. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. nmore. It gave the color of necessity to aproclamation (April 25, 1774) ordering the militia to be inreadiness. By this force he might intimidate Pennsylvania,punish the Indians, and maintain the sovereignty of Virginiabeyond the Ohio. A few score men, land-grabbers and adventurers, had alreadyassembled at the mouth of the Kanawha, and a hunting partysent out by them had been attacked by wandering the spring wore on, these bold
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. nmore. It gave the color of necessity to aproclamation (April 25, 1774) ordering the militia to be inreadiness. By this force he might intimidate Pennsylvania,punish the Indians, and maintain the sovereignty of Virginiabeyond the Ohio. A few score men, land-grabbers and adventurers, had alreadyassembled at the mouth of the Kanawha, and a hunting partysent out by them had been attacked by wandering the spring wore on, these bold fellows at the Kanawha,animated by a desire for revenge, resolved on a sudden onsetupon the Indian towns on the Scioto, in the disputed sought a famous frontiersman, Michael Cresap, and madehim their leader. He had only recently moved to the upperOhio from the frontier of Maryland. There was also in theirnumber a young and daring spirit, George Rogers Clark, who Note. —The map on the opposite page, based on information afforded by General Richard But-ler, is taken from Crevecceurs Lettres <Vun Cultivaleur, vol. iii., Paris, 68 THE QUEBEC BILL AND THE DUNMORE WAR. had been brought thither to look after a grant which he hadobtained at Fish Creek. This body of borderers, with itsimpromptu organization, was further recruited at the site ofthe modern Wheeling by additional hotheads, with whom itmattered little whether the stories of murders, which were in-creasing, were of whites by savages, or of the Indian by thefrontiersman, — and there was no dearth of either kind of Zane, the principal settler of this spot, had madehere a tomahawk claim in 1769, where he was joined the nextyear by his brothers, Jonathan and Silas. There was at thisdate (1774) a number of log houses clustering about those ofthe Zanes. The hotheads were counseled to be prudent by the leader ofthis settlement, and Cresap seemed inclined to be cautious, butthe trepidation
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