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Fort Pitt Trading Post journal
Fort Pitt, erected between December 1758 and late July 1759 on the site of modern Pittsburgh at the forks of the Ohio River, was the most elaborate frontier fortification built by the British in America. It was dismantled over a period of years and disappeared by 1800. V. 1 is a photostatic copy o...
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| Collection: | Fort Pitt Trading Post Journal |
| Collection Number: | Am.6049folio |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 520 | |a Fort Pitt, erected between December 1758 and late July 1759 on the site of modern Pittsburgh at the forks of the Ohio River, was the most elaborate frontier fortification built by the British in America. It was dismantled over a period of years and disappeared by 1800. V. 1 is a photostatic copy of a manuscript daybook, 1765-1767, 1772, recording receipts and expenditures of miscellaneous goods sold at the Fort Pitt Trading Post. V. 2 is a typescript index of names found in v.1, compiled in 1947. The daybook was kept by Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan, Philadelphia merchants. Original located at the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. | ||
| 541 | 1 | |a Gift of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; 1948 acquired | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Indians of North America--Trade--18th century |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Merchants--Pennsylvania--18th century |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Military supplies--Pittsburgh (Pa.)--History |2 Local sources | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Fort Pitt Trading Post Journal |c Am.6049folio | ||