Christopher Gist's journals : with historical, geographical and ethnological notes and biographies of his contemporaries

Christopher Gist's journals : with historical, geographical and ethnological notes and biographies of his contemporaries

[1st ed.]

Pittsburg : J.R. Weldin & Co., 1893.

296 p., [5] double leaves of plates : maps ; 25 cm.

923.973 G535jo 1893

(OCoLC)03759083

First publication containing the complete series of three: first and second expeditions were made in the interests of the Ohio Company ; third in company with Maj. George Washington, to deliver a letter from the Virginia government to the commander of the French forts.
Contents: Introductory memoir -- Gist's three journals [Oct. 3, 1750 - May 19, 1751, Nov. 4, 1751 - Mar. 29, 1752, Nov. 15, 4753 - Jan. 4, 1754] -- Christopher Gist -- Notes to Gist's three journals -- Journal descriptive of some of the French forts -- The Montours -- Andrew Montour -- George Croghan [with extracts from the Bouquet papers] -- Colonel Thomas Cresap -- General James Grant -- Guyasuta -- Treaty of Lancaster [1744] -- Ohio Company -- Walpole grant [1772] -- Wm. Trent & Co. -- Captain Trent -- John Peter Salley -- Scheme for a new settlement -- Robert Orme -- Extracts from "An analysis of a general map of the middle British colonies" -- Pownall's account of lead plate -- Ensign Ward's deposition, 1754 -- Letters and speeches to the Indians [1777].
L2010M170
Penciled note signed 1/18/38, B.C. on front free endpaper.

Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.) D 72

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