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Title: Otzinachson : a history of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna: its first settlement, privations endured by the early pioneers, Indian wars, predatory incursions, abductions and massacres, together with an account of the fair play system; and the trying scenes of the big run-away ... biographical sketches of the leading settlers ...
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Meginness, John Franklin, 1827-1899
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Publisher: Williamsport, Pa. : Gazette and Bulletin Printing House
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rris, before it was built, speaks in a letter to Colonel Clap-h;un, under date of June 25, 1756, of my plan of Fort Augusta intirely. (Seepage 674, Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. II., Old Series.) The mother of George III.was named Augusta, but he did not ascend the throne until October 25, 1760, fouryears after the fort was erected. And it may be noted in this connection, as a singu-lar historical fact, that the first authentic notice of London (Londinium) occurs inTacitus; about loo years after Ccesars invasion of Britain, it was taken by the Ro-mans under Claudius, called Augusta, and placed under a Roman administration. Inlater years a tradition prevailed that Major Burd had the fort named after his sisterAugusta, whom it was said resided in England. But it is more likely that it wascalled for the mother of George III., and that the name is of royal origin. 178 HISTOKV OV TlIK WEST HKANCII VALI.EV, duced in size from the original, will f^ixc^thc readera correct ideaof its appearance:
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DIAGRAM OF FORT AUGUSTA. The above plan was drawn from a copy of the original,to which the following note is attached: Isaac Craig,Engineer; Faithfully coi)ied by me for Richard Biddie, Esq., from the original de-posited in the Cieographical and Topographical Collection attached to Library of hislate Majesty George the Third, and presented by his Majesty King George the Fourthto the British Museum. London, March, 1830. WILLIAM GSMAN. HISTORY OF TlIK WEST BRANCH VALLEV. 179 Tlic followinij; description accompanies the ori<^inal drawing: Fort Augusta stands at about forty yards distant from the river, on a bank 24 feetfrom the surface of the water, that side of the fort marked with light lines whichfronts the river, is a strong pallisado, the bases of the logs being sunk four feet intothe earth, the tops holed and spiked into strong ribbonds which run transversely andare morticed into several logs at 12 feet distance from each other, which are largerand higher than the rest, the joi

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