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Scotch-Irish, 265.
Scott family, 953.
Scott families, 729, 860, 883, 884; 870, 902.
Scott, Hugh, 883.
Scott, Thomas, 177, 194, 208, 224, 230, 283, 237. Settlements, the first, 140.
Settlers, attempted removal of, 141.
Settlers west of Monongahela, 145.
Seventh Virginia Regt. in the Revolution, 76.
Seventy-ninth Regiment, 319; Co. D, 320.
Shannon family, 487. Sharp family, 838. Shawanese, history, 16.
Shearer family, 901. Sheriffs, list, 468.
Shilling, Pennsylvania, 240.
Shingiss, the Delaware king, 17, 53, 56.
Shuster, Daniel, 658.
Simonton family, 855.
Simpson (James) family, 854.
Six Nations, proprietors, 19. Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 349.
Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, 362.
Slavery and servitude, 255.
Slavery in Pennsylvania, abolition, 255 ; aboli- tion societies, 546, 750.
Slaves, registries of, 258 ; statistics, 261.
Slemmons family, 688. Sloan, Rev. Dr. James, 599.
Slover, John, capture and escape, 128, 134. Slusher family, 659.
Smallman, Thomas, 221. Smallpox meeting, Washington, 487. Smiley family, 811. Smiley, William, 811, 813.
Smith township, 910; reduction of limits, 910 ; justices, 910; early settlers, 910; Burgetts- town, 916 ; Cardville, 919 ; Burgettstown National Bank, 920 ; physicians, 920; news- papers, 921; orders, 921 ; schools, 924; Bavington, 927; Dinsmore, 928 ; Bulger, 928 ; Union Agricultural Association, 929. Smith, James, 206.
Smith, Rev. J. M., contribution, 619.
Smith, Rev. Joseph, 398, 439, 786, 812 ; family, 813.
Smith, Thomas, 174. Smith, William, 947. Smith, Williane; Jr. 950. Soldiers' monument, 552.
Somerset township, 931; erection and bounds, 931 ; early settlers, 931; Bentleysville, 987 ; Vanceville, 938; churches, 938; Church of Christ at Vanceville, 944; United Presby- terian Church, Pigeon Creek, 945; German Lutheran, 946; schools, 946; physicians, 947; incorporation of Bentleysville, 947.
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South Stral :ne township, 952 ; settlements, 952 ; Method,-t Episcopal Church, 956; Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, 956; schools, 956 ; prehistoric pipe, 956; Enterprise Coal- Works, 957.
Southwestern State Normal School, 462. Sparta, 847. Spaulding and the Book of Mormon, 425. Speer family, 873. Speers family, 643, 640. Speers, Solomon C., 649. Sphar family, 651. Sphar, Henry, 651. Sprowls family, 776. Sprowla, Drs. J. N., I. N., Lee M., 763. St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, 150, 170 n. Stage lines, 381. State senators, list, 471. State treasurer, 471. Steamboat navigation, 390. Steel, Rev. John, sent to Redstone, 142. Steen, Isaiah, 485. Stephens, John W., 940. Stephenson families, 730, 744, 837, 915. Stephenson, Hugh, 221. Stevens, Dr. James, 545. Stevenson families, 934. Stewart family, 837. Stewart, Galbraith, 816. Stewart, Robert, 842. Stewart, Mary, murder of, 852. Stockdale family, 646, 651. Stockdale, Robert, 661. Stockley, Thomas, 484. Stocks, 222, 240, 609. Stockton families, 800. Stockton, Rev. Dr. John, 737, 738, 800. Stoolfire family, 746. Struthers family, 710. Students' Enterprise, G12. Superintendents of schools, 471. Surveyors, county, list, 470. Sutton family, 659, 669. Swagler, Jacob, 949. Swart, A. J., 672. Swearingen, Andrew, 711. Swearingen, Thomas, 782. Swearingen, Van, 77, 79, 170; sketch, 238, 483. Swickard family, 932.
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Taggart, Rev. Samuel, contribution, 818. Tanacharison, 31, 32. Tavern rates fixed, 216, 240. Taverna, early, 493, 747, 753, 794. Taylor family, 953. Taylor, Henry, 146, 224, 235, 240; sketch, 241, 266.
Taylor's Fort, 678. Taylorstown, 679. Taxables of Yohogania Connty, 219.
Teagarden family, 765. Teagarden, Dr. James W., 764. Teeter family, 825. Teeter's Fort, 825. Templeton families, 719. Tenan family, 911. Ten Mile Creek, Indian raids on, 70. Ten-Mile Rangers, war of 1812, 308. Ten-Mile village, 665. Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves, 316; Co. D, 318. Texan war, 310. Theological Seminary at Canonsburg, 405.
Thirteenth Virginia Regt. in the Revolution, 77. Thompson families, 690, 854, 815. Thompson, Rev. David, 831. Thompson, Dr. Hugh, 613, 898.
Thompson, Dr. Robert, 614. Toledo, 801.
Toll-gates on the National road, 381.
Tom the Tinker, 271, 273, 286. Tomahawk improvements, 146. Topography of Washington County, 13. Toryism in the Monongahela Valley, 91, 156.
Townsend family, 890, 899. Townsend, Elijah, 899.
Townships, original, 228.
Travis family, 894. Treasurers, list, 470.
Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768), 145. Tribune, 509.
Trinity Church, Washington, 018.
Trinity Hall, 458. Tucker family, 659, 806.
Turnpikes, 374, 382, 383, 384.
Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment, three months" service, 311.
Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry, 353; Co. A, 333; C'o. B, 356; Co. (, 358; Co. D, 359; Co. E, 359; Co. F, 360 ; Co. G, 361. Twenty-seventh Judicial District, 247.
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Underground Railway, 261.
Union Agricultural Association, 928. Union Grove Seminary, 818. Union School of Washington, 532.
Union township, 960 ; early settlement and set-
tlers, 960; physicians, 964; Finleyville, 965; Gastonville, 965; Coal Bluff, 965; Peters Creek Lodge, 966; Advance Lodge, 966; schools, 966; justices of peace, 966; churches, 967.
United Brethren Church, Carroll, 697 ; Done- gal, 758; East Finley, 777; West Finley, 985.
United Presbyterian Church of Washington County, 399; of Washington, 516; Chartiers (Canonsburg), 616; Taylorstown, 680; North Buffalo, 681 ; South Buffalo, 683; Venice, 703; Chartiers Cross-Roads, 716; West Alexander, 751; Wheeling (East Fin- ley), 778; Paris, 809; Mount Hope, 831; West Middletown, 818; Mount Pleasant, 862; Candor, 880; Mount Prospect, 886; Peters Creek, 893; McDonald, 904; Rob- inson, 907; Burgettstown, 922; Pigeon Creek, 945.
Upper Buffalo Academy, 453. Urie family, 814.
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Vallandigham, George, 238; see records of West Augusta Court and of Yohogania Court.
Valley Leader, 628.
Valley Record, 582. Valley Sentinel, 582. Valley Spirit, 628.
Van Buren,'801. Vance family, 914.
Vance, Isaac, 953. Vance, Samuel, 957. Vance's Fort, 722, 736.
Vanceville, 938.
Vaneman family, 873.
Van Kirk family, 657. Van Voorhis family, 695. Van Voorhis, Dr. J. S., 643. Vasbinder family, 815.
Venice, 703.
Vienna (Coon Island), 753.
Virgin, Brice, 86. Virgin, Reason, 207, 797.
Virginia, title to Northwest
legislative proceedings, 182 ; . of the Alleghanies, 183; onti. to, 1×8, 214 ; land laws of, 18x
Washington County, 192; map. .. 1. . 115 surveys, faring 193; judicial NA! usurpations, 227; autographs of V justices, facing 204; rreords of fo Went Augusta County, 2204 ; f record- Court of Yohoganla County, 212.
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Wait family, 699. Walker family, 741.
Walker, Mrs., captured on Buffalo, 112.
Walker, David S., 741. Walker, John N., 741. Wallace family, 805, 933.
Wallace family, captured, 103, 106.
Wampum, 143 n. War contributions, 364.
War of 1812, 306, 571.
War of the Rebellion, 310, 574. Ward, Edward, surrenders to the French, 17, 34, 36, 140, 207, 212, 221.
Warne, Maj. James, 569, Goo.
Washington borough, 476. banks and baukers, 525.
churches, 510. Cornplanter at, 477. early business intereste, 480, 491. early residents, 478. early taverns, 493.
fire department, 501.
Freemasons, 548. gas-works, 553. Grand Army of the Republic, 550.
incorporation and list of officers, 490. insurance companies, 528. libraries, 539. manufactures, 554. market-houses, 499.
newspapers, 506. Odd-Fellows, 550. original plan of, facing 477.
physicians, 541.
post-offices and postmasters, 505.
schools, 529. smallpox meeting, 191. societies, 546. town hall, 503. union school, 532.
Washington Cemetery, 550.
Washington Coal Company, 553. Washington College, 441. Washington County :
act erecting, 222, area and population in 1882, 242. centennial celebrati. 1, 555. civil list, 468.
coal-mines and mining, 367.
commission of the peace, 230.
county buildings, 463. courts, organization of, 235, 464. educational history, 438. elections, early, 228. emigrations, early, 292. Fifth Judicial District, 243. Fourteenth Judicial District, 24. geology, 365. Indian occupation, 15.
internal improvement .. 370. justices, election of, first, 209. justices, second set, 242. limits, reduction of, 241.
locati. a, boundaries, topog:a; hy. 13. map of Virginia, surveys, facing 198.
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map of 1781-82. facing 222 Mexican war. ,it militia in 17., . M . officers, appointment of, 224. political fre des, early, 225, 237. population, 4. .. railroads. 391 religions history, 398. sand-wolks 370. slave registries, 258. Blavery, 257.
Texan war, 310. towuships, division into, 228. Twenty-seventh Judicial District, 247. war contributions, 364. war of 1812, 3 ai, 571.
war of the Rebellion, 310. Whiskey Insurrection, 262.
Washington County Fire Insurance Company, 528
Washington Democrat, 509. Washingtoniun, 507. Washington Examiner, 508.
Washington Female Seminary, 453, 559.
Washington Fire Company, 502.
Washington, George, sent to French forts, 31 ;
campaign in 1754, 34; engagement with Jumon ville, 35; battle of the Great Mead- ows, 38; with Gen. Braddock, 45; with Forbes' expedition, 61; with army in Whiskey Insurrection, 295; lota owned in Washington, 477; visits his lands in Mount Pleasant township, 189, 374, 856; diary of his visit in 1784, 858; ejectment suit, 859.
Washington and Jefferson College, 448. Washington, Lund, lands, 912. Washington Observer, 509. Washington Patriot, 508.
Washington and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, 393.
Washington Reporter, 506. Washington Savings-Banks, 528. Washington Weekly Review, 509. Wasson, Rev. Luke J., 887. Watson, James, 274.
Waynesburg and Washington Railroad Com- pany, 397. Weaver family, 710. Weir family, 800. Welch family, S26, 915.
INDEX.
Weller family, 872. Wells family, 721, 825. Wells' Fort, 722, 736. Wendell, Abraham, 18.
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Monongahela City, 588.
West Alexander, 747; early taverns, 746, 747; incorporated, 748; officers, 748; justices, 748; a Gretna Green, 749; schools, 749; churches, 749 ; cemetery, 752.
West Alexander Academy, 451, 749.
West Augusta, district of, 172; court, 178, 179 ; division into Ohio, Yohogania, and Monon- galia Counties, 182, 183; map, facing 183; court-house on Gabby farm, 185 n .; record of West Augusta Court, 204.
Westbay, Henry, 603, 611.
West Bethlehem township, 969; early settle- ments, 970; churches, 974; Hillsborough, 975; Zollarsville, 977 ; schools, 977.
West Brownsville borough, 635; laid out, 637;
Bowman's addition, 637; ferries, 638 ; Mo- nongahela bridge, 638; boat-yards, 639, 640; incorporation, first election and officers, 639; churches, 640; Excelsior Planing- Mill, 642.
Western Corrector, 507.
Western Missionary Magazine, 507.
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Western Patriot, 582.
Western Register, 508.
Western Telegraphe and Washington Advertiser, 506.
West Finley township, 979; settlement, 979; Good Intent, 983; Burnsville, 983; Lodge No. 956, I. O. O. F., 983; Burnsville Chris- tian Church, 983 ; United Brethren Church, 983; Salem M. E. Church, 985; North Wheeling Baptist Church, 985; Windy Gap Church, 985; schools, 985; justices of the peace, 986.
West Middletown, 816; early residents, 816; justices, 817 ; post-office, 817; school, 817 ; Union Grove Seminary, 818; churches, 818. Westmoreland County erected, 148; early offi- cials, 149; court records, 151; early town- ships, 151; courts reorganized, 156; jus- tices arrested, 174; Revolutionary resolu- tions, 180.
West Pike Run township, 986; settlement, 987; schools, 990; churches, 991; Beallsville borough, 993.
Westsylvania, the proposed new State, 231.
Wheeling, attack on (1782), 134. Wherry family, 932.
Whipping-post, 221, 240.
Whiskey Insurrection, 262; attack on Neville's house, 272; death of McFarlane, 273; mail robbery, 278; Braddock's Field meeting, 280; United States army called out, 286, 294; the terrible night, 298.
White Eyes, Koquaitahghaitah, 220.
White family, 872. Whittaker family, 914.
Wick family, 658. Wier family, 933. Wilderness, the, 138.
Williams family, 674. Williamson family, 676.
Williamson, Col. David, with Crawford's expe- dition, 111, 114, 676.
Williamson's expeditions, 102.
Williamsport, see Monongahela City.
Wilson families, 482, 483.
Wilson, Col. George, 77, 166, 207, 209.
Wilson, Dr. John R., 545.
Wilson, Henry, 954.
Wilson, John K., 393.
Wilson, Robert, the exciseman, 268.
Winget family, 844. Winter family, 744.
Wishart family, 915.
Wishart, Dr. John, 393, 544.
Witherspoon family, 903.
Wolf family, 677, 688.
Wolf's Fort, 678. Work family, 815.
Work, Maj. George T., 823.
Workman family, 484.
Workman, Hugh and James, 130.
Wright's Chapel, Washington, 524.
Wright family, 888.
Wright, Joshua, 152, 213.
Wylie family, 487, 687.
Wylie, Rev. Andrew, 940.
Y.
Yeates, Jasper, 183. Yeates, Richard, 953. Yohogania County, erection, 184; record of court, 212.
Z.
Zollarsville, 977.
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Page 228, 2d column. " Veach" should be Veech.
Page 250, 2 column, note, and page 479, 1st column. That David Redick was a native of Ireland is stated on the authority of a biograph- ical note in IV. Penna. Archives, Sec. S, 46; but Hon. D. Kaine, of Uniontown, Pa., communicates that he was born about 1745, in Last Penuslurough township, then Lancaster, now Cumberland, County, nine miles west of Harrisburg, where the village of Hogestown now is. His father was John Redick, probably from Ireland; his mother was Rachel, daughter of John Hoge, who was a native of New Jersey, and a son of William Hoge, a Scotchman. David Redick studied law at Carlisle, married his cousin. Aun Hoge, a daughter of Jonathan Hoge, the brother of David, the proprietor of Washington. His wife survived him and died in 1812. They had seven children, three sons, Jonathan H., admitted to the bar in 1803, subsequently killed in a duel iso says Mr. Kaine), David, and James, and four daughters, none of whom left descendants except the youngest, Eliza, who married a Capt. Anderson, and whose children reside in Louisville, Ky.
Page .261, 2d column, note. The death of Mrs. Gardner should be printed as occurring about 1850.
Page 265, Ist column. " Repealing act, 1781," should be 1791.
Page 364, 1st column. "Prostrated and extensive" should be pro- tracted and extensive.
Page 202, 1st column. Jonathan . Wr ght" should be Jonathan Knight
Page 170, Ist column " Register of Feeds" should be jecarter it deeds; in 2d column, " Recurso Wills" should be register of wills.
Page 476. 1st column. " Matha's" Bottom shon! 1 le Martha's Bottom. Page 484, 1st column. The textdence of Mr. > many ] Cunningham was next on the east the one now occupied by A. T Bain, Esq. on Fast Maiden Street.
Page 487, 1st column. Lot 283 on " Maulen" should be on Main
Page 488, 1st column. Sarah B. " Muller" shonbile Suah B Museer.
Page 553, 1st column. A line of copy has been omitted in the measure. ments of the Soldiers' Monument : the height of the second Fase should be three and three-eighths feet.
Page 674, 2d column. Mr. " Koogle" should be Mr. Kruger.
Page 758, 2d column. The paragraph concerning the Pleasant Giove Regular Baptist Church should have been placed in East Finley township
Page 867, 2d column. Miss Mary " Boynton" should be " Baynton." She was the daughter of the Mr. Baynton who was of the firm of Wharton, Baynton & Morgan, trading with the Indians in 1763, losing heavily by them in the French and Indian war, and becoming interested as bene- ticiaries in the Indian grant to the traders at the treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768, out of which arose the famous Indiana Company.
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INDEX.
Washington County : map of 1781-82. Wenn; W. Mexican war. . ' militia in 1 : 13 officera, appointment of, 224. political tren es, early, 225, 237. population .. 4. .. railroads. .. '1 religions L.story, 398. sand-wolks 370. slave registries, 258. slavery, 257. Texan war, 310. towuships, division into, 228. Twenty-seventh Judicial District, 247. war contribution-, 364. war of 1812, 306, 571.
Weller family, 872. Wells family, 721, 825. Wells' Fort, 722, 736. Wendell, Abraham, 18. Wesleyan Methodist Church, Monongahela City, 588.
West Alexander, 747; early taverns, 746, 747; incorporated, 748; officers, 748; justices, 748; & Gretna Green, 749; schools, 749; churches, 749; cemetery, 752. West Alexander Academy, 451, 749.
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West Augusta, district of, 172; court, 178, 179 ; division into Ohio, Yohogania, and Monon- galia Counties, 182, 183 ; map, facing 183; court-house on Gabby farm, 185 n .; record of West Augusta Court, 204. Westbay, Henry, 603, 611.
Wheeling, attack on (1782), 134. Wherry family, 932. Whipping-post, 221, 240.
Whiskey Insurrection, 262 ; attack on Neville's house, 272; death of McFarlane, 273; mail robbery, 278; Braddock's Field meeting, 280; United States army called out, 286, 294; the terrible night, 298.
White Eyes, Koquaitahghaitah, 220. White family, 872. Whittaker family, 914. Wick family, 658. Wier family, 933. Wilderness, the, 138. Williams family, 674. Williamson family, 676. Williamson, Col. David, with Crawford's expe-
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