[1261] N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 734; x. 239, etc.
[1262] Ibid., vi. 738.
[1263] Ibid., vi. 614-39.
[1264] Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 123, 125.
[1265] Sedgwick’s William Livingston, p.99; Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, i. p. 54.
[1266] Thomson, Bibliog. of Ohio, no. 1,149; Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, i. 85. Cf. Sparks’s Franklin, iv. 71, 330; Contest in North America, p. 36, etc.
[1267] Thomson, nos. 449, 940. Thomas Cresap writes in 1751, “Mr. Muntour tells me the Indians on the Ohio would be very glad if the French traders were taken, for they have as great a dislike to them as we have, and think we are afraid of them, because we patiently suffer our men to be taken by them.” Palmer’s Calendar of Virginia State Papers, p. 247.
[1268] Montcalm and Wolfe, i. ch. v.
[1269] His foot-notes indicate the particular papers on which he depends among the Parkman MS. in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, as well as papers in the N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 806, 835, etc., x. 255, and in the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, v. 659. Cf. papers on the French movements in the Ohio Valley in 1753, in the Mag. of Western Hist., Aug., 1885, p. 369; and T. J. Chapman on “Washington’s first public service,” in Mag. of Amer. Hist., 1885, p. 248, and on “Washington’s first campaign,” in Ibid., Jan., 1886.
[1270] Cf. N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 259, note.