[1486] Accounts of Cornstalk by W. H. Foote are in the Southern Literary Messenger, xvi. 533, and by M. M. Jones in Potter's Amer. Monthly, v. 583. See Withers, pp. 129, 136, 156. Cornstalk's tragical death is described in Doddridge, p. 239, and Kercheval, p. 267; also in J. P. Hale's Trans-Allegheny Pioneers, p. 328.
[1487] See Amer. Archives, 4th series, i. 1016; Olden Time, ii. 33; Monette, i. 376-380; Perkins's Annals, p. 149; Amer. Pioneers, i. 381, by L. C. Draper; Virginia Hist. Reg., i. 30; v. 181; narrative of Capt. John Stuart in Mag. of Amer. Hist., i. 668, in Virginia Hist. Coll., vol. i., and separately as Memoirs of Indian Wars (Richmond, 1833); John P. Hale's Trans-Allegheny Pioneers (Cincinnati, 1886), p. 174, and a paper by S. E. Lane in Mass. Mag., Nov., 1885, p. 277. What purports to be a contemporary account in J. L. Peyton's Adventures of my Grandfather (London, 1867), p. 142, is not without suspicion.—Ed.
[1488] For particulars concerning the Dunmore War, see Amer. Archives, 4th ser., i. 345, 435, 468, 506, 774, 1013-1020; ii. 170, 301; N. Y. Col. Doc., viii. 459, 461; St. Clair Papers, i. 296, etc.; C. W. Butterfield's Washington-Crawford letters (Cinn., 1877), pp. 47, 86; Morgan's autobiographic letter in Hist. Mag., xix. 379; De Haas's West. Virginia, 142; Doddridge, pp. 229-239; Kercheval, p. 148; Withers, 104-138; Perkins's Annals, pp. 140-151; Hildreth's Pioneer History, pp. 86-94; Monette, i. pp. 368-385; Atwater's Ohio, pp. 110-119; Walker's Athens Co., Ohio, p. 8; Dillon's Indiana, p. 91; and Schweinitz's Zeisberger, p. 399. Col. Charles Whittlesey has treated the subject in his Discourse relating to the expedition of Dunmore (Cleveland, 1842); in the Olden Time, ii. 8, 37; and in his Fugitive Essays (Hudson, Ohio, 1852).—Ed.
[1489] For references to the proceedings in Parliament, see ante, chapter i., notes.
[1490] Declaration of Rights, Oct. 14, 1774 (Jour. of Old Cong., i. 22). In similar terms it was complained of in the Articles of Association, Oct. 20, 1774 (Ibid. 23), and again, without naming the act, in the Declaration of Independence, as follows: "For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies" (Ibid. 395).
[1491] "The Quebec act was one of the multiplied causes of our opposition, and finally of the Revolution." (Madison's report, January 17, 1782; Thomson Papers, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1878, p. 134: Secret Journals of Cong., iii. 155, 192.)
[1492] Butler's Kentucky, pp. 26, 27. Just before this, in May, 1775, the few settlers of the Kentucky towns had met and organized for defence, and had called their country Transylvania. For Boone's defence of his fort in Aug., 1778, with references, see Dawson's Battles of the U. S., i. 445.—Ed.
[1493] Butler, p. 35; Perkins's Annals, p. 171.
[1494] Butler, p. 40; Dillon's Indiana, 115-118.
[1495] [Dawson gives (Battles of the U. S., i. 221) an account, with references, of the attack on Fort Logan in May, 1777, and (Ibid. i. 269) of the assault on Fort Henry (the modern Wheeling, named after Patrick Henry), Sept. 1, 1777. Cf. the account of Elizabeth Zane in Mrs. Eliot's Women of the Rev., ii. 275. There is a view of Fort Henry in Newton's History of the Pan-Handle, West Virginia (1879), p. 102.—Ed.]