FOOTNOTES:
[18] Jones, History of Juniata Valley (Philadelphia, 1856) gives a different origin for the term “Bloody Run.” He derives it from the attempt of the inhabitants, in the spring of 1765, to arrest a convoy that was being sent by the Pennsylvania authorities to Pittsburg with presents for the Indians. An English officer reporting the action, said that the creek “ran with blood.” For the effect of this affair on the pacification of the Indians, see New York Colonial Documents, vii, p. 716. For the history of Bedford, see Post’s Journals, vol. i of this series, p. 240, note 81.—Ed.