To All Brave, Healthy, Able Bodied and Well Disposed Young Men, in this Vicinity, Who have any Inclination to Join the Troops now Raisng under General Hand, at Fort Pitt, for the Defence of the Liberties & Independence of the United States against the Hostile Designs of Foreign Enemies TAKE NOTICE, that Monday, July Fourth, [...]
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Recruiter for General Hand to be at Pricketts Fort, July 4
Posted in Fourth of July, General Hand on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Backwoods Virginians and “The First Declaration of Independence”
Posted in "Intolerable Acts", Adam Stephen, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, Daniel Morgan, Fort Gower, Fourth of July, George Rogers Clark, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Cresap, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Simon Kenton, William Crawford, Zackquill Morgan on June 27, 2010 | 1 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 [...]
On the 4th of July, a recruiting party at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Capt Springer, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, Fourth of July, recruitment, Tom Carson 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 the end [...]
Recruiter for General Hand to be at Pricketts Fort, July 4
Posted in Capt Springer, Fourth of July, recruitment, Zackquill Morgan on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
To All Brave, Healthy, Able Bodied and Well Disposed Young Men, in this Vicinity, Who have any Inclination to Join the Troops now Raisng under General Hand, at Fort Pitt, for the Defence of the Liberties & Independence of the United States against the Hostile Designs of Foreign Enemies TAKE NOTICE, that Saturday, July Fourth, [...]













































