[15] The three which follow I owe to the interesting paper of Mr. E. Z. Massicotte, Archivist of Montreal published in _Le Bulletin des Recherches Historiques_ for November, 1918, pp. 348 sqq.--the advertisement in the Gazette is to be found in Terrill's _Chronicles of Montreal_. The paper was 2-1/2 Spanish dollars per annum, 10 sous per copy, published every Wednesday. [16] The "Upper Countries" were Detroit and Michilimackinae, sometimes including the Niagara region--at this time there were practically no residents in what became the Province of Upper Canada and is now the Province of Ontario. The letter is to be found in the _Canadian Archives_, B. 217, p. 21: as no further record appears, it is to be presumed that an order was made for sale by the Sheriff. The Report of James Monk Attorney-General at Quebec about to be mentioned is to be found in the _Canadian Archives_, B. 207, p. 105. [17] In the same year a much wronged Negro petitioned Haldimand. His petition dated at Quebec, October 17, 1778, reads: "To His Excellency Frederick Haldimand, Governor & Commander in Chief of all Kanady and the territories thereunto belonging, The Petition of Joseph King humbly sheweth that Your Petitioner has been twice taken by the Yankys and sold by them each time at Public Vendue: he has made his escape and brought two white men through the woods: he was a servant to Captain McCoy last winter in Montreal and came here (Quebec) last spring. Your Petitioner has gone through many Perils and Dangers of his life for making his escape from the Yankeys. He hoaps that Your Excellency through the abundance of Your Benevolence will grant him his liberty for which your poor Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray." _Canadian Archives_, B. 217, p. 324. [18] In the Petition referred to _post_, Mrs. La Force states that her husband was "late of Virginia." [19] I have followed the Powell MSS. in spelling, capitalization, etc. [20] They were taken in an expedition nominally under Captain Bird but he had little control over the Indians and had only a few men of his own British Regulars. He had had bitter experience of the cruelty and unreliability of the Indians in 1779 but had to go with them in 1780. This was not one of the two large Forts which Bird took in his 1780 expedition, Fort Liberty and Martin's Station, but a smaller fortification. It was taken June 26, 1780 (_Can. Arch._, B. 172, 480); that there were several small forts is certain; that some of the prisoners brought to Detroit were from the small forts and that they (or some of them) were not rebels appears from the letter from De Peyster of August 4, 1780 (_Canadian Archives_, B. 100, p. 441): "In a former letter to the Commander in Chief," said he, "I observed that it would be dangerous having so many Prisoners here but I then thought those small Forts were occupied by a different set of people."