Note 1496 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

Parkman refers to an account by Thompson Maxwell as of doubtful authenticity, as it is not sure that the writer was one of Rogers’s party. A hearsay story of equal uncertainty, respecting an ambush laid by Rogers for the Indians, as told by one Jesse Pennoyer, is given by Mrs. C. M. Day, in her Hist. of the Eastern Townships. Stone (Life of Johnson, ii. 107) says he could not find any tradition of the raid among the present descendants of the St. Francis tribe. Maurault, in his Histoire des Abénakis, gives an account. Vaudreuil refers to it in his letters in the Parkman MSS. Cf. Watson’s County of Essex, p. 106.