Note 1287 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Poole’s Index refers to the following: “Washington and the death of Jumonville,” by W. T. Anderson, in Canadian Monthly, i. p. 55; “Washington and the Jumonville of M. Thomas,” in Historical Magazine, vi. 201. The “Jumonville” of Thomas was a poem published in 1759, reflecting severely on Washington, and may be found in Œuvres de Thomas, par M. Saint-Surin, v. p. 47. Peter Fontaine represents the current opinion among the English, as to Jumonville’s action, when he says that the French “were in ambush in the woods waiting for” Washington. (Maury’s Huguenot Family, 361.) It is not necessary to particularize the references to Smollett, and Mahon, Marshall’s Washington, Warburton’s Conquest of Canada, and other obvious books; though something of local help will be found in W. H. Lowdermilk’s History of Cumberland, Maryland, from 1728 up to the present day, embracing an account of Washington’s first campaign, and battle of Fort Necessity, with a history of Braddock’s expedition, etc., Washington, 1878. Sargent also goes over the events in the introduction to his Braddock’s Expedition, p. 43, etc., and epitomizes the account by Adam Stephen in the Pennsylvania Gazette, no. 1,343.