiser's, alluded to, 3, and note 2 Judges, associate and president, list of, 211 Judicial Districts in western Pennsylvania, changes in, 307
Jumonville, attacked by Washington, 37. note 2
Jungman, John George, 421
Jurisdiction, conflicting, in western Penn- sylvania, 305-306
Justices Districts, 197-198
Justices of the Peace, under Constitution of 1776, entitled to sit as judges in Court of Quarter Sessions, 321; under Consti- tution of 1790 right to sit in Court of Quarter Sessions abolished, 321
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Kachwuckdanionty, fought under Brad- dock, 17; lived at Beaver, 17
Kanawha, the rivers, named from Indian tribe, 16, note 1
Kaskaskunk, see Kuskuskee
Keel-boats, 297
Keil, - -. 799 Keith, Governor urges action against French, 44
Kendrick, Father, 415, and note 1
Kennedy & Co., 729
Kennedy. R. S., 464
Kennedy's Keg Works. 710
Kenwood Boarding School, 705
Kerr, David, 157
-. Franklin D., 157; his description of
"Hookstown fever," quoted, 289-290
-, Isaac, 340
John, 404
. N. P., 781, note
-, Prestley M., 378
Keyser, William, contractor for new court- house, 206
Keystone Bakery, Bridgewater, 775
Keystone Chemical Works, 673
Keystone Driller Co., 677
Keystone Pottery Co., 743
Keystone Store Service Co., 682
Keystone Tumbler Co., 744
Keystone Wire Matting Co., 682
" Keystone Zouaves," 508 Kier, S. M., 302
Killbuck, described by Schrepf, 33; pro- tected by treaty of Fort McIntosh, 35. note 2; to Morgan, 149-150
King Beaver, see Beaver (Indian chief)
King. Sampson Smith, 337
Kipling, Rudyard, his From Sea to Sea quoted, 613. 1016
Kittanning, old Indian town of, 180
Knapp & Rudd, 302
Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, 173, note 2
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Knott, Harker & Co., 677 Knott, J. H., & Co .. 672 Knowles, David, his company's roster (War of 1812), 482 Knox, Henry, report to Congress and reso- lution concerning demolition of Fort Mcintosh, 113 Koquethagachton, see White Eyes Ktemaque - Beaver (Indian chief), 2, note Kuhn, E. P., 351 Kuskuskee, 15, and note 2, 418, 419, note
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La Belle Rivière, French name of Ohio River, 4, and note 1
Lacock, Abner, active in war measures, 1812, 487: advocate of free popular edu- cation, 397; biography, 322-324; extract from letter after declaration of War of 1812, 478, note z; his plot of Greersburg, 811, note 1; 624, 629-630, 781; portrait facing 330
Lambing. A. A., his History of the Catholic Church in the Dioceses of Pittsburgh and Allegheny quoted, 415, 624; his Centen- nial address, 1132-1136; portrait facing 1132
Land Act of 1792, 185, et seq.
Land entries, description of, vague, 190 Land-grabbers, 179
Land Grants, rival, 132; of Pennsylvania, 189; of Virginia, 189
Land-rights, primitive, 186, note
Land-titles, 179-191; variety of, 191, 1178- 1184
Lands, depreciation, 182-184, 185, note 1; disposition of, in Reserve tract at the mouth of Big Beaver, with Leet's draft of Reserve tract, and seven maps Ap- pendix VII., 1235-1264; donation, 182- 184
La Force, French trader, 38 Langfitt, George W., 378 -. Joseph A., 166
Wm., pursues murderers of Mary Colvin, 166: shot by Indians, 154 Langundo-utenink, see Friedenstadt La Ross, Robert, 459
La Salle, 37, note 2, 147, note 3
Laughlin, T. S .. 459
Law Association of Beaver County, 360 Lawrence County, its territory partly from Beaver County, 1
Lawrence, J., State Treasurer, letter con- cerning Revolutionary pensioners, 476- 477
-, Joseph, 379
Milton, 378; portrait facing 378
-, Samuel, 480, and note
-, Capt. Samuel, 525
Lawunakhannak, 417, et seq.
Leaf, Jas. P., C. E., 1002, note; his plan of Wayne's Camp, 1003
Le Baron, Wm., 240, 242
Le Bœuf, Fort, its site, Washington sent to, 50 Lecky. W. H., his History of European Morals referred to, 1017
Lee, Arthur, 94-95, note; his Journal quoted, 95, 107-108
Richard Henry, his Life of Arthur Lee, LL.D., quoted, 95, 107-108, 974, note Leech, Richard, 704 Leeper, Archibald, 379 Leet, Daniel, donates ground to Methodist Episcopal Church, at Sharon, 445; his
map referred to, 94; his survey of Beaver confirmed, 615; his survey of Reserve tract, draft, 1244
Jonathan, his District to form Pine township, Allegheny County, 857, note 2 858
Leeth, John, his narrative quoted, 81, note I Legal history,304-369,1052-1061,1178-1184 Legion of the U. S., see Wayne, Anthony Legionville, situation and origin of name, 980-981; see also, Wayne, Anthony
Legislators, early, wisdom of, 616, 619 Leiper, Robert, his company's roster (War of 1812), 484
Le Mercier, 51 Lemmon, Wmn. B., 467
Lenni Lenape, name given the Delawares by themselves, 14, 179
Leslie, Darragh, 610 , James, 404
Lesquereux, Leo, his Coal Flora, Report P. referred to, 6
Le Tort, a French trader, 38
Levis, John C., 379-380
Lewis, General Andrew, his victory at Point Pleasant, 62 , Frank A., 472
Jehu, 404 Thomas, 139
Liberty Land Co., 1030
Lighting Companies, 270-272
Linnenbrink, Joseph, 380
Littell, Ina B., 1088
. John S., 508; portrait facing 722
Little (Littell), family, 895
Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters quoted. 295. 300, note, 800, note I
Local, The, 463
Lochry, Col., from McIntosh, 85, note :, 90 Locks, Girard, 246, note 2
Logan, A., 455, 461
J., 455, 461
James (provincial secretary), 44, and note 2; Chief Logan named from him, 60, note 1; letter on Irish immigration quoted, 147, note z; his speech to Su- preme Executive Council, 44-15
Joshua, 774
-' (the Mingo Chief), his celebrated speech referred to, 25, 156, note I; his character. 27-28, and note; his death. 27- 28, and note; his drunkenness, 26: his family murdered, 60-61; his revenge for murder of relatives, 61: interview with Rev. David McClure, 24-25; named for Secretary Logan, 60, note 1
Logan & Strobridge Iron Co., 710 LOGSTOWN:
Called by Geo. Croghan, "an old settle- ment of the Shawanese." 17; extract from draft of Leet's survey, showing site of "Old Logstown," 973; location, 17, note, 155, notc 1; 970-976. and notes; referred to in Bouquet's Journal, 57; re- ferred to in Arthur Lee's Journal, 95: suggested as site of county-seat of Alle- gheny County, 620, note 4: trading post of George Croghan, at, 978; treaty of Ohio Company at, 40; visited by De Celeron, 976-977: by Conrad Weiser, 977-978; by Washington, 979-980; by C. F. Post, 980
London Company, 132-133 Long. O. S., 463
Loskiel, George Henry (Bishop), his Extem- pore on a Wagon quoted. 834-835; his History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America quoted, 2, note 3; 420, 422, 423
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Lotteries, for schools, churches, etc.,"note, 396-397
Lowrey, Alexander, 106, 107
Lowry, Mrs. Jennie (David E.), 1279, 1284 Loyal Company. 40 Lukens, Chas., 728
-. John, 142
Lutz, Oliver, 610 -, William, 470
Lyon, James, account of his captivity among the Indians, 630, note; portrait facing 654
Lytle, J. B., 683
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McBeth, Miss Kate, 960 McCaleb, his The Aaron Burr Conspiracy quoted. 771, note I
McCallaher, James, 404
McCandless, A. G., 380
McCarrell, John, 380
McCaslin, Dr., 770
Maclay, Wm., 183
McClean, Alex., 141, 142, 186, note; his draft of Reserve tract at Beaver, facing 94
McClure, David, missionary; his account of his visit to Ohio River and Moravian
13 Mission at Friedenstadt quoted, 22-25 and note 2 on page 23; his Diary quoted, 17. note 4; 175. note, 423-424, 820, note -, Denny, note, 194-195 . J. E., 473
McCook, H. C., his TheLatimers referred to, 143, note 2
McCool Tube Co., 670
McConnel, Richard G., 530
McConnell, Cyrus, 381
McCoy, Alexander Winfield, 352-353
Mccullough, Hugh, D.S., 882; his map of Beaver County in 1817, facing 882 -. Wm., 381
McCurdy, Wm., 106, and note
McDanel & Sons, 707
McDowell, Lieut. Nathan, commands Blockhouse on Big Beaver in 1789, 114, 115; his military record, 114, note
McElhaney, George, 909
McElwee, Wm. Meek, 829-830, 1127; portrait facing 830
McFall, Alfred, boat-yards, 300, note
McGregor, Robert Gregor. 404-405, 462: his Centennial address, 1163-1169: por- trait and view of ruins of his schoolhouse, facing 404
McGuffey, Wm. H., 815, and note; portrait on 815
McGuffin. Lawrence L., 316-317; portrait facing 316
McGuire family, early Catholic settlers, 414 McHattie Bros., 683
McHenry, Wm., 381
McIntosh - Beaver town, 3
McIntosh, Lachlan, appointed to command of Western Department, 83; arrival at Fort Pitt, 85, note 1; advances toward Wyandot country. 89: biographical sketch of. 84, note; breaks up small from- tier posts and concentrates forces and military stores, 85; builds Fort Laurens, 87: Fort McIntosh. 85; checked in his plans to take Detroit. 84-89; com- mended by Washington. 83, 92; criti- cised by Washington, 93, note 1; by Geo. Morgan, 92; by Brodhead, 90; by Con- gress, 90; cuts med from Fort Pitt to Fort McIntosh. 86: disaster to his relief party at Fort Laurens, 90: embarrass- ments in his Department, 87; to Presi-
dent Bryan, giving account of erection of Forts Laurens and McIntosh, 87: to Colonel Lochry, 85, note 1, 90; sick and recalled. 93, note; portrait frontispiece of Vol. I.
McKee. Alexander, his improvements at Logstown, 157; his improvements at Mc- Kee's Rocks, 148; referred to in letter from Col. Morgan. 80, and note; violates parole, arrested, 79
. Capt. G. S., 467
. John, 169, 726-727
John, Revolutionary soldier. 475 note Mckinney, David, Jr., M.D., biography of, 381 -, Dr. David T., 610
Mcknight, Charles, his Our Western Border One Hundred Years Ago referred to, 168, note 1
McLane, Robert, 302
McLaughlin, Neal, his settlement, 168, 169. note McLean Bros. & Co., 681-682
McMillan, John, characteristic anecdote of, 278, note, 438 Thomas, 404
McNees, D. L., 465
McPheeters, W. D., 381
Mc Williams, Artificial Ice Plant, Freedom, 794
Machines, Agricultural, opposed, 278 Madison, Dr. James, 139
Magaw, Samuel, 348-349
Magasine of American History quoted, 93, note I
Magasine of Western History quoted, 820, note; 974, note I
Mahoning Creek, 5 Mail facilities, 274
Manners in pioneer times, 176
Manor of Pittsburgh, 180, and note
Manors, Penn's, 180
Mansfield, Ira F., his collections of fossil plants made at Darlington referred to, 8, 259: his coal mines, 944; portrait fac- ing 1176: his article on Flora of Beaver County, Appendix II, 1193
Manufacturers' Light and Heat Co., 271
Manufacturing, 288-293; pioneer, 288-289; natural advantages of Beaver County for, 291; statistical table, tip after, 303 MAPS:
Outline map of Beaver County, 1903, xxv; Alexander McClean's draft of Reserve Tract at Beaver, facing 94; map show- ing various purchases made from the Indians, 109; David Redick's sketch map of western Pennsylvania frontier, 126; outline map of Virginia claims in S. W. Pennsylvania, facing 134; diagram illustrating Boundary Controversy, 140; map of Justices' Districts, facing 198: diagram showing site of Friedenstadt, 427: extract from Collot's map of the Ohio River, facing 627; Gould's map of the falls of Beaver and vicinity, facing 234; extract from Reading Howell's map of 1791 (Draft A), 856; map of Depreciation Lands (Draft B), 857; ex- tract from map of Washington County (Draft C), 859; extract from map of Washington County (Draft D), 860: draft showing Townships of Beaver County, in 1800 (Draft E), 864: draft showing division of South Beaver Town- ship. in 1801 (Draft F), 869; draft show- ing North Beaver Township, in 1800 (Draft G), 874; draft of four townships south of Ohio River, in 1812 (Draft H).
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