Attached to a collection of papers in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. i., relating to the Oneida country and the Mohawk Valley, 1756-57, is a sketch-plan of the Mohawk River and Wood Creek, showing the relative positions of Fort Bull, Fort Williams, and the German Flats.
[1441] G. H. Fisher on Bouquet in Penna. Mag. of Hist., iii. 121.
[1442] Minutes of Conferences with the Indians at Harris’s ferry and at Lancaster, Mar., Apr., May, 1757, fol., Philad. (Haven, in Thomas, ii. p. 535.)
[1443] A treaty with the Shawanese and Delaware Indians at Fort Johnson, by Sir Wm. Johnson, with a preface, N. Y., 1757. (Harv. Coll. lib., 5321.30.) It was also printed at Boston. (Haven, p. 535.) Cf. Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 499, 511.
[1444] Stone’s Johnson, ii. 26.
[1445] Johnson, ii. 28.
[1446] Minutes of Conference held with the Indians at Easton, July and Aug., 1757, Philad. (Haven, p. 535.) A journal of Capt. George Croghan during its continuance and Croghan’s report to Johnson are in Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 527-538, and in N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 280. In a sale of Americana at Bangs’s in New York, Feb. 27, 1854, no. 1,307 of the Catalogue shows MS. minutes of this conference, which is endorsed by Benj. Franklin, “This is Mr. [Chas.] Thomson’s copy, who was secretary to King Teedyuskung,” who was the Delaware chief. No. 1,308 of the same Catalogue is the MS. Report of the council.
An account of Johnson’s proceedings with the Indians from July to Sept., 1757, is in the N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 324; and in the same volume are various letters of Johnson to the Lords of Trade.
[1447] It is told graphically in Macaulay’s Essay on Chatham. Cf. also J. C. Earle’s English Premiers, Lond., 1871, vol. i.
[1448] Cf. Occasional reflections on the importance of the war in America, in a letter to a member of Parliament, Lond., 1758. (H. C. lib., 4375.34.) The Carter-Brown Catal. (iii. 1,201) assigns this to Peter Williamson, who published at York, in 1758, Some considerations on the present state of affairs wherein the defenceless condition of Great Britain is pointed out. (H. C. lib., 6374.19.) Cf. also Proposals for uniting the English Colonies ... so as to enable them to act with force and vigour against their enemies, London, 1757. (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,165; Harv. Coll. library, 6374.14.)