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Excerpt from Historical Reference to Pricketts' Fort and Its Defenders: With Incidents of Border Warfare in the Monongahela Valley and Ceremonies at Unveiling of Monument Marking Site of Prickett's Fort, Erected in 1774, Including Brief Sketches of Major William Haymond and the Ancestors of the Morgan and Prickett Families Along the above named river and its tributaries were scattered a few cabins of settlers, the largest collections being at Morgantown and Buckhannon'. Fort Pitt, where Pittsburgh now stands, had been garrisoned by a small body of British troops since its capture in 1758 from the French by General Forbes, then known as Fort Duquesne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.