[4] Carl Wittke, _We Who Built America_ (Cleveland, 1963), p. 57.
[5] American Council of Learned Societies, "Report of Committee on Linguistic and National Stocks in the Population of the United States," _Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1931_ (Washington, 1932), I, 124.
[6] This summary has been prepared from three main sources: Wayland F. Dunaway, _The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania_ (Hamden, Conn., 1962), pp. 89-91; Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), pp. 161-167; and John B. Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania_ (Philadelphia, 1883), pp. 447, 481-482.
[7] Williams, "The Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania," p. 382.
[8] Wayland F. Dunaway, _A History of Pennsylvania_ (Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1948), pp. 131-137. According to John Bacon Deans, "The Migration of the Connecticut Yankees to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River," _The Northumberland County Historical Society Proceedings and Addresses_, XX (1954), 34-35, eighty-two Yankees came to Warrior's Run in September of 1775, but none went farther west.
[9] Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., The Zebulon Butler Papers, Jonas Davis to Zebulon Butler, March 16, 1773.
[10] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 340.
[11] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 475; Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), pp. 508-511.
[12] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 477; Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 666.
[13] O'Callaghan, _Documentary History of the State of New York_, I, 587-591.
[14] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 509. This July 12, 1778, communication from Colonel Hunter did not fall on deaf ears, for Colonel Thomas Hartley was ordered to the area with his regiment before the summer was out.
[15] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 475.
[16] Richmond D. Williams, "Col. Thomas Hartley's Expedition of 1778," _Now and Then_, XII (1960), 258-259.
[17] Wallace, _Conrad Weiser_, pp. 362-363. Lydius had gotten the Indians drunk following the settlement at Albany between the Six Nations and the Proprietaries. This boundary line (Albany) "crossed the West Branch below the Big Island," p. 374.
[18] _Pennsylvania Archives_, First Series, XI, 508.