Conditions of Pennsylvania during the year 1755;
a translation of a French pamphlet found in the Ducal Library at Gotha, Germany, read before the Pennsylvania-German Society,
by Julius F. Sachse at Lancaster, Penna., November 13, 1914.

Description

Main Author

Smith, William, 1727-1803.

Related Names

Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919.
La Ville, Jean-Ignace de, 1690-1774.

Language(s)

English

Published

Lancaster, Pa., [Press of the New Era Print. Co., 1917]

Subjects

Society of Friends > Society of Friends / Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania / Politics and government > Pennsylvania / Politics and government / To 1775.
Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania / History > Pennsylvania / History / French and Indian War, 1755-1763.

Note

Running title: Braddock expedition.
Includes a facsimile of the t.p. of the French translation.
A translation of "État présent de la Pensilvanie, où l'on trouve le détail de ce qui s'y est passé depuis la défaite de Général Braddock jusqu'à la prise d'Oswego, avec une carte particuliére de cette colonie. 1756." This French pamphlet is an abridged translation of William Smith's "A brief view of the conduct of Pennsylvania, for the year 1755," London, 1756, to which the translator, the Abbé J. I. de La Ville, has added a "Description abrégée de la Pensilvanie" and a "Relation contenant la suite de ce qui s'est passé en Pensilvanie."
In Pennsylvania-German Society. Proceedings and addresses ... Nov. 13, 1914. 1917. v. 25.

Physical Description

38 p. pl., ports., fold. map (facsim.) 26 cm.

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