Note 1395 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

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.