[1] [See Vol. IV. p. 351.—Ed.]
[2] [There were two stations established to draw off by missionary efforts individual Iroquois from within the influences of the English. One of them was at Caughnawaga, near Montreal, and the other was later established by Picquet at La Présentation, about half-way thence to Lake Ontario, on the southern bank of the St. Lawrence river. Cf. Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, i. 65.—Ed.]
[3] [“Hundreds of white men have been barbarized on this continent for each single red man that has been civilized.” Ellis, Red Man and White Man in North America, p. 364.—Ed.]
[4] [See Vol. IV. p. 195.—Ed.]
[5] [See post, chap. ii.—Ed.]
[6] [See chapters vii. and viii.—Ed.]
[7] [See post, chap. viii.—Ed.]
[8] [The treaty of Utrecht, made in 1713, had declared the Five Nations to be “subject to the dominion of Great Britain,” and under this clause Niagara was held to be within the Province of New York; and Clinton protested against the French occupation of that vantage-ground.—Ed.]
[9] While waiting until the Court should name a successor to M. de Vaudreuil, M. de Longueuil, then governor of Montreal, assumed the reins of government.
[10] [See Vol. IV. p. 307.—Ed.]