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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley: Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians During the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. — John Shaqi

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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley: Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians During the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c.

Name: History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley: Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians During the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c.
Author: Jones, U. J. (Uriah James)

Jones, U. J. (Uriah James)

Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Juniata River Valley; Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Juniata River Valley; Juniata River Valley (Pa.) -- Genealogy; Juniata River Valley (Pa.) -- History

The like proceedings at Big Cove (now within Bedford county)
    against Andrew Donnaldson, John MacClelland, Charles Stewart, James
    Downy, John MacMean, Robert Kendell, Samuel Brown, William
    Shepperd, Roger Murphy, Robert Smith, William Dickey, William
    Millican, William MacConnell, James Campbell, William Carrell, John
    Martin, John Jamison, Hans Patter, John MacCollin, James Wilson,
    and John Wilson; who, coming before the magistrates, were convicted
    on their own confession of the like trespasses, as in former cases,
    and were all bound over in like recognisances and executed the like
    bond to the proprietaries. Three waste cabins of no value were
    burnt at the north end of the Cove by the persons who claimed a
    right to them.

    The Little Cove (in Franklin county) and the Big and Little
    Conolloways being the only places remaining to be visited, as this
    was on the borders of Maryland, the magistrates declined going
    there, and departed for their homes.

    About the year 1740 or 1741, one Frederick Star, a German, with two
    or three more of his countrymen, made some settlements at the place
    where we found William White, the Galloways, and Andrew Lycon, on
    Big Juniata, situate at the distance of twenty miles from the mouth
    thereof, and about ten miles north of the Blue Hills,--a place much
    esteemed by the Indians for some of their best hunting ground;
    which (German settlers) were discovered by the Delawares at
    Shamokin to the deputies of the Six Nations as they came down to
    Philadelphia in the year 1742, to hold a treaty with this
    government; and they were disturbed at, as to inquire with a
    peculiar warmth of Governor Thomas if these people had come there
    by the orders or with the privilege of the government; alleging
    that, if it was so, this was a breach of the treaties subsisting
    between the Six Nations and the proprietor, William Penn, who in
    the most solemn manner engaged to them not to suffer any of the
    people to settle lands till they had purchased from the Council of
    the Six Nations. The governor, as he might with great truth,
    disowned any knowledge of those persons' settlements; and on the
    Indians insisting that they should be immediately thrown over the
    mountains, he promised to issue his proclamation, and, if this had
    no effect, to put the laws in execution against them. The Indians,
    in the same treaty, publicly expressed very severe threats against
    the inhabitants of Maryland for settling lands for which they had
    received no satisfaction, and said that if they would not do them
    justice they would do justice to themselves, and would certainly
    have committed hostilities if a treaty had not been under foot
    between Maryland and the Six Nations, under the mediation of
    Governor Thomas; at which the Indians consented to sell lands and

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