Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783

"With a memoir of the author by his daughter Narcissa Doddridge."

In this volume, the Protestant Episcopal missionary Joseph Doddridge renders a first-hand account of pioneer life in western Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and the Ohio territory around the turn of the nineteenth century.

Doddridge's father, John Doddridge, was the first settler in Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. With the exception of a few years of schooling in Maryland, Joseph Doddridge spent most of his life in and along the frontier, recording his own experiences and the accounts of his family and contemporaries.

Doddridge's "Notes," originally published in 1824, contain one of the most balanced versions of life in the "Old Northwest" from the end of the eighteenth to the first part of the nineteenth century that we possess. The first third of the volume captures everyday life on the frontier in essays on the state of the wilderness, weather, beasts and birds, style of dress, furniture and diet, weddings and house warmings, etc.

Next comes Doddridge's accounts of warfare along the frontier, beginning with an analysis of the Indian Mode of Warfare and the role played by Native Americans in western Pennsylvania and Ohio during the War of 1763 and Lord Dunmore's War and continuing with the various Indian campaigns during the Revolutionary War, including the author's account of an attack on his father's own fort. The final third of the book consists of an appendix to Doddridge's Notes compiled by his daughter Narcissa. Genealogists will find the name index at the back of the volume a convenient tool for tracing the ancestry of the subjects discussed herein.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve their true nature.

Author: Joseph Doddridge
Publisher: Clearfield
Published: 02/13/2012
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780806347677

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