[1417] The rank of this officer is sometimes given as colonel. The expedition is stated by Haywood, in his History of Tennessee, to have been led by Col. Leonard McBury. Capt. Leonard Marbury, who at that time commanded a company under Major Jack, is probably the officer referred to.
[1418] The experience of South Carolina in these border wars is exemplified in Alexander Gregg's History of the old Cheraws: containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, the first white settlements, their subsequent progress, civil changes, the struggle of the revolution, and growth of the country afterward; extending from about A. D. 1730 to 1810, with notices of families and sketches of individuals (N. Y., 1867).—ED.
[1419] In a letter from Col. Charles Robertson, trustee of the Watauga Association, to his excellency Richard Caswell, etc., April 27, 1777, it is stated that on the 27th of March last Col. Nathaniel Guess brought letters from the governor of Virginia soliciting the Indians to come in to treat for peace. The Indians, in reply to pressure brought to bear upon them, said "they could not fight against their Father King George", etc. (Ramsey's History of Tennessee, p. 171).
[1420] Calendar of Virginia State Papers, i. 415.
[1421] See Vol. V. p. 280.
[1422] The definitive treaty is in Hansard, xv. (1753-65) p. 1291; Lond. Mag., 1763, p. 149; and the preliminary articles signed at Fontainebleau, Nov. 3, 1762, are in Hansard, xv. p. 1240; Lond. Mag., 1762, p. 657. There are in the archives of the Dept. of Foreign Affairs in Paris several vols. (nos. 444-449) of papers respecting the negotiation between France and England which led to the treaty of 1763. Cf. Report, 1874, on the Canadian archives. Cf. Vol. V. 614.—Ed.
[1423] See Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe, ii. 383-413; Green's Hist. of the English People (Lond., 1880), iv. 193; Macaulay's "Earl Chatham", Ed. Rev., lxxx. 549, also in his Essays; Olden Time, i. 329. Cf. Vol. V. ch. viii.—Ed.
[1424] "The treaty of cession to Spain was never published, and the terms of it remain a secret to this day" (Stoddard's Louisiana, 1812, p. 72).
[1425] Monette, Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi (New York, 1848), vol. i., has a map showing the territorial possessions before the treaty. For later maps showing the treaty lines, see Vol. V. p. 615.—Ed.
[1426] The Duc de Choiseul, in conducting the negotiations on the part of France, suggested that the English colonies would not fail to shake off their dependence the moment Canada should be ceded (Parkman's Montcalm, ii. 403); and Kalm, the Swedish botanist, who visited America in 1748-49, made a similar prediction in his Travels: "The English government has, therefore, the sufficient reason to consider the French in North America as the best means of keeping the colonies in their due submission" (London, 1772, i. 207). As to the spurious Montcalm letters, see Vol. V. p. 606.—Ed.