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John Fraser (often incorrectly spelled Frazier, 1721 – 16 April 1773) was a fur trader licensed by the Province of Pennsylvania for its western frontier, an interpreter with Native Americans, a gunsmith, a guide and lieutenant in the British army, and a land speculator.
Map of Fortifications on the Pennsylvania frontier in 1756, showing Fort Morris at the bottom of the first page. Plan of the "Fort at Shippensburgh," 1758-1764, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, Boston; Fort Carlisle & Fort Morris ~ French & Indian War in Pennsylvania, the Wandering Woodsman, Feb 24, 2022 ...
Squire Boone's parents George and Mary Boone followed their son to Pennsylvania in 1717, and in 1720 built a log cabin at Boonecroft. [3] In 1720, Squire, who worked primarily as a weaver and a blacksmith , married Sarah Morgan (1700–1777), whose family members were Quakers from Wales .
It was initially a stockaded gristmill fortified by Samuel Hunter in 1755 and later enlarged and maintained by the Province of Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War. Fort Hunter was part of a defensive line of forts built in Pennsylvania during 1755 and 1756, at the start of hostilities with the French and their allied Native Americans.
The fortress was constructed in 1778 under the direction of Lt. Col. Cambray-Digny, a French engineer, and named in honor of General Lachlan McIntosh.A conference was held at Fort Pitt in 1778 where the United States agreed to build Fort McIntosh and use it to help protect Native Americans against the British or enemy-Indian attacks in exchange for Delaware Indian cooperation in the ...
At various times she lived in a summer cabin in Centreville, Delaware, working in her usual manner as an itinerant trader and small farmer. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Tragedy set in and she slowly lost her support network of Lenape women when her grandmother Jane died in 1775, her aunt Betty in 1780, her mother Sarah in 1785, and her aunt Nanny soon after.
This log cabin from the 1800s was placed on the grounds of the Cathedral of Learning to celebrate Pitt's bicentennial and log cabin origins.. The Log Cabin at the University of Pittsburgh, located near Forbes Avenue, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania adjacent to the school's Cathedral of Learning, serves as a landmark that symbolizes the university's origins on the 18th Century western frontier of ...
John Hansson Steelman, also known as "Hance" Stillman, Stelman, Tilghman, or Tillmann (1655–1749), the eldest son of Hans Månsson and Ella Olofsdotter Stille. He was a fur trader and interpreter who traded with Shawnee, Susquehannock and Piscataway Indians in Maryland and Pennsylvania.