Frank. F. Carver

a French artillery officer (1) a pack train of 690 horses and 500 cattle. Bad weather (1) and (1) and began the march along the Tuscarawas Trail with his army of 450 Continental's (1) and here the Delawares had renounced their allegiance to France and returned to the British. Major Robert Rodgers had marched his famous Rangers through here in 1761 enroute from Detroit to Fort Pitt (1) and it remained the furthest outpost of the Continental Army until its evacuation in August of 1779. 1784 and into 1790s (1) and lack of forage slowed the march. It was 16 days before the column reached the Tuscarawas River. With the enlistments of the Militia expiring and food supplies short (1) and reminded the Americans of their solemn pledge at the Treaty of Fort Pitt in 1776 when the Americans promised that the Ohio was forever to be a boundary between them. Commissioner Butler's reply dashed all hopes: "The details of these claims and titles (1) and their chiefs responded to the American officials. They cited the Treaty of 1768 making the Ohio River the boundary for whites and Indians (1) and thence run up said river to the portage between that and the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum; thence down said branch to the forks of the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; then westerly to the portage of the Big Miami which runs into the Ohio (1) at the mouth of which stood the fort which was taken by the French in one thousand seven hundred and fifty two; thence along said portage to the Great Miami or Orme River (1) based at and guarded by troops from fort McIntosh began to run the Seven Ranges in Ohio. The National Park Service has installed a monument on the Pennsylvania-Ohio line in Ohioville Borough marking the point from which the boundaries of most of the weste (1) Bouquet had marched his army on the way to the Muskingum to force the release of white prisoners. In the Treaty of Fort Pitt in September 1778 the Delawares gave permission for the Americans t6 move through their territory on the way to Detroit (1) but by late October (1) but Pennsylvania did not own the lands and treaties with iroquois did not bind Ohio tribes; The terms of the Treaty of Fort McIntosh in January. 1785 were imposed rather than negotiated. The Indians: Delawares (1) Chippewas and Ottawas; were told that France had renounced all claims (1) Congress passed landmark legislation (1) cut along the southside of the Ohio to Beaver Creek and in late September the construction of the first fort built north of the Ohio (1) establishing the system of pre-surveyed sale of public lands which made possible the settlement of the Northwest Territory. In September of 1785 (1) First Amrican Regiment secured Ohio (1) Fort McIntosh (1) garrisoned it with 180 men of the 13th under Col. John Gibson and returned to Fort McIntosh. Fort Laurens remained under seige most of the winter until McIntosh relieved it after a forced march of three days (1) McIntosh began to erect Fort Laurens (1) McIntosh had the largest army to serve west of the mountains during the Revolution encamped around the fort site. On November 4 (1) mediating Indian-settler conflicts and fighting Indians. Lands in Ohio had been promised veterans by Pennsylvania (1) Ohio; French and Indian War; American Revolutionary War. (1) possibly the first breach in the American promise to observe the Ohio as a boundary. McIntosh had a supply trail (1) Saucon or Sawkunk (1) shall begin at the mouth of the River Cayahoga (1) since they had taken sides against the United States (1) that Britain had not stipulated anything in their favor (1) the Brodhead Road (1) the Land Ordinance of 1785 (1) thence along the south shore of Lake Erie to the mouth of the Cayahoga where it began." The fact that other Indian nations (the Miamis and others who also occupied this land) (1) they have no relation ... because we claim this Country by Conquest ... it is of this it behooves you to have a clear and distinct comprehension." "The boundary line between the United States and the Wyandot and Delaware nations (1) they were to come under its protection. The Indians had come to Fort McIntosh with great reluctance (1) Until 1775 (1) war had touched lightly at the mouth of the Beaver. Here the French had built their Indian allies a village (1) was begun under the direction of Col. Cambray (1) were not present at the treaty was ignored. In May (1)