[45] Second Mémoire concernant les Limites des Colonies présenté en 1720 par Bobé, prêtre de la Congrégation de la Mission (Archives Nationales).

[46] Demandes de la France, 1723 (Archives des Affaires Étrangères).

[47] Colonel Heathcote to Governor Hunter, 8 July, 1715. Ibid, to Townshend, 12 July, 1715.

[48] Journal of Schuyler and Livingston, 1720.

[49] Vaudreuil au Conseil de Marine, 24 Octobre, 1717.

[50] Vaudreuil et Bégon au Conseil de Marine, 26 Octobre, 1719.

[51] “I am ashamed to confess that he built the fort at his private expense, and that a balance of above £56 remains due to his estate to this very day.”—Smith, History of New York, 267 (ed. 1814).

[52] Mémoire de Dupuy, 1728. Dupuy was intendant of Canada. The King approved the conduct of Beauharnois in not using force. Dépêche du Roy, 14 Mai, 1728.

[53] When urged by the younger Longueuil to drive off the English from Oswego, the Indians replied, “Drive them off thyself” (“Chassez-les toi-même”). Longueuil fils au Ministre, 19 Octobre, 1728.

[54] Mitchell, Contest in America, 22.