[1394] Johnson had held a conference with them at Lake George shortly after the fight (Sept. 11). Penna. Archives, ii. 407.
[1395] Cf. L. C. Draper’s “Expedition against the Shawanoes,” in the Virginia Historical Register (vol. v. 61). Later in the season the Pennsylvanians (July and Nov., 1756) sought to quiet the tribes by conferences at Easton. Cf. Penna. Archives, ii. 722, etc., and Sparks’ note in Franklin’s Works, vii. 125, and the histories of Pennsylvania, and Several Conferences of the Quakers and the deputies from the Six Indian Nations, in order to reclaim the Delaware Indians, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1756, noted in Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,118. Hildeburn, i. nos. 1,538, 1,539, 1,540, and the Catal. of works relating to Franklin in the Boston Public Library, p. 35, give these various publications. The opposition of the Quakers to the war was still an occasion of attacks upon them. Cf. A true relation of a bloody battle fought between George and Lewis (Philad., 1756), noted in Hildeburn, i. no. 1,476. In Jan., the New Jersey government had made a treaty at Croswicks, and the proceedings of the conference were printed at Philad. (Cf. Hildeburn, i. no. 1,504; Haven, in Thomas, ii. p. 530.) Governor Sharp erected Fort Frederick for the defence of the Maryland frontier. Its ruins are shown in Scharf’s Maryland, i. 491.
Among the accounts of “captivities” which grew out of the frontier warfare of Pennsylvania, the Narrative of the sufferings and surprising deliverance of William and Elizabeth Fleming was one of the most popular. It was printed in Philadelphia, Lancaster (Pa.), and Boston, in 1756, in English, and at Lancaster in German. (Hildeburn, nos. 1,465-1,468.) The Captivity of Hugh Gibson among the Delawares, 1756-59, is printed in the Mass. Hist. Coll., xxv. 141. A Journal of the Captivity of Jean Lowry and her children, giving an account of her being taken by the Indians, April 1, 1756, in the Rocky Spring settlement in Pennsylvania, was printed in Philadelphia in 1760. (Hildeburn, Century of Printing, i. no. 1,683.) On the Indian depredations at Juniata in 1756, see Egle’s Hist. Register, iii. 54.
[1396] In the N. Y. Col. Docs., vii., these conferences of 1756 can be followed equally well, beginning with a long paper by the secretary of Indian affairs, Peter Wraxall, in which he examines the causes of the declension of British interests with the Six Nations (p. 15), with records of conferences from March through the season (pp. 44, 91, 130, 171, 229, 244).
[1397] Cf. the instructions given to Vaudreuil, Apr. 1, 1755, touching his conduct towards the English, in N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 295, and Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 239.
[1398] Conduct of Shirley, etc., p. 76; Pouchot’s Mémoires, i. 76; Parkman, i. 375.
[1399] Vol. i. p. 357. Cf. Barry’s Mass., i. 211.
[1400] The roll of the regiment which New Hampshire sent into the field is given in the Rept. of the Adj.-Gen. of N. H., 1866, vol. ii. p. 159, etc.
[1401] On Winslow’s appointment, compare Conduct of Shirley, etc., p. 65; Journal of Ho. of Rep. Mass., 1755-56; Winslow’s letter in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., vi. p. 34; Minot’s Mass., i. 265; Parsons’s Pepperrell, 289.
[1402] Vol. i. p. 405.