1758. Grant defeated near Fort Du Quesne.

Washington opening a road over the mountains.
French and Indians attack Forbes at Loyalhanna.
Forbes marches from Loyalhanna to Turtle creek.
Post's second mission to Ohio Indians.

French burn and retire from Fort Du Quesne.

Forbes takes possession of the Forks. (Pittsburgh.)

English erect temporary works; Forbes returns to Philadelphia.

Col. H. Mercer left in command.

Cherokee Indians become hostile to Colonists.

1759. Forbes dies at Philadelphia.

D'Aubry brings army stores and troops from Illinois to Venango.
Garrison at Fort Pitt fear the French at Venango.

Gen. Stanwix arrives at Fort Pitt.

Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Niagara and Quebec yield.

1760. The French yield Canada to the English.

Cherokee war against south-west Colonies.

Gen. Monkton treats with the Indians at Fort Pitt.

Settlers again go over the mountains.

Rogers takes possession of Detroit.

Rogers returns across Ohio to Fort Pitt.

1761. Death of Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix. Alexander Henry, Indian trader, visits N. West.

Christian F. Post goes to settle on Tuscarawas river.

1762. Bouquet warns all persons from settling on Indian lands.

Post and Heckewelder go to Tuscarawas.

Dark day at Detroit.

Preliminaries to Peace of Paris settled.

Louisiana transferred to Spain.

The Canadas contain upward of 100,000 souls.

1763. Mason and Dixon commence to survey line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Treaty of Paris concluded.

Detroit attacked by Pontiac.

Mackinac taken by Indians.

Presqu' Isle (Erie) taken by Indians.

Sandusky, Fort, surprised and taken by Indians.

St. Josephs Fort, on St. Josephs river, taken by Pottawattamies.

Ouiatenon garrison surrendered-were not massacred.

Fort Miami (near Fort Wayne) garrison made prisoners.

Fort at Green Bay evacuated and garrison escaped.

Le Bœuf attacked, fort burnt, garrison escaped.

The date of the massacre at forts at Venango not known.
Battle of Bushy Run.

Fort Pitt besieged, and relieved by Bouquet.

Proclamation to protect Indian lands.

Laclede arrives at Ste. Genevieve.

Laclede selects site of St. Louis.

Forts Bedford and Ligonier attacked; not taken.

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1764. St. Louis founded by Laclede.

Bradstreet makes dishonorable peace with Northern Indians.
Bouquet makes peace with Ohio Indians.

French Officers ordered to give up Lower Louisiana to Spain.

1765. Sir William Johnson makes treaty at German Flats. George Croghan goes westward.

1765.

Croghan made prisoner at the Wabash.

Captain Stirling, for England, takes possession of Illinois.
Proclamation of Governor Gage.

1766.} First families known to be at Pittsburgh.

1766. "Quebec Bill" passed in the British Parliament.

Capt. Jonathan Carver explored the unknown North-West.
Settlers again cross the Mountains.

Walpole Company proposed.

Col. James Smith visits Kentucky.

Capt. Pitman arrives in Illinois.

Mason and Dixon's Line finished to Dunker Creek.

1767. Western Indians grow impatient.

Franklin labors for Walpole Company.

Finley visits Kentucky.

Zeisberger founds Mission on the Allegheny.

Gen. Bouquet died at Pensacola.

Mason and Dixon ceased surveying line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
English traders first visit Assiniboine river.

1768. Treaty of Fort Stanwix-grand acquisition of lands from Indians.

Capt. Pitman still at Illinois.

Capt. Carver returns from the North-West.

Indian treaty at Pittsburgh.

Severe penal laws, to prevent settlement on Indian lands.

1769. Mississippi Company proposed.

Boone and others start for Kentucky.

Boone and others reach Red river, of Kentucky.

Boone made prisoner by the Indians.

1770. Grave Creek Settlement, Virginia, first made.

Moravians invited to Big Beaver.

Moravians leave Allegheny and remove to Beaver.

Treaty of Lochaber.

Ohio Company merged in Walpole Company.

Washington visits the West.

The Zanes found Wheeling.

Spain takes possession of St. Louis and Upper Louisiana.

The Long Hunters explore the West.

1771. Boone returns to North Carolina. Long Hunters still abroad.

1772. Indians murdered by whites on Lower Kanawha.

Moravians invited by Indians, remove from Beaver to Tuscarawa.
Gen. Gage's proclamation against settlers on Wabash.
Moravians found Schoenbrun on Tuscarawa.

1773. Boone and others start to settle Kentucky.

Boone and companions attacked by Indians, and return.
Bullitt, M'Afee and others descend the Ohio.

Bullitt and others survey at Falls and Kentucky river.

Gen. Thompson surveys the valley of Licking.

Gen. Lyman goes to Natchez.

Purchase by Illinois Company in Illinois.

Big Bone Lick, near the Ohio, discovered.

Kennedy, from Kaskaskia, ascends Illinois river in search of a copper mine.
Kennedy describes ruins of a fort at the south-west end of Lake Peoria.

1774. James Harrod in Kentucky.

Contentions between Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Connolly calls out militia, and usurps civil authority.

St. Clair arrests Connolly and companions.

Connolly and associates are released on parole.

Connolly receives armed forces from Virginia.

Connolly takes possession of Fort Pitt, and names it Fort Dunmore.

Magistrates made prisoners by Connolly.

Pennsylvania magistrates carried prisoners to Virginia.

Discussion about the unfinished Mason and Dixon line.

Connolly writes to the settlers about Wheeling to attack Indians.

Cresap unfortunately agrees with Connolly.

Greathouse murders several Indians.

Logan revenges his family. Preparation for war,

Boone sent for surveyors down the river.

Friendly Shawanese attacked by Connolly.

Several Indian traders murdered.
M'Donald attacks Wapatomica.

Troops under Lewis march down Kanawha.
Troops under Lewis reach Point Pleasant.

Battle of Point Pleasant.

Dunmore makes an unpopular peace.

Simon Girty considered a valiant soldier.

Simon Girty acts in concert with Virginians against Indians.

1775. Treaty of Wataga; purchase by Transylvania Company. Boone returns to Kentucky, and founds Boonsboro.

Henderson and associates arrive at Boonsboro.

Henderson calls representatives to the first Legislature in the West.
Representatives hold their session under a large tree.

Guy Johnson influences Iroquois against Americans.

Oneidas and Tuscaroras adhere to America.

Congress forms three Indian departments.

Meeting of Commissioners and Indians at Pittsburgh.
Connolly arrested in Maryland.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

1775. Purchase by Wabash Company on Wabash river.

Capt. John Neville takes possession of Fort Pitt.

Provincial government of Pennsylvania denounces Judge Crawford.

A very large meeting at Hannastown of citizens of Western Pennsylvania.

1776. Monongalia county, Virginia, made from West Augusta.

Ohio county, Virginia, erected from West Augusta district.
An attack on Detroit proposed in Congress.

Washington advises the employment of Indians.
Indians generally incline to the British.

Congress authorizes the employment of Indians.

Indians drive off Kentucky settlers.

George Rogers Clark moves to Kentucky.

Kentuckians choose delegates for Virginia Assembly.
Clark and Jones are their representatives.

Clark procures gunpowder from Virginia Council.

Virginia admits Kentucky among her counties.

Clark and Jones return from Virginia by Pittsburgh.
Jones is killed by Indians-Clark returns to Harrodsburg.
Kentucky settlements made Kentucky county, Virginia.
Fort Appleby built at Kittanning.

1777. Cornstalk (Indian chief,) murdered at Point Pleasant. Congress of Indians and British at Oswego.

Kentucky infested with Northern Indians.

Kentucky elects (legally,) burgesses to Virginia Assembly.
Logan's station assailed by Indians.

Clark sends spies to Illinois.

Logan crosses the mountains for gunpowder.

Bowman, with one hundred men, comes West from Virginia.

Fort Henry (Wheeling,) attacked.

First court in Kentucky, at Harrodsburg.

The attack on Detroit urged in Congress.

Clark opens his plan of conquering Illinois to Governor Henry.
Harrodsburg attacked by Indians.

1778. Orders issued to Clark to attack Illinois.

Boone taken prisoner at Salt Licks, on Licking river.

Boone taken to Detroit, thence to Scioto.

Clark succeeds in gathering a small army at Louisville.
Clark passes falls of Ohio, and descends to Fort Massac.

Boone escapes from Indian captivity.

Clark marches from Ohio river towards Kaskaskia.

Clark conquers Kaskaskia, as likewise Cahokia.

Vincennes joins the American cause.

M'Intosh sent to command at Fort Pitt.

Fort M'Intosh, on the upper Ohio, built.

New Jersey objects to land claims of Virginia.

Boone makes an incursion against Indians on Scioto.

Boonsboro besieged by British and Indians.

Fort Laurens built on the Tuscarawas.

Clark holds council with Indians of the Illinois.

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1778. Treaty with Delaware Indians at Pittsburgh.

Virginia grants Henderson and company the Green river land.
Governor Hamilton, from Detroit, re-takes Vincennes.

1779. Boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia settled.
Clark is notified of the capture of Vincennes.
Clark's extraordinary march from Kaskaskia.

Clark's miraculous re-capture of Vincennes,
Governor Hamilton sent a prisoner to Virginia.
State of Delaware objects to land claims of Virginia.
Americans suspect and attack the Iroquois.

First settlement of Lexington, Kentucky.
Virginia passes additional land laws.

Maryland objects to land claims of Virginia.

Brodhead's expedition against the Allegheny Indians.
Sullivan's expedition against the Iroquois.

Bowman's expedition against Indians in Miami valley.
Fort Laurens on Tuscarawas abandoned.

Indians treat with Brodhead at Fort Pitt.

Rogers and Benham attacked by Indians.

Land Commissioners open their sessions in Kentucky.
Congress asks Virginia to reconsider land laws.
Continued Indian outrages about Fort Pitt.

1780. Hard winter.-Great suffering in the West.
New York authorizes a cession of Western lands.
Fort Jefferson built on the Mississippi.

Great emigration to the South-West.

Virginia grants lands in Kentucky for education.

St. Louis attacked by British and Indians.

Louisville established by law.

Byrd with a large force invades Kentucky.

Clark prepares to attack the Shawanese.

Clark builds block house opposite the mouth of Licking.

Marches thence to Upper Miami.

Clark defeats the Shawanese and destroys their property.

Battle of King's Mountain in N. Carolina.

Scarcity of provisions-almost famine at Fort Pitt.

South-Western boundary of Pennsylvania definitely established.

1781. Laws of Virginia prevent sale of provisions out of the State. Renewed efforts for an expedition against Detroit.

Virginia makes her first act of cession.

Spaniards from St. Louis take Fort St. Josephs, near Lake Michigan.
Jay instructed that he may yield the navigation of Mississippi.

New York cedes her Western lands.

Brodhead attacks Delaware Indians on Muskingum.

Gen. G. R. Clark solicits aid from Western Pennsylvania.

Clark addresses Col. Lochry of Westmoreland.

Lochry, Orr and others raise a force and descend the Ohio.

Lochry killed-his troops taken prisoners.

Mary Heckewelder born, first white child in Ohio.
Americans begin to settle in Illinois.