Note 1224 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Colden’s official account of this conference and treaty was printed in Philadelphia the same year by Benjamin Franklin: A Treaty held at the Town of Lancaster in Pennsylvania by the Honourable the lieutenant governor of the Province, and the Commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations in June, 1744. There is a copy in Harvard College library [5325.38]. Quaritch priced a copy in 1885 at £6. 10s. Cf. Barlow’s Rough List, no. 879; Brinley, iii. no. 5,488; Carter-Brown, iii. 785, with also (no. 784) an edition printed at Williamsburg the same year. There was a reprint at London in 1745. It was included in later editions of Colden’s Five Nations. Cf. J. I. Mombert’s Authentic Hist. of Lancaster County, 1869, app. p.51. The journal of William Marshe, in attendance on the commissioners, is printed in the Mass. Hist. Collections, vii. 171. Cf. Wm. Black’s journal in Penna. Mag of Hist., vols. i. and ii. Black was the secretary of the commission, and his editor is R. A. Brock, of Richmond. Stone, in his Life of Sir Wm. Johnson, i. 91, gives a long account of the meeting. See the letter of Conrad Weiser in Proud’s Pennsylvania, ii. 316, wherein he gives his experience (1714-1746) in observing the characteristics of the Indians. Weiser was an interpreter and agent of Pennsylvania, and a large number of his letters to the authorities during his career are in the Penna. Archives, vols. i., ii., and iii. The Brinley Catal., iii. p. 105, shows various printed treaties with the Ohio Indians of about this time. Those that were printed in Pennsylvania are enumerated in Hildeburn’s Century of Printing, nos. 852, 870, 907, etc.; and those printed by Franklin, as most of them were, are noted in the Catal. of Works relating to Benjamin Franklin in the Boston Public Library, p. 39.