[1306] For 1755, pp. 378, 426. The first intelligence which Gov. Morris sent to England was from Carlisle, July 16. Penna. Archives, ii. 379.
[1307] The latest local rendering is in W. H. Lowdermilk’s History of Cumberland (Maryland) from 1728, embracing an account of Washington’s first campaign, with a history of Braddock’s expedition, etc. With maps and illustrations. Washington, D. C., 1878. It is only necessary to refer to such other later accounts as Hutchinson’s Mass., iii. 32; Chalmers’ Revolt, ii. 275; Marshall’s Washington; Grahame’s United States; Mahon’s England, vol. iv.; Hildreth’s United States, ii. 459-61; Scharf’s Maryland, i. ch. 15; J. E. Cooke’s Virginia, p. 344; A. Matthews in the Mag. of Western History, i. 509; Viscount Bury’s Exodus of the Western Nations (ii. p. 237), who quotes largely from a despatch which he found in the Archives de la Guerre (Carton marked “1755, Marine”).
[1308] Letters (1755), and Mem. Geo. II., i. 190.
[1309] Apology for her Life.
[1310] Capt. Bilkum in the Covent Garden Tragedy, 1732.
[1311] See a single letter in Mag. of Amer. Hist., July, 1882, p. 502, dated June 11, 1755.
[1312] Braddock, at a later stage, was supplied with Evans’ map, for acquiring a knowledge of the Ohio Valley. Penna. Archives, ii. 309, 317. There is in the Faden collection (Library of Congress), no. 4, “Capt. Snow’s sketch of the country [to be traversed by Braddock] by himself and the best accounts he could receive from the Indian tribes,”—a MS. dated 1754, with also Snow’s original draft (no. 5).
[1313] Cf. Parton’s Franklin, i. 349. Gov. Sharpe’s letter on this council is printed in Scharf’s Maryland, vol. i. 454.
[1314] A plan of Fort Cumberland, 1755, from a drawing in the King’s Maps (Brit. Museum), is given in Lowdermilk’s History of Cumberland, p. 92. (Cf. Scharf’s Maryland, i. p. 448.) A lithographic view (1755), in Lowdermilk’s Hist. of Cumberland, is given in a reduced wood-cut in Scharf’s Maryland, vol. i. p. 458.
[1315] Cf. a memoir and portrait of St. Clair by C. R. Hildeburn, in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., 1885, p. 1.