The Burd-Shippen Papers contain numerous records belonging to James Burd, who served as a commanding officer at Fort Augusta during the Seven Years' War. This expansive collection features at least three diaries. One, from 1760 (2/8-11/7), recounts the construction of Fort Burd and expeditions throughout western Pennsylvania. This diary includes references to William Shippen (11/4/1760) and regular accounts of Native-white interactions, both peaceful and violent. Another journal from the summer of 1763 (6/5-10/24) documents his time at Fort Augusta. It recounts the opening of Pontiac's Rebellion and the initial reports of the Indian raid on the Connecticut settlers in the Wyoming Valley. Finally, there's a third fragment of a diary from August 1757 (8/2-8/10). In six leaves, Burd describes the Siege of Fort William Henry, including an account of the events of the capitulation and surrender of that British fort to the French and their Indian allies. These volumes ought to interest scholars researching the Seven Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, and colonial settlement practices more broadly.