| Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 páginas
...Mr. Gist's, on the 2d, where I bought a horse, saddle, &c. The 6th, we met seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and the day after, some families going out to settle. This day, we arrived at Wills' Creek, after as... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - 1857 - 1038 páginas
...at Monongahela, the 2d, where I bought a horse and saddle. The 6th, we met seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and the day after, some families going out to settle. This day we arrived at Wills' creek, after as... | |
| Charles Hallowell Mitchener - 1876 - 370 páginas
...intended to take horses, and it taking some time to find them, I went up to the mouth of Youghiogany to visit Queen Aliquippa. I made her a present of...of Mr. Gist into the Ohio valley, to get a foothold 42 west of the Ohio, aroused the French government, and in 1753 that government took the initiative... | |
| 1887 - 734 páginas
...They left there on the first day of January, 1754, and on the sixth they " met seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and the day after some families going out to settle." On the sixth of January they arrived at Will's... | |
| 1884 - 400 páginas
...of the new year, 1754, Washington set out for Virginia. On the sixth he met seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores, "for a Fort at the Forks of the Ohio." Governor Dinwiddie, indefatigable if nothing else, had commissioned Captain Trent to raise a company... | |
| William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin - 1888 - 1108 páginas
...taken steps to fortify the location it had chosen, and the returning envoy met "seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio." The report of Washington was followed by immediate activity. Expresses were sent to the governors of... | |
| Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1900 - 378 páginas
...distance to be overcome, not without incident. A train of seventeen horses was encountered, carrying materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, showing that the authorities had not been idle while he was on his mission. Some families, too, were... | |
| Edwin M. P. Brister - 1909 - 546 páginas
...the junction of the Monongahela and Allegheny, and when on his return he met seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and soon after some families going out to settle, he knew the defense had begun. As soon as Washington... | |
| Norman Newell Hill (Jr.) - 1881 - 840 páginas
...junction of the Monongahela and Allegheny ; and when, on his return, he iiiet seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and, soon after, some families going out to settle, he knew the defense had begun. As soon as Washington... | |
| 1922 - 282 páginas
...arrived at Gist's on the Monongahela the next day. On the sixth day they met seventeen horses loaded with materials and stores for a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and the following day they met some families on their way to settle. Upon arriving at Wills Creek —... | |
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