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of the face, to make the resemblance more striking, when out on a tour of duty. His courage was of that cool, deliberate kind that never fails in the hour of peril. While he was living at Wheeling, the Indians made their last attack on that place, in great force. During the midst of the seige a large palisade gave way, and greatly elated the Indians, as it afforded an opening by which they could enter, or fire through it at their enemies within. Peter volunteered to go out and set it up, while those on the inside secured it with a chain. This service he performed, amidst a shower of bullets from the Indians, without a single wound, and returned through the sally gate to the admiration of the savages, and with the plaudits of his companions. After the war he settled at " Old Town bottom," a little below Burlington's island. As the game became scarce he moved further west on to the frontiers, where he could pursue his favorite vocation of hunting, unmolested by neighbors. His house stood on the west side of the street, near the Muskingum, but his range of duty lay on the Fort Harmer side, where he wras employed as a spy, usually in company with John Warth.

No. 5. William Skinner and J. McKinley kept a retail store in this building during the war. After its close Mr. Skinner moved over to the Fort Harmer side.

No. 6. R. J. Meigs, jr., wife and one child. Charles Green ^nd himself were in company in a store of goods, kept in a part of this building.

No. 7. Hon. Dudley Woodbridge, wife, and children. This building was a small block house, a portion of which is still standing, inclosed in a frame dwelling house, now owned by J. Preston.

No. 8. A two story frame building, built by Judge Wood-bridge, and occupied for a retail store by him for several years during and after the war. Muskingum street was then the " cheap side," or " merchant's row," of Marietta, where all the business was done.   Time, and the alteration