[11] [See the map in Vol. IV. p. 200.—Ed.]
[12] [See Vol. II. p. 468.—Ed.]
[13] [Parkman (Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. i. chap. ii.) tells the story of this expedition under Céloron de Bienville, sent by La Galissonière in 1749 into the Ohio Valley to propitiate the Indians and expel the English traders, and of its ill success. He refers, as chief sources, to the Journal of Céloron, preserved in the Archives de la Marine, and to the Journal of Bonnecamp, his chaplain, found in the Dépôt de la Marine at Paris, and to the contemporary documents printed in the Colonial Documents of New York, in the Colonial Records, and in the Archives (second series, vol. vi.) of Pennsylvania.—Ed.]
[14] [There is some confusion in the spelling of this name. A hundred years ago and more, the usual spelling was Allegany. The mountains are now called Alleghany; the city of the same name in Pennsylvania is spelled Allegheny. Cf. note in Dinwiddie Papers, i. 255.—Ed.]
[15] [Mémoire sur les colonies de la France dans l’Amérique septentrionale.—Ed.]
[16] [Céloron’s expedition was followed, in 1750, by the visit of Christopher Gist, who was sent, under the direction of this newly formed Ohio Company, to prepare the way for planting English colonists in the disputed territory. The instructions to Gist are in the appendix of Pownall’s Topographical Description of North America. He fell in with George Croghan, one of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish, then exploring the country for the Governor of Pennsylvania; and Croghan was accompanied by Andrew Montour, a half-breed interpreter. The original authorities for their journey are in the New York Colonial Documents, vol. vii., and in the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, vol. v.; while the Journals of Gist and Croghan may be found respectively in Pownall (ut supra) and in the periodical Olden Time, vol. i. Cf. also Dinwiddie Papers, index. In the Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. vi., are various French and English documents touching the French occupation of this region.—Ed.]
[17] Prior to this time there had been such an occupation of some of these posts as to find recognition in the maps of the day. See map entitled “Amérique septentrionale, etc., par le Sr. D’Anville, 1746,” which gives a post at or near Erie, and one on the “Rivière aux Beuf” (French Creek).
[18] [See, post, the section on the “Maps and Bounds of Acadia,” for the literature of this controversy.—Ed.]
[19] [See post, chap. viii.—Ed.]
[20] Minister of Marine to M. Ducasse (Margry, iv. 294); Same to same (Margry, iv. 297). See also despatches to Iberville July 29 (Margry, iv. 324) and August 5 (Margry, iv. 327).