Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state...Godcharles, Frederic Antes
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Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state...
Godcharles, Frederic Antes
Pennsylvania -- Biography; Pennsylvania -- History
Brodhead hurried forward and dashed into the Indian capital, finding but
fifteen warriors there, who made a brave resistance, but every one was
either killed by rifle ball or tomahawked by an American soldier. The
mounted men were first in the town and they would not accept surrender
or suffer the wounded to linger long in agony. No harm was done to any
of the old men, women or children, of whom more than a score were
captured. These were removed and every building in Coshocton set on
fire. A great quantity of peltry and other stores was taken and forty
head of cattle furnished good food for the hungry soldiers.
As a result of the Coshocton campaign the hostile Delaware migrated to
the headwaters of the Sandusky and other places farther westward, while
the adherents of Chief Killbuck and those friendly to the Americans
moved to Pittsburgh and erected their rude wigwams on Smoky Island,
sometimes called Killbuck Island, at the northern side of the junction
of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers.
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Cornerstones Laid for Germantown
Academy, April 21, 1760
By the year 1760, the French and Indian War had narrowed its area and
was confined chiefly to Canada. This was then a period of development in
and about Philadelphia.
The Germantown Academy was organized January 1, 1760, and four
cornerstones were laid with appropriate ceremonies, April 21, 1760.
This ancient and honorable institution was originated in a meeting held
December 6, 1759, at the house of Daniel Mackinet, when it was resolved
to start a subscription for erecting a large and commodious building
near the center of the town for the use of an English and High Dutch
School, with suitable dwelling houses for the teachers. Christopher
Meng, Christopher Sower, Baltus Reser, Daniel Machinet, John Jones, and
Charles Bensell were appointed to solicit and receive subscriptions.
At the organization meeting held by the contributors, January 1, 1760,
Richard Johnson was appointed treasurer, and Christopher Sower, Thomas
Rosse, John Jones, Daniel Mackinet, Jacob Rizer, John Bowman, Thomas
Livezey, David Dreshler, George Absentz, Joseph Galloway, Charles
Bensell, Jacob Naglee and Benjamin Engle were chosen trustees.
The trustees purchased a lot from George Bringhurst in Bensell’s Lane,
subsequently called Schoolhouse Lane. The institution was named
Germantown Union High School House.
It was also decided that the school should be free to persons of all
religious denominations.
The buildings were completed by the following year, when the school was
opened in September.
The schoolhouse was eighty feet long and forty feet wide, two stories
high, and six schoolrooms, and wings supplying two dwelling houses for
the use of the masters.
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