Trans-Allegheny Pioneers Sketches of First White Settlers West of Alleghenies

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Trans-Allegheny  Pioneers
Historical Sketches of the First White Settlers West  of the Alleghenies, 1748 and After
John P. Hale
Softbound    volume  totaling
330
pages. Book  is in new condition.    Just  what you need for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Trans-Allegheny Pioneers
is,  without a doubt, one of the most celebrated accounts of life on the Virginia  frontier ever written. The author's concern, of course, is on "the progressive  frontier explorations and settlements along the entire Virginia border, from the  Alleghenies to the Ohio, and from the New River-Kanawha and tributaries in the  Southwest, where settlements first began, to the Monogahela and tributaries, in  the Northwest and along the Ohio, where the frontier line of settlements was  last to be advanced. . . ." His focal point is the region of the New  River-Kanawha in present-day Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia.  Chronologically, the account picks up in the 1740s but truly hits its stride in  1755 with the Indian attack at Draper's Meadows, which resulted in the deaths of  a number of settlers and the capture (and ultimate escape) of Mary Ingles and  Bettie Draper. The author ably uses the device of the Indian raid and subsequent  flight to tell us about life along the frontier and the names of the families  who settled there. Other chapters are devoted to the Battle of Point Pleasant in  1774 and biographical sketches of its participants. Point Pleasant, in fact,  prefigured the conflicts that characterized the frontier theater of the American  Revolution. Elsewhere Mr. Hale provides a detailed chronology of milestones  along the Trans-Allegheny, Daniel Boone's years along the New River-Kanawha, and  a sketch of the early history and progress of nearby Charleston, West Virginia.  This is essential reading for anyone interested in frontier history or the  genealogies of mid-18th century families who resided in the Valley of Virginia.
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