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ol' \\'ashinj;lon, aiul corresponding portions of the roiintics north and 

 south of it, in the "Pan-Handle" of Virginia. The proposition was 

 rejected on the part of Virginia, her commissioners contending that 

 under a proper construction of Penn's charter, the boundary line should 

 run east of Pittsburgh. 



Soon thereafter, in Jul}', 1774, occurred what is called Dunmore's 

 war, at the close of which Logan, the celebrated Indian Chief, made 

 his supposed speech referring to the killing of his dusky family at the 

 mouth of Yellow Creek below the present Steubenville : " Who is 

 there to mourn for Logan ? " Although this war was not of great mag- 

 nitude, and was confined to what is now the state of Ohio, yet its ap- 

 proach so frightened the settlers of the Ohio and Monongahela valleys 

 that it is said in a letter written by Valentine Crawford to Col. Geo. 

 AVashington, "There were more than one thousand people crossed the 

 Monongahela in one day at three ferries that are not one mile apart. 



Dunmore himself was with the white forces, chiefly adherents of the 

 Virginia jurisdiction ; and it is clear, as before intimated, that in the 

 adjustment of the terms of peace, Dunmore, foreseeing the approach- 

 ing revolution from the mother country, arranged such terms with the 

 Indians as subsequently made them, or aided to make them, the allies 

 of the British armies against our American patriots. 



On his way down the river to the scene of the conflict. Lord Dun- 

 more sto]jped at Fort Dunmore, as the fort at Pittsburgh had been 

 baptized by Dr. Connolly, whence he issued his proclamation, this 

 time personally and publicly a.s.serting the claim of Virginia to all the 

 territory w-est of the Laurel Hill mountains, and alleging instructions 

 he had lately received from the English government to take it under 

 his immediate control. A counter proclamation by Governor Penn 

 followed on October 12, 1774, instructing the Pennsylvania magis- 

 trates to maintain the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, nothwithstanding 

 Dunmore's fulminations. Dunmore, on his return after the treaty of 

 peace, which was made in the same month of October, stopped again 

 at Pittsburgh, or at Fort Dunmore, as he called the place, when he 

 was once more brought into personal contact with his adherents. He 

 thence proceeded to Redstone, now Brownsville, where he had Thomas 

 Scott arrested and brought before him for the offence of exercising the 

 functions of a Pennsylvania magistrate. Thomas Scott was a distin- 

 guished man of that day and afterward. He became the first pro- 

 thonotary of Washington county when organized, held many other 



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