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There is a wealth of detail in Lawrence Henry Gipson's multivolume history of the Great War for Empire - 13 or so volumes covering the whole of North America - published by Knopf and available in most serious libraries.

Jon Kukla
>This sounds promising though I don't know how to access the Virginia
>Historical Register or the Calender of Virginia State Papers. I am looking
>for a lesser known Cherokee/Virginian expedition not the one in 1756
>usually called the "Sandy Creek Expedition". As for the resources I have
>checked, I have used Google, the book I already discussed, and E Lawrence
>Lee's "Indian Wars in North Carolina 1663-1763" which I also have on my
>bookshelf.
>
>
>On Sat, 8 May 2004 21:50:48 -0400, Barbara Vines Little
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>There were at least two Shawnee expeditions from Virginia during the F&I
>War
>>according to testimony made by participants who were in court to prove
>their
>>right to bounty land. One of these was described in Volume 5 of the
>>_Virginia Historical Register_; I don't remember the particulars. There
>are
>>also a number of references in the Calendar of Virginia State Papers.
>>
>>Barbara Vines Little, CG
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>>Orange, VA 22960
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