[1403] Ibid., i. pp. 401-2.
[1404] Since printed in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (March, 1882), viii. 206. It covers June 11-Aug. 18, 1756.
[1405] Vol. i. p. 72.
[1406] Parkman (vol. i. p. 394) tells the story of that success, and refers to a letter of J. Choate in the Mass. Archives, vol. lv.; letters from Albany, in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., i. 482, 505; Livingston’s Review; Niles, in Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxv. 417; Mante, p. 60; Lossing’s Life of Philip Schuyler (1872, vol. i. p. 130), who was Bradstreet’s commissary.
[1407] Montcalm’s commission is given in the N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 394, and in Coll. de Manuscrits (Quebec), vol. iv. 19. It is dated at Versailles, Mar. 1, 1756.
[1408] Vol. i. p. 398.
[1409] Loudon was now directing affairs. The circular from Fox, secretary of state, to the governors of the colonies, directing them to afford assistance to Lord Loudon, is in New Jersey Archives, viii., Pt. ii., p. 209; with additional instructions, p. 218.
[1410] Life of Johnson, ii. 22.
[1411] Cf. Coll. de Manuscrits (Quebec), iv. 59. Robert Eastburn, who was captured by the Indians near Oswego and carried to Canada, published at Philadelphia and Boston, in 1758, a Faithful narrative of many dangers and sufferings during his late captivity. (Sabin, vi. no. 21,664; Hildeburn, i. no. 1,581.)
[1412] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,163; Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 1,064.