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- George_Croghan abstract "George Croghan (c. 1718 – August 31, 1782) was an Irish-born fur trader in the Ohio Country who late 19th-century historian William M. Darlington first recognized as the region's key figure, flying in the face of the traditional view of Croghan as a scoundrel of little historical consequence. Despite their momentous rivalry beginning in 1754 and ending with a military coup in 1777, Croghan plays no role in the latest Washington biographies, and certainly not a central one in French and Indian War books written to date, rendering them obsolete.Ohio's recorded history begins with Croghan's actions in the mid-1740s as fur trader, Iroquois sachem, and go-between for Pennsylvania, according to Alfred A. Cave, who concludes that the treason charge that ended Croghan's career was trumped up by his enemies. Western Pennsylvania became the focal point of events in August, 1749 when Croghan purchased 200,000 acres from the Iroquois, exclusive of two square miles at the Forks of the Ohio for a British fort (a map accompanying the text for the first Croghan historical marker may be found on the Critical Comments page of the ohiocountry.us website). Croghan soon learned that his three deeds would be invalidated if they fell into Pennsylvania, sabotaged that colony's effort to erect the fort, and led the Ohio Confederation to permit Virginia's Ohio Company to build it and settle the region, thus setting the stage for the entrance into Ohio Country of the young man who would eventually supplant him there, George Washington.Beginning in 1756, for fifteen years Croghan served as Deputy Indian agent under Sir William Johnson, called the "Mohawk Baron", in present-day New York, where he manned the furthest frontier post while the French held Ohio Country and briefly lived until 1770 on a quarter of a million acres. He resigned in 1771 to establish Vandalia, a fourteenth colony including parts of present-day West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and eastern Kentucky, although he continued on emeritus status as a borderland negotiator.While working to keep the Ohio Indians neutral in the Revolutionary War, Pittsburgh's president judge and chairman of the Committee of Safety was accused of treason by Pittsburgh's General Edward Hand, banished from the frontier, and not allowed to return after he cleared himself in a November, 1778 trial. Except for a few scholars, this injustice, Croghan's death in 1781, and his thirty years as the pivotal figure in Ohio Country history has attracted little interest.".
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