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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.
which I have had the honour to Govern some years, yet I never took myself to be thereby discharged
from carrying my thoughts to things of a more extensive nature, especially to such whereon the
peace & happiness of the Plantations, and the Trade of E…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
be for ever secured from the annoyance of the French, and
may without danger or interruptions,
extend their settlements as far back as they please.
The French had lately three, and have now two sailing vessells, each of about 50 or 60 Tons, on
On …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
In those
vessells they carry the Soldiers, Artillery, Ammunition and Provision to the Forts, and transport to
& fro the goods they sell to & buy from the Indians It is through this Lake they pass from Canada
By means only of their Mastery on that Lak…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
them in their Expeditions against the Indian Nations, subject to His Majesty, and depending on the
Governments of Virginia, the two Carolina's & Georgia, who have it in their power (by their situation, if their strength were equal, as it would
be, w…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
which has subsisted ever since we first settled this Country, yet if Oswego be taken, (as nothing
can hinder it while the French are masters of the Lake) the Five Nations will, and must of course,
submit to our Enemy, who will oblige them to assist i…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
As a remedy for these Evils, which are almost as great as can befall the Nation, I propose that a
Regiment of eight hundred men be sent from England (or if half the number of private men be
sent, the other half I believe may be raised here) with an E…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The consequences whereof will be of the greatest moment. All our Colonies
from this to Georgia, will be secure from the incursions of the French in time of War. The Indians
depending on the Governments of Virginia, Carolina and Georgia, who are now …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
& Influence of our Enemy will be confined to the Cold Country of Canada, which will scarce be
worth keeping, and to the Banks of the River Messasippi, Nay, no sooner will the Five Nations see
us masters on the Lake, than they will assist us to take t…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
whereon they are built) who by the 15 th Article of the Treaty of Utrecht are explicitly acknowledged
to be subject to the dominion of Great Britain, I am sensible that by the same article it is stipulated
that both the English & French, shall have a…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Before the French begun to build the Fort at
Niagra, which is about 20 years ago, they cajoled some few of the young fellows of the Five Nations,
to give
them permission to build a trading House there, but so soon as it reached the ears of the
Sac…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
our Vessells should be built, & the Regiment quartered, the Climate is temperate, & the lands exceeding Fertile, so that in three years time from their going thither, provisions of all kinds (sufficient
for the Regiment
& Vessells) may be raised, Ex…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
When we have thus vindicated our Right & established our Dominion on the Lake, the Regiment
may then be employed in the reduction of the Fort at the Crown Point, wherein, if there be need,
we may I believe have assistance from the Provinces of Massac…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
& from whence the French can annoy our Fishery at Newfoundland, & guard their own navigation
to & from Canada. That place is such a Thorn in the sides of the New England people, that it is
very probable a large body of men may be raised there to assi…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
You will
judge what a Baulk and Discouragement, this Instance of Pusilanimity has occasioned to those
Number of Indians, of the far Nations, who have rarely come to Trade with us but perhaps finding
the French, had no Goods to supply them at Niagara,…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
how fatal such an Event would prove to this Colony
in particular, and the British Interest upon the Continent in general, may be easily foreseen.
in favour of our natural Enemies the French ;
The pernicious Consequences which must inevitably flow fr…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Nanangousy, Chief of the Iroquois at the Sault has returned from Choueguen
where he has been to spy. He reports that outside Fort Choueguen there is but one Trader's house
that there was a great number of Dutch and Palatine traders at the place calle…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
taken out of the Fund of £5000 granted for Transportation and Refreshment of the King's Troops,
and for other extraordinary Services Necessary for the Use and Security of the Colony, in the present
Juncture and that if he was willing it Should be tak…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
My lord,--I had the honour to inform you by my letter of the 2d inst. that the English were
deploying a large force towards Chouaguen ; that they had built some 10 gun brigs there and two
descriptions of galleys 1 that a body of 3000 men were also as…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
I am, my lord, about to send some reinforcements to this last fort, but this diversion will
not cause me to change my design on Lake Ontario which I had the honour to communicate to you. The preservation of Niagara is what interests us the most if ou…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
daring enough, in the beginning of June, to send three balls through the King's Flag flying from a
batteau of an Officer who was conducting a detachment to the Belle Riviere.
They have actually two and perhaps three flat bottomed gun brigs with swee…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
" When it was determined that the Army at Oswego should go into winter quarters, they began a new fort upon a'hill
on the east side of the river about 470 yards from the old one
it is 800 feet in circumference, and will command the harbour it is buil…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
An hospital of framed work, 150 feet by 30, is already built, which may serve as a barrack for 200 men; and another barrack is preparing of 150 feet by 24."-- Account of American affairs in 1755, in Gentleman's Magazine, xxvi. 6.
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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.
It is from
Chouaguan proceed all the Belts and messages that the English scatter among the Far Nations. It
was alway at Chouaguen that the English held Councils with the Indians and by means of presents,
In fine, Chouaguen
principally of intoxicating…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
These same tribes acknowledging and from that moment unable to
communication
except with the French, the prodigious quantity of Beaver and Peltry
have any other
of the service and of commerce.
which went to the English will return to the trade of Fr…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
connoissance I caused to be made of it this winter by two small parties I sent thither.
PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.
The first of these parties brought me two prisoners, the second commanded by M Mo de Louvigny,
That officer remained several days in …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
That they had heard
the Cannon of Oswego for half a day after they left their Castle, and that the General Rendezvous of
the Enemy was about twelve Miles from Oswego.
That upon the receipt of Col. Bradstreet's Letter he had determined to set off wi…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
bad consequences the loss of it must be attended with, and therefore that he hop'd they would march
the Troops or such part of them as they should find necessary for the relief of that place.
The Council declared His Excellency had taken all the mea…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
up this Morning to the Reefs, with 24 Men, two miles off, for a Guard to the Battoes at that Place
upon which Numbers of People, with a few Mohawks run from the Town that Way. The Firing
still continued; and soon after a man came in with an Indian Sc…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Lieut Blair, though a Young
Gentleman not more than 18 or 19, behaved like a brave Soldier; for being wounded the first Fire,
he begged his Men to Tree all, and fight on, for he was a dead Man, and that they might soon expect assistance Soon after he…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
As
yet, little is done to the new Ones, and will not, till we are reinforced, that we may have a Strong
Guard to cover our Men in the Woods. At the Falls, (12 Miles from hence) a good Stockaded Fort
Plenty of fresh Beef and Fish, the latter of which,…