The Shamokin diaries consist of a total of 17 installments penned by 10 different Moravian missionaries between September 1745 and October 1755. Consequently, there were “10 different handwritings,” nearly all
One day in 1747, several Delaware Indians descended the Susquehanna River s North Branch in a canoe. Somewhere in the vicinity of modern Bloomsburg, they suddenly heard a child crying on