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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… France. Provisions were very scarce. Not above 300 men at Montreal, and fifty at Prairie, which our people design to … so left them. The French are making 200 birch canoes at Montreal, and deponent found out that an expedition is … party of Indians attempted to surprise a French fort below Montreal a fortnight before, but were repulsed with loss. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… we may have time to get the troops downe to Quibeck from Montreal and Trois Rivers, or if need be to send them express …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that pass by, to come rather to trade at Albany than at Montreal, and as the Indians who come from the remote Lakes …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from the English; that in consequence of this prohibition, Montreal a considerable French settlement would in all …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Great River St. Lawrence takes its rise, which passing by Montreal and Quebec empties itself into the ocean opposite to … Quebec, the capital of Canada, lat. 46 45', long. 69 48'. Montreal, the second town in Canada and nearest New York, … presents to the Six Nations. The Indians living near about Montreal and Quebec are about 1,000 fighting men besides a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… messenger from Canada who said that as soon as he reached Montreal he was met by a number of officers, who asked him … was to return from France not to Onandaga but to Montreal. The speakers then proceeded to a long discussion as …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… provisions to the troops that shall be left at Quebeck and Montreal, if it shall please God to make our forces masters … the Governour [ of] Quebeck, being in June last at Montreal, gave out his warrant for the raising 1000 men for a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… are the same as far as Lake Erie. They sail in canoes from Montreal abt. 3 leagues to the fall of St. Louis, where they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the water with large cannon. They have another city called Montreal 60 leagues south-west of Quebec, walled in all round … south side of the great river of Canada and 20 miles from Montreal, very strong, built with stone and laid in lime, 20 …