Letter : [Pa.], to Gen. Edward Hand, Fort Pitt, Pa., [1777 May].

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Letter : [Pa.], to Gen. Edward Hand, Fort Pitt, Pa., [1777 May].

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Letter probably written in May, 1777, by Lt. Col. Archibald Lochry to Gen. Edward Hand at Fort Pitt, regarding Lochry's raising of sixty men to protect the settlements of Conemaugh and Kiskiminetas, Pa., following a March 21, 1777, Indian attack in which Andrew Simpson was killed and the brother of Captain Samuel Morehead (Kittaning commandant) was captured.

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Revolutionary War officer who was later (Aug., 1781) killed by a party of Indians led by Joseph Brant on the Ohio River at the mouth of the Big Miami River while leading a company of Pennsylvania volunteers to join Clark's Kaskaskia expedition. From the description of Letter : [Pa.], to Gen. Edward Hand, Fort Pitt, Pa., [1777 May]. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38278800 Army officer. From the description of Papers of Archibald Lochry, 1781. (Unknown). W...