Note 937 — Chapter VII
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Penhallow, 90; Vaudreuil and Begon in N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 933. Dr. Shea (Charlevoix, v. 278) thinks some rude translations of letters of Rasle (Mass. Hist. Coll., xviii. 245, 266), alleged to have been found at Norridgewock, are suspicious. Cf. Palfrey, iv. 422, 423; Farmer and Moore’s Hist. Coll., ii. 108. A distinct asseveration of the incitement of the French authorities and their priests is in the Observations on the late and present conduct of the French, published by Dr. Clarke in Boston in 1755, quoted by Franklin in his Canada pamphlet (1760), in Works, iv. p. 7. Cf. on the French side a “Mémoire sur l’entreprise que les Anglois de Baston font sur les terres des Abenakis sauvages alliés des François” in Collection de manuscrits (Quebec, 1882), ii. p. 68, where are various letters which passed between Vaudreuil and Shute.