The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 60 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Should the Five Nations take sides with the English, they would abandon them the moment Chouaguen was no more. The Indian tribes having no longer a resource with the English to obtain intoxicating liquors, I shall insensibly destroy the trade in Brandy at certain posts, so destructive to the prosperity of the service and of commerce. These same tribes acknowledging and from that moment unable to have any other communication except with the French, the prodigious quantity of Beaver and Peltry which went to the English will return to the trade of France. I request you, My Lord, to be assured of my punctuality in obeying all that is prescribed by my instructions and that I shall do everything in my power to signalize my zeal for the King's service. With the most profound respect, I am, My Lord, Your very humble and very Obedient Servant Vaudreuil.