[1343] Georg Henry Loskiel, Geschichte der mission der Evangelischen Brüder unter den Indianern in Nordamerica, Leipzig, 1789 (Thomson, Bibl. of Ohio, no. 732), and the English version by Christian Ignatius La Trobe, History of the Missions of the United Brethren, London, 1794. The massacre is described in Part iii. p. 180. (Thomson, no. 733.)
John Heckewelder, Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, 1740-1808, Philadelphia, 1820. (Thomson, no. 537; cf. Hist. Mag., 1875, p. 287.) There is also a chapter on “the brethren with the commissioner of Pennsylvania during the Indian war of 1755-57,” in the Memorials of the Moravian Church, ed. by William C. Reichel (Philad., 1870), vol. i. (Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 1,270.)
[1344] Penna. Archives, ii. 485.
[1345] Cf. Parton’s Franklin, i. 357; and Franklin’s Autobiography, Bigelow’s ed., p. 319. Franklin drafted the militia act of Pennsylvania, which was passed Nov. 25, 1755. (Gentleman’s Mag., 1756, vol. xxvi.) In Nov., 1755, Gov. Belcher informs Sir Thomas Robinson of expected forays along the western borders of Virginia and Pennsylvania. (New Jersey Archives, viii., Part 2d, 149.) Even New Jersey was threatened (Ibid., pp. 156, 157, 158, 160, where the Moravians are called “snakes in the grass”), and Belcher addressed the assembly (Ibid., p. 162), and, Nov. 26, ordered the province’s troops to march to the Delaware (Ibid., p. 174). On Dec. 16 he again addressed the assembly on the danger (p. 193).
[1346] Cf. Thomson’s Alienation of the Delawares, etc.; Heckewelder’s Acc. of the Hist. of the Indian Nations, Phil., 1819; in German, Göttingen, 1821; in French, Paris, 1822; revised in English, with notes, by W. C. Reichel, and published by Penna. Hist. Soc., 1876. (Details in Thomson’s Bibliog. of Ohio, nos. 533-36.)
[1347] Administration of the Colonies, ii. 205.
[1348] The statement is copied in Mills’ Boundaries of Ontario, p. 3.
[1349] N. Y. Col. Docs., xiii., introduction; Dr. C. H. Hall’s The Dutch and the Iroquois, N. Y., 1882,—a lecture before the Long Island Hist. Society. In Morgan’s League of the Iroquois there is a map of their country, with the distributions of 1720, based on modern cartography. The Tuscaroras, defeated by the English in Carolina, had come north, and had joined the Iroquois in 1713, or thereabouts, converting their usual designation with the English from Five to Six Nations.
[1350] Cf. N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 386, etc. Various letters of Shirley are in the Penna. Archives, vol. ii., particularly one to De Lancey, June 1, 1755 (p. 338), on the campaign in general, and one from Oswego, July 20 (p. 381), to Gov. Morris. William Alexander wrote letters to Shirley detailing the progress of the troops from May onward (p. 348, etc.).
[1351] Especially one of Sept. 8, “in a wet tent” (p. 402). A letter from Shirley himself, the next day, Sept. 9, is in the N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 432. Cf. also N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 956. The records of the two councils of war, first determining to continue, and later to abandon, the campaign, with Shirley’s announcement of the decision to Gov. Hardy, are in Penna. Archives, ii. 413, 423, 427, 435.