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Black's Gap (also called Cashtown Pass or Wetherspoon's Gap) in South Mountain; Franklin County (estab. 1784), previously Cumberland County (estab. 1750) In 1744, the Treaty of Lancaster, an agreement with the five Iroquois nations, legalized settlement in the Great Appalachian Valley west of here. [30] [36] US-30: Lincoln Hwy: 2.9 miles (4.7 km)
Leo Lemay says that his 1744 travel diary Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is "the best single portrait of men and manners, of rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America." [46] His diary has been widely used by scholars, and covers his travels from Maryland to Maine ...
Yanabe Yalangway was paramount chief of the Catawba people when, in 1744, the Treaty of Lancaster, made at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, renewed the Covenant Chain between the Iroquois and the colonists and the governor of Virginia, who had not been able to prevent settlers going into Iroquois territory, offered the tribe payment for their land claim.
1750 – Thomas Walker passes through the Cumberland Gap. Reversing itself, the Province of Georgia decides to permit slavery. 1754 – Outbreak of French and Indian War. French build Fort Duquesne. Albany Congress, where plans of colonial union are unveiled. Columbia University founded as King's College by George II Royal Charter.
(1750 – 1818) 11th governor of Maryland [6] Thomas Fielder Bowie (1808 – 1869) politician Walter Bowie (1748 – 1810) slave owner, racehorse owner and politician [7] Captain William Bowie (c 1721 – c 1791) revolutionary, member of the Assembly of Freemen, and Annapolis Convention delegate [8] William Duckett Bowie (1803 – 1873 ...
Baldwin, Leland D. Pittsburgh: the Story of a City, 1750–1865 (1937). Barr, Daniel P. A Colony Sprung from Hell: Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744–1794 (Kent State University Press, 2014); 334 pp. Buck, Solon J., Clarence McWilliams and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck.
Artifacts pointing to civilizations in existence before the 1st century have been found in the Cumberland area. [citation needed] Prior to 1730, before the arrival of the first European settlers, a clan of Native Americans lived at the confluence of Wills Creek and the Potomac River on the site of modern-day Cumberland.
1744 map of eastern North America by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, showing "Village Chouanon" on the Ohio ("Oyo") River, probably the first representation of Lower Shawneetown on any map. Established in the mid-1730s [ 6 ] [ 7 ] : 31 [ 8 ] : 305 at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, Lower Shawneetown was one of the earliest known Shawnee ...