Dedication.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE ABORIGINES OF THE VALLEY? ?THEIR HABITS AND THEIR CUSTOMS.
CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS.
CHAPTER III. JUNIATA ISLAND? ?AN INDIAN PARADISE? ?REV. DAVID
CHAPTER IV. INDIAN TOWNS ALONG THE JUNIATA? ?LOST CREEK VALLEY
CHAPTER V. EARLY SETTLERS AT LICKING CREEK? ?RELICS OF AN
CHAPTER VI. TUSCARORA VALLEY? ?ITS EARLY SETTLERS? ?ITS MOUNDS AND ITS FORTS? ? MASSACRES, ETC.
CHAPTER VII. FORT GRANVILLE? ?OLD INDIAN TOWN? ?THE EARLY
CHAPTER VIII. ORGANIZATION OF MIFFLIN COUNTY? ?DISPUTE WITH
CHAPTER IX. KISHICOQUILLAS VALLEY? ?THE SHAWNEE CHIEF KISHICOKELAS? ?THE MINGO CHIEF LOGAN.
CHAPTER X. COL. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S EXPEDITION AGAINST
CHAPTER XI. OLD INDIAN TOWN? ?INDIAN
CHAPTER XII. RAYSTOWN BRANCH? ?EARLY SETTLEMENT OF
CHAPTER XIII. RAYSTOWN BRANCH, CONTINUED? ?MURDER OF SANDERS
CHAPTER XIV. STANDING STONE, ANCIENT AND MODERN? ?MURDER OF FELIX DONNELLY AND HIS SON FRANCIS, ETC.
CHAPTER XV. TRIALS OF THE EARLY SETTLERS? ?THEIR FORTS, AND OTHER MEANS OF DEFENCE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE EARLY SETTLERS? ?OLD HART, THE INDIAN TRADER, ETC.
CHAPTER XVII. THE CONTINENTAL MILLS OF THE VALLEY.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE COVE? ?EARLY SETTLEMENT BY
CHAPTER XIX. TOMMY COLEMAN, THE INDIAN FIGHTER? ?SURPRISE OF THE DUNKARD MURDERERS, ETC.
CHAPTER XX. SINKING VALLEY? ?THE LEAD MINES? ?FORT
CHAPTER XXI. TORIES OF THE VALLEY? ?THEIR UNFORTUNATE
CHAPTER XXII. THE TORY HARE? ?MURDER OF
CHAPTER XXIII. MOSES DONALDSON? ?CAPTURE AND MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN.
CHAPTER XXIV. DEPREDATIONS AT THE MOUTH OF SPRUCE
CHAPTER XXV. STONE VALLEY? ?McCORMICK'S FORT? ?MURDER OF MRS.
CHAPTER XXVI. TUCKAHOE? ?MURDER OF JOHN GUILLIFORD.
CHAPTER XXVII. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SCOTCH VALLEY? ?THE MOORE
CHAPTER XXVIII. WOODCOCK VALLEY? ?MASSACRE OF ELDER? ?THE
CHAPTER XXIX. WATER STREET? ?THE BEATTY FAMILY? ?CAPTAIN
CHAPTER XXX. HOLLIDAYSBURG? ?THE HOLLIDAY FAMILY? ?DEATH OF
CHAPTER XXXI. OLD INDIAN TOWN OF FRANKSTOWN? ?INDIAN
CHAPTER XXXII. SHAVER'S CREEK? ?MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF OLD
CHAPTER XXXIII. WARRIOR RIDGE? ?WARRIOR'S MARK? ?JOB
CHAPTER XXXIV. CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX. THE VALLEY AS IT IS.
Footnotes
Title: History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley
Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley
Author: U. J. (Uriah James) Jones
Language: English
Character set encoding: UTF-8
JUNCTION OF FRANKSTOWN AND LUCKAHOE BRANCHES OF THE JUNIATA BELOW ALEXANDRIA.
JUNCTION OF FRANKSTOWN AND LUCKAHOE BRANCHES OF THE JUNIATA BELOW ALEXANDRIA.
HISTORY
OF THE
EARLY SETTLEMENT
OF THE
JUNIATA VALLEY:
EMBRACING AN
ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY PIONEERS,
AND THE TRIALS AND PRIVATIONS INCIDENT TO THE
SETTLEMENT OF THE VALLEY,
PREDATORY INCURSIONS, MASSACRES, AND ABDUCTIONS BY THE
INDIANS DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, AND THE
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, &c.
By U. J. JONES.
PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY HENRY B. ASHMEAD,
GEORGE ST., ABOVE ELEVENTH.
1856.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, by U. J. JONES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO.
PHILADELPHIA.
