Christopher Gist's journals : with historical, geographical and ethnological notes, and biographies of his contemporaries/ [edited] by William M. Darlington
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Includes index.
"The first and second expeditions were made in the interests of the Ohio Company; the third in company with Maj. George Washington to deliver a letter from the Virginia governor to the commander of the French forts"--LC card.
Contents: Introductory memoir -- Gists's three journals -- Christopher Gist -- Notes to Christopher Gist's first journal of 1750-51 -- Notes to Gist's second journal, 1751-52 -- Notes to Christopher Gist's third journal, 1753 -- A journal descriptive of some of the French forts : had from Thomas Forbes, lately a private soldier in the King of France's service -- The Montours -- Andrew Montour -- George Crogham [with extracts from the Bouquet papers] -- Colonel Thomas Cresap -- General James Grant -- Guyasuta (Kiasutha) -- The testimony of Simon Girty, Jan. 17, 1778 -- Treaty of Lancaster [1744] -- Ohio Company -- Walpole Grant [1772] -- Land company of Wm. Trent & Co. -- Captain Trent -- John Peter Salley : a brief account of the travels of Mr. John Peter Salley, a German living in the County of Augusta of the colony of Virginia, to the westward of that colony as far as the river Mississippi, between March 1741 and May 1745 -- Scheme 1755 : for the settlement of a new colony to the westward of Pennsylvania ... -- Letter from Robert Orme to Governor Dinwiddie -- Extracts from "an analysis of a general map of the middle British colonies" -- Pownall's account of lead plate [buried at the forks of the Monongahela and Ohio] -- Ensign Ward's deposition [1754] -- Letters and speeches to the Indians [1777].
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| Christopher Gist's journals | FamilySearch Library | United States & Canada B1 Floor Film | 1703879 | 8888183 |
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| Christopher Gist's journals | FamilySearch Library | United States & Canada B1 Floor Film | 1703879 | 8888183 |
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