the Savages and other parties of the enemy sent by the English against us, caused him to select a

"I am building: a Fort at this Lake which the French call Lake St. Sacrement, but I have given it the name of Lake George,

not only in honour to his Majesty but to ascertain his undoubted dominion here." Sept. 3d, 1755. Lond. Doc. xxxii., 178.

Sir VVUlia7n Johnson, to the Board of Trade,

2 Now Fort Edward, Washington County.

" I received an account on the 19th inst., by express from Albany, that a party of French and their Indians had cut off a settlement in this Province called Saraghtoge, about fifty miles from Albany, and that about twenty houses with a Fort

(which the publick would not repair) were burned to ashes, thirty persons killed and scalped and about sixty taken prisoners. Goo. Clinton to the Board, 30 Nov. 1745.

Lond. Doc. xxvii., 187, 235.

EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBURGH. post which could, hereafter, intercept the passage of the English.

He proposed to M. de la Galissoniere to make a settlement of the Mission of La Presentation, near

Lake Ontario, an establishment which succeded beyond his hopes, and has been the most useful of all those of Canada. Mr. Rouille, Minister of the Marine wrote on the 4 lh May 1749 "A large number of Iroquois declared that they were embracing desirous of Christianity, it has been proposed to establish having ;

a Mission towards Fort Frontenac in order to attract the greatest number possible thither. It is Abbe Picquet, a zealous Missionary and in whom these Nations seem to have confidence, who has