[123] Patterson, _Memoir of Hon. Samuel Vetch_, in _Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society_, iv. Compare a paper by General James Grant Wilson in _International Review_, November, 1881. [124] _Instructions to Colonel Vetch, 1 March, 1709_; _The Earl of Sunderland to Dudley, 28 April, 1709_; _The Queen to Lord Lovelace, 1 March, 1709_; _The Earl of Sunderland to Lord Lovelace, 28 April, 1709._ [125] _Journal of Vetch and Nicholson_ (Public Record Office). This is in the form of a letter, signed by both, and dated at New York, 29 June, 1709. [126] _Thomas Cockerill to Mr. Popple, 2 July, 1709._ [127] Joncaire in _N. Y. Col. Docs._, ix. 838. [128] Mareuil in _N. Y. Col. Docs._, ix. 836, text and note. _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 14 Novembre, 1709._ [129] "If I had not accepted the command, there would have been insuperable difficulties" (arising from provincial jealousies).--_Nicholson to Sunderland, 8 July, 1709._ [130] Forts Nicholson, Lydius, and Edward were not the same, but succeeded each other on the same ground. [131] _Memoire sur le Canada, Annee 1709._ This paper, which has been ascribed to the engineer De Lery, is printed in _Collection de Manuscrits relatifs a la Nouvelle France_, i. 615 (Quebec, 1883), printed from the MS. _Paris Documents_ in the Boston State House. The writer of the _Memoire_ was with Ramesay's expedition. Also _Ramesay a Vaudreuil, 19 Octobre, 1709_, and _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 14 Novembre, 1709_. Charlevoix says that Ramesay turned back because he believed that there were five thousand English at Wood Creek; but Ramesay himself makes their number only one thousand whites and two hundred Indians. He got his information from two Dutchmen caught just after the alarm near Pointe a la Chevelure (Crown Point). He turned back because he had failed to surprise the English, and also, it seems, because there were disagreements among his officers. [132] _Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier et l'Hopital General de Quebec_, 203. [133] _Dudley to Sunderland, 14 August, 1709._ [134] _Vetch to Sunderland, 2 August, 1709._ The pay of the men was nine shillings a week, with eightpence a day for provisions; and most of them had received an enlistment bounty of L12. [135] _Vetch to Sunderland, 12 August, 1709._ Dudley writes with equal urgency two days later. [136] _Letters of Nicholson, Dudley, and Vetch, 20 June to 24 October, 1709._ [137] _Joint Letter of Nicholson, Dudley, Vetch, and Moody to Sunderland, 24 October, 1709_; also _Joint Letter of Dudley, Vetch, and Moody to Sunderland, 25 October, 1709_; _Abstracts of Letters and Papers relating to the Attack of Port Royal, 1709_ (Public Record Office); _Address of ye Inhabitants of Boston and Parts adjacent, 1709_. Moody, named above, was the British naval captain who had consented to attack Port Royal.