[12] Minutes taken “At a Council at the Camp at Alexandria in Virginia, April 14, 1755.” Public Records Office, London: America and West Indies, No. 82.
[13] Braddock’s MS. Letters, Public Records Office, London: America and West Indies, No. 82.
[14] For these early routes through Pennsylvania, partially opened in 1755, see Historic Highways of America, vol. v., chap. I.
[15] Maryland Archives; Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, vol. i., pp. 77 and 97.
[16] Preserved at the Congressional Library, Washington.
[17] Eight miles from Alexandria. See Note 26.
[18] Arguments pro and con have been interestingly summed up by Dr. Marcus Benjamin of the U. S. National Museum, in a paper read before the Society of Colonial Dames in the District of Columbia April 12, 1899, and by Hugh T. Taggart in the Washington Star, May 16, 1896. For a description of routes converging on Braddock’s Road at Fort Cumberland see Gen. Wm. P. Craighill’s article in the West Virginia Historical Magazine, vol. ii, no. 3 (July, 1902), p. 31. Cf. pp. 179-181.
[19] London, Groombridge & Sons, 1854. Mr. Morris, in footnotes, gave what he considered any important variations of the original manuscript from the expanded version he was editing; Mr. Sargent reproduced these notes, without having seen the original.
[20] History of Braddock’s Expedition, p. 359, note.
[21] History of Braddock’s Expedition, p. 359, note.