Item of the Day: Colden's Five Indian Nations (1755)
Full Title Page:
The
HISTORY
of the
FIVE Indian NATIONS
of
C A N A D A,
Which are dependent
On the Province of NEW-YORK in AMERICA,
AND
Are the Barrier between the ENGLISH and the FRENCH
in that Part of the World.
WITH
Particular Accounts of their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, and Forms of Government; their several Battles and Treaties with the European Nations. Their Wars with the other Indians; and a true Account of the present State of our Trade with them.
In which are shewn,
The great Advantage of their Trade and Alliance to the British Nation, and the Intrugues and Attempts of the French to engage them from us; a Subject nearly concerning all our American Plantations, and highly meriting the Attention of the British Nation at this Juncture.
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By the Honourable CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esq;
One of His Majesty's Counsel, and Surveyor-General
of NEW-YORK.
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To which are added,
Accounts of the several other Nations of Indians in North-America, their Numbers, Strength, & c. and the Treaties which have been lately made with them.
In Two Volumes.
The Third Edition.
LONDON:
Printed for LOCKYER DAVIS, at Lord Bacon's Head
in Fleet-street; J. WREN, in Salisbury-Court; and
J. WARD, in Cornhill, opposite the Royal-Exchange.
MDCCLV.
