The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-19
FORT LITTLETON.
p,lable Data About Fulton
COunty'S Historic Fort,
BuILT IN THE YEAR 1855.

m be read Win liueroSV ny many VI
am subscribers;
coa TNttleton, or Littleton. This
established by Governor Nor
1876 at Sugar Cabins, upon the
.ood called Fort Littleton. 1t is
i. ,,nt twenty miles south of Fort Shir-
a, Auqhwicll. 1t was built in reg
\. form. so that by little work it
,,ld he made to resist cannon, and
wibin sixteen miles of another
u IN MARYLAND. This fort, was dur
4 !, ,be French and Indian war, a con
a,,nous frontier post, and occasion
n, q strong garrison was stationed
.ro TO protect the settlers and prevent
4 4, hostile incursion of the Indians to
4 4. Interior. In April, 1856, the peo-
had all fed from this neighbor-
hOol,
Elisha Salter, an officer, wrote Gov
.ror Morris from Carlisle, April .,
rM upon my arrival here | found
as pqople in the greatest confusion,
+ NJ troops abandoning the forts and
NJ country people gathering in
4 Ao greatest CONSERVATION.
have prevailed upon the people that
Il N tbe forts TO escort me to Fort Lit
.aon
a captain Hance Hamilton was here
,,be time. when Salter was at Car
r,e with company of men, and on
n, return from the Kittanning eXpe-
aion. Colonel Armstrong stopped
several DAYS. In June, 1851, several
Murders we're committed near this fort.
c,pain Hamilton addressed Captain
Potter as follows:
asir: These come to inform you OF
me- melancholy n1ws of what occurred
Fgeen the Indians that have taken
usny cantves from McCord's Fort,
md a party OF men under the com
nand of Captain Alexander Culbert-
gn and nineteen of our men, the whole
mounting to about fifty with the cap
lRes, and had u sore engagement,
many Of both parties being killed and
many wounded. the number unknown.
those wounded want surgeon and
Hose killed require your assistance
Is soon as possible to bury them. We
have sent an express to Fort Shirley
for Dr. Mercer, supposing DR.. Jami-
son is killed or mortally wounded in
aeeypediton, he being not returned;
AGeiOre desire you will send an eX-
press Immediately for DR.. Prentice, OF
Carlisle, we imagining DR.. Mercer
annot leave the fort under the cir
0mstances the fort is under
At Or about the same time there was
company of Cherokee Indians in
Kings pay, being at Fort Littleton,
and Captain Hamilton sent some OF
Dem to search along the foot OF the
Allegheny mountains to see il there
HFe any signs of Indians on that
nnie, and these Indians came upon
yaFan Mercer, unable to rise. They
aye him food, aud he told them of
De other, They took the captain 5
pack and found him and brought him
Dfor Littleton, carrying him on a
per Of their own making. They took
oirteen scalps on this expedition.
The following facts we CLEAN from
Ae Pennsylvania archives with re-
'ect to this fort:
Late in the fall of 1853, the Indians
'nnoyed the inhabitants of Cumber-
anu county, Shearman's Valley and
treat Cove, so that it became neces-
+ 'fy 10 enter upon some systematic
uoue OF defense. In pursuance OF
'ach we find General Armstrong
'Alng to Governor Morris Il letter
'''ed at Carlisle: 81 am of the opin-
9u mat no other means of defense
s. ~an chain of block houses along on
n Var The south side of the Kittatinny
.Oun'alns from the Susquehanna tc
~ temporary line can secure the
IVES ana property eveu of the old in
!, l'o'ants OF this county, the new
~N'ements being all fled except shear
auS valley, whom If God do. not
r'SerYe we fear will suffer very
,'D 80 that measures We're al
.,e aken to erect forts at diilerert
'y'u'S along and between these noun
=" January 20, 1856, Governor
'''S enumerates four forts erected
'"' 10 this date on the west Of the
'4uehanna, and expected a chair
,orls from Delaware to the new
pu made toward the Allegheny hills
I'M, completed in ten days, which
" garrlsoned by about 500 men
~O"g 'he forts already erected h'
,,, 1uerates this as the fourth, and 10
" at Sugar Cabins upon The
a, 'oaa' called it Fort Lyttleton,
~aeed there Il garrison of seven
'0 men, and ordered them tt
n ~ 'ue woods each way. He says
sn WI told 1t is within about sixteel
es a' VI fort that Governor Sharl
G WV and have directed the part,
M, N. n towards that fort" (Probabl.
'''' Frederick, Md
4, sS'n' Si In letter to General Shir
1, .seoraary 8, 1856, Governor Nor
ao0 "s' ut fort Littleton) stand
p,oa, 'ne new road opened by thi