Identifier: historyofbeaverc01baus (find matches)
Title: History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph Henderson, 1854-
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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nt, then I wouldsuggest, either the spot marked 5. on the draft, east of the field on the top of the bankabove the R. R.d — or on the west (marked S) near the site of the church and close to thehigh-road. Either of these two would be outside of the fencing of the 3 acre lot. There being no train for home for some hours, I left Moravia station about 1 p.m. walked4 miles in a snow storm up to Mahoningtown near the Forks of Beaver where I stoppedsome 2 hours. The land here belonged to my father. Thirty-five years ago, he and Mr.Hays laid out the town. I frequently visit here. Left Mahoningtown at 4.30 p.m., reached New Castle, 2 miles in a few minutes. Staid2 hours — then took the train south repassed Mahoningtown, and proceeded up along theMahoning thro Edenburgh, the site of New Kuskusky. 1 Loskiel, Part III., p. 89. 2 Western Annals, p. 371. 3 Wash.-Irvine Cor., p. 91; Western Annals, p. 371. tations, History of Beaver County 427 and farmyards filled with cattle and poultry. For a
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while,ances, for ^^^Xa^U^)Ul^ too, they were beyond the region of the border disturb-and the influence and hostility of the white people. But 428 History of Beaver County their peace was soon broken. With the breaking-out of theRevolutionary War the Moravian Indians found themselvesbetween two fires. To the westward were the British, withheadquarters at Detroit, and their partisans, the Shawnese andWyandots and some of the Delawares; and to the eastward theAmericans. The Christian Indians were non-partisans, in ac-cordance with their principles, but could not avoid the neces-sity of showing hospitality to war-parties of both sides, and wereconsequently brought under the suspicion of both. It is truethat some renegade Moravian Indians took part in borderforays, though when this was known, they were expelled fromthe church*; and it is true also that the missionaries, Zeisbergerand Heckewelder, though outwardly maintaining a position ofstrict neutrality, did often communicate secretly to

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