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Charles Thomson, An enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians, 1759

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Descriptive Catalogue of the Du Simitière Papers in the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1940), p. 158, 14.11

Author/Composer:

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Title Information:

An enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest, and into the measures taken for recovering their friendship. Extracted from the public treaties, and other authentic papers relating to the transactions of the government of Pensilvania and the said Indians, for near forty years; and explained by a map of the country. Together with the remarkable Journal of Christian Frederic Post, by whose negotiations, among the Indians on the Ohio, they were withdrawn from the interest of the French, who thereupon abandoned the fort and country. With notes by the editor explaining sundry Indian customs, &c. Written in Pennsylvania

Imprint Information:

London: Printed for J. Wilkie, at the Bible, in St. Paul's church-yard, MDCCLIX. [1759]

Repository:

LCP, Call no. Am 1759 Thoms 1570.O.10