Identifier: pennsylvaniagermv15pbpenn (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania-German Society : (Publications)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania-German Society. cn
Subjects: Germans
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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y open to the assaultsof the savages. Already many of the plantations had beendeserted; buildings and property had been destroyed, andtheir owners had fled across the mountains to AlbanyTownship, or elsewhere, to find a more thickly settledregion and greater safety. It is doubtful whether thedefense would ever have been constructed save to fill in thelong gap in the chain between Forts Allen and Lebanon.We are not then surprised to read what Colonel Weiserwrote November 24, 1756, after the conference with theIndians at Easton. He was then at Fort Allen. Hesays: I took my leave of them (certain Indians) and theyof me very canditly; Capt. Arnd sent an escort with me oftwenty men to Fort Franklin, where we arrived at threeoclock in the afternoon, it being about fourteen miles dis-tant from Fort Allen. I saw that the Fort was not Tean-able, and the House not finished for the Soldiers, and thatit could not be of any Service to the Inhabitant Part, there 366 The Pennsylvania-German Society,
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The Gap in the Blue Mountains. 367 being a great Mountain between them. I ordered LieutnEngel to Evacuate it, and come to the South side of theHills himself with Nineteen men at John Eberts Esqr.,and the Rest being Sixteen men more, at John Eckenroad,both places being about three miles distant from each other,and both in the Township of Linn, Northampton (Lehigh)County, until otherwise ordered. 23rd. Left Fort Franklin. The Lieut., with Tenmen, escorted me as far as Probsts, about Eight mile,where I discharged him, and arrived at Reading thatEvening. From that time on the fort was occupied in a very desul-tory manner. If not actually abandoned it was more andmore neglected. To such an extent was this true that theremaining settlers, for some still remained, felt obliged topresent the following petition, which was read in the Pro-vincial Council on Saturday, May 7, 1757. The petitionis of especial interest because of the names which it contains: The petition of George Gilbert, Adam Spi

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