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On the 4th of July, a recruiting party at Pricketts Fort

Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Capt Springer, Fourth of July, Tom Carson, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, recruitment on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recruiting new militiamen for an expedition against the Shawnee in the Ohio Territory, on the Cuyahoga River, took place on July 4th and 5th at Pricketts Fort, with indifferent success reported.
Although a fair number of interested men initially stepped forward to join the ranks, once it was explained to them that, at [...]

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Backwoods Virginians and the “First Declaration of Independence”

Posted in "Intolerable Acts", Adam Stephen, American Revolution, Continental Congress, Daniel Morgan, Declaration of Independence, Fort Gower, George Rogers Clark, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Cresap, Monongahela River, Prickett family, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Simon Kenton, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia frontier, William Crawford, Zackquill Morgan, civilian militia, frontier forts, living history on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There are many stories to be told of the earliest days of what is now West Virginia, and most have been told elsewhere already. But one story, which ties the origins of this region to the origins of the nation, deserves to be told more often. It involves a document which, while little known except [...]

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