. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . at could be used. Ifthey shall judge it proper to intermeddle in the matter atall, and if the Virginia delegate has a real intention ofsettling it in any reason, the Monongahela will be greatlyin favor of the Virginia [ns], even by Mr. Hoopers map,which I have before me, but which I can not venture tosend up without his permission, and since he made thatmap, which is done by actual survey of the Monongahela,he has got the camps of Delawares, by which it appearsthat Fort Pitt lies three or four
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . at could be used. Ifthey shall judge it proper to intermeddle in the matter atall, and if the Virginia delegate has a real intention ofsettling it in any reason, the Monongahela will be greatlyin favor of the Virginia [ns], even by Mr. Hoopers map,which I have before me, but which I can not venture tosend up without his permission, and since he made thatmap, which is done by actual survey of the Monongahela,he has got the camps of Delawares, by which it appearsthat Fort Pitt lies three or four miles farther east than ^ The letter is dated Bedford, September 5. 1775. and appearsin The St. Clair Papers, by William Henry Smith, Vol. I, , 1882. Dr. Smith also writes St. Clair, just the day before,saying: Copies of the calculations by Mr. Rittenhouse and myself,signed with our names, were sent to Virginia. I wish I had knownthey would have been of any use on the present occasion. John Penti Half-tone of etching by Albert Rosenthal from a painting in possession of the family in England. WARFARE 63 he has placed it. By comparing his map and your andRittenhouses hnes, Fort Pitt is at least four and at mostnot much above six miles within this Province, as nearlyas I can recollect the distance you made it. Mr. Hoopermay be considered as an undoubted authority on the sideof Virginia. I believe he is a gentleman of candor andveracity, and you know he was a warm and violentCroghanite at the time when he made it. I am going tothe woods tomorrow morning. I need not tell you thatI write now in haste. P. S.—^There is not one barrel offlour in or about town, and Mr. OHara requests youwould endeavor to supply yourselves, which he thinks youcan now, after the rain, easily do. But this was in September, 1775, and early in the springof 76 the Bedford Committee of Correspondence foundgreat difficulty in carrying out the recommendations fromPhiladelphia. They decided to appeal to the
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