"Celoron" is a folk song written by
Robert Schmertz to describe an expedition in June 1749. A copy of this song is part of the Robert Schmertz collection.
The expedition was led by Captain
Celoron de Blainville
Celoron ( ) is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Ellicott and sits on the west boundary of the city of Jamestown. The population of Celoron was 1,082 at the 2020 census.
History
Celoron Park ...
. He had received instructions from the
Comte de la Galissoniere
''Comte'' is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count' (Latin: ''comes''); ''comté'' is the Gallo-Romance form of the word 'county' (Latin: ''comitatus'').
Comte or Comté may refer to:
* A count in French, from Latin ''comes''
* ...
to protect the French trading activities in lands west of the
Allegheny Mountains from the
British Ohio Company
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English ...
. Celeron led the expedition of Indians and Frenchmen to the
St. Lawrence River and
Montreal. From there, they traveled to
Lake Ontario and the
Niagara River
The Niagara River () is a river that flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It forms part of the border between the province of Ontario in Canada (on the west) and the state of New York (state), New York in the United States (on the east) ...
. They continued to
Lake Erie and to the upper
Allegheny River
The Allegheny River ( ) is a long headwater stream of the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania and New York (state), New York. The Allegheny River runs from its headwaters just below the middle of Pennsylvania's northern border northwesterly into ...
. As they traveled down the Allegheny toward
Pittsburgh, they deposited various lead plates that announced that the land belonged to Louis, King of France.
Lyrics
References
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American folk songs