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The five Butlers at the close of the Revolutionary War held the following grades : Richard and William were colonels, Thomas a captain, and Pierce and Edward lieu- tenants. Thomas commanded at Fort Fayette, during the Whiskey Insurrection; and although distinguished in that responsible command, was quite as well known subsequently for disobeying the order to cut off queues.
" Colonel George Gibson," (p. 377.)
Mortally wounded at St. Clair's defeat, was the father of General George Gibson of the War Department, and of the late Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. He was the brother of General John Gibson (commonly called by his nom de guerre -" Horse- head,") the well-known Indian interpreter in Dunmore's war. Colonel George Gib- son, besides being a gallant soldier, was an accomplished gentleman, a man of wit and fine imagination. Had he, instead of his brother, been at the treaty of Camp Charlotte, and present at the "delivery " of Logan's speech, that posthumous leaf from the plants of Sir William Johnston, might have been imputed to him.
" General Irvine." (p. 385.)
William Irvine was one of the best of the five Revolutionary colonels (of Irish birth) who resided in that nursery of brave officers, Carlisle, and Cumberland county. His descendants reside at Brokenstraw, in Warren county, Pennsylvania.
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" Lieutenant Murphy." (p. 391.)
In August, 1849, three years before the death of this famous Indian hunter, I went into Armstrong county to see him, having heard my father say that "Samuel Murphy was the best soldier he ever knew ;" which in his sense of the word implied truthfulness, honor, intelligence, as well as courage. I thought it possible Murphy might have been in Lord Dunmore's Expedition - probably its only survivor. He was living, where he had settled more than seventy years before, twelve miles below Kittanning, on the "Indian side" of the Allegheny, on his own tract of river bottom, which he had plowed for half a century, and often with a loaded rifle on his shoulder. I was taken by his two maiden daughters to the original cabin, a rod or two detached from the present family dwelling, where he sat on a chair in the mid- dle of the puncheon floor, with his hat on, in his Sunday suit, which hung loosely upon him. It was evident that the noble and gigantic form was wasting away with age.
He said to his daughters who introduced me : "Is it Harmar ?" After a minutes silence he remarked, " We encamped at Presqu' Isle the night your brother Harmar was born." As he spoke of that expedition I adverted to the accident on their return descending the Allegheny - when my father fell out from the bow of his perogue, and as the current swept him astern was caught by Murphy and lifted on board with one hand whilst he steered with the other. He quietly corrected me and said, "I was not steering - your father thought one of the men could steer better - I was amidships." For a man ninety-two years old his memory was most faithful-at least of occurrences in early and middle life. He was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1756, at a place called Bullskins : came to Fort Pitt the first time in 1772, to get a saddle which had been lent to Doctor Conolly. "It was then," said he, "that I first met your father ; and passed the night with him at Turtle creek, on his return from Fort Pitt-at ' Granny Myers',' and not at Hannahstown, on his way going out, as you suppose. I knew him too well to think that he would have mentioned to me that he was a bearer of public dispatches, until after he had executed his mission and delivered his message." Murphy said that he accompanied the Earl of Dun- more's expedition as far as it proceeded. He described the Earl as "a large, full, red faced man -looked as if he lived high ;" "was near him, when on foot among the men he came to the Hocking. Saw him step into the water and wade the river with the unconcern of an Indian -rejecting the offer of a young sergeant to carry him ever."
· Murphy did not recollect Logan; "though," he said, " I must have seen him, as he was among the Indians in the neighborhood. He said he was not present at any reading of the speech at the Scioto treaty. But it was next day the talk of the camp, that Logan boasted he had killed many white men - had taken his revenge."
Murphy said, "I was well acquainted with John Gibson, served under him when he was colonel of the thirteenth regiment- have seen his Indian wife, Betty. I do not recollect his character for veracity."
On my way from Freeport and on the high bluff or river hill, overlooking " Mur- phy's Bend," I stopped and left my vehicle at John Craig's. Craig was in his nine- ty-seventh year. He told me that he was five years older than his neighbor Murphy. His mind and memory were nearly gone. He had belonged to what was called " the flying camp"- had been taken prisoner by the Indians, and confined in the same guard house on an island sixty miles above Montreal to which Murphy had been
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carried by Simon Girty when he was checkmated on the Bear Grass. Craig used to tell the story that one quiet morning Murphy jumped to the ceiling of the guard room and gave the war-whoop. The British sentinel on duty had just said to him that if he would not mention it he would tell him something that would make him glad ; on the promise being given, he whispered to him slowly - " Cornwallis is taken!"
" Major Hamtramck." ( p. 421.)
This excellent officer died, I believe, at Detroit where Major Denny, on his visit to that place, found him in command. Jesse B. Thomas, at one time a Senator from Illinois, married his widow.
" Lieutenant Matthew Ernest." (p. 428.)
A mysterious fate subsequently attended this officer, whose position as command- ant at Fort Pitt made him a frequent correspondent of General Harmar. He was commissioned in the New York militia, then by the President of Congress; and finally appointed by Washington, lieutenant of artillery. After his resignation he settled in Detroit; was collector and inspector of revenue in 1805, when that town was burnt. In the fall of that year he left home for Washington, thence went to New York; from which city several letters from him were received by his family at their residence, "Spring Wells." In the last he said he would leave in a few days " for his home." Since then nothing has ever been heard of him.
" Captain John Irwin," (p. 431.)
Whose residence was then in Pittsburgh; a gallant and severely wounded officer of the Revolution, whose descendants are now residents of Pittsburgh.
Indian Vocabulary. (p. 478.)
The original of the glossary here given is in the handwriting of Major Denny, and was got from the Indians assembled at the treaties - probably the Delaware dialect at Fort M'Intosh, and the Shawanee at Fort Finney. An interesting acquisition at the time was the Delaware Indian spelling book sent to General Harmar by David Zeisberger, Missionary of the Moravian Indians, from his residence on the river Huron.
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RECOLLECTING that the late Secretary of the Treasury, William M. Meredith, then a very young man, was sitting next to me at the table, when his father related the incident referred to in a preceding note, I wrote to a friend and correspondent in Philadelphia to ask Mr. Meredith if he remembered what was said. The following is the note in reply, and the answer of Mr. Meredith :
PHILADELPHIA, 15th Sept., 1859.
MY DEAR DR. DENNY-I acknowledged, last week, your letter of the 2d inst., stating what Mr. Meredith had said to me in conversation. I now have the pleasure to inclose a note from Mr. Meredith, which I only got last evening, too late to send by last night's mail.
Always, my dear sir, Very truly yours,
BENJAMIN RUSH. DR. DENNY.
Mr. Meredith to Mr. Rush.
PHILADELPHIA, 12th Sept., 1859
MY DEAR SIR-I have read Dr. Denny's note to you, which I herewith return. I have frequently heard my father speak of having been, with other friends, at General Harmar's on the evening during which Major Denny arrived, bringing the first intelli- gence of St. Clair's defeat. General Harmar did not live at Norristown, but at his country seat in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Major Denny was the bearer of General St. Clair's dispatches, and my understanding was, that after delivering them to the commander-in-chief, he rode straight to General Harmar's, of whom he was an intimate friend, and had been, I think, his aid-de-camp.
My lamented friend, Harmar Denny, was named after him. Of course I need not speak of their relation to each other, as Dr. Denny must be familiar with it. My father always spoke with great feeling of the profound impression made upon him- self (then a youth of nineteen) and the other guests, by the sudden entrance of Major Denny, travel-stained, worn and exhausted, and by his earnest and soldier-like nar- ration of the battle, defeat and massacre, and description of the sufferings to which the inhabitants of the frontier were thereby exposed.
I am, with great esteem,
Very faithfully yours,
W. M. MEREDITH. B. RUSH, Esq.
INDEX.
ALRICHS, Jacob, appointed Director-Gene- ral, 21. Amasland, the situation of, 198.
Amasland Creek, note on, 65.
Andross, Sir Edmund, account of, 36, 37, 38.
Argonautica Gustaviana, 14.
Army of the Revolution disbanded, 257. Ashley River, Denny at Camp on, 250, 251, 252, 253.
Attornies not allowed to practice, 82.
Battle-Ground of St. Clair's defeat, de- scription of, 368.
Beatty, Captain Ercureus, note on, 489. Blockhouse for an insane person, 102. Blue-Bell Inn, 88, 171.
Boundary between New Castle and Upland Counties, 119, 198, 199, 200.
Braddock's Field, Harmar and Denny visit, 321, 322.
Burlington Island, note on, 141.
Butler, Gen. Richard, wounded and left on the field, 221, 222; arrives at Fort Harmar, 327; note on the Butlers, 489.
Calkoen's Hook, the District of, 197.
Carkoen's Hook, 58; residents of, 79; District of, 197. Carmichael, Doctor, note on, 488.
Carr, Sir Robert, sent to reduce the Dela- ware, 23, 24.
Casimir, Fort, built, 18; seized by Risingh, 19.
Charles II. Grant to James, Duke of York, 21.
Charleston evacuated by the British, 253.
Christiana, Queen, Fort named after, 15.
Church in Upland, its lands, and obscurity as to its early existence, 121; account thereof, 152, 153, 200, 201, 202; main- tenance of the Pastor, 191; church wardens, 152.
Clark, Gen. George Rogers, character of, 216, 217; surprises the British at Me- nard's Gap, 217, 218; breaks the sword voted him by Virginia, 218.
Constable, an additional, between the Schuylkill and Neshaminy, 184.
Cornwallis, Lord, capitulates at Yorktown, 248.
Courts established on the Delaware, 31. Court at Upland, the Records to be de- livered to the new Clerk, 43; letter to the Governor, 45; charge for keeping and diet of Court and Justices, 46; Court in want of means to pay for meat and drink, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164; Court expenses, 57. 66, 77, 93; Court removed to Kingsessing, 171, 175; Court grossly slandered, 193.
Cripple, note on the word, 203.
Crooked-Billet, Walter Denny killed at the Battle of the, 207. Crum Kill, note on, 65.
Deeds of conveyance acknowledged, 89, 90, 91, 103, 109, 119, 128, 135, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 160.
Defence, House of, at Upland, 74; note on, 202.
Denny, Agnes, account of, 208, 209; death of, 232.
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Denny, Ebenezer, his ancestry, 207; early | Expenses, Public, of Upland, 94, 95, 96. struggles, 209, 210; volunteers on a letter of marque, 210; commissioned in the army, 211; goes to Virginia, 211, 237, 238; goes to Carolina, 216, 249, 250; estimate of his character, 219, 220 ; candidate for the Legislature, Fort Harmar built at Muskingum, 293. 225; resigns from the army, marries, re-enters the army, and goes to Le Bœuf, 224; engages in business, 228, Fort Franklin, description of, 319. 229; Treasurer of Alleghany County and Bank Director, 229, 230; becomes an Army contractor, 232; his patriotism in the service, 233; elected first Mayor of Pittsburg, and death, 234; leaves South Carolina for Philadelphia, 256; goes to Pittsburg, 258; goes to the Foster, William B., note on, 488. Great Miami, 260, 261, 262, 263; in command at the Falls of Ohio, 288; on furlough, visits Philadelphia, 295, 296; marches on Vincennes, 304, 305, 306; goes to Venango, 319; leaves Fort Harmar for Philadelphia, 338, 339, 340; returns, 341; on the expedition against the Maumee Towns, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351; in Philadelphia, St. Clair's expedition projected, 355; aid- Gibson, Col. George, note on, 489. de-camp to St. Clair, 358; leaves with Glass works, note on the first, 487. despatches to the President, 378; takes breakfast with Washington, 380; ap- pointed Captain, 380; resigns, 382; appointed Captain of Forces raised by Pennsylvania, 383; appointed Major, and recommends Captain Buchanan to succeed him, 409.
Duelling in the American Army, 215.
Dutch discover the Delaware, and settle thereon, 11, 12; settlement destroyed, 13 ; conquest, 19, 20; their administra- tion of justice, 28; re-conquest, 31.
Eastern shore of the Delaware, residents of, 80.
English conquest of the Delaware, 24. Entertainment, House of, 141.
Ernest, Lieut. Matthew, note on, 491. Expedition against the Indians, St. Clair's, 355.
Fabritius, Jacobus, the Pastor at Upland, 191
Fees of Court to be collected for expenses of Court, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164.
Fort Finney erected at the Great Miami, 263.
Fort Franklin in a wretched state of de- fence, 387.
Fort Jefferson, St. Clair's army retreats to, 372, 373.
Fort Washington, remains of St. Clair's army at, 378.
Frontiers of Pennsylvania, their exposed condition, 382.
Gallatin, Albert, temperate in his opposi- tion to the excise, 227.
Gardner, Thomas, Surveyor-General of West Jersey, 141.
Gibson, Gen. John, arrives at Fort Har- mar, 330.
Great Miami, Fort Finney erected at the, 263.
Gustavus Adolphus interested in the Dutch colony on the Delaware, 14.
Hamtramck, Maj., marches on Vincennes, 304, 305, 306 ; note on him, 491.
Hardin's command defeated, the reluct- ance of his men, 349, 350.
Harmar, Gen. Josiah, his personal ap- pearance, 235; sent to France with the ratified treaty, 258, 418, 414 ; joins the army at Pittsburg, 259; with Mrs. Har- mar goes to Fort McIntosh, 292; speaks to the Indians, 309, 310; receives brevet of Brigadier-General, and goes to Fort Harmar, 314; destroys the Maumee Towns, 343 to 351; determines to leave the army, solicits a Court of Inquiry, its honorable report, 356, 357; predicts
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a defeat of the force under St. Clair, 357, 374; prompt settlement of his ac- counts, 380.
Hartfelder's tract, 57.
Hataorackan, or Pennsbury Manor, note on, 203.
Hazlewood, Lieut., wants to resign, 397, 398.
Hollander's Kill, note on, 100. House of Defence at Upland, 74.
Inckhooren, Andries, has his beard pulled and neck twisted, 180.
Incontinence of Richard Ducket and Swart Anna, 52.
Independence Day, celebration of, 292, 293.
Indians plunder Peter Jegou, 141 ; lands purchased from the Indians, 81; they are protected against the sale of liquor, 194.
Indian games at the Great Miami, 264, 265; treaty at Fort McIntosh, 258, 259; festivities at the Great Miami, 267; story of an Indian captive, 271, 272; dances at the Great Miami, 275, 276; deadly combat between two In- dians, 328, 330; vocabulary of Indian language, 478 to 485.
Inhabitants on the Delaware, see taxables, 77, 78, 79, 80.
Insane person provided for, 102, 103.
Instructions of Governor Andros, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43.
Insurgent troops insult Congress at Phila- delphia, promptness of the officers, flight of the criminal officers, 256, 257. Irvine, Gen. William, arrives at Pittsburg, 385; note on him, 489. Irwin, Captain John, note on, 491.
James Island, Cantonment on, 254, 255. Jury drawn, their verdict suspended, 107. Justices of Upland, oath administered thereto, 35, 36; Justice Helm abused, 54; commissions renewed, 165; Justice Cock slandered, 180, 181 ; Justices fined for non-attendance, 189, 190.
Kelpius, John, the Hermit of the Ridge, 191.
Kentucky militia, their character, 344. Kingsessing, Court meets at, 175.
Kinsey's, Elizabeth, purchase at Shacka- maxon, 116, 117, 118.
La Fayette's military operations in Vir- ginia, 239, 240, 241, 242.
Lafleur, the glass-blower, note on, 487, 488.
Land, grants of, 42, 43, 64, 65, 67, 71, 72, 73, 87, 88, 100, 104, 106, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 132, 133, 134, 143, 144, 147, 149, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 169, 170, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 194.
Land, return of quantity and situation, 81. Laws, the Duke of York's, 25, 26. Leazy Point, note on, 140.
Le Bœuf, post erected at, 390, 391, 392. Liar, a slanderer to declare himself a, 176. Logan, J. Dickinson, furnishes the Record of Upland, 11.
Lovelace, Francis, succeeds Governor Nicholls, 24.
Lucas, John B. C., is elected by the "Whiskey Boys" over Denny, 226; his impartiality as a Judge, 227, 228.
Letters, Eb. Denny to Gen. Harmar, 268, 269, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 291, 292, 446, 461, 462, 463, 464, 474, 475, 476, 477; to Gen. Thomas Mifflin, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472; to Gen. Gibson, 471; Gen. Harmar to Gen. Armstrong, 416; to Peter Audrain, 463; to Gen. Richard Butler, 444, 445; to Daniel Clymer, 451, 452 ; to Maj. Denny, 414, 415, 463, 464, 465, 466, 473; to John Dickinson, 415, 416; to Major John Doughty, 441 ; to David Duncan, 439; to Lieut. Matthew Ernest, +_0, 436, 440, 443, 446, 447, 457, 458, 459; to Capt. Finney, 420; to Lieut. Ford, 429; to Lieut. Frothingham, 439; to William Govett, 454, 455, 456; to Richard Gra- ham, 452, 453; to Major J. F. Ham- tramck, 421, 436, 459, 460; to Captain Heart, 425, 430, 433, 435; to Michael
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Hillegas, 441, 442; to Joseph Howell, ! Minuit, Peter, the Colony under, 15. Jr., 442, 443, 456; to Richard Howell, Monroe, James, note on, 489. 464, 465 ; to Samuel Huntington, 452; to Capt. John Irwin, 439, 443, 444; to Ensign John Jeffers, 449, 450; to Col. Francis Johnston, 417, 444; to General Knox, 417 to 427, 429, 430, 432, 438, 443, 448, 449, 453, 454; to Arthur Lee, 419; to Dr. John McDowell, 431; to Naaman's Creek, 48. Gen. Thos. Mifflin, 418, 421, 431, 437, 445, 460, 461, 473; to Peter Muhlen- berg, 433, 434; to Committee of Ohio Company, 447; to Rufus Putnam, 459; to James Ross, 432 ; to General Arthur St. Clair, 425; to Lieut. Edward Spear, 442; to John Cleves Symmes, 453; to Dr. Nicholas Way, 440; to James White, 440; to Jonathan Williams, 451; to Dr. Caspar Wistar, Jr., 428, 431, 455; to Major Wyllys, 425, 435, 436, 439; to Capt. David Ziegler, 435, 455. From Gen. Thomas S. Jessup to William H. Denny, 486, 487; from Wm. M. Mere- dith to Benjamin Rush, 492; from Gen. Pappegoya succeeds Gov. Printz, 18. Thomas Mifflin to Major Denny, 466, 467, 468; from Benj. Rush to Wm. H. Denny, 492.
March of St. Clair's army, 359. Marcus Hook, note on, 135, 136.
Marietta, named after Queen of France, 323.
Marreties Kill, or Chichester Creek, note on, 73.
Maumee Towns, Harmar conducts an ex- pedition against, 343 to 351.
Militia, impatience of the, 366.
Militia become ungovernable, 354.
Military life, captivating account of, 243; in South Carolina, 250, 251, 252; very pleasant on James Island, 254, 255; at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh, 259, 260. Mill, the first erected in Pennsylvania, note on, 88.
Mill Creek, note on, 115.
Miller, Lieut., encourages a mutinous spirit among the soldiers, 395, 396 ; his intractable disposition, 399, 400, 401. 1
Moreau, Gen., and his aid-de-camp, note on, 488.
Murphy, Lieut. Samuel, note on, 490, 491. Mutiny of soldiers, promptness of Denny and other officers, 394, 395.
Neshaminy Creek, note on, 63. New Castle County, boundary of, 119. Nicholls, Col. Richard, account of, 21, 22. Noble, Richard, commissioned Surveyor, 157.
O'Hara, Captain James, arrives at Fort Harmar, 327.
Ohio Company make their purchase, 323. Old inhabitants, 74.
Oxenstierna, the Chancellor, carries out the design of the King, 14; his instruc- tions to Gov. Printz, 17.
Parkers, maternal ancestors of Denny, 207, 208.
Parsons, Gen., death of, 339. Passports required, 99. Patroons, Godyn, De Vries, and others, 13. Peace with England, news arrives, 256. Peace-makers and Arbitration, 42.
Penn, William, Proclamation of Grant to, 195, 196.
Pennsylvania Regiments, three leave York- town for South Carolina, 249, 250: re- duced to 600 men, 253; leave Carolina for home, 256; under Harmar they " eclipse everything," 258.
Pennsylvania Militia, their character, 344. Piankeshaws visit the Americans, 307.
Pittsburg society to a great extent from Carlisle, 321.
Possession, Length of, 71.
Presque Isle, the establishment at, 382, 383, 384, 385; expedition against it countermanded, 385, 388; Indians order armed people to move back from it, 389; road made by the French from it
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to Le Bœuf, 402, 403, 404, 405; de- scription of, and of its Fort, 404; de- scription of adjacent country, 405.
Printz, John, commissioned Governor, and builds Fort Gottenburg, 17; account thereof, 18, 19.
Provisions, difficulty concerning con- demned, 399, 400, 401.
Public expenses, 94, 95, 96.
Quakers, new-comers called, 141. Quit rents remitted by the Governor, 105.
Records of former Court, disappearance of, 43.
Recruiting service, dislike for, 260.
Remarkable petition of early natives of the Delaware, 74, 75.
Removal of the Court to Kingsessing, 171.
Return of Surveys .- (See Surveys.)
Revolutionary officers, their enterprise, and confidence reposed in them, 230, 231.
Risingh succeeds Pappegoya, 18. Roads and bridges ordered to be made, 118, 119. Roads, overseers of, appointed, 184. Road from the Falls to Poquessing to be made passable, 194.
Road made by the French from Presque Isle to Le Bœuf, 402, 403, 404, 405.
Robbery of the military stores, 395, 396. Rules for the administration of justice, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. Runaway servant, 99.
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, defeat of his army, his coolness amid the panic, 220, 221; as Governor of the Western Territory, 322 ; his expedition projected, 355 ; his illness, 363, 366, 369, 374; defeat, de- scription of the battle, and retreat, 369, 370, 371, 372; his courage, 371; causes of his defeat, 375; predicted by Gen. Harmar, 357, 374: list of killed and wounded, 376, 377; demands an inves- tigation, and resigns, 381; is exonerated from blame by Congress, 382.
St. Patrick's Day, celebration of, 283. Sales by public outcry, 112, 126, 127. Sandelands, James, note on, 167, 168. Sargent, Col. Winthrop, Secretary of the Western Territory, 325; good conduct in St. Clair's defeat, 374, 375; is wounded, 378.
School, free, gift to a, 141.
Schuylkill, land at the, bought, 15; note on the Schuylkill, 62.
Servitude, law regarding, 102.
Shackamaxon, Indians at, 49; the town or neighborhood of, 117.
Shawanees, the pomp and pride of the, 273, 274 ; begin to treat, are disaffected, but conclude a treaty, 276, 277.
Shirt of a Justice torn in pieces, 47.
Simcoe, Governor of Canada, invades New York, 399.
Single Tree Point, note on, 199. Slave held by James Sandelands, 79. Soldiers, difficulty as to their enlistments, 363, 364.
Staecket, Moens, is abusive and violent, 176, 177. 132 189. 188.
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Steuben's, Baron, retreat, 211, 212; is the "Great military oracle," 243. Stillé, John, note on, 78, 79. Stillen's Kill, note on, 108. Stuyvesant builds Fort Casimir, 18. Surnames, hereditary, note on, 77, 78. Surveyors, Walter Wharton, 130; Thomas Gardner, 141; Richard Noble, 157.
Surveys, return, by Walter Wharton, 121 to 126; by Richard Noble, 171, 185. Swedes, their settlement on the Delaware, 11 ; downfall of their power, 19: their administration of justice, 29.
Symmes, Judge John Cleves, arrives at Fort Harmar, 327.
Taconey, note on, 63; residents of, 77, 78; the District of, 197.
Tailor, the sale of a, 51. Tax to be collected, rate of grain for tax, 76, 77.
Tax levied, 104, 120; order regarding, 137
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Taxables on the river, list of, 77, 78, 79, 80.
" Tired Rider," note on the, 487.
Town at the Falls, petition for a, 74, 75. Treaty, Americans and Indians in Council to form a, 331 to 334.
Troops, superiority of the Eastern, 244.
Upland, first mention of, 27 ; residents of, 79, 80; the District of, 197.
Upland and New Castle agree upon a boundary, 119.
Utrecht, special grant to people of, 16; settlement by people of, 18.
Verdrietige Hook, note on, 198.
Vincennes, Hamtramck marches on, 304, 305, 306; description of, 311, 312.
Vocabulary of the Delaware and Shawa- nee languages, 478 to 485 ; note thereon, 491.
Wages, rate of, 154. Warner, William, note on, 192, 193. Washington, Gen., receives the news of
St. Clair's disaster, 222, 223; appears before Yorktown, 242.
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, marches into Vir- ginia, and attempts to surprise Corn- wallis, 211, 212, 213; his strict disci- pline, seven soldiers shot, 237, 238; his troops join La Fayette, 239; is ap- pointed Commander-in-Chief in place of St. Clair, 381; his victory over the Indians, 405, 406.
Wharton, Walter, note on, 130.
Wicaco Church, and Block House at, 153. Wilkins, Gen., arrives at Pittsburg, 383. Wilkins, Nancy, marries Major Denny, account of her family, 224.
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