[930] Sabin, ix. p. 525; Harv. Col. lib., 6374.12. The general authorities on the French side are Charlevoix (Shea’s), v. 224, 227, etc., with references, including some strictures on Charlevoix’s account, by De Gannes. An estimate of Subercase by Vaudreuil is in N. Y. Col. Doc., ix. 853. Cf. Garneau’s Canada (1882), ii. 42; E. Rameau, Une Colonie féodale en Amerique—L’Acadie, 1604-1710 (Paris, 1877); Célestin Moreau, L’Acadie Française, 1598-1755, ch. 10 (Paris, 1873). The English side is in Penhallow, p. 59; Hutchinson, ii. 165; Haliburton, i. 85; Williamson, ii. 59; Palfrey, iv. 277; Barry, ii. 100, with references; Hannay, 272; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 105. Nicholson’s demand for surrender (Oct. 3), Subercase’s reply (Oct. 12), the latter’s report to the French minister, and a paper, “Moyens de reprendre l’Acadie” (St. Malo, Jan. 10, 1711), are in Collection de Manuscrits (Quebec, 1884), ii. pp. 523, 525, 528, 532. There is in the cabinet of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (Misc. Papers, 41.41) a diagram showing the plan of sailing for the armed vessels and the transports on this expedition, with a list of the signals to be used, and instructions to the commanders of the transports.
Major Livingstone, accompanied by the younger Castine, was soon sent by way of the Penobscot to Quebec to acquaint Vaudreuil, the French governor, on behalf of both Nicholson and Subercase, with the capture of Port Royal, and to demand the discontinuance of the Indian ravages. Livingstone’s journal is, or was, in the possession of the Chicago Historical Society, when William Barry (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1861, p. 230) communicated an account of it, showing how the manuscript had probably been entrusted to Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, and had descended in his family. (N. Y. Col. Docs., v. 257.) Cf. Palfrey, iv. 278; Williamson, ii. 60; a paper on the Baron de St. Castin, by Noah Brooks, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., May, 1883; Charlevoix (Shea’s), v. 233. Penhallow seems to have had Livingstone’s journal; Hutchinson (ii. 168) certainly had it. Cf. account in N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 854. Castine’s instructions are in Collection de Manuscrits, ii. p. 534.
[931] Field, Indian Bibliog., nos. 1,202-3; Brinley, i. nos. 414, 415; Palfrey, New England, iv. 256; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 407; Tyler, Amer. Literature, ii. 141; Hunnewell’s Bibliog. of Charlestown, p. 7. Mr. Henry C. Murphy (Catalogue, no. 1,924) refers to the original MS. of this book as being in the Force collection, and as showing some occasional variations from the printed copy. (Cf. Catalogue of the Prince Collection, p. 49; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 384.) Penhallow had been engaged, during the April preceding the August in which he began his history, on a mission to the Penobscots, the reports of which are in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1880, p. 90. There is a sketch of him and his family in Ibid., 1878, p. 28. There are many letters of Samuel Penhallow among the Belknap Papers in the Mass. Hist. Society (61. A).
[932] Tyler, Amer. Lit., ii. 143.
[933] Cf. Vol. III. p. 361; also Tyler’s Amer. Lit., ii. 140; Brinley, i. nos. 383-4. Quaritch priced it in 1885 at £50. The best working edition is that edited by Dr. H. M. Dexter.
[934] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 186; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 371; Sibley, Harvard Graduates, iii. p. 117.
[935] Cf. James Sullivan’s Hist. of the Penobscots in Mass. Hist. Coll., ix. 207; and a memoir respecting the Abenakis of Acadia (1718) in N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 879.
[936] Hutchinson, ii. 246; Palfrey, iv. 423. For the Castin family, see Bangor Centennial, 25; Shea’s Charlevoix, v. 274, and references in Vol. IV. p. 147. Williamson (ii. 71, 144) seems to confound the two sons of the first Baron de Castin, judging from the letter of Joseph Dabadis de St. Castin, dated at Pentagouet, July 23, 1725, where he complains of the treachery of the commander of an English vessel. (N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., Ap., 1860, p. 140, for a letter from Mass. Archives, lii. p. 226.) See also Maine Hist. Coll., vii., and Wheeler’s Hist. of Castine, 24.
[937] Penhallow, 90; Vaudreuil and Begon in N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 933. Dr. Shea (Charlevoix, v. 278) thinks some rude translations of letters of Rasle (Mass. Hist. Coll., xviii. 245, 266), alleged to have been found at Norridgewock, are suspicious. Cf. Palfrey, iv. 422, 423; Farmer and Moore’s Hist. Coll., ii. 108. A distinct asseveration of the incitement of the French authorities and their priests is in the Observations on the late and present conduct of the French, published by Dr. Clarke in Boston in 1755, quoted by Franklin in his Canada pamphlet (1760), in Works, iv. p. 7. Cf. on the French side a “Mémoire sur l’entreprise que les Anglois de Baston font sur les terres des Abenakis sauvages alliés des François” in Collection de manuscrits (Quebec, 1882), ii. p. 68, where are various letters which passed between Vaudreuil and Shute.