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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851. 299 words

Jacques D'Hev was a Missionary among the Onondagasin 1708; and in 1709 among the Senecas; is said to have been drowned in 1728. Aytuony Gorpon, founded St Regis in 1769, with a Colony from Sault St. Loui

Sulpitians.

Francis Picquer. Came to America in 1733; founded Oswe gatchie in 1748; abandoned that place in 1760, and died in France 15 July 1781.

Pierre Paut Frs. pe ta Garpe. Succeeded Abbe Picquet at. Oswegatchie; died at Montreal April 4 1784.

*.* Weare Indebted to the politeness of Mr. Joun M. Suna S. J. for the preceding list. Ep.

REV? M® HARTWICK TO SIR W™ JOHNSON.

Honourable Sir, May it please Your Honour.

Here i make bold to communicate to Your Honour a Project for the better peopling governing and defending of the Limits of North America, wich i leave to Your Honts Wisdom and Discretion, if you could aprove of it Sir, or devise any better, i conceive it would be more taken Notice of, if proposed to his Majesty, by Way of an Advice of the Indians. I have thought Sir, that it would be more for the good of the Planta tions in the present Circumstances, if the Cost, wich must be spent to the Carrying on of a War, were imployed for transporting settlers, and providing for them for one year at least, besides parchasing of Implements and Cattle and that a Circling Line might be improved and at convenient Places and Distances Forts and Towns erected and a Borroagh Grave or Guard a limit settled at Camp Johnson, at Oswego, at Lake Erie and at Ohio, wich Borroagh Graves should be immediates that is independents of the Respective Goverments but only depending on his Majesty's Orders, and only accountable to him. To whom a District sufii-