THE FORBES CAMPAIGN 125 skeletons were found, as the Indian had expected, lying one across the other. Young Peter Halket then re- membered that his father had an artificial tooth, and examined the jaw bones of the skeletons for this mark of identification. In a short time, he exclaimed, "It is my father!" and fell into the arms of his companions. The two skeletons, covered with a Highland plaid, were then buried together. General Forbes left Pittsburgh on December 3, and went to Fort Ligonier, as we shall from now on call the "Camp at Loyal Hannon," where he remained, on account of illness, until December 27. He arrived at Carlisle on January 7, 1759, and from there went to Philadelphia. where he died on March 11, as was stated in Chapter VI. Colonel Henry Bouquet remained at Pittsburgh until December 5, when he left for Fort Ligonier. Colonel Hugh Mercer, with two hundred men, was then left in command at Pittsburgh, and immediately began erecting palisades and temporary quarters- later enlarged and named Fort Pitt. By January 5, Colonel Mercer's force was increased to two hundred and eighty men. Thus began the occupation of the Ohio by the English. Before taking up the next chapter of this volume, we call attention to the fact that the chaplain in charge of the thanksgiving services at the ruins of Fort Du- quesne on December 26, was the Presbyterian clergy- man, the Rev. Charles Beatty. The sermon which he preached on this occasion was the first Protestant ser- mon ever preached where Pittsburgh now stands. Chanlain Beatty was the grandfather of the Rev. C. C. Beatty, LL. D., of Steubenville, who induced Washington College and Jefferson College to unite by making a gift of $50,000.00 to the merged institutions,.