George Croghan and Alexander McKee at Pittsburg
"From April 6 through 12, 1760, [Alexander] McKee was present at a second conference at the post ["Pittsburg"]. The meeting, between [George] Croghan and a large band of Shawnees, Delawares, and Miamis from the Ohio Country, plus Mohawks and other Iroquois from the east confirmed the allegiance of the previously hostile tribes. Further, the Indians requested that Croghan allow British traders to travel to the Ohio Country villages to conduct business there. The conference ended with a generous distribution of rum and Croghan's promise to "take fast hold of the Chain of Friendship with both my hands." Mckee's participation during the meeting was limited, as befitted one who, although raised among and familiar with the Great Lakes tribes, was new to the rarified and formal atmosphere of diplomatic discourse," writes Larry L Nelson in his book, "A Man of Distinction Among Them, Alexander McKee and the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799," published 1999, paper edition 2000, pages 31-32.
Where is a copy of the minutes of this conference?
Meanwhile down in South Carolina, the official British Army under Montgomery is heading toward the Cherokee nation to punish it.
The Location of this Conference?
This is the first fort built after Trent's Fort and Fort Duquesne. But a new much bigger Fort Pitt was being built to replace the one below. Work on the new, bigger Fort Pitt started in Sept 1759, around 10 months after Fort Duquesne was abandoned.
Progress in "Pittsburg"
.Pittsburg in June 1759
.Founders Online footnote 3. Maj. Gen. John Stanwix arrived at Pittsburgh at the end of August 1759, and on 3 Sept. 1759. his engineer Capt. Harry Gordon initiated work on the permanent fort, Fort Pitt. Stewart probably left Fort Ligonier in Pennsylvania with Lt. Col. Adam Stephen on 18 Sept. 1759., arriving at Pittsburgh with supplies and about one hundred and fifty men and officers on 23 Sept. 1759. Stewart’s sketch of the proposed fort has not been identified..
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George Croghan Connections
Apparently Croghan's father died young and his widowed mother married again, to Thomas Ward. Croghan emigrated as a young man from Dublin, Ireland to the province of Pennsylvania in 1741. His mother and step-father, his half-brother Edward Ward, and cousin Thomas Smallman also emigrated, the men working for him in America. Among relatives remaining in Ireland were a merchant, Nicholas Croghan (likely a brother of George);an aunt, Mrs. Smallman; and George's grandfather Edmund Croghan. - Wikipedia.
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Compiled by Jim Moyer 5/1/2024
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