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Title: Canonsburg centennial
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Canonsburg, Pa. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Pittsburgh, Pa., Pittsburgh printing company)
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. 678. The same Dr. Connolly, writing to the Lord Dun-more, March 24th, 1774, after a fullsome address, says,you have it now in your power, my Lord, to render thename of Dunmore, as memorable in Virginia as that ofMarlborough in Great Britain. Do not let the opportunityslip. American Archives ; Ser. 4; Vol. i ; Page 278. Howhe preceded to do it is a matter of history. Connolly inpursuance of his plan of afifronting the Indians, tried toarrest the friendly Shawanees, who piloted traders intoPittsburgh and protected them from the Mingos en route.Letters of Arthur St. Clair, Amer. Arch. Vol. i, p. 474. Mr. Butler was a trader who seems to have sided withPennsylvania. Michael Cresap *attached his canoes about90 miles below Pittsburgh, and on April 24th, 1774, killedand scalped the two Indian guides, and then attacked theShawaneese chiefs. About the same time a party headed * This charge has been vigorously denied by one of his officers and ardentadmirers, who afterwards married his widow.
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5l ^ -^C^-^ I: ,\j ^ THE CHURCHES OF CANONSBURG The Chartee or Shurtee Settlement 137 by Greathouse, treacherously murdered and then scalped,nine Indians at the Bakers near Yellow Creek. As a re-sult the inhabitants of Raccoon and Wheeling Creek fledfrom the settlements. Amer. Archives, Ser. 4; Vol. i; page468. Letter of Devereux Smith. That this would provokeretaliation was well understood, and not until Logan hadreturned with 13 scalps was he satisfied for the loss of hisrelations, and justly laying the blame where it belonged,said, that he would sit still until he heard what the longknife (the Virginians) would say. Amer. Archives; Vol.I; p. 456, Vol. I, 474. On June 20th, 1774, Dunmore advises sending Capt.Wm. Crawford against the Indians, and let the cat out ofthe bag still further when he adds, I would recommend itto all officers going out on parties, to make as many pris-oners as they can, of women and children, and should yoube so fortunate as to reduce those savages to sue fo

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