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Erie County, Pennsylvania
History & Genealogy
Know as 'Old Dominion State'

Source: 
THE HISTORY OF
ERIE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
,
From Its First Settlement.
By Laura G. Sanford
New and Enlarged Edition
Published by the Author
1894
Copyrighted by J. B. Lippincott & Co., in 1861,
and by Laura G. Sanford, in 1894

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  PAGE
CHAPTER I. - 15
 - An Account of the Eries
 - Traditions concerning them
 - Their Destination
 - Symbols found on Kelly's or Cunningham's Island
 - Indian Remains
 
CHAPTER II. - 24
 - La Salle
 - The Griffon
 - Relics
 - Gov. Shirley's Proposition
 - Braddock's Advice
 - Gov. Delancy's Plan
 - Estimating Presqu'ile
 - Hudson's Bay Company
 
CHAPTER III. - 29
 - The English and French Claims
 - Construction of Forts Presquile (Erie) and Le Boeuf (Waterford)
 - Washington's Visit
 - Condition of these Forts in 1756-'57, '58, '59
 - Their Desertion after the taking of Fort Niagara
 - Tradition in Erie
 - Major Rogers takes Possession for the English in 1760
 
CHAPTER IV. - 48
 - Pontiac
 - Destruction of Forts Presqu'ile and Le Boeuf, as described by Bancroft, Parkman, and Harvey
 - Col. Bradstreet at Presquile, in 1764
 - Col. Bouquet's Treaty
 - Detachment of British Soldiers and Indians embark at Chautauqua Lake
 - Hannastown burnt
 - Mr. Adams Suggestion
 
CHAPTER V. - 56
 - Penn's Charter
 - Boundaries of Pennsylvania
 - Mason and Dixon's Line
 - Review of said Line by Col. Graham
 - Western Boundary of Pennsylvania fixed in 1786
 - Boundary between New York and Pennsylvania confirmed by Act of Assembly in 1789
 - Purchase of Triangle, 1791
 - Anecdote of Mr. William Miles
 
CHAPTER VI. - 62
 - Arrangements for the Settlement of the Triangle
 - Pennsylvania Population Company
 - Act to lay out a town at Prequ'ile; afterward repealed
 - Block-house at Le Boeuf
 - Indian Murders
 - Gov. Mifflin to the President
 - Attorney-General Bradford's Opinion
 - Ransom's Deposition
 - Letters of Capt. Denny
 - Andrew Ellicot and Gen. Chapin
 - Joseph Brandt
 - Cornplanter
 - A Present of Land
 - Treaty of Peace at Canandaigua
 
CHAPTER VII. - 76
 - An Act to lay out the Towns of Erie, Waterford, Franklin, and Warren
 - To protract the Enlistment of Troops at Le Boeuf
 - Deposition of Tho. Rees, Esq.
 - Actual Settlers
 - Memorial to the Population Company
 - Deacon Chamberlain's Story
 - Capt. Martin Strong to William Nicholson, Esq.
 - Louis Philippe at Mr. Rees's
 - Murder of Rutledge and Son
 - Mr. Augustus Porter's Visit
 - Mr. Judah Colt's MS. Autobiography
 - Number of White Settlers on the Lakes west of Genesee River
 - General Wayne's Death at Prisqu'ile, 1796
 
CHAPTER VIII. - 91
 - Erie County from 1785
 - Organization in 1803
 - Its Geography, etc.
 - Original Townships
 - Changes
 - Extent of Townships and Population
 - Population decennially from 1800
 - Census
 - Extract from Auditor-General's Report
 - Post-offices in 1830, 1856, 1860
 - List of Judges
 - Members of Congress
 - State Senate
 - Representatives
 - Prothonotaries
 - Registers and Recorders
 - Sheriffs
 - Coroners
 - First Section incorporated
 - Courthouses
 - Act for Public Landing
 - Borough Charter altered in 1833
 - Canal Basin
 - Peninsula
 - Poor-house
 - Several Acts
 - Government of Erie changed to that of a City
 - Present Population and Business
 - List of Burgesses and Mayors
 - Collectors of Customs
 - Postmasters in Erie
91
CHAPTER IX. - 107
 - First Road
 - Population Company Roads
 - Erie and Waterford Turnpike
 - Salt Trade
 - Gen. O'Hara's Contract
 - Road to Buffalo
 - First Coaches
 - Erie Canal
 - Railroads
 - Erie or Wattsburg Railroad
 - Sunbury and Erie
 - Erie and Northeast
 - Franklin Canal Company
 - Pittsburg and Erie Railroad
 - Plank-roads
 
CHAPTER X. - 123
 - Shipping
 - The Washington, the First Vessel built on the South Shore of the Lake
 - Hudson's Bay Company
 - British Government Vessels
 - American Government Vessels
 - The Salina
 - Valuable Cargoes
 - Walk-in-the-Water
 - First Light-house
 - William Penn
 - First Steamer at Chicago
 - Cholera
 - Tonnage and Number of Vessels in 1810-20-31-36-47-60
 - Lake Disasters
 - Commerce of Port of Presqu'ile
 - Vessels and Tonnage registered at Presqu'ile in 1860
 - United States Steamer Michigan
 - Revenue Cutters
 
CHAPTER XI. - 132
 - Banks
 - Gas Company
 - Insurance
 - Fire Companies
 - Volunteer Military
 - Agriculture
 - Mutual Aid
 - Cemeteries
 - Moral, Benevolent, and Literary Societies
 
  PAGE
CHAPTER XII. - 147
 - Newspapers
 - Common Schools
 - Academies
 - Normal School
 - Sabbath School
 - First Protestant Missionaries West of Utical
 - Moravians in Venango County, 1767
 - First Religious Service in Erie County
 - First Church Edifice
 - A Religious Experience
 - Presbytery of Erie
 - Revs. Patterson and Eaton
 - Extract from Rev. A. H. Carrier's Historical Sermon
 - Rev. R. Reid
 - Churches of different Denominations of Erie
 - Revivals
 
CHAPTER XIII. - 178
 - Waterford
 - Edinboro
 - Northeast
 - Wattsburg
 - Girard
 - Union  Mills
 - Albion
 - Cherry Hill
 - Wellsburg
 - Cranesville
 - Lockport
 - Pageville
 - Lexington
 - Fairview
 - Manchester
 - McKean Corners
 - Wesleyville
 - West Springfield
 - Springfield
 - Beaverdam
 - Concord Station
 
CHAPTER XIV. - 195
 - Biographical Sketches of
 -- Col. Seth Reed
 -- Rufus Seth Reed
 -- Judah Colt
 -- Dr. U. Parsons
 -- Dr. John C. Wallace
 -- Rev. Robert Reid
 -- Thos. Wilson
 -- P. S. V. Hamot
 -- Capt. D. Dobbins
 -- T. H. Sill
 -- G. Sanford
 -- Judge J. Galbraith
 
CHAPTER XV. - 214
 - War Declared
 - Comodore Perry
 - Capt. Dobbin's Correspondence
 - Commodore Chauncey, Mr. Henry Eckford, and Noah Brown
 - Difficulties in fitting out the Fleet
 - Gen. Mead
 - Capt. Perry at Fort George
 - Five Vessels brought from Buffalo
 - Provincial Marine Corps.
 - Difficulties in procuring men
 - Letters to Commodore Chauncey and the Secretary of the Navy
 - A Providence recognized in the War
 - Getting the Vessels over the bar
 - Commodore Barclay at Port Dover
 - Seven of the Vessels make a Cruise
 - Officers and Men from Lake Ontario
 - August 12, Perry sails for Sandusky
 - Interview with Gen. Harrison
 - They proceed to Malden
 - Kentucky Militia
 - Sickness
 - Letters from the Secretary
 - Ohio dispatched to Erie
 - Strength of the British Force
 - The American Force
 - Americans look in at Malden
 - Corrected Instructions for the Battle
 
CHAPTER XVI. - 238
 - British Vessels appear
 - Commodore Perry remodels his Line, and other Preparations
 - A brief Description of the Battle of September 10, by Dr. Parsons
 - The Vessels return to Erie with the Wounded and Prisoners
 - Capt. Perry promoted
 - His Reception at Erie
 - A Remark of McKenzie
 - President Madison
 - Congress
 - Prizes
 
CHAPTER XVII. - 246
 - Block-houses built in 1813-14
 - State of Society
 - Buffalo burned
 - Alarms at Erie
 - Capt. Sinclair arrives
 - Bird, Rankin, and Davis executed
 - Disposition made of Government Vessels
 - List of Commanding Officers at Erie from 1813 to 1825
 - Topography of Presqu'ile Bay and the Peninsula
 - Misery Bay
 - Gen. Bernard and Maj. Totten's Survey
 - Appropriations made by the State and the United States
 - Changes since 1813
 - Rise and fall of Winter in Lake Erie
 - A Singular Phenomenon
 - Lake Survey
 
CHAPTER XVIII. - 255
 - Geology from Professor Rogers
 - Character of the Soil
 - Calcareous Marl
 - Bog Ore
 - Petroleum
 - Mineral Waters
 - Description of the Sink-hole by Mr. R. Andrews
 - The Devil's Backbone and Nose
 - Botanizing
 
CHARTER XIX. - 270
 - Miscellaneous Items, among which are:  A Tradition
 - Gen. Wayne
 - An Anecdote
 - Price of Provisions
 - Wm. W. Reed, Esq.
 - First National Celebration
 - Churches
 - The Garrison
 - A Relic
 - Saturday Afternoon
 - Game
 - Mrs. P.'s Reminiscences
 - H. Russel's Journal
 - An Early Settler in Fairview
 - La Fayette's Visit in Erie
 - Cholera
 - Perry Monument
 - An Informal Meeting
 - Speculation
 - Fires
 - Sad Accidents
 - Ex-President Adams
 - Patriot War
 - Old Courthouse Bell
 - Pioneers
 - Perry
 - Lieut. Yarnell
 - Survivors of the Battle of Lake Erie
 - Perry Monument at Cleveland
 - Inventions
 - Moravian Lands
 - Omissions
 - Bankers and Exchange Brokers
 


SUPPLEMENT.

SECTION I. - 303
 - The Shipyard of the Griffon
 - Northern State Boundary
 - Ownership of the Peninsula
 - The Pontiac Conspiracy
 - Le Boeuf
 - Letters of a Surveyor, etc.
 - Scenery
 
SECTION II. - 319
 - Magnitude of the Great Lakes
 - Lake Currents
 - Fish Exhibit
 - Hatcheries
 - Ancient Mariner
 - The Lighthouses
 - Flash Lighthouse
 - Life-saving Station
 - Waterworks
 - War for the Union
 - Soldiers and Sailors' Home
 
SECTION III. - 341
 - Johnson Island Plot
 - United States Steamer Michigan
 - Revenue Cutters
 - Railroads
 - Rapid Transit
 - Liberty Bells
 - Erie
 - Some Towns and Townships
 - Grapes
 - Postoffices
 - Census
 - City Hall
 - Government Building
 - Petroleum
 - Gas
 - The Weather
 - Parks
 - Massassauga
 - Height of Lakes.
 
SECTION IV. - 376
 - Biographies of Dr. Usher Parsons
 - Capt. W. W. Dobbins (an extract)
 - Oliver H. Perry
 - Maj. Andrew Ellicott
 - Two Foreiguers
 - Dr. F. N. Thorpe
 - Rev. C. Dickson, D.D.
 - William Wallace, Esq.
 - Wallace Family
 
SECTION IV. - Continued - 376
 - Judge Converse
 - Rev. T. H. Robinson, D.D,
 - Judge A. Tourgee
 - Bishop J. F. Spaulding
 - Rev. Dr. Stuckenberg
 - Dr. Artemas Martin
 - Rev. Dr. Chamberlain
 - Miss E. Ditto
 - Dr. and Ernest Ingersoll
 - Rev. K. Fullerton
 - Messrs. Perkins
 - Judge James Thompson and family
 - Hon. William L. Scott
 - Visits of Nine Presidents
 - Citizens mentioned
 
SECTION V. - 407
 - Churches
 - Revivals
 - Missionary Annual Meeting
 - Public Schools
 - Academy
 - Villa Maria
 - Lake Shore Seminary
 - St. Benedict
 - Clark's Business College
 - W. C. T. U.
 - Y. M. C. A.
 - Hamot and St. Vincent Hospitals
 - Home of the Friendless
 - Three New Charities
 - Bequests of John Weis and R. Wilcox
 - Sisters of St. Joseph
 
SECTION VI. - 434
 - Water Commissioners
 - Hon. W. L. Scott
 - Palatial Residences
 - The Wadena
 - Ore Docks
 - Trestle
 - Metric Metal
 - Railroads
 - County Roads
 - Freight Report
 - Banks
 - Disaster
 - Storage
 - Homeopathic Hospital
 - A Synopsis
 - World's Fair Awards.
 

 



 
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