Note 1229 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

O. H. Marshall on the Niagara frontier, in the Buffalo Hist. Soc. Publications, vol. ii. Smith (New York, 1814, p. 268) says that “Charlevoix himself acknowledges that Niagara was a part of the territory of the Five Nations; yet the pious Jesuit applauds the French settlement there, which was so manifest an infraction of the treaty of Utrecht.”