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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
West, dwelling on branches of Erie and the Ohio, inclined to friendship; and nearly at that very moment envoys from their villages were at Lancaster, solemnizing a treaty of commerce with chap II.} 1748. July. Pennsylvania. Narrative of George Croghan, Ms. Causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians. 56, 126. Returning peace was hailed as the happy moment for bringing the Miamis and their neighbors within the covenant chain of the English, and thus, as Europeans reasoneintrusion. But the Indians brooded over the plates which he buried at the mouth of every remarkable creek. We know, thus they murmured, it is done to steal our country from us; and they resolved to go to the Onondaga council for protection. Croghan's Ms. Account of his Transactions, &c. &c. On the northeast, the well informed La Galissoniere took advantage of the gentle and unsuspecting character of the Acadians themselves, and of the doubt that existed respecting occupancy and ancient
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
tle Mingoes at Muskingum were divided; chap. III.} 1750. one half adhering to the English. George Croghan, the emissary from Pennsylvania, was already there; Croghan's Ms Journals, in New York LoCroghan's Ms Journals, in New York London Documents, XXXIV, 16. and traders came with the news, that two of his people were taken by a party of French and Indians, and carried, to the new fort at Sandusky. Come and live with us, said t the West were also to meet the next summer at Logstown, for a general treaty with Virginia. Croghan's Journal of Transactions, &c. The indentures had just been exchanged, Gist in Pownall, English, he returned to his employers by way of the Yadkin and the Roanoke. In April, 1751, Croghan again repaired to the Ohio Indians. The half-king, as the chief of the mixed tribe on the branstablish a trading-house; and a belt of wampum, prepared with due solemnity, invited Hamilton, of Pennsylvania, to build a fort at the forks of Monongahela. Croghan's Journal of his Transactions.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
schemes for regulating America; for which, however, no energetic system of adminstration could be adopted, without the aid of the chap. IV.} 1751. new party of which Bedford was the head. During the progress of these changes, the colonies were left to plan their own protection. But every body shunned the charge of securing the valley of the Ohio. Of the Virginia Company the means were limited. The Assembly of Pennsylvania, from motives of economy, refused to ratify the treaty which Croghan had negotiated at Picqua, while the proprietaries Thomas Penn to Governor Hamilton, 25 February, 1751. of that province openly denied their liability to contribute to Indian or any other expenses; Hamilton's Message to the Pennsylvania Assembly, 21 August, 1751, in Hazard, IV. 235. and sought to cast the burden of a Western fort on the equally reluctant people of Virginia. New York could but remonstrate with the governor of Canada. Clinton to La Jonquiere, 12 June, 1751. The d