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ford's troops. They harassed the settlements all 

 along the Upper Ohio, the Alleghany and the Mo- 

 nongahela, and far into the interior, 29 burning, 

 ravaging, and murdering, and bringing dire dismay 

 to every lonely clearing, and every palisaded hamlet 

 of rough log-cabins. 



29 Va. State Papers, III, 235. 



