[247] See supra ch. IV.
[248] George Morgan's Letter Book. MS copy.
[249] The exact date of the change is not known. The first document that appears with Reid's signature as commandant is dated Sept. 8th. Johnson MSS, Vol. XIII, No. 104. Major Farmer was expecting his successor's arrival some time in July or August. Farmer to Gage, Mar. 9th, 1766, Pub. Rec. Office, Am. & W. I., Vol. 122.
Transcriber's Note:
- The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained, with the exception of apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.
- Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
- Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this text; otherwise they were not changed.
- Footnotes were moved to the end of the text and numbered in one continuous sequence.
- Other notes and corrections:
- p. 3: sparceness changed to sparseness. (The sparseness of its population.)
- p. 10: Boquet changed to Bouquet. (Previous to Bouquet’s second campaign.)
- p. 19: Missing footnote 56 tag added by the transcriber.
- p. 20: Sinnot and Sinnot: Variants unchanged.
- p. 21: sefuse changed to refuse. (St. Ange continued to refuse.)
- p. 33: delinquenents unchanged. (A determination to delinquenents to punishment.)
- p. 42: Missing footnote 118 tag added by the transcriber.
- p. 44: effect changed to affect. (Not only did it affect English traders.)
- p. 46: Missing footnote 133 tag added by the transcriber.
- p. 55: Missing footnote 164 tag added by the transcriber.
- p. 77: The wealth of colony changed to The wealth of the colony.
- Variants unchanged: Ilinois and Illinois.
- p. 38, footnote 109, page 58, footnote 170, and p. 76, footnote 229: Incomplete references, page numbers missing.