Travels in the American colonies
By: ed. under the auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, by Newton D. Mereness.
Contributors: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1916
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 693
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Notes: Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [2002-2003]
Journal of Captain Harry Gordon's journey from Pittsburg down the Ohio and the Mississippi to New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1766.--David Taitt's journal of a journey through the Creek country, 1772.--Dr. John Berkenhout'sjournal of an excursion from New York to Philadelphia, 1778.--Travel diary of Bishop Reichel, Mrs. Reichel, and their company from Lititz, Pa., to Salem, N.C., 1780.--Extracts from the travel diary of Bishop Reichel, Mrs. Reichel, and Christian Heckewelder from Salem to Lititz, 1780.--Colonel William Fleming's journal of travels in Kentucky, 1779-1780.--Colonel William Fleming's journal of travels in Kentucky, 1783.
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Table of contents: title: Cuthbert Potter's journal of a journey from Virginia to New England, 1690.; title: Journal of Diron d'Artaguiette, inspector general of Louisiana, 1722-1723.; title: Journal of Colonel George Chicken's mission from Charleston, S.C., to the Cherokees, 1726.; title: Journal of Captain Tobias Fitch's mission from Charleston to the Creeks, 1726.; title: A ranger's report of travels with General Oglethorpe in Georgia and Florida, 1739-1742.; title: Journal of Antoine Bonnefoy's captivity among the Cherokee Indians, 1741-1742.; title: Journal of Beauchamp's journey from Mobile to the Choctaws, 1746.; title: Journal of Captain Phineas Stevens' journey from Charlestown, N.H., to Canada, 1752.; title: Diary of a journey of Moravians from Bethlehem, Pa., to Bethabara, N.C., 1753.; title: Minutes from the journal of Mr. Hamburgh's travels in the Michigan and Illinois country, 1763.; title: Journal of an officer's <Lord Adam Gordon's> travels in America and the West Indies, 1764-1765.