[1316] America and West Indies, vol. lxxxii.
[1317] Mass. Hist. Coll., vii. 91-94. Cf. Letter to the people of England on the present situation and conduct of national affairs (London, 1755). Sabin, x. no. 40,651.
[1318] See letter from Camp on Laurel Hill, July 12, 1755, on the defeat, in Hist. Mag., vi. 160. In the Penna. Mag. of History, iii. p. 11, is a MS. Newsletter by Daniel Dulany, dated Annapolis, Dec. 9, 1755, giving the current accounts.
[1319] Parkman notes (p. 221) as among his copies a letter of Gov. Shirley to Robinson, Nov. 5, 1755, from the Public Record Office (Amer. and W. Indies, lxxxii.); a report of the court of inquiry into the behavior of the troops at the Monongahela; Burd to Morris, July 25; Sinclair to Robinson, Sept. 3, etc.
[1320] The sermon was printed in Philad., and reprinted in London in 1756. (Sabin, v. 18,763; Hildeburn, i. no. 1,409; Brinley, i. 218.) There are other symptoms of the time in another sermon of the same preacher, Oct. 28, 1756. (Sabin, v. 18,757.) Cf. Tyler, Amer. Literature, ii. p. 242; and W. H. Foote’s Sketches of Virginia (Phil., 1850), pp. 157, 284. See further on Davies (who was later president of Princeton College) and his relations to current events in Sprague’s Annals, iii.; John H. Rice’s memoir of him in the Lit. and Evangelical Mag.; Albert Barnes’ “Life and Times of Davies,” prefixed to Davies’ Works (N. Y., 1851); and David Bostwick’s memoir of him accompanying Davies’ fulsome Sermon on the Death of George II. (Boston, 1761).
[1321] America and West Indies, lxxxii. Cf. the statement of loss in Collection de Manuscrits (Quebec), iii. 544, and in Sargent, p. 238. The list of Braddock’s killed and wounded, as reported in the Gentleman’s Mag., Aug., 1755, is reprinted in Lowdermilk’s Cumberland, p. 164. There is among the Sparks MSS. (no. xlviii.) a paper, apparently contemporary, giving the British loss, in which Washington is marked as “wounded.”
[1322] It is signed T. W., and is dated Boston, Aug. 25, 1755. There were other editions the same year at Bristol and London. Cf. Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,039, 1,120; Thomson, Bibliog. of Ohio, no. 182; Sabin, iii. no. 12,320, x. no. 40,382; Brinley, i. no. 213; Harvard Coll. lib., 5325.46. The O’Callaghan Catalogue, no. 1,749, says the T. W. was “probably Timothy Walker, afterwards chief justice of the Common Pleas in Boston.”
[1323] Hildeburn, i. no. 1,479.
[1324] Carter-Brown, iii. 1,038; Thomson, no. 106; Sabin, ii. 7,210.
[1325] Mem. of the Reign of George II., 2d ed., ii. 29.