In light of the recent controversary over whether it was the last battle of the Colonial Wars or the first of the Revolutionary War, I thought some of you might be interested in the point of view expressed in 1877 in an old set of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia since some of our ancestors were at the Battle of Point Pleasant. Text: A non importation agreement wass very generally signed by Virginia merchants in 1765. The imports of Virginia and Maryland from Great Britain at that time was $3,186,952. But it was not until the accession of Lord Dunmore as goernor in 1772 that the opposition to the measures of the British ministry began to be generally manifested. Lord Dunmore aggravated the difficulties which his predecessor had striven to allay. He became so obnnoxious to the people by his tyranny that he took refuge on board a British man-of-war off Yorktown, and in June of 1775 sailed down the river, and was declared by the general assembly to have abdicated his office. He subsequently attacked with a British and Tory force several towns along the coast, but was eventually driven South with heavy losses. In the Autumn of 1774 a battle occurred between the Indians, under Logan, Cornstalk, and other chiefs who were supposed to be under British influence, and a Virginian force of about 1200 men, at Point Pleasant on the Ohio River. The Indians were defeated, but Virginians sustained considerable losses. In May, 1776, a convention of delegates met in Williamsburg, issued a declartion of rights, and on the 12h of June adopted a State Constitutiion for the government of an independent state. (Virginia was not member of the first Colonial Congress of October 1765.) Dorothy