In the year 1780, John Reynolds going down the Ohio river, was killed by the Indians; a short time after Col. Thomas Campbell found the body and a number of papers belonging to the deceased, the papers he gave to some person in this town, who promised to take care of them for their heirs, but since that period nothing has been heard of the papers. The subscriber, son of the said John Reynolds, takes this method of informing the person in whose hands said papers were lodged that he is now in Pittsburgh, and will continue there for two or three weeks, in order to receive them--he believes they can be of no use to any person but the heirs of his father's estate.

WILLIAM MCKEE REYNOLDS
June 8, 1797
[Pittsburgh Gazette, June 10, 1797]

Mr. Charles Brewer, of Pittsburg, in his will, bequeaths to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and to the department for the insane of the same institution, $1000. He gives $10,000 in trust to the Wester Pennyslvania Hospital, the interest of which is to be applied to the purchase of fuel for the worthy poor; $5000 to the Pennsylvania Colonization Society; $5000, in trust, for the advancement of the moral condition of the seamen of the port of Philadelphia; $4000 to Sunday-schools; and a further bequest of $2500, to be applied to the acclimating of colored emigrants in LIberia. The bequests, in all, amount to $100,000, of which about half goes to public institutions.
[Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register: A work in which The Principal Events of Every Half-Year Occuring in The United States are Recorded, Each Arranged Under The Day of its Date. This volume contains The Events Transpiring Between The 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. Edited and Published by Francis Vincent]