Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783"With a memoir of the author by his daughter Narcissa Doddridge." In this volume, the Protestant Episcopal missionary Joseph Doddridge renders a first hand account of pioneer life in western Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and the Ohio territory around the turn of the nineteenth century. Doddridge's father, John Doddridge, was the first settler in Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. With the exception of a few years of schooling in