Note 1456 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

Parkman refers (ii. 432) to letters of Colonel Woolsey and others in the Bouquet and Haldimand Papers in the British Museum. A letter of Sir William Grant is given in Maclachlan’s Highlands (1875), ii. 340. Knox (i. 148) gives a letter from an officer. Dwight refers to a letter in the New Amer. Magazine. There are among the letters of Chas. Lee to his sister (N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1871) one from Schenectady, June 18, and one from Albany, Sept. 16, 1758. He describes his being wounded at Ticonderoga, and is very severe on the “Booby-in-chief.” Other letters are in the Boston Gazette, 1758. The Boston Evening Post, July 24, 1758, has “the latest advices from Lake George, published by authority,” in which, speaking of Montcalm’s lines, it is said that “the ease with which they might be forced proved a mistake; for it was not possible with the utmost exaction of bravery to carry them.” It gives a table of losses as then reported; and adds extracts from a letter dated Saratoga, July 12, “which are not authenticated.” There is in the Israel Williams MSS., in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, a letter from Col William Williams, dated July 11, 1758, at Lake George, as at “a sorrowful situation.” The same papers contain also a letter from Oliver Partridge, Lake George, July 12, 1758; a detailed account of the campaign, by Col. Israel Williams; a letter of his nephew, Col. William Williams, Aug. 21, 1758; a rough draft of a narrative of the campaign by Colonel Israel Williams, dated at Hatfield, Aug. 7, 1758; a letter from Timothy Woodbridge, Lake George, July 24, 1758; and others from the camp, Lake George, Sept. 26 and 28, by William Williams.