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William Bingham of Philadelphia to nearly 300,000 

 acres of forest land in the counties of Potter and Mc- 

 Kean in Pennsylvania. Mr. King was the agent for 

 John Keating, the managing trustee of the corpora- 

 tion — The Ceres Company. 



The Susquehanna Company claimed to own the 

 land from the Conewango, at Warren, Pa., to the Sus- 

 quehanna, between the 40th degree of latitude and 

 the New York line, under a grant from Connecticut 

 which claimed all north of the 40th parallel, in Penn- 

 sylvania. Mr. Martin represented the Connecticut 

 claimants and spent much time in the forest, taking 

 the Indian boy with him for a year or two before 1800, 

 when the courts finally disposed of the matter that had 

 caused the "Yankee-Pennamite War" for more than 

 half a century. 



From April to July of 1814, Gen. Winfield Scott es- 

 tablished, near Buffalo, a camp of instruction and drill- 

 ed his raw levies in the French tactics with such effect 

 that on July 3d they took Fort Erie, opposite Buffalo, 

 by assault; and on July 5th, fought the drawn bat- 

 tle at Chippewa in Ontario. Young John Titus had 

 been at the camp for training and he served as chief 

 of scouts at the two battles with such credit that Gen- 

 eral Scott sent him to the Seneca reservations to select 

 and train 100 Indian athletes and runners for service in 

 Canada. On July 24, 1814, a runner brought an order 

 to Titus that a battle was imminent and ordering him 

 to report at Fort Erie with his company of scouts in 

 the shortest possible elapse of time. 



