Last name | St. Clair |
First name | Arthur |
Display name | General Arthur St. Clair |
Birth date | 1737 |
Death date | 1818 |
Birth place | Scotland |
Death place | Pennsylvania |
Gender | m |
Affiliations | United States Government |
Bio notes | Born in Scotland; to N. Am. as an ensign, British army; m. Phoebe Bayard, Boston (1760); resigned from army (1762); with wife's inheritance bought a 4,000 acre estate in Ligonier Valley, w. Pa. Member (1785-87), president (1787), Continental Congress; governor, Northwest Territory (1787-1802). Served in British Army during French and Indian War. Famous for 1791 defeat against Native Americans. |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
Joseph Moore's Journal