Among the more general accounts are those in Egle's Pennsylvania; Hollister's Connecticut, with a good account of the Connecticut colony in Pennsylvania; H. Hollister's Lackawana Valley (N. Y., 1857), following Miner closely; Stuart Pearce's Luzerne County (Philadelphia, 1860); Campbell's Tryon County, App.; Mrs. E. F. Ellet's Domestic Hist. of the Amer. Rev. (N. Y., 1850), ch. 13, and her Women of the Amer. Rev. (N. Y., 1856), ii. 165; Henry Fergus's United States in Lardner's Cab. Cyclopædia, reproducing the old erroneous accounts; and even so late a history as Cassell's United States, by Edmund Ollier, is little better. A marked instance of the heedless method of popular historians is J. A. Spencer's United States (N. Y., 1858), who seems to have followed at that late day Thacher as he found his account in Lossing, Seventeen Seventy-Six (Hist. Mag., ii. 126-128), which author reasonably complained that if he were to be trusted at all, he should have been taken in the later research of his Field-Book, or even of his school history, since Dr. Spencer was fond of quoting such authorities.
Poole's Index gives references to several periodical articles. Chief among such contributions are those in the Worcester Mag., i. 37; the reviews of Peck in the Methodist Quarterly (3d ser., xviii. p. 577, and the 4th ser., vol. xl.), and the paper in Household Words, xviii. p. 282; A. H. Guernsey in Harper's Mag., xvii. 306 (also see vii. 613); L. W. Peck in National Mag., v. 147; Erastus Brooks in the Southern Lit. Messenger, vii. 553.
The whole subject of the invasion of the valley was reviewed by Steuben Jenkins in an historical address, which is embodied in "A record of the one hundredth year commemorative observances of the battle and massacre", etc., etc., edited by Wesley Johnson (Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1882).
The bibliography of Wyoming, by H. E. Hayden, is given in the Proc. of the Wyoming Valley Hist. and Geol. Soc. (1885).
[1387] There are contemporary letters in the Hist. Mag., x. 172.
[1388] The story of Cherry Valley is one of the numerous incidents connected with the border war included in the Historical Collections of the State of New York, edited by John W. Barber and Henry Howe (New York, 1845). Such accounts in this work are generally transferred bodily from Campbell or Stone, but occasionally some old newspaper cutting is reproduced. At the celebration in 1840, addresses were made by William W. Campbell and by William H. Seward. They were published in pamphlet form, and Mr. Campbell printed his own address as a note to the 2d edition of the Annals of Tryon County.
The speeches made at centennial anniversary in 1878 were published in the Centennial Celebration of the State of New York (Albany, 1879). The main address was delivered by Major Douglass Campbell (p. 359). Cf. H. C. Goodwin's Cortland County (N. Y., 1859); Dawson's Battles, i. ch. 45; Lossing's Field-Book, i. 268, 297.
[1389] Ibid., Jan. 4, 1779, has a letter from Cherry Valley, dated Nov. 24, 1778.
[1390] See Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., 1886. One hundred copies of McKendry's journal were privately printed from these proceedings in 1886, with the title,—1779. Sullivan's Expedition against the Indians of New York, edited by the writer of this chapter.
[1391] See note E, at the end of this chapter.—Ed.