Note 3 — LA VIRGEN DEL ROSARIO Y EL SANTO CRISTO DE BUEN VIAGE.

Richard Haddon, mariner, was a New Jersey man, but became a freeman of New York City in 1749; N.Y. Hist. Soc. Fund Pubs., 1885, p. 167. An extract from a letter of his, written during this same cruise, Dec. 29, 1756, and conveying valuable information he had picked up respecting the proposed expedition of the French up the Mississippi to the Illinois country, is printed in N.Y. Col. Docs., VII. 219; it was an enclosure in a letter from Governor Hardy of New York to Secretary Pitt, Feb. 26, 1757, printed in Miss Kimball's Correspondence of William Pitt, I. 12; cf. p. 31.