Notes 



of the same fort, then called Fort Pitt. In October, 1764, 

 he marched against the Ohio Indians, who were harrying 

 the border, and compelled the Shawnees, Delawares and 

 other tribes to make peace at Tuscarawas. He was made 

 colonel in 1762, and at the time of his death, which occurred 

 at Pensacola in 1766, held the rank of brigadier-general. 

 An account of Bouquet's expedition against the Ohio 

 Indians, written by Dr. William Smith, then provost of 

 the College of Philadelphia, and published in 1766, was 

 reprinted at Cincinnati in 1868 with preface by Francis 

 Parkman. 



NOTE V. 



Spotswood's iron works were located near the present 

 Germanna Ford on the Rapidan. There is an engaging 

 account of a visit to them in the "Westover Manuscripts." 



NOTE VI. 



The parsons were right both in law and in equity, but 

 popular greed and prejudice were against them. It was 

 as counsel for the defence in one of the suits growing out 

 of this affair that, in 1763, Patrick Henry, then a young 

 lawyer of twenty-seven, first proved his supreme powers 

 as an orator, and at the same time startled his auditors 

 with the bold declaration "that a king, by disallowing acts 

 of a salutary nature, from being the father of his people, 

 degenerated into a tyrant, and forfeited all right to his 

 subjects' obedience." A full and satisfying account of 

 the Parsons' Cause will be found in the first volume of 

 William Wirt Henry's "Patrick Henry: Life, Correspond- 

 ence and Speeches," New York, 1891. 



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