[116] One reason alleged is that Carleton had given evidence against Germain at the latter’s court-martial.
[117] This letter, with Carleton’s letter of May 20, 1777, will be found in Mr. Brymner’s Report on the Canadian Archives for 1885, pp. cxxxii-vii, Note D.
[118] The note to p. 474 of Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada (Shortt and Doughty) condemns Carleton’s conduct to Germain.
[119] Chief Justice Hey to the Lord Chancellor, August 28, 1775. Shortt and Doughty, p. 458.
[120] Quoted in full at pp. 457-9 of the sixth volume of Kingsford’s History of Canada.
[121] October 15, 1777. See Canadian Archives Report for 1890, p. 101. It is not absolutely clear that the reference is to Livius.
[122] The records as to the dates of Livius’ appointment are somewhat confusing. There is a printed pamphlet in the Colonial Office Library giving Livius’ petition and the proceedings which followed in England. It is dated 1779, and entitled ‘Proceedings between Sir Guy Carleton, K.B., late Governor of the Province of Quebec, and Peter Livius Esq., Chief Justice of the said Province, &c. &c.’. The note to p. 476 of Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada (Shortt and Doughty) is favourable to Livius and unfavourable to Carleton.
[123] See also below, p. 238.
[124] One cause which reduced their numbers was that in the seventeenth century the Jesuits converted a considerable number of Mohawks and induced them to settle in Canada. They were known as the Caghnawagas.
[125] As regards the Six Nation Indians, Joseph Brant, and the Border forays in the War of Independence, see Stone’s Life of Brant, and two papers by Lt.-Col. Ernest Cruikshank, on ‘Joseph Brant in the American Revolution’, in the Transactions of the Canadian Institute, vol. v, 1898, p. 243, and vol. vii, 1904, p. 391. The papers were read in April, 1897, and April, 1902. See also The Old New York Frontier, by F. W. Halsey. Scribners, New York, 1902.