[91] MS. Letter—Colden to Lord Halifax, no date.
[92] Allen, Am. Biog. Dict. and authorities there referred to. Campbell, Annals of Tryon County, appendix. Sabine, Am. Loyalists, 398. Papers relating to Sir W. Johnson. See Doc. Hist. New York, II. MS. Papers of Sir W. Johnson, etc., etc.
[93] Garneau, Book VIII. Chap. III.
[94] Holmes, Annals, II. 183. Mémoire contenant Le Précis des Faits, Pièces Justificatives, Part I.
[95] Smollett, III. 370 (Edinburgh, 1805).
[96] Sparks’s Life and Writings of Washington, II. 478. Gist’s Journal.
[97] Olden Time, II. 9, 10. This excellent antiquarian publication contains documents relating to this period which are not to be found elsewhere.
[98] “He invited us to sup with them, and treated us with the greatest complaisance. The wine, as they dosed themselves pretty plentifully with it, soon banished the restraint which at first appeared in their conversation, and gave a license to their tongues to reveal their sentiments more freely. They told me that it was their absolute design to take possession of the Ohio, and by G—d they would do it; for that, although they were sensible the English could raise two men for their one, yet they knew their motions were too slow and dilatory to prevent any undertaking of theirs. They pretend to have an undoubted right to the river from a discovery made by one La Salle, sixty years ago; and the rise of this expedition is, to prevent our settling on the river or waters of it, as they heard of some families moving out in order thereto.”—Washington, Journal.
[99] Sparks, Life and Writings of Washington, II. 6.
[100] Sparks, II. 447. The conduct of Washington in this affair is regarded by French writers as a stain on his memory.