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Scalps, Indian, rewards offered for, 59, note, 60
Schaefer family, 799, note Schedule of early Ohio River boat company, 294-295
Schlagle, George H., 530 Schonbrun, 426
School buildings, 400-401
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, LL.D., his His- tory of the Indians referred to, 22, note; quoted, 103, note
School inspectors appointed, 399
School tax, apportionment of, by townships in 1835, 399, note
Schools, common, 393-410
Schoepf, Johann D., his Reise durch einige der mutlern und südlichen vereinigten Nord-amerikanischen Staaten, 1783-1784 quoted, 23. note 2, 33-34
Schussele, his painting, The Power of the Gospel referred to, 417, note 3 Scotch immigrants, 146
Scotch-Irish immigrants, 146; arrival in America, 147; first in Beaver County, 147; first to protest against British tyr- anny, 147, 1078-1087
Scott, D. W., Jr., 458
. George (Reformed Pres.), 443
, Geo. M., 408, 900-902
, Isaac, 383
-, John, 329-330; portrait facing 338
-, John W., 407, 902
Joseph, his Geographical Description of Pennsylvania quoted, 863, note
Scouller, James Brown, his Manual of the United Presbyterian Church of North Amer- ica quoted, 916 Scouts, 85 Scouts, lists of names of, 127 Scull, letter, quoted, 311 Sea-going vessels built at Freedom and Pittsburg, 299, and note Seceder churches, 441
Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Geological Atlas of Counties quoted. 6-7 Senator, transport for 10th Regiment, 609 Senators: State, 218-219, 227-234; U. S., 217, 221-222
Senecas, one of the Six Nations Confederacy. 18; at treaty of Fort McIntosh, 107 "Seneca Oil. " 286, 287, note 1 Semple, Steele, 335
Senseman. Gottlieb, Moravian missionary. 421 Sergeant's Lund Laws quoted, 188 Service Creek, 5
"Setting poles," use of, in ascending Ohio River, 294
Settlements, dates of early, 147-148 Seven Years' War, relation of, to French and Indian War, 52
Seventeenth Judicial District, 307
Seventy-eighth Regiment, P. V. I., Co. G. recruited in Beaver County, 510. 546 Seventy-seventh Regiment, P. V. I., Co. H. partly from Beaver County, 510, 541 "Seventy-six " P. O., 923
Seventy-sixth Regiment, P. V. I., Co. K. partly from Beaver County, 508-510 Sewickley Creek, Big. 5, note 3; French fishing-basket on, 5. note 3
Sewickley township, Allegheny County. 858 and note 1; Beaver County, 858; divided, 870-871
Shaler, Charles, 312-313; portrait facing 310 . Major Charles, 312
James R., 312
Shallenberger, Aaron T., 383; portrait facing 382'
O. B., 526-527: portrait facing 526 Wm. S., 223-225; portrait facing 222 Shannon, John R., 342-343
Shannopin. 911
Shanors, the, 477
Sharon Bridge, 243
Sharon M. E. Church, 445
Shawanese, number of their warriors, 20; origin, 16: removal to the Ohio River, 16, and note 3; three of their towns between Big Beaver and Forks of the Ohio, 17
Shea, J. G., his History of the Catholic Church in the United States quoted, 413; his The Catholic Church in Colonial Days quoted. 413, note
Sheets, Eli F., hanged for murder of John Ansley, 358-360 Shelby Steel Tube Co., 671
Shenango Creek, 5 Sheriffs, see Civil List of Beaver County
Shields, James D., 383-384 w. W., 472
Shingiss (Delaware chief), his character and exploits, 28-31 Shingoe'stown-Beaver, 3, 15, 183, and note 3 Ship Canal, 248-249
Shippingport, 297, 300, note, 899 Sholes family, 479, and note; extract from Diary of Captain Sholes, 479-480
"Shot-tower," (Dustin's house), 812 Shouse, Peter, 293, note Shurlock, W. C., 384, 510
Shurtleff, Jonas B., 470 Sickle factory, Fox's, view of, 290
Silver Wave, 300, note Simonson, John. 338
SIX NATIONS (sec also Iroquois) : Account of their confederacy, 18-20; bands of, in western Pennsylvania, 17: called " Romans of America," 18; treaties with. at Port Stanwix, 182; western Pennsylvania, their hunting ground. 22 Sixth Judicial District, 307
Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, militia of 1862. Co. C. from Beaver County, 523. 586 Sixty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teer Infantry. Co. C, from Beaver County, 506-508, 538
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Slavery in Beaver County, 152, note, 153 Slippery Rock township formed, 854-855 Sloan. James, 407 Slough, Matthias, 155
Small-pox, Amherst and Bouquet consider propriety of infecting Indians with, 59 Small-pox in Beaver County, 388 Smith, A. F., & Co., 709 Electa, 401
-, Colonel James, his Life and Travels quoted, 2, note 3 -, John E., 459
, Capt. John, 132, note, 858, note 2
Rev. Joseph, his settlement in western
Pennsylvania, 438; his Old Redstone quoted, 146, note, 278, note, 444
, Dr. William, his Historical Account of Colonel Bouquet's Expedition against the Ohio Indians quoted, 56-57; 160, 614, note 3, 972 Wm., M.D., 384
Smith township, Washington County, 858, and note 2
Smith's Ferry, 932-934; Indian picto- graphs facing 930, 932, 934, 936; oil field, 934-935
Smull's Legislative Hand Book for 1003 quoted. 275, note I "Society People," 443
Sohkon, see Sawkunk
Soil of Beaver County, 6, 276
Soil, luxuriance of, on Ohio in Indian period, 23, note 2
Soldiers' Orphans' School at North Sewick- ley, 960; at Phillipsburg (Monaca), 800 Solomon, Max, 682
SOUTH BEAVER TOWNSHIP:
Boundaries, 925; draft showing division of, in 1801, 869; drainage, 925; geological features, 925; one of the original town- ships of Beaver County, 925; Rayltown, 926; Rowe post-office, 926; statistics, 926
South Sea passage, 132, note Spanish-American War, 606-612
Sparks, his Life of Washington, quoted, 51, 83
Spear, Elder Henry, 957
Specht, John, 660, note 2
Speculation, era of, in Beaver County, 291 Spencer, Herbert, referred to, 393
Speyerer & McDonald Bank, Rochester, 748 Spies, 127
Spottswood. Governor of Virginia, expedi- tion of, 44, 173, note 2; memorial of, to British Government, 44 Spray of the Falls, 472
Spring Hill township, Bedford County, 854; Westmoreland County, 854
Spring Water Brewery, 672 Sprott. Thomas, 810 "Squaw Campaign," 78
Squaw settlement on Big Beaver, 418, note 3. 419
St. Clair, General Arthur, his defeat in 1791. 116: effect of, 123
St. Clair borough (now Freedom). 794-795
St. Tammany, festival of, celebrated at Fort McIntosh, 101, note I
Stafford, Cornelius, 404 Standard Connecting Rod Co., 681
Standard Gauge Steel Co., 680-681
Standard Horse Nail Co., 710
Standard Scale & Supply Co., 849
Stanton, David, 384-385; portrait facing 384 Stanwix. General, erects Fort Pitt, 53 Star, The. 464 Star Publishing Company, 464
Steamboats, 293-301; first on Ohio River. 293; list of those built in Beaver County. 298-300; their great financial advantage to Beaver County. 298, 301
"Steamboat Revolution, The," 296
Steel, Colonel, trial of, 92
Thomas, mutineer, 100
Steen, John, 974
Sterling Mining Co., 944
Sterrett, Samuel, 404
Sterrett, Rev. Samuel, 443
Stewards of County Home, list of, 210-211
Stewart, James H., 344
Thomas, his duel with Tarleton Bates, 310-311 Stiffey, Richard W., 464, 470
Stille, Chas. J., his Mai .- Gen. Anthony Wayne quoted, 992, 1000
Stockade, meaning of term, 93, note 2
Stock-raising in Beaver County, 279
Stone, Stephen, his sale of town lots at "Beaver Point," 772, note I
"Stone's Point," 771-772, and note I Stowe, Charles, 502
Edwin H., portrait facing 374
Strait's List of Battles quoted, 609 Strawberries at Fort McIntosh, 103
Street Railways, 265-268
Strouss, Simon, 385
Stuart, Levi B., 726
Sub-contractors for building new court- house named, 207
"Sunday Indians," 417, note 3
Surplis, Robin, renegade, 80, and note, 80- 81
Swank, James M., his article on Manufacture of Iron and Steel, 1265-1269
"Swannocks," 417, note 3
Swartz, W. H., 463
Swasey, Wm., 445
Swearingen, Andrew, 615
Harry, 167 . Joseph M., 167 Swedes, settlement of, in Pennsylvania, 179 Synod of Pittsburgh, 440
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Taimenend, Indian name for Colonel Mor- gan. 68, note
Tallegewi, see Allegewi
Tamaqui = Beaver (Indian Chief), 2. note Tammany Societies, origin of, 68. note
Tanacharison (the "Half King"), accom- panies Washington to Fort Le Bœuf, 50: his advice to Ensign Ward. 51; lived at Logstown, 17; his speech to Gist, 55, 945 Tate, Magnus, alluded to. 5, note 2
Tax laid for common school purposes, 398. 399. note
Taxables, early, of Beaver County. Ap- pendix V. 1215-1225, and notes
Taylor, Alexander W., 231, 513
-, Edward Farmer, from B. & M., 65. note
-, Henry, 73, notc 1
-, John T., 1041, 1172, portrait facing 1044 . Jos. P., 705
-. Lewis, 345-346 Wm. G., 800
Taylor's History of Ohio quoted. 428, note 2 Teachers Associations, 401
"Teachers and Schools of Beaver County. The Early," by Professor Scudder H. Peirsol, 1154-1157
Teachers, influence of 393-394: Institutes, 408-409
Telford, John H., 472
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Tenth Regiment Infantry, National Guard Pennsylvania, 606, 612; receptions of, 610 Terminal Moraine passed north of New Galilee, 7 Texas, independence and admission of, 487 Thiel College, 808-809
Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, part_of, ordered to Fort Pitt, 84; garrisons Fort McIntosh, 89
Thirty-eighth Regiment, 9th Reserve, P. V. I., Co. H., from Beaver County, 502-504 Thirty-ninth Regiment, 10th Reserve, P. V. I., Cos. F and K, from Beaver County, 505-506
Thirty-sixth Judicial District (Beaver County), 308
Thomas, Elmer H., 606 William, soldier of Mexican War buried at Beaver, 488
Thompson, J. S., 444
Thomson, W. H. S., 290, note; his Centen- nial address, 1136-1138
Thornileys, the, 727
Thum, Charles, 302
Timber lands, statistics of, 284
Times, The (New Brighton), 467
Tingooqua or Catfish, once lived within present limits of Beaver County, 34
Todd, W. E. Clyde, on Fauna of Beaver County, Appendix III., 1195-1202
"Tomahawk rights," 186, note, 189, note
Toomy, Serg .- Maj., John, at block-house on Big Beaver in 1793, his muster roll of United States troops there in 1793, 115, note
Topography of Beaver County, 6 Townsend, Abel, 707
, Benjamin, 727; portrait facing 708
, Charles Champlin, 225; portrait fac- ing 224
, David, 726, 727 Mary, 404
, Robert, 703, 728; portrait facing 722 , Talbot, 707
Townships-history of their formation, 853-892; accuracy of that given herein, 853; changes in, 867-892; maps, 856, 857, 859, 860, 864, 869, 874, 880; N. of Ohio River and W. of Beaver Creek, general history, 925-949; N. of Ohio River and E. of Beaver Creek, general history, 950-1035; original townships of Beaver County, 862-867; previous county connections, 853-854; S. of Ohio River, general history, 893-924; town- ships of parent counties covering terri- tory of Beaver County, 854-862
Trails, Indian, 16, note, 235-237, and notes Transmontane Order, 173, note 2
Travis Creek, named from John Travis, 5. note 2
Travis Creeks, 893
Travis, John, located warrant on creek named from him, 5, note 2
Treasurers, see Civil List of Beaver County Treaty of Delaware chiefs, White Eyes and Killbuck, with Americans at Fort Pitt, in 1778, 35
Treaty of Fort Greenville, 131
Treaty of Fort McIntosh, Pennsylvania, Appendix IV-A. 1203-1210, with plate; of U. S., Appendix IV-B, 1211-1213; letter from Harmar to Dickinson, con- cerning, 110
Treaty of Paris, in 1763. 53
Treaties of Fort Stanwix, 1768, 182: 1784, 105, 183
Trec of Liberty, 310; quoted, 311 Treiber, Robert L., 463
Trent, Capt. Wm., sent to French com- mandant, 50, note 1; to build fort at Forks of Ohio, 51
Tum-ahk-wa = Beaver (Indian Chief), 2. note
Tuscarawas, join the Five Nations Con- federacy, 18
Twenty-seventh Judicial District, 307-308
Twenty-sixth Regiment, War of 1812, 485- 487
Two hundred and twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Sixth Artil- lery), 583
Tyler, Comfort, 771, note 1
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Ubalto, John, survivor of Balaklava, buried in Beaver, 660, note 2 Ullery, Catharine, 161
Underbrush, woods on Ohio free from, in Indian times, 23, and note 2
Union Company, 1030
Union Drawn Steel Co., 680
Union Veteran's Legion, 1112-1113
Unionville, 951
Union Water Co., 269
Unitas Fratrum, 416
United States Bank, 291
Universal Cyclopedia (new Johnson's) re- ferred to, 22, note, 147, note 2
Utrecht, treaty of, 37, note 1
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Vallandigham, C. L., 814 Valley Electric Co., 272, 731 Valley Ice Co., 680
Vance, B. A., 385 , Robert, 155
Vance's fort, 170 Van Gorder, James H., 404
Vanport, 928-931
Van Swearingen, Captain, his daughter married to Sam. Brady, 163, note 2 . Samuel, 166-167
Vaudreuil, 40-41
Veech, Judge, quoted, 138
Vera, J. Adams, 514, 1100-1108; portrait facing 504
Vernon, Frederick, in command at Fort Laurens, 90
Vicary, 195; extension, 195
Virginia, a Crown Colony, 132; boundary controversy with Pennsylvania, 131-148; counties in Pennsylvania, 135; jurisdic- tion of, in western Pennsylvania, 306; entries, 155, note 1; grants of land, 189: and copy of one, note, 189-190
Virot, Rev. Claude F., establishes mission at Sawkunk. 413, and note, 418, note 3 Volney, his View of the United States quoted, 18
Vulcan Crucible Steel Co., 851
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Wagner's Brewery, 672 Wagner family, 799, note
Wagons, primitive, 278
Walker, Lieutenant, 481, note
Walker & Hillman's Brush Works, 683
"Walking Purchase " referred to, 19 Wall, J. Sutton, 94, note 2; his article on Reserve tract, 1235-1264
Wallace, J. M., his Centennial address, 1157-1161
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Wallace, Robert, his family taken by In- dians, 429-431 Samuel, 385-386
Wallover, P. M., 303 Wallover Oil Co., 303
Walnut Bottom Run, 169, 666
Walton, Joseph S., his Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania, referred to, 20, note, 48, note
Wangomen, 417
War of the Rebellion, sec Rebellion, War of
War of the Revolution, see Revolutionary War
War of 1812, 477-487 War with Mexico, 487-489, 1129
War with Spain, sec Spanish-American War
Ward, Edward, his surrender of Ohio Co.'s fort, 51 Warner, History of Beaver County, alluded to, 811, note Warnock, John, 386 , Wm., 386
"Warping," of boats, 294
"War Post," 16, note
Warrants, odd names of, 187, note 3
Warrington, George, 473
WASHINGTON, GEORGE:
Approves erection of Forts Laurens and Mcintosh, 92; criticises McIntosh, 93, note; his Journal of 175.1. quoted, 50, 51, note, 974, 979: Journal of 1770, quoted, 103, note; his journey down the Ohio River, in 1770, referred to, 5; sent to French Fort, 50; speculation in land, 914, note; to Gen. Butler, regarding canal between waters of Ohio and Lake Erie, 249, note; to American Congress, 83 Washington Academy, donation of land to, 396, note
Washington County Centennial, The, quoted, 305, note
Washington County, erected, 307; maps of sections of, 859, 860
Washington, Lawrence, alluded to, 146
Watch-Coat, described, 850, note
Water-power, at Beaver Falls, 665, 666, note
Water Works companies, 268-271 Waters, Oren, 708, and note Watson, D. T. and Wm. Morgan, 68, note --. Harry J., 606, 609
Way, John, 155
Wayne, Anthony, appointed commander- in-chief. U. S. Army, 129; arrival at Fort Pitt, 129; at Legionville, 980-1002, and notes; his Orderly Books, quoted, 981- 996, and notes; plan of remaining in- trenchments at Legionville, 1003; sketch of his life, 997-1002; portrait, frontis- piece, Vol. II
Wayne, Hon. Win., 1002, note Weaver, Charles, 384
Weiser, Conrad, carries presents to Indians at Logstown, 38-39; copies of original letters, 47-48, 49; his journal quoted, 15, note 2; his opinion of Chief Logan, 27; quoted as to arrival of Delawares and Shawanese on the Ohio, 16, note 3; his report of number of fighting men among Ohio River tribes, 20
Wendt. C. I., 386; portrait facing 384 Wells, Joseph, 726
West Augusta, District of. 135: divided into counties of Ohio, Monongalia and Yohogania, 306 Western Areas, The, 456-459 Western Cabinet, The. 455
Western Star, The, 462, quoted, 494
Westmoreland County, erected, 305; deeds
locating land now in Beaver County, 305. note; territory of Beaver County, in- cluded in, 305
Weyand, Jacob, 457, 458, 460, 472 -, Michael, 454, 456-457, 460; portrait facing 456
, Paul, his Centennial Paper, 1141- 1154
Wharton, O. P., 467 Whingwy Pooshies, 117 Whisler, Charles F., 464 .. John Hartman, 296, note Whitaker, Samuel, captivity of, 160 White, John, 860, note 2 , Joseph W., 455, 461, 470-471
: M. J. 463, 464
S. P., 234
T. B., 708
Thomas Martin, 860 note 2
White Eyes (Indian Chief), described by Schoepf, 33; 'his death, 32; faithful to Americans, 31; his lodge at Beaver, 31; letter to Col. Geo. Morgan, 149-150; protects Heckewelder, 32; protected by treaty of Fort McIntosh, 35, note ?; saves life of a peace messenger, David Duncan, 33; visited at Beaver by Hecke- welder, 31
White Eyes, George, son of famous chief, mentioned, 32, note Whitehill, A. R., 408
. James. 166 White's Mill, 194; oldest in Beaver County, 289, 800, note 2
Whitesides, R. A., buys Fair grounds, 282 WHITE TOWNSHIP, 949; location, boundaries, and statistics, 949
Whitla Glass Co., 672
Whitney, W. H., 471
Whisky, ready sale for, 172, and note 3 Whisky Insurrection, 143; causes of, 173 Whole Face, Indian Chief, quoted. 181
Wickham, John J., 319-320; portrait fac- ing 324: 464
Wigton, Wm., 404
Wilkeson, Hon. Samuel, Early Recollections of the West quoted, 172
Wilkins, William, 309-312: portrait facing 308
Williams, Aaron, his Harmony Society quoted, 1004, note, 1010. 1022 Williams, E. B., 463
-, Thomas, 463 -, William, 169
Williamson, Col. David, 431 ; relation of, to massacre at Gnadenhutten, 431-435
Wills, first in Beaver County, 198
Wilson, Frank, 351 ; portrait facing 362
, George R., 465
-, Henry, 406
, Isaac & Co., 667 , James Sharp, 320-321, 1116-1119: portrait facing 328
340 Joseph C., 330 -331; portrait facing . Joseph H., 348, 513; portrait facing 514 N. M., 467-468 Samuel B., Esq., 348; portrait facing 356 -, Samuel Beatty 630 , Wm., Indian trader, 725
Winans, Isaac, 387
Winans, John S .. 387-388
Wingenund, 32, 436
Winter, John, 465-466; his Narrative of the Superings of Massy Harbison, referred to, 128, note 2 "Wipey," murder of. 59
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Wiseman, Isaac, killed by Indians, 154 Wishart, Mistress, 403 Witch Masters, 177 Witches, 177 Wither, his Chronicles of Border Warfare quoted, 432 Withrow, John, poetic advertisement of, 481, note
Wolf, John, 171; first reaping machine in Beaver County, used on farm of, 278 Wolf scalps, 201, and note Wolfe, Miss Esther, 408 Wolves, in Beaver County, 25 Woodbridge, George, sells Morgan's letter books to Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, 65, note
Wood. Colonel, 147, note 3 Woodlawn Academy, 912-913 Woods, on Ohio, free from underbrush in Indian times, 23, and mots 2; at Fort Mc- Intosh, fired by Indians, 101, note I Woods, Thomas, 147, note 3 Wool raising in Beaver County, 279 Work, D. P., 462 Wright, Hugh, 386
Wyandots, attitude during Revolution, 35: claims quieted. 105 Wylie, James, 444 Wyllis, Major, 101, and note 1, 102, and note 1
X X-Ray. The, 459 Y Yohogania County, Va., extracts from Court Records of, 306, note; ceases to exist, 307 York, James, Duke of, tenure of land under 179
Young American, The, 467
Z Zeigler, David. 106, and note Zeisberger, David, 416-417, and note; ex- tracts from his Diary. 418, 419, 421, 422. notes Zeller, Post-office, 911 Zinzendorf, Count, 416
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