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1760 July 0
Colonel James Burd counted the population of Pittsburgh; he found that 149 people, besides the soldiers, were living there.

1760 August 12
General Robert Monckton, in command at Fort Pitt, reaffirmed Stanwix's treaty with the Indians.

1760 August 12
James Boggs, Allegheny's first white settler, built his cabin.

1761 March 0
Lieutenant Bernard Ratzer drew up a plan for the British military reservation which included 40 acres of vegetable and flower gardens and the "King's Orchard" of apple and pear trees in the area between Fort Pitt and the Allegheny River.

1761 April 14
According to a count ordered by Colonel Bouquet, Pittsburgh's population consisted of 163 men, 45 women, and 25 children, who lived in 160 houses outside the fort.

1761 October 12
George Croghan, an Irishman who came to America in 1741, was the most prominent of the Pennsylvania traders. As Indian agent at Fort Pitt, he noted that the Indians had returned 338 white captives to the fort since June 1759.

1761 December 0
Fort Pitt, surrounded by moats drawing water from the Allegheny River, was completed. Its cost was estimated between ?60,000 and ?100,000.

1762 January 9
The Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers, reaching a stage of 39.2 feet at the Point, badly damaged the fort. All but 13 barrels of powder were destroyed.

1762 May 2
The Indian Chief Delaware George a faithful friend of the British, was buried with full military honors on the north side of the Allegheny River opposite Fort Pitt.

1763 March 9
When the rivers rose to 41 feet at the Point, Fort Pitt was inundated by six inches of water.

1763 March 30
Pontiac's uprising against the whites brought all the inhabitants from the outside within the confines of Fort Pitt. Most of the surrounding homes were demolished.

1763 June 3
Those houses which had not been destroyed were burned by the Indians.

1763 August 11
Colonel Bouquet's army defeated the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run on August 5 and 6, thus the siege of Fort Pitt had come to an end. The people, who had taken shelter in the fort, returned to the places where they once lived and set out to build new cabins.

1764 October 3
Bouquet's army forced the Delaware and Shawnee Indians to fulfill their agreement and bring all their English captives to the fort.

1764 November 15
The Indians brought 60 captives to Fort Pitt

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