[1357] The official papers are given in full by Colden, who adds a very able memorial of his own, in favor of the act, addressed to Governor Burnet, in 1724. It was estimated that the Indian trade of New York increased fivefold in twelve years.
[1358] [See Vol. V. 530, 575.—Ed.]
[1359] Appendix V to the Ohio Valley Historical Series, edition of Bouquet’s Expedition (Cincinnati, 1868).
[1360] It is estimated that not less than two hundred of these scattered traders, who had confidently ventured into the wilderness on the assurance of the treaty, were massacred, after being plundered of goods of more than a hundred thousand pounds in value.
[1361] [The events of the Pontiac war can be followed in Vol. V.—Ed.]
[1362] The bibliography of the subject is nowhere exhaustively done. The Proof-sheets of Pilling as a tentative effort, and his later divisionary sections, devoted to the Eskimo, Siouan, and other stocks, though primarily framed for their linguistic bearing, are the chief help; and these guides can be supplemented by Field’s Indian Bibliography, the references for anonymous books in Sabin’s Dictionary (ix. p. 86), and sections in many catalogues of public and private libraries, like the Brinley (iii. 5, 352 etc.), devoted wholly or in part to Americana, and the foot-notes and authorities given in Parkman, H. H. Bancroft, and many others.
[1363] Parkman’s merits as a historian are elsewhere recognized in the present history. See Vols. II., IV., and V. He first gave his summary of Indian character in the introductory chapter of his first historical book, his Pontiac. He later completed it in papers in the North Amer. Rev., July, 1865, and July, 1866, and finally in the introduction to his Jesuits.
[1364] This class of material, including the Lettres Edifiantes, has been examined in our Vol. IV. 292, 296, 316, etc. Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, i. 88; Glorias del segundo siglo de la compañia de Jesus, 1646-1730 (Madrid, 1734).
Parkman calls Brébœuf the best observer among the Jesuits. On their missions see Revue Canadienne, Jan., 1888; Dublin Review, xii. (1869) 70; Mag. Amer. Hist., iii. 250. Margry (vol. i.) has a “Mémoire” on the Recollects, 1614-1884. Cf. Revue Canadienne, by S. Lesage, Feb., 1867, p. 303. On the earlier Canadian missions see N. E. Dionne in Nouvelles Soirées Canadiennes, i. 399; U. S. Catholic Monthly, vii. 235, 518, 561; and the Abbé Verreau on the beginnings of the Church in Canada, in Roy. Soc. Canada, Proc., ii. 63.
[1365] See Vol. IV. 130, 290, 296, 298.