Chapter 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.”_

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