Excerpt from The Loyalists of PennsylvaniaToryism or Loyalism became active among the frontiersmen of western Pennsylvania before it did in other parts of the Colony. This activity was evoked in the early seventeen seventies by Lord Dunmore's attempt to settle the boundary dispute between Virginia and Pennsylvania by taking forcible possession of Fort Pitt. Dun more's agent in effecting this enterprise was Dr. John Connolly, captain commandant of the militia in the region concerned, who with about 80 of his men seized the fort at the end of January, 1774, changed its name to Fort Dunmore, organized the surround ing district into a new county, and thus supplanted or usurped the authority of Pennsylvania on the upper Ohio. The new order of things found many supporters among the old residents of Pitts burgh, those who resisted being severely dealt with by the com mandant, while the neighboring Indians were subjected to depre dations by Connolly and his adherents. Stirred thus to acts of retaliation, the savages were not restored to a state of submission until Dunmore had conducted the militia of the frontier counties on an expedition against them, which received the sounding appel lation of Dunmore's War.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.