[1298] Cf. Catal. of Sparks MSS., under vol. xliii., no. 4, for the same.
[1299] Cf. letter dated Fort Cumberland, July 18, 1755, given in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xviii. 153, with list of officers killed; also in Hist. Mag., viii. 353 (Nov., 1864); and in Lowdermilk’s Cumberland, p. 180. It describes the flight of the army.
[1300] Keppel’s letter to Gov. Lawrence, of Nova Scotia, is in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., Jan., 1886, p. 489.
[1301] Also in the Penna. Archives, ii. 203 (cf. 2d series, vi. 211), and N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 920. In Olden Time, ii. 217, will be found a re-Englished form of these instructions, taken from a French version of them, which the French government published from the original, captured among Braddock’s baggage.
[1302] Second ed., 1870, i. 101.
[1303] Orig. ed., iv. 184-192; final revision, ii. 420.
[1304] Life and Writings of Washington, vol. i., Memoir, and vol. ii. 16-26, 68-93, 468. Sparks also encountered the subject in dealing with Franklin, for the Autobiography of Franklin (Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, i. 183,—some errors pointed out, p. 192; Bigelow’s ed., p. 303) gives some striking pictures of the confidence of Braddock and the assurance of the public, the indignation of Braddock towards what he conceived to be the apathy if not disloyalty of the Pennsylvanians, and the assistance of Franklin himself in procuring wagons for the army (in which he advanced money never wholly repaid,—Franklin’s Works, vii. 95). On this latter point, see Sargent, p. 164; and Penna. Archives, vol. ii. 294.
Neville B. Craig’s Washington’s First Campaign, Death of Jumonville, and taking of Fort Necessity; also Braddock’s Defeat and the March of the unfortunate General explained by a Civil Engineer, Pittsburgh, 1848, is made up of papers from Mr. Craig’s monthly publication, The Olden Time, published in Pittsburgh in 1846-1848, and reprinted in Cincinnati in 1876. It had a folded map of Braddock’s route, repeated in the work first named. Many of these Olden Time papers are reprinted in the Virginia Historical Register, v. 121.
The full title of Craig’s periodical was The Olden Time; a monthly publication devoted to the preservation of documents and other authentic information in relation to the early explorations and the settlement of the country around the head of the Ohio. (Cf. Thomson’s Bibliog. of Ohio, nos. 280, 892, 893; Field, Ind. Bibliog., no. 381.) Thomson refers to a similar publication of a little earlier date: The American Pioneer. A Monthly Periodical, devoted to the objects of the Logan Historical Society; or to Collecting and Publishing Sketches relative to the Early Settlement and Successive Improvement of the Country. Edited and Published by John S. Williams. Vol. i., Chillicothe, 1842; vol. ii., Cincinnati, 1843. After the removal of the place of publication to Cincinnati, vol. i. was reprinted, which accounts for the fact that in many copies vol. i. is dated Cincinnati, 1844, and vol. ii. 1843. The publication was discontinued at the end of no. 10, vol. ii. It contains journals of campaigns against the Indians, narratives of captivity, incidents of border warfare, biographical sketches, etc. The Logan Historical Society was first organized on July 28, 1841, at Westfall, Pickaway County, near the spot where Logan, the Mingo chief, is said to have delivered his celebrated speech. The society flourished for two or three years. Mr. Williams was the secretary of the society. An attempt was again made in 1849 to revive the society, without success.
[1305] Life of Washington, i. ch. xiv.