Journal of a Two Months Tour; with a View of Promoting Religions Among the Frontier Inhabitants of Pensylvania [sic], and of Introducing Christianity among the Indians to the Westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains

Edinburgh: T. Maccliesh and Co, 1798. Second edition. 56pp. 8vo. Disbound. Library blindstamps. Second edition. 56pp. 8vo. The Irish-born missionary was one of the most popular preachers of his day, travelling extensively in Europe and America. In 1760 he was sent with Duffield to observe and investigate the condition of the Indian tribes. This account, first published in 1768, one of only a few pieces by Beatty ever to see publication, includes "the first account of Indian towns in southeast Ohio" (Howes), interviews with Indian chiefs, and encounters with Delaware Indians, whom Beatty conjectures to be descended from the Ten Tribes. "The tour of this zealous and intelligent observer to the Indian towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio, lying far beyond the frontiers, was made at a period of great interest in their history. The warriors of the Delaware and Shawnese had ravaged them with the tomahawk and firebrand for twenty years, and the Journal of the missionary is filled with notes of their awful massacres. It is very full and minute in its details of interviews with Indian chiefs, and the various phases of aboriginal life which attracted his attention" (Field).