Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume I
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
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About this eBook
- Author
- Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
- Title
- Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)
- Original Publication
- Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904.
- Credits
- Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
- Subject
- Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 73714
- Release Date
- May 27, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Early Western Travels 1748-1846
- 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
- 3.ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME I
- 4.PREFACE TO VOLUME I
- 5.I Conrad Weiser’s Journal of a Tour to the Ohio August 11-October 2, 1748
- 6.INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- 7.THE JOURNAL OF CONRAD WEISER, ESQR., INDIAN INTERPRETER, TO THE OHIO [7]
- 8.FOOTNOTES
- 9.II A Selection of George Croghan’s Letters and Journals Relating to Tours into the Western Country—November 16, 1750-November, 1765.
- 10.INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- 11.A SELECTION OF GEORGE CROGHAN’S LETTERS AND JOURNALS RELATING TO TOURS INTO THE WESTERN COUNTRY—NOVEMBER 16, 1750-NOVEMBER, 1765 — Croghan to the Governor of Pennsylvania [14] — Proceedings of George Croghan, Esquire, and Mr. Andrew Montour at Ohio, in the Execution of the Governor’s Instructions to Deliver the Provincial Present to the several Tribes of Indians settled there : [21] — Letter of Croghan to the Governor, accompanying the foregoing treaty [28] — Croghan’s Journal , 1754. [30] — Croghan to Charles Swaine at Shippensburg [40] — A Council Held at Carlisle, Tuesday the 13th January, 1756 [42] — Croghan’s Transactions with the Indians Previous to Hostilities on the Ohio [48] — Croghan’s Journal , 1760-61 [60] — Croghan’s Journal , 1765 [91] — A List of the different Nations and Tribes of Indians in the Northern District of North America, with the number of their fighting Men. — Croghan to Sir William Johnson [133]
- 12.FOOTNOTES
- 13.III Two Journals of Western Tours, by Charles Frederick Post: one, to the neighborhood of Fort Duquesne (July-September, 1758); the other to the Ohio (October, 1758-January 1759)
- 14.INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- 15.THE JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN FREDERICK POST, FROM PHILADELPHIA TO THE OHIO, ON A MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE DELAWARE, SHAWNESE, AND MINGO INDIANS, SETTLED THERE.
- 16.THE JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN FREDERICK POST, ON A MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO THE INDIANS ON THE OHIO, IN THE LATTER PART OF THE SAME YEAR.
- 17.FOOTNOTES
- 18.IV Journal of Captain Thomas Morris, of His Majesty’s XVII Regiment of Infantry; Detroit, September 25, 1764
- 19.INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- 20.JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS OF HIS MAJESTY’S XVII REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
- 21.FOOTNOTES
- 22.Important Historical Publications of The Arthur H. Clark Company
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