The Library of Congress is a great source for historical information and has many periodicals available for digital download and search.
The
book notes that the earliest mention of the Shawnee by any writer is
the beginning of the 17th Century. Mr. Jefferson in his "Notes on
Virginia" mentions Captain John Smith (April 1607) there was a fierce
War raging against the allied Mohicans, residing on Long Island, and the
Shawanoes on the Susquehanna, and to the westward of that River, by the
Iroquois.
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