(1890)
Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Showing posts with label 1776-1783. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1776-1783. Show all posts
Friday, May 02, 2014
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
IAMag 16-3 - Girty and Simon Kenton... draft
Vol. 16-3, Page 9
...face of Bo-nah. who dragged him out of the wegiwa and over to the council-house, Bo-nah raised Simon's arms up and shouted, Cut-ta-ho-tha!"
Drumming and whoops filled the air. Simon's spirits sank. Bo-nah painted Simon's face black - which was the sign of the condemned man.
"When," Simon asked Bo-nah. "When will I d Ins eyes and awaited his late lays ol ie.1 and upaii loi Simon, led with linn loi ...
...Wapatomica - eight miles away. The warriors had become more watchful. He was kept haltered, driven on foot in front of Bo-nah's horse and given no opportunity to even think of escape.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Baker's Station aka Cresap's Fort - West Virginia
[draft... Fair use... Emphasis added...]
Simon Girty's "headquarters" during DsS Siege.
http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/wv.html
Blockhouse at Cresap's Bottom 
(1777 - unknown, 1782 - 1787), near Cresap
A settlers' blockhouse located three miles downriver from present-day McKeffrey. Also known as Fort Cresap.
Capt. William (or John) Baker's Station (aka Fort Baker), a stockade with blockhouses, was built here in 1782 or 1784. Attacked by Indians in 1787. William Baker was killed by Indians in 1787.
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Erected in 1782, by Captain John Baker. Located at the head of Cresap's Bottom, Mead District, Marshall County. Also designated In many contemporary records as "Baker's Station," and sometimes as "Cresap's Fort."
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Posted By: Bill McKitrick
Email:
Subject: Re: Cresap's Bottom, Baker's Station, Wheeling Creek
Post Date: December 12, 2001 at 07:57:21
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/wv/messages/8988.html
Forum: West Virginia Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/wv/
If you are still looking for info .......... Baker's Station was erected at Cresap's Bottom in Marshall County, WV, which is the lower part of northern panhandle. You can do a google search on either word. The Marshall County WVGenWeb site can provide some information. There is an awesome book, "The Dark and Bloody River" that also provides some history about this area. Good luck.
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1776 - Charles A. Fisher's Early Pennsylvania Births 1675-1875
Martin Bugart & wife had a son, Emanuel, on 7/1/1776 who was baptized at the Himmell Lutheran Church. The church was in the southern part of Northumberland Co. Pa. and the records were kept in German.
GR Clark...
The villages of Peckuwe and Piqua were located near today's Springfield, Ohio, at 39° 54.5′ N, 83° 54.68′ W and 39° 54.501′ N, 83° 54.682′ W respectively, and were home to the Peckuwe and Kispoko Divisions of the Shawnee Tribe until the Battle of Piqua, August 8, 1780. The Piqua Sept of Ohio Shawnee Tribe have placed a traditional cedar pole in commemoration, located "on the southern edge of the George Rogers Clark Historical Park, in the lowlands in front of the park's 'Hertzler House.'"[11][12]
(1779), near Springfield
A Shawnee Indian stockaded settlement, located on the Mad River west of town. Attacked and destroyed by American Patriot forces under George Rogers Clark in August 1780 (Battle of Peckuwe).
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Fort Piqua
(Piqua Historical Area State Memorial)
(1794 - 1795, 1812 - 1815), near Piqua
A stockaded U.S. Army supply post with a blockhouse. Earthworks still remain and the current blockhouse is a reconstruction. The original blockhouse was not in use during the War of 1812. Another blockhouse was built nearby in 1812, which was known as Fort at (John) Johnston's Farm. Johnston was the Indian agent at Lower Piqua during the war.
The Shawnee Indian village of Lower Piqua was fortified in 1780. Attacked by American Patriot forces under George Rogers Clark in November 1782 (Battle of Piqua).
(Piqua Historical Area State Memorial)(1794 - 1795, 1812 - 1815), near Piqua
A stockaded U.S. Army supply post with a blockhouse. Earthworks still remain and the current blockhouse is a reconstruction. The original blockhouse was not in use during the War of 1812. Another blockhouse was built nearby in 1812, which was known as Fort at (John) Johnston's Farm. Johnston was the Indian agent at Lower Piqua during the war.
The Shawnee Indian village of Lower Piqua was fortified in 1780. Attacked by American Patriot forces under George Rogers Clark in November 1782 (Battle of Piqua).
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Cincinnati Blockhouse (1) 
(1778 - 1780), Cincinnati
A British post was here during the American Revolution. It was captured and later destroyed by George Rogers Clark and the VA militia.
(1778 - 1780), CincinnatiA British post was here during the American Revolution. It was captured and later destroyed by George Rogers Clark and the VA militia.
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http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/oh-sw.html
How is 'Burget' spelled?
This family usually used the name Burget, or Burgett, in the 20th C. But it has been spelled differently by different authors at different times for different reasons. It seems likely these referred to the same people.
1776 - Charles A. Fisher's Early Pennsylvania Births 1675-1875 said that Martin Bugart & wife had a son, Emanuel, on 7/1/1776 who was baptized at the Himmell Lutheran Church. The church was in the southern part of Northumberland Co. Pa. and the records were kept in German.
Burkhardt. Bergit, and Birgit appear in the 1791 records...
"...A small detachment of United States troops, under the command of Lieutenant Kingsbury, occupied the fort. It consisted of a corporal and eleven men, besides the commandant. Their names were Taylor, Neef, O'Neal, O'Leary, Lincoln, Grant, Strong, Sowers, Murphy, Abel, McVicar and Wiseman. There were on the north side of the fort, Horn, McDonald, Barrott and Barket, with their families, and on the south side, White, with his family, and McDonald, whose family was not at the station..."
1792...
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"A Collection of Pioneer Marriage Records, Hamilton Co, Ohio 1789-1817 - Vol. 1 shows a marriage between Betsey Burget "'widow of Colerain'. One Martin Burget, Colerain, dec. prior to June 1794."
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"The Hamilton Co. Probate records for June 14, 1794 indicate that "Letters of adm granted to John DAVIS of Colerain, Yeoman on the estate of Martin BURGET decd. Bond $300. Sec Mary HORN." "Jan.6,1795. Martin BURGET decd. Inventory and appraisement of John DAVIS, admr, allowed.
"A Collection of Pioneer Marriage Records, Hamilton Co, Ohio 1789-1817 - Vol. 1 shows a marriage between Betsey Burget "'widow of Colerain'. One Martin Burget, Colerain, dec. prior to June 1794."
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"The Hamilton Co. Probate records for June 14, 1794 indicate that "Letters of adm granted to John DAVIS of Colerain, Yeoman on the estate of Martin BURGET decd. Bond $300. Sec Mary HORN." "Jan.6,1795. Martin BURGET decd. Inventory and appraisement of John DAVIS, admr, allowed.
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BsS...
On 18 Feb 1926, Jean was described as a Burgett
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Frontier rangers from Northumberland County, PA
(18 Dec 2014 Order ID #2359)
See also http://frontierrangers.blogspot.ca/ .
Probably from Sue Marcum:
"Introduction
The following men who are listed in this research aid served during the American Revolution as Frontier Rangers from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, being employed against the Iroquois Nation. All Pennsylvania counties which bordered upon Indian country maintained companies of rangers whose sole activity was the defense of frontier settlements. Companies of rangers were somewhat smaller than militia companies and usually served under a single officer. Frontier Rangers made frequent forays into wilderness areas along the frontiers and between blockhouses to discover and overtake bands of savages before sufficient numbers could gather to attack white settlements.
When a ranging company fell upon the trail of an Indian party, it was common practice to track the hostiles to their most recent camp, determine the party's strength, and call for reinforcements to destroy the intruders.
Rangers dressed in homespun, and carried their own rifles, knives, and hatchets. They could be characterized as "minute men of the frontier," always ready to hasten together for a mission when an alarm had been given. It was the rangers' duty to alert settlers when an attack had occured, or was anticipated, and they were obliged to escort women and children to a place of safety. As the conflict continued, these men became so expert in this manner of warefare that their natural senses became so highly developed that they could travel by night like an animal and could distinguish sounds of danger which were unheard by others. They could endure lack of food and long forced marches, becoming agile and swift of foot, as well as deadly with their weapons."
"The following list of Northumberland County rangers and their officers has been abstracted from undated rosters previously publised in the Pennsylvania Archives, and appear to be the only surviving records of the men who served in the ranging companies during 1778-1783. flost military researchers and genealogists familiar with the use of the Pennsylvania Archives employ a numerical code to indicate the precise location of a name in the nine series which contain a total of one hundred, thirty-eight volumes.
For the reader's edification, the following example is given; 5-5-100 indicates the location of series 5, volume 5, page 100. In this manner, references to the authorities may easily be given.
During the American Revolution there were two major frontier political divisions in Pennsylvania which bore the brunt of Indian warfare:
Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties. Northumberland County was erected by Act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly on March 21, 1772, from the existing counties of Lancaster, Cumberland, Bedford, Berks, and Northampton, and was named for the old English county of Northumberland. The new county comprised an immense territory which was centered on the Susquehanna River watershed in central and northcentral Pennsylvania, including the Wyoming Valley, and the North and West Branch Vallies. Northumberland County settlers were subject to forays by maurading Iroquois from New York State during 1777-1779 until General John Sullivan's expedition into the Iroquois heartland, in the latter year brought to a close some of the bloodiest frontier warefare which Pennsylvanians were to experience during the war. Old Westmoreland County, lying west of the Laurel Ridge, and south of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, was to see more bloodshed only because it was a more populous county.
The Northumberland frontier was peaceful until 1777; the wavering Iroquois finally decided to align themselves with the British. A major reason for the intensity of the bloodletting was the fact that the British offered a..."
Frontier rangers from Northumberland County, PA, 1778-1783. Paul W Myers. Closson Press, Apallo, PA (1988). ISBN-10: 0933227981 ISBN-13: 978-0933227989. 59 pages. [Unknown Binding].
Bibliography: after p. 58, i.e., p. [1].
Includes a list of 2,900 Northumberland County Frontier Rangers abstracted from the Pennsylvania Archives, series 3, vol. 23. Rangers were employed against the Iroquois during the American Revolution.
Includes name, rank, company, page in Pennsylvania Archives, Series 3, v. 23.
974.831 M2
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