. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. olumbian Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany, containing a View of the History,Literature, Manners & Characters of the Year 1790, Philadelphia, 1790, vol. iv., p. 3 (Janu-ary number). This is a very rare book, to which we had access in the Library of the His-torical Society of Pennsylvania. 2 This map is in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania. It has neverbefore been published. We are indebted to Mr. J. Sutton Wall for the transcript of itgiven in this work. 3 Arthur Lee was born in Stratford. Virginia, Decemb
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. olumbian Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany, containing a View of the History,Literature, Manners & Characters of the Year 1790, Philadelphia, 1790, vol. iv., p. 3 (Janu-ary number). This is a very rare book, to which we had access in the Library of the His-torical Society of Pennsylvania. 2 This map is in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania. It has neverbefore been published. We are indebted to Mr. J. Sutton Wall for the transcript of itgiven in this work. 3 Arthur Lee was born in Stratford. Virginia, December 20, 1740, and died in Urbana,in the same State, December 12, 1792. He was educated at Eton and obtained the degreeof at Edinburgh. He settled for the practice of his profession at Williamsburg, the passage of the Stamp-Act, he went to London, studied law, and won fame as anadvocate of the constitutional rights of America. He was associated in Europe with someof the most eminent men of his age, and was appointed by the Continental Congress joint ItrA^O. History of Beaver County 95 who made a treaty with the Indians there in 1785, thus describesin his journal Fort Mcintosh and its surroundings: The next place is Loggstown, which was formerly a settlement on bothsides of the Ohio, and the place where the treaty of Lancaster was con-firmed by the Western Indians. From Loggstown to the mouth ofBeaver creek is — miles, and from thence to Fort Mcintosh one fort is built of well-hewn logs, with four bastions; its figure anirregular square, the face to the river being longer than the side to theland. It is about equal to a square of fifty yards, is well built, andstrong against musketry; but the opposite side of the river commandsit entirely, and a single piece of artillery from thence would reduce fort was built by us during the war, and is not therefore noted inHutchins map. The place was formerly a large Indian settlement, andFrench trading place. Th
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