[1377] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,196; Harv. Coll. lib., 4375.25. It is sometimes ascribed to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
[1378] The histories have usually stated that Dieskau was mortally wounded, and Bancroft (United States, iv. 207), in his original edition speaking of him as “incurably wounded,” has changed it in his final revision (vol. ii. 435) to “mortally wounded,”—hardly true in the usual acceptation of the word, since Dieskau lived for a dozen years, though his wounds were indeed the ultimate cause of his death.
[1379] Penna. Mag. of Hist., iii. p. 11.
[1380] Vol. i. 115.
[1381] Cf. further Entick, i. 153; Hutchinson, iii. 35; Smith’s New York, ii. 214; Minot, i. 251; Trumbull’s Conn., ii. 368; Palfrey, Compend. ed., iv. 217; Gay, iii. 283; Barry, ii. 191, etc.; and among local authorities, Holland’s Western Mass.; Holden’s Queensbury, p. 285; Palmer’s Lake Champlain; Watson’s Essex County (1869), ch. iv.; De Costa’s Hist. of Fort George (New York, 1871; also Sabin’s Bibliopolist, iii. passim, and ix. 39.)
As to Hendrick, see Schoolcraft’s Notes of the Iroquois; Campbell’s Annals of Tryon County; N. S. Benton’s Hist. of Herkimer County, ch. i.
Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer delivered a centennial address at Caldwell in 1855, which is in his Sermons, Essays, and Addresses (Philad., 1861), and Stone (i. 547) makes extracts regarding the grave and monument of Williams. Joseph White delivered a discourse on Williams before the alumni of Williams College in 1855. Cf. the histories of that college.
A Ballad concerning the fight between the English and French at Lake George, a broadside in double column, was published at Boston in 1755. (Haven, in Thomas, ii. 523.) Parkman (i. 317) cites another, “The Christian Hero,” in Tilden’s Poems, 1756.
[1382] What he hoped of the campaign is expressed in his letter to Doreil, Aug. 16 (N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 311). Dieskau’s commission and instructions (Aug. 15, 1755) from the home government, as well as Vaudreuil’s instructions to him, are in Ibid., x. 285, 286, 327, and in the original French in Coll. de Manuscrits (Quebec), iii. p. 548.
[1383] Here also (pp. 381, 397), as well as in the Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 341, will be found the usual annual reports of “occurrences” transmitted to Paris.