Note 1185 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Here we find Bellomont’s correspondence (1698) with the French governor as to the relations of the Five Nations to the English, pp. 682, 690. Cf. also N. Y. Col. Docs., iv. 367, 420; Shea’s Charlevoix, v. 82; a tract, Propositions made by the Five Nations of Indians ... to Bellomont in Albany, 20th of July, 1698 (N. Y., 1698), containing the doings of Bellomont and his council on Indian affairs up to Aug. 20, 1698. (Brinley, ii. 3,400.) The same vol. of N. Y. Col. Docs. (ix.) gives beside a memoir (p. 701; also in Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 45) on the encroachments of the English; conferences with the Indians at Detroit (p. 704) and elsewhere in 1700; the ratification of the treaty of peace at Montreal, Aug. 4, 1701 (p. 722); conferences of Vaudreuil with the Five Nations in 1703 and 1705 (pp. 746, 767); the scheme of seizing Niagara, 1706 (p. 773); Sieur d’Aigrement’s instructions and report on the Western posts (p. 805); a survey (p. 917) of English invasion of French territory (1680-1723); a memoir (p. 840) on the condition of Canada (1709),—not to name others.