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Book Title: History Of Dearborn County Indiana

DEARBORN   COUNTY,  INDIANA.	35

territory from which the French and their Indian allies had previously expelled
them. Although this grant was renewed in 1726 and again confirmed in 1744, it
gave New York only a nominal claim and one which was never recognized by the
French in any way.

    English traders from Pennsylvania and Virginia began in 1730 to pay more
attention to the claims of their country west of the Alleghanies and north of
the Ohio river. When their activities reached the ears of the French the
governor of French Canada sent Celeron de Bienville up and down the Ohio and the
rivers and streams running into it from the north and took formal possession of
the territory by planting lead plates at the mouth of every river and stream of
any importance. This peculiar method of the French in seeking to establish their
claims occurred in the year 1749 and opened the eyes of England to the necessity
of taking some immediate action. George II, the king of England at the time, at
once granted a charter, for the first Ohio Company (there were two others by the
same name later organized) composed of London merchants and enterprising
Virginians, and the company at once proceeded to formulate plans to secure
possession of the territory north of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi.
Christopher Gist was sent down the Ohio river in 1750 to explore the country as
far west as the mouth of the Scioto river, and made several treaties with the
Indians. Things were now rapidly approaching a crisis and it was soon evident
that there would be a struggle of arms between England and France for the
disputed region. In 1754 the English started to build a fort at the confluence
of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, on the site of the present city of
Pittsburgh, but before the fort was completed the French appeared on the scene,
drove the English away and finished the fort which had been begun.

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR  (1754-63).

    The crisis had finally come. The struggle which followed between the two
nations ultimately resulted in the expulsion of the French from the mainland of
America as well as from the immediate territory in dispute. The war is known in
America as the French and Indian War and in the history of the world as the
Seven Years' War, the latter designation being due to the fact that it lasted
that length of time. The struggle developed into a world-wide conflict and the
two nations fought over three continents, America, Europe and Asia. It is not
within the province of this resume of the history of Indiana to go into the
details of this memorable struggle. It is


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