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Ancestral Wars

Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Chief Logan, Jacob Prickett, Kimberly Miller, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Okey Simmons, Prickett family, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan, civilian militia on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War.
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Chief Logan & the birth of Pricketts Fort

Posted in Battle of Pt Pleasant, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, Coleman Brown, Daniel Greathouse, Jacob Prickett, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Monongahela River, Prickett family, Shawnee, Virginia frontier, William Hellen, William Robinson, civilian militia, frontier forts on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On this date, in 1774, at a trading post in Baker’s Bottom, near Wheeling on the Ohio River, a peaceful band of Mingo Indians were set upon by rogue frontiersmen under Daniel Greathouse and brutally slaughtered.  Among the dead were members of the family of Chief Logan, who had until this time always been a [...]

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