Note 1440 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

Of the later writers, see Parkman, ii. 6; Stone’s Johnson, ii. 54; Simms’s Frontiersmen of N. Y., 231; and Nath. S. Benton’s Herkimer County, which rehearses the history of the Palatine community, 1709-1783. Parkman, referring to Loudon’s despatches as he found them in the Public Record Office, says they were often tediously long. They were, it seems, in keeping with the provoking dilatoriness in coming to a point which characterized all his lordship’s movements. Franklin gives some amusing instances. (Cf. Parton’s Franklin, i. p. 383; Sparks’ Franklin, i. 217-21.) “The miscarriages in all our enterprises,” wrote Peter Fontaine in 1757, “have rendered us a reproach, and to the last degree contemptible in the eyes of our savage Indian and much more inhuman French enemies.” (Maury’s Huguenot Family, 366.)