. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . itish, and pre-vented the attack of Fort Pitt from Niagara. In 1777 Gen. EdwardHand was made Commander in Chief in the West, with headquarters atPittsburg. He was an Irish doctor, who came to America in 1767 asSurgeons Mate of the ISth Royal Irish Regiment, which was stationedat Fort Pitt. Hand was popular there with all classes, and when theregiment was ordered East, he resigned and located at Lancaster, Penn,,where, in 1775, he married Catherine Ewing. At the outbreak of thewar he volunte
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . itish, and pre-vented the attack of Fort Pitt from Niagara. In 1777 Gen. EdwardHand was made Commander in Chief in the West, with headquarters atPittsburg. He was an Irish doctor, who came to America in 1767 asSurgeons Mate of the ISth Royal Irish Regiment, which was stationedat Fort Pitt. Hand was popular there with all classes, and when theregiment was ordered East, he resigned and located at Lancaster, Penn,,where, in 1775, he married Catherine Ewing. At the outbreak of thewar he volunteered, and served with Washington at Boston, on Long INDIANA AND INDIANANS 141 Island, and in the Jersey campaign. He attempted an expedition againstSandusky in the fall of 1777, but succeeded only in raiding two Indiantowns on Beaver Creek, occupied chiefly by squaws; from which theexpedition became known as the Squaw Campaign. He prepared foranother early in 1778, but his plans were frustrated by AlexanderMcKee, former Indian Agent, who decamped to the British with infor-mation of Hands Gen. George Rogers Clark (Prom a portrait painted by ilattliew Harris Jouett, owned by R. T. Durret of Louisville) Such was the situation when George Rogers Clark came to the in Albemarle County, Virginia, about a mile and a half north ofMouticello, the home of Jefferson, November 19, 1752, Clark had themeager educational advantages of a Virginia country lad in a largefamily. He is said to have had nine months schooling under Donald 142 INDIANA AND INDIANANS Robertson, and his maternal grandfather, John Rogers, was a surveyor,for which occupation Clark had fitted himself when nineteen years 1772 he made his first trip to Kentucky with Rev. David Jones andothers, going down the Ohio in canoes. They returned with glowingdescriptions of the country, and in the Fall Clark located on the southside of the Ohio near the mouth of Fish Creek, about 130 miles belowPittsburg
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