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 taken out of that Fund, he would advise with the Council upon it, on his Return. To which General Braddock had agreed. And thereupon the Governor desired the opinion of the Board. The Board were of Opinion His Honour might draw out of that Fund for Six Months Provisions for those Troops and for One hundred Battoes and a sufficient Number of Steersmen, to be employed in transporting them and their Provisions & Stores. And also for Pickaxes, Spades, Shovells and ;

other necessaries for making Intrenchments, if such proper Implements could not be supplied out of the King's Stores here.

M.

DE VAUDREUIL TO THE MINISTER. [ Paris

Doc. 11. ] Quebec, 10 July, 1756.

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 assembling at Fort Necessity about 40 -,

leagues from Fort Duquesne and that its vanguard of 700 men had already arrived there. She 1 The first English vessel on Lake Ontario was a little schooner 40 feet keel with 14 sweeps or oars and 12 swivels. was launched on 28th June, 1755.