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Saucunk
"at the mouth or fork of a stream." , settlement_type = Historic Native American village , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_alt = , image_map1 = Beaver County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Rochester highlighted.svg , mapsize1 = 250px , map_alt1 = , map_caption1 = Former location of Saucunk, present-day site of Rochester, Pennsylvania , image_caption = , nickname = , pushpin_map = Pennsylvania#USA , pushpin_label = Saucunk , pushpin_label_position = , pushpin_map_caption = Former location of Saucunk in Pennsylvania , pushpin_mapsize = , coordinates = , established_title = Founded , established_date = about 1725 , established_title2 = Abandoned , established_date2 = August, 1763 , established_title3 = , established_date3 = , population_total = , population_est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuskusky
"at the falls, by the falls or rapids" unm, kwësh-kwëshelxus-kee "hogs" + -kee (suffix used in place names) "Hogs Town" , settlement_type = Historic Native American village , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_alt = , image_map1 = Pennsylvania in United States (US48).svg , mapsize1 = , map_alt1 = , map_caption1 = Location of Pennsylvania in the United States , image_caption = , nickname = , coordinates = , established_title = Founded , established_date = 1720 , established_title2 = Abandoned , established_date2 = 8 February, 1778 , established_title3 = , established_date3 = , population_total = , population_est = 300-400 , pop_est_as_of = 1758 , subdivision_type = State , subdivision_name = Pennsylvania , subdivision_type1 = Present-day Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Gibson (American Pioneer)
Hugh Gibson (1741 - 30 July 1826) (referred to by Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leninger as "Owen Gibson") was an American pioneer and a Pennsylvania frontiersman. In 1756, when he was 14 years old, his farm was attacked by Lenape Indians and he was taken prisoner. He was adopted as a brother by Pisquetomen, a Lenape chief, and lived for three years with the Lenape, moving to several different communities. In 1759 he escaped, together with three other captives. Gibson told a brief, first-person version of his captivity narrative to Archibald Loudoun, who published it in 1811. At age 85, he told a longer version of his story to Timothy Alden, who published it in 1837, after Gibson's death. Birth and early life Hugh Gibson was born in 1741 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father, David Gibson, came from Sixmilecross in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in 1740. His mother's name was Mary McClelland. They bought land near Peach Bottom Ferry on the Susquehanna River in Lancaster Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kittanning (village)
kit- 'big' + hane 'mountain river' + -ink (suffix used in place names). "The main river" , settlement_type = Historic Native American village , image_skyline = Kittanning, Pennsylvania (8481673707).jpg , imagesize = , image_alt = , image_map1 = Pennsylvania in United States (US48).svg , mapsize1 = , map_alt1 = , map_caption1 = Location of Pennsylvania in the United States , image_caption = Plaque at the site of Kittanning Village , nickname = , coordinates = , established_title = Founded , established_date = 1724-1725 , established_title2 = Demolished , established_date2 = 8 September, 1756 , established_title3 = , established_date3 = , population_total = , population_est = 300-400 , pop_est_as_of = 1754 , subdivision_type = State , subdivision_name = Pennsy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muskingum (village)
"swampy ground" or iro, koshaxkink "river crossing" , settlement_type = Historic Native American village , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_alt = , image_map1 = OHMap-doton-Coshocton.png , mapsize1 = 250px , map_alt1 = , map_caption1 = Former location of Muskingum, present-day site of Coshocton, Ohio , image_caption = , nickname = , coordinates = , established_title = Founded , established_date = 1748 , established_title2 = Abandoned , established_date2 = 1759 , established_title3 = , established_date3 = , population_total = , population_est = 300-400 , pop_est_as_of = 1750 , subdivision_type = State , subdivision_name = Ohio , subdivision_type1 = Present-day Community , subdivision_name1 = Coshocton, Ohio , subdivision_type2 = , s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logstown
"extensive flats" , settlement_type = Historic Native American village , image_skyline = Image:Logstown1.jpg , imagesize = 220px , image_alt = , image_map1 = Pennsylvania in United States (US48).svg , mapsize1 = , map_alt1 = , map_caption1 = Location of Pennsylvania in the United States , image_caption = The stone marker at or near the former site of Logstown (1725-1758) , nickname = , coordinates = , established_title = Founded , established_date = 1725-1727 , established_title2 = Demolished , established_date2 = June, 1754 , established_title3 = Rebuilt , established_date3 = 1755-58 , population_total = , population_est = 200-500 , pop_est_as_of = 1754 , subdivision_type = State , subdivision_name = Pennsylvania , subdivision_type1 = Present-day Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisquetomen
Pisquetomen (died ca. 1762)Colin Gordon Calloway, ''The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation,'' Oxford University Press, 2018 was a chief who acted as interpreter and negotiator for the Lenape in dealings with the Provincial government of Pennsylvania during the mid-eighteenth century. After being rejected in his bid to succeed his uncle |
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer (16 January 1726 – 12 January 1777) was a Scottish-born American military officer and physician who participated in the Seven Years' War and Revolutionary War. Born in Pitsligo, Scotland, he studied medicine in his home country and served with the Jacobite forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie, participating in the Battle of Culloden in 1746. With the failure of the Jacobite rising, Mercer escaped to Pennsylvania. There, he served alongside a young George Washington in the British colonial forces during the French and Indian War, and was seriously wounded during an engagement in September 1756. Mercer settled in Virginia, continued his work as a physician, and later became a brigadier general in the American Continental Army and close friend to George Washington. Mercer died as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton in January 1777, becoming a fallen hero and rallying symbol of the American Revolution. Early life and career Mercer was born 16 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Map-06full2
Mitchell may refer to: People *Mitchell (surname) *Mitchell (given name) Places Australia * Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate * Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst * Mitchell, Northern Territory, a suburb of Palmerston * Mitchell, Queensland, a town * Mitchell, South Australia, on lower Eyre Peninsula * Division of Mitchell, a federal Australian Electoral Division in north-west Sydney, New South Wales * Electoral district of Mitchell (Queensland), a former electoral district * Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia), a state electoral district * Electoral district of Mitchell (Western Australia) a state electoral district * Shire of Mitchell, a local government area in Victoria Canada * Mitchell, Ontario * Mitchell, Manitoba, an unincorporated community * Mitchell Island, British Columbia * Mitchell Island (Nunavut) United Kingdom * Mitchell, Cornwall, a village * Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency) United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forbes (British Army Officer)
John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a Scottish professional soldier who served in the British Army from 1729 until his death in 1759. During the 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War, he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition that occupied the French outpost of Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This required the construction of a military trail known as the Forbes Road, which became an important route for settlement of the Western United States. Forbes died in Philadelphia and was buried in the chancel of Christ Church, where his memorial can still be seen. Life John Forbes was born in Dunfermline on 5 September 1707, youngest child of Colonel John Forbes, 1658–1707, who died several months before his birth, and Elizabeth Graham, daughter of an Edinburgh merchant. His uncle, Duncan Forbes (1644-1704), was a prominent supporter of William of Orange and obtained his brother John an army commission. In 1701, Colonel Forbes purchased Pittencrief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the United Colonies, were a group of Kingdom of Great Britain, British Colony, colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began fighting the American Revolutionary War in April 1775 and formed the United States of America by United States Declaration of Independence, declaring full independence in July 1776. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (Province of New Hampshire, New Hampshire; Province of Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts; Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Rhode Island; Connecticut Colony, Connecticut); Middle (Province of New York, New York; Province of New Jersey, New Jersey; Province of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania; Delaware Colony, Delaware); Southern (Province of Maryland, Maryland; Colony of Virginia, Virginia; Provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Duquesne
Fort Duquesne (, ; originally called ''Fort Du Quesne'') was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. It was later taken over by the British, and later the Americans, and developed as Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Fort Duquesne was destroyed by the French, prior to British conquest during the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War on the North American front. The British replaced it, building Fort Pitt between 1759 and 1761. The site of both forts is now occupied by Point State Park, where the outlines of the two forts have been laid in brick. Background Fort Duquesne, built at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers which forms the Ohio River, was considered strategically important for controlling the Ohio Country,"The Diaries of George Washington, Vol. 1", Donald Jackson, ed., Dorothy Twohig, assoc. edLibrary of Congress American Memory site/ref> both for settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bouquet
Henry Bouquet (born Henri Louis Bouquet; 1719 – 2 September 1765) was a Swiss mercenary who rose to prominence in British service during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War. He is best known for his victory over a Native American force at the Battle of Bushy Run, lifting the siege of Fort Pitt during Pontiac's War. During the conflict Bouquet gained lasting infamy in an exchange of letters with his commanding officer, Jeffery Amherst, who suggested a form of biological warfare in the use of blankets infected with smallpox which were to be distributed to Native Americans. Despite this indictment historians have praised Bouquet for leading British forces in several demanding campaigns on the Western Frontier in which they "protected and rescued" settlers from increasingly frequent attacks. Early life Bouquet was born in Rolle, Switzerland, as the oldest of seven brothers. The son of a Swiss roadhouse owner and his well-to-do wife, he entered military service at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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