. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA ANI KROM Lkwis Kvans, in Ti. iBORING COLONIES IN 1755 P BY iVl VANIA ARCHIVKS PENNSYIvVANIA IN 1768 15 ward except Fort Du Quesne at the forks of the Ohio. TheDelaware Indians were located west of the North Branchof Susquehanna, and the Shawnees beyond, on the Ohioand Allegheny rivers. No boundary of the Province tothe west and north is marked, because none had been the entire map is a witness to the vague knowledgethat even the best of surveyors and map-makers po
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA ANI KROM Lkwis Kvans, in Ti. iBORING COLONIES IN 1755 P BY iVl VANIA ARCHIVKS PENNSYIvVANIA IN 1768 15 ward except Fort Du Quesne at the forks of the Ohio. TheDelaware Indians were located west of the North Branchof Susquehanna, and the Shawnees beyond, on the Ohioand Allegheny rivers. No boundary of the Province tothe west and north is marked, because none had been the entire map is a witness to the vague knowledgethat even the best of surveyors and map-makers was a land awaiting the transit and chain of the sur-veyor, as one far-seeing young Virginian of twenty-threeyears, when this map was made, proved by becoming asurveyor himself. Three years after this map was made General JohnForbes and this young Virginian, Washington, had startedby way of Rays Town to attack Fort Du Quesne, and makea new road to it, which was destined to be a factor inyoung Thomas Smiths future activities. General Forbeswas successful, and renamed the place Fort Pitt, afterthe statesman who had planned the campaig
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