[1] Simms, Frontiersmen of New York (Albany, 1882), i, pp. 438, 439.
[2] Parkman, Conspiracy of Pontiac, ii, p. 195.
[3] Monthly Review, March, 1797, p. 381.
[4] Jacques Godefroy was a prominent habitant of Detroit, who had been employed by Major Gladwin to seek an interview with Pontiac on behalf of the English cause. From this mission he had returned unsuccessful. Later, dispatched to the Illinois with four other Canadians, they had not only pillaged an English trader, but aided the Indians to capture Fort Miami. As Godefroy had taken the oath of allegiance to the British crown in 1760, he was arrested and sentenced to be hanged on the charge of treason. After this journey with Morris he continued to live at Detroit, much respected and esteemed, and one of the richest of the French colony. His son leaned toward the American side in the Revolution, and assisted George Rogers Clark.—Ed.
[5] This was Pontiac’s village on the Maumee. See [Croghan’s Journal of 1765, ante].—Ed.
[6] Cedar Point was near the entrance to the Maumee River.—Ed.
[7] See [note on Maumee Rapids, Croghan’s Journals, ante].—Ed.
[8] On Indian slavery, see “The Panis; Canadian Indian Slavery,” in Canadian Institute Proceedings, 1897.—Ed.
[9] The reference here is to the defeat and retreat of Major Arthur Loftus, who left Pensacola early in February, 1764, with a detachment of the 22nd infantry to proceed to the Illinois, and take possession for the English. On the nineteenth of March he was ambushed and fired upon near Tunica Bend on the Mississippi, and obliged to retreat to New Orleans.—Ed.
[10] The Miamis were of Algonquian stock; but the early French writers noted their peculiarities and special customs. See Wisconsin Historical Collections, xvi, p. 376; also index thereto.—Ed.