Month: March 2010

CHAPTER VIII THE WAR OF 1812 Alarms on the Frontier – Drafts -Captain Wallace’s Company – Incidents of the March to the Maumee – Fort Meigs – Neely’s Company – Proceedings at Erie – Volunteers. IN the spring of 1812, the wonted quiet and routine of the infant settlements were disturbed by rumors of war … Read more

CHAPTER VII FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY TO THE WAR OF 1812 Absalom Travis – Securing Warrants – John Laughlin – Settlers from Westmoreland-From Centre County – Character of Pioneers -Pioneer Life – Mills- Churches – Schools Pastimes – “First Things.” 1792-1812 OF the settlement of Absalom Travis, the pioneer of Clarion county, few … Read more

CHAPTER VI FROM THE PURCHASE OF 1784 TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY The Purchase – Pickering & Co.- Small Warrantees – The Fox Estate – Lewis and Peters The Holland Land Company – The Bingham Lands – Mifflin Warrants Franklin College Northumberland and Lycoming – David Mead – The State Commissioners. TRUE to the … Read more

CHAPTER V FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PURCHASE OF 1784 Aborigines, Senecas, and Delawares – Indian Remains – Petroleum – Christian Frederick Post – Tobeco and Toby- Redbank Creek – Brodhead’s Expedition Captain Samuel Brady. THE INDIANS THE aboriginal tribe who dwelt on the shores of the Allegheny were the Allegwi, a people of … Read more

Chapter IV GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY* Definition – Anticlinals and Synclinals – Geologic Column – Surface Rocks – Measures- Freeport Group – Kittanning Group – Ore and Limestone – Analyses- Clarion Group- Brookville Coal – Homewood Sandstone – Rocks Beneath – Other Minerals -Petroleum- Theories – Natural Gas – Fuel Value.Definition — Anticlinals and Synclinals — … Read more

CHAPTER III TOPOGRAPHY OF CLARION COUNTY Table-Land Character – Drainage – Streams – Elevations – General Description – Forests- Scenery – Ancient Channels. THE surface of Clarion county has a sufficient general elevation above the level of the large streams to merit the name of a table-land; but its numerous water-courses, many of them with … Read more

CHAPTER II FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT TIME Mason and Dixon – Indian Troubles – Stamp Act- Connecticut and Virginia Claims-First-Continental Congress — Second Continental Congress – Declaration of Independence – New Constitution for Pennsylvania – Retirement of Governor Penn and the Proprietary Assembly – Evacuation of Boston – Attack on Charleston – British … Read more

PREFACE JOSEPHUS says, “Those who undertake to write histories, do not, I perceive, take that trouble on one and the same account; but for many and various reasons. For some apply themselves to this part of learning to show their great skill in composition; and that they may therein acquire a reputation. Others write histories … Read more

CHAPTER I PENNSYLVANIA FROM FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE REVOLUTION Introductory – The Natives – Hudson – Dutch Settlements – Settlement by the Swedes Conquest of the Swedish Colony by the Dutch – Conquest of the New Netherlands by the British – Re-conquest by the Dutch – Final Cession to England- New Jersey – William Penn- … Read more