Les plees des coron, diuisees in plusors titles & cm̳on lieux. Per queux home pluis redement & plenairement trouera quelque chose que il quira, touchant les dits plees, composees per le tresreuerend judge monsieur Guilliaulme Staundforde chiualer, dernierment corrigee auecques vn table parfaicte des choses notables contenus en ycelle, nouelment reueu & corrigee. Anno Domini 1583
Irregularities in foliation: leaves 11 and 72 omitted, leaves 12 and 71 repeated in numbering; leaves 79 and 198 incorrectly numbered 67 and 196, respectively.
Title within ornamental border.
At foot of t.p.: [paragraph mark] Cum priuilegio.
"Cest Table ne fuit collect nefait par mounsieur Stanforde, mes per vu auter [William Rastell]": verso of 12th prelim. leaf.
Pleas of the crown.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law library.
Yeates's signature under that of struck former owner.
The army and navy of America : containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War : independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea : enlivened by a variety of the most interesting anecdotes and embellished with engravings
Pennsylvania furniture : including important works by Philadelphia cabinetmakers : American portraits, still-lifes and landscape paintings : Philadelphia & other American silver : Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur work : sgraffito and slipware ... part one, from the estate of the late Arthur J. Sussel : public auction sale, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 23, 24 and 25 ... [at] Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York
The journal of Major George Washington; an account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the commandant of the French forces on the Ohio, October 1753-January 1754
Colonial Williamsburg; distributed by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
Date of Publication
[1959]
Physical Description
xi p., facsim: (28 p.),[31]-41 p. maps. 20 cm.
Notes
"Introduction and notes are by James R. Short and Thaddeus W. Tate, Jr."
"This facsimile...has been printed from the copy owned by Colonial Williamsburg."
Summary
In the early winter of 1752, George Washington marched into the Ohio River Valley to deliver a message to the French who had begun to build forts down the valley in direct violation of the peace between France and England. On this journey, Washington met a cadre of interesting characters including the Half-King and Christopher Gist. What happened was a tale of survival and hardship that served as the first early steps towards war that would erupt in 1754.
