Books and Manuscripts

Doddridge, Joseph
Notes, on the Settlement and Indian Wars, of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, from the year 1763 until the year 1783 inclusive...
Wellsburgh, V(irgini)a: Printed at the Office of the Gazette For the Author, 1824. First edition. 12mo. (xiv), 316 pp. Contemporary brown calf, rebacked, top corner on rear board renewed, extremities rubbed; offsetting to prelims; foxing and scattered stains throughout text; text toned. Contemporary ownership signature of Mary E. Doddridge on front free end-paper, “Mary E. Doddridge / Wellsburg / Virginia / 1830”; additional contemporary inscription of Congressman Job Roberts Tyson below same, “Bought of Miss Doddridge / Wellsburg Virg'a, 29 June '36”/ J.R. Tyson". Book-plate of Western Americana collector John Waddle on front paste-down. Church 1327, Howes D-390, Sabin 20490 

One of the best, most in-depth accounts of early frontier life, and the conflicts between colonists and Native Americans, written by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge (1769-1826). "Doddridge was reared in the wilderness and was intimately acquainted with the whole subject of which he writes. His work is drawn from original sources and from his own observations, and gives a striking picture of the life, times, and manners of the early frontiersmen." (Church)