[1288] Col. Rec. of Penna., vi. 195.
[1289] A view of the fort is noted in the Catal. of Paintings, Pa. Hist. Soc., 1872, no. 64. A diagram of Fort Necessity and its surroundings, from a survey made in 1816, is given in Lowdermilk’s Cumberland, p. 76. A plan of the attack is in Sparks’s Washington, i. 56. De Hass (Western Virginia, 63, 65) says that in 1851 the embankments of the fort could be traced; and that at one time a proposition had been made to erect a monument on the site.
[1290] Washington, ii. 456-68.
[1291] Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe. Cf. also Penna. Archives, ii. 146; N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 260; Walpole’s Mem. of the Reign of George II., 2d ed., i. p. 399.
[1292] “It is a constant maxim among the Indians that if even they can speak and understand English, yet when they treat of anything that concerns their nation, they will not treat but in their own language.” Journal of John Fontaine in Maury’s Huguenot Family, p. 273.
[1293] Henry Reed added to Mahon’s account in the Amer. ed. of that historian (1849), ii. 307. There is a detailed account in Lowdermilk’s Cumberland, p. 77.
[1294] Braddock’s Expedition, p. 55; Proud’s Pennsylvania, ii. 331. The Enquiry has a map of the country, and the second journal of Christian Frederic Post. The book was reprinted in Philad. in 1867. (Thomson, Bibliog. of Ohio, nos. 1145, 1146; Barlow’s Rough List, no. 951, 952; H. C. lib., 5325.44.) Parkman (Pontiac, i. 85) refers to Thomson’s tract “as designed to explain the causes of the rupture, which took place at the outbreak of the French war, and the text is supported by copious references to treaties and documents.” Referring to a copy with MS. notes by Gov. Hamilton, Parkman says that the proprietary governor cavils at several unimportant points, but suffers the essential matter to pass unchallenged. Cf. Several Conferences between ... the Quakers and the Six Indian Nations in order to reclaim their brethren the Delaware Indians from their defection, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1756. (Brinley, iii. 5,497.)
[1295] J. M. Lemoine epitomizes Stobo’s career in his Maple Leaves, new series, 1873, p. 55.
[1296] These articles are also in Livingston’s Review of Mil. Operations, etc.; Penna. Archives, ii. 146; De Hass’s Western Virginia, p. 67; S. P. Hildreth’s Pioneer Hist. of the Ohio Valley, p. 36; Sparks’s Washington, ii. 459.
[1297] History of an expedition against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755, under Edward Braddock. Ed. from the original MSS., Phila., 1855. Contents:—Preface. Introductory memoir, pp. 15-280; Capt. [Robert] Orme’s journal, pp. 281-358; Journal of the expedition, by an unknown writer, in the possession of F. O. Morris, pp. 359-389; Braddock’s instructions, etc., pp. 393-397; Letter by Col. Napier to Braddock, pp. 398-400; Fanny Braddock [by O. Goldsmith], pp. 401-406; G. Croghan’s statement, pp. 407, 408; French reports of the action of the 9th July, 1755, pp. 409-413; Ballads, etc., pp. 414-416; Braddock’s last night in London, pp. 417, 418; Index, pp. 419-423. Sargent was born in 1828, and died in 1870. N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1872, p. 88.