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MAPS (Continued):
850; Hugh Mccullough's map of Beaver County, in 1817, facing 882; extract from Daniel Leet's draft showing site of Old Logstown, 973; plan of remaining intrenchments of Wayne's Camp at Legionville, 1003; Daniel Leet's draft of Reserve Tract at Beaver, 1244; seven maps and outline plan of same, showing disposition of land in Reserve Tract, at Beaver, between 1264 and 1265
Maquas, see Six Nations
MARION TOWNSHIP: Barrisville post-office, boundaries, drainage, location, soil, sta- tistics, 967
Marks, Wm., Jr., United States Senator, 217, mode
Marquette, 37, note 2, 147, note 3
Marquis, David, 624
David S., 381-382 March & Stone, 727
Marshal, James, letter from, concerning In- dian marauds, in 1791. 116: 431, 615. 727 Martin, J. Rankin, 1041, portrait facing 1048 John, Moravian teacher, 432
Nathaniel Callender, 352
. R. H., 444
Wm .. 810
Martineau, Harriet, her Society in America quoted, 1014-1015
Martsolf Bros., 710
Mase, Job, note of, 335
Massachusetts Historical Collections cited 16. wote
Mass-meetings, in 1861, at Beaver, 490-492, 494; resolutions of, 491-492, 494
Massy Harbison, 466
Matchcoat (watchcoat ?), 160, note
May, Charles Reeves, 665, nole, portrait fac- ing 370
Chas. W., 513
. J. M. 1041, portrait facing 1046 Samuel. 406 Mayer Pottery Co., Ltd, 679
Mead township. Allegheny County, 857, and Nole I Meal, Indian, 171
Mecklem, Millard F., 320; portraits facing 326 and 1048
Mecklenburg Declaration referred to, 147
Mediator, office of, among Indians, 19, note 3 Medical history, 370-392, 1061-1068; part of women in, 153-154, 371
Medical Society, of Beaver County, 390; list of members of, 391
Mellon. John A., 464, 473
Mengwe = Iroquois, 14, 15; see also Six Na- tions
Mercer, General Hugh, to Richard Peters, his death, 29, notes
Mercury, The Pittsburgh, quoted. 478
Meredith, Simon, 343; his plot of Freedom, 781 Merrick, Hanna & Co., 709
Methodism, general history of, 444-446
Methodist Episcopal ministers, list of early, 446
Metric Metal Works, 670
Mexican War, 487-488; causes of, 488; few enlistments from Beaver County, 488
Michaux, F. A., his Travels to the West of the Allegheny Mountains quoted, 299. note Mifflin, Governor, from Judge Addison, 193, note; from Harmar, 193, note
Mile-posts, 238
Miles, Lieut .- Gen., N. A., his Centennial address, 1110-1112; portrait facing 1110 Military executions at Fort McIntosh, 101- 102
Military history, 474-612, 1100-1108
Militia, for defense of borders, in 1791, 123: in want of arms, 119; of 1862-1863, 522- 523, 583-588
Militia law, defects of early, 87; suspension of, 124
Mill Creek, 5
Mill Creek Valley Agricultural Associatice, L'td, 280, 282
Mill Creek Valley Association, 826
Miller, Andrew R., 406
, family, 895
J. R., D.D., 289
: j. Ramsey, M.D., 382
Capt. Samuel, 504, notes; 505
Wmn. & Sons, 742-743
Miller Brick Co., 743
Mills, early, influence on community-life, 289; referred to, 289-290; White's, first in Beaver County, 289
Miner, J. F., 729
Mineral resources of Beaver County. 285-288
Minerva, The, first newspaper in Beaver County, 452, 454-455
Mingo Bottom, 431
"Mingo Town." present site of Rochester, 23. 27
Mingoes, ser Six Nations
Minis, David, Jr., 382, and note; portrait facing 372
Minutes of Treaty Council at Philadelphia (1732) quoted, 16, note 3
Missionaries, Moravian, 415, et seq .; curious conversation of one with an Indian hunter. 424: furnish information to American commanders, 428, and note z; Roman Catholic, 412, 413
Mitchell, J. S. & Sons, 678, 679
Mobilization, instance of rapid, 480
Mohawk Pluggy, punitive expedition against, 72-76; abandoned, 76
Mohawks, one of the Six Nations Confeder- acy, 18
Mohicans, 16
MONACA (formerly Phillipsburg) BOROUGH: Ackers' Sanatorium, 800; boat-yards of Phillips & Graham at, 797; case of re- ligious fanaticism at, 799-800; churches, 803-807: city hall. 809; corporate name changed, 801; Count de Leon's colony at. 797: Count de Leon's departure from 798: financial institutions, 802-803. first white settler, 796; German element predominant, 801; incorporation, 800; under Act of April 3, 1851, 801; loca- tion of, 796; New Philadelphia Society's notice of dissolution, 797-798; Soldiers' Orphans' School, 800; manufacturing, 802; patent for site of, 797, note 1; population, 809; post-office, 809; schools, 807: Thiel College, 808-809
Monakatoocha, 17. 50
Montmorin, 975-976
Montour, Andrew, Indian interpreter, 39, 47 Montour's Island, 6
Moon, R. A., 382-383
Moon township. Allegheny County, road petitions of, 861-862
MOON TOWNSHIP (Beaver County) :
Colonia, 906; Colonial Land Co., 906: County home, 906: drainage, 905; formed, 877-881; location, 905: Method- ism, see Monaca borough; Monaca, 906; North Branch Presbyterian Church, 906- 907; post-offices 906; Sanitary Manu- facturing Co., 906
Moore, A. S. 480, note: portrait facing 364 -. James, 476 note
-. Jesse, first president judge of Beaver County, 308-309; portrait facing 304
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Moore, Robert, 341, 429-480, and note Thomas, 158 Moorhead, John Wilson, 352 Moravian Historical Society. 425 Indians, 415-437 Mission on the Big Beaver, 415-437 Morden's Geography Rectified quoted, 12 Morgan, George, biographical sketch of 67-68, note; his letter books, where pre- served, 65, note; letters from, 32, note; 69, 70, 71, 79, 80. 92, 160, note 2; letters to, 71, 73-74, 149-150; his memorandum on number of Northern Indians, 21, note 4; portrait facing, 68 Morganza, 68, note Morlan, Wm. Seely, 349-350
Mormon meetings at Sharon, 769, note
Morrison, James, to General Butler about killing of Indians at blockhouse on Big Beaver, 118, note 2 Morse, Edwin K., Coal Co., 944
Morton, Jos. W. (Reformed Presbyterian), 443
Morus multicaulis, plantations, 291 Mound Brick Co., 682 Mountain, Algernon, 341
--- , James, 340, and note, 341
"Mountain men," 441 Muller, Bernard (Count de Leon), 781
Murder, last, by Indians in Beaver County, 166-167 Murder trials, 355-360 Murphy, John, 210, note 3 Murray. John, 407 -- Thos., 407 Muskingum River, 422, note 5
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Namæsi Sipu (the Mississippi), 14 Nanticokes, 16
National Armory, Beaver Falls, 669
proposition for, at
National Banks, 273; statement of condi- tion to February 5, 1901, 273, and note National Glass Co., 744-745
Natural gas, 287-288. note 3. 287; first use in manufacturing, 288
Natural gas companies, 270-271 Naugle, David Seely, 354; portrait facing 370
Navigation, perils of, in pioneer times, 294, 296
Nelson family, 895 Nesbit, John, 327: portrait facing 334 Neshannock Creek. 5
NEW BRIGHTON BOROUGH:
Anti-slavery agitation, 718: Bank of Pennsylvania, 703: Blockhouse at, 114; boat-yards. 703; churches, 711-718; De- preciation tracts, 700-701 ; early educa- tional movements, 704-705; financial institutions, 719-721: Grove Cemetery, 721 ; Hoopes, Townsend & Co, 702; hotels, 718-719; incorporation and acceptance of Act of April 3, 1851, 722-723; manu- factories. 706-711 : population, 723; post- office. 721: public schools, 705-706; societies, 718-722
New Brighton Female Seminary, 704-705 New Brighton Herald. 467
New Brighton and New Castle Railway. 263
New Brighton Record. 467 New Castle (steamboat), 772
New Castle and Beaver Valley Railway Co., 257
NEW GALILEE BOROUGH, 842-844; Beaver Clay Manufacturing Co., 844; churches,
843-844; incorporation, 842; location, 842; population and post-office, 842-849 New Kuskuskee, 419, notes
New Orleans, first steamboat on Ohio River, 293
New Philadelphia Society, notice of dis- solution of, 797-798; at Phillipsburg (Monaca), 797
New Purchase, 110 New Scottsville, 911
NEW SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP, 950-956; Big Knob, 951; churches, 951-955; drainage, 950-951; location and boundaries, 950; post-offices, 955-956; soil and minerals, 951; statistics, 951; Unionville, 951
New Sheffield, 911
"New State " movement, 143
New Testament, copy of, given to each man in Co. B, 10th Regiment, 607
New York-Pittsburg Co., 681 News-Letter, The, its prospectus, 451
News-letters, 450
Newspapers, history of, 450-473 News-sheets, 450
Neville, Capt. John, commands at Fort Pitt, 67; from Patrick Henry, 73-74 Neville, Col. Joseph, 141 Presley, 155, note 2; concerning killing of Indians at Big Beaver Blockhouse, 118; to Anthony Wayne, 60, note, 127
Niblo, Alexander R., 461 Nicholson File Works, 675
Nicholson, John, warrants of, in Beaver Co., 187; organizes Pa. Pop. Co., 187
Thos., 407, 1125-1126, portrait facing 406 . Thomas C., 458
Nineveh, early name of Hookstown, 826- 827
North Beaver Township, draft showing ex- tent of, 874
North Sewickley Academy, 959-960 NORTH SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP :
Boundaries, 956; churches, 957-959, 961- 962; drainage, 956; location, 956; North Sewickley hamlet and post-office, 957; North Sewickley Academy, 959-060; post-offices, 957, 962-963; statistics, 963 Noss, Jesse, 609
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Oak Grove Cemetery, Freedom, 794 Oak Grove Union Chapel of Industry, 948- 949 Odell, James H., 463 Ohio Company, 39-40, 54, note I
Ohio Paper Mill, 291
Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, 254
Ohio Presbytery, erected, included churches in Beaver County, 440
Ohio River, claimed as boundary of United States by Western Indians, 129 and note 1; described by Conrad Weiser, 48-49; etymology of its name. 4, and note 1; floods in, 7-10; table of high-water marks in. from 1810 to 1901, 8
Ohio River Bridge, 244-245 Ohio River Dam No. 5, 966 Ohio River Dams, 249-251 OHIO TOWNSHIP:
Black Hawk, 935; churches, 935-040; drainage, 931 and note; Esther post-office, 935: Indian carvings, 933-934: location, 931: Ohioville, 935; Smith's Ferry, 982; Smith's Ferry oil field. 934-935; soil, 981 und note; statistics. 931-932
Ohioville, 935 Oil refining, 302-303
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Old Brighton Paper Mill Co., 672
"Old Dissenters," 441
"Old French town," - Beaver, 3
"Old Kittanning," Indian town on the Allegheny River, 15
"Old Red Front," 702 Olive Stove Works, 747
Onas, Indian name for Penn, 43, note
One Hundredth Regiment P. V. I., "Round Heads." Co. D., recruited in Beaver Co., 510-513, 547; reunion of, 1090-1091
One Hundred and First Regiment, P. V. I., Cos. F and H, recruited in Beaver County, Co. C in Beaver and Lawrence Counties, 513-514, 551; great mortality of, in Confederate prisons, note, 551: re- union, 1091
One Hundred and Third Regiment, P. V. I., reunion of, 1091
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, P. V. I., Cos. E and I from Beaver County, 514-516, 560; reunion of, 1091
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, 1812, roster, 482-485
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment, P. V. I., Co. H, partly recruited in Beaver County, 516, 564
One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, P. V. I., Cos. F, H, and I, recruited in Beaver County, 517-519, 566; casualties of its three companies, 519, note; reunion of, 1092
One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, P. V. (14th Cavalry), 575
One Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment (17th Cavalry). Co. A, recruited in Beaver County, 519-521, 576
Oneidas, one of the Six Nations Confeder- acy, 18
Onondagas, one of the Six Nations Con- federacy. 18
Ordinary (inn) keepers, list of prices to be charged by, 306, note
"Orleans boats," 770 Ormond, Marcus, 517 Ormsby, Oliver, 667, 668
Ottawas at Fort McIntosh, 106 Owen. Robert, 1011
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Page. T., 142 Pakanke, 418-422
Pallar, Robert, 147. note 3
Palmer, Harry, 610
Paper Box Factory, 682
Paris, treaty of, in 1763, 53
Parish taxes, 146, note : .:
Parker, statistician, letter concerning pro- duction of petroleum in Beaver County to editor quoted. 287, note 3
Parkman, his Conspiracy of Pontiac quoted. 19, 20-21. 22, 37. note 2, 59
Parrish, John, his Journal of a Visit per- formed to the Western Indians quoted, 25-26
Parsons, Gen. S. H., his death by drowning in Big Beaver. 101. nofe, 1271-1278
Passavant Memorial Home, 762
Patriotisin of Beaver County citizens, 478 Patrons of Husbandry, 282-283
Patterson, Alexander, shot at Fort Mc- Intosh, 102
PATTERSON HEIGHTS BOROUGH, incorpora- tion, location, 852
Patterson Heights Street Railway Co., 683 Patterson, Leslie, 530
-, James, his improvements at Beaver
Falls, 668, 669. 679; his sketch of Beaver County quoted, 731, 772; portrait facing 668
Patterson, Samuel R., 525
PATTERSON TOWNSHIP formed. 886-887: location, geology, and statistics, 949
Payne, Wm. M., hanged for murder of Allen Austin, 356, note 1
Peirsol's Academy, 406, 776
Peirsol, Scudder Hart, 405-406; his Cen- tennial address, 1154-1157
Peltries as medium of exchange, 160, notes Pendleton Bros., 740 -. J. R., 527-529 Penn Bridge Co., 675 Penn, G. W., 473
-. John, his proclamation concerning reward for Indian scalps, 59, note. 60
Wm., his character, 181, note 1; his Charter from Charles II., 132-133, 180; proviso of his law concerning education of children, 396; his treatment of Indians, 181
Penn's Manor surveyed, 135
Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy with Virginia, 131-143
Pennsylvania Dutch, 146
Pennsylvania Gazette quoted, 976, and note. 1000, note
Pennsylvania Magasine of History and Bio- graphy referred to, 12, 98, note 1, 423; quoted, 850
Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, 504 Pentecost, Dorsey, on massacre of Moravian Indians, 435, and note, 436; to Col. Morgan. 71. 72, note 1
Pentland, Ephraim, concerned in Bates- Stewart duel, 310-311, 344
People's Electric Street Railway Co., The. 265
"People's Meeting. The," at Beaver, 1861. 490-492; resolutions adopted at, 491-492 People's Water Co. of Beaver Falls, 269 "Perched blocks," 942
Petroleum, burned in Indian worship, 286. note: from shales in cannel coal beds at Darlington, 6, 285-287
Peremptory mandamus on Beaver County Commissioners, 205
Philadelphia Agricultural Association, first in U. S., 280
Philadelphia Inquirer quoted, 988
Phillips & Graham, 297, 781 Phillips, John, mutineer, 100 : Stephen, 781 Phillipsburg (now Monaca), boat building at, 297 Phillis, James M .. 464 -. Joseph, 158
Phoenix Glass Works, 802, and note
Physicians, sce Medical history Physicians for County Home, list of. 211
Physicians, scarcity of, in pioneer days. 370- 371
Picknoll, Hugh, 480. and note
Pioneers, character of. 58-59, 177-178, 411- 412: German. 146: influence of heredity on. 145; Pennsylvania Dutch, 146; Scotch. 146: Scotch-Irish, 146
Pioneer navigation, 294
Pioncer. The." by W. H. S. Thomson. 1136-1138
Pine township, Allegheny County. 857. note 2, 858, note I
Pinney, Ovid, his plan of lots in Rochester, 739
Pittsburg, hostility of its citizens to indus- trial development of outside sections. 292, and note; Manor of, 180, and note;
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Pittsburg (Continued) :
population and census of, in 1761, 148, and note 2 "Pittsburgh Blues," 480
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, 253-255
Pittsburgh Gasette, account of flood quoted, 7. 311, 481, note, 772, note 7, 1022-1026 Pittsburg Hinge and Chain Factory, 673 Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railway, 259-262 Pittsburgh Lottery, 397, note
Pittsburg, Marion & Chicago Railway, 258- 259
Pittsburg Seamless Tube Co., 848 Pittsburgh Synod, 440
Pittsburg Wall Paper Co., 709
Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula Rail- road, 262-263
Pitt township, Allegheny County. 855, note; Bedford County, 854; Westmore- land County, 854, note
Pitt, Wm., 52, 53 Platt, Hiram, 729
Plumer family, 820, note, 1078, note . Wm. Swan, 820; portrait facing 820
Poes, The, 161-163, and notes, 439, 477 Point Pleasant, battle of, 62
Pollock, John, 397, note I
Pontiac, conspiracy of, 55-56
Pope, John, his A Tour Through the Southern and Western Territories of the United States quoted, 295, note I
Population of Beaver County, by decades, 275; loss of, by erection of Lawrence County, 275; census of Beaver County, first, by townships, 275, note 2; decline of rural, causes of, 894
Porter. Andrew, 142
-, David, 461 John T., 472
W. H., 464
Post, C. F., his Fournal, quoted, locates Sawkunk, 3, note 2, 15, note 2, 17, 29. 53, note 2, 614, 972
Post-offices, list of, in Beaver County, 275, note 1
Postal facilities and progress, 274; free delivery, 274-275; rural delivery, 274 Potter family, 920, 922
Henry N., letter from, concerning Greersburg Academy, 816, note, 820
Pouchot, M., his Memoir upon the Late War in North America, between the French and English quoted, 2, 21. 413, note; his map cited, 2, 3, note 4 Pound, value of, 625, note 1
Power, James, settlement in western Penn- sylvania, 438
-. James M., 228; portrait facing 230 Samuel, 227-228, 479-480, and note Thos. J., 228; portrait facing 232 Pownall, T., M.P., his A Topographical Description of the Parts of North Amer- ica Contained in the Map of the British Colonies (Lewis Evans's Map of 1755). quoted, 5 Pre-emption rights. 186, note Presbyterianism, general history, 437-446 PRESBYTERIANS:
"Anti - Government Men." 443 ; "Hill folk." 443: "Hill men," 441; "Moun- tain Men," 441; "Old Dissenters," 441; Reformed, 441-444; Seceders, 441; "So- ciety people," 443; United. 442
Presbytery, of Allegheny, 440; of Beaver, erected, bounds of, 440; of Erie, erected, 440: first meeting at Greersburg, Beaver County, 440: of Hartford, 440; of Ohio, erected. 440; of Redstone, first Presby.
tery west of Alleghenies, 439; minutes of, quoted, 644, 818
President Judges, list of. 211
Press, The, 450-473
Prices, list of, in pioneer days, 174, note
Priests, early, in Beaver County. 415
Pritts. J., his Incidents of Border Life re- ferred to, 22, note
Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, their con- flicts with Assembly, 46-47
Prothonotaries, see Civil List of Beaver County
Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, their conflicts with the proprietaries, 46-47; vigorous defense of frontiers by, 47, note 2 Provost Marshal, 24th Congressional Dis- trict, names of soldiers mustered in by, 588-605
Psalm Singer, The, 473
Public Occurrences, both Forreign and Do- mestick (newspaper), 451; prospectus of, 451
Public squares of Beaver, naming of, 662- 664; reserved, 202
Pugh, Evan, 727 -, John, 727; portrait facing 704 , Joseph T., portrait facing 706
PULASKI TOWNSHIP, formed, 890; location, boundaries, and drainage, 1031; soil, 1031; statistics, 1031
"Pumpkin flood." 7-8 Purchase of 1768, 181; of 1784, 182 Pusey, Wm., 463
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Quakers of New Brighton, 711 Quay, A. G., 610 -, M. S., biography of, 221-222, and note; portrait facing 220; quoted, 93, note 2. 458, 464; to a Republican, 491, 515
"Quay Guards, The," 775
Quills, 201, and note
Quo Warranto, writ of, 132
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Raccoon Creek, described, 5; settlements on, subiect to frequent marauds of Indians, 125, and note 2, 158, and note RACCOON TOWNSHIP:
Boundaries and drainage, 913; churches, 915-922: early history, 914; Eudolpha Hall and Rev. John Anderson, D.D., 916- 919: formed, 884; post-offices, 914; statistics, 915; Washington's Journal, re- fering to Raccoon Creek, quoted, 913-914, note Radical, The, 458-459
Railroading, experimental nature of early. 255, 263
Railroads, 251-265 Railway contrasts, 263-264; statistics, 265 Railway trains, first in Beaver County. 254 Railways, Street, 265-268
Rand's Business College, 695
Ranging Companies 124-125
Rapp, George, portrait facing 1012
, John, foolish story of his death, 1007. note Frederick, 1025-1026, note Rayltown, 926 Reader, P. E .. 469; portrait facing 1048 -, Francis S., 454. 460, 468-469 -, Willard S .. 469
REBELLION, WAR OF : Beaver County's patriotic action in, 489- 498: commissioned officers from Beaver County, list of, 498-502: Committee of Safety. 495: committees from election
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REBELLION (Continued) :
districts, 496-497; company rosters, 531- 588: Home guards, organized, 497: mass-meetings, at Beaver, 490-492, 494; names of soldiers mustered in at Provost Marshal's office, in New Brighton, 588- 605; number of regiments and com- panies from Pennsylvania in, 498; "Peace Convention," 490; unprepared- ness of country for, 492; resolutions adopted at mass-meetings, 491-492, 494 Recorders, see Civil List of Beaver County Reddick, John Hoge, 5, note 2, 324
Redhawk, murder of, 77
. Redick, David. 338-339, and note; to Benj. Franklin, on climate quoted, 11; to Gov. Mifflin, 125; his sketch-map of western frontier, 126:
Redstone Circuit, 444, and note
- Presbytery, see Presbytery of Red-
stone
- settlement, 444, and note "Redstone Old Fort," 444, and note Reed, J. M., 406 Lewis W., 464. 465 - President, letter from, to Washington, quoted, 93, Note I , Thomas, Revolutionary veteran, 909, mole W. I .. 458
Raed's Station, attack on, 128 Reeves, H. T. and J., agents of Harmony Society, 202 . John, portrait facing 668
- John T., & Co., 278, note, 685 Mary, 404
Register of Attorneys, 861-309 Registers and Recorders, se Civil Listyof Beaver County Reid, A. M., 408, 909, and mots -, James, 654, and portrait facing 654 Reisinger, Daniel, 624 Religious fanaticiam, instance of, 790-800 Religious history. 411-440; 1078-1087; 1189-1186 Religious Remembrancer, The, 453 Reno, Francis, 886, note Representatives in General Assembly, 219- 221
Reservations of State, 104 and note; 185, 202, 615-619
Resolutions adopted at "The People's Writing," 1861, 491-492
Review, The, 473
REVOLUTIONARY WAR:
Causes of, 65; burial places in Beaver County of veterans of, 475, note; 1127- 1128; origin of its spirit, 65-66; pension- ers of, in Beaver County, 476-477; pre- dicted by statesmen, 66, note 1; real end of, 131; relation of western settlers to. 67. 467, and note; veterans of, at Canal Celebration in Beaver County, 246, 247, note
Rhodes, Kennedy & Co., 740 Rhuamah (steamboat), 223
Richard's (Warner's), History of Beaver County, referred to, 738 Riley. James Whitcomb, poem of, quoted, 178 Rittenhouse, David, 139, 142
Rivière au Castor, French name of Big Beaver Creek, 2
Roads: Braddock's, 236; Brodhead's, 237; Beaver and New Lisbon, 238; County and State, 237-238; Tuscarawas, 236 -, in Indian country, 23
Robert, M., his Atlas Universel referred to, 973, and note, 974 Roberts, John, 154
Roberts, Richard, Revolutionary soldier, 154 Richard P., 347, portrait facing 518. 517-518, 1126
Samuel, second President Judge of Beaver County, 309; portrait facing 306 & Van Horn, 472
Robertson, Archibald, 230, 668
Lieut .- Com. James P., U. S. N., 525- 526 Robinson, Abel. 445
Robinson township, Washington County, 858, 859
ROCHESTER BOROUGH.
Ancient lanes, 737; Business Men's Asso- ciation, 742; Canal, 734, 737; cemeteries, 765: churches, 752-761, 767; East Bridge- water, 738; East Rochester, 767; Fair- port, 738; financial institutions, 748-752; hotels. 764-765: incorporation and ac- ceptance of provisions of Act of April 3, 1851, 735; location, 734; manufacturing industries, 740-748; M. T.C. Gould, 739- 740: portrait facing, 738: North Roches- ter, 767 ; origin of name, 738: Opera House, 765; Ovid Pinney, 738-739; pioneer set- tlements. 735-736; Passavant Memorial Home, 762; population, 767; post-office, 765-766; public schools, 761-762; mail- ways, 734-735; relation to borough of Beaver, 736: societies, 762-764; steam- ferry, 765; site of Mingo village called Loganstown, 25, 26, 27, 735
Rochester Clay Pot Co., 748
Rochester Cut Glass Co., 746-747
Rochester Electric Co., 271
Rochester Heat & Light Co., 270-271
Rochester Manufacturing Co., 740
Rochester Planing Mill Co., 746
Rochester Point Bottle Works 743-744
Rochester Roller Flouring Mills, 747-748
Rochester Semi-Centennial Soutenir quoted, 736.739
ROCHESTER TOWNSHIP
Drainage, 965; formed, 885: location. 965; gas well, 966; General Lacock's residence, 965-966; H. C. Fry Glass Co. 966: Pleasant Valley Free Methodist Church, 966; Ohio River Dam, No. 5, 966; statistics, 965
Rochester Tumbler Co., 740-741 Rohm, John, 473
Rohrbacher, Paul F., 510
Roman Catholicism, history of, in Beaver County, 412-416, and notes
Roman Catholic Cemetery, 415, 1034-1035 Rondthaler, his Life of Heckewelder quoted, 422
Roosevelt, Theodore, his The Winning of the West referred to, 22, note; quoted, 35. note 1. 121-122, 437, 991, note
Rose, Walter A., 244; portrait facing 390 Ross, S. M., 383
Roster of Beaver County officers and men in 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania U. S. V .. 611-612
Rosters of troops, 1812, 482-487; of 1861- 1865, 531: of 1898, 611-612
Roth, John. 423, 426
Roth, Luther, his sketch of the history of Thiel College, 808-809
Roubaud, Father, 413
"Round Heads," 100th Regiment, P. V. I .. 510-513; origin of name, 510
Rowell, his American Newspaper Directory for 1800 quoted, 450
Rupp, I. D., his History of Western Penn- sylvania quoted, 17, 31, 60, 148, 157, 163, note 2, 996-997
Rural delivery, 274
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Rush, Dr. Benj., his Memoir on the Climate of Pennsylvania quoted, 11-12, 153 Russel, J. C., Shovel Co., 851 Rutan, James A., 350-1, 458, 460, 523; por- trait facing 360 Ryan, John, murders Indians, 60 Ryswick, treaty of, 37, note 1
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Sacung, see Sawkunk Sagunk, see Sawkunk Salem 426 Salem Register, 453 Salt, early prices of, 173 Salt pans, curious use of, in defense, 295. note 1 Salt well, 941 Sanatorium, Acker's, 800
Sarikon, see Sawkunk Sassoonan, Delaware chief, expelled by Canassatego from council at Philadelphia, 19
Saucon, sce Sawkunk Savage, Alex. (Reformed Pres.), 443 Sawkunk: Delaware Indian town at mouth of Beaver, 3, and note 2, 15, 57; Indian path from, 426, note; Roman Catholic Mission at, 413, notes Sawyer, B. F., 713
Scalp Spring, 16, note
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