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  “as I on my own”: Ibid.

  “for his steady”: House of Burgesses, November 19, 1759, in Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1758–1761, ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1908), 150.

  [>] “he never afterwards”: “Petition of Robert Stobo’s Sisters,” March 24, 1774, in Alberts, Most Extraordinary Adventures, 356.

  “In the name of God”: “Conrad Weiser’s Will,” November 24, 1759, in C. Z. Weiser, The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser (Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1876), 100.

  “beloved wife”: Ibid., 101

  [>] “beyond the Kittochtany”: Ibid., 102.

  “Aug. 13, 1762”: Jacob Hochstetler to James Hamilton, August 13, 1762, in PA, 1st ser., 4:99. As was typical of the freewheeling spelling of the day, Hochstetler’s name was spelled two different ways by whoever wrote the petition for the illiterate farmer, who merely made an X—his mark—on the paper.

  [>] “On the proprietaries’”: James Hamilton (August 18, 1762), quoted in PA, 4th ser., 3:157.

  [>] “Brother,” the sachem said: Tamaqua (November 28, 1758), quoted in “Second Journal of Christian Frederick Post,” The Olden Time 1 (April 1846): 167.

  [>] “against all the Indians”: William Trent, June 23, 1763, in “William Trent’s Journal at Fort Pitt, 1763,” A. T. Volwiler, ed., Mississippi Valley Historical Review 11 (December 1924): 400.

  “Out of our regard”: Trent, June 24, 1763, in ibid.

  “Sundries got to Replace”: Trent, quoted in Elizabeth A. Fenn, “Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst,” Journal of American History 86 (March 2000): 1554.

  “often visited them”: Harvey Hostetler and William Franklin Hochstetler, Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, the Immigrant of 1736 (Elgin, IL: Brethren Publishing, 1912), 45.

  [>] “Allein, und doch”: The usual translation, “Alone, yet not alone am I / though in this solitude so drear,” strays far from the actual German verse. Quoted in Sipe 1998, 215.

  “My name is”: Hostetler and Hochstetler, Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, 37.

  [>] “A thick Scull”: George Croghan to William Murray, July 12, 1765, in Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, ed. Clarence W. Alvord (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1916), 11:58.

  [>] “I shall send Montour”: William Johnson to George Croghan, March 1766, in Papers of Sir William Johnson, ed. Alexander C. Flick (Albany: University of New York, 1927), 5:120.

  “Captain Montour”: Isaac Hamilton to Thomas Gage, January 22, 1772, in Correspondence of General Thomas Gage, 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1931–1933), quoted in Lewin 1966, 186.

  [>] “any lands”: King George III, proclamation, October 7, 1763, Guilder Lehrman Institute of American History, GLCo5214, http://gilderlehrman.pastperfect-online.com/33267cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=244F978B-2CBF-4295-9B03-924022753327;type=301.

  “the several Nations”: Ibid.

  “I can never look”: George Washington to William Crawford, September 21, 1767, in George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741–1799, 5th ser., account book 2, image 14, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw5&fileName=gwpage004.db&recNum=13.

  [>] “Having committed an act”: Alberts, Most Extraordinary Adventures, 318.

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