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The New River early settlement / by Patricia Givens Johnson.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks SCS F 247 .N5 J63 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Patricia Givens.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New River Valley (N.C.-W. Va.)--History.
- New River Valley (N.C.-W. Va.).
- Indians of North America--New River Valley (N.C.-W. Va.).
- Indians of North America.
- United States--New River Valley.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- v, 232 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : P.G. Johnson, ©1983.
- Contents:
- The New river
- New river named
- Flowering of the New
- Teays River and the prehistoric New
- Mondongachete
- Curious rising hills and brave meadows
- Wood's river
- Pallatia
- A trip through Pallatia
- Patton's "great grant"
- Hunters and Mahanaim
- The Warwick road
- Dr. Thomas Walker and Christopher Gist go exploring
- Moravians on the New
- Patton's law on the New
- Frenchmen on the New
- The massacres, 1755
- Cherokees defend the New
- Strange land by the sinking sun
- Halifax and Bedford defend the New
- Cherokee war
- The long hunters
- Pontiac's war
- The Welsh mines
- Treaties place the new in Botetourt
- First settlement on the upper New in Virginia
- First settlement on the upper New in North Carolina
- First settlement on the lower New in West Virginia
- Epilogue
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collection.
- OCLC:
- 9706594
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