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Sergeant.
Kearns, Robert.
Drummer.
Kidder, Benjamin.
Fifer.
Mckinney, or Kenney, Peter, Capt. Clark's company, 1776-79; resided in Butler County in 1835, aged seventy.
Privates.
Kain, John. Kairns, Godfrey.
Kean, Thomas, Aug. 23, 1776, Capt. Montgomery's company ; he was an indentured servant of William Rankin.
Kelly, Edward. Kelly, Roberts. Kelly, Thomas. Kemble, Jacob.
Kerr, Daniel.
Kerr, William, Capt. Miller's company, Aug. 1776-Sept. 9, 1779 ; resided in Westmoreland County in 1823.
Kildea, Michael, paid from Jan. 1, 1777-Aug. 1, 1780.
Sergeant-Major.
Lee, William, died in Columbiana County, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1828, aged eighty-five.
Corporals.
Lewis, Samuel. Lucas, Henry.
Privates.
Lacey, Lawrence. Lacount, Samuel. Landers, David. Lawless, James. Lecron, John.
Lewis, William, of Brady's company ; resided in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1831.
Lingo, Henry, resided in Trumbull County, Ohio, 1834, aged seventy- one.
Long, Gideon, resided in Fayette County, 1835, aged seventy-nine. Long, Jeremiah.
Luckey, Andrew, of Westmoreland County ; Miller's company ; became
tenmater to Eighth Pennsylvania; discharged at Valley Forge ; ro- sided in Fayette County, 1x22, aged rixty-right.
Sergeant- Major.
McClean, ---.
Sergeanta.
McClure, John. McGregor, John.
Corporals.
McAfee, Matthew. Mairman, George.
Drummer.
Miller, John, killed in action.
Privates.
McAlly, Edward.
McAnary, Patrick.
McCarty, Jeremiah.
McCaully, Edward.
McChristy, Michael, Capt. Van Swearingen's company, October, 1777.
McClean, Abijah.
McComb, Allen, of Mann's company, 1776-79 ; resided in Indiana County, 1810.
McConnell, John, of Huffnagle's company, Aug. 28, 1776-August, 1779 ; died in Westmoreland County, Dec. 14, 1834, aged seventy-eight.
McFee, Laughlin, killed in action.
McGill, James.
McGlaughlin, Patrick.
McGowen, Mark, enlisted in 1775, in Capt. Van Swearingen's company for two years ; Aug. 9, 1776, this company was broken up, and he re- enlisted under the same captain in Eighth Pennsylvania, and served three years; resided in Mercer County, Ky., in 1830.
McGuire, Andrew.
McInamy, Patrick.
McKee, John, resided in Bath County, Ky., in 1830.
McKenney, Peter.
McKinney, John, Capt. S. Miller's company ; enlisted March, 1778.
McKissick, Isaac.
McKissick, James, Miller's company ; resided in Maryland in 1828.
McMullen, Thomas, August, 1776-79; died in Northampton County in 1822.
Martin, George.
Maxwell, James, 1776-79, Capt. Montgomery's company ; resided in Butler County in 1822.
Mercer, George.
Merryman, William.
Miller, Isaac.
Miller, Jobn.
Mitchell, James, Mann's company, 1776-79; resided in Somerset County in 1810.
Mooney, Patrick. Moore, John.
Moore, William, Capt. Jack's company, November, 1777.
Morrison, Edward.
Morrow, William, transferred to Invalid Corps, August, 1780.
Mowry, Christian.
Murphy, Michael.
Murray, Neal, August, 1776, Miller's company ; taken at Bound Brook, April 17, 1777; released, and rejoined at Germantown, where he was again taken and made his escape.
Fifer.
0x, Michael.
Sergeants.
Parker, John.
Porter, Robert, resided in Harrison County, Ohio, 1834, aged seventy one years.
Privates.
Paris, Peter, Invalid Corps, Aug. 2, 1779.
Parker, Charles, 1776-79; resided in Armstrong County, 1818.
Pegg, Benjamin, Piggott's company, Aug. 13, 1776-September, 177 resided in Miami County, Ohio, in 1834, aged eighty-two.
Penton, Thomas.
Perry, Samuel, Invalid Corps, September, 1778.
Pettitt, Matthew, resided in Bath County, Ky., 1834, aged seventy-four. Phillips, Luke, Aug. 28, 1776.
Phillips, Matthew. Reed, Samuel. Ridner, Conrad.
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Robinson, Simon. Rooke, Timothy. Rourk, Patrick.
Sergeants.
Sample, William. Smith, John, 1776-Sept. 20, 1779; died in Indiana County, 1811.
Corporal.
Swan, Timothy, resided in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1834.
Privates.
Seaton, Francis,
Sham, Michael, resided in Rowan County, N. C., in 1834, aged eighty-six. Shedacre, Jacob, Finley's company ; killed by the Indians near Potter's
fort, Centre County, July 24, 1778; had served under Morgan at Saratoga.
Shedam, Jacob. Sheridan, Martin.
Sherlock, Edward, died in Ross County, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1825, aged sixty- eight.
Shilhammer, Peter, resided in Westmoreland County in 1824. Shuster, Martin.
Simmons, Henry, June 12, 1776, Huffnagle's company.
Smith, Henry, resided in Rush County, Ind., in 1834, aged sixty-nine. Smith, John, Sr., resided in Frederick County, Va., in 1834, aged ninety. Smith, John, 2d, resided in Westmoreland County in 1835.
Smith, John, 3d, from Mifflin County; in Ourry's company, October, 1777; re-enlisted from Third Pennsylvania, Capt. Cook's; taken and scalped at Tuscarawas.
Steel, Thomas.
Stephen, Patrick, Capt. Kilgore's company, October, 1777.
Stewart, Charles.
Stewart, Francis.
Stewart, Samuel.
Stevenson, Samuel.
Stokely. Thomas, August, 1776; resided in Washington County in 1823. Straphan, William.
Stubbs, Robert. Sutton, David. Swift, John.
Taggert, William, transferred to Invalid Corps, July, 1780.
Tea, John.
Tharp, Perry, resided in Marion County, Ky., in 1834.
Turner, William, in Stokely's company, Sept. 17, 1776-79 ; resided at Con- nellsville, Fayette Co., in 1835, aged eighty-one.
Tweedy, George.
Van Doren, Thomas, Finley's company; served at Saratoga; killed by the Indians near Potter's fort, Centre County, July 24, 1778.
Vaughan, Joseph, enlisted in Capt. Samuel Moorehead's company, April 24, 1776, served two years and six months; then drafted into Capt. Miller's, and served six months; resided in Half-Moon township, Centre County, in 1822, aged sixty-two.
Verner, Peter, Invalid Corps, Aug. 2, 1779.
Sergeants.
Woods, John, transferred to Invalid Corps. Wyatt, Thomas, promoted ensign, Dec. 21, 1778; shoulder-bone broken at Brandywine.
Corporal.
Ward, Matthias.
Drummer.
Whitman, John.
Privates.
Wagoner, Henry, 1776-79 ; resided in Cumberland County in 1819. Waine, Michael, deserted August, 1778. Waters, Joseph, 1776-79.
Watson, John, July 4, 1777.
Weaver, Adam, 1776-79, Kilgore's company; resided in Westmoreland County in 1821.
Wharton, William, resided in Pendleton County, Ky., in 1834, aged eighty-seven.
Wilkey, David, deserted August, 1778. Wilkie, Edward. Wilkinson, William. Williams, John, Invalid Corps, Aug. 2, 1779.
Williams, Lewis, resided in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1834, aged ninety-two.
Williams, Thomas, killed in action.
Wilson, George, Capt. Huffnagle's company, October, 1777. Wilson, William, resided in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1820, aged sixty- eight.
Winkler, Joseph. Wolf, Philip, resided in Bedford County in 1790. Wyatt, Thomas, promoted sergeant.
Wyllie, Owen.
Wynn, Webster.
" ROLL OF CAPT. JOHN CLARK'S COMPANY,
" In a Detacht. from Penn. Line, Commanded by Stephen Bayard, Esq., Lt. Colo., for the Months of Feb., March & April, 1783."
Captain.
Clark, John.
Lieutenants.
Paterson, Gabel.
Bryson, Samuel.
Crawford, John. Everly, Mich1.
Sergeants.
McCline, John.
Blake, Will".
Baker, Mich !.
Major.
Lee, Wm.
Corporals.
Gladwin, John. McAfee, Mathw.
Johnston, Peter, discharged March Marmon, George. 17, 1783.
Drummers.
Kidder, Benjn. Edwards, Jno.
Bond, Jno.
Kenny, Peter.
Privates.
Amberson, Johnston. Smith, John.
Atchinson, Joseph, deserted Sept. 7, 1783.
Dixon, Willm.
Bigget, Robert.
Fossbrook, John. .
Boothe, George.
Gibson, Henry.
Girdler, James.
Caringer, Martin.
Hoetzley, Richard.
Carty, Richd.
Hutchison, John.
Casteel, Sam1.
Jones, Benje.
Chalmers, Andw.
Kerns, Godfrey.
Clark, James.
Kerr, Dan1.
Connor, John.
Landers, David.
Conway, Felix.
Lingo, Henry.
Cripps, John.
Lucas, Henry.
Dinnis, Mich1.
Maxwell, James.
Dinnison, James.
McAuley, Edward.
McGill, James.
McCristall, Mich1.
McGuire, Andrew.
Mercer, George.
Miller, Isaac.
Steed, James, deserted 27th March, 1783.
Morrison, Edward.
Stuart, Charles.
Murphy, Mich1.
Tharpe, Perry.
Ox, Michael.
Wharton, Willm.
Parker, Charles.
Willson, Willm.
Rooke, Timothy.
Winkler, Joseph V.
ROLL OF CAPT. SAMUEL BRADY'S COMPANY.
" Now Captain John Finley's Company, of the Detachmt from the Penn. Line, in the Service of the United States of America, commanded by L' Colo Steph" Bayard, for the months of Feb., March, and April, 1783."
Captains.
Brady, Samuel. Finley, John.
Lieutenants.
Mahon, John. Ward, John.
Quartermaster-Sergeant.
Fletcher, Simon. Sergeants,
Font, Matthew. Cheselden, Edward.
Sample, William.
Porter, Robert.
Allison, John.
Sherlock, Edward, prisoner of war; joined Feb., 1783.
Mooney, Patrick.
Harmon, Conrad.
Cardwell, Joseph, deserted April 1, 1783.
Fifers.
Dorough, John.
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Fife-Major.
Evans, Anthony.
Corporals.
Davis, Willm. Adams, Robert.
Swan, Timothy.
Drummers.
Miller, John.
Whitman, Jobn.
Fifer.
Adams, George.
Privates.
Anderson, George.
Bannon, Jeremiah.
Lacorn, John. Martin, George. McGloughlin, Patrick.
Branon, Michael. Brothers, Matthew.
Merryman, Wm.
Brown, John.
Miller, John. Mourey, Christian. Phillips, Matthew. Roairk, Patrick, died Sept. 2, 1783.
Robinson, Simon. Shereden, Martin.
Shuster, Martin.
Simmonds, Henry.
Smith, John.
Steel, Thomas. Strephan, William. Stubbs, Robert.
Fitz Gibbons, David.
Gibbons, David.
Sutton, David.
Gollacher, John.
Greenland, James.
Grimes, John.
Terman, Henry. Ward, Matthias. Wilkinson, Willm.
Hanley, Michael.
Williame, Lewis.
Winn, Webster.
Jordon, John, discharged July 1, 1783.
- (faded out), Hugh.
- (faded out), Obediah.
Kelley, Edward.
JOHN FINLEY, Capt.
Lacey, Lawrence.
Immediately after the departure of the Eighth Pennsylvania from Kittaning to join the army in the East, a detachment of Westmoreland militia marched from that county for Philadelphia, as ap- pears from the following letter,1 addressed by John Proctor to the Council of Safety :
"CARLISLE, January ye 27th 1777.
" Dear Sir,-I am on my Martch with a party of Melisha from the county of Westmoreland, of the first Batallion of about 240; we are like to be Scarse of Cash, and will not be able to Retch Philadelphia with a Suplay, and hauve Dispatched the Bairor Leut" Coll" Archibald Lochry to your Honourabble Bord, and I hope you will Send by Him the Sum whitch you may think Nesery. Vitlin is very high and Hard to be got.
" I am Sir, "youre Very Humble Ser't, " JOHN PROCTOR."
Directed :
" On the Service of the United States
To the President of Council in Philadelphia. by favour sent Coll" Lochry."
No roll of this detachment has been found, nor anything further ascertained with regard to its move- ments or services.
1 Penn. Archives, 1776-77, p. 202.
Other than the military organizations which have already been mentioned, viz. : the Eighth Pennsyl- vania Regiment, the company which joined Miles' Rifles, the Seventh and Thirteenth Virginia Battal- ions, and the detachment of Westmoreland militia, no other troops were raised in the Monongahela coun- try for regular service in the Revolutionary armies, though many were afterwards raised for the various Indian campaigns and expeditions. From that time forward to the close of the war the able-bodied men west of the Monongahela were kept constantly on guard, if not on actual duty, against Indian incur- sions and massacre along the frontier ; and it could not be expected that they would leave their families and homes defenseless to serve in the armies operating hundreds of miles away across the mountains.
At the beginning of the war Col. John Neville had taken possession of Fort Pitt with a body of Virginia militia from the Monongahela and Ohio River set- tlements, and held the old and dilapidated work until superseded in the command by Brig .- Gen. Edward Hand, an officer in the Continental establishment in 1777. During Neville's occupancy he pursued a peaceful policy towards the Indians, and in this course he was supported and aided by Col. George Morgan, congressional agent of Indian affairs in the West, who soon afterwards became a resident on Chartiers Creek at the place now known as Morganza, in Washington County. By their combined efforts, however, they failed to repress the hostility of the tribes, except the Delawares, who then, and for a considerable time afterwards, remained peaceable.
In 1777 several incursions were made by the In- dians, among which was an attack at Wheeling Creek near Fort Henry (Wheeling), which is mentioned in the following letter from Capt. Samuel Meason to Gen. Edward Hand,2 viz. :
" FORT HENRY, June 8, 1777. "SIR,-Yesterday, between the hours of five and six o'clock, as a few of Capt. Van Meter's Company were fishing about half a mile from this fort up Wheeling Creek, a certain Thomas McCleary and one Lanimore, being some distance from the others, were fired on by a party of Indians to the number of six, seven, or eight guns, of which the several persons near do not agree, as some say eight or upwards. Lani- more and others gave the alarm. I went to the place and found Tracks, but difficult to ascertain the num- ber of Indians. McCleary's shoe being found which he wore when he received the wound, we presently found him killed and scalped. He had run about three hundred yards from the creek. Night coming on by the time that we were satisfied of its being In- dians, I proposed to set out this morning by day- light in pursuit, and have drawn out of Capt. Virgin's company eight men, so that we amount to thirty men
2 Ibid., p. 445.
Cain, John. Callahan, John. Cavenaugh, Barney. Coleman, Joseph, died June 11, 1783.
Crowley, Timothy. Dimsey, Thomas. Dolphin, James.
Evans, Arnold, deserted June 27, 1783.
Everall, Charles.
Tea, John.
Hobach, Philip, deserted June 2d ; joined June 4, 1783.
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well equipt, and do cross the river at this place, as they seemed by their Tracks to bend their direction : down the river, and purpose to pursue them to the last extremity and hazard. I sett off at eight this morning, and flatter myself that you will not disap- prove our Proceeding but call on me if any occasion should require, and as I may not return to the ensuing council at Catfish, I take this opportunity to return your Honour the strength of my company, which consists of fifty men, of which forty-five are in good order and furnished for going on any emergency and expedition that may be necessary."
From this letter it appears probable that at that time the fort was garrisoned by men from the vicinity of the Monongahela,-the company of Capt. Brice Virgin, who resided near the present borough of Washington, and that of Capt. Van Meter, from what is now Greene County. At about the same time that the above-mentioned attack was made at Wheeling Creek, a small party of Indians was prowling on the head-waters of Buffalo Creek, but they committed no murders in the vicinity at that time.
On the 1st of September a force of two hundred and ten Indians laid siege to Fort Henry, but failed to capture the place. They withdrew across the Ohio with but trifling loss to themselves, after having killed fifteen, and wounded five more of the whites. On the 27th of the same month a Wyandot party of forty warriors attacked a body of forty-six white men eight miles below Wheeling on the Virginia side of the Ohio. In this action twenty-one of the white men were killed, a considerable number wounded, and one taken prisoner by the savages. This last-named at- tack had the effect to create a general panic through all the country from the Ohio to the Monongahela.
In the spring of 1778 the hostility of the Indians became far more active, the result of the instigations of the British on the lake frontier, and still more by Simon Girty and other white renegades who had de- serted from Fort Pitt and gone to the Indians to in- cite them on in their work of massacre and devasta- tion. In January of that year Gen. George Rogers Clarke, a Virginia officer, whose career in the Dun- more war of 1774 has already been noticed, raised about one hundred and fifty Virginians, chiefly on the upper Monongahela, for a campaign against the Brit- ish posts in the far West. He embarked this force in boats built and launched on the Monongahela at and near the site of West Brownsville.1 Passing down
the Monongahela and Ohio in May, he received rein- forcements at points below on the Ohio, proceeded to the lower river, disembarked his forces, and march- ing thence through a wilderness country partly sub- merged in many places, effected the reduction and capture of Vincennes, Kaskaskia, and other British posts west of the Wabash, achieving a success that at once made his name famous.
In February, 1778, Gen. Hand made an expedition into the Indian country west of the Ohio, the first which entered that region in any considerable force in the Revolution. About five hundred men marched from Fort Pitt and proceeded to the Cuyahoga River for the purpose of destroying some British stores re- ported to be there. The result of this movement was one Indian warrior and one squaw killed, and one squaw taken prisoner; and of the white troops, one captain wounded and one man drowned. From the insignificance of its achievements this was called in derision the "Squaw Campaign."
In May, 1778, Gen. Hand was succeeded in the command of the Western Department by another Continental officer, Brig .- Gen. Lachlin McIntosh, who brought with him a small force from the regular Con- tinental line. In the mean time Pennsylvania and Virginia had become aroused to the danger menacing their western frontiers, and had taken measures to raise a force for their protection. The Congress too had become aware of the increased hostility of the Indians and its cause, and had awakened to the press- ing necessity of more active measures for the protec- tion of the almost defenseless borders. This resulted in the determination to send an expedition for the re- duction of the British post of Detroit, as the surest means of overawing the savages and so insuring the safety of the frontier.
Orders were therefore issued to Gen. McIntosh to organize the proposed expedition and march against Detroit. In obedience to these orders he moved down the Ohio River with his little force of Conti- nentals, a battalion of Virginians, and several com- panies of Pennsylvanians (raised by the State for the emergency as before mentioned), and halting at the mouth of Beaver, the site of the present town of that name, erected there a small fort, which was named Fort McIntosh. This, the first military work ever erected by the United States on the Indian side of the Ohio, was a stockade, but bastioned, and on each bastion was mounted a six-pounder gun. It was scarcely more than worthless as against even light artillery, but for the purpose for which it was built was considered formidable.
By the time Fort McIntosh was completed it was found that the proposed expedition against Detroit would be too expensive an undertaking for the slen- der resources of the Congress. It was therefore abandoned. Gen. McIntosh, having received orders to proceed instead at his discretion against some of the Indian settlements, and having decided on an expedi-
1 Another expedition that started from the same vicinity in that year was that of David Rogers, who had been authorized by the Virginia government to purchase supplies in New Orleans. He, like Clarke, built keel-boats, and in these, with about thirty men, went down the Monon- gahela in June. On arriving at New Orleans he found that he must go up the river to St. Louis to receive his goods. This he did, but more than a year was consumed in the voyage, and when on his way back, up the Ohio, in October, 1779, the Indians attacked his party, killed nearly all (including Rogers), took the rest prisoners, and captured the entire cargoes of goods, consisting of provisions, clothing, rum, and other arti- cles, besides a considerable amount of silver money.
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tion against the Wyandot towns on the upper waters of the Sandusky, leaving a garrison at the fort, marched with about one thousand men into the western wil- derness towards his objective-point. But for some cause which is not perfectly clear, on reaching the Muskingum River he decided to proceed no farther until spring, and therefore halted there and erected a defensive work, which he named, in honor of the pres- ident of the Continental Congress, Fort Laurens. It was a weak stockade, located on the west bank of the river, near the site of the present town of Bolivar, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio. Having decided on a suspen- sion of operations for the season, he left in the fort a garrison of one hundred and fifty men, under com- 1 mand of Col. John Gibson, and returned with the main body of his force to Fort Pitt.
In January following Gen. McIntosh's return to Fort Pitt, Col. Gibson at Fort Laurens suddenly found himself besieged by a body of about eight hundred and fifty Indians, who reached the vicinity of the fort in the evening after dark. During the first night of the presence of the savages they caught the horses which were outside the fort, took off their bells, and led them some distance into the woods, then concealing themselves in the grass that bordered the path to the woods, and at about daybreak a party of them commenced rattling the bells at a point be- yond the ambush. The people in the fort supposed the horses were there, and sixteen men were sent to bring them in. When they had been drawn suffi- ciently into the ambushment the concealed Indians fired on them in front and rear, killing all but two, who were taken prisoners. In the afternoon of the same day the whole Indian force marched within full view of the garrison to an elevated piece of ground on the opposite side of the river, where they made their encampment. The siege of the fort continued for six weeks, at the end of which time the garrison became greatly straitened for provisions, but it proved that the savages were still more so. During the time of their stay frequent conversations were held be- tween the besiegers and besieged, the former telling Col. Gibson that they did not want war, but they were determined that the white man should not come and occupy their country and build forts within it. With Col. Gibson's garrison there was a Delaware Indian called John Thompson, who during the in- vestment had been permitted by both parties to go to and fro between the Indian camp and the fort at will. Finally the savages sent word by this Thompson to the white commandant that they wanted peace, and would make a treaty and leave the place if he would send them a barrel of flour and some tobacco. The garrison were terribly reduced for provisions, but Col. Gibson acceded to the request of the Indians, and sent them the articles demanded, whereupon the sav- ages raised the siege and marched away through the woods, but did not keep their promise to make a treaty of peace.
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Col. Gibson had a large number of sick men in his garrison, and soon after the Indians had apparently left the vicinity, he detached Col. Clarke with fifteen men to escort these invalids to Fort McIntosh, but they had not proceeded far from the fort when they fell into an ambush of the treacherous Indians, and all were killed or taken prisoners except Col. Clarke and three others who succeeded in making their es- cape to the fort. This act of perfidy so incensed Col. Gibson that he at once sallied out with the main part of his force, determined to attack and punish the In- dians for their treachery, but the savage forces had disappeared and were not again seen.
During the continuance of the siege, Col. Gibson had managed to send a friendly Delaware with a message to Gen. McIntosh at Fort Pitt, notifying him that unless men and provisions were promptly sent him he would be compelled to surrender. The gen- eral sent messengers in haste to the settlers up the Monongahela, acquainting them of the situation of af- fairs at Fort Laurens, and asking instant aid in men and provisions. The settlers promptly responded, many volunteering for the expedition of relief, and others furnishing pack-horses, with an abundant sup- ply of provisions. With these and a part of the gar- rison of Fort Pitt (making an entire force of about seven hundred men), Gen. McIntosh set out without delay, and marched rapidly to Fort Laurens, which was reached a few days after the departure of the be- sieging force of Indians. When the relief force ap- peared in sight at the fort the joy of the garrison was great, and found expression in the firing of a salute of musketry, which, however, cost them dear, for it frightened the pack-horses and caused them to break loose and run into the woods with their loads, by which accident a great part of the flour was lost, the sacks being broken open, and their contents scattered among the trees and bushes so that it could not be recovered. The meats of course were not injured ...
A new garrison under Maj. Frederick Vernon was left at Fort Laurens, and Gibson's command, with the main force under Gen. McIntosh, returned to Fort Pitt. During the stay of Maj. Vernon at Fort Lau- rens the garrison under his command was reduced to the verge of starvation, and finally, in the spring of 1779, the fort was evacuated and abandoned. The evacuation of Fort McIntosh followed soon after- wards. The withdrawal of the troops from these forts was the final abandonment of the proposed ex- peditions of Gen. McIntosh against the British post of Detroit and the Wyandot towns on the Sandusky. The troops with which he had prosecuted his oper- ations at Forts McIntosh and Laurens in 1778 and the early part of 1779 were, with the exception of the small Continental force which he brought with him from the East, made up almost exclusively of men from the country between the Laurel Hill and the Ohio River, the territory which afterwards be- came Washington County furnishing its full share.
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