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 WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE 
 
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 Colkitto, or M'Donald, or Gallasp? -~^~ ' " .^-^""^ 
 
 These rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, "— — — — "^ 
 That wonld have made QuintUian stare and gasp." 
 
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 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by 
 
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Western District 
 PennsylYania. 
 
These Lines were written at the request of the Proprietor 
 and Lessees of the Pittsburgh Theater, a few days before 
 the Centennial Celebration, and were read by the Stage 
 Manager, on that occasion. 
 
SUC-CO-TASH. 
 
 A HUNDRED YEARS AGO ! what sylvan beauty 
 Did Nature on this almost island^ crowd ; 
 
 Where Art now, from her altars grim and sooty, 
 ^' Doth overcome us like a winter cloud." 
 
 Here, 'mid flowers and leaves, the playful fawn 
 Felt safe the while from every stealthy foe ; 
 
 Thick woods, small lakes, breaking the wild lawn, 
 Did hide, at least, the arrow and the bow. 
 
SUC-CO-TASH. 
 
 See pensive Jacques/ in his birchen bark — 
 Between the flowery banks his way he wends 
 
 He dreams that he is in the Royal Park 
 
 '^Aux-Cerfs," or fairy '^forest of Ardennes/' 
 
 But long ago the picture was defaced ; 
 
 The trees are gone — the green round hill is level ; 
 And hardly can the outlines be retraced, 
 
 By those old scene-restorers, Brack- and Neville.^ 
 
 True, some yet live who might have seen the camp 
 Of Ki-end-twoh-he,- on the "Alligawi ', '''" 
 
 ST-go-ye-ica-tha,^ too, upon its bank — 
 Lo-naiV — Kus-to-lo-ga — AlAi-ma-ici : 
 
 VI. 
 
 Br ant, ^ the Miami victor— Butler's butcher I 
 Tunas — Me-lan-the^ — Wen-ge-a n em^^— 
 
 Curn-staJTi — Little Tiirth^^ — Whing-iohang-jwO'chi'^- — 
 Ah I let the Muse here for the last time name them 
 
S U C-C 0-T A S H 
 
 Kilhuck, and that great chief Bo-hen-ge-lialus,'^^ 
 
 Who hugged Clauk at the Treaty of Fort Finney ; 
 
 Blue-Jacket^^ — Pipe^^—Wi-en-do-lialies^^— 
 
 Conquered^ at last, by Wayne and ^' wliis-ki-ninny:^^'^'' 
 
 And often met at Nicholson's or Diehl's/^ 
 White-Eyes — Guy-a-su-tha — Sca-roo-ya-di ;'- 
 
 And lost a race, perhaps, with '^ SUcer-Heeh,'" 
 Or won a bet on famous Captain Brady.-*' 
 
 How things have changed at Yau-yau-ga-ny-town, 
 Since Alliquippa hunted and caught fish ] 
 
 Where summer boarders with old Allen BroWxN, 
 Now read of Indians in the '^ Wish-ton-wish." 
 
 How changed the actors I how the scene has shifted, 
 Since Washington explored this ^^ western wildland ;" 
 
 And on a raft, with Gist, his pilot, drifted 
 
 Upon the upper end of ^' Wainwright's Island." 
 
SU C-C 0-T A S H. 
 
 Young trees are aged — old landmarks are gone. 
 Since tlie two raftsmen tried in vain to steer 
 
 From " Mingo Castle"^^ to that bank where Croghan, 
 Soon after, kept his hospitable cheer. 
 
 But, ah ! instead of reaching ^^ Frazier's Fields," 
 Or resting at Oalyp&o^s fishing camp, 
 
 Were fain to march to save their freezing heels, 
 And all night through their island prison tramp. 
 
 'Twas then the long-expected gallant knight, 
 With blanket hunting-skirt and leggings green, 
 
 Attended by his 'sciuire, the aforesaid wight, 
 Paid his first visit to the Del' ware Queen. 
 
 X I r. 
 
 Her tawny Majesty was quite unhappy 
 The gallant courtier had not sooner come ; 
 
 He soothed her feelings with a ''blanket capo," 
 And touched her fancy with a ''flask of rum." 
 
S U C-C^-T A S H. 
 
 Then here he stood among primeval trees, 
 
 Here where the rivers meet he chose '' the station 
 
 And with unerring eye prophetic sees, 
 
 This point must be the " head of navigation." 
 
 Behind " the Rocks" and well known ancient mound, 
 King Shingiss lived with Peter Jean Chartee, 
 
 Near where an Indian race-ring marked the ground — 
 An old Virginia grant to A. M'Kee.^'^ 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Where Mo-no-ka-too-cTia, the Delaware chief, 
 Then held the councils of his warlike nation, 
 
 " Economy " doth bind her golden sheaf, 
 
 And Peace and Harmony make their libation. 
 
 Come, my friend Craig ! and show mo, if you can. 
 Some traces of the Indian town Shennapin ? ^^ 
 
 Whence came its name ? what was its tribe, or clan ? 
 And when did its evacuation happen ? 
 
10 S U C-C O-T A S H. 
 
 Dost thou still tliink its root is Shaw-ioan-nee-sy ? 
 
 Or may it not be called from Sieur Hennepin ? -^ 
 And time have made the annexation easy 
 
 Of S to H, and so become Shennapin ? 
 
 Where was that chief town of the Delaware ? 
 
 To which the prisoner was taken moaning, 
 To run the gauntlet, or to lose his hair ! 
 
 Was it above, or just below, Mahoning ? 
 
 Was it on Kan-no-kan, or the Shenango, 
 
 That the Moravian fixed that myth, Kus-kus-ky ? 
 
 Somewhere, ^tis clear, between this and Venango — 
 But where exactly, Post's account is dusky. 
 
 The path or trail, 'til lately, you might see 
 
 In the old woods— not wide — deep worn and dirty, 
 
 On Pine Creek, bearing west to ^' Kush-kush-kee,^^ 
 The war and hunting beat of Simon Girty. 
 
SUC-CO-TASH, 11 
 
 And often Girty came down " Girty's Run/' 
 With his bold lion glance and panther tread ; 
 
 Hand on his knife, and cocked his rifle gun — 
 For well he knew a price was on his head. 
 
 He swam the river, or if low, he forded, 
 
 Where " Wood-cock Ripple '^^^ is the crossing still ; 
 
 Passed the two graves of boys his party murdered,^^ 
 And went up ^' Negley's Run ^' to " Squirrel Hill." 
 
 Then here this hard and subtle renegade 
 
 Risked most his life, through all that war and pother; 
 And not for fame, or booty, or " fair maid," 
 
 But just to see John Turner^ his half-brother.^^ 
 
 Fame called thee cruel ! He did not believe her, 
 Who was exchanged at old Fort Mackintosh— 
 
 My honest friend, O-pon-to-pos^'^^ of Beaver — 
 With whom you did divide your ^' succotosh." 
 
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 Nor did brave Murphy — Sam, of ^^ Murphy's Bend," 
 Who went to take you, and was caught by you ; 
 
 And though your prisoner, soon became your friend, 
 And e'en forgave the taking by the queue. ^^ 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 How changed the scene, since by the morning light, 
 Poor Ensign Ward saw dimly from the high-land, 
 
 A fleet of perogues, with their banner white, 
 
 And heard the thrilling war-whoop at '^Herr's Island.'' 
 
 Wrapped in his blanket, in the hindmost boat, 
 De Contrecoeur the motley crews commanded 3 
 
 Then here the fiasr of France was first afloat — 
 Then here, for the first time, were cannon landed. 
 
 Then here was then that fatal war begun, 
 Which cost the lily-banner many a stain ; 
 
 In which a wide empire was lost and won, 
 
 And Wolf and Montcalm fell on'^Abraham's Plain. 
 
S U C-C 0-T ASH. 18 
 
 Then Stobo^^ sent to the Virginia Rangers 
 A plan of the new fort and French position ; 
 
 And bade them " strike '^ and not regard his dangers, 
 But " the good only of the expedition/^ 
 
 Then a subaltern in that Fort Duquesne, 
 
 Begged of his chief, ^ere 3^et he took to flight, 
 
 To grant him but a handful of his men, 
 
 To meet bold Braddock on his march, and fight ; 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 G-lad to get free from tedious stockade duty, 
 
 He led the Indians on, as to a ball ; 
 And they returned that day with bloody booty, 
 
 But he did not, the brave and noble Gaul. 
 
 Then the false knight, or the Canadian Nero, 
 Sent to Versailles that mean and base report, 
 
 Which cast a stigma on the real hero f^ 
 And took the credit to himself at court. 
 
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 The panic-strickeQ soldiers fired at random, 
 
 And broke in squads, and wounded one another; 
 
 None knew who shot the man who did command them. 
 Did Fawcet do it.^"^ to avens^e his brother ? 
 
 And if he fell not by that vengeful hand. 
 
 'Twas by some young American, you'll wager, 
 Who heard the haughty Braddock reprimand, 
 
 AVith pride and scorn, the '^country buckskin Major/'^^ 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 The youthful hero, whom the Indians knew, 
 Was all that day the mark of more than one -, 
 
 And if they missed him, the escape was due 
 To God, who saved for us our Washington. 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 Then deeds were done which had the world's abhorrence. 
 When savage Indians hunted Christian men ; 
 
 And took their bleeding scalps to the St. Lawrence, 
 And sold them to the Marquis of Duquesne. 
 
UC-CO-TASH. 15 
 
 Theoj from our Bethlehem, came Christian Fritz, 
 In all the Indian wiles and pathways posted } 
 
 And dared to travel through their snares and pits, 
 To save his countrymen from being roasted. 
 
 Type and forerunner of that German race^ 
 
 Which since o'erspread the forests of the West ; 
 
 Which scatters sheaves and flowers on its face, 
 And plucks ungentle passions from the breast. 
 
 On yonder hill, where Judges hold their court. 
 The Highlander, with kilt and naked knee, 
 
 Sent down his challenge to the sleeping fort, 
 And waked them with his pipe and reveille. 
 
 A Highland officer, that bloody day, 
 
 Retreated up the Allegheny's side ', 
 Wounded and faint, he missed his tangled way, 
 
 And near where now is ''Locust Grove," he died. 
 
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 XL I I I. 
 
 'Twas in the furrow of a sandy swell. 
 Which overlooks the Allegheny's wave ; 
 
 Shrouded in leaves, none found him where he fell, 
 And pitying Nature gave the youth a grave^ — 
 
 Far from the heather and the kirk-yard stones. 
 
 Some years ago a plow turned up the mould. 
 And brought to light a remnant of his bones,^* 
 
 The plated button, and the watch of gold. 
 
 I think I see him from his sleep arise ! 
 
 And gaze on yonder tower with admiration ; 
 Lo ! from its battlements a banner flies, 
 
 The unknown flag of some unheard of nation. 
 
 'Tis not St. George's cross, and ensign red ! 
 
 Nor yet the paling lilies of Navarre ; 
 But 'tis those colors now together wed, 
 
 Which float to heaven in the stripe and star! 
 
SUC-CO-TASH. IT 
 
 XL VI I. 
 
 Sleep ! gentle Highlander; like many a Celt, 
 Thou bledst in the great Anglo-Saxon cause ; 
 
 And though ill-fated, thy last blow was dealt 
 For Freedom's banner, liberty and laws. 
 
 XL V III. 
 
 Sleep ! honest soldier, since thou didst not waken 
 When Fort Duquesne was blown into the air, 
 
 And old "Coal Hill" was to its centre shaken. 
 And the forked river shone with lurid glare. 
 
 When France retreated by those beacon flashes. 
 Which England's pathway through the forest lit ; ^ 
 
 To found a shaft of iron on the ashes. 
 
 And hercj forever ^ stamp the name of Pitt. 
 
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 NOTE S 
 
 ( 1 ) "Ahnost island." 
 The site of Pittsburgh was almost an island, from the chain of ponds skirting 
 it on the eastern side. A large pond, called " Hogg's Pond," stretched along the 
 foot of Grant's Hill, at its north-western base. These ponds being fed by- 
 springs, which were stronger and more abundant before the forests were cleared, 
 were at that early period agreeable little lakes, the resort of wild duck and 
 brant. 
 
 (2) "Jacques.^' 
 Jacques represents the early European voyageur and explorer on the waters— 
 the French Jesuit and missionary. 
 
 (3) "BracTc and Neville," 
 Judge Biftckenridge and Neville B. Craig, whose example in furnishing to 
 history, what is most wanted, local and personal details, from private and 
 family papers, journals, letters and traditions, ought to have been followed by 
 others, who, in some instances, by neglect, indifference or casualties, have lost 
 the means of making similar contributions. 
 
 (4) " Ki-end-twoh-7ce." 
 Complanter, the old Seneca chief, who frequently came down here with some 
 of his people, and encamped on a low green bottom on the bank of the Alle- 
 gheny, where Bayardstown now is. 
 
 KOSH-E-NTJH-TE-A-GUNK, 
 
 Or, " Where the drift (Broken Shaws) are accumulated.' 
 December nth, 1858. 
 Dear Sir — Cornplanter's Indian name was Ki-end-twoh-Jce, or " the Planter." 
 The appellation of No-nuh — thoughtful or contemplative — was also given him 
 by the tribe. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, 
 
 W. A. Irvine. 
 W. H. Denny, Esq., Pittsburgh. 
 
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SUC-CO-TASH. 19 
 
 ( 6 ) "AUigawi." 
 A remnant of an Indian tribe has been found in the West with this name, 
 and some have thought it the original proper name, instead of Alleganey. No 
 better word could be found to represent the smooth, clear and fast flowing 
 right branch of the Ohio. 
 
 (6) "Sa-go-ye-wa-tha." 
 Red Jacket— famous Seneca chief. 
 
 ( 7 ) " Lo-nan." 
 Indian name of Logan, the celebrated Mingo chief. 
 
 (8) "BranV 
 
 Major Denny, in his Diary, October 25, 1786, at Fort Ilarmar, says: "Capt. 
 Tunas, a Delaware Indian, arrived with information that the greatest part 
 of the Shawanees were in the Kentucky country, scalping and stealing horses. 
 He says Capt. Brant, a civilized Indian, had been at St. Dusky this summer, but 
 his business was not known, Mr. Johnston, the British agent, had asked all the 
 red people to Niagara. That the Shawanees and a number of other nations had 
 gone, but not any of the Delawares ; that Johnston told them they would be no 
 people in a short time if they did not unite. They should all be one people, and 
 what they did either in making peace or war would then be strong." 
 
 This is the first mention he makes in his Diary of the famous Brant, who, with 
 the British Indian agent, was evidently preparing that great union which resulted 
 in the defeat otSt. Clair. 
 
 (9) " Me-lan-the," 
 
 A Shawanee king, killed and scalped in the fall of 1786, by Col. Logan. 
 
 (10) '' Wen-ge-anem.'^ 
 A Shawanee chiet 
 
 (11) " Corn-stalk,— Little TurtUy 
 
 Well known chiefs. The latter distinguished at St. Clair's defeat, but did not 
 command; Brant did. 
 
 ( 12 ) " Whing-wliang-poo-clii," 
 Or Big Cat. Kilbuck was a friendly Indian warrior of the Delawares. 
 
 (13) " Bo-hen-ge-halus." 
 
 In a note in his Diary, at the treaty, January 14th, 1786, Major Denny says : 
 
 "After Bo-hen-ge-halus, the Delaware chief, (esteemed by the Indians as one of 
 
 their ga-eatest warriors,) had arrived and seated himself, he discovered Gen. Clark, 
 
 (George Rogers Clark,) and knowing him to be a great warrior, rose and saluted 
 
20 SUC-CO-TASH. 
 
 him very significantly ; instead of taking hold of each others hands, they gripped 
 nearly at the shoulder, and shook the left hand underneath the right arms." 
 
 (14) " JBlue-Jacket." 
 A celebrated Shawanee chief. 
 
 (15) ''Pipe." 
 Captain Pipe, a well known Delaware chief. 
 
 (16) " Wi-en-do-halies." 
 A chief warrior of the Shawanees. 
 
 (17 ) " Whis-M-ninny." 
 
 Ojibbewa or Chippewa name for a liquor distiller. It is notorious that 
 most of our old Indian chiefs who survived the wars, became sots, and killed 
 themselves with drink. 
 
 (18) "Nicholson's or DielWsP 
 Nicholson was the Indian agent ; he lived in the lower part of Market street. 
 The Indians frequented his neighborhood, as they did Amberson's and Diehl's 
 corners, on Ferry street. 
 
 ( 19 ) « White-Eyes— Guy-a-su-tlia — Sca-roo-ya-di." 
 Well known Delaware chiefs. Guy-a-su-tha was a man of great good nature, 
 great capacity and dignity, at the same time bonhommie. Murphy said he knew 
 Guy-a-su-tha very well ; he was a stout man, with a large fine head, a good 
 expression of countenance, and a pleasing smile when he spoke to one, par- 
 ticularly to little boys. Sca-roo-ya-di was the chief of the Delawares ; his other 
 name was Mon-o-ka-too-cha. 
 
 ( 20 ) " On famous Captain Brady." 
 James Boss, the elder, described to me Captain Brady's personal appearance 
 very much as Judge Wilkins does, who saw him at the trial at Hannahs- 
 town, and says he was a little above the middle height, taller and lighter 
 than his brother, General Hugh Brady, but wiry and firmly knit. At first 
 sight he realized your idea at once of the famous runner and jumper. At 
 the trial for the killing of the Indian, to which we have alluded, after 
 Guy-a-su-tha had given his testimony, Mr. Boss said to him as they came 
 out of the court house together, "Guy, you swore very hard for Brady." 
 " Why to be sure," replied Guy-a-su-tha ; " aint I the friend of Brady #" 
 
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 ( 21 ) " Mingo Castle." 
 So called in the original plots of surveys of Col. Geo. Croghan, the King's 
 Indian agent, who lived in a block-house shaped dwelling, on this side, 
 directly opposite the wigwams of the Mingoes. It was at this house or country 
 seat of Col. Geo. Croghan, that Major Washington dined on a subsequent 
 visit to this country. Mrs. Schenley's country mansion and farm are on these 
 old surveys of Col. Geo. Croghan, the brother of her grandfather. 
 
 (22) "X M'Keer 
 Alexander M'Kee, when he was helping to construct the parapet of Fort Pitt, 
 and was getting sod for it at the rocks at the south side of the Ohio, opposite the 
 foot of the first island, took a fancy for that fine spot, and obtained a grant from 
 the Colonial government of Virginia, of the tract. It is still in possession of the 
 family. Shingisstown and the Frenchman's trading-house were on the bottom, 
 between the insulated mound ridge and the main river hill, where there was 
 formerly a circular Indian race course. Alexander, when the war broke out 
 between the colonies and the mother country, continued in the service of the 
 crown, and was the confidential agent of Sir Wm. Johnston. He told his brother 
 James, that he had seen the original manuscript of Logan's speech, before it was 
 delivered. Capt. Sam Murphy was at Dunmore's camp when it was delivered. 
 He, of course, did not hear it, but he said it was the taLh of the camp next day. 
 It was said that Logan boasted that he had " taken his revenge," &c. 
 
 (23 ) " Shennapin" or Shennapinstown. 
 
 Murphy told Dr. Denny that this old Indian town was a little below the 
 mouth of the Two Mile Run, on the bank of the Allegheny. Shennapin, or 
 Shennapinstown, may possibly be derived from Shawnee or Shaw-wan-nee. 
 But may it not have come from the famous Jesuit and traveler, Hennepin ? 
 who explored these western rivers at a very early period, and was well known 
 to the Indians. Nothing would have been easier than a change from Hennepin 
 to Shennapin, and from Hennepinstown to Shennapinstown. 
 
 Murphy said also that Logstoivn was on the south side of the Ohio. Never- 
 theless, it is possible that he might have forgotten. It is more likely that 
 Shennapin was on ground higher up on the bottom, less liable to overflow— 
 for instance at Col. Geo. Croghan's station, where many of us have seen hia 
 old lantern-shaped house on the bank, on the other side of the road from 
 Wilson M'Candless' country seat, and nearer the ford or ripple at the foot of 
 Wood-cock or Six Mile Island, and the route of Indian travel down Pine Creek 
 and up Heath's, or as it is now called, Negley's Run. It was a long time before 
 it was settled on what side of the Ohio Logstown was ; at last authorities are 
 all for the north side except one, to whom we add Murphy. 
 
22 SUC-CO-TASH. 
 
 ( 24 ) " Sieur HennepinP 
 " Hennepin, Louis — A French recoUet friar, a missionary and a traveler in 
 North America, was born in Flanders about 1640 ; arrived in Quebec in 1675 ; 
 between that period and 1682, he explored the regions afterward called 
 Louisiana, and returning to Europe, published the result of his researches, 
 with a map and an account of the habits and customs of the Indians." — 
 ~ ' lia Aviericana. 
 
 ( 25 ) " Wood-cocic Eipple," 
 At the foot of " Wood-cock Island," and lower end of Guy-a-su-tha bottom. In 
 those times the Indian trails, especially in the summer and fall, the season of 
 trailing and great routes, were altogether influenced and denoted by the position 
 of the shoals and fording places on the rivers. Capt. Parchment used to say 
 that the principal route of travel by the Indians crossed the Allegheny, at the 
 mouth of Pocketo, or Puckety. 
 
 ( 26 ) " Boys his party murdered." 
 The Chambers boys. — The graves of these two lads were seen in our time 
 on the river bottom, near the bank of the river, on what is now called Bishop's 
 place. They were murdered by a party of Indians to which Girty belonged. 
 
 ( 27 ) " John Turner, his half-brother:' 
 This was a worthy farmer who lived on Squirrel Hill, not far from David 
 Irwin's place, adjoining Mr. Sutch's and Castleman's ; a thin, sallow person. 
 He died without offspring. 
 
 (28) " O-pon-to-pos." 
 The name which the Indians gave James Lyon when he was a prisoner. 
 
 ( 29 ) " The taking by the queue." 
 Capt. Sam Murphy, who died a few years ago, at his residence at Murphy's 
 Bend, on the Allegheny river, on the " Indian side," told Dr. Denny, in August, 
 1849, "that his first visit to Fort Pitt was in 1772, to get a saddle which had 
 been lent to Dr. Connolly." Murphy was taken prisoner in 1781 ; he had been 
 sent out with a small party of spies to take Simon Girty, but was himself taken 
 on Bear Grass, near Louisville, Ky., by two Indians of Girty's party. Whilst 
 reloading his gun to fire again at the Indian he saw, the other Indian came 
 upon him silently from a tree behind him, seized him by the long queue, which 
 was so common in those days, and jerked him violently backward to the 
 ground — where they and Girty tied him — Girty saying, with a smile, " Well, 
 Murphy, you were sent to take me, and I have taken you." Girty took him to an 
 
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 island about sixty miles above Montreal, Avlience lie made his escape. Girty 
 treated him very well; he was kind to the prisoners, Murphy told Dr. D. 
 
 Simon Girty, when he took John Buckhardt, on B.'s place, now belonging 
 to Judge Wilkins, on Nine Mile Run, the old race course, carried his 
 prisoner by the route of "Ryan Spring Run," which is the run a short 
 distance higher up than Heath's Run, and enters the Allegheny about oppo- 
 site to Squaw Run, and crossing to the mouth of Squaw Run went up it to 
 its head, and thence to the Big Beaver, probably to Kus-kus-ky, In Buck- 
 hardt's petition for a pension, now in the possession of Judge Wilkins, he 
 states these facts, and complains of cruel treatment by Girty, but the petition, 
 drawn up by a lawyer, was intended to excite compassion, &c. Girty took 
 the Buckhardts prisoners on the 10th of April, 1784. Girty asked John 
 Buckhardt, when he took him, if there was peace, to which Buckhardt answered, 
 ' ' Yes ;" and Girty said, " Then you have saved your hair." 
 
 (30) ''Stoio." 
 
 No words could express the sense of the self-devotion and disinterested 
 
 bravery of Stobo, who, when he sent the plan and his instructions to his 
 
 countrymen, literally at the risk of his life, told them " not to let any con - 
 
 siderations for his personal safety interfere with the good of the expedition." 
 
 (31) "Cast a stigma on the real hero." 
 The Author first heard the sequel of this from Gen. Lafayette, who, on his 
 return from this country to France, put the French right about the injustice 
 done to Mr. Dumas. Gen. Lafayette had him restored to the service, &c. 
 
 (32) "Did Fawcet do it f" 
 
 The country people always have believed that Braddock was shot by one 
 
 Fawcet, an American, whose brother was said to have been cut down before 
 
 his eyes by the British General, for leaving the ranks and getting behind a tree. 
 
 ( 33 ) " Country huckshin Major." 
 It is no great license to make Braddock call Washington by the title of 
 " Major," the title by which he first knew him. 
 
 (34) "A remnant of his 
 A few years ago, Mr. William Shaw, a respectable inhabitant of Lawrence- 
 ville, living near the U. S. Arsenal, on the hill east of the magazine, in plowing 
 his field, discovered human bones, a military button, and the remains of a gold 
 watch. This is about three miles above where Grant was defeated. 
 
24 SUC-CO-TASH. 
 
 ( 35 ) " Through the forest lit.'^ 
 Capt. Peter Parchment, Lieut. Samuel Murphy, Blashford and John Turner, 
 served in military expeditions, under Ebenezer Denny, and were frequent 
 visitors at his house, and well known to the writer when a boy. Their stories 
 were to be relied on. Murphy and Parchment were uncommon men. Parch- 
 ment, the father of the present respectable incumbent of the old homestead, 
 settled here before 1767, when the track of Forbes was yet to be seen. The 
 army, from all signs, must have staid at Parchment's (on the hill, north of 
 Wilkinsburg, on the Frankstown Road, by which it came,) for a short time. 
 They left some things, which were afterward found by Parchment; among 
 others, a trace chain stamped " Forbes," a purse of money, &c. The army, 
 Parchment said, crossed over from his place to a point between where Robert 
 Woods now lives, and the late Henry Barker (Point Breeze) ; thence they 
 took a course to Roup's Big Spring, on the Two Mile Run; thence through 
 the little woods where the writer now lives, and over the Millvale branch; 
 and thence by the direction of the present plank road to Euwart's, taking " 
 the high ground and hill road. Parchment said that Grant was wounded 
 and taken prisoner at the hollow where now is the St. Charles Hotel. 
 
 That profound scholar, Timothy Alden, said: "Pittsburgh was known among 
 the Senecas by the appropriate term, De-un-da-ga — which is literally, The 
 Forks. In this every syllable is short except the penultimate, which has an 
 accent, somewhat prolonged, but less so than many other aboriginal words." 
 
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