Francis Parkman - France and England in N America, Part VII, Vol 1 - A Half-Century of Conflict

Maurault, Hist. des Abenakis , 377. I am indebted to R. A. Ramsay, Esq., of Montreal, for a paper on the Gill family, by Mr. Charles Gill, who confirms the statements of Maurault so far as relates to the genealogies.

John and Zechariah Tarbell, captured when boys at Groton, became Caughnawaga chiefs; and one of them, about 1760, founded the mission of St. Regis. Green, Groton during the Indian Wars , 116, 117-120.

Vaudreuil et Beauharnois au Ministre, 17 Novembre, 1704.

Vaudreuil et Beauharnois au Ministre, 17 Novembre, 1704 ; Vaudreuil au Ministre, 16 Novembre, 1704 ; Ramesay au Ministre, 14 Novembre, 1704 . Compare Penhallow.

Vaudreuil au Ministre, 5 Novembre, 1708 ; Vaudreuil et Raudot au Ministre, 14 Novembre, 1708 ; Hutchinson, ii. 156; Mass. Hist. Coll. 2d Series , iv. 129; Sewall, Diary , ii. 234. Penhallow.

The rewards for scalps were confined to male Indians thought old enough to bear arms,—that is to say, above twelve years. Act of General Court, 19 August, 1706.

Dudley to Lord –, 21 April, 1704. Address of Council and Assembly to the Queen, 12 July, 1704. The burden on the people was so severe that one writer—not remarkable, however, for exactness of statement—declares that he "is credibly informed that some have been forced to cut open their beds and sell the feathers to pay their taxes." The general poverty did not prevent a contribution in New England for the suffering inhabitants of the Island of St. Christopher.

Vaudreuil au Ministre, 12 Novembre, 1708. Vaudreuil says that he got his information from prisoners.

Resumé d'une Lettre de MM. de Vaudreuil et de Beauharnois du 15 Novembre, 1703, avec les Observations du Ministre. Subercase, governor of Acadia, writes on 25 December, 1708, that he hears that a party of Canadians and Indians have attacked a place on the Maramet (Merrimac), "et qu'ils y ont égorgé 4 à 500 personnes sans faire quartier aux femmes ni aux enfans." This is an exaggerated report of the affair of Haverhill. M. de Chevry writes in the margin of the letter: "Ces actions de cruauté devroient être modérées:" to which Ponchartrain adds: "Bon; les défendre." His attitude, however, was uncertain; for as early as 1707 we find him approving Vaudreuil for directing the missionaries to prompt the Abenakis to war. N. Y. Col. Docs. , ix. 805.

Dudley to –, 26 November, 1704.