[1182] There is doubt where Rogers encamped,—the river “Chogage.” Parkman in the original edition of his Pontiac (1851, p. 147) called it the site of Cleveland; but he avoids the question in his revised edition (i. p. 165). Bancroft (orig. ed., iv. 361) and Stone, Johnson (ii. 132), have notes on the subject. Cf. also Chas. Whittlesey’s Early Hist. of Cleveland, p. 90; and C. C. Baldwin’s Early Maps of Ohio, p. 17.

[1183] Parkman has a plan of Detroit, made about 1750 by the engineer Léry.

[1184] The London Mag. for Feb., 1761, had a map of the “Straits of St. Mary, and Michilimakinac.”

[1185] Here we find Bellomont’s correspondence (1698) with the French governor as to the relations of the Five Nations to the English, pp. 682, 690. Cf. also N. Y. Col. Docs., iv. 367, 420; Shea’s Charlevoix, v. 82; a tract, Propositions made by the Five Nations of Indians ... to Bellomont in Albany, 20th of July, 1698 (N. Y., 1698), containing the doings of Bellomont and his council on Indian affairs up to Aug. 20, 1698. (Brinley, ii. 3,400.) The same vol. of N. Y. Col. Docs. (ix.) gives beside a memoir (p. 701; also in Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 45) on the encroachments of the English; conferences with the Indians at Detroit (p. 704) and elsewhere in 1700; the ratification of the treaty of peace at Montreal, Aug. 4, 1701 (p. 722); conferences of Vaudreuil with the Five Nations in 1703 and 1705 (pp. 746, 767); the scheme of seizing Niagara, 1706 (p. 773); Sieur d’Aigrement’s instructions and report on the Western posts (p. 805); a survey (p. 917) of English invasion of French territory (1680-1723); a memoir (p. 840) on the condition of Canada (1709),—not to name others.

For the period covered by the survey of this present chapter, these N. Y. Col. Docs. give from the London archives papers 1693-1706 (vol. iv.), 1707-1733 (vol. v.), 1734-1755 (vol. vi.), 1756-1767 (vol. vii.); and from the Paris archives, 1631-1744 (vol. ix.), 1745-1778 (vol. x.). The index to the whole is in vol. xi. See Vol. IV. pp. 409, 410.

There has been a recent treatment of the relations of the English with the Indians in Geo. W. Schuyler’s Colonial New York, in which Philip Schuyler is a central figure, during the latter end of the seventeenth and for the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The book touches the conferences in Bellomont’s and Nanfan’s time. Colden, who was inimical to Schuyler, took exception to some statements in Smith’s New York respecting him, and Colden’s letters were printed by the N. Y. Hist. Society in 1868.

[1186] The biography of Cadillac has been best traced in Silas Farmer’s Detroit, p. 326. He extended his inquiries among the records of France, and (p. 17) enumerates the grants to him about the straits. Cf. T. P. Bédard on Cadillac in Revue Canadienne, new ser., ii. 683; and a paper on his marriage in Ibid., iii. 104; and others by Rameau, in Ibid., xiii. 403. The municipality of Castelsarrasin in France presented to the city of Detroit a view of the old Carmelite church—now a prison—where Cadillac is buried. An engraving of it is given by Farmer. Julius Melchers, a Detroit sculptor, has made a statue of the founder, of which there is an engraving in Robert E. Roberts’ City of the Straits, Detroit, 1884, p. 14.

Farmer (p. 221) gives a description of Fort Pontchartrain as built by Cadillac, and (p. 33) a map of 1796, defining its position in respect to the modern city. Cf. also Roberts’ City of the Straits, p. 40. The oldest plan of Detroit is dated 1749, and is reproduced by Farmer (p. 32). Of the oldest house in Detroit, the Moran house, there are views in Farmer (p. 372) and Roberts (p. 50), who respectively assign its building to 1734 and 1750.

Among the later histories, not already mentioned, reference may be made to Charlevoix (Shea’s ed., vol. v. 154); E. Rameau’s Notes historiques sur la colonie canadienne de Détroit. Lecture prononcée à Windsor sur le Détroit, comté d’Essex, C. W., 1er avril, 1861, Montréal, 1861; Rufus Blanchard’s Discovery and Conquests of the Northwest, Chicago, 1880; and Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin’s Legends of le Détroit, Illus. by Isabella Stewart, Detroit, 1884. These legends, covering the years 1679-1815, relate to Detroit and its vicinity. On p. 263, etc., are given genealogical notes about the early French families resident there. A brief sketch of the early history of Detroit by C. I. Walker, as deposited beneath the corner-stone of the new City Hall in 1868, is printed in the Hist. Mag., xv. 132. Cf. Henry A. Griffin on “The City of the Straits” in Mag. of Western History, Oct., 1885, p. 571.

[1187] See Vol. IV. p. 316. Shea’s volume is entitled: Relation des affaires du Canada, en 1696. Avec des lettres des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus depuis 1696 jusqu’en 1702. (N. Y., 1865.) Contents: La guerre contre les Iroquois; De la mission Iroquoise du Sault Saint François Xavier en 1696, ex literis Jac. de Lamberville; De la mission Illinoise en 1696, par le P. Gravier; Lettre du P. J. Gravier à Monseigneur Laval, 17 sept., 1697; Lettre de M. de Montigni au Rev. P. Bruyas [Chicago, 23 avril, 1699]; Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest, 1700; Lettre du P. L. Chaigneau sur le rétablissement des missions Iroquoises en 1702; Relation du Destroit; Lettre du P. G. Marest [du pays des Illinois, 29 avril, 1699]; Lettre du P. J. Binneteau [du pays des Illinois, 1699]; Lettre du P. J. Bigot [du pays des Abnaquis, 1699].