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 >>PO Box 1273 >>Orange, VA 22960 >>phone/fax 540-832-3473 (evenings) >>[log in to unmask] >> >>CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of >>Genealogists®, used under license by board-certified associates who meet >>genealogical competency standards prescribed for those programs. > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html