[MCREA, Jane]. WILSON, D[avid]. The Life of Jane McCrea, with An Account of Burgoyne's Expedition in 1777. New York : Baker, Godwin, 1853. 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Light cover wear, bookplate, endpaper browning, occasional foxing. Very good. First edition. Jane McCrea was the twenty-six year old daughter of a Presbyterian minister and fiance of David Jones, a Loyalist officer serving under the British General Burgoyne. She was murdered by a Huron indian named Le Loup (the Wolf) during the Revolutionary War and the tragedy of her death became a cause celbre. With an appendix. [Field, An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography 1653.]

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