These papers illustrate affairs in the extreme west just at the opening of the period we are now considering. Cf. also the “Mémoire sur le Canada” (1682-1712) in Collection de Manuscrits ... relatifs à la Nouvelle France, Quebec, 1883, p. 551, etc.
[1188] Letters (1703) from Cadillac to Count Pontchartrain (p. 101), and to La Touche (p. 133); the developments of Cadillac’s defence in 1703 and later years (p. 142); Père Marest’s letter from Michilimackinac in 1706 (p. 206); a letter of Cadillac in the same year (p. 218), reports of Indian councils held at Montreal, Detroit, and Quebec in 1707 (pp. 232, 251, 263); a letter of Cadillac to Pontchartrain (p. 277) and D’Aigrement’s report on an inspection of the posts (p. 280), both in 1708. Speeches of Vaudreuil and an Ottawa chief, from a MS. brought from Paris by Gen. Cass, are printed in the Western Reserve Hist. Soc. Papers, no. 8. These papers, as translated by Whittlesey, pertaining to affairs about Detroit in 1706, are revised by that gentleman and reprinted in Beach’s Indian Miscellany, p. 270.
[1189] Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, v. 257; Sheldon’s Michigan, 297.
[1190] A memoir on the peace made by De Lignery, the commandant at Mackinac, with the Indians in 1726 (p. 148); letters of Longueil, July 25, 1726 (p. 156), and Beauharnois, Oct. 1, 1726 (p. 156); a petition of the inhabitants of Detroit to the Intendant in 1726, with Tonti’s remonstrance (pp. 169, 175); a memoir of the king on the Indian war, and another by Longueil on the peace (pp. 160, 165).
[1191] Cf. ch. ii. Dudley’s speech in aid of the expedition is given in the Boston Newsletter, no. 377, and his call of June 9, 1711, upon New Hampshire to furnish its contingent appears in the N. H. Prov. Papers, iii. 479.
[1192] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 295; Harv. Coll. Lib., 4375.11; Cooke, no. 2,544; Menzies, no. 2,026; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. 63.
[1193] Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 166, 825; Harv. Coll. Lib., 4375.16; 6374.36.
[1194] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 167; Bost. Pub. Lib., H. 98.18. Cf. also Letter from an old whig in town ... upon the late expedition to Canada [signed X. Z.], published at London in 1711. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 146; Harv. Coll. lib., 4375.14.)
[1195] New England, iv. 281, 282.
[1196] Notwithstanding the failure of the expedition, Dudley issued a Thanksgiving proclamation for other mercies, etc. N. H. Prov. Papers, ii. 629. In general, see Boston Newsletter, nos. 379-81; Penhallow, pp. 62-67; Niles, in Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxv. 328; Hutchinson’s Massachusetts, ii. 175, 180; N. Y. Col. Docs., iv. 277; v. 284; ix., passim; Chalmers’ Revolt, etc., i. 349; Lediard’s Naval History, 851; Williamson’s Maine, ii. 63; Palfrey’s New England, iv. 278, etc., with references; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 106. The tax for the expedition was the occasion of Thomas Maule’s Tribute to Cæsar, with some remarks on the late vigorous expedition against Canada, Philadelphia [1712]. Hildeburn’s Century of Printing, no. 120.