For the winter in Quebec, see Les Ursulines de Québec, vol. iii.
On the 26th of January Col. John Montresor was sent by way of the Chaudière and Kennebec to carry despatches to Amherst in New York. His journal till his return to Quebec, May 20, is in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1882, p. 29, and in the library of the N. E. Hist. Geneal. Soc. is the map which he made of his route. (Mag. of Amer. Hist., Oct., 1882, p. 709.) Cf. also Maine Hist. Coll., vol. i.; N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1881, pp. 117, 524.
[1533] Woodhull was the colonel of the Third Regiment of N. Y. Provincials, and was with Amherst. The journal begins at Albany, June 11, and ends Sept. 27, 1760. It is in the Hist. Mag., v. 257.
[1534] Mante’s account is copied in Hough’s St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, p. 89, where the passage down the St. Lawrence is treated at length. Dr. Hough judges the account of the taking of Fort Lévis, as given by David Humphrey in his Works (New York, 1804, p. 280), to be mostly fabulous. Hough (p. 704) also prints Governor Colden’s proclamation on the capture. Pouchot gives a plan of the attack. There are various documents, French and English, in Collection de documents (Quebec), iv. 245, 283, 297.
[1535] Vol. xxxix. p. 316.
[1536] Vol. ii. p. 360.
[1537] The success of the campaign made Amherst a Knight of the Bath, and his investiture with the insignia took place at Staten Island in Oct., 1761, and is described in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., ii. 502.
Charles Carroll (Journal to Canada, ed. 1876, p. 86) seems to give it as a belief current in his time (1776) that Amherst took the route by Oswego and the St. Lawrence because he feared being foiled by obstructions at Isle-aux-Noix. The correspondence of Amherst and the Nova Scotia authorities is noted in T. B. Akins’s List of MS. Docs. in the government offices at Halifax (1886), p. 12.
[1538] Amherst’s order to Rogers is in Lanman’s Michigan, p. 85. Rogers made a detour from Presqu’isle to Fort Pitt to deliver orders to Monckton.
[1539] Cf. Rupp’s Early Penna., p. 50.