Ohio History Journal

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THE DUNMORE WAR

THE DUNMORE WAR.*

BY E. O. RANDALL.

Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.

The American colonists had fought the French and Indian

war1 with the expectation that they were to be, in the event of

success, the beneficiaries of the result and be permitted to occupy

the Ohio Valley as a fertile and valuable addition to their Atlantic

coast lodgments. But the war over and France vanquished, the

royal greed of Britain asserted itself, and the London government

most arbitrarily pre-empted the territory between the Alleghanies

and the Mississippi as the exclusive and peculiar dominion of the

Crown, directly administered upon from the provincial seat of

authority at Quebec. The parliamentary power promulgated the

arbitrary proclamation (1763) declaring the Ohio Valley and the

 

* Authorities consulted in preparation of the article on Dunmore's

War-E. O. R.: Abbott's History of Ohio; Albach's Western Annals;

American Archives (4th Series, Vol. 1); Atwater's History of Ohio;

Bancroft's History of the United States; Black's Story of Ohio; Brow-

nell's Indians of North America; Burk's History of Virginia; Butler's

History of Kentucky; Butterfield's History of the Girtys; Campbell's

History of Virginia; Cook's History of Virginia; Doddridges's Notes

on Indian Wars, etc.; Drake's Indians of North America; Drake's life

of Tecumseh; Fernow's Ohio Valley in Colonial Days; Fiske's Ameri-

can Revolution, Vol. II; The Hesperian, Vol. II., (1839); Hildreth's

Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley; Hosmer's Short History of the

Mississippi Valley; Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio; Howe's His-

torical Collections of Virginia; Jacob's Life of Cresap; Jefferson's Notes

on Virginia; Kercheval's History of the Valley of Virginia; King's His-

tory of Ohio; Lewis's History of West Virginia; Mayer's (Brantz)

Logan and Cresap; McDonald's sketches; McKnight's Our Western Bor-

der; Mitchener's Ohio Annals; Moore's Northwest Under Three Flags;

Monette's Valley of the Mississippi; Ohio Archaeological and Historical

Publications; Olden Time (Monthly), Vol. II; Peter Parley's History

of the Indians; Ryan's History of Ohio; Roosevelt's Winning of the

West; Stone'sLife of Joseph Brant; Taylor's (J. W.) History of Ohio;

Thatcher's Indian Biographies; Thwaites's Afloat on the Ohio; Vir-

ginia Historical Register (Vol. V); Walker's History of Athens County;

Whittlesey's Fugitive Essays; Winsor's Western Movement; Withers'

Chronicles of Border Warfare.

11756-1763.                (167)