[1359] Ibid., p. 429.
[1360] Haven (Thomas, Hist. Printing, ii. p. 526) notes it as printed at the time separately in a three-page folio as a Letter dated at Lake George, Sept. 9, 1755, to the governours of the several colonies who raised the troops on the present expedition, giving an account of the action of the preceding day. There is a copy of a two-page folio edition in the cabinet of the Mass. Hist. Soc. Dr. O’Callaghan, in the Doc. Hist. N. Y. (ii. 691), copies it from the Gent. Mag., vol. xxiv., and gives a map (p. 696) from that periodical, which is annexed herewith.
[1361] Wraxall’s letter, Sept. 10, p. 1003; a gunner’s letter, p. 1005; and a list of killed and wounded, p. 1006.
[1362] Shirley’s commission to Johnson, and his instructions are given in the app. of Hough’s ed. of Rogers’ Journal, Albany, 1883.
[1363] There is an account of Blanchard’s New Hampshire regiment by C. E. Potter, in his contribution, “Military Hist. of New Hampshire, 1623-1861” (p. 129), which makes Part i. of the 2d vol. of the Report of the Adj.-Gen. of N. H. for 1866. Cf. also N. H. Revolutionary Rolls, Concord, 1885, vol. i. A second N. H. regiment, under Col. Peter Gilman, was later sent. (Ibid., p. 144.) Col. Bagley, who commanded the garrison left in Fort William Henry the following winter, had among his troops the N. H. company of Capt. Robert Rogers. (Ibid., p. 156.)
[1364] Mass. Bay, iii. 36.
[1365] The Mass. Archives attest this; cf. also Doc. Hist. N. Y., ii. 667, 677. Out of a reimbursement of £115,000 made by Parliament to be shared proportionately, Massachusetts was given £54,000 and New York £15,000, while Connecticut got £26,000,—Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and New Jersey the rest. (Parkman, i. 382.) The rolls which show the numbers of troops which Massachusetts sent on the successive “Crown Point expeditions,” 1755-60, are in the Mass. Archives, vols. xciii.-xcviii.
[1366] The friends of Gen. Lyman were angry at Johnson for his neglect in his report to give him any share of the credit of the victory. Cf. Fowler’s Hist. of Durham, Conn., 108; Coleman’s Lyman Family (Albany, 1872), p. 204. A letter from Gen. Lyman to his wife is given by Fowler, p. 133.
[1367] Parkman (vol. i. p. 327) touches on this unpleasantness, referring to N. Y. Col. Docs., vols. vi. and vii., Smith’s Hist. of New York, and Livingston’s Review of Military Operations; and adds that both Smith and Livingston were personally cognizant of the course of the dispute.
[1368] Cf. vol. i. pp. 174, 182, 184, etc. They include Pomeroy’s account of the fight of Sept. 8, 1755, addressed to his wife; a letter of Perez Marsh, dated at Lake George, Sept. 26, 1755; and a list of the killed, wounded, and missing in Col. Williams’ regiment in the same action, with a summary of the killed in the whole army, 191 in all.