Delaware (Native American Tribe)

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Conflict & War, Diplomacy, Frontier, Native Americans, Prewar Politics (<1775) January 21, 2020 January 20, 2020

The Lenape Origins of an Independent America: The Catalyst of Pontiac’s War, 1763–1765

by Kevin A. Conn

In the wake of the Seven Years’ War in North America, the costly British triumph seemed complete. Thus, when a coda to the Seven…

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Conflict & War, Diplomacy, The War Years (1775-1783) December 18, 2018 January 23, 2020

The Treaty of Fort Pitt, 1778: The First U.S.–American Indian Treaty

by Eric Sterner

In June 1777, Henry Hamilton, the British lieutenant governor for Quebec and Superintendent for Indian Affairs at Detroit, held a council at Detroit with…

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1. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Joe. There is so much there in such things if you take a look. It gets you to the minutia that people like you and me get into.
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Mike. The support documents often have a lot of information. If drill down a bit farther, there are sometimes letters from later generations in the application file that identify…
3. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

You need to take these depositions with a large grain of salt. I use them a lot for my research/writing, but they need at least some confirmation or a parallel…