. American pioneer : a monthly periodical, devoted to the objects of the Logan historical society; or, to collecting and publishing sketches relative to the early settlement and successive improvement of the country. men put to death at Plymouth for having killedan Indian. 1639. Wyatt appointed governor of Spaniards conquer Florida. The Plymouth company set off New Hampshire to Mason,and Maine to Gorges, for which they obtained patents. The Connecticut Indians sell Milford, Guilford, Stratford, andFairfield to the whites, who take immediate possession ofthem. 1640. The English set
. American pioneer : a monthly periodical, devoted to the objects of the Logan historical society; or, to collecting and publishing sketches relative to the early settlement and successive improvement of the country. men put to death at Plymouth for having killedan Indian. 1639. Wyatt appointed governor of Spaniards conquer Florida. The Plymouth company set off New Hampshire to Mason,and Maine to Gorges, for which they obtained patents. The Connecticut Indians sell Milford, Guilford, Stratford, andFairfield to the whites, who take immediate possession ofthem. 1640. The English settle Dover, and establish a distinct government, but becoming divided in matters of religion, the dispute issettled by Roger Williams with an armed force. 1641. The settlements of New Hampshire put themselves under the government of Massachusetts. Some Dutchmen killed by the Indians near fort Aurania, nearAlbany. Richard Smith settles in the midst of the Narragansett In-dians, where he remained long in peace. This nation ofIndians consisted of about 30,000. Rhode Island establishes a republican form of government. 1642. Berkeley assumes the government of Virginia, and adminis- ters it on republican AMERICAN PIONEER. JDraoteb to tl)e $rutl) anb lusticc of l§ II. APRIL, 1843. NO. IV. FORT BEDFORD—PENNSYLVANIA. [See Frontispiece.] John S. Williams, Esq. Sir—Enclosed you will find a plan of Fort Bedford, situated whereRaystown formerly stood, and where Bedford, the county town ofBedford county, Pennsylvania, now is. I know not when it wasbuilt; probably, however, between 1745 and 1750, certainly before1755. It was at that place that Washington first met general Forbes,and labored earnestly to persuade him to take Braddocks road to FortPitt, rather than encounter the fatigue,- and delay, and hazard of cut-ting a new road. The draft or plan is copied from a copy furnished to the honorableRichard Biddle, from the British Museum, to which institution it was
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