History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ebration on tlie 4th of July, 1854,and a monument at the site of the old stockade. Acelebration was held by Fayette Lodge, No. 228,A. Y. M., of Uuiontown, and citizens. Col. D. laid the corner-stone of a monument, butnothing more has ever been done since towards itserection. Mr. Facenbaker says no plow shall everturn a sod on the site of the old stockade while heowns the land, and he would give an acre of land andthe right of way to it if any parties would erect themonumen
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ebration on tlie 4th of July, 1854,and a monument at the site of the old stockade. Acelebration was held by Fayette Lodge, No. 228,A. Y. M., of Uuiontown, and citizens. Col. D. laid the corner-stone of a monument, butnothing more has ever been done since towards itserection. Mr. Facenbaker says no plow shall everturn a sod on the site of the old stockade while heowns the land, and he would give an acre of land andthe right of way to it if any parties would erect themonument and fence the ground. Braddocks Grave.—A lew yards west of the Brad-dock Run stand, on the north side of the road, is thegrave of Gen. Braddock. When the road was beingrepaired in 1812 human bones were dug up a fewyards from the road on Braddocks Run ; some mili-tary tra|)|iings found with them indicated an officer of rank, and as Gen. Braddock was known to havebeen buried on this run, the bones were supposed tobe his. Some of them were sent to Peales Museumin Phihiiklphia. Abraham Strwart gathered them. up a-s well as he could secure thorn, and placed themunder a tree, and a board with Braddocks Gravemarked on it. In 1872, J. King, editor of the Pitts-burgh Gazette, came out to Chalk Hill, cut down theold tree, inclosed the spot with the neat fence nowstanding, and planted the pine-trees now standinground the grave. He procured from Murdocks nur-sery a willow, whose parent stem drooped over thegrave of Napoleon at St. Helena, and planted it overthe supposed remains of Braddock, but it witheredand died over the grave of Englands brave but ill-fated general. PIOXEERS AND EARLY September and November, 1766, the Pennsgranted patents for tracts of lands in what is nowWharton township to B. Chew and a man by thename of Wilcocks. These tracts were north of Brad-docks road, and along the Henry Clay line, nowowned by Joseph Stark and others. In 1767, a
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