Early Western Travels 1748-1846
Volume I
Of this work seven hundred and fifty complete sets are printed, each numbered and signed.
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The Arthur H. Clark Co.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Wisconsin Historical Collections,” “Chronicles of Border Warfare,” “Hennepin’s New Discovery,” etc.
Volume I
Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765) Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)
Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1904
COPYRIGHT 1904, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
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The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
PREFACE. The Editor 11
I
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Editor 17
JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE OHIO; August 11-October 2, 1748. Conrad Weiser 21
II
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Editor 47
A SELECTION OF LETTERS AND JOURNALS RELATING TO TOURS INTO THE WESTERN COUNTRY. George Croghan
Croghan to the Governor of Pennsylvania; November 16, 1750 53
Proceedings of Croghan and Andrew Montour at [the] Ohio; May 18-28, 1751 58
Letter of Croghan to the Governor, accompanying the treaty at Logstown; June 10, 1751 70
Croghan’s Journal; January 12-February 3, 1754 72
Croghan to Charles Swaine, at Shippensburg; October 9, 1755 82
Council held at Carlisle; January 13, 1756 84
Croghan’s Transactions with the Indians previous to Hostilities on the Ohio; [June, 1757] 88
Croghan’s Journal; October 21, 1760-January 7, 1761 100
Croghan’s Journal; May 15-September 26, 1765 126
List of the different Nations and Tribes of Indians in the Northern District of North America, with the number of their fighting men 167
Croghan to Sir William Johnson; November, 1765 170
III
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Editor 177
TWO JOURNALS OF WESTERN TOURS. Charles Frederick Post
1. From Philadelphia to the Ohio, on a message from the Government of Pennsylvania to the Delaware, Shawnese, and Mingo Indians; July 15-September 22, 1758 185
2. On a message from the Governor of Pennsylvania to the Indians on the Ohio, in the latter part of the same year; October 25, 1758-January 10, 1759 234
IV
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Editor 295
JOURNAL [OF A TOUR OF THE MAUMEE]; Detroit, September 25, 1764. Captain Thomas Morris, of his Majesty’s XVII Regiment of Infantry 301
ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME I
PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS. Photographic facsimile of steel plate in original edition of “Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.”
Frontispiece.