Note 1493 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)
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Amherst’s letters chronicling progress are in N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 400, etc. Early in Nov., 1758, it had been rumored in Albany that Amherst was to supersede Abercrombie. (C. V. R. Bonney’s Legacy of Hist. Gleanings, Albany, 1875, p. 26.) A large number of letters addressed to Amherst are in the Bernard Papers (Sparks MSS.), 1759. On Amherst’s family connections, cf. James E. Doyle’s Official Baronage of England (London, 1886), i. p. 38.