Owing to conflicting claims in the Monongahela Valley, no land patents were issued before 1779, but many tomahawk entries were made prior to that time. Jacob Prickett, who located his claim in 1766, seems to have been the first settler in Marion County. In a deposition sworn to by the well-known Capt. William Crawford at [...]
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At recent School of the Longhunter, local farmers answer to beat of recruiter’s drum
Posted in Charlie Brown, civilian militia, Continental Congress, Fess Parker, Jacob Prickett, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, longhunters, Lord Byron, Mad Anne Bailey, Mark Baker, Mr A. Roberts--physician, Natty Bumpo, Natural Man, Noble Savage, School of the Longhunter on April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It began with a broadside nailed to the side of the fort: TAKE NOTICE In accordance with the Virginia MILITIA Acts as set forth by the Provincial Council and Committee of Safety the MILITIA shall muster at Captain Jacob Prickett’s Fort and adhere to the following: Resolved: 1. That the several County or (where there is [...]
Pricketts Fort origin accounts #1: Stephen Morgan’s description of the fort
Posted in Awhile Ago Times, Calder Haymond, Glen D. Lough, Jacob Prickett, John Snodgrass, Nathaniel Springer, Stephen Morgan, Zackquill Morgan on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Given the sustained interest over the decades in the actual origins of Pricketts Fort, and the difficulties in attaining any conclusive certainty regarding them, it would be useful to collect the earliest accounts we have of how the fort was built, and how itwas constituted, and transcribe them in full here on the Fortblog. The [...]
Ancestral Wars
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Chief Logan, civilian militia, Jacob Prickett, Kimberly Miller, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Okey Simmons, Prickett family, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan 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. At the time [...]
Chief Logan & the birth of Pricketts Fort
Posted in Battle of Pt Pleasant, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, civilian militia, Coleman Brown, Daniel Greathouse, frontier forts, Jacob Prickett, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Monongahela River, Prickett family, Shawnee, Virginia frontier, William Hellen, William Robinson 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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- 2012 School of the Longhunter comes to Pricketts Fort, April 12-15
- Settling the Western Virginia Backcountry, Part Two
- Scenes from the 18th-century Muzzleloading & Accoutrements Trade Show
- Settling the western Virginia backcountry: part 1
- 18th century Muzzleloading & Accoutrements Trade Show coming to Pricketts Fort, Feb 24-26
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