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Visitors to Pricketts Fort on July 4th were witness to a small-scale re-enactment of a recruiting officer from Fort Pitt calling on local farmers to volunteer as part of a company of militia being raised to join General Hand in a punitive expedition against Shawnee towns in Ohio in the summer of 1777. The call [...]

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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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