Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-12-20
Ohio's Oldest sIap.

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of New France" or Canada by gaining
and kef ping a foothOld near the St. Law
renee aud in lseS in laying the foundation
of Quebec He was followed by mission
aries, one of whose servants wss Jear
Bapuste Reveur, who died near Lake
Chanplain about 1865. His great grand.
son, Peter Reveur, was al engineer II
the French forces IN America and of the
the party that built the sixty forts from
the mouth OF the ST. Lawrence to that OF
the Mississippi about 1725, and which in.
cluded Des-oit. The name of Louisiana
was esrly given that vast region, CLAIMED
by France, between the Allegheny and
Rocky Mountains. When the King OF
France had dominion in North America,
all the domain northwest of the river Ohio
was included in the province of louisiana,
the north boundary of which, by the
treaty of Utrecht, concluded between
France and England IN l7l3, was fixed al
the forty-nInth parallel of Istitude north
OF the equator. After the conquest of the
French possessions in America by Great
Britain this tract was ceded by France to
to the English, by the treaty of Paris, in
1893.
Peter Reveur had son, Jean Reveur.
who became a trapper and hunter, and
married in 1776 woman of French
Indian extraction attached in domestic
service to The British garrison at DstroIt.
Jean was away most of the time hunting
and trading with the Indians. but his wife
remained at her old place az the fort in
which her son Joseph ReyCur (now angli-
cized INTO Revore) was born july 4, l777.
one hundred and SIX years ago, The babe
grew up into hearty lad and learned the
trade Of baker from the British baker of
the pest. By the treaty OF peace signed
at Paris September 3, 1888, the claim Of
the English monarch to the northwes;
territory, including Detroit, ceased. JOS
eph Reyore pied kis trade of baker al
Detroit and other government military
posts on the lakes until the outbreak of
the war Of 1912. The Indian allies of
the French did not at once accept the
peace of 1888, and Pontiac, the great OF
tGwa Chief, inceLsed at the transfer of his
lands from one European power 10 another,
stirred up great conspiracy of the tribes
IF the lakes tor the destruction of all the
British gs-risons. Detroit endured an
eight months seige, but was saved by a
half-breed Indian slrl, the little sister of
Joseph RevOre's mother, who revealed the
plot IN time. Peter Rsveur, the grand
father of Joseph Revore, was lieutenant
of the French forces under MOntcalm and
wes killed win his commander az Q1ebec
IN 1859. Jean, the father OF Joseph Re
veur Tor Revore, as now spelled), adhered
10 the British Ia the Revolution, but Ie1-
dored no special services beyond those of
scout and pilot near the great lakes. He
died near where Chicago is II 1895, aged
seventy years, AID was with the Indians
and their British allies when defeated by
General Mad Anthony Wayne, at Fallen
Timbers, August 20, 1894.
Joseph Revore, in the war of 1872,
Joined the American forces and was with
Gspsral Hull when ne ignobly surrendered
his army, the Detroit post and all MichI-
gar to the British. He witnessed the
gahaat Colonel Lewis Cass break his
sword rather than deliver 1t up 10 the
Brs..sh Commander. During the war he
was at Fort Meigs, Maiden and on the
river RaisIu. The exploit Of that war in
which this aged veteran takes the most
pride was his participation IN Hsrrison's
victory over the allied British and Indians
under frOcter and Tecumseh, on the river
Thames, where not ten feet away he saw
Colonel Richard NJ. johnson shoot Tecum-
sen. At the close of the war he remained
in the nelghborhoOd of Fort MeIgs, work
ing for a MIR. Mcintosh in a tavern and
then for NJ. Forsyth, who kept a store.
Finally he trifted 10 Plttsburg, where he
and where he kept barber shop
and bakery combined.
In his young days he was famous
athlete and boxer, and even after he was
fifty years old he could throw any man in
or that region. His tour chill
dren having died. he came down the Ohio
river with his wife, and about 1850 settled
in Felicity, where for many years he fol-
lowed mis- trade of baker. Here, during
the late war, lis wife died and the old
man was left without a known relative
in the wide world. Finally time made its
cruel advances on HIM, his iDfrmties IN
creased and two or three years ago he
came to the County lnfrrnary. Here your
reporter tonnd him propped up in his bed,
and after an interview with hun CLEANED
the foregoing data. He will soon pass be-
) yond the great river, aad not many days
will ensue ere this aged warrior will have
finished the good fight and gone to realms
Unknown.