Note 631 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Cf. also Schuyler's letters in Sparks's Correspondence of the Amer. Revolution and Lossing's Life of Schuyler, i. 310. Lossing also deals with the subject in his Field-Book of the Revolution, and in Harper's Monthly, vol. xvii. p. 721. Chas. Carroll (Journal to Canada, 1876, p. 75) describes the ruinous condition of Ticonderoga a year later. Reference may be made to Sparks's Gouverneur Morris (vol. i. ch. 4), and to the general historians: Bancroft (orig. ed., vii. 338); Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S. (iii. ch. 17); Irving's Washington (i. 404); and local histories, like Watson's Essex County (ch. 9); Palmer's Lake Champlain; Holden's Queensbury (p. 405); Bourne's Wells and Kennebunk, Me.; Van Rensselaer's Essays; Poole's Index, etc. A letter of Joseph Warren congratulating Connecticut on the event is in Frothingham's Warren, p. 490. Another letter of Joseph Warren (Watertown, May 17, 1775) to John Scollay, being captured by Gage, gave the British general the first intimation of the fall of Ticonderoga (Sparks, MSS., xxxii.). Governor Franklin communicates a diary at Ticonderoga, May 11-19, to Dartmouth (N. Jersey Archives, x. 608). Respecting the condition of Ticonderoga after the capture, see Eliphalet Dyer's letter, May 31, 1775, in Hist. Mag., vii. 22; and the letters of Governor Trumbull and the Connecticut committee to the New Hampshire authorities, in the N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 489-501.