ston 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.

[138] _Order of Assembly, 27 October, 1709._ Massachusetts had spent
about L22,000 on her futile expedition of 1707, and, with New Hampshire
and Rhode Island, a little more than L46,000 on that of 1709, besides
continual outlay in guarding her two hundred miles of frontier,--a heavy
expense for the place and time.

[139] See J. R. Bartlett, in _Magazine of American History_, March,
1878, and Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 34-39. The chiefs returned
to America in May on board the "Dragon." An elaborate pamphlet appeared
in London, giving an account of them and their people. A set of the
mezzotint portraits, which are large and well executed, is in the John
Carter Brown collection at Providence. For photographic reproductions,
see Winsor, _Nar. and Crit. Hist._, v. 107. Compare Smith, _Hist. N.
Y._, i. 204 (1830).

[140] _Commission of Colonel Francis Nicholson, 18 May, 1710._
_Instructions to Col