The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-01

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rivers, and he had placed leaden
plates, bearing inscriptions at
the mouths of principal streams,
to certify the claim of France to
the country. The plate deposi-
ted at the forks of the Ohio, NOW
Pittsburg,) was dated August 3,
1749, not quite six months before
the formation of Cumberland
county.
In June, 1852, when the county
was in the second year os her ex-
istence a conference was held at
Logstown, an Indian village on
the Ohio, fourteen miles below
''the forks" between these com
missioners and the chiefs of Indi-
an tribes in that neighborhood,
at which dispute about lands on
the Ohio which had been ceded
by the Delawares in treaty
made at Lancaster in 1744 was
adjusted, a matter of much i'm
portance. The next year Q753)
the French decided to erect u
fort at Logstown and another at
"the forks" and the first move
they made was to seize the store
house of the English traders at
Logstown, with skins and goods
of various kinds valued at .f20,
600.
This act of hostility could not
be passed over, and in October of
the same year George Washing
ton was dispatched by the Gov
ernor of Virginia to find the
French commandant wherever
he might be and demand.to be in
formed of the intentions of the
French In the execution of this
mission he traversed Cumber-
land county from a point some
what northeast of what is now
Cumberland, Md, to LIE Boeuf,
about where the town of Water
ford stands, in Erie county, thus
crossing nearly it's whole diane
ter in the western part. His
mission had no satisfactory re-
suit. Directly after his return
to Virginia company of troops
were sent out to "the forks,
and early in 1884 the the first
building was erected where Pitts
burgh now stands. The French,
however, took possession in April
1854, and built Fort Du Quesne
and held it till 1853.
In the same year (l|54) Wash
ington, as Lieutenant Colonel,
Colonel Fry having died, led
force of three hundred Virgini-
ans into Pennsylvania and defeat
ed the French at the Great
Meadows, killing Jumonville,
their commander. Here Wash
ington built Fort Necessity, but
was compelled to surrender it to
a large force of French, who laid
siege to it before it was fully
completed.
Braddock's expedition follow
ed the next year, Q755) and sus-
tanned the terrible defeat which
made it such a memorable event.
The succeeding year Q756) Col.
Armstrong, of Carlisle, led his
celebrated expedition to Kittan-
ming and inflicted terrible chas-
tisement on the hostile Indians
there. Hugh Mercer and james
Potter, whom Franklin county
boasts among the former occu-
pants of her soil, were Captains
under Armstrong.
The next great event in the
history Of Cumberland county,
and it is one of the great events
in the history of the United
States, was the expedition of
Gen. Forbes, which marched
through Cumberland county
from her eastern end almost to
her termination at the west, and
captured the coveted and highly
important point at the "fords of
the Ohio, " where Fort Du Quesne
gave way to Port Pitt. This was
the great turning point in the
conflict between the English and
the French in North America,
and it was ON what was then the
soil of cold Mother Cum mberlandO