[1111] N. E. Hist. Geneal. Reg., 1866, p. 237.
[1112] See ante, p. 9.
[1113] See ante, p. 3.
[1114] Canadian Antiquarian, vii. 97.
[1115] He was accompanied by Andrew Montour, a conspicuous frontiersman of this time. Cf. Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, i. 54; Schweinitz’s Zeisberger, 112; Thomas Cresap’s letter in Palmer’s Calendar, Va. State Papers, 245; and on his family the Penna. Mag. of Hist., iii. 79, iv. 218.
In 1750 John Pattin, a Philadelphia trader, was taken captive among the Indians of the Ohio Valley, and his own narrative of his captivity, with a table of distances in that country, is preserved in the cabinet of the Mass. Historical Society, together with a letter respecting Pattin from William Clarke, of Boston, dated March, 1754, addressed to Benjamin Franklin, in which Clarke refers to a recent mission of Pattin, prompted by Gov. Harrison, of Pennsylvania, into that region, “to gain as thorough a knowledge as may be of the late and present transactions of the French upon the back of the English settlements.”
[1116] The English got word of this movement in May. N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 779.
[1117] See papers on the early routes between the Ohio and Lake Erie in Mag. of Amer. Hist., i. 683, ii. 52 (Nov., 1877, and Jan., 1878); and also in Bancroft’s United States, orig. ed., iii. 346. For the portage by the Sandusky, Sciota, and Ohio rivers, see Darlington’s ed. of Col. James Smith’s Remarkable Occurrences, p. 174. The portages from Lake Erie were later discovered than those from Lake Michigan. For these latter earlier ones, see Vol. IV. pp. 200, 224. Cf. the map from Colden given herewith.
[1118] The ruins of this fort are still to be seen (1855) within the town of Erie. Sargent’s Braddock’s Expedition, p. 41. Cf. Egle’s Pennsylvania.
[1119] Now Waterford, Erie Co., Penna.