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The village of
Logstown (also
Logg's Town,
French:
Chiningue) was a significant
Native American settlement in
Western Pennsylvania in the years leading to the
French and Indian War.
The original village was settled by
Shawnees, possibly as early as 1725, on low-lying land on the north bank of the
Ohio River, near present-day
Ambridge, Pennsylvania,
Beaver County, Pennsylvania. In the rich soil by the riverside, the Shawnees cultivated
maize.
As part of their effort to claim the Ohio Valley, around 1747, the French built about 30 log cabins, some with stone chimneys, on a plateau above the original Logstown village.
In 1748, the colony of Pennsylvania sent
Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Six Nations, to Logstown. He held council with a gathering of chiefs, who complied with his request for a count of their warriors in the Ohio Valley region. He then hectored the
Native Americans about French dominance of the region. The expulsion of the British traders and the hectoring offended the Iroquois, some of whom returned to their homeland, tearing down the French copper plates as they went.
In 1752, a treaty was held at Logstown. Colonel
Joshua Fry and two other commissioners represented the colony of Virginia, and
Christopher Gist represented the
Ohio Company. A
Native American chief declared that his people didn't consider that the 1744 treaty with the
Six Nations at
Lancaster, Pennsylvania ceded any land in the
Allegheny Mountains or points west, but that they wouldn't molest any settlements southeast of the
Ohio River.
In 1753, Virginia
Governor Dinwiddie sent an eight-man mission headed by a young
George Washington to warn the French away from the Ohio Valley. From 24 to 30 November, Washington held council with Tanacharison and Scarouady at Logstown.
On
May 28,
1754, in
Battle of Jumonville Glen,
Tanacharison killed Ensign
Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, an act that helped to precipitate the
French and Indian War. Following Washington's surrender at
Fort Necessity, Scarouady burned down Logstown, on or about 1754-06-24. French forces under
Louis Coulon de Villiers rebuilt the village
.
In the 1750s,
New France built
Fort Presque Isle on
Lake Erie,
Fort Le Boeuf on
French Creek, Pennsylvania,
Fort Machault near the junction of French Creek with the Allegheny River, and finally
Fort Duquesne, at the forks of the Ohio.
When the army of
General John Forbes occupied
Fort Duquesne on 1758-11-24, the
Native Americans abandoned many of their neighboring villages. With the construction of
Fort Pitt, Logstown lost its prominence.
When Major
George Washington again visited the site of Logstown on 1770-10-21, none of the residents were
Native American.
Sources
Geospatial References
Google Earth
indicates a point 18 miles downriver from the Golden Triangle, next to a river, near Ambridge, PA, is at 40.619407 -80.227207.
Other Resources
Logstown, on the Ohio
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