Editing New Castle, Pennsylvania (section)

===18th century===
In 1798, John Carlysle Stewart, a [[civil engineer]], traveled to western Pennsylvania to resurvey the "donation lands", which had been reserved for veterans of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. He discovered that the original survey had neglected to stake out approximately {{convert|50|acre}} at the confluence of the [[Shenango River]] and [[Neshannock Creek]], at that time a part of [[Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Allegheny County]]. The Indian town of [[Kuskusky]] was listed on early maps in this location.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McConnell |first1=Michael |date=January 1992 |title=Kuskusky Towns and Early Western Pennsylvania Indian History, 1748-1778 |url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44738/44459 |journal=Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=116 |issue=1 |pages=33–58 |access-date=October 10, 2018}}</ref> Claiming the land for himself, he laid out in April 1798 what was to become the town of New Castle. It comprised approximately that same {{convert|50|acre}}, in what was then part of Allegheny County.