[1251] Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 516, and in N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 267, etc.

[1252] Penna. Archives, ii. 31. William Smith, in 1756, spoke of the French “seizing all the advantages which we have neglected.” (Hist. of N. York, Albany, 1814, Preface, p. x.)

[1253] This plan is also reproduced in Hough’s ed. of Pouchot, ii. 9; in Hough’s St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, 70; in the papers on the early settlement of Ogdensburg, in Doc. Hist. N. Y., i. 430.

[1254] Translated in Hough’s St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, p. 85, where will be found an account of the mission (p. 49), and a view of it (p. 17) after the English took possession. De la Lande’s “Mémoires” of Piquet are in the Lettres Édifiantes, vol. xv., and there is an abridged version in the Doc. Hist. N. Y. The Canadian historian, Joseph Tassé, gives an account of Piquet in the Revue Canadienne, vii. 5, 102.

[1255] Travels, London, 1771, ii. 310.

[1256] N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 205, May 15, 1750.

[1257] Penna Archives, 2d ser., vi. 108.

[1258] A paper in Hist. Mag., viii. 225, dwells on the impolicy of the French government in superseding Galissonière.

[1259] N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 220.

[1260] Stone’s Johnson; Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi.