Sullivan rehearses the news as it reached the Cambridge camp (N. H. Prov. Papers, viii. 36). There are in the Aspinwall Papers (ii. 772) various items of intelligence respecting "the defeat of the rebels" in Canada, gathered in New York in Feb., 1776.
British.—Carleton's despatch to Howe (Dawson, 118; also see Gent. Mag., June, 1776). The letters which passed from Dartmouth to Carleton, Dec. 10, 1774 to Sept. 9, 1777, are noted in the Chalmers MSS. (Thorpe's Supplement, 1843, no. 622). Other papers are in the Haldimand Papers (Brit. Mus.), of which a calendar has been printed (p. 207) by the Dominion archivist at Ottawa. The volumes in the Public Record Office, London, marked "Quebec, xiv., xv., vols. 348, 349", cover this period.
Journal of the siege of Quebec, by Hugh Finlay, in Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Docs., 4th series. (The bibliography of this society is given in Sabin, xvi. no. 67,015, etc.)
Account of the siege, beginning Nov., 1775, dated on board sloop-of-war "Hunter", June 15, 1776, addressed by Col. Henry Caldwell to Gen. Jas. Murray, has been printed in the Transactions of the Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc., and in Hist. Mag., xii. 97 (1867).
A Journal of the Siege, Dec. 1, 1775, to May 7, 1776, is noted in the Chalmers MSS. (Thorpe's Supplement, 1843, no. 623). This MS. is now in the Sparks MSS. (xlii. no. 1). Its earliest entry is really Dec. 5th. It gives a particular account of the share taken by the journalist in the defence of Dec. 31st, calling it "a glorious day for us, and as complete a little victory as was ever gained." The last entry is, in fact, May 9, 1776.
In Thorpe's Supplement (no. 624) there is also noted a Journal of the Siege, by Capt. Thomas Ainslee, written on the spot, Sept., 1775, to May 6, 1776. This is also now in the Sparks MSS., i.
Journal of the Siege of Quebec in 1775-76, collected from some old manuscripts originally written by an officer, to which are added a preface and illustrative notes by W. T. P. Short (London, 1824). It begins Dec. 1, 1775, and ends May 6, 1776; but the editor continues the narrative, briefly, through the campaign (Menzie's Catal., no. 1,107).
Journal of the most remarkable occurrences in Quebec, from the 14th of Nov., 1775, to the 7th of May 1776, by an officer of the garrison. It is printed in the N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1880, p. 175. Of the British general accounts, mention may be made of the Annual Register, xix. ch. 1, 5; xx. ch. 1; Andrew's Late War (ch. 19, 20); Stedman's Amer. War (ch. 2, 10); Adolphus's England (ii. 237); Bisset's George the Third (i. ch. 15); Mahon's England (vi. 76); W. Lindsay's Invasion of Canada by the American provincials (1826). Sir James Carmichael-Smythe's Précis of the War in Canada criticises the plan of Montgomery's attack. Cf. Canadian Antiquarian, v. 145; Lemoine's Maple Leaves, pp. 84, 95; his Picturesque Quebec, pp. 120, 231; J. Lesperance's Bastonnais: tale of the American invasion of Canada in 1775-76 (Toronto, 1877).
Lossing has a paper on the local associations of Quebec in Harper's Monthly, xviii. 176; and similar detail is also given in his Field-Book of the Am. Rev.
French.—There are three records in the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec: 1. Le témoin oculaire de la guerre des Bastonnais durant les années 1775 et 1776 par M. Simon Sanguinet.