A discourse on the aborigines of the Ohio Valley, in which the opinions of its conquest in the seventeenth century, by the Iroquois or Six nations, supported by Cadwallader Colden ... Gov. Thomas Pownall ... Dr. Benjamin Franklin ... Hon. De Witt Clinton ... and Judge John Haywood ... are examined and contested; to which are prefixed some remarks on the study of history.

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Author / Creator:Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841.
Imprint:Chicago, Fergus printing company, 1883.
Description:95 p. 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Fergus historical series ; no. 26
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1759857
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Other title:Aborigines of the Ohio Valley.
The Fort-Wayne manuscript.
Indian speeches and a treatise on the western Indians.
Other authors / contributors:Beckwith, H. W (Hiram Williams), 1833-1903
Notes:"Reprinted from the Transactions of the Historical and philosophical soc'ty of Ohio. Vol. 1, part second, Cincinnati, 1839."
Includes "The Fort-Wayne manuscript: an old writing (lately found) containing containing Indian speeches, and a treatise on the western Indians, ed. and annotated by Hiram W. Beckwith ...": p. [53]-95.
From an anonymous ms. containing speeches of Indian chiefs delivered in council with General Harrison at Fort Wayne, Indiana, September and October, 1811.

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