. The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means . Ho W o Z « Eh ,0 a Oh Mo o« WILLIAM AND MARY 13 long and toilsome journey to the unsettled wilds of whatafterwards became Crawford, but was then a part ofAllegheny County, Pa. Although the treaty of 1784with the Six Nations gave to the state of Pennsylvaniaall that portion of the country, yet the Indians continuedto be very troublesome to the first settlers, especiallyfrom 1791 to 1794. The crushing defeat of the WesternIndians by General Wayne on August 20, 1794, relievedthe French Creek Valley as wel
. The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means . Ho W o Z « Eh ,0 a Oh Mo o« WILLIAM AND MARY 13 long and toilsome journey to the unsettled wilds of whatafterwards became Crawford, but was then a part ofAllegheny County, Pa. Although the treaty of 1784with the Six Nations gave to the state of Pennsylvaniaall that portion of the country, yet the Indians continuedto be very troublesome to the first settlers, especiallyfrom 1791 to 1794. The crushing defeat of the WesternIndians by General Wayne on August 20, 1794, relievedthe French Creek Valley as well as the rest of the Westerncountry, and opened the way for the removal of the Davisfamilies to this valley. It was the treaties of August 3and November 9, 1795, with the Western tribes and theSix Nations respectively that gave permanent peace,and from that time this part of the state began to improverapidly. The last raid made by the Indians within thepresent limits of Crawford County was on June 3, Findlay and Barnabas McCormick were engagedmaking rails, about six miles so
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