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NOTES oN THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTHE
COUNTY, (Carried Over
from the Preceding Page)
Hart's Second Trading Post.
John Hart returned to Pennsylvania
in the of 1755 from Canada,
whither ne had tied Cumbperianu
county tu arrest for Killing a
man. He trading post ruin-
ed, no Inaians there, so he crossed the
summer
irom
avola
touna his
mountains and established his new tra- |
Harts Sleeping Place. He |
ding post al
18 accreaited in the Colonial Records,
Vol. VII, pages 124 and 135, as being
the Provincial Interpreter of the Cher-
okee Indians at Winchester, Virginia,
in June, 1758.
For years people were under the
impression that there was only one
(Johnstown) Indian town in Cambria
county. No one thought tnat when
John Hart, in 1755, establisned a trad-
ing store at Hart's Sleeping Place on
this pleniplain that he did so in the vi-
cinity of many Indian villages or
towns.
Coming here today we passed thru
the Cross Roads, the old buzzara town,
below which place there was formerly
a Senaca Indian town of the Cordgens.
North of that was a Delaware Indian |
town, now replaced by Patton. Here in
West Carroll, we have east of the Si.
Joseph Church spring a giant hut tree
that gave shelter to more lndians; an
Indian cemetery of 8 graves in the
old chestnut grove on the Boyle estate |
near the Joseph Shero farm; three In-
dian graves near the residence of the |
late James Kirkpatrick; another In- |
dian cemetery near the Brawley mine;
another on the old Peter Campbell
farm. Each cemetery represents an In- |
dian town. In fact if we go all over
the townships we find that Allegheny
had 3 towns; Barr, 2; Cambria, 4;
Clearfield, 4; East Carroll, 7; Elder,
4, Reade, 4; Susquehanna, 4; White, 4.
In all there were about 41 permanent |
Indian towns.
A Pillaging Excursion.
It is stated upon one occasion, when
Hart was an old man, some Indians
came into his settlement on a pillaging |
excursion. They knew Hart, and went
to his cabin, but he happened to be
away from home. On his log they left
a tomahawk, pained red, and a small
piece of slate upon which rude heir-
oglyphics were drawn, one resembling
an Indian with a bundle upon his
back, over whose head were seven
strokes and whose belt was filled with
scalps. In front of this drawing was
the rising sun, and behind them a pic-
ture of the moon.
On Hart's return, he found the In-
dians had been about. The meaning o>
the articles left he could easily deci-
pher. The red hatchet upon the log
signified that the Indians were about,
but to him they lay down the hatchet.
The picture of the rising sun signified
that they were going east. The strokes
indicated the number of warriors and
the bundles and scalps intimated that
they would both plunder and murder.
The moon signified that they would
return at night.
Hart, although he felt safe under
such assurance, had no desire to en-
counter the Indians, so he scratched
on the reverse of the slate the out-
lines of a heart, and laid it by the side
of the pipe, which, interpreted, meant:
“Hart smokes with you the pipe of
peace,” and left.
On his return next day he found the
Indians had returned and spent the
night at his log where they had left
a quantity of pewter platters, mugs,
etc. It afterwards appeared that they
had ben at several houses, but the in-
mates fled. From one they stole a
quantity of silverware
ter-ware. At the log they
to run the metal into bullets, but find-
ing it a failure, they probably left th
heavy lead in disgust. (Jones Histor
of the Juniata Valley.)
RN C AMBRI A
and at the
house of a Dunkard they stoie the pew-
attempted
fHE UN 10N
The Black Boys.
Captain Smith,
county,
cocheague, was one of
1755, in what is now Franklin county.
4 He was a captive for five years and
experienced a varied and severe or-
: deal. He effected his escape and re-
turned home in 1760. At once he or-
ganized a company of Indian fighters,
John Hart at Pittsburgh. who wore Indian clothes and were
On July 22, 1760, a census of all civ- trained in Indian methods. This com-
ilian inhabitants of Pittsburgh was pany soon became known as the
ordered to be taken up by Col. Boquet; “Black Boys”, because they painted
John Hart's name
The census of April 14, 1761
1 f the house owners,
number of men,
in each house. John Hart is given as
owner,
Life of John Hart.
gives th
with th
propery
There is no history
life of John Hart. In the Pennsylvanic
Magazine of History, Vol. III, the | €r goods should not be sent to the
Journal of James Kenny, 1761 to 1763, | Western Indians, if he could prevent
is given. Kenny, a Quaker, was in| it. They painted their faces in the In-
charge of a trading store established | dian fashion and waylaid a pack train
by the Commissioners of Indian Af-| at Sidling Hill. The engagement was
me (to them) and some young Dela
is not on the list
women and children
written on the
|
1
|
{
following is given oe brief and decisive.
their faces in the Indian color, red
e and black. Smith was the captain.
e It so happened that one day he ov-
erheard an interview in the Great
4 Cove which revealed the intention of
i the traders and the conduct of
| at the seat of Government. He took
matters into his own hands in 1765
1 | and determined food, clothing, and oth-
thos
fairs. The The horses fell one
tim: after another until the drivers were
“January 13, 1762, I was informed | compelled to surrender. The goods
some time ago by some pack horse men | Were assembled on one side, and the
j that the Indians spoke very well of | drivers led off some distance under
“ ) guard. The “Black Boys”
examinea
wares that were here signified that| the contents of the packs, and as they
(it) was reported amongst the Indi
ans that all the Traders here
cheat them but me and John Hart.
“January 14th. 1 think our stor
recovers some of the faveour it lost
last year amongst the Indians as
think we are on a par or excells the
rest here except John Hart and h
seems to old for ‘'us, having the lan
guages.
“April 16th, 1762.
ed that he sold rum to
Johnson, the Brittish agent for the In
dian Affairs, General Amhearst Jr
1762, forbade any trade in rum
limited the sale of ammunition to sucr
extent that much suffering
among the Indians.)
“May 11th, 1762. John Hart say
that there is fifteen hundred Mingoe
to come this way in a few days to go!
against the Cherokees.
April 24th, 1763. John Hart, a tra
der, was ordered to take eleven bun-
dles of Skins that ye sd Indians bro
(when ye first Party came in ye win- | of the Cumberland militia could not or
ter & and some this last party brot) tc
deliver
So Har
then
Prisoners were delivered.
took ye Peltry and delivered
Presents to ye value
no reason to blame
Errand.”
George Croghan left us a list of al
traders killed in the
among Boquet's papers left at
seum.
There is no data at hand of Hart's
except the unconfirmed tradi-
of Americ and John Ben-
death
tional story
der of Carrolltown, who stated that
Hart was killed at the foot of the Alle-
gheny Mountain,
by the A. D. 1765 “Black Boys” who]
tried to prevent any goods from reach-
ing the Indians on the Ohio.
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John Hart's rum
| was carried into the King's Magazine | first encampment at Hart's Sleeping
by the Col.’s order. George Croghan, | Place.
Deputy Indian agent, having complain- Sounty Militia,
the Indians.
(My note: Contrary to the advice of | Stone (Huntingdon),
and | Colonel
resultec
them with ye Prisoners that
was to come this Spring. These Skins
were deposited in ye Fort until ye
as he liked. I
suppose it was talked ye Indians were
not very well satisfied but they had
any one unless
THEM that invited them on this idle
Pontiac was as
well as those living in 1763. John Hart
was given as alive and living at Pitts-
burgh in 1763. This list may be seen
Fort
Pitt, now preserved by the British mu- [ Wood,
west of Frankstown!
| Sleeping Place,
- | suspected, found them to consist of
. blankets, shirts, vermillion, lead, wam-
pum, tomahawks, scalping knives, etc
e | The whole was burned. Patroling the
road after this, the result was that
1, very few pack trains passed through
i that valley carrying goods to the In-
e Qians along Ohio.
- An Encampment.
Jones, in his History of the Juniata
Valley, relates what was probably the
“The seventeenth Cumberland
under strict military
were first sent to Standing
and afterwards
-| to Frankstown, early in the spring of
1 | 1781. They were under command of
Albright and Captain Young,
sent with a view of walay
the gaps of the Allegheny Mountains
discipline,
1| and were
| dl prevent the Indians coming into
s| the valley.
S: Notwitnstanding tne presence of this
large body of men stationed as it were
at the mouth of the gap through which
- | the Indians entered the valley, the de-
predations of the Indians were almost
t] of daily occurrence. The inefficiency
0° would not check the marauders; at
length this exasperated the settlers to
such an extent that they resolved to
form themselves into a scouting party,
t| and range through the county for two
1 | months.
The project was favored by Colonel
Ashmead, and he agreed to furnish a
company of rangers to join them. The
enrollment of volunteers by Captain
Moore of Scotch Valley, assisted by
his Lieutenant, a Mr. Smith, from the
1} vicinity of Frankstown; and on the 2nd
of June, 1781, these men met at Holl-
idays Fort, then abandoned for want
of provisions. There they were joined
by the rangers, under command of
Captain Boyd, and Lieutenant larry
of Bedford, but instead of there
being a company, as the volunteers
were led to expect, there were but
eight men and the two officers above
mentioned.
From Holliday’s Fort they marched
| to Fetter’'s ,where they contemplated
spending the Sabaoth. It was their in-
tention to march through Kittanning
gap to an old state road (long si
abandoned) thence to Pittsburgh, and
home by way of Bedford.
While debating the matter
; the necessary prep
spies came in and rep )
| came upon an Indian « 11
Iv Hart s Sleeping Pl
ib
=
| This r In we camp,
{ as the scou WE for the
| fray. The officers, who were regular
|
the Indians
the settlement
confi-
that
and knew
ot venture into
following, were
dent of meeting them near the mouth
woodsmen,
would nc
until the day
of the gap and giving them battle.
They ,at once, tendered Colonel All-
bright the command of the expedition,
but he refused to accept it. Then they
importuned him to let a portion of his
who were both anxious and will-
men,
ing to accompany them, but this, too,
he refused.
Not daunted, the rangers and the
volunteers arose by daybreak on Sun-
day morning, ‘put their rifles in con-
dition, ate their breakfast and with 5
days’ provision in their knapsacks,
started for the mountain. The path led
along the river and the men marched
in Indian file as the path was narrow.
When they reached the flat where
Temperance Mill now stands, and with-
in thiry rods of Sugar Run, the loud
war whoop rang upon the stillness ot
band of In-
tl sabaoth morning; a
dia rose from the bushes from the
left side of the road, firing a volley
which fifteen of
» stretched in the
re in constern-
some over the
> same time, oy
rave scouts we
path. The remainder
ation, in every direction,
river in the direction of Frankstown,
oth toward Fetter's Fort. In all 17
were k illed, 5 wounded and the others
escaped.
Immediately after the news of the
massacre was spread, the people from
Stone (Huntingdon) gather-
and on Tuesday a party
of nearly one hundred men started in
pursuit of the Indians. Colonel Al-
bright was solicited to accompany this
force with his command and march
until they overtook the enemy; but he
refused. The men went as far as Hart's
but they might just as
Standing
ed at Potter's;
born in Chester
November 26, 1737, at Conoc-
the first cap-
tives of the French and Indian War in
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