[1197] Vol. v. 238, 245, 247, 252.
[1198] Cf. also Garneau, Histoire de Canada (1882), ii. 48; Juchereau, Hist. de l’hôtel Dieu; Grange de Chessieux, La conduite des Français justifiée, and an edition of the same edited by Butel-Dumont.
[1199] The two volumes are edited, with an introduction, by R. A. Brock. Bancroft had used these papers when owned by Mr. J. R. Spotswood, of Orange County, Va. The MS. was carried to England by Mr. G. W. Featherstonehaugh, and of his widow it was bought by the Virginia Hist. Society in 1873.
[1200] Mr. Brock refers to accounts of it in Hugh Jones’s Present State of Virginia; the preface to Beverly’s Virginia; Campbell’s Virginia; Slaughter’s Hist. of Bristol Parish; and in Slaughter’s St. Mark’s Parish is a paper on “The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe,” crediting the diary of John Fontaine, which he reprints (it is also in Maury’s Huguenot Family, N. Y., 1872, p. 281), with giving the most we know of the expedition. Cf. also J. Esten Cooke’s Stories of the Old Dominion, N. Y., 1879; and W. A. Caruthers’ Knights of the Horseshoe. Slaughter also gives a map of Spotswood’s route from Germanna to the Shenandoah.
Palmer, the editor of the Calendar of Virginia State Papers (p. lix.), could find nothing official throwing light on this expedition.
[1201] Spotswood’s Official Letters, ii. 296, 329.
[1202] It is printed in Hist. Mag., vi. 19. The treaty between Keith and the Five Nations at Albany, Sept., 1722, was printed that year in Philadelphia, as were treaties at a later date at Conestogoe (May, 1728) and Philadelphia (June, 1728), made with the Western Indians. Hildeburn’s Century of Printing, nos. 189, 356. There were reports in 1732 of the French being then at work building near the Ohio “a fort with loggs” (Penna. Archives, i. 310), and delivering speeches to the Shawanese (Ibid., p. 325).
[1203] Cf. C. C. Royce on the identity and history of the Shawnees in Mag. of West. History, May, 1885, p. 38.
[1204] Walker’s Athens Co., Ohio, p. 5.
[1205] Printed in the Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 49, and in the N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 885.