History of Warren County Pennsylvania: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of Warren County Pennsylvania: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers<br><br>The Beginning of Warren County''s History Date of Organization Its Boundaries Its Area and Streams Origin of its N ame - The System to be Pursued in Succeeding Chapters.<br><br>N that eventful mid-summer''s day in 1749 when Captain Bienville de 0 Celeron Knight of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis in com'' mand of two hundred and fifteen French soldiers and fifty-five Indians appeared on the south bank of the Allegheny River opposite the mouth of Conewango Creek there buried an engraved leaden plate and with the dis play of much pomp and ceremony formally assumed possession of this and adjoining regions vast in extent in the name of the reigning king of France a stand-point was reached; a beginning as it were was made in the real well authenticated history of Warren county Pennsylvania. But in the endeavor to explain the long and interesting chain of events which led up to this ocen patiou by the French to describe the con?icting claims of the English and their various operations civil as well as military in the effort to obtain posses sion of the same territory and to brie?y outline the history of the primordial inhabitants of these cantons it is found necessary to go delving back in the past two centuries or more before the advent of Celeron upon these shores to gather up the threads of an historic narrative which upon perusal it is believed will not prove uninteresting to the reader.<br><br>Warren county was not organized as a separate shire until the year 1819.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.