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History of Fayette County, Penxsplvasia Digital Scan by Fay-West.com. All Rights Reserved. to HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, PENXSPLVASIA. storage of ammunition and supplies, guarded by sol- ut. To this eminence the early settlers mere wont diers.' Its proper name after 1759 (though seldom n times of danger to resort daily to reconnoitre the given to it) was ' Fort Burd.' And there is evidence ountry, sometimes climbing trees to see whether any that besides its governmental purposes it mas often ndians had crossed the borders, of mhich they judged resorted to by the early settlers with their families by the smoke of their camps. This hill commanded for protection, though for that object it was less . riew from the mountains to the Illonongahela, and adapted than many of the private forts." rom Cheat hills far to the northward. On the occa- One of the earliest erected forts of this kind mas by ion referred to, the scouts reported that Indians had John Minter, the Stevensons, Crawfords, and others, rossed the Xonongahela, judging from some smoke on land of the former,-since Blackiston's, now '~vhichso gracefully curled." The alarm was given, Ebenezer Moore's,-about a mile and a half mest- ~ndthe settlers flocked to Ashcraft's fort, with wives ward of Pennsville. lnd children, guns and provisions, and prepared to There was one on the old Thomas Gaddis farm, neet the foe, when, lo! much to the vexation of two miles south of Uniontown, but what was its name ome and the joy of others, the alarm soon proved to cannot certainly be learned, or by whom or when )e "all smoke." erected, probably, however, by Colonel Gaddis, as he Besides the settlers' forts mentioned as above by mas an early settler and a man of large public spirit. Teech, there was one where Perryopolis now stands, Another, called Pearse's fort, was on the Catamba' milt by Gilbert Simpson (as previously noticed in a Indian trail, about four miles northeast of Union- etter of Valentine Cran-ford to Washington), also town, near the residencesof William and John Jones. L strong block-house at Beeson's Nil1 (now Union- Some old Lombardy poplars, recently fallen, denoted own), and perhaps a few others within the limits of its site. ?ayette County. About one mile northwest of Xerrittstomn there mas one on land now of John Craft. Its name is forgotten. Swearingen's fort was in Spring Hill township, near the cross-roads from Cheat River towards Bro~ms- CHAPTER X. ville. It derived its name from John Swearingen, who omned the land on n-hicli it stood, or from his THE RE\-OLUTION. son, Van Swearingen, afterwards sheriff of Washing- ton County, a captain in the Revolution and in the hope Raised for the Field-Subsequeut Disaffection-Lochq's Espe- dition. frontier %*ars,and whose nephew of the same name fell at St. Clair's defeat. WHEN,in the early part of May, 1775, the nem of One of considerable capacity, called Lucas' fort, :he battle of Lexingtou sped across the Alleghenies,. was on the old Richard Brown farm, near the frame innouncing the opening of the Revolutionary strug- meetinghouse, in Nicholson township. ;le, the response which it brought forth from the McCoy's fort, on land of James McCoy, stood where people west of'the mountains was prompt and uumis now stands the barn of the late Eli Bailey, in South :akablg patriotic. In this region the feud was then Union township. it its height between Virginia and Pennsylvania, both Morris' fort, which ws one of the first grade, was zlaiming and both attempting to exercise jurisdiction much resorted to by the old settlers on the upper 3ver the country between Laurel Hill and the Ohio; Monongahela and Cheat, and from Ten-Mile. It but the partisans of both provinces unhesitatingly stood on Sandy Creek, just by, and near the Virginia laid aside their animosities, or held them in abeyance, line, outside Fayette County limits. It was to this and both, on the same day, held large and patriotic fort that the family of the father of the late Dr. Jo- meetings, pledging themselves to aid to the extent of seph Doddridge resorted in 1774, as mentioned in his their ability the cause of the colonies against the en- notes. The late Col. Andrew Noore, who resided croachments of Britain. Prominent in the proceedings long near its site, said that he had frequently seen the of both meetings were men from that part of West- ruins of the fort and its cabins, which may yet be moreland County mhich is now Fayette. The meet- traced. ing called and held under Virginia auspices was Ashcraft's fort stood on land of the late Jesse reported as follows: Evans, Esq., where Phineas Sturgis lived, in George5 "At a meeting of the inhabitants of that part of township. Tradition tells of a great alarm and resort Augusta County that lies on the west side of the to this fort on one occasion, caused thus: 0u land Laurel Hill, at Pittsburgh, the 16th day of Nay, lately omned by Robert Britt, in that vicinity, there is 1775, the following gentlemen mere chosen a com- a yery high hob, called Prospect Hill, or Point Look- mittee for the said district, viz. : George Croghan, 1 In this statement Veech is mistaken, having evidently cot~foundec John Campbell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, the Redstone Old Fort with Fort Burd, which was built ursr its site, Lui John Canon, John &lcCullough,William Goe, George was a11 entirely different structure. Vallandigham, John Gibson, Dorsey Pentecost, Ed- Document is not to be posted on any other Web site but Fay-West.com Digital Scan by Fay-West.com. All Rights Reserved. THE REVOLUTION. - ward Cook, William Crawford, Devereus Smith, present exigencies have made so exceedingly neces- John Anderson, David Rodgers, Jacob Van Meter, sary. Henry Enoch, James Ennis, George Wilson, William " As this committee has reason to believe there is a Vauce, David Shepherd, William Elliott, Richmond quantity of ammunition destined for this place for Willis, Samuel Sample, John Ormsby, Richard Mc- the purpose of government, and as this country on Maher, John Nevill, and John Swearingen." the west side of Laurel Hill is greatly distressed for A standing committee was appointed, to hare " full want of ammunition, and deprived of the means of yover to meet at such times as they shall judge neces- procuring it, by reason of its situation, as easy as the sary, and in case of any emergency to call the com- lower counties of this colony, they do earnestly re- mittee of this district together, and shall be vested quest the committees of Frederick, Augusta, and vith the same power and authority as the other Hampshire that they mill not suffer the ammunition standing committee and committees of correspond- to through their counties for the purposes of ence are in the other counties within this colony." gorernment, but will secure it for the use of this des- It was by the meeting "Resolved, unanimously, titute country, and immediately inform this com- That this committee have the highest sense of the mittee of their having done so. Ordered, that the spirited behavior of their brethren in ?Sew England, standing committee be directed to secure such arms and do most cordially approve of their opposing the and ammunition as are not employed in actual ser- invaders of American rights and privileges to the ;;ice or private property, and that they get the same utmost extreme, and that each member of this com- repaired, and deliver them to such captains of inde- mittee respectively will animate and encourage their pendent companies as may make application for the neighborhood to follow the brave example. same, and taking such captains' receipt for the arms "Resol~ed,That the recommendation of the Rich- so delivered. mond Convention of the 20th of last March, relative "Resolved, That this committee do approve of the to the embodying, arming, and disciplining of the resolution of the committee of the other part of this militia, be immediately carried into execution with county relative to the cultivating a friendship with the greatest diligence in tl~iscountry by the officers the Indians, and if any person shall be so depraved appointed for that end, and that the recommendation as to take the life of any Indian that may come to us of the said convention to the several committees of in a friendly manner, we mill, as one man, use our this colony to collect from their constituents, in such utmost endeavors to bring such offenders to condign manner as shall be most agreeable to them, so much punishment. money as shall be sufficient to purchase half a pound " Resolved, That the sum of fifteen pounds, current of gunpowder and one pound of lead, flints, and money, be raised by subscription, and that the same cartridge, paper for every tithable person in their be transmitted to Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq., for .county be likewise carried into execution. the use of the deputies sent from this colony to the "This committee, therefore, out of the deepest General Congress; which sum of money was imme- sense of the expediency of this measure, most earn- diately paid by the committee then present." The estly entreat that every member of this committee do delegates referred to in this resolutiom were John collect from each tithable person in their several dis- ~ariieand George Bootes, who mere addressed, in tricts the sum of two shillings and sixpence, which instructions from the committee, as " being chosen to we deem no more than sufficient for the above pur- represent the people on the west side of the Laurel pose, and give proper receipts to all such as pay the Hill in the Colonial Congress for the ensuing year," same into their hands.
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