Journey on the Forbidden Path

Chronicles of a Diplomatic Mission to the Allegheny Country, March-September, 1760 Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 89, part 2)

Robert S. Grumet, Bruce L. Pearson, James A. Rementer

• Publisher: The American Philosophical Society Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9798893983517
• Year: 1999

This vol. draws together records documenting a little known diplomatic effort to establish peace along the war-torn Appalachian frontier during the spring, summer, & fall of 1760. Assembled here is a representative sample of the council minutes, speeches, letters of correspondence, warrants, inventories, passports, journals, diaries, & other types of records documenting a frontier diplomatic mission of the period. These records reveal something of the range & diversity of documentary materials available to scholars interested in reconstructing diplomatic events along a distant frontier during a critical period of Am. history. Individually, they document political maneuvers & details of everyday life, many of which are recorded nowhere else. Collectively, they provide additional keys to understand better how Indians & colonists shaped a new diplomatic landscape along the Penna. frontier after the Brit. succeeded in breaking French power in N. Am. in 1760.

Table of contents

• Frontispiece
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Associated Documents: Before the Journey
• The Journal of Christian Frederick Post
• John Hays's Journal
• John Hays's Diary
• Associated Documents: Aftermath
• References
• Index