CONOCOCHEAGUE INSTITUTE EVENTS

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How do you pronounce Conococheague?

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Say “Conica” for Conoco

and “Jig” for cheague.

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Upcoming Events in

September 7, 2019 

October 17, 2019

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September 7, 2019

Native American Powwow.

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October 17, 2019

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More about us

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We are located at 12995 Bain Road, Mercersburg, PA 17236.

Business hours,

including the research library

and historic house tours, are

Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

or by appointment.

The site is open year-round.

Contact us to arrange

for group tours or private events at 717-328-3467.

or EMAIL –  info@cimlg.org.

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Year 2018

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September 9, 2018

10am to 7pm

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Conococheague Faire

See details in this link:

http://www.cimlg.org/home.html

 

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BUS TRIP

OCTOBER 19, 2019

8AM TO 5PM

50 DOLLARS

Stops along the Way

at key locations

of the French and Indian War

in PA, MD, VA

Your place of choice of LUNCH in Winchester (not included)

 

 

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PREVIOUS EVENTS OF 2018

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Saturday, April 7th at 3 p.m.

Annual End of Starvation Dinner

at Rock Hill Farm.

See link: endofstarvationfeastflyer

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This fund raising event for Conococheague has become a “tasty” tradition!
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Join us for a feast of toast pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes, baked apples, fresh bread, and pumpkin pie!

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In former days the Pioneers at Rock Hill Farm were always grateful to see the end of the harsh winter and may have celebrated with a hearty feast of what foods their cold cellars still provided.
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The event will proceed in this manner:
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3:00 – Lecture and Discussion by Dan Guzy on the new book: “Mills of Conococheague Creek and its Tributaries near Mercersburg”
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4:00 – Social Hour with Mountain Dulcimer music by Chuck Holland
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5:00 – 7:00 – Dinner [Catering by Romeo’s and Tea Time Tasties]
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$40/person with RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
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Space is limited ~ RSVP by April 2nd
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717-328-3467 or events at cimlg.org
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A flier is attached to share with friends ~ Please join us!
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Thanks,
Mary S. Hartman
Administrative Assistant
Conococheague Institute
Museum, Library, Gardens
www.cimlg.org
717-328-3467

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Keep a look out on their Facebook page.

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https://www.facebook.com/conococheagueinstitute/

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And see website:

http://cimlg.org/home.html

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See 2018 Newsletter

2018 Conococheague January Pioneer Times Newsletter

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 2017 Events

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January 2017 Newsletter: 2017 Jan Newsletter (1)

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Don’t miss the Drums on the Conococheague:

Then and Now Native American Powwow

September 9 & 10.

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See Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/conococheagueinstitute/

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Event for July 29 to 30 is CANCELLED

“Terror on the Conococheague,”  will be the weekend of July 29th & 30th

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We want to commemorate a different event from our local French & Indian War history each year to show the full breadth of our history. Stand by for more details, it promises to be even better this year.

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PAST EVENTS 2016

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TERROR ON THE CONOCOCHEAGUE

RE-ENACTMENTS

Terror on the Conococheague: The Attack on Fort McCord and the Abduction of Jean Lowry July 30-31, 2016

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CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE

December 10, 2016

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CONOCOCHEAGUE INSTITUTE SPONSORING

BUS TOUR SEPT. 24, 2016:

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THE FRENCH and INDIAN WAR IN

THE CONOCOCHEAGUE DISTRICT

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MERCERSBURG, PA — Join us Saturday, September 24th for a   day-long guided bus tour as we explore the significance of the   Conococheague District in the French and Indian War (1754 – 1760). 

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The tour begins and ends at the

Conococheague Institute’s Welsh Barrens Visitors Center,

12995 Bain Road, Mercersburg, PA

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Departure is 8:30 a.m.

and return approximately 4:00 p.m.

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On-board tour guides are historians and authors Calvin Bricker   and Roger Swartz.

Among the morning stops, will be Williamsport, MD (confluence of   the Conococheague with the Potomac) and Fort Frederick State   Park.  In Williamsport, there were storehouses for the British   expeditions heading west to fight the French, which were a target of French raids; the ford for the great Iroquois warpath heading through the Shenandoah Valley; and George Washington’s plans for a capitol city.

At Fort Frederick in Big Pool, MD, participants will tour the   massive stone fort and explore why was it built there, why it was stone and what were its purposes? While at the fort,   participants will enjoy a delicious box lunch prepared by Chef   Marcel of the Alpine Eatery.

The tour then winds back into southern Pennsylvania with stops   including the sites of frontier defense against the French and   Indian raids.  Forts in this area were both built by settlers and defended by militia and Pennsylvania provincial troops,   including Captain Steele, a Presbyterian minister.  There will be stops at the sites of McDowell’s and Rev. Steele’s fortified   Presbyterian Church.

En route, guides will discuss the significance of the   Conococheague to the British and their colonies, as well as the   French and their Indian allies.  Tour guests will gain a greater   understanding of frontier life amid warfare as well as  captivity.  In addition, Mr. Bricker will provide us with new  research on  the Studebaker family, particularly Peter Studebaker and his  1740s “Industrial Complex.”

Fee of $45 includes:  lunch, admission to Fort Frederick and its   visitor center, take-home educational materials and the  chartered bus. Space is limited and reservations are required.

For reservations please see the attachment to this email.
If you have questions contact C.I. at 717-328-3467 or   info@cimlg.org

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See Conococheague Institute’s Newsletter

Awesome group. Great update from them.

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HISTORY TIMELINE

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George Washington requests an Accounting

15 September 1755
Source: Founders Online

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[Winchester, 15 September 1755]
To Mr John Johnes, at Conogogee.

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Sir,
I have sent the Bearer (of the Light Horse) to desire an exact Return of all the Things and Country’s Stores which are in your possession;1 and must desire, that you will be very particular in the Quantity and Quality of all Things, and send it immediately. I am your &c.
G:W.
Winchester: Septr 15th 1755.

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1. John Jones, the storekeeper at Conococheague, served the Virginia Regiment as a commissary in this area until, ill and “like to die,” he was replaced by Robert Rutherford, about 1 Dec. (Thomas Walker to GW, 4 Dec. 1755). Jones’s return is dated 17 Sept. 1755.

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Accounting of Supplies

17 September 1755

Source: Founders Online

To George Washington from John Jones, 17 September 1755

Conocagea [Md.] Septr 17 1755

Sir:

Its impossible to Return an exact Accot of whats on hand as to perticulars,1 I haveg no delivery nor could not get any. Mr Thos Walker gott an estimate of the provisions Vizt.

• 1000 Barrls Flouer

• 50 Barrls Beef

• 27 Tun of Codd Fish

which I think comes near the purpose an exact Return Shall be deliverd Mr Dick on Wednessdays next of whats been deliverd in my time as likewise Ed above2 of whats on hand. I’m Sr Yr Most Obedt Hbl. Servt

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ATTACKS IN OCT AND NOV 1755

Attacks occur near this depot of supplies in 1755.  A planned attack but never materialized was by captured and killed Sieur D’ouville in April 1756.   Watkins Ferry, Fort Maidstone  and Conococheague are the names often referenced to this supply depot.

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October 16, 1755

Penn’s Creek Massacre

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November 1, 1755 to November 14, 1755

Christopher Gist writes a letter to Col George Washington before he, Gist, travels out to Harris just after the attack on Penn’s Creek nearby and on the very day of the Massacre of the Great Cove, noted below.   See letter.

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 After the defeat of Braddock, in 1755, the weight of savage ferocity fell heavily on the sturdy frontiersmen. On Saturday, November 1, 1755, a party of about one hundred Indians, Shawnees and Delawares, among them Shingas, the Delaware King, entered the Great Cove and began murdering the defenseless inhabitants and sestroying their property, one of which attacked the inhabitants of the Cove and the other swept down on Connoloways. Sheriff Potter on November 14, 1755 reported “that ninety three families which were settled in the Coves and the Connolways, forty seven were either killed or taken and the rest deserted.”

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Source:

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.fulton/1145/mb.ashx

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http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/fulton/areahistory/fultonhist592_606.txt

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The Janet Martin Story of Great Cove

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http://backcreekbushcraft.blogspot.com/2011/10/great-cove-massacre.html

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https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2816863/galloway_elizabethgalloway/

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Thomas Walker Commissary

4 December 1755

Source: Founders Online

Thomas Walker Commissary head at Winchester writes to GW:

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…The Stores here are in bad order also at Conigochieg Some of the Meat quite Spoild and more I am afraid in danger, that I shall as soon as the business at the Fort is in a good way come down to put things right here—Mr John Jones has been very Ill some time and is now like to die, which has obliged me to employ Mr Robt Rutherford to do the duty here and has occasioned Much loss of time to me.2  …   I have bought two hundred Busshells of Salt at Conigochig of Mr Ross4

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2. Robert Rutherford (1728–1803), brother of Thomas Rutherford, remained Walker’s deputy commissary until the fall of 1757. On GW’s recommendation, Dinwiddie commissioned Rutherford in November of that year to raise a company of rangers. GW professed to have “no particular attachment” to Rutherford (GW to Dinwiddie, 24 Oct. 1757), but a friendship apparently developed between the two men. When GW was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1758, Rutherford sent him a warm, congratulatory letter. Rutherford himself served in the House of Burgesses, first from Frederick County (1766–1771) and then from Berkeley County (1772–1776), and was also a delegate to the Virginia conventions at the outbreak of the Revolution. His political career ended in 1797 after he failed to be elected for a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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4. Dr. David Ross (d. 1778) of Maryland supplied GW’s forces with flour from his mill and with other stores. He served as “the commissary for the maryland troops” (GW to Dinwiddie, 27 June 1757).

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David Bell was one of the new captains present in Williamsburg on 3 Sept. (see GW’s Orders, 17 Sept. 1755, n.2), and for the next 3 months, he spent most of his time on recruiting duty. On 9 Jan. 1756 GW assigned command of the 15th company to Bell and the next day sent him on detached duty to scour “the borders of Carolina, or other places where you may hear of Deserters; and . . . apprehend them.” In April 1756 GW dispatched Bell to protect the military storehouse at the mouth of Conococheague Creek. In the summer of 1756 he was ordered to William Cocks’s fort on Patterson Creek, sometimes called Fort Washington. When the number of companies in the regiment was reduced in 1757, Bell lost his captaincy and shortly afterwards resigned from the service. For the enclosure, see Orders, this date.

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source

https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Date%3A1755-09-15&s=1111311111&r=5

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