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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
....1750-51 Robert Dinwiddie appointed lieutenantgovernor, and arrives in Virginia early in......1752 By treaty the western Indians at Logstown, a trading-post about 17 miles northwest from Pittsburg, agree not to molest any settlement on the south side of the Ohio......June 13, 1752 Governor Dinwiddie sends Washington (then twenty-one years old) as a commissioner to investigate the proceedings of the French on the Ohio; Washington leaves Williamsburg with a few attendants......Oct. 30, 1753 Christopher Gist meets Washington at Cumberland and accompanies him......Nov. 14, 1753 They arrive at Logstown......Nov. 24, 1753 They reach Fort Le Boeuf on French Creek, Pa., about 15 miles south of Lake Erie......Dec. 11, 1753 Deliver Governor Dinwiddie's letter to St. Pierre, commandant at Le Boeuf, receive a written reply, and return......Dec. 16, 1753 Reach Williamsburg in eleven weeks, after a journey of 1,500 miles through an almost trackless wilderness......Jan.