Notices Abstracted from Colonial Newspapers, 1763-1765 is the subtitle. This collection of Colonial newsapaer abstracts allows the reader to experience the drama and uncertainty of Pontiac's Conspiracy just as it was experienced by the Colonials who lived through it. These articles offer eye-witness accounts of soldiers and civilians massacred, houses and fortifications burned and English settlers fleeing east with only the clothes on their backs. Readers may ponder the enormous amount of preparation needed, and the myriad hazards encountered by troops dispatched on military expeditions into the frontier. The events described here occurred nearly a century befor the practical application of the telegraph, and belated newspaper articles such as these were the only means by which the public could be kept informed of the depredations and disasters taking place all along the Ohio. It is easy to imagine the eagerness of Easterners awaiting their weekly papers and the latest news from the West, after skimming even a few pages of this text.

This is the sixth volume of abstracts compiled by Armand F. Lucier describing indian affairs in Colonial America. Like the previous five volumes, it includes an index of full names.

Complied by Armand Francis Lucier
ISBN 0-7884-1460-7
Soft cover