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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
e Great Mountains, the Ohio Company Instructions of the Ohio Company to Christopher Gist, 11 September, 1750. summoned the adventurous Christopher Gist from his frand numbers of the Indian nations. On the last day of October, Journals of Gist, printed by Thomas Pownall, in the Appendix to Thomas Pownall's Topographical Derried, to the new fort at Sandusky. Come and live with us, said the Wyandots to Gist; bring great guns and make a fort. If the French claim the branches of the Lakehey cried, is wanting but cultivation to make this a most delightful country. Gist's Journal in Pownall's Appendix, 11. Their horses swam over the swollen current an's Journal of Transactions, &c. The indentures had just been exchanged, Gist in Pownall, 12, 13. when four Ottawas drew near with a present from the governorr gifts in his turn. Thus February came to an end. On the first day of March, Gist took his leave. The Miamis, resolving never to give heed to the words of the Fr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
aluted him as a young chief, and cherished him with hearty kindness; his Indian master, accepting a ransom, restored him to his country. Men of less presence of mind often fell victims to the fury of the Indian allies of France. At the same time, the Ohio Company, with the express sanction Laws of Virginia, February, 1752. 25 Geo. II., c. 25. Report of Lewis and Walker to Lord Botetourt, 2 February, 1769. of the Legislature of Virginia, were forming a settlement beyond the mountains. Gist had, on a second tour, explored the lands southeast of the Ohio, as far as the Kenhawa. The jealousy of the Indians was excited. Where, said the deputy of chap. IV.} 1752. the Delaware chiefs, where lie the lands of the Indians? The French claim all on one side of the river, and the English on the other. Virginia, under the treaty of Lancaster, of 1744, assumed the right to appropriate to her jurisdiction all the lands as far west as the Mississippi. In May, 1752, her commissioners m
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
in 1753, opened a road by Will's Creek, into the Western valley; and Gist established a plantation near the Youghiogeny, just beyond Laurel Hiddle of November, with an interpreter and four attendants, and Christopher Gist, as a guide, he left Will's Creek, and following the Indian tr his back, the day after Christmas quitted the usual path, and, with Gist for his sole companion, by aid of the compass, steered the nearest wt, missing him, became his prisoner. I would have killed him, wrote Gist, but Washington forbade. Dismissing their captive at night, they , and in the morning he found the river frozen. Not till he reached Gist's settlement, in January, 1754, were his toils lightened. 1754. Wwo o'clock till near sunrise. On the morning of the twenty-seventh, Gist arrived. He had seen the trail of the French within five miles of t road for about thirteen miles through the gorge in the mountains to Gist's settlement, and a party was clearing a path as far as the mouth of