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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
He animated the workmen and
they laboured from three o'clock in the morning until nine at night. As for himself his disinterestedness was extreme.
He received at that time neither allowance nor presents he supported himself
From the King he had but …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
so that this Mission was, from that time sufficiently powerful to attach the Five Nations to us, amounting to twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and he reckoned as
many as three thousand in his Colony.
them fully in our interest, we were
By attachin…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
There were in the Fort, seven small stone guns and eleven four to six pounders.
The most distinguished of the Iroquois families were distributed at La Presentation in three vilthat which adjoined the French fort contained, in 1754, forty-nine bark c…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Twelve Ancients; chose the most influential among the Five Nations;
brought them to Mont-Real where at the hands of the Marquis Du Quesne they took the Oath of
Allegiance to the King to the great astonishment of the whole Colony where no person dared…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The quarter is beautiful but the land
He visited Fort Toronto, seventy leagues from Fort Frontenac, at the West end of Lake
is not good. He found good Bread and good Wine there, and every thing requisite for the trade, whilst
Ontario.
they were in wa…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The
view extends to a great distance they have the advantage of the landing of all the canoes and barks
which land and are in safety there. But the rain was washing the soil away by degrees, notwithstanding the vast expence which the King incurred to…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
He measured the height of one of those falls from the
The establishment at this Carrying
60Uth side, and he found it about one hundred and forty feet. The Indians, who
place, the most important in a commercial point of view was the worst stocked.
cam…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
He set out
immediately, as well as the Chief of the Little Rapid with all his family
abandon
Chabert
de
Joncaire
would
not
him.
with all those Savages to return to Fort Niagara. M. At eacli place where they encountered camps, cabins and entrepots, th…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
This young girl
spoke so well to her Uncle, though she had but little knowledge of Religion that he promised to repair to La Presentation early the following spring, and that he hoped to gain over also seven other
Twenty-five leagues from Niagara he…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The English to throw disorder into this new levy sent a good deal of brandy. Some savages did,
He therefore desired much that Choeguen
in fact get drunk whom M. Picquet could not bring along.
were destroyed and the English prevented rebuilding it and…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Two batteries each of three twelve pounders, would have been more
than sufficient to reduce that establishment to ashes.
It was prejudicial to us by the facility it af-
1 The Genesee River. In Belin's Map of Partie Orcidentale de la Nouvelle Franc…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The difference between the two first
of these posts and the last is, that three or four hundred canoes could come loaded with furs to the
Portage, and that no canoes could go to Toronto except those which cannot pass before Niagara and
to Fort Fronte…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
They fired several volleys of musketry
They were answered in the same style from all the little craft of bark.
and cheered incessantly.
and
M.
de
la Valtrie caused the guns of the Fort to be discharged at the same time,
Verchere
de
M.
transported
wit…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
His Indians distinon
the
river
Corlac
(Corlear) as on that of Choeguen.
as
well
Forts
the
of all
of La Presentation
the
warriors
guished themselves especially at Fort George on Lake Ontario where
alone with their bark canoes destroyed the English fle…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The English had surprised and killed their nephews in the three villages of
the Loups (Mohegans ?) M. de Vaudreuil requested him to form parties which could succeed each
In 1758 he destroyed the English forts on the banks
other in disquieting and har…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
long time, having become aggravated, finally caused his death at Verjon on the 15 th July 1781.
his life time he was complimented with the title of " Apostle of the Iroquois."
Note.
--Fort
In
la Presentation, with the River, under the names of We…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Burnet to the Board of Trade.
New York, Oct. 16, 1721. That I miglit improve their (the Indians') present good humor to the best advantage I have
employed the live hundred pounds granted this year by the Assembly chiefly to the erecting and
encourag…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
This Company have undertaken to remain on this Settlement and that never above two shall be
absent at once, and tho' these have the sole encouragement at present out of the public money yet
there is nothing that hinders as many more to go and settle …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Wherefore to break that Practice more effectually I have placed a sufficient Guard of Soldiers on the Carrying Place to Canada
and built a small Blockhouse there 3 with the remainder of the five hundred pounds before mentioned.
As to Niagara I did w…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The news of this establishment on soil always considered as belonging to France appeared to him
the more important as he felt the difficulty of preserving the post of Niagara where there is no tort,
should the English once fortify Chouaguen and that …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
He immediately
despatched M. de Longueuil to the Iroquois and thence to Choueguen. He commanded him to
induce the savages not to suffer this Establishment, and in case he could not prevail on them to
oppose it openly, to persuade them to remain neute…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
M. de Longueuil took occasion to reproach the Iroquois Chiefs who were present that they were no
Letter dated 31
October, 1725.
;
longer masters of their lands. This succeeded they blew out against the English told them they
would bear with them n…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
New France in 1686.
(M. de Longueuil writes that) he has given orders to Chevalier de Longueuil his
son who commanded there (at Niagara) not to return until the English and Dutch retire from Chou25 July, 1726.
guen where they have been all summer to…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
have obtained the consent of the Six Nations to build it, and having intelligence that a party of French
of ninety men were going up towards Niagara I suspected that they might have orders to interrupt
this work, and therefore I have sent up a detach…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
My Lord Bellomont formerly intended to build a Fort by King William's order near this place, and
it went so far that even plate and furniture for a chappie there, were sent over from England, but the
Design was laid by upon his Death, and has never b…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Burners despatch
and the preceding Docs., correct the mistake and furnish the precise date.
which has been copied by McAuley, Dunlap and others who have followed him without enquiry.
PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.
I hope the Assembly will
supply this…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
own Indians. The Detachment of Souldiers which I sent to up arrived safely there the beginning of this month,
it is not likely that any attempt will now be made to hinder it, and I depend upon its
so that
being of the best use of anything that has …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
I have been, Sir, the more astonished at it, since you should have considered your Undertaking as
a thing capable of disturbing the Union of the two Crowns You cannot be ignorant of the possession during a very considerable time, which the King my Ma…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
you are beginning and pretending to make at the Entrance
of the Lake Ontario into the River of Oswego, the fortifications that you have made there, and the
Garrison that you have posted there, as a manifest infraction of the Treaty of Utrecht, it bei…