nd advanced him in May following
to the full rank of colonel. He died while yet in service, in
1778.--L. C. D.

[13] The French destroyed Fort Duquesne in November, 1758.
During the winter following, Fort Pitt was erected by the
English troops. In his _Journal of a Tour to the Ohio River_
(1770), Washington says of it: "The fort is built on the point
between the rivers Alleghany and Monongahela, but not so near
the pitch of it as Fort Duquesne stood. It is five-sided and
regular, two of which next the land are of brick; the others
stockade. A moat encompasses it." Fort Pitt was invested by the
Indians during Pontiac's War (1763). It was fully garrisoned
until 1772, when a corporal and a few men were left as
care-takers. In October of that year, the property was sold,
and several houses were built out of the material. In the
course of the boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and
Virginia, the latter colony took possession of the ruins,
through Lord Dunmore's agent there, John Conolly.--R. G. T.

[14] The author overlooks the settlement made by Christopher
Gist, the summer of 1753, in the town of Dunbar, Fayette
county, Pa., two or three miles west of the Youghiogheny and
some seventy miles northwest of Will's Creek; the site was
doubtless selected by him in his trip of 1751-52. Washington,
who visited him there in November, 1753, on the way to Fort Le
Boeuf, calls it "Gist's new settlement," but the owner's name
for his place was "Monongahela." It was the first settlement of
which there is record, upon the Ohio Company's lands. Gist
induced eleven families to settle near him; and on his journey
home, in January, 1754, Washington met them going out to the
new lands. The victory of the French over Washington, at Fort
Necessity, in July, led to the expulsion from the region of all
English-speaking settlers. The French commander, De Villiers,
reports that he "burnt down all the settlements" on the
Monongahela (from Redstone down), and in the vicinity of
Gist's.--R. G. T.

[15] This trail was a continuation of the famous "Warrior
Branch," which coming up from Tennessee passed through Kentucky
and Southern Ohio, and threading the valley of Fish Creek
crossed over to Dunkard's