 Washington read the burial office from the 1662 Prayer Book in 1755 when British churchman General Edward Braddock, fatally wounded while attempting to drive the French from Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio, was carried back over Chestnut Ridge and buried in the middle of the wagon tracks of what would become US 40 in Fayette County.The successful 1758 campaign of British churchman General John Forbes marked the end of French control of the region.When the first new migrating settlers arrived in the 1760s, there were no settled Episcopal clergy.