[67] See above, p. 79.
[68] Shortt and Doughty, p. 295.
[69] In 1775 the population of the whole of Canada was according to Bouchette’s estimate 90,000 (see the Census of Canada, 1870-1, vol. iv, Statistics of Canada). On the other hand Carleton, in his evidence given before the House of Commons at the time when the Quebec Act was being passed in 1774, estimated the number of the ‘new subjects’ at ‘about 150,000 souls all Roman Catholics’ as against less than 400 Protestants, excluding in the latter case women and children. Egerton and Grant, pp. 51-2.
[70] Shortt and Doughty, pp. 410-11.
[71] Referred to by Carleton as ‘The Suffolk County Resolves in the Massachusetts’. Shortt and Doughty, p. 413.
[72] Carleton, however, after the war broke out, sternly repressed any attempt of the Indians to act except under close supervision of white officers. See Colonel Cruikshank’s paper on Joseph Brant in the American Revolution, April 3, 1897. Transactions of the Canadian Institute, vol. v, p. 243, &c.
[73] Shortt and Doughty, pp. 412-14.
[74] See above, p. 67.
[75] Shortt and Doughty, pp. 450-2.
[76] See the letter and the note to it at p. 451 of Shortt and Doughty. Sir William Johnson had died in July, 1774; his nephew and son-in-law, Colonel Guy Johnson, had acted as his deputy for Indian affairs, and continued to do so for a while after his death, but in 1775 Major John Campbell was appointed Superintendent of Indian affairs.