Note 5 — Front matter

See Winthrop Sargent, History of an Expedition against Fort Du Quesne, 366-373. This monograph was published in the United States in 1855 by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The first 280 pages contain an introductory memoir by Sargent; pages 281-358 include the journal of Robert Orme, one of Braddock’s aides-de-camp (this is the only American edition of Orme’s record), and pages 359-389 the journal of a naval officer which is very frequently referred to as the Seaman’s Journal. Of this second journal there seem to be two texts, one preserved in the Royal Artillery Library at Woolwich, England (printed in Hulbert’s Historic Highways of America, IV. 83-107), the other in the possession of the Rev. Francis-Orpen Morris of Newburnholm Rectory, Yorkshire, to whose father it was given by Captain Hewitt. The second text is the one published by Sargent, but the variations between the two manuscripts are unimportant for the present purpose. This paper will refer to the Sargent edition of the second journal under the caption of Seaman Journal; and in citing the Orme Journal it will also use the pagination of Sargent.