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

CHAPTER IX ENGLISH DOMINION Pontiac’s Conspiracy – The Devil’s Hole – A Fight at Black Rock – Bradstreet’s Expedition – Sulky Senecas – The Troops Composing Bradstreet’s Command – Israel Putnam – The Revolution – Four Iroquois Tribes Hostile – The Treaty at Oswego – A Price for American Scalps – Brant, the Mohawk – … Read more

CHAPTER VII PENN IN PENNSYLVANIA   William Penn Sails for America – His Advice to His Family – The Voyage – Warmly Received at New Castle – The First Assembly – Penn Visits New York and Maryland – Unsatisfactory Conference with Lord Baltimore – The Great Treaty with the Indians – The Walking Purchase – … Read more

CHAPTER VIII FRENCH DOMINION  A Slight Ascendency – De Nonville Attacks the Senecas – Origin of Fort Niagara – Count Frontenac in the Field – Treaty of Ryswick – Queen Anne’s War – The Iroquois Neutral – The Tuscaroras – Joncaire – Fort Niagara Rebuilt – French Power Increasing – Conflicting Claims – Secret Instructions … Read more

CHAPTER VI THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA Europeans Struggle for Supremacy Along the Atlantic Coast – Quakers Settle in New Jersey – William Penn Appointed a Trustee – His Labors in Their Behalf – An Early Description of the New Country – Admiral Penn – A Province Granted to His Son – It is Named Pennsylvania … Read more