France and England in N America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV

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Besides authorities before cited, Le Clercq, Établissement de la Foy, II. 434; La Potherie, III. 118; Rapport de Champigny, Oct., 1690; Laval, Lettre à—–, 20 Nov., 1690.

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Frontenac au Ministre, 12 et 19 Nov., 1690.

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Relation de la Descente des Anglois.

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The small-pox had left probably less than 2,000 effective men in the fleet when it arrived before Quebec. The number of regular troops in Canada by the roll of 1689 was 1,418. Nothing had since occurred to greatly diminish the number. Callières left about fifty in Montreal, and perhaps also a few in the neighboring forts. The rest were in Quebec.

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Récit d'une Réligieuse Ursuline, in Les Ursulines de Québec, I. 470.

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"Il nous ressouvint alors de la fuite de Nostre Seigneur en Égypte." Père Germain, Relation.

298

Ibid.

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Lettre pastorale pour disposer les Peuples de ce Diocèse à se bien déffendre contre les Anglois (Reg. de l'Évêché de Québec).

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Laval à–, Nov. 20, 1690.

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Frontenac au Ministre, 9 et 12 Nov., 1690.

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Mather, Magnalia, I. 192.

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The Governor and Council to the Agents of Massachusetts, in Andros Tracts, III. 53.

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Address of the Gentry, Merchants, and others, Ibid., II. 236.

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The following is a literal copy of a specimen of this paper money, which varied in value from two shillings to ten pounds:—

No. (2161) 10s

This Indented Bill of Ten Shillings, due from the Massachusetts Colony to the Possessor, shall be in value equal to Money, and shall be accordingly accepted by the Treasurer and Receivers subordinate to him in all Publick Payments, and for any Stock at any time in the Treasury Boston in New England, December the 10th. 1690. By Order of the General Court.

Seal of Masachusetts.

Peter Townsend }

Adam Winthrop } Com

Tim. Thornton }

When this paper came into the hands of the treasurer, it was burned. Nevertheless, owing to the temporary character of the provisional government, it fell for a time to the value of from fourteen to sixteen shillings in the pound.

In the Bibliothèque Nationale is the original draft of a remarkable map, by the engineer Villeneuve, of which a fac-simile is before me. It represents in detail the town and fortifications of Quebec, the surrounding country, and the positions of the English fleet and land forces, and is entitled PLAN DE QUÉBEC, et de ses Environs, EN LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, ASSIÉGÉ PAR LES ANGLOIS, le 16 d'Octobre 1690 jusqu'au 22 dud. mois qu'ils s'en allerent, apprès avoir esté bien battus PAR M

. LE COMTE DE FRONTENAC, gouverneur general du Pays.

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Relation de Bénac, 1691; Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable en Canada, 1690, 1691; La Potherie, III. 134; Relation de 1682-1712; Champigny au Ministre, 12 May, 1691. The name of Bienville was taken, after his death, by one of his brothers, the founder of New Orleans.

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Colden, 125, 140.

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Official Journal of Schuyler, in N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 800.

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Relation de Bénac; Relation de 1682-1712.

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"La débauche fut extrême en toute manière." Belmont.

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Major Peter Schuyler's Journal of his Expedition to Canada, in N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 800. "Les ennemis enfoncèrent notre embuscade." Belmont.

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