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CHAPTER I. -
- An Account of the Eries
- Traditions concerning them
- Their Destruction
- Symbols found on Kelly's or Cunningham's Island
- Indian Remains |
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CHAPTER II.
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- La Salle
- The Griffin
- Relics
- Governor Shirley's Proposition
- Braddock's Advice
- Governor Delancy's Plan
- Estimating Presqu'il
- Hudson's Bay Company |
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CHAPTER III.
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- The English and French Claims
- Construction of Forts Presqu'il (Erie) and Le Boeuf (Waterford)
- Washington's Visit
- Condition of these Forts in 1756, '57, '58 and 59
- Their Desertion after the taking of Fort Niagara
- Tradition in Erie
- Major Rogers takes Possession for the English in 1760 |
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CHAPTER IV.
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- Pontiac
- Destruction of Forts Presqu'il and Le Boeuf, as described by Bancroft,
Parkman, and Harvey
- Colonel Bradstreet at Presqu'il, in 1764
- Colonel Bouquet's Treaty
- A Detachment of British Soldiers and Indians embark at Chautauqua Lake
- Hannastown burnt
- Mr. Adams's Suggestion |
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CHAPTER V. -
- Penn's Charter
- Boundaries of Pennsylvania
- Mason and Dixon's Line
- Review of said Line by Colonel 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 |
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CHAPTER VI.
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- Arrangements for the Settlement
of the Triangle
- Pennsylvania Population Company
- Act to lay out a Town at Presqu'il; afterward repealed.
- Block-house at LeBoeuf
- Indian Murders
- Governor Mifflin to the President
- Attorney-General Bradford's Opinion
- Andrew Ellicot and General Chapin
- Joseph Brandt
- Cornplanter
- A Present Land
- Treaty of Peace at Canandaigua |
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CHAPTER VII.
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- An Act to lay out the Towns of Erie, Waterford, Franklin, and Warren
- To protract the Enlistment of Troops at Le Boeuf
- Disposition of Tho. Rees, Esq.
- Actual Settlers
- Memorial to the Population Company
- Deacon Chamberlain's Story
- Captain Martin Strong to Wm. Nicholson, Esq.
- Louis Philippe at Mr. Rees's
- Murder of Rutledge and Son
- Mr. Augustus Porter's Visit
- Mr. Judah Colt's MSS. Autobiography
- Number of White Settlers on the Lakes west of Genesee River
- General Way's Death at Presqu'ile, 1796 |
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CHAPTER
VIII. -
- Erie County from 1785
- Organization in 1803
- Its Geography, and Population
- Population decennially from 1800
- Census Item
- Vote of 1808 and 1860
- Receipts and Expenditures do
- 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
- Court houses
- 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 |
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CHAPTER IX.
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- First Road
- Population Company Roads
- Erie and Waterford Turnpike
- Salt Trade
- General 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 |
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CHAPTER X -
- 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 Lighthouse
- William Penn
- First Steamer at Chicago
- Cholera
- Tonnage and Number of Vessels in 1810-20-31-36-47-60
- Lake Disasters
- Commerce of Port in Presqu'ile
- Vessels and Tonnage registered at Presqu'ile in 1860
- United States Steamer Michigan
- Revenue Cutters |
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CHAPTER XI.
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- Banks
- Gas Company
- Insurance
- Fire Companies
- Volunteer Military
- Agriculture
- Mutual Aid
- Cemeteries
- Moral, Benevolent, and Literary Societies |
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CHAPTER XII.
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- Newspapers
- Common Schools
- Academies
- Normal School
- Sabbath School
- First Protestant Missionaries West of Utica
- 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 in Erie
- Revivals |
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CHAPTER
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- Waterford
- Edinboro
- Northeast
- Wattsburg
- Girard
- Union Mills
- Albion
- Cherry Hill
- Wellsburg
- Cranesville
- Lockport
- Pageville
- Lexington
- Fairview
- Manchester
- McKean Corners
- Westleyville
- West Springfield
- Springfield
- Beaverdam
- Concord Station |
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CHAPTER XIV.
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- Biographical Sketches of
-- Colonel Seth Reed
-- Rufus Seth Reed
-- Judah Colt
-- Dr. U. Parsons
-- Dr. John C. Wallace
-- Rev. Robert Reid
-- Thos. Wilson
-- P. S. V. Hamot
-- Captain D. Dobbins
-- T. H. Sill
-- G. Sanford
-- Judge J. Galbraith |
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CHAPTER XV.
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- War declared
- Commodore Perry
- Captain Dobbins's Correspondence
- Commodore Chauncey, Mr. Henry Eckford and Noah Brown
- Difficulties in fitting out the Fleet
- General Mead
- Captain 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 12th, Perry sails for Sandusky
- Interview with General Harrison
- They proceed to Malden
- Kentucky Militia
- Sickness
- Letters from Secretary
- Ohio dispatched to Erie
- Strength of the Britis Force
- The American Force
- Americans look in at Malden
- Corrected Instructions for the Battle |
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CHAPTER XVI.
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- British Vessels appear
- Commodore Perry remodels his Line, and other Preparations
- A brief Description of the Battle of September 10th by Dr. Parsons
- The Vessels return to Erie with the Wounded and Prisoners
- Captain Perry promoted
- His Reception at Erie
- A Remark of McKenzie
- President Madison
- Congress
- Prizes |
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CHAPTER
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- Block-houses built in 1813-14
- State of Society
- Buffalo burned
- Alarms at Erie
- Captain 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 adn the Peninsula
- Misery Bay
- General Bernard and Major Totten's Survey
- Appropriations made by the State and the United States
- Changes since 1813
- Rise and fall of Water in Lake Erie
- A singular Phenomenon
- Lake Survey |
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CHAPTER
XVIII. -
- 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 |
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CHAPTER XIX.
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- Miscellaneous Items, among which
are: A Tradition
- General Waybne
- 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 Court-house Bell
- Pioneers
- Perry
- Lieutenant Yarnell
- Survivors of the Battle of Lake Erie
- Perry Monument at Cleveland
- Inventions
- Moravian Lands
- Omissions
- Bankers and Exchange Brokers |
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