Month: December 2008

CHAPTER XVIII FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT – BUCKTAIL RIFLES Manner of Recruiting Its First Companies – The Unique Material of Which It Was Composed – Woodsmen to the Front – Floating Down the Susquehanna – Captain Stone’s Raft-men – The First Company to Leave Warren – To Pittsburgh in Boats of Their Own Make – By Rail … Read more

CHAPTER XVII THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT – TENTH RESERVE Where Recruited – The Warren Guards – Regimental Rendezvous – Organization of the Regiment – It Proceeds to Harrisburg – Thence to Washington – Brigade Assignment – General Ord in Command – The Fight at Dranesville – A Weary March to Fredericksburg – Transferred to the Peninsula – … Read more

CHAPTER XVI DURING AND SINCE THE LATE WAR   Mutterings of the Coming Storm – The Outbreak – Call for Troops – Citizens of Warren in Council–Their Proceedings – The First Two Companies of Volunteers – Others in Readiness – Leaving Home for the Front – Brief Allusion to Other Organizations – Number of Warren … Read more

CHAPTER XV FROM 1830 TO 1861   The First Steamboat on the Upper Waters of the Allegheny – An Account of the Trip – Cornplanter a Passenger – Merchants and Inn-keepers in 1830 – National Character of Early Settlers – The Scotch-Irish at First in the Ascendency – Origin of the Term Scotch-Irish – Those … Read more

CHAPTER XIV FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY UNTIL 1830   Onerous Duties Imposed Upon Early Inhabitants – Passage of the Act of organization – Its Provisions – Initial Proceedings of County Commissioners – The First Term of Court – Its Officers – Jurors – Attorneys – Early Inn-keepers – Reminiscences Concerning the First Term … Read more

CHAPTER XIII THE ERA OF FORMATION, EARLY SETTLEMENTS, ETC., FROM 1800 TO 1819   Formation of Warren County – Its Original Boundaries – Temporarily Attached to Crawford County – Crawford County Organized – Erection of Brokenstraw Township – It Becomes the First Election District of Crawford – Warren County Annexed to Venango in 1805 – … Read more

CHAPTER XII FROM 1791 TO 1800   Troublous Times on the Border – Baneful British Influence – Uneasy Iroquois – Colonel Proctor Visits Them – Interesting Details Gathered From His Journal – His Mission a Failure – St. Clair Defeated – The Iroquois Become Insolent – Their Arrogant Demands – Cornplanter Joins the Malcontents – … Read more

CHAPTER XI CORNPLANTER AND OTHER INDIANS – 1790-91 The Seneca Chieftain Invited to Visit Philadelphia – Letter from Thomas Mifflin – Ensign Jeffers’s Letter – The Journey – Arrival in the Quaker City – Subsequent Proceedings – Cornplanter’s Speech to the Supreme Executive Council – President Mifflin’s Reply – Cornplanter Meets President Washington – Returns … Read more

PREFACE While it may seem to the uninitiated a task involving but little difficulty to prepare for publication a work no more comprehensive in character than this volume and containing the history merely of a single county, still it is not out of place here to assure all such readers that the work is one … Read more

CHAPTER X   FROM 1783 TO 1790 Forlorn Condition of the Senecas at the Close of the Revolutionary War – Willing to Cede the Remainder of their Lands in Pennsylvania – Commissioners Appointed to Treat with Them – A Sum Appropriated to Purchase Indian Goods – Quantity and Kind of Goods with which Purchase was … Read more