. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. t afraid that those articles w;ll be stolen while you are gone?—Stolen! bywhom?—Why, by Indians, to be sure.—No, no, replied he, no Indian would dosuch a. thing; and unless a white man, or white people should happen to come this way, Ishah find ali safe on my return.—An Account of the History, Manners and Customs of theIndian Nations, by Rev. John Heckewelder, published by the Hist. Soc. of Penna., Philada.,1876 (Reprint), p. 191. History of Beaver County 109 on the 21st of that The Commissioners on the part ofth
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. t afraid that those articles w;ll be stolen while you are gone?—Stolen! bywhom?—Why, by Indians, to be sure.—No, no, replied he, no Indian would dosuch a. thing; and unless a white man, or white people should happen to come this way, Ishah find ali safe on my return.—An Account of the History, Manners and Customs of theIndian Nations, by Rev. John Heckewelder, published by the Hist. Soc. of Penna., Philada.,1876 (Reprint), p. 191. History of Beaver County 109 on the 21st of that The Commissioners on the part ofthe United States were the same as at Fort Stanwix, viz., GeorgeRogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee. Those on thepart of Pennsylvania were Samuel J. Atlee 2 and Francis John-ston. The first provision of the treaty made with the UnitedStates on this occasion provided That three chiefs, one from theWyandot and two from among the Delaware nations, shall bedelivered up to the Commissioners of the United States, to be MAPSHOWING THE VARIOUS PURCHASES -L v, \*. retained by them, till all the prisoners, white and black, takenby the said nations, or any of them, shall be restored. Amongthe prisoners delivered at Fort Mcintosh in 1785 under this provi-sion of the treaty was a well-known and highly respected citizenof Beaver, some of whose descendants are still living there. Werefer to James Lyon, Esq., the story of whose capture by theIndians will be found in a note to our chapter on the borough ofBeaver. This treaty and that at Fort Stanwix in the preceding Octo- 1 See Appendix No. IV. for copies in full of these treaties. 2 By lying on the damp ground during this journey, Atlee contracted a cold fromwhich he never recovered.—{Historical and Biographical Sketches, by Samuel W. Penny-packer, Governor of Penna., Philadelphia, 1883.) no History of Beaver County ber were the first treaties of the United States with the Indians,as they were the first and last treaties of th
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