French Indians materials, Burd-Shippen Papers
Language: English
Date: 1757-1758
Contributor: Clark, Daniel | Lloyd, Thomas | Discentio, Martin
Subject: United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Warfare | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Depositions
Extent: 3 items
Description: Two 1757 letters to Major James Burd reporting on theatre of war: French and Indian raiding parties at Colonel Dunbar's old camp; French and Indians have road from Albany; Indians at Shippensburg; Governor Delancey of New York on march with militia to relieve Fort William Henry, infested with French, Canadians, and Indians. Also "Declaration of Martin Discentio," in which a soldier of Captain DuVitier's [i.e., deVitri or Charles Aubry, see Hunter (1960): 134] tells of Fort Duquesne and departure of French officers and 300 Indians for attack on English [under James Burd] near Loyalhanna, October 12, 1758.
Collection: Burd-Shippen Papers Mss.B.B892