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POINT PLEASANT , a See also:town and the See also:county-seat of See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason county, See also:West See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on the See also:Ohio See also:river, at the mouth
of the Kanawha river, and about midway between See also:Pittsburg and See also:Cincinnati. Pop. (1900) 1934; (1910) 2045. It is served directly by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio and the Kanawha & See also:Michigan
(controlled by the Hocking Valley) See also:railways, and by the Hocking Valley railway on the opposite See also:side of the Ohio river. The Kanawha river is navigable (by the use of locks and dams) for 90 M. above the town, and Point Pleasant is a re-See also:shipping point for Kanawha See also:coal. Coal and See also:salt are See also:mined in the vicinity, but the surrounding See also:country is principally agricultural.
The See also:battle of Point Pleasant, the only important engagement in " See also:Lord See also:Dunmore's See also:War," was fought here on the loth of See also:October 1774 between about 'Too Virginia militiamen, under See also:General See also:Andrew See also:Lewis (c. 1720-1781),1 and about 'coo Shawnees and their See also:allies, under their See also:chief, Cornstalk (c. 1720-1777).2 Lewis had been ordered to meet Lord Dunmore here with a See also:body of militiamen (recruited from Botetourt, West See also:Augusta and Fincastle counties), but when he reached the mouth of the Kanawha, after marching 16o m. from Fort See also:Union (now Lewis-See also:burg, W. Va.), Dunmore's force, which was to have gone over the See also:Braddock trail to Fort See also:Pitt, and thence down the Ohio river, had not arrived. See also:Early on the See also:morning of the loth the See also:Indians suddenly attacked, and the battle continued fiercely throughout the See also:day. At See also:night the Indians crossed the Ohio river, leaving behind many of their dead. The whites lost about
144 in killed and wounded, See also:Colonel See also:Charles Lewis (1733–1774), a See also:brother of the commanding officer, being among the former.
In See also:December Lord Dunmore concluded a treaty with the Indians, by which they surrendered their claim to lands See also:south of the Ohio and agreed not to molest whites travelling to the western country. The battle, which overawed the Indians, and the treaty, which was not seriously broken for three years, made possible the rapid See also:settlement of the western country, especially of See also:Kentucky, during the early years of the War of See also:Independence.3 Four years before the battle the Virginia See also:House of
Burgesses had awarded to General Lewis, for his earlier services in the See also:French and See also:Indian War, 9876 acres of See also:land, including the
1 General Lewis was See also:born in See also:Donegal, See also:Ireland; served with See also:Washington at Fort See also:Necessity and at Braddock's defeat; was See also:commissioner from Virginia to conclude the treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix (1768) ; was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for several years; served as a brigadier-general in the War .of Independence; and in 1776 forced Lord Dunmore to retire from Gwynn's See also:Island, in Chesapeake See also:Bay, where he had taken See also:refuge.
2 Cornstalk and his son were killed within the fort at Point Pleasant in See also:November 1777 by Virginian soldiers (contrary to the protests of their commanding See also:officers), who thus avenged the See also:death of a comrade. He was at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time warning the See also:garrison of his inability to hold the Shawnees to the terms of the treaty of 1774. There is a See also:granite See also:monument (erected in 1899) over his See also:grave in the yard of the See also:court-house.
3 Various See also:American writers have asserted that Lord Dunmore incited the Indians to attack the frontier in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to divert the colonists from their opposition to See also:Great See also:Britain, and that he purposely refrained from effecting a junction with Lewis, so that Lewis might be defeated and Virginia thus be greatly crippled on the See also:eve of the threatened war with the See also:mother country; and the battle itself has accordingly frequently been referred to as the first battle of the War of Independence. The assertions with regard to Lord Dunmore, however, See also:rest on circumstantial See also:evidence alone, and have never been conclusively proved.
See also:present site of Point Pleasant; the survey of this See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant was made by See also:George Washington. After the battle General Lewis sent a detachment to build a fort (called Fort See also:Blair) here; in 1776 Fort See also:Randolph (abandoned in 1779) was erected on the same site, and in 1785 (from which See also:year the permanent settlement of the town may be dated) a third fort was built here. See also:Daniel See also:Boone lived here from 1788 until about 1799. In 1794 the See also:village of Point Pleasant was platted; it was incorporated as a town in 1833. A granite monument (86 ft. high) commemorating the battle was unveiled on the loth of October 1909.
See J. T. McAllister's See also:article, " The Battle of Point Pleasant," in the Virginia See also:Magazine of See also:History and See also:Biography (1901-1902), vol. x., and See also:Virgil A. Lewis, History of the Battle of Point Pleasant (See also:Charleston, W. Va., 1909).
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