[13] See Craig, _The Olden Time_, and the heterogeneous mass of Croghan’s writings therein printed. [14] The following is reprinted from _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, v, pp. 496-498; also printed in _Early History of Western Pennsylvania_, app., pp. 21-29. The circumstances under which it was written are as follows: In the autumn of 1750, Conrad Weiser reported to the governor of Pennsylvania that the French agent Joncaire was on his way to the Ohio with a present of goods, and orders from the governor of Canada to drive out all the English traders. Accordingly, Governor Hamilton detailed Croghan and Montour to hasten thither, and by the use of a small present, and the promise of more, to try and counteract the intrigues of the French, and maintain the Indians in the English interest. Upon Croghan’s arrival at Logstown, he sent back this reassuring letter. Proceeding westward to the Muskingum, where he had a trading house at a Wyandot village, Croghan met Christopher Gist, agent for the Ohio Company, and with him continued to the Scioto, thence to the Twigtwee town of Pickawillany (near the present Piqua, Ohio). All the way, Croghan held conferences with the Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandots, and Twigtwees, strengthening the English alliance, and promising a large present of goods to be furnished next spring at Logstown. At Pickawillany, he made an unauthorized treaty with two new tribes who sought the English alliance—the Piankeshaws and Weas (Waughwaoughtanneys, French Ouiatonons). Unfortunately no extant document by Croghan adequately chronicles this journey. Our knowledge of it is derived from the journal of Gist (_q. v._); from incidental notices in the _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, v, pp. 476, 485-488, 522-525; and from Croghan’s brief account, see _post_.—ED. [15] In the original publication the month was misprinted December for November. See _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, v, p. 498, where the governor in a message to the Assembly speaks of Croghan’s letter from the Ohio of the sixteenth of November. Cf. also, Gist’s _Journal_, November 25, 1750, where he says that Croghan had passed through Logstown about a week before.—ED.